User blog:BigBadSquid/PE Proposal: Aldrich and Pontiff Sulyvahn

Seath the Scaleless and Nashandra have long since been approved, but let's not forget these two.

What's the Work?
Dark Souls III is the latest and most definite presumed final entry in the Dark Souls series. In a series dedicated to keeping flames alive, the First Flame itself is once again on the edge of dying out. If it does, the world will wither away into nothing but ash.

Aldrich
Aldrich, Devourer of Gods, was a cleric who found the Church of the Deep. He was a greedy man with the sole intent of obtaining power. What did he do to gain power? Cannibalism! He squired a sadistic taste for undead flesh, "luxuriated" in his victim's screams as he ate them alive. He ate so many innocent people that he bloated up until he "popped" and deformed into sludge. According to to Anri, the guy was fully willing to eat children as well.

So the guy's true religious goal was to not serve the gods, but rather eat them and gain their power for himself.

His mass of power came to the point of Aldrich being asked to be one of the Lords of Cinder to link the First Flame, which Aldrich blindly accepted for he wanted to be seen as the most powerful of all. But at the cost of linking the fire was Aldrich sealed away and sacrificed in a tomb from his own cathedral, although the deacons lead by the Archdeacons Royce, McDonnel, and Flimt continued sacrificing people to appease their lord for his cannibalistic lust. That was until thanks to Sulyvahn's actions below that Aldrich was revived from his coffin to continue his man-eating hobby. Sulyvahn offered to Aldrich was none other than the Dark Sun, Gwyndolin, the youngest son of Lord Gwyn. Aldrich consumed Gwyndolin slowly, not only to enjoy his suffering, but to conceal the power of a god for himself.

Pontiff Sulyvahn
Pontiff Sulyvahn was a sorcerer from the Painted World of Ariandel, who left the painting as he had little use for frost magic. Sulyvahn traveled far until he found the Profaned Capital, and the Profaned Flame it stored within it. From the flame Sulyvahn discovered what he truly desired: power. He traveled to Irithyll of the Boreal Valley, a place that treasured the gods, mainly Lord Gwyn's family. Out of envy for the worship that the gods recieved, Sulyvahn gathered Outrider Knights and gifted them corrupting rings that turned them into feral beasts. With the Outrider Knights, the Pontiff decimated the Boreal Valley and forced the citizens to become his slaves. The most infamous of them was the Dancer, a member of Iritheyll's former ruling family who was ordered by Sulyvahn to become a dancer, before giving her and one of his most strongest Outrider Knights, Vordt, and gifted them special left and right eye rings that transformed them into large monstrosities with armor fused to their skin.

Sulyvahn would then find the Church of the Deep and plotted a goal to use Aldrich for his schemes. Becoming the leader of the church, he conducted a ritual to revive Aldrich, and they invaded the city of the gods, Anor Londo. Sulyvahn gathered the survivors of the city as offerings to Aldrich, including Gwyndolin, the last god of Anor Londo. If it wasn't for the Ashen One defeating Sulyvahn in his highest peak, he could have easily taken over all of Lothric.

Aldrich
Really? You really expect to find sympathy for someone that EATS CHILDREN!?

Pontiff Sulyvahn
Honestly no. There's nothing suggesting a Freudian excuse or redeeming quality from the Pontiff. He is just a power hungry tyrant obsessed with ruling over people, using Aldrich as a way to dispose the gods he so despised. Its also implied that Sulyvahn only used Aldrich to exploit his god eating skills, not a revere the rest of the church saw him.

Heinous Standards
Oh yes. For a world called Dark Souls, these two are some of the most despicable evil folks within the trilogy. Compared to the other truly villainous characters like Seath, Manus, Nashandra, Elana, the Old Iron King, and High Lord Wolnir, their heinous actions are nowhere close to the heinousness and despicable things these two commit.

First Aldrich: unlike the Abyss Watchers, Yhorm the Giant, and Prince Lothric who all had honorable reasons to link the First Flame, Aldrich only did only to be worshiped forever to restrain an egotistical personality and have more delicious human sacrifices. Oh yeah, he's the only villain to eat KIDS. Move over Pennywise.

Then their's Sulyvahn, who is definitely the more heinous of the two, as he had no reason to destroy and ruin all of the lives he caused simply for his own power hungry needs.

Final Verdict
Easy yes to both Aldrich and James P. Sullivahn.