Anri - Is it really over? *spoilers*

[Cake for Mumm-Ra]

If you kill the assassin in The Church of Yorshka, Anri will survive and continue on to face Aldrich. After helping her defeat Aldrich, she returns to the Smouldering Swamp. I mean, she already went there and said she found no trace of Horace, but nevermind that she's gonna check again anyway. If you haven't already collected her sword from Ludleth, you'll find the spot where Horace went hollow vacant except for a small cairn built in his honor, accompanied by his shield, his halberd, and a prism stone - Anri's calling card.

So according to the wiki, this is where her quest is supposed to end. After collecting her sword from Ludeth, she'll appear at either Smouldering Lake or Cathedral of the Deep and will have gone hollow. Sad day. But say we don't collect Anri's sword. She's already built a cairn and left the prism stone... So where does she go next?

As far as I can see, nobody has found an ending where Anri doesn't die. I think the above indicates that there is a third solution that hasn't been discovered or gone public yet.

[Chipslight's kinda gay]

No.
Everyone has a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up quest line.
Everyone goes hollow or die.
Dark Souls' world just sucks.

[Tomas Mac Mordain]

It's a tradition from DS1. If you follow NPC questlines, most of them will die eventually. In DS1 they tended to go hollow and you ended up killing them yourself, or just coming round the corner when they were put out of their misery by someone else.

It's lazy in a way, but evocative of the main theme as well, reinforcing the point of a fading world with people hollowing, usually over some obsessions. It's a bit different in DS3, especially with Anri's quest line. But there are no happy endings for anyone... Except maybe Yuria if you do the usurpation of fire ending....

[Necro]

Originally posted by -D4C- λChipsLight:

No.
Everyone has a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up quest line.
Everyone goes hollow or die.
Dark Souls' world just sucks.

except for gwynevere. She played it smart and left that hell hole.

[itsamuddymess]

If you do the usurption of fire ending, Anri can be seen in the cutscene. :)

[jay jay the dank planezinho]

well the blind nun does fine too assuming you don't buy any dark miracles from her. not exactly a great ending, but not a bad one either, i guess.

[Cake for Mumm-Ra]

It's true that NPCs usually die in souls, but it's not the rule. Benhart and Solaire are both examples of quest related NPCs that you can keep alive until the end of their quests. Pate or Creighton will survive depending on your decisions.

I'm just saying there's a chance that there is something more you can do.. Though it doesn't seem likely.

[Confusing Name]

Originally posted by Cake for Žižek:

It's true that NPCs usually die in souls, but it's not the rule. Benhart and Solaire are both examples of quest related NPCs that you can keep alive until the end of their quests. Pate or Creighton will survive depending on your decisions.

I'm just saying there's a chance that there is something more you can do.. Though it doesn't seem likely.

Yeah except I wouldn't say any of Solaire's endings are good. He ends up going crazy or getting super depressed or some bad alternative in pretty much all of them.

[Boink]

Sigh.


It's a feature of the Lore.

Every NPC has a quest that allows them to either pass into the afterlife [i.e. THEY DIE] or they fail and go Hollow.


Dying in Dark Souls is a good thing.

[Cake for Mumm-Ra]

I'm not looking for a "good" ending. I'm just saying the end of her quest indicates that there is another way to keep her alive instead of going hollow in the lake.

Again:

Why does she return to smouldering lake after she had already been there and found "no sign of Horace"?

If she found no sign of Horace, where does his gear come from when he builds his cairn?

Why do you need to collect her sword first in order to make her go hollow and appear in the lake?

Originally posted by Boink:

Sigh.


It's a feature of the Lore.

Every NPC has a quest that allows them to either pass into the afterlife [i.e. THEY DIE] or they fail and go Hollow.


Dying in Dark Souls is a good thing.

No, just like I pointed out earlier. It isn't a rule that NPC's just die or go hollow. You're choosing the simple answer.

[itsamuddymess]

She is helping Horace to defeat Aldrich because he cut out his tongue. After youve helped her defeat Aldrich her job is complete. She leaves you the sword as a thank you.

[Cake for Mumm-Ra]

Originally posted by Chicken^:

She is helping Horace to defeat Aldrich because he cut out his tongue. After youve helped her defeat Aldrich her job is complete. She leaves you the sword as a thank you.

It's true, this does wrap up her story. I just can't help but notice the obvious contradiction in her dialogue.

I guess we'll just attribute this to one of the hundreds of other oversights in this game.

[Hezz]

Originally posted by Cake for Žižek:

Originally posted by Chicken^:

She is helping Horace to defeat Aldrich because he cut out his tongue. After youve helped her defeat Aldrich her job is complete. She leaves you the sword as a thank you.

It's true, this does wrap up her story. I just can't help but notice the obvious contradiction in her dialogue.

I guess we'll just attribute this to one of the hundreds of other oversights in this game.

Ever occured to you that she might be lying? If you don't kill Horace and tell her where he is, you'll find her dead at his feet, so clearly she does check out that section of Smouldering Lake. If you killed Horace, it's quite possible that she finds his corpse and goes into shock, going into denial about the whole thing until Aldrich is killed, at which point she makes peace with the fact that he's dead, and goes back to pay her respects to him.

[Epithet Lost]

Unfortunately most NPCs die in soulsborne games.