Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-10209824-20140506193921/@comment-16047389-20140911193347

I have another theory about the Lost Sinner. I believe that the Lost Sinner may in fact be Eygil.

This theory will be completely blown out of the water if the next DLC reveals Eygil was actually a guy or something, but hear me out. Eygil was a loyal follower of the Old Iron King, and an accomplished Pyromancer, as can be seen by Dance of Fire and Fire Snake. It also reveals that Eygil wanted "''to grant fire a will of its own". ''I believe that this ties back to the Lost Sinner being the Witch of Izalith (or her reincarnation or whatever, I really don't see the difference between a reincarnation and the same person). We also know that the Lost Sinner tried relighting the First Flame, and that she punishes herself for her past misdeeds. But here's an idea. What if her misdeeds was the fall of the Old Iron King's kingdom? It's likely that the Smelter Demon is responsible for the Iron King's death, but who created the Smelter Demons? Was it the Old Iron King, or Eygil? In Lordran, the Witch of Izalith attempted to recreate the First Flame, and in doing so created the Bed of Chaos, the source of all Demons. What if the same thing happened here? Perhaps Eygil, in her attempt to relight the First Flame, created the Smelter Demon(s) that killed the Old Iron King, and effectively led to his kingdom's fall. Perhaps this is the misdeed that the Lost Sinner truly punishes herself for.

Interestingly, I would like to point out that the door after the Lost Sinner fight leading to the Primal Bonfire, and the entrance door to the Iron Keep are the same exact design. The Iron Keep was built by the Old Iron King, so it couldn't have existed before him. Since the door in Sinner's Rise is the same, and both locations share some similar architecture, I theorize that the Sinner's Rise was built during the reign of the Old Iron King. The rest of the Lost Bastille was likely already there before hand, since Straid of Olaphis had remained petrified there for long before.

Interestingly, Brume Tower is filled with ash and soot, as if it had been burned by an out of control fire. And the area where you fight Fume Knight is very remniscent of the Kiln of the First Flame where you fight Gwyn, with a floor completely covered in ash, with a pattern seeming to emenate from a central point. Perhaps that is where Eygil had attempted to relight the First Flame and failed.