31: The world of Dark Souls through the eyes of the protagonist
In the Dark Souls series of games, including the world of Bloodborne Curse, from Vayne, who is currently missing.
There is a very embarrassing problem, that is, when introducing the fragmented game unique to Miyazaki old thief, some very obscure terms are always used.
For players, these obscure playstyles can have a big impact, as most players only speak their native language and don't go out of their way to learn another language in order to find out the truth about one game.
And even if you learn, you may not be able to understand the unique context and tone of localization, and even the language habits.
Similarly, most translators are troubled by Miyazaki's fragmented game narrative.
As a result, some synonyms are often translated...... If it's another game, it's fine, even if it's a synonym with a different meaning, you can correct it yourself in context.
The problem is that the old thief Miyazaki basically doesn't give context, so the synonyms become ambiguous.
Not to mention the ambiguity of translating from the original Japanese version to English and then into other languages.
In the end, the meaning expressed by some key words is very different from the original meaning.
Mistranslations like this have led to cognitive errors throughout history, from the time of the emergence of different scripts.
For example, a certain Principal Chang Kaishen Chang, who has been perfect for thousands of years, is obviously the chief detective of the Huo family class and has become the Fu family class.
…… However, compared with these two big guys, it's just a transliteration error.,Everyone knows who it should be.,Compared with the translation errors in the Souls series of games.,It will directly make players have a different concept of the game's plot.。
Because of the mistake, it appeared from the opening CG of the first part.
In the opening CG of the first game, it is first mentioned that the ancient dragon world where there is no life and death is gone...... Oh no, it's on fire.
King souls were born from the flames, and then some creatures obtained these king souls.
The first was Gwen, who gained the power of light from the king's soul, so he later called himself the Sun King.
Then there is the Neet, who has gained the power of death from the King's Soul, and thus the Neet is also known as the King of the Graveyard.
After that came the Old Witch, who gained the power of Chaos and learned how to use the Fire of Chaos.
However, the trio formed a team to fight against the world-ruling Elder Dragons, first the Old Witch burned down the Elder Dragon's home, then Gwen used his Sunshine Gun to break through the Elder Dragon's armor, and finally the Tomb King Nite used the power of death to make the immortal Elder Dragons hang up completely.
The cooperation is quite good, by the way, there are still several two or five boys in the dragon clan, and the result is that the era of ancient dragons is over, and the era of the gods started by the first fire is coming.
The above is equivalent to CG content that introduces the background of the world, but there are no translation errors.
In other words, in fact, if these contents are really translated wrong, it will not have much impact.
The other third of the CG is wrong, and it is also the most critical, involving the core of the entire game's plot, and the translation is wrong...... And only one word wrong.
However, it is such a wrong word, which makes many players guess the plot of the game wrong.
In the other third of the CG, it is mentioned that the soul of the king born from the first fire is actually a fourth.
And the fourth one, the soul of the king, known as the "Dark Souls", was obtained by a "dwarf"
Because of the direct translation of "dwarf" at that time, many players regarded the person who obtained the fourth king soul as a new species - the dwarf clan.
And then it follows that the reason why the gods of the Sun King Gwen would call the dwarves human is because they are taller.
In reality, however, the term "dwarf" is a complete mistranslation.
Going back to the original language of the game, Miyazaki uses a special word that requires a certain level of skill to understand, even for native Japanese speakers.
"Diminutive person" can also be used to describe "lowly person" or "low-status person" in this linguistic context
In the fantasy of the ancient starting point, there are often villains who urgently need to be slapped in the face to call the protagonist with words with the same meaning.
The lines used by the villains are - "untouchables"
That's right, it is not an independent species that obtains the fourth part of the king's soul, but the lowly and lowly ones, the slaves.
It wasn't until the last DLC of the third game, the final game of the game, "Around the Seal City", that the story of these "humble people" could be relatively completely analyzed.
The lowly get the last of the Dark Souls, and then they share the King's Soul, instead of the Sun King, the Tomb King, and the Witch who gather the King's Soul in the individual.
They also followed the Sun King Gwen against the Elder Dragons, who ruled the world, but they were not rewarded in any way.
Because they were slaves, and those who owned these slaves even gained strength against those on top.
Through the important NPCs throughout the DLC of the third game, the actions of the slave knight Grandpa Gael, it can be seen that if the last Dark Souls are also brought together with the other royal souls, they will be thrown into the first fire.
Then the first fire has at least a chance to burn until it is at its most prosperous.
However, the reality is that there are no ifs, and the Sun King, who already claims to be a god, does not allow slaves to challenge the abilities of the superiors.
In other words, it is the forced solidification of classes.
So he built the city of Ring India to imprison the humans who possessed the Dark Souls, and put his young daughter Felenor as a jailer.
This is what was mentioned in the final DLC...... However, these things are said in the words of the self-proclaimed gods of the Sun God, "In order to thank mankind for their merits, they built the Ring of India City for mankind, and married their young daughter Felenor to the king of mankind"
No matter how nice it sounds, it doesn't change the reality of the isolation of the city, and no matter how nice it is, it doesn't change the reality that Felenor holds the egg of darkness until death.
There was a king who tried to fight against this situation, and his body was tied to his weapon by the Spear of the Church, the guardian of Felenor......
As a result of this, the Dark Souls are lost, and the first flame will only grow darker and darker.
Even if you fill in all the other king's souls, or even stuff everything that can be burned.
It's just a matter of delaying the extinguishment of the first flame, even if it waits until the dark souls are brought back later...... The world that has lost the souls of other kings has also fallen into a situation where there is nothing to burn.
That's why, in the second work of Dark Souls, which is almost completely detached from the story, Andiel, the only detached person, will complain about the act of spreading fire.
If the four king souls could be gathered, there would be no possibility of the flames being extinguished.
That's why the Sword Master Sullivan would do things that seemed to satisfy his lust for power.
As the only person to emerge from the world in the painting, Sullivan is well aware that the current state of the world is initially due to the selfishness of the superiors.
"That's Gwen's only mistake, and other than that, there's nothing too wrong with what he's doing." After Mi Shan said this, he summed it up.
"Your Excellency, do you mean that whether it is the Sun God Clan, our Witch Clan, or the Neet's Dead Clan, they are actually mortal in nature?" Clarna, as the eldest witch present, was the first to ask.
"Don't call it a mortal, human beings have never been a species that can be evaluated by this word." Mi Shan opened his mouth to speak, and as he spoke, it seemed that a ray of light shone on Mi Shan's body.
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