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Praise the Sun!
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— Solaire of Astora · Dark Souls (2011)
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Solaire's blessing is the sincerest thing in a game about decay: a hollowing knight who keeps looking up and finds the world worth thanking. The gesture, arms flung high, turned into the series' emblem of cheer, and players now cry it at a boss-room door, a lucky drop, or any small victory in a bleak place. "Praise the sun!" is the Dark Souls community's shorthand for hope that has not yet been crushed.
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In the original Dark Souls (2011), the cheerful knight Solaire of Astora is the first friendly face the player meets in Lordran: a Warrior of Sunlight who prays to the sun and wants to find "his very own sun". He can be summoned as a phantom for boss fights, including Ornstein and Smough in Anor Londo, and later waits at the Sunlight Altar in the Undead Parish, where kneeling lets the player join the Warriors of Sunlight covenant and learn the Praise the Sun gesture. The cry and its arms-raised pose belong to his order, and the gesture is reportedly a personal favourite of series director Hidetaka Miyazaki.
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- Dark Souls Wiki: Solaire of AstoraLore and location sectionsReference checked
- Dark Souls Wiki: Warriors of SunlightBenefits and TriviaReference checked
- Dark Souls Wiki: GesturesGesture tableReference checked
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