#aldia

Dark Souls: God is senile, forcibly retire him.

Dark Souls 2: Lich King Cersei Lannister tricked you into doing her dirty work or Treebeard with the One Ring beats your ass.

Dark Souls 3: Parry all you want, you can’t parry the feels.

Sekiro: Swordsman hatches from grandson, shoots you in face.

Bloodborne: Local paraplegic regains use of legs specifically to kick your ass. Failing that, the moon does it for him.

brain: Draw Aldia, scholar of the first sin. me: Ok, let's see some references. *finds literally none* me: fml

Anyways, thank you BonfireVN for providing a somewhat comprehensible Aldia.

*later*

Although his lore is hella hella complicated to understand (cuz of mistranslation and descriptions being cryptic as all fuck), once you do get it, it becomes really really fascinating, i js love navlaan.

A summary of Navlaan's lore follows this png of him because i mean look at him isn't he just such a mood, also he reminds me of the Shinji chair meme.

Pookie Navlaan lore basically boils down to there having been this sketchy sorcerer named Navlaan, likely living in Majula, who was eventually murdered for his sketchyness by presumably Vendrick or whatever other Drangleic authority.

Fast forwards to many years later where we have this nameless sorcerer chilling in Aldia's keep with Aldia, he has the title of Royal Sorcerer so he presumably is in good ties with both royal brothers, and life is good (until it's not because the Undead Curse pulls up and Aldia's Keep becomes an infinite farm for war crimes and insanity).

Unluckly for this poor guy, however, before dying Navlaan was practicing the art of reincarnation, and having spotted this dude whom was likely going insane studying occult magic (like everyone in the keep) he decided to fucking possess him and thus cause him to eventually lock himself up where we find him to avoid hurting anyone.

This is tragic.

:(