Dragon Memories | Dark Souls 2 Wiki

If you obtain the Ashen Mist Heart before killing Freja, the structure might not initially appear below the dragon head. Quit and restart the game to get it to appear without having to make a return trip.

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"The memory appears to take place in Ash Lake, but far in the future. The lake appears to have dried up, and the Archtrees have been destroyed."

Dude literally doesn't know how memories work. Saying a dead dragon has a memory of the FUTURE and writing it down as fact. Also saying that the Ash LAKE was somehow on top of an archtree.

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Why are there always so many fromsoft incels pushing their unfounded speculative head-canon BS on every fextra page? Ya'll need to go engage in the real world and learn some social skills.

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How did you find the mentioned bug?

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It looks like the aftermath of Age of the Ancients, when Gwyn rose to power. A dead archdragon between archtress. Or it could the one who was guarding the stone Seeth stole. So originally the Ancient Dragon in the shrine was tasked with guarding the stone, that's why the souls is referring to him, it doesn't mean he died in the shrine.

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I have beaten this game so many times. I have put over 1.5k hours into it. I had no idea this area existed.

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I think this is the dragon that hung out with the primordial crystal before death betrayed them and stole it. Why? Because it's obviously tied to seethe. It's also said the tseldorians were excavating the corpse of the dragon. There are crystals everywhere. We know that crystal sorcery and freja reminds me of the seath fight in some ways. However ash for some reason has some attributes related to dragons thematically. Ashen mist heart, ash lake. The fact everything has an ashy haze or fog over it in the primordial world. Apparently drangleic is oolacile according to straid. But... Remember the characters in dark souls very much fall under unreliable narrator. So the statement "everlasting dragons have no souls" is not provable. In theory until the lord souls were found in the first flame, no one even had the ability to comprehend souls on that level of existence. (Hehe and now to playfully refer to game mechanics.) If you can kill it, it gives souls. ;) Anyway I just think it may be important to remember the mystery of never fully knowing the world, but being able to piece together enough to have some understanding of the worlds past and present, is a huge part of the lores allure.

In other words don't trust the narrator either.

Sorry I got off topic. Here is my theory.

The ancient dragon is a golden, with a powerful soul stuck in it, so that it doesn't have to be activated.

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This is obviously Seeth's memory of when he betrayed his own kind and killed a dragon.

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Had the same bug with loot laying at the majula bonfire lol

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I don't think the dragon referred to in the soul description is the one you find in the memory. I think it's referring to the one in the shrine at the Dragon Aerie, or at least the true dragon that was there originally before Aldia decided to start messing around and installed the Ancient "Dragon".

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I can't beat this area, I'm giving up

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Yeah this game is hard ***** this lets watch peppa pig

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The description isnt curious it describes the dragon in a dragon shrine so dead one is propably the one aldia used to make his copie

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Ash Lake was a beautiful place back in DS1. It hurts to see it like this.

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I'm surprised no one noticed what's going on here. The memory takes place in the Age of Ancients, shortly after the Dragons start to die. The Age of Ancients is described as 'Grey and barren with nothing but grey crags and huge archtrees and the dragons." Here, we see, Grey Crags, Huge Archtrees, and a dead Dragon. The Dragon was likely killed as Humanity started to gain strength. That's also why there's a sun, but everything is still pretty bleak and grey since the Age of Ancients is changing to the Age of Fire.

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Who wrote these notes lol

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What.

Hold the ***** up now.

What on earth is going on with these notes? The mere act of using your eyes should be enough to tell anyone what all is wrong here.

For instance: if it looks nothing like the Stone Dragon of Ash Lake, then it probably isn't the Stone Dragon of Ash Lake.

If the area looks different from Ash Lake, then it probably isn't Ash Lake.

There is no shrine in Ash Lake. There's a dragon on a nest.

This is absurd. This is fanfiction-tier speculation going on here.

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But who or what is powerful enough to PETRIFY an Ancient Dragon? I am curious to know who did it

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Heres a weirdly scary reaction i got from dragon memories, try leaving or dropping 8 Fading soul at Majula's statue (where blue covenant guy sits) and place them like making a square-shaped form. After that back to dragon memories at the tseldora mines. go to the far right and look up. there will be a floating unidentifed objects at the skies. Don't ask me why or how i noticed this..

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What if that gray landscape is actually Majula on a veeeeeeery distant past? I know, I'm basing this on something that was a glitch of sorts, but hey, before life itself existed, the everlasting dragons were already there, so it could be.

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To me, it looks like this is right after gwyn and the gang came through and killed everything. The gray dull landscape looks like that in the opening cinematic for the first game. The archtrees look like some were blown apart by gwyn's lightning. And since this would be another everlasting dragon, it would seem only fit that a similar weapon would come from it.

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