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Slave Knight Gael, also known as Red Hood, is the final boss in Dark Souls III: Ringed City and a major antagonist in the Dark Souls series. He is an Ancient Warrior and an incarnation of the Dark Soul and acts as the final boss of the Dark Souls videogame franchise.
He is voice by Stephen Boxer.
Biography
Background
Gael formely was a Slave Knight during Age of Fire, those of which lived in times where the gods were still prevalent. Possibly residing in the painting, he acted as some parental figure to The Painter, who calls him her uncle. It is believed that he departed the painting after she was locked away, taking the rotted remains of the exterior of the painting, acting as a key to the Painted World, with him, attempting to find another Ashen One that could complete the prophecy that would burn away the rotting world so that the Painter could replace it. He later sought the blood of the Dark Soul as a pigment for the new world the Painter could create.
Ashes of Ariandel
After The Painter was locked away, Gael took the rotted remains of the physical painting with him, attempting to find another Ashen One to complete the prophecy that would burn away the rotted world so that The Painter could replace it. To this end, he travels to the Cathedral of the Deep, praying for divine aid in his mission to a presumed statue of Velka, goddess of Sin, and "mother of the Forlorn". When he encounters the Ashen One, he is overjoyed to have completed his search, and requests the Ashen One to "show the (Painter girl) flame" that would burn the rot (of the painted world) away. Once they come into contact with the piece of the painting, the Ashen One is pulled into the painted world. In the fight with Father Ariandel and Sister Friede, the flame in the former's lordvessel-shaped bowl reignites, and The Painter comments that she will wait until she can see it before beginning the painting. To do that, she needs the pigment Gael ventures out to retrieve, that is "colored like the Dark Soul of man", and she wonders whether or not he has found it already.
The Ringed City
Gael's mission to find the Dark Soul leads him to the Ringed City where he finally meets the Pygmy Lords who's blood would serve as a suitable pigment. However to his shock, their blood has dried out over the ages and is therefore useless to him. Determined to complete his mission, Gael slaughters the Pygmies, cutting their throats and consuming their Dark Souls, or large amount of Humanity, in a desperate attempt to create his own Blood of the Dark Soul within hisself. But he acknowledges that he is no Champion of Ash, like the Ashen One, and that the Dark Soul would likely ruin him. And in consuming the Dark Souls held by the Pygmy Lords, his body is mutated, causing him to grow in size and warp his mind, and leave a large hole in his side, akin to that of a Dark Sigil, one, unlike the Darksign, is not sealed by fire. When the Ashen One finally reunites with Gael, he has been corrupted by the Dark Soul and demands their portion of it, attacking them in a rage when they refuse. is finally struck down, allowing the Ashen One to obtain his blood to use as a pigment.
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