Talk:Age of Dark/@comment-80.6.199.137-20170123095811/@comment-99.254.207.45-20170507191132

How would the Age of Dark be the time of primordial serpents? You said it yourself, the serpents were probably around before light and darkness, so why would causeing an Age of Darkness help them any more than the Age of Fire? Also, the Age of Darkness would not cause humans to revert to mindlessness, and would most likely cause the opposite. Humanity sprites are fragments of the Dark Soul. When humans possess humanity, they remain sane. The Age of Dark is an aspect of the Dark Soul. It stands to reason, that Humans are less likely to go insane in and Age of Dark.

Furthermore, the only time we see humans going insane from the Dark is when they are corrupted by the Abyss. The Abyss is not the true Dark, but a twisted and corrupted version of it, unfit for anything not already touched by it to live with.

As of the Ringed City DLC, your theory about the Dark Soul having the curse of undeath is jossed. The Darksign was actually laid on humanity to limit their power. It ended up backfiring spectacularly since the humans' loss of control over their own element caused the spread of the Abyss, as well as necessitated the cycle of Fire and Dark, since the two could no longer coexist.