The Emerald Herald's Identity

[Lucan Fenix]

Might Contain some Spoilers




I believe the Emerald Herald is the Hero's doughter that came to Drangleic years before us to find a cure for our curse. I know that in the story near the end it is revealed that she was created by the Dragons to stop the curse and she eventually failed but that doesn't mean she was created out of thin air, it is possible she braved Drangleic just as we did, found her way to the ancient dragon and he made her into what she is today. I don't have any hard evidence suggesting it, only a couple of hunches and suspicions:

- In the Opening scenes we see the memory of a woman and a baby melt away which suggests that our hero had a family, later on, as we walk out of an old house, we see an old woman telling us of Drangleic and that we will probably end up there without knowing why we are really there, could it be that she is the hero's wife who we have fogotten because of the curse and if yes, where is the child? Could it be that it left some time before us to find a way to stop the curse? And could it be that we started our journey initially to go find her?
-Another hint was again in the opening scene where there is a scene of the woman with her child and there are feathers falling around them, this could be a sign that connects them to the Herald since if she is killed or if we reach the dragon aerie she gives us the aged feather.
-Initially, i thought that the herald was his wife, and it could be since their faces were kind of similar, but after thinking for a while and taking into acount the old woman and the condition of the house i strongly believe she is his doughter, also when we start the game we are hollow and have a penaldy of half a helthbar which could suggest that we have been hollow for a long time and died several times.

[Rock Ronin]

You're an idiot.

[CLG]

You're wrong. Aldia made her plain and simple.

[Lucan Fenix]

pitty your words don't carry as much weight as your armor, care to explain why kid?

[Volj]

Originally posted by D1n0s:

pitty your words don't carry as much weight as your armor, care to explain why kid?

Research teh lore.

[Bloodborne Enjoyer]

The woman and child at the beginning could be wife or child or mother, etc. The gender of the hero is left up to us. Emerald Herald was created by Aldia, she is not related to hero at all.

[Lucan Fenix]

Originally posted by Scurrilous Straggler:

The woman and child at the beginning could be wife or child or mother, etc. The gender of the hero is left up to us. Emerald Herald was created by Aldia, she is not related to hero at all.

the default gender is male

[Bloodborne Enjoyer]

Just because that's what your gender is when you make it, doesn't make that the games default gender. It has to start somewhere. If you started as female and had to switch to male, I still wouldn't consider the canon gender as female just because you had to switch from it. The hero's canon gender is left up to the player.

[CLG]

Originally posted by D1n0s:

Originally posted by Scurrilous Straggler:

The woman and child at the beginning could be wife or child or mother, etc. The gender of the hero is left up to us. Emerald Herald was created by Aldia, she is not related to hero at all.

the default gender is male

It doesnt mean anything that the default gender is male. You can sex change whenever you want in the game, the role of the cursed undead is a blank slate as is the main character in every souls game.

The player character has no impact on the lore of the world. The emerald heralds states shes there to help any undead who attempt to brave the horros of drangleic. She makes several mentions that you have made more progress than other undead, meaning there have been many before you.

[The Bees]

The family at the beginning is only there to symbolize the hero (and maybe the player irl) abandoning their former life and being drawn to Drangleic. Aldia theory is probably the most accurate. On a side note, I found most of the characters and hidden backstories to be underwhelming compared to DS. The main story is cool and that's about it.

[droe50]

The Emerald Herald is basically a magical mash-up up Priscilla, Gwyndolin, and Frampt. She's a half-dragon demigod trying to manipulate and decieve you into reigniting the First Flame.

[CLG]

Originally posted by droe50:

The Emerald Herald is basically a magical mash-up up Priscilla, Gwyndolin, and Frampt. She's a half-dragon demigod trying to manipulate and decieve you into reigniting the First Flame.

It would be really neat to find out that she was made by the serpents.

There's concept art of a young emerald maiden along with her voice in the credits. If we ever get DLC for ds2 it will probably be about her origins since there seems to be so much unused stuff for her.

[The Bees]

^Could she be linked to the serpents? What exactly does the "emerald" stand for? I guessed she might be related to dragons somehow, but I have yet to see a green one.

Anyways, I thought she gave the hero a choice at the end. And regardless, the life of a chosen undead is bull**** so it's not like they're manipulating you for malicious reasons. It's either let the world be consumed by dark or keep the fire going. It's a grim reality. The crestfallen guy even says the curse is linked to the soul, therefore the real curse is being alive in the first place.

[Zaik]

As I understood it, someone was more or less attempting to make another Priscilla type dragon-human, but failed.

Originally posted by Zanuka:

^Could she be linked to the serpents? What exactly does the "emerald" stand for? I guessed she might be related to dragons somehow, but I have yet to see a green one.

Anyways, I thought she gave the hero a choice at the end. And regardless, the life of a chosen undead is bull**** so it's not like they're manipulating you for malicious reasons. It's either let the world be consumed by dark or keep the fire going. It's a grim reality. The crestfallen guy even says the curse is linked to the soul, therefore the real curse is being alive in the first place.

No choice, beyond whether you want to finish the game or not. When you find yourself in the final room you have no means of escape, killing yourself returns you to the center of the room as do homeward effects.

[SundownKid]

There are no "relatives" of the chosen undead in the game, otherwise it would defeat the entire point of character customization. Having a girl with blue skin have a wife and birth the Emerald Herald would be completely ridiculous and make no sense.

Via Occam's Razor the simplest explanation is just that the Emerald Herald was created magically, and is not a "real human". Her eye colors and ability to level you up are proof that she isn't just a normal person. The Maiden in Black was also not human, and she has the same role.

[Skyforger]

Originally posted by Bishop Havel The Rock:

You're an idiot.