![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Grainville’s “last man” character witnesses the slow decline and final end of the world. ‘The Last Man’īyron’s poem was one of many works by British Romantic authors and artists to capitalize on the popularity of French author Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville’s novel Le Dernier Homme ( The Last Man). The last denizens of the planet huddle for warmth around forests and dwellings “burnt for beacons,” and the final two survivors meet in a bitter encounter “beside the dying embers of an altar-place.” This use of fire as refuge prefigures the use of bonfires in “Dark Souls” as rare safe havens within an otherwise menacing world. In his 1816 poem “ Darkness,” Byron imagines an Earth beneath an extinguished sun. While its grandiose architecture suggests Lordran was once a mighty kingdom, the player’s quest begins at the end of the Age of Fire, when “ there are only embers, and man sees not light, but only endless nights.” This trope of the dying Earth is demonstrated in the sluggish, exhausted movement of many of the enemies and is reflected in the fragility of the onscreen character controlled by the player.Īn early example of this dying Earth trope can be seen in the work of Lord Byron, a major figure in British Romanticism. “Dark Souls” takes place in Lordran, a dark-fantasy version of a mythologized medieval Europe. ![]()
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