Dark Souls: Lord Nito, First of the Dead
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The fact that someone as week as Pinwheel was able to dominate Nito tells us a few things:
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After walking over Pinwheel's (tragicish) corpse, we go through areas with significantly stronger Dead. This is probably just a gameplay deal, but it's more than possible that it's also use to signify that Nito still has quite a bit of power over the Dead, and that his minions are far stronger than those that Pinwheel was able to suborn. After a bit of a slog (or a 25 second run/jump/run/jump/run/drop/run) you get to the inner sanctum.
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There's loads more to talk about, even regarding Nito, but I figure that's enough for now, and I hope you nerds enjoyed it if you didn't know anything about Nito before now.
So I know some stuff about Dank Souls. And I haven't seen anyone really try to explain the lore or anything at all really to you NORMIES, so I figured I'd share some of it with you goyms.
As you may or may not be aware, Nito is one of the gods of Lordran, and he was the first to discover one of the 4 (relevant) great souls. We don't know for sure whether or not Nito's Soul was the strongest to begin with and lost power during the Lords' fight with the Dragons, or if he chose poorly, but by the time the Lords have defeated the Dragons, Nito's soul is strong, but weaker than either Gwynn's or The Witch of Izalith's souls.
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By the time the Age of Fire is fading, Nito has lost most of his remaining power, so much so that a mere human necromancer is able to twist Nito's own dominion (death and the dead) to his will and overrule Nito.
The fact that someone as week as Pinwheel was able to dominate Nito tells us a few things:
First, and most obvious, it shows us just how weak Nito had become.
Second, it tells us that Death and the Dead aren't beholden specifically to Nito, but to something else about him. There's a another hint of this in Undead Rapport which reads "The living are lured by flame, and this relationship is part and parcel to the art of pyromancy. Can be used by either gender." This indicates that rather than being ruled over by Gwynn and the other Lords because of something innate about their own souls, their control over the elemental powers of the world had some effect on the minds of humans around them. I'll talk about this more in a later comp if people are interested at all.
And lastly, it shows to us that whatever Nito has that allows him complete dominion over the Dead, it doesn't let him control the Undead at all. If an Undead necromancer like Pinwheel is able to run roughshod over what is essentially the core of a god's existence, then why wouldn't the god have stopped it?
This in turn points to a couple of really interesting problems (the distinction between the Dead and the Undead, and the exact nature of both Death and Undeath), which I will, again, talk about later if people are interested in these.
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After walking over Pinwheel's (tragicish) corpse, we go through areas with significantly stronger Dead. This is probably just a gameplay deal, but it's more than possible that it's also use to signify that Nito still has quite a bit of power over the Dead, and that his minions are far stronger than those that Pinwheel was able to suborn. After a bit of a slog (or a 25 second run/jump/run/jump/run/drop/run) you get to the inner sanctum.
I honestly don't know what to make of the necromancers in front of Nito's room. It's possible that when Pinwheel was killed, the necromancers he brought with him where also killed and now serve Nito (as Dead), or they could have just been trying to perform a ritual to get into Nito's room, or they could have run ahead of Pinwheel to try and get to Nito and been stopped by the Golden Fog, but there's too many possibilities, and not enough clues for me to make an educated assumption or even really a guess.
The one that feels right to me would be that they now served Nito, but that's just sort of my Nito bias talking.
Not a lot to say about Nito's room; The coffin is really interesting, and could have been something Gwynn or Pinwheel, or someone else, used to try and diminish Nito's power, but then there's the issue of getting him into it, and I don't think anyone would really be able to, so it may just be how he likes to chill and unwind.
The fight is a little more interesting from a lore perspective.
The power of the gods (specifically divine, even more specifically the Londonian gods) is the only way to force the Skeletons raised by Nito to stay inanimate after being "killed", which suggests even more strongly the antagonistic relationship between Nito and the other Deities.
Even more interesting, however, is that Nito, while he does substantial damage from Divine (because there is no resistance grouping for it), has very low Fire resistance, and almost as low Lightning defense. The low Lightning defense once again suggests a rocky relationship between Nito and Gwynn, and the low Fire defense points to bad blood between Nito and Flann. (This is complete speculation, it just makes sense from what I can tell, and it has interesting implications for the narrative. We can tlak about this more later if people are interested™.)
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There's loads more to talk about, even regarding Nito, but I figure that's enough for now, and I hope you nerds enjoyed it if you didn't know anything about Nito before now.
Sources:
Dark Souls wiki (wikia) for item descriptions
The game (duh)
and the old /dsg/ google doc for some basic fact checking.
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![It's possible. I think (leaving the game world alert) that the budget for the game, and the production deadline may have played some part in Flann's absolute exclusion. I'm not even sure the game would be better with him in it, it's just interesting that the god of fire was left out.
On the other hand, it may have been intentional, to represent the first literally leaving Lordran. [spoiler] Not only does the god of fire leave, but the first flame is dying. The light literally leaves the world if you don't give yourself to the fire to keep it going. [/spoiler]](http://static2.fjcdn.com/comments/It+s+possible+i+think+leaving+the+game+world+alert+that+_35aed2eace25871af48c5e3efc3959ec.jpg)
![I think it looks fun too, and I'll admit that I'm trying to convince myself it's bad so I don't feel bad about not being able to play it, and if it came out on PC I'd ******* buy that **** in a heartbeat and **** my essay right in the ear. But from that I've seen (the entire game) it looks like they made a lot of the same confusing design decisions as were made in DS2, and from what I can glean, the story makes about as much sense as DS2's as well. It's a tough one, but again, I'd buy that **** . [spoiler] However, that's sort of the problem isn't it? Shouldn't a souls game be so good that you can't even think "Hey, I don't really know if I'd buy that **** " for even a second? That's just how I feel :p [/spoiler] Didn't think you were, just wanted to let people know :3](http://static2.fjcdn.com/comments/I+think+it+looks+fun+too+and+i+ll+admit+that+_95fb76b01a3cc4a54a52cd88e38e6fd6.jpg)
