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kashuan · 4 months

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some recent ds1 stuff :,)

#dark souls #knight lautrec #solaire #gwyndolin #ornstein #smough #gwyn #gwynevere #art

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fallintower · 9 months

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ornstein is the one who says "myeah, see" and smough is the one who says "dahhh, you tell em boss"

#dark souls #ornstein #smough #my art

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art-of-monkan · 7 months

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Happy (belated) anniversary to Dark Souls!

Here are some of my Dark Souls fanart, that I created sometime ago <3 I'm still happy with them!

#dark souls #fanart #traditional art #artorias the abysswalker #queelag #Ornstein #smough #great grey wolf sif #gravelord nito

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bowietea · 8 months

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Whoopsie ✨️

#bowietea art #bowietea ocs #dark souls fanart #dark souls art #dark souls oc #dark souls solaire of astora #dark souls solaire #solaire of astora #ornstein #dark souls dragon slayer ornstein #dragon slayer ornstein #dark souls ornstein #executioner smough #dark souls executioner smough #dark souls smough #smough #dark souls

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houseboywife · 10 months

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The tale of the three Ornsteins: a Dark Souls identity theft story

Dragonslayer Ornstein is one of the most iconic characters in Dark Souls, and for a good reason. His design is incredible, and his fight in tandem with Smough is one of the best in the series to this day. It is therefore interesting to see how strangely handled is actual in-game presence his. I am perfectly aware that a lot of this is a result of somewhat inelegant retcons, but I will attempt to bridge all of the information together to paint a picture that I find to be, if not completely satisfying, at least consistent with what I believed happened to our good old dragonslayer.

Let's start with what we learn in Dark Souls 1, which is the most straightforward. Ornstein is a being of incredible strength as the leader of the Four Knights of Gwyn, Lordran's elite soldiers who are all unquestionably loyal to their Lord. Unfortunately, by the time of Dark Souls 1, the other Knights have either died or left, so he's left alone guarding the capital City of Anor Londo. He's however joined by his good buddy Executioner Smough: and by good buddy I mean insane psycho. Smough was considered as a candidate for the position of Knight of Gwyn, but the recruiters probably changed their minds after learning that he enjoys grinding the bones of people in his meals. Also, not a surprise, he really enjoys murder.

Anyway, the important point being is that Ornstein and Smough are guarding the chamber to Gwynevere, and fight you to the death if you want to go in. This begs a question: why exactly? Gwynevere is an illusion concocted by Gwyndolin, since she has left Anor Londo long ago. Hell, Gwyndolin is actively trying to get some poor sucker to link the fire, which would require you to get the Lordvessel, which is given to you by Gwynevere/Gwyndolin. Who also doesn't seem to be particularly concerned by the two strongest knights in the realm having just died.

So the main hypothesis is that Ornstein and Smough have been placed there by Gwyndolin to test you. After all the linking of the fire is a sacred act, and you'd wanna make sure that the person you send to do it would actually be able to: after all, as shown by Dark Souls 3, you can actually fail to link the fire. So perhaps, as I said, what Gwyndolin is doing is testing you: and I get using Smough for the task, considering that everyone hates him and he also is probably willing to prove himself to join the Knights, but Ornstein? At the twilight of the kingdom of Lordran, what use is there to having the strongest knight left sacrifice himself to test a random Undead? Well, hold on that thought. For now, let's just say that the Chosen Undead kills both and proceeds to link the flame, or walk away from it.

Back with a vengeance

So let's move on to Dark Souls 2 now. Here we are in Drangleic, a completely different land set after Dark Souls 1. Which makes it very strange that in that game you can find an "Old Dragonslayer", identical to Ornstein, chilling in a church.

Now, let's not beat around the bush here: this is probably an impostor (among us????). A couple things make it pretty clear: first off, instead of using lightning attacks he wields darkness, which doesn't mean much in itself: however the Soul that you get from this boss says that "the Old Dragonslayer is reminiscent of a certain knight that appears in old legends", I'm leaning towards him being just an imitator. After all, beings with Fire Souls (Is it even a thing? You get what I mean) aren't able to come back from death, and killing Ornstein is mandatory to the story of Dark Souls 1, which we know already happened by the time of 2. The only alternative is that the Ornstein in Dark Souls 1 was an illusion, but that would be a bit silly, right?

The Ornstein in Dark Souls 1 was an illusion

Well, uh, this is awkward. Dark Souls 3 comes in and, with extreme confidence, makes everything so much more confusing. This is becaus, after defeating Gwyn's firstborn, the Nameless King, you find none other than Ornstein's armor. But hey, it could be just a repli-

Golden armor associated with Dragonslayer Ornstein, from the age of gods, and imbued with the strength of lightning. In the dragonless age, this knight, who long guarded the ruined cathedral, left the land in search of the nameless king.

Uhhhh, let's check Smough's armor maybe?

Grotesque armor associated with Smough, the last knight to stand in defense of the ruined cathedral.

Well, at least now we know that the Old Dragonslayer was a faker????

Ok ok so, what happened? It seems like that, before the events of Dark Souls 1, Ornstein left his post to search for the Nameless King, and left Smough behind in Anor Londo. So well, the logical explanation is that the first one you fight is actually an illusion made by Gwyndolin. But! The "illusion" also drops Ornstein's own Souls behind. Now, this is a bit of a pickle.

Before I go further, let me clarify something: Gwyndolin is also a character you can kill in Dark Souls 1 that returns in Dark Souls 3, but his fight is optional, and likely considered non canonical in 3. After all, there are other characters you can murder that show up again, the difference is that Ornstein is as far from optional as you can get.

So let's entertain that the Dragonslayer is an illusion: why does he drop his Soul, then ? I have an idea of what could have happned. First off, in Anor Londo you fight sever other illusions fashioned by Gwyndolin that all drop souls upon death. This, to me, seems to suggest that our favorite god of ambigous gender can't just conjure something out of nothing: they need souls.

Here's another piece of the puzzle: in the Dark Souls universe you can totally detach at least part of your soul from your body and be none the wiser. We see this with Gwyn, who gave a portion of his Souls to the Four Kings and other loyal subjects, and with Vendrick who, perhaps in shame, locked his own Soul away in the Shrine of Amana before going hollow. So I believe that the most likely explanation is that Ornstein, before departing to find the Nameless King, left his Soul (or a portion of it) to Gwyndolin in order for them to fashion an illusory guardian out of his likeness. Smough was there too, I guess. Probably Gwyndolin just wanted to get rid of him. That makes everything work out, more or less!

So let's answer one last question. Why did Ornstein seek the Nameless King? I've seen some people say that he was loyal to him all along, and some particularly creative theories state that he transformed into the dragon that the Firstborn rides. I find this to be a somewhat unsatisfactory explanation. Particularly the dragon part, of course, because the only character we ever saw meddle in dragon transformation experiments was Aldia who is probably the smartest person in the entire world, and even he didn't really get it perfectly right. Also there is absolutely zero evidence of it. Regarding the rest, well, I suppose it would be possible that Ornstein was loyal to the Nameless King, but why? He is a dragonslayer, after all, and the King was cast away specifically for having betrayed the gods in favor of the dragons (as a sidenote, the fact that the Ring of the Firstborn in Dark Souls 1 is slightly mistranslated and it made people think that he was banished for "losing the annals" is very funny. He was lost to the annals, there's no magical item named "the annals" which he lost lmao).

Anyway, I think Ornstein left to confront the Nameless King over his betrayal: perhaps he did so once his location on the Archdragon Peak became known. Talk to him? Kill him? Who knows. But is significative that the Dragonslayer Armor is found in the Nameless King's boss arena. I think that him and Ornstein engaged in a fight and, perhaps weakened by the lack of his Soul, the latter was defeated and died there. Whether this happened before or after Dark Souls 1 I do not know, but I have a feeling that this is how the warrior met his demise.

Now, why did From Software decide to add this lore in Dark Souls 3 I have no idea, considering it's very marginal in the game itself and it could have easily been left unsaid. Perhaps this was the plan all along. I will admit that not getting to fight the real Ornstein is somewhat disappointing, but also having him show up in person in Dark Souls 3 would have been a bit much. Even then, one thing is certain: despite never actually meeting him, he's certainly a memorable guy.

#dark souls #Dark souls 2 #Dark souls 3 #Soulsborne #Souls series #Souls lore #Dark souls lore #Ornstein #dragonslayer ornstein #Smough #executioner smough #Gwyndolin #Gwyn #Headcanon #nicothoughts

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friedchicken365 · 1 year

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Ornstein and Smough 🌈

#dark souls #ornstein #smough #ornstein and smough #drawing #fanart #soulsborne #fromsoftware #dragonslayer ornstein #executioner smough #boyfriends #smoughstein

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dailyvideogamecharacters · 9 months

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Tell me about the first time you faced off against these two. Love to hear what other experiences were like against O&S.

#dark souls #dark souls remastered #executioner smough #dragonslayer ornstein #ornstein #smough #all souls trilogy #gaming #gamer #video games #pc games #Miyazaki

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salaad · 2 years

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smough+ornstein face stuff

#repost :’) i just changed some stuff alittle #//#im trying to get inspos and thoughts for their faces and this what i could come up with #this for fun :d #dark souls #ds #ornstein #dragonslayer ornstein #smough #executioner smough #myart

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british-bigfoot · 11 months

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Splatter-cutioner Smoct

I could think of a better name lol. This is going to be the last of the Splat Souls characters for now, I've still got a bunch of ideas for other drawings in this series but I want to work on some other stuff right now. Anyway, I hope you like 'em (this may be my favourite out of the three).

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robosquid-sm · 1 year

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Executioner Smoe (Originally posted September 2, 2022)

Prepare to get drunk off your Estus Flask, D'ohsen Undead.

DeviantArt Link: https://www.deviantart.com/robosquid/art/Executioner-Smoe-928098965

#dark souls #dark souls smough #dark souls executioner smough #executioner smough #smough #fromsoftware #ornstein and smough #dark souls fanart #the simpsons #the simpsons moe #moe szyslak #the simpsons fanart #crossover #hey homer #robosquid art archive #homer simpson #ned flanders

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four-white-trees · 1 year

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hmm

#bullet train #lemon #tangerine #dark souls #ornstein #smough

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bowietea · 6 months

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Stayed up late working on my new girl 🔥

A "close" second in command for Ornstein that it's uncommon to see her not follow him around, and is great friends with Smough (still dumbfounded how she wasn't eaten yet)