Talk:Old Dragonslayer/@comment-4509522-20140526222104/@comment-68.53.45.255-20140601020958

The theory I cannot accept is that Ornstein is an undead. As we know there are 2 curses in Dark Souls 2. The Undead Curse which only affects humans. And the curse of Drangleic which causes the journey to start all over again. We can all agree that everyone has been affected by the second curse but not the first.

Then there is my theory on Ornstein. As some may speculate, not all of the Silver knights or Sentinels are illusions, they may have simply left Anal Rodeo out of the fact that they were protecting nothing but an illusion of a false goddess. To those who stayed, they simply did not see what happened since they were cooped up inside the living quarters of the cathedral and did not see the illusion fade. But, Ornstein and Smough are another story, as they drop their souls upon death. Blankslate would be incorrect about their theory about not getting the others soul and that they kept it as the other of the pair would absorb their partner's soul to get stronger. TBH, what I believe happened is that Ornstein just died and was resurrected by the birth of a new flame as of the second curse takes effect. Or someone like Aldia or Nashandra found Ornstein's body and resurrected him.