Town under firelink shrine

[maurotdo]

From Firelink shrine, you can overlook a big town under undead burg (It's the same town behind the huge walls in blight town, and you can take a good look at it from the cemetery). That's not New Londo - it is and underground area. Any idea of what this area is?

Here's a screenshot: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=130631568

[hghwolf]

Well assuming you aren`t simply misappreciating New Londos location the only other places it could be are Izalith and Oolacile. Since Izalith is WAY the hell far down and barely visible from Tomb, process of elimination points to it being Oolacile.

[maurotdo]

For it being New Londo Ruins one should assume that the ruins contains an unexplorable area that is above ground. The New Londo Ruins you play in the game are located underground.
It cannot be Oolacile as it was "reduced to ashes long ago" in the timeline of the regular game (you travel to the past when entering Oolacile)

Maybe it is just a "flavour" zone that is not meant to be entered, placed there to give some context to Lordran.

[Shin Dan]

This place was the most awesome, and creepy place i'd seen.
Just when i thought an entire area submerged in water was frightening, I release the floodgates and find out what was in the water.
corpses,
hundreds, upon hundreds of corpses, piled highest around the gates to the city proper.
stuff like that tells a story, a very frightful, dark story. with not a single word uttered.

[slacker]

That town looks like the town from the introduction cutscene showing that guy branded with the Darksign with a weeping woman over him.

[Shifty Mario]

It's an inaccessible part of lower undead burg. If you take a look at the map from collector's edition, that area is supposedly where you fight capra demon and the thin pathway to access the depths.

[maurotdo]

Originally posted by Shifty Mario:

It's an inaccessible part of lower undead burg. If you take a look at the map from collector's edition, that area is supposedly where you fight capra demon and the thin pathway to access the depths.

Cannot be, the area you are referring to is way higher altitude, actually enclosed by the outer wall of the burg, to the immediate left of what you see in the screenshot. The inaccessible town is at the same llevel of the ground floor of blight town. You could "enter" it clipping through the concrete walls/pillars delimiting the swamps of blight town

[maurotdo]

Originally posted by jakedge317:

This place was the most awesome, and creepy place i'd seen.
Just when i thought an entire area submerged in water was frightening, I release the floodgates and find out what was in the water.
corpses,
hundreds, upon hundreds of corpses, piled highest around the gates to the city proper.
stuff like that tells a story, a very frightful, dark story. with not a single word uttered.

There is a bit of lore provided in dialogs and items. The "wise" men sealed the city to contain the abyss and the darkwraiths within from devouring humanity (or - at least - Lordran) They decided so, at the cost of thousand lives and the culture of the city.

[maurotdo]

Just to come to a conclusion, the area is definitively New Londo "Proper" Ruins. It's not meant to be entered, maybe just cut content that did'nt make it to the final game. We can assume that the New Londo Ruins we can access in the game is like the dock / waterworks area of the (bigger) city.

[MMMMM]

Originally posted by maurotdo:

Originally posted by Shifty Mario:

It's an inaccessible part of lower undead burg. If you take a look at the map from collector's edition, that area is supposedly where you fight capra demon and the thin pathway to access the depths.

Cannot be, the area you are referring to is way higher altitude, actually enclosed by the outer wall of the burg, to the immediate left of what you see in the screenshot. The inaccessible town is at the same llevel of the ground floor of blight town. You could "enter" it clipping through the concrete walls/pillars delimiting the swamps of blight town

While it's not literally part of the Undead Burg (and not literally part of anything since it's closed off and unable to be explored and has no continuity with the rest of the map) architecturally, thematically and aesthetically it's most like the structures of the lower Undead Burg from what we can see. You can just assume that "Undead Burg" is a small section of what was at some point the small villages encompassing lower Lordran, and that the distant areas that we cannot see but that are surrounded by the same walls surrounding much of lower Lordran are similar.

You can certainly (and rightly) state that there is no map continuity between lower Undead Burg and the area below Firelink Shrine, but there is also no connection between it and New Londo. Don't believe me? Take a trip down to New Londo and just look around.