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A Buddha is no deity.

@VaatiVidya did u notice in the shira ending that the sword owl had and sekiro took from his body was the black mortal blade?

@Lubble-1397 I like the idea that the dragon represents the fighter too. Its almost like there's nothing you can hide from the dragon.

I know i'm late to the party, just recently beat Sekiro but I noticed something. In the Immortal Severance ending if you look closely There is a large wound on Sekiro's chest from when he was cut down in the Hirata Estate. This is taking a huge leap but the dragon mirrors Sekiro almost perfectly, not just with its wounds but also when you remember the beginning of the game. Sekiro is found by owl, in a strange land, lost and out of place.

So why is isshin the final boss? If he was the old guy who supported us severing kuros immortality?

West?what west? Florida???

God, those women’s S’s hurt my ears

I'm here a year & a half later. Deeply sad there wasn't any DLC, but let's all hope we get another sekiro game, albeit many years in the future.

Thanks for sharing all these VV. I caught some of it on my play through. But I miss quite a bit. Could Tomoe and Takeru be the reason Ashina faught with the Fountainhead?

Great mini series! Loved it 👍

I jus thought of a new ending for sekiro.what if u kill kuro to sever imortalyty.than sekiro lives in mysery for 2 years than desiceids to bring kuro back with the black mortal blade by killing himself.

0:08 "We can make an educated guess about what HEE represents" *proceeds to zoom in on his wood* okok, you proved your point broo. It's a he.

The marriage ceremony kills people. Typical FromSoft.

What If the dragon was once a carp?

I hope they have the path of Genichiro, back side story like Tenchu.

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Well done! Great work!

So is the Divine Dragon meant to be malicious? I gather that its blood is a curse for everyone who has it. Kuro and Takeru are pursued for it, and out of a lust for immortality Owl, Genichiro, the Mibu Priest, the Palace Nobility and so many others turn on people they cared for and commit evil acts to maintain the immortality of the dragon’s heritage. But I had always presumed this was because the Dragon was cursed by its own heritage: that it was caged in the west for its heritage and hunted in the east. But the mention that it asks for offerings and usurped dragons that already lived at Fountainhead Palace makes it seem significantly less innocent in the fighting it incites. I don’t imagine there’s any definitive answer to this but I’m curious to start a discussion. Does anyone here think the dragon means to be destructive or is it a benign being that’s cursed by dragon blood as much as Kuro and Takeru are?

Thanks a lot vaati!! Love you❤️ Great Channel!!

Fromsoftware "let's just use the same tree model every time cuz it's to annoying" this conspiracy guy

Kuro cut himself on the chest, so yes, this could be a parallel. But also remember that Sekiro himself was stabbed through the chest *before* he received the dragon’s blood.

Alright, so I've watched this video plenty of times since release. But only after one whole year did I notice at the beginning of the video when Vaati calls the rope creature a "he" the camera zooms in on his literal woody, and I think that is amazing

I always figured the shrine priestess praying at the shrine of the Sakura Dragon was Tomoe, and that, unable to obtain the Dragon's tears, she never gave up and her spirit never left the divine realm. Perhaps that lingering spirit of a lightning-wielding warrior is why lightning only strikes at the most opportune times in the battle against the Sakura Dragon?

I always come back to listen to the lore of Sekiro. I think it has the best lore out of all souls games.

It feels weird listening to the game in english, after finishing so many playthroughs in japanese 😆.

Shrine maiden, makes me think reference to fillianore.

Vati if I could I would left a superlike, I am really sure the community appreciate you job. As you said to make a video take much time and energy not everyone can undestand, however thank you again waiting for your next video

@VaatiVidya i played sekiro again recently and noticed Genichiro’s fighting style is very similar to the Okami warriors. Do you think tomoe was an okami warrior? Or was that stated somewhere else

The mention of losing half life with Yashariku's sugar being tied to the loss of twin at birth gave me chills. Thank you for these amazing videos. They savor all the outstanding world building that went into this game, which sadly remains unnoticed in most playthroughs.

pls trans pt br!

10:28 Kuro 2.0 LMAO

Fromsoftware says Sekiro is set in Sengoku period(1467~1615).However, architecture and enemys' outfits in Fountainhead palace has the style of late Heian period(1068~1192).Also, the area looks like Itsukushima shrine in Hiroshima prefecture.

0:12 that zoom tho

Either Fromsoft is good at designing eerie woman or ghostly undead woman are really eerie. Hahaha!

Thank You :)

You are phenomenal, Vaati. Please make more videos about Sekiro. This was such a great series!

Incredible

no man. THANK YOU!!! I MEAN IT! THANK YOU VAATI

Still hoping to see a Tomoe DLC for this game.

A Buddha is no deity.

I think that the divine dragon Is missing an arm because you killed the old dragons and destroyed there small tree

It's so weird how bad the English voice acting is in this compared to other From Games. The Japanese version of that scene where the daughter is stabbing the noble corpse was heartbreaking. Hearing it here in English is laughable.

i just watched the entire series today and stick till the end of the video. great job man, i will look forward to your future videos!

The dragon stayed because of pretty japanese trees. Sakura dragon is a weaboo confirmed?

awesome videos, thanks for this work.

Subs not dubs

Fuck tamoe

Bruh stuck through the whole episode and all the videos I love your work

The scariest part of Headless is the hair. They were so badass they lost their heads but kept their hair.

10:27 she is in no way better than kuro

"Bikune" is nun in old Japanese and Hindu, YaoBikune is basically Nun Yao. Also, the item in the Japanese version has the full name of YaoBikune, so it is a direct reference.

I kinda notice, from soft kept the theme that dragons are weak to lighting, like in dark souls.

You said the "lesser gods are the great serpant and Buddha" but what about the Kami?

I have a loose, unfounded theory about the Divine Dragon's missing arm. The Dragon's settling in Ashina has sort of corrupted the entire land with Divine influence mortals aren't really equipped to handle. The waters, the Dragon's Heritage, and all forms of immortality stem from the Dragon and do nothing but bring suffering and violence to the people of Ashina. I think also the specific events of the game which seem to be cyclical are also inherited from the dragon. There might be some sort of past drama that unfolded in the Divine Realm that has certain motifs which manifest in the mortal realm. A lost arm is the obvious one we have to think about, but there are a number of repeated generational story elements that I think might be mirrored in the Divine Realm. An orphan on the battlefield, a lightning wielding royal craving power, a one armed warrior who rivals him, etc. I believe the Divine Dragon has a story of its own that includes these elements and I think the warriors of Ashina are shackled to some sort of myth that they are blindly acting out unbeknownst to them.

Haha what a terrible terrible story 😆🙏🏼

Who else thought they heard an ori and the blind forest theme

Absolutely amazing lore series. I love this game and have always had a fascination for ancient Japan folklore, so when I found your videos it was like a dream come true for a lore geek like me. I sincerely hope that FS plans to make a DLC, and I can't wait to hear your thoughts on all the new stories within. Keep up the great work 👍🏻🐲🏯

so... are you gonna like finish the story explained for sekiro? this is the last one you have and i feel like you didnt really cover the ending here.

The divine dragons missing arm is the branch that takaru took and planted at the ashina castle

Vaati , I really appreciate your vids But can u define , why there is only one purple garb near the mibu village idol at the river end

Even though bloodbourne is my fav from fromsoftware, sekiro is a very great standalone game from them. It deserves the equal respect. If they had explored more of the lore in the game and made it slightly more longer then this would be close to being a Masterpiece.

That zoom at 0:13 was intentional right?

The truth is the game tell about old chinese japanese religions and stories .i like the game environment and story.good developers👍👍

Oh man I'm glad I didn't play this in English haha

The Shrine Maiden that was "praying" outside the dragon's shrine might be Tomoe. She could have lost the fight against the divine dragon because of her lack of skill or lack of the red mortal blade. She looks human but since you can drink the water to become fish-like, it reasons that if the divine dragon took her immorality away she might become human-like. This would explain why she is the only dead "human" whose skin is pale white and isn't decaying. We know Genichiro went looking for the mortal blade because of the monk inside the illusory realm but couldn't get it. Genichiro has no reason to look for the mortal blade, expect to use it to kill you because killing you means Kuro might give him the dragon's blood. It is likely that Genichiro went looking for the divine dragon/realm so he can ask the dragon directly but obviously couldn't go. The dragon might have become aware of him though and offered him Tomoe's black mortal blade which would have been resting at his doorstep to kill you. There's no proof this is just a game theory.

Imagine if somewhere in the world you could find a secret “white mortal blade” that nobody has found I would scream

There is something special with reading about how the black blade can open the gate to the underworld and they seeing genichiro summoning isshin and then realizing that he is opening the gate to the underworld which you know because you did some research before

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The story of the girl eating the fish isn’t that what they did in siren blood curse?

I know this video is a year old, but I just got around to completing more of the endings and didn't want to be totally spoiled. This video is great, but Tomoe owning the Black Blade doesn't fit with her lore. We're told by Emma that she witnessed Tomoe fail at suicide because *she didn't have the mortal blade.* The black mortal blade should have worked just as well a the red one for that. Emma also gives us text written by Tomoe, revealing she sought the mortal blade from Senpou temple and failed, as well as her inability to return to the Divine Realm.

8:35 “You beast” I heard a comment theorize the Ogre was probably someone white who was just seen as an unintelligent monster and it’s pretty similar to how horror stories are created. Perhaps this is how we view in upper class through the lenses of monster and horror. Ugly creatures who’s tentacles squirm around looking for anything to feast upon. Hiding themselves within their dark room completely hidden from anything real life as to offer.

Thanks for this series, excellent content as always! It's good to get the "full" picture after finally finishing the game.

Maybe the guardian ape ate part of a great carp to become infested? Reason o say this is if you kill the great carp it washes up at the guardian ape idol? Maybe that is how the infested are created?

there are some major issues with sekiros story telling in that I can't even figure out how to get emma to be at the grave to have that conversation of tome. So much of the story isn't only hard to find but its insanely easy to miss entirely.

Where can we get the background music ?

One interesting thing about the skill tree is the Ashina's carp styles.

Sekiro uses his red mortal blade to slice at the neck of Isshin Ashina, similarly to how Genichiro uses his black mortal blade to slice at his own neck

Eastern story telling and philosophy is so beautiful and I think you did a wonderful job pulling it all together in this video series. I know Im a whole year late, but I had to work my way through all of the other Souls Borne stuff to get here, so please forgive me. Regardless, Im excited to see whats next!

You just made Sekiro even more amazing for me. 😭

It reminds you how amazing these games fromsoft makes are.

I appreciate that you try to explain and logic through all the stories for this epic game. but sometimes eastern cultures are just mysterious, implicit and metaphorical. if you try to go logic or even science. you loose this beauty of subtlety

Lady Tomoe should have a DLC, she seems an interesting character.

What if the centipede infestation removed the poisonous resistance from Yao in her corruption

I have my own theory about the maiden in the sanctuary. I believe she was a member of a clan which worshipped the divine dragon in its homeland. Then, they were chased away into ashina. I believe the maiden was the dragon's craddle who carried it to the source of the fountainhead waters. Senpou temple's high priest had to had gottend to the palace in order to obtain the mortal blade and hide it, so he probably learnt about the ritual that took the dragon to Japan during his time there.

This video is old now but a connection to Japanese folklore was lost here, Carps (specially Koi) have a legend that wheb manage to climb of a waterfall, the gods saw his perseverance and transformed him into a dragon, carps are also ties to childreb in this way, youngs being that are working hard to grow up into dragons. Thats why the people drink the water, they don't DIRECTLY want to be carps, they want a chance to become dragons themselves.

Those aren't centipedes on the dead carp, its caterpillars (I'm pretty sure at least).

Everything about this game is amazing

Sekiro is so touching

YOUR AWESOME

Thank you for this series. I enjoyed it a lot!!

This video made me love sekiro even more

Please please make an audio book your voice is amazing

I had an interesting idea while replaying the fountainhead portion recently. I was trying to guess at where the infestation began and thought about where centipedes live in nature; rotten trees and logs. So with the old tree spirits and the Sakura tree itself being afflicted by dragon rot, doesn't it make sense that they spawned the centipedes and started the infestation? If that's true it would also mean the rejuvenating waters are just a by-product of dragon rot. Seems to fit together well, sorry if you've covered it in a different video.

Sekiro is deep af

Wow, I really gave no attention while playing the game. Just finished it & watched your videos and couldn't help but have more respect for developers and you for such level of details. I have few basic questions (sorry if I missed something during videos)- 1. What's the deal with Kuro being a divine heir of Dragon? How does one become that? Is it one of Senpou's success experiments? 2. What's the origin of Mortal blades? Who created them & why? 3. Why did Isshin fight Sekiro? Is it because he wanted to have a fight, hopefully in hopes that Sekiro was best chance at ending his resurrection after a metal fight or he was like, okay, wtf, I'm not glad about this way but if I'm back now, let glory be back ?

That “what HE represents” zoom killed me

loved this series, i just realized the rope guy totally dabs! even a year later GREAT CONTENT

Maybe Corrupted Monk was not on noble’s side. Maybe, she was guarding that no one could go in or out. Nobles needed wedding ceremony to feed youth, or else they might eat okamis, but corrupted monk blocked their supply of youth, after their massacre by sending okamis to ashina. Or maybe she lived too long and saw everything.

dude i guess i`ve seen every video of u like at leats 10 times, and i cant get enought of it... u are seriously talented and i hope u keep on going. Even if i dont know u, i love u for all the good times i had with ur videos and Fromsoftware`s games, which u made like 10 times more enjoyable... at least for me. hope u are all right and still this thight :P

Great stuff!!!!💥

7:36 not sure if derpy clipping or prosthetic attachment.

The English dub is 🤢

Best. Fucking. Pun. Ever.

These videos are extremely helpful to someone like me who played through the game (spending days on Isshin) and doesn’t have a good grasp on deep lore lol. Thank you VaatiVidya

how is buddha a lesser god?