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4. The Primordial Serpents' Role - Dark Souls

-- Major thanks to Dark Souls lore master VaatiVidya for this one --

If you've played/survived the first Dark Souls, chances are you'll remember meeting one of the Primordial Serpents, Kingseeker Frampt. A giant, rabbit-with-teeth looking thing that gives you the ability to fast-travel between bonfires, Frampt opens the game up in a way you hadn't even thought of.

Still, Dark Souls lore is famously vague and interpretive up front, but even after delving into the item descriptions, you could be left with a head scratcher or two.

For the Primordial Serpents, a more apt translation for the West would've been "World Serpent", immediately drawing comparisons to Jörmungandr, Norse mythology's world serpent, whose body encircles the Earth, and whose mind understands all time, both past, present and future at once.

Knowing that this is what FromSoftware were trying to connote, both Kingseeker Frampt and Darkstalker Kaathe's dialogue and respective roles make a ton more sense. Frampt gives you the Lordvessel to move around more freely, letting you become powerful enough to stop Gwyn, and Kaathe reinforces this by stating that the Lord of Cinder "resisted the course of nature", ultimately hinting at the wider light vs. dark state of Dark Souls' world, and how balance must be restored.

Without this simple tweak, the Serpents' role in everything is all that more vague, and easily ignored.