Why does Solaire want the sunlight maggot?

[Garviel Loken]

I've trying to learn the story/LORE for Dark Souls and am getting on well except for a little bit about Solaire, so what is this quest he's on? why does he want this sunlight maggot? why does he turn hostile if you let him get to it?

I have tried googling it but couldn't see much detail on the Dark Souls wikis

[Bloodyfish]

It's a personal sun to him. He's on a quest to search for his own sun.

[アゼム]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skV-q5KjrUA

[fistor]

solaire is pretty much the ultimate sun-fanboy, gwyn´s personal "stan". he wants to become "his own sun" so much, that the fact that his head now shines likes the sun made him go mad after he´s been saerching for soooooo long. poor guy :(

[Mordekaiser]

Then you crush his dream in the chaos covenant and he survives. I always gotta save Sunbro.

[Smoughstein]

I have two theories on Solaires madness:Either the maggot itself is the cause of it or it is a part of hollowing.Same with Onion-bro:After you finish his questline,he reaches his goal and has no aim.His hollowing takes other and he ends up dead in ash lake.

[ShinkuTear]

Basically, Solaire had been searching for SO long, worked SO hard, and given up SO much, all for the sake of His Own Sun that when he got the Sunlight Maggot and wore it, he lost a purpose to chase.

Dark Souls lore, a character goes Hollow if they do not have a purpose to follow, some sort of goal. Obtaining their goal, without some new goal popping up shortly after, will thus induce Hollowing.

tl;dr "Bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored IMA KILL ANYTHING THAT MOVES"

[Smoughstein]

Originally posted by ShinkuTear:

Basically, Solaire had been searching for SO long, worked SO hard, and given up SO much, all for the sake of His Own Sun that when he got the Sunlight Maggot and wore it, he lost a purpose to chase.

Dark Souls lore, a character goes Hollow if they do not have a purpose to follow, some sort of goal. Obtaining their goal, without some new goal popping up shortly after, will thus induce Hollowing.

tl;dr "Bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored IMA KILL ANYTHING THAT MOVES"

This is a better explaination than mine.And the last part is a perfect summarization.

[Garviel Loken]

Originally posted by ShinkuTear:

Basically, Solaire had been searching for SO long, worked SO hard, and given up SO much, all for the sake of His Own Sun that when he got the Sunlight Maggot and wore it, he lost a purpose to chase.

Dark Souls lore, a character goes Hollow if they do not have a purpose to follow, some sort of goal. Obtaining their goal, without some new goal popping up shortly after, will thus induce Hollowing.

tl;dr "Bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored IMA KILL ANYTHING THAT MOVES"

I was still quite confused on the hollowing process as well but that really cleared things up for me, thanks!

and thank you everyone else as well

[Ren]

Originally posted by Natural Selection:

I have two theories on Solaires madness:Either the maggot itself is the cause of it or it is a part of hollowing.Same with Onion-bro:After you finish his questline,he reaches his goal and has no aim.His hollowing takes other and he ends up dead in ash lake.

Wait wait, Solaire can end up at Ash Lake?

[Garviel Loken]

Originally posted by Damuel:

Originally posted by Natural Selection:

I have two theories on Solaires madness:Either the maggot itself is the cause of it or it is a part of hollowing.Same with Onion-bro:After you finish his questline,he reaches his goal and has no aim.His hollowing takes other and he ends up dead in ash lake.

Wait wait, Solaire can end up at Ash Lake?

No, he's talking about Onion bro (Siegmeyer of Catarina)

[Ren]

Originally posted by Garviel Loken:

Originally posted by Damuel:

Wait wait, Solaire can end up at Ash Lake?

No, he's talking about Onion bro (Siegmeyer of Catarina)

Derp, sorry, I guess I read through that way too fast, didn't see the onion bro part.

[Nova Prime]

Originally posted by Damuel:

Originally posted by Garviel Loken:

No, he's talking about Onion bro (Siegmeyer of Catarina)

Derp, sorry, I guess I read through that way too fast, didn't see the onion bro part.

You can't forget about me.

[76561198006416723]

Originally posted by Siegmeyer of Catarina:

Originally posted by Damuel:

Derp, sorry, I guess I read through that way too fast, didn't see the onion bro part.

You can't forget about me.

siegmeyer must be a necromancer, too <D

[Egg Sucker]

I know that this is an old post, but there's also a theory that the sunlight maggot itself drove Solaire insane, as it is still a living creature. Something about it burrowed into his head and made him go crazy like the chaos bug that it was on before.