Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-46.64.182.203-20140312230146/@comment-67.180.138.76-20140324073254

It says used there, not from there. You find Dragoncrest Rings in Lordran in Dark Souls 2. And if you speak with Straid, he talks about all the kingdoms that have risen and fallen where Drangleic is now. Honestly, that to me sounds like Drangleic is built ontop of Lordran. It suffers the exact same time distortions. And, for that matter, Boletaria from Demon's Souls is likely built ontop of Drangleic in the future. So all the Souls games take place in the same area, explaining the dependence on souls in each game's region.