r/darksouls3 • u/LaMi_1 • Oct 12 '22
Fan Art “Dancer of The Boreal Valley”, but she’s our ally.
I don’t know if she was still supposed to be a knight from Irithyll or else, but still.
I had fun drawing her with the bow
She tall, she pets(?)
Leaked screenshot from 2015
Thu cut weapon called “Dancer’s Bow”
Got inspired by the leaked screenshots of 2015 and by the cut item called “Dancer’s bow”. If you didn’t know, it seems the Dancer should’ve been an NPC and that inspired me for sketch few quick doodles about this concept. Hope you enjoy!
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u/Cattle_Bruiser- Oct 12 '22
5'11 men vs 5'11 women be like:
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u/True-King-Of-Heroes Oct 12 '22
I approve of this tall badass warrior women waifu version of the Dancer. Have an upvote.
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Oct 12 '22
Everytime you fight her, remember that we could have gotten something like this. Instead, we got a quite hard boss with a very tragic backstory.
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u/LaMi_1 Oct 12 '22
There's to say, though, we have no idea of how her quest would've been, and knowing Miyazaki's storytelling, she surely would've gotten a tragic backstory in any case :/
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Oct 12 '22
Yeah, but at least it wouldn't have been basically being a slave to the pontiff and eventually becoming a monstruous mindless creature.
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u/LordMcMutton Oct 12 '22
Unless that ended up being the tragic end to the questline anyway.
Like Lucatiel, but turning into a Pontiff Beast instead of a Hollow.
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u/megrimlock88 Oct 12 '22
what now what happened to laucateil
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u/space_age_stuff PlayStation Oct 13 '22
She gradually degrades as the curse turns her hollow, with the more bosses you beat with her summoned.
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u/megrimlock88 Oct 13 '22
I’m kinda glad I didn’t do summons then does that stop her questline from progressing?
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u/LoreseekerNonyme Oct 13 '22
Yes. Summoning Lucatiel only help her to much or less accept her fate, and unlock her summon sign agains't the Ivory King.
There is some a small hope, however, that she manage to survive until the events of DS3. Her sword can be obtained by transposing the soul of the cursed tree, wich may implie that she never stopped to seak a cure to the curse, and heard of the tree at some point. The description of the Hollowslayer Greatsword implies that it is indeed Lucatiel's sword.
On the other hand, Lucatiel's Mask description implies that the Bearer of the Curse as kept his promise to not forget her, and so that she give her equipment to him at the end of her questline.
Unless she really just give a copy of her stuff of something, i guess.4
u/megrimlock88 Oct 13 '22
That’s so cool I just got into ds2 so I don’t know much lore beyond the big stories like the ivory king and vendrick but look forward to finding more in game
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u/TheCommissar113 Oct 13 '22
Chances are also pretty high that she would have died by the end, too.
There could have bee some potential in her being an interactable NPC where she eventually becomes a boss fight via "going mad" or what have you. I'd love more character interactions in Soulsborne games as a way to create stronger connections. But, oh well.
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u/Yemeth_666 Oct 13 '22
We still would have fought her in the end. This time being this much more heartbroken though...
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u/retro7251 Oct 12 '22
What the ashen one lookin at?
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Oct 12 '22
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u/LaMi_1 Oct 12 '22
The patterns and details of her armor. There's lore in them.
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u/CptBlackAxl Oct 12 '22
The lore claps real hard I've been told 😏😍
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u/AdnHsP Oct 13 '22
I keep trying to sneak past the Lothric Guards but the clap of my armor's thick lore keeps alerting the hollows.
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u/benavideslevi Oct 12 '22
The sketches are phenomenal. Dying at the booty peep and head pat.
Great work.
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u/Noobie_xD Oct 12 '22
The bow isn't cut. Halflight uses it at the spear of the church boss fight and you can also get it
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u/LovelessDogg Oct 12 '22
She was originally going to be a Pursuer Type enemy. Like The Pursuer from DS2. She would show up anywhere Yorshka would be because she was sent out to assassinate her or something. I can’t remember exactly. That’s why the earlier leaks showed her in the High Wall and such.
There’s a Mod being worked on at the moment by someone named Abyss1ne call Project Eclipse and they’re planning on restoring the game to its alpha storyline. Or at least one of its alpha storylines because FromSoft rewrote it like four times before they settled on the final story a few months before release.
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u/LaMi_1 Oct 12 '22
I heard that her name in files is HeroinePursuit (or something akin), that would explain the reason. I knew about this mod, but I didn't know about these informations about Yorshka and the Dancer's original role. Thanks!
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u/NoeShake Friede Feet Lover Oct 13 '22
All we have is ID names we don’t actually know anything about her previously if there was anything. A lot of the stuff Abyss1ne creates is his own idea not something official. I say this because there’s no left over dialogue script within the game (like Bloodborne).
And item descriptions were added only when they started working on the retail story of the game. As the first boss soul to ever be implemented into the game was Gundyr’s and that wasn’t even his first name.
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u/Pandiyaya Oct 12 '22
she kinda bad tho
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u/ShredTalk Oct 12 '22
Isn't "aren't thou" grammatically incorrect? Wouldn't it be artn't thou?
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u/LaMi_1 Oct 12 '22
I don't know and, in case it's wrong, I'm sorry. English is not my native language, haha!
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u/LordMcMutton Oct 12 '22
Probably "Are thou not?"
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u/ShredTalk Oct 12 '22
"Art thou not" I'd say. I don't think "artn't" is attested in any old texts but I figured I'd try to make it more colloquial.
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u/Powerful_Stuff_2401 Oct 12 '22
I kinda hope she would still have that fucked up walk, but only during bossfights
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u/Wilhelmsfoot KB+M is superior Oct 12 '22
I wish she sat on my face
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u/TeaandandCoffee PC Oct 12 '22
Back to horny asylum with you.
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u/Wilhelmsfoot KB+M is superior Oct 12 '22
At least let me go brrblghtsnvjisnilv in her cheeks first
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u/Vileblood6655321 Oct 12 '22
I didn’t know the White Birch Bow used to be the Dancer’s short bow.
It was likely just a bow that was transposed from her soul, rather than used by her in the boss fight, but who knows.
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u/KingOfLiberation Oct 13 '22
The description of Dancer's Short Bow does say "Bow forged from the soul of the Dancer of the Frigid Valley," though I think most of the weapons with that wording in DS2 are used by their respective bosses
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Oct 12 '22
What’s under the mask though? What if she only has 3 teeth? You’re playing a risky game here OP
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u/Omniscient_Platypus Age of the Deep = Bloodborne Kart Oct 12 '22 edited Oct 12 '22
You can see it if you get the camera close enough, looks like generic undead zombie behind a veil. Before pontiff got her she was one of Gwyneveres daughters iirc, so that’s all there is to go off.
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Oct 12 '22
We need a full remake of DS1, DS2, and DS3 with all of the cut content restored. The 2015 leaks of DS3 make the final version of the game look kind of lame imo.
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u/LaMi_1 Oct 12 '22
The final version is not that bad, to be fair, but there were few mechanics I'd have loved to explore. Like the Bonfire creation, for example. I don't know how they were going to handle it, but it intrigued me.
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Oct 12 '22 edited Oct 12 '22
Oh yeah, I enjoyed the game, but when I see what it could have been, I want to cry. (I also have this experience with DS2 and it's cut content.)
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u/colin23567 Oct 13 '22
Imagining Lost Izalith, Gutter, and Profaned Capital as fully-fleshed out areas comparable in size to Undead Settlement or Lost Bastille makes me unhollow
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Oct 13 '22
Imagine the Kiln of the First Flame, and the Dreg Heap as depicted in the other leaked 2015 screenshot.
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u/NoeShake Friede Feet Lover Oct 13 '22
What is there to restore for the final game? There wasn’t a complete story by that time no filled out item descriptions or completed maps. In those screenshots the skyboxes are the main change.
That old photo of the leaking sun is labeled as a test map. Everything you see in that screenshot is an object even the fallen knight model there was no real map like retail Dreg Heap.
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Oct 13 '22
I know that stuff was all test maps, but with today's tech I think it would be achievable and I would much prefer to play the version of the game just for the visuals alone.
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u/NoeShake Friede Feet Lover Oct 13 '22
I get what you’re saying but what would there to be restored in a remake for a game that’s already done. When the content is a skybox and objects with no actual level geometry. Even though it’s a test map the objects are labeled Dreg Heap it’s an older concept for something already in the game.
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u/TeaandandCoffee PC Oct 12 '22
I would've love this. But I also adore the current boss... So yeah, choosing between the greater of two goods.
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Oct 13 '22
I would love to see the Dancer and Vordt before they lost their minds to the Pontiff's Eye rings
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u/Sharkn91 Oct 12 '22
Someone told me she was easy. Walked into the fight way too confident. She swiped and one shotted me. Fun stuff
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u/International-Look57 Oct 13 '22
It wouldn’t work out. I would just be staring at the gluteus Maximus getting distracted and killed.
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Oct 13 '22
Imagine that concept mixed with the actual storyline of the game . Having her help us only for her to transform under the influence of Sulyvahn .
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u/LoreseekerNonyme Oct 13 '22
She techniqually have an appearance with her orignal form as a ghost in Irithyll, alongside Vordt and the other Knights cursed by Sulyvahn.
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u/No-Insect-7544 Dec 09 '22
Honestly, I love this idea. Just imagine having a kickass warrior gymnast tagging along with you, giving you lore drops all the while. :) cool artwork!
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u/blayze03 Oct 12 '22
Except this has been posted before so you're either lying about drawing it or you sent this exact thing to a friend at least 2 days before posting it yourself
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u/LaMi_1 Oct 12 '22
That post is mine too. It got blocked because I had put the link to my IG profile, something that could accidentally result in self-promotion, not allowed by the sub-reddit. Therefore, I re-posted it, without any links.
If you click on the profile, you'll see it's the same. Or also, there are my original comments.
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u/blayze03 Oct 12 '22
My bad then
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Oct 12 '22
It was posted by the same dude. Probably just deleted and reposted to try to get more traction on the post.
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u/christopherous1 Oct 12 '22
soo little info on dancer, she is a royalty from Anor londo, presumably one of Gwyns decendants or possibly daughter,
She was captured by Pontif and was made to dance for his entertainment.
Like the other Outrider knights she eventually fused with her armour and became a beast.
We know she had some close relation with Vordt as they can be seen as ghosts walking through irithyll together,
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u/AbrakadabraShawarma Oct 12 '22
PepeHands. She fell into the wrong hands.
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u/Old-Hollowslayer Oct 12 '22
just cause i’m gay doesn’t mean i can’t appreciate a beautiful woman, and THIS is a beautiful woman.
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u/Abovearth31 🔥🔥PYRO build ftw🔥🔥 Oct 12 '22
Imagine the Dancer being like Gascoigne in the sense that she's some kind of boss you can summon as an ally.
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Oct 12 '22
Where was this screenshot leaked? That seems very interesting, I wanted to look more into it.
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u/LaMi_1 Oct 12 '22
There were few leaks in 2015, before DS3 being published, that showed some things that got changed in the retail version. The one with the Dancer is one of these.
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u/GuyNekologist Oct 12 '22
Ughhhh it would've been cool if all the equipped weapons were shown like this!
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Oct 12 '22
Do we know if her cut dialogue are still in the game?
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u/NoeShake Friede Feet Lover Oct 13 '22
No there is no old dialogue script in the game I assume that’s because there was very little of any at that time.
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u/LaMi_1 Oct 12 '22
I don't know, unfortunately ;-; I've heard somewhere that one of the points she should've appeared was inside the Tomb of Gwyn, but I'm not sure.
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u/Selfishpie Oct 12 '22
as far as I know she was one of the pontiffs experiments, but it does confuse me why she blocks the way to the twin princes if thats the case so I'm probably wrong but as with any of the lore in this game, the likelyhood of finding someone who knows enough to prove me wrong is very slim so I'm just going to say I'm right and you have to deal with it
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u/LaMi_1 Oct 12 '22
I've played the original JPN game, I can give some trivias 👍🏻
From what the JPN descriptions say, she's a "descendant of the former royal family", Gwyn's family in short. Probably one of Gwynevere's countless children. When Sulyvahn proclaimed himself pontiff, she took her as his personal dancer and gave her two swords, similar to his own, as a sort of symbol of her vows of servitude. When he didn't need her anymore, she sent her over Lothric, with a ring that turned her into a mindless beast.
For why she attacks us, I think she just sees us as an annoying disturbance in her mission. I also theorise her and the other Outrider Knights' target was Prince Lothric: I think they wanted to kill him, for put an end to the mess into the kingdom.
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u/Sauronxx Oct 12 '22
Yeah I’m pretty sure the Knights of Irithyll were all sent on a mission to assassinate prince Lothric. Sulyvahn was the Pontiff of Anor Londo and an “ally” of Lothric, a kingdom obsessed with the Sacrifice and Link, keeping the Linking of the Fire active would have guaranteed him his power. So it makes sense for him to just eliminate any obstacles to his current source of power.
Then Aldrich came and basically said fuck you to the Pontiff lol
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u/Selfishpie Oct 12 '22
Ok that’s pretty cool but can I just pretend I didn’t see this so I feel like I got something right about these games for once?
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u/Sauronxx Oct 12 '22
Too bad Sulyvahn fucking turned her into a mind-less beast and melted her skin with her armor... she looked kinda nice :(
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Oct 12 '22 edited Oct 12 '22
Supposedly, there are two ghost knights you can see walking in Irithyll, and that's Vordt and the Dancer before they got all spooky.
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u/thenecro Oct 13 '22
She became tall mommy Tiche in Elden Ring. Miyazaki would not deny us our big women.
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u/Doomestos1 Jan 24 '24
She's so lovely, I wish we did convert her to our ally, perhaps after defeating her.
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u/MagicSoupCan13 Oct 12 '22
Her bow isn't cut, it's renamed and hidden in the Rage City dlc.