"This Land is Peaceful, its Inhabitants Kind"

[Fabbio]

Are you sure of this?...o_O

[Armoured Warrior]

I don't think From was intending to make her a liar so it's possible it was left over dialogue before her role was changed from Maiden in white. It's also possible she is naive of the dangers the inhabitants represent to invaders of her realm.

You could say that the residents of the painted world do want to live in relative peace until an intruder invades their land. It's brutal but every single person who intrudes is holding a weapon so the negative intentions of the invaders is transparent.

Corpses used as warning signs may seem cruel but if it results in one or two undead turning back the way they came then it's ultimately a form of mercy. granted, the player can't turn back but that may be gameplay related.

[Fex0]

Another theorie may be that she was locked away in the "Coloseum" so she didn't recognize the guardians to turn hollow and thous thinks that they are still fine.

[paladin181]

The painted world is her realm. It was created FOR HER. Of course she will see it that way. The place is her sanctuary, and these people were her friends. Friends that you murder with reckless abandon. It was likely very peaceful before you arrived and began slaughtering people. It's also possible she's gone insane from the solitude of being trapped behind that fog wall all this time.

[XDarkSephirothX]

I never bought the "it was peaceful until you came in" thing, I mean all the buildings are in ruins, there is a huge mass of impaled corpses in a snowfield near the phalanax area and everyone is HOLLOW.

It looks like there's been fighting a long, long time before you ever came to Lordran.

[axelmonster]

Originally posted by A DEAD SKULL:

I never bought the "it was peaceful until you came in" thing, I mean all the buildings are in ruins, there is a huge mass of impaled corpses in a snowfield near the phalanax area and everyone is HOLLOW.

It looks like there's been fighting a long, long time before you ever came to Lordran.

I agree. I think it's a lot more likely that Fluffy is just a teensy weensy bit out of touch with what is actually happening in her precious world.

[Gaoh]

In a meta sense, the Painted World of Ariamis is a design mess; I heard From flip-flopped over what to do with it until it was shoehorned into the final game as a bonus level. So I'm not sure it's supposed to make sense even by Dark Souls standards.

Story-wise, I think melfice is onto something. It is said Priscilla is "an abomination that had no place in this world", so maybe they all form a merry company of pariahs that find acceptance in each other. Maybe she took pity on them à la Astraea.

Or maybe she's just delusional. That was the impression I got myself.

[Zergem]

The inhabitants just take a while to get used to you! Don't judge a book by it's cover!

[Nychtis]

As some of you already mentioned, the world was designed for her, since priscilla is an "abomination" for the gods she was exiled into the painted world. But also there time has its rules, since we have no clue what time has passed since she was banned and she pretends to this world to be faithful and kind, we can only asume that it is a lot of time. Some dragonoids even died leaving behind the undead dragon at the bridge and the wheel-skeletons, most propably being soldiers guarding the basment and lever, aswell as the hollows all around the painted world, who have propably been "normal" people living there.
The Spear-guys at the centre statue, maybe also some kind of sodiers guarding the city. Only the crow guys are a little suspicious to me, maybe they are sinners(because they drop the reprisal thingy) from the normal world, sent into the painted world by gwyndolin, senteced to stay there as abominations aswell....

So I don't think Priscilla is lying, she just couldn't leave the arena and see what has happened to her world, because she is half dragon time isn't as dangerous to her than to regular beeings. I think, she just doesn't know, that her prison has become hostile towards outsiders.

[ULTRA]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn_PSJsl0LQ

[CordedUberator]

I think she means they are kind, when you're not a stranger in a strange land. You're a sort of invader to their world, a foreign presence.

[Biggus Dickus]

Originally posted by Gaoh:

In a meta sense, the Painted World of Ariamis is a design mess; I heard From flip-flopped over what to do with it until it was shoehorned into the final game as a bonus level. So I'm not sure it's supposed to make sense even by Dark Souls standards.

Story-wise, I think melfice is onto something. It is said Priscilla is "an abomination that had no place in this world", so maybe they all form a merry company of pariahs that find acceptance in each other. Maybe she took pity on them à la Astraea.

Or maybe she's just delusional. That was the impression I got myself.

That is the problem with the game's story. There is some content missing, and other bits are disorganised. I really don't think Fromsoft meant for it to be as mysterious as it is. Honestly the game is very much incomplete. Some where in the development, they had to start rushing it all. In a perfect world, developers would be able to finish their games. So, I don't take much of the story seriously.

[Sifer2]

Originally posted by seven90:

Originally posted by Gaoh:

In a meta sense, the Painted World of Ariamis is a design mess; I heard From flip-flopped over what to do with it until it was shoehorned into the final game as a bonus level. So I'm not sure it's supposed to make sense even by Dark Souls standards.

Story-wise, I think melfice is onto something. It is said Priscilla is "an abomination that had no place in this world", so maybe they all form a merry company of pariahs that find acceptance in each other. Maybe she took pity on them à la Astraea.

Or maybe she's just delusional. That was the impression I got myself.

That is the problem with the game's story. There is some content missing, and other bits are disorganised. I really don't think Fromsoft meant for it to be as mysterious as it is. Honestly the game is very much incomplete. Some where in the development, they had to start rushing it all. In a perfect world, developers would be able to finish their games. So, I don't take much of the story seriously.

That's the great thing about minimalist storytelling. If you don't have time to finish it you can just pretend that's how it's supposed to be lol

[Padawelts]

Characters in Dark Souls aren't info dumps, they all have their goals and desires. for all we know, Priscilla could be lieing, or just not know what's going on.

[LazyPear]

Thats why I read and looked at a bunch of the cut content and it fills in a ♥♥♥♥ ton of holes. Also did you guys know the BoC was originally going to be a moble boss so to speak. As in it would be able to move around the arena. I personally would've preferd that BoC than the one we got.

Originally posted by seven90:

Originally posted by Gaoh:

In a meta sense, the Painted World of Ariamis is a design mess; I heard From flip-flopped over what to do with it until it was shoehorned into the final game as a bonus level. So I'm not sure it's supposed to make sense even by Dark Souls standards.

Story-wise, I think melfice is onto something. It is said Priscilla is "an abomination that had no place in this world", so maybe they all form a merry company of pariahs that find acceptance in each other. Maybe she took pity on them à la Astraea.

Or maybe she's just delusional. That was the impression I got myself.

That is the problem with the game's story. There is some content missing, and other bits are disorganised. I really don't think Fromsoft meant for it to be as mysterious as it is. Honestly the game is very much incomplete. Some where in the development, they had to start rushing it all. In a perfect world, developers would be able to finish their games. So, I don't take much of the story seriously.

[Fabbio]

I really fear those impaled corpses and the fog guardian. Not to mention the undead dragon and the crow sinners who drop the souvenir of reprisal, the trophy.... OMG, they just cut the ear as a trophy, just like Lautrec!! Damn....