Talk:Gwyn, Lord of Cinder/@comment-13194233-20141118204053/@comment-2A00:23C5:B915:E500:3CA4:96A9:8C71:7BF6-20180823225829

It's supposed to be that the more powerful the soul, the physically larger a being is. So it's likely that Gwyn was a giant in his prime, but as he chipped his soul away and gave it to others he lost power and thus his size, reducing him to what we see. Still though, at least he's able to put up a decent fight for someone who linked the fire and whose soul is extremely diminished, whereas Vendrick just looks big and swings his sword in an occasionally threatening manner.