Over 10 years ago, files for unknown Dark Souls messages were found in a text dump by Reddit user Retrogameaudio, who's now known as Illusory Wall, a prominent FromSoftware sleuth. Two days ago, on December 12, this cold case was finally closed with the discovery of two messages which did originally exist in the vanilla version of the iconic RPG.
Illusory Wall chronicled this saga in a new video about the Dark Souls Miracle-type spell Seek Guidance. This spell reveals nearby messages which would normally be hidden, and it was key to uncovering the two developer-made messages thought lost to time. One of them ended up being in the last place anyone thought to look, and they were especially difficult to find because FromSoftware apparently replaced them with different messages in post-launch patches before the original messages were even actually used.
