Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-25673538-20150106161340/@comment-5613590-20150107034016

Thats really not that hard to notice. Raime's armour and the royal soldier set also look like Paladin Leeroy's armour from the prequel. And yes, the Burnt Ivory King was a saint who cast himself into the flame like Gwyn, though they did so for the same reason but with different motives. Gwyn wanted to extend the length of his rule, so he cast himself into the fire to make it burn for longer, in doing so he preserved his kingdom. Whereas the Ivory King cast himself into (the chaos?) flame to contain it, to preserve his own kingdom.

I don't know if there was anything that suggested that the flame the Ivory King contained was the chaos flame, the one the Lost Sinner tried to light, but something makes me think it is that chaos flame.