The handful of dragons, the illusory sunset over Anor Londo, the last molten gasps of the Age of Fire, the onset of darkness and the flight of hope from the world these are all things going on in the original Dark Souls.

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This generation is the flame, the light which will keep this country burning bright in the darkness of an uncertain world.

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High-latitude cultures around the world marked the passing with festivals, feasts and tales of gods and ghosts rising from darkness.

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