how the heck did I not figure out that you play as Alexis in the game. I played the game and I never figured that out until now. Maybe I rushed it a bit and didn't notice. Edit: it's weird because I was trying hard to figure out who Alexis was in the game.

I do believe I shrieked when he said my name.

This game is woke

Am I crazy, or do we see a Elden Ring-like symbol a briefly at 2:36?

On second look, it's sort of the Golden Wand's shape on the whole

I think I'll need to go to Nito's realm and lie in a certain coffin as that is a less dark place than the world I just looked into here...

Nicholas Uspoulsky- sounds russian

thanks for finding out so many details and put them together! I love the story!

Can anyone offer a recommendation on any works by Fiona Macleod?

Me: _makes note to self to read as much of this McCloud person's poetry as possible_

This all sounds more like the School of Mensis all over again.

What I enjoy the most about the story within Déraciné is the usage of that poetry. To clarify, though, Fiona Macleod was a pen-name, for writer William Sharp. It was one he wrote under beginning in the 1890s, and was largely secret. The part of his writings that I love the most is that he keeps faith with the true story behind the Fae themselves. His writings are best looked at as the stories of the Aos Sí - the Fair Folk. Other names are the daoine sídhe in Irish, and daoine sìth in Scottish mythology, though they were pronounced the same. Both refer to the people of the hollow hills or mounds. They were the top rung of Faerie society - noble, tall, beautiful, and equally terrible. They were not the cherubic creatures with pixie wings that we have come to know in the Western world. These creatures and all that shared their species were equal parts beautiful and grotesque. They were muses to those that worshipped them, and those same postulants would find themselves driven mad for it. The best representation of the darker appetites of the Sídhe are the sluagh sídhe, or “The Faerie Host”, which in Western culture is commonly called the Wild Hunt. Emily Dickinson wrote a verse about a “carriage that held Death and herself”, and such a black carriage became synonymous with death paying a house call. I am so happy to see a true and proper representation of this mythos and these creatures in a video game. For anyone interested in further uses within media, you can find Laurell K. Hamilton’s ‘Merry Gentry’ book series, that is all about the Sídhe and their many forms, and the Canadian TV series ‘Lost Girl’, which also explores the MANY mythological creatures, from the Scottish and Irish cultures, as well as Asian, Native American, and more.

I am pretty certain Margerta was the evil fairy , the collar around the neck represents the same one on Margerta's courpse and she also has the red ring on

This game deserve more attention than it got

Wait so fairies are youtube videos....

how much poise does the golden fairy wand have?

vaati you would make a wonderful power bottom

Just finished playing this.. And boy oh boy do from software understand how to set a tone. Game makes ya feel things.

My dads been callin me a fairie for years. Im gunna show him this video! Thatll show u dad, i cant traverse threw time or feed on human life force, HA THATLL SHOW YOU DAD

You waste too much time on shitty games i loved bloodborne but hated souls game!! You should play red dead redemption 2 and make some videos about them!! Those are the masterpiece not this shit

7:36 Vibes of Stockpile Thomas. You have a heart of gold, don't let em take it from ya.

cant afford vr and i dont think i could use it, hoping for bloodborne 2!!! love your voice and the work you do for lore :3

If you want a use for your psvr, buy and play through Moss (if you don't have it via another vr set that is), it's (in my humble opinion) an amazing vr game with very interesting lore (and hints towards more games in the series). That was the game that made getting the psvr totally worth it for me. I wanted a cheap vr headset so I could experience what it was like (and the other options were pretty far beyond my price range), but getting Moss made it all worth it. Déraciné was an amazing bonus that made me jump and cry for joy and probably the strongest narrative I've played through so far, seeing as how easy it is to immerse oneself in the story in vr. Also, I cannot wait for Star Child to come out, looks like fun as well (albeit a huge disappointment, most like, after experiencing Moss and Déraciné xD). I also had another thought (which is roughly referenced in the latest video, lel) that maybe Déraciné takes place in the same universe as Bloodborne... it would be an interesting thought to explore!

These videos deserve more views. It was a pretty riveting story with interesting lore. Loved it.

I think Abigail was another of the five (there were two women in the picture) Rohnian scholars, a fairy not unlike ourselves and not neccesarily evil, but chooses to act as our guide and mentor as a fairy. I think she also intentionally hides the fact that we killed Yulia from us at the start. Or even worse, the reason why WE became a faerie is that Abigail as a faerie came to baby us and stole our time. Perhaps the events of the game and seeing the evil faerie's actions convince her to leave us be. I think as a Faerie, you're bound to your own past- you can never go anywhere you never went before- or are consumed with going back in time to prevent something from happening. Likely, the evil Faerie saw how the events of the Rohnian failure happened, or perhaps joined the Rohnians to prevent a tragedy in their own past. Upon becoming a faerie he became determined to steal as much time as possible to return to the past to undo something, something that apparently he doesn't succeed in until the bad end timeline where he consumes everyone but Nils, and likely even then simply does not succeed due to still not having enough or being unable to change anything- thus remaining an 'evil' faerie. Kinda like Nox from Wakfu, no amount of time will let us change the fate that defines us (time paradox!). This is likely the nature of ALL faeries, the player themselves, due to being a faerie, is stuck in a time loop of stealing life to return to the past until we choose not to take Yulia's time- only by accepting our deaths, and letting go of time are we free from the loop. Margareta too, likely became a faerie and got in a time loop to prevent her daughter's death- and perhaps was the 'evil being' that hurt Rosza, taking only a little bit of her time (because she loved Rosza) but found that she couldn't travel back in time to undo Alexis's fate. Perhaps even Rosza's endless bad dreams are her memories of her other timelines where her time was taken by Margarete and used to travel back in time, only for Margareta to fail and have to take Rosza's time again, and again. I think Margarette can't change the past because, with only 6 souls and the headmaster, she can't move far enough back. Or simply the rule is you can't go back in time before your own death. The same for the evil faerie, who waits around the cabin in the forest so he can take their time, but waits so long that all the time that he gathers is not actually enough to return anywhere in the past meaningful, leaving him trapped in the forest in an endless loop of feeding on the children. I actually think that's a good link to Dark Souls, when you think about it. An undead spirit feeding on the life of others, traveling back in time, and doing it over and over again, usually feeding on the same victims and their predictable habits? Just like a chosen undead using the bonfire, resetting the enemies, and then farming souls? Or a chosen undead riding the loop of existence between three games, New games Plus, etc. A loop that only ends when the player chooses to let it end and stop playing. It's narratively very souls like. Yulia as a faerie likely already made several time loops before we find her, only to find that she cannot prevent other tragedies or even her becoming a faerie, and is as trapped on the ground as we are. Or worse, the Yulia we interact with through the game is actually this 'evil Yulia" who has traveled back and forth, not being a true faerie but a human given more time. She finds that she cannot travel back before the time of her death, and that in any timeline where she's still dead, her friends all die (hence why she asks you to save them. Her loops are enclosed within Alexis's and she cannot exist before or after it. Us reviving her does not stop the loop, because she will die soon from living on only a small amount of borrowed time. So only by us closing the loop by never taking her life in the first place, does she escape hers. The zombie Margareta we meet is there because she was there to help us escape our own loop, by giving us a bit of both Margareta's time and Rosza's time, so that we can fix things in her stead. Our mother saves us from becoming an evil faerie, and lets us prevent our adopted siblings from becoming stuck in time and able to move forward with their lives. It also lets us drift into the cold snow of time to join our mother. I think one of the best themes of the Souls series is that death is not something to fear- there are fates worse than it Us reviving her does not stop the loop, because she will die soon from living on only a small amount of borrowed time.

I wish we could have undone the evil fairy though... : (

Okay, this is officialy Byrgenwerth all over again.

This seems like a really interesting peice of story telling. It would make a great book. Man I wish From Software wrote books!

I wish i could afford VR many good games are begining to come out. This RE7, skyrim, fallout 4 etc.

Is this somehow a prepare to cry?

can we have dark souls vr thanks in adv-

Hoped im gonna play that GAME :)

Puck always said fairies were number 1. If only Guts had listened

0:41 is Fiona a man or a woman? I thought it was an exclusively female name.

That headmaster voice actor sounded like Biorr from Demon's Souls. Neato! On another note, this game looks interesting but $200+ just to play a game isn't worth it to me. Oh well.

I didn't get the notification for the video. Anyone like me ?

It's a pity for this title that it was only in Vr version, it seems so beauty and inspired !

wait, you say the scholars created the faeries?? i got the impression that theyve always been there even before the scholars?

The reason they are called the Fair Folk, Kindly Ones or The Gentry is because they are so capricious that calling them anything less would invite tragedy on anyone who had slighted them. They were also an indirect way to criticize the many times absurd disposition of the nobility and how they could cause suffering to common folk.

games from fromsoftware have a beauty and genuinity that makes me feel child again

Hey Vaati, can you give us some more Sekiro videos, please?

I really love the character they are very much people I want to see living

GRANT US WANDS!! GRANT US WANDS!!

Does anybody else see a whole lot of tonal and thematic parallels between Derecine and Bloodborne?

Make contact dolls and red and blue tearstone rings? This is soulsborne canon. Maybe i do have to play this game

I'm really happy to see From Software is willing to break from the format of their traditional games, as they're truly a creative bunch, who could develop some profoundly unique games, going even beyond the Souls games. After Shadows Die Twice, I honestly wouldn't like a Dark Souls 4 or a Bloodborne 2, as a new IP would be far more interesting at this point

It'll probably be shadows die thrice next.

What? They have no traditional games, this is just them returning to form really. This game is basically Echo Night: VR. Time travel? Ghosts? Tragedy?

Hey, maybe you could do Darksiders lore videos?

my lord, from software's storytelling is amazing. I can't wait to see the bloodborne references. I already noticed one! 0:01

This sound like an amazing story... ...not interested in play it though :/

Hey Vaati, can you make a video about nioh? That would be great

Maatimovie is that you?

This sounds awesome. I wish it wasn’t VR—I’d buy it in a heartbeat.

Just finished watching both videos, your videos are always top notch

enjoying your voice dude and your commitment to research lore in soulsborne is astonishing! keep it up!

In the true ending for Bloodborne you (the PC) "guide humanity to its next evolitionary step". What if that step is faeires? I dont mean this as "DERACINE IS BLOODBORNE 2", but based on the time these kids live in judging by their clothes, they could be living in the same universe. There are also many bloodborne references, for example one kid has a book called something like blood and bones, which is a tale of the hunters.

dam i almost cried

that birthmark on the left hand thing is genius

Lore me daddy

Awesome video. Now incorporate it into the soulsborne lore

i'm hearing fairies but my mind is imagining furries :/

The guy who is scholar and called the name that is spelled differently but said the same as Lawrence's name in Bloodborne? This is the origin story for the First Vicar. He even moves the elderly mentor in wheelchair around, in reminiscence of Willem.

Nickolas is a lot like Laurance from Bloodborne. Both scholars trying to convince their fellow academics to use a mystic force to better humanity but at a terrible cost.

So why not go back to the beginning and fix stuff?

In order to do so the faery need to take the time large enough to go back in time and that is what the good faery did, but each time it did the issue come back a whole again so the faery have to give back it ring to Yulia to solved most of the issue.

anyone else getting a "everybody's gone to the rapture" vibe?

@dumbfish97 other one was good.

Yeah except this time it’s good

Ikr. Espiacially with all those ethereal lights around.

You're not a dark souls youtuber anymore youre a from software youtuber

This is pretty good game It could stand by its self as a great game but I enjoy the little hints and Easter eggs in it but great game even without the soulsborn format behind it

The Doll is such a beautiful and nice character

So this could just be because we are the player, but in a way they were right. By making a Baby a fairy they also made the kindest and most gentle fairy, a baby having no past to hold on to has no reason to become selfish and malicious.

@ImpendingGhost Basically.

@TheRezro Well its only going off the fact that the player is the baby that died to became a fairy. Since this is the only one we know of, it's really up in the air as to how you see it.

@ImpendingGhostStill it was created form human. I don't think that it was really case here

@TheRezro Well yes Humans. At this point the Baby is no longer a human. It is a fairy and one able to understand what it is doing.

Except it isn't how humans work.. noble savage is a retarded idea. Kids are in fact by nature extremely selfish, exactly because they have no ties, and so don't understand harm.

The red ring reminded me of the tiny beings ring, how fitting.

I hate fromsoftware. The games have no story at all. All you dumb nerds see is a blank sheet and then you get all symbolised and shit get the fuck outta here. Map design is awful half of the time you are walking because you dont know where the hell you are going

Vaati you have the best lore channel on all of YouTube thank you for maintaining a fantastic account ❤️.

I'm coming up with this fantasy anime that's gonna have some deep lore, (though not Dark Souls deep) and I lowkey hope VaatiVidya gets into it and talks about the lore.

161st

I've heard of many kinds of apocalypses. Dragon apocalypses. Screaming scorpion-tailed angel apocalypses. Time stopping apocalypses. Eldritch Space Baby apocalypses. And those are just from _Drakengard_ . I've never quite heard of a Faerie apocalypse, though. A Faerie apocalypse that also involved devouring time and stealing life, in order to engage in a huge Time Travel cold war.

@Alex Hamilton Lol, that would be fun..

Bluecho4 I now want Vaati to do Drakengard lore.

Oh wow this was an unpleasant surprise :) thanks for doing this! I have VR but not psvr.

They managed to still have an apocalyptic world. That's pretty cool.

Wonderful lore video, thank you Vaati!

Fiona Mcleod was actually a man named William Sharp

Where are they gonna put the Moonlight Greatsword?

Extremely unlikely, but fairy dagger in fact resemble Coiled Sword.

Love ure content VV keep doing what ure doing, thanks😁

I'd actually have taken you up on that headset offer if we were in the same country lol

you're a hero, vaati

with all this sekiro hype i forgot this game even exist

In my opinion all of this sounds boring af.

It seems to me....that Deracíne Fae are much like the Unseelie Fae. Unseelie Fae being dark faeries naturally. The Unseelie are not fond of humans in any capacity, and you don't have to offend them to get them to kill you. They'd gladly kill you for any reason. To Fae, death has no real meaning, as they are immortal and undying. Sure they have things they fear, but it won't kill them. Nothing can truly kill a Fae, that is expect a broken heart. Losing anyone or anything they love dearly enough could likely burn a Faerie's heart vastly with grief until they eventually pass away themselves due to that grief. Another thing worth noting, is that the Unseelie live in a world of endless cycles between Autumn and Winter, whereas their Seelie counterparts live within cycles of Spring and Summer. Course these Fae are curious as well as dark in nature. Which is line with Faeries that aren't sided with the Unseelie(dark) or Seelie(light) side of the Fae. These lone Fae, even the good ones, are feared heavily for their power. I can't be certain of what exact Faerie the ones in Deracíne are though. You have creatures like the Pooka and Dullahan that are greatly feared, but at the same time they don't attack humans in the same way that these Fae do. To find out what sort of Fae these characters are, we'd have to dig deep in celtic Fae lore indeed. They do have a light aura around them, but that could just be something all Fae may have in this world. I mean even light Fae were highly respected and even feared to an extent. Enough for people to avoid Fae kind in general and come up with ways to protect themselves. Ultimately this is one fascinating little game and one hard cookie to crack for extra bits of lore we could dig up. But hopefully my own little take helps Vaatividya.

Ok, I had this idea for a game really souls like in its story, and I wanted to hear some second opinions on it, throw in your lot. The central mechanic is the collection of souls. As the player, you learn to collect souls and utilize them however you wish. Heal, hurt, travel, strengthen, even resurrect. The soul increases in value based on how valuable it is to the one who uses it. If you took the soul of some jerk you hate, it won't be worth more than a few points of healing or damage. If you take the soul of someone you have spent a lot of time with and had positive social interactions with, it increases in value, and the most valuable soul is your own, which can only be used once, and the game ends when you do. Of course, getting a soul means taking it from a person. No mooks here, only people you actually interact with. Thus, you have to interact with people to take their souls (you can take them without interaction, but they'll be completely worthless), which, of course, makes you more hesitant to kill them. I especially imagined one part at the end where the peaceful and friendly village is devastated, and the populace killed. You can either leave, never to return, or you can use your own soul, and bring them all back, but thereby ending the game. I also considered the idea of the main character sort of being tricked into stealing souls. You'd be fully aware of what you were doing, but you wouldn't know it was bad in-game, the same way slaughtering monsters in Undertale is supposed to make you feel bad. Depending on how much video game logic you're going by, you may not realize stealing souls is bad until these valkyrie-like beings start hunting you, which you'd originally think were trying to steal your souls for themselves, until you figure out they're trying to punish you for your heinous crime

@TheRezro Yeah, I realized that afterward. Hindsight's 20/20

It to some degree remind Vampyr.

Why not do an in-depth analysis of the Armored Core lore just as well?

It has a lore? I understand ZoE, but AC has really simple plot. Not every Fromsoft Game is deep.

So Byrgenwerth all over again...

@VaatiVidya any chance of going through From Software's older rpgs and speaking about them, like the King's Field series ect?

It would be quite complicated, but he should do that.. King's Field for example is directly connected to Souls series (it basically is part of it).

l cant understand how some people can like games based just on a developer... l mean,how weak are your tastes that you just like anything some developer throw out to the market? Even if there is anything to do with the previous product you liked so much.

I can’t understand people who have to put a comment out stating how they can’t understand people who like games from the same developer. It’s like we aren’t allowed to have things we like.

what point are you trying to make here?

Not enough Bloodborne references 0/10

Dont have vr so spoil it

Remember my son, no lore lasts forever.

I might be interested in the psvr set, how much would you like to get for it =)

Fairy also means queer. So there's that.

fucking spooky, i thought this suppose to be a wholesome game.

Pretty cool. It's funny when you think about fairies, as only their modern incarnations are somewhat inocent and cute. In almost every western folklore, faries and the like are described as playfull, mischieavous, and outright cruel sometimes. Like human children with no moral education.

It is fault of Hollywood.. world Eldritch literally come from Elvish.

Is the voice actor for the Headmaster the same as Father Ariandel from ds3? Sounds close to identical.

@Alex Hamilton Well that makes sense now that i think about it.

Bjørn Egil Hegnastykket I just looked it up. It’s not the same voice actor... but the guy who voices the headmaster voiced Frampt in DS1 and Straid in DS2. He’s putting on a Scottish accent in Deracine which is probably why he sounds like Ariandel.

The story is cool and all, but where's Patches? Edit: And surely there's a Moonlight Greatsword, right? RIGHT?

I bet that at some point in this game you can see a large sword on a wall behind a door that someone is closing.

Maybe you play as patches and you’re searching for the moonlight greatsword

Watch the other video. There is patches. A real patches.

It's ok, we got a doll cameo instead.

fairies being childish is mostly disneys and such fault...original stories about fay creatures were often very dark, but most often mischievious and with some moral...also warning, as one of the key features of fay is they have very different set of morals and customs, often one can insult them without realizing, and most fay are basically amoral

@Sepulchure Valen Not the point. Even despite being cheesy and lazy they usually provide at least average entertainment. Most people who hate Disney do that for childish reason, using it as symbol of Childishness and childishly presuming that hating it would prove they fragile masculinity. In the end most companies are usually objectively worst and lazier then Disney who at least acknowledge value of franchise.

@TheRezro Disney is actually pretty cheesy and lazy, that happens to every huge corporations. Why be innovative and take when you can keep it safe and simple and just make a lot of money? That's the goal of a business in the end, and the bigger and older it gets the more corporatism is in it. Disney is as bad as the other companies. Just because there is an alt-right hate movement against them doesn't make them any less bad. Would fallout 76 be less bad if they had an alt-right hate movement?

@bigles025 Seriously, what us your point? Disney with few exceptions is far from cheesy and lazy. I know that there is alt-right hate movement against them now, so I really hope that this debate end now.

@TheRezro ok ok, disney only with their later work, 90s and later...but the general aproach to fairytales was to make them less violent

@bigles025 As much as that MCU is for babies (with stuff like Punisher and Black Panther definitively 0_0). It has no sense, as it is literal stereotype. Disney animation was in fact famous from more serious approach to family entertainment then most of competition at the time. And as I said they have maybe only few faeries in they history. Most of cheesy stuff come from other companies.

Was that Bloodborne II?