Talk:Solaire of Astora/@comment-75.73.102.30-20130104222736/@comment-86.27.125.13-20130226100205

@Cosmicsilver

Actually Hidetaka Miyazaki had said in several interviews that the lore of Dark Souls was designed to be ambigous with only the imagination left to fill in the gaps. He gained this idea from when he was a child unable to read English very well and thus when he read Western mythology he only had the pictures and few words to go on, so he used his imagination to fill in the gaps.

So Solaire could very well be Gwyn's Firstborn or he might not be. Whether Andre of Astora was meant to be Gwyn's Firstborn is irrelevant. The developers might has "trashed" the idea because they wanted to apply it to Solaire instead. Likely though they wanted it to be ambigious where it's the player who decides.

The case can be made though:

+Head of the sunlight convenant.

+Seeks his very own sun (an obsession perhaps best explained by him being the fallen god who was meant to inherit the power of the sun and thus this quest of his is something somewhere in his subconsciousness that remembers this and gives him the desire to quest for the power of the sun that was once rightfully his).

+His extrodinary skill and toughness isn't due to his equipment which is rather basic with no special properities. Perhaps he's just a skilled warrior like other humans (i.e Havel) but the way the game mentions it could be a hint that this power is a remnant of the power he once had as a god.