Bonfire lore explanation

[oprah winfrey]

Could someone plz answer me how is respawning of mobs after resting on bonfire is explained from lore point of view? Heard about it many times in some videos on Youtube, and never could understand what are they talking about.

[Lady Iudex]

I don't know that it has anything to do with lore as much as it just kind of being like a way to make the adventure feel like a continuous journey. Now I'm curious and have some digging to do...

[Valkori0n]

In ds bonfires something like beacons of life, panacea for everything. They reborn, heal you. Mobs not fully disapear, they all already dead, when you use bonfire, you skip some time. And mobs revive again, but they already lost their humanity after many death, so they dont have any mind left. They are just empty vessels. Age of fire very similar to phoenix myth. So it like a circle, of live a death.

[Lunargue]

Basically, a lot of enemies are undead, hollowed undead.
So, just like the player, they never really die, they keep reappears after a time...

[Argstein]

you mispelled bonefire

[ressenmacher]

I don't think one is ever really given.

Many of the enemies are undead like you, which means they can't properly die. Others, like the ghru and slugs and such, may simply be new critters moving into the playable zone from the surrounding area. Others, such as the gargoyles or ascended winged knights, have little explanation.

[Nihil]

They're not called Undead for no reason, they wake up after some time when you kill them. When you rest at the bonfire some time passes and everyone is up again.

[Meshi Neb]

All the mobs and our characters are undead linked to the bonfires. You die and respawn, so do they.

[Lylliana of Mirrah]

Originally posted by oprah winfrey:

Could someone plz answer me how is respawning of mobs after resting on bonfire is explained from lore point of view? Heard about it many times in some videos on Youtube, and never could understand what are they talking about.

i heard the bones was came from kiln of the first flame (ds1) and they use it to create a bonfire. and it was the bones of the undead that sacrifice themselves to the fire.

[Nihil]

Originally posted by TheSasGaming:

Originally posted by oprah winfrey:

Could someone plz answer me how is respawning of mobs after resting on bonfire is explained from lore point of view? Heard about it many times in some videos on Youtube, and never could understand what are they talking about.

i heard the bones was came from kiln of the first flame (ds1) and they use it to create a bonfire. and it was the bones of the undead that sacrifice themselves to the fire.

The bones used to create the bonfires are just regular bones. They could be from any undead at all. The bones of those that sacrificed themselves to the fire are stronger and used to strenghten the estus flask.