Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24459775-20140315020817/@comment-96.235.166.240-20140316235155

Arvas134 wrote: I've found another piece of dialogue, this one from Weaponsmith Ornifex, she says that her technique (manipulating souls for weapons) originates from a pale beast that once inhabited the land long ago, but no one remembers what it was. This could be referencing Seath perhaps? He did afterall discover crystal sorceries and crystals are believed to be related to souls. Notice, when you kill The Duke's Dear Freja, you don't embrace a great soul from that kill, but rather, you embrace a great soul  by picking up an item on the ground beneath a petrified dragon. The ones that possess great souls in this game are parralel to those in the first Dark Souls. The Lost Sinner presumably being the Witch of Izalith "Bed of Chaos" (Notice the bug is the exact same from DS, and in NG+ you get an "Old Witch Soul"), The Rotten being parallel to Nito, and I'm not really sure about the Old Iron King, but Seath was granted the title of Duke by Gwyn. The Duke's Dear Freja is, in fact, protecting the petrified body of the Duke, Seath. This whole thing was brought to my attention by someone in a live stream chat, but it made a lot of sense. They went on to say something about Seath finding a way to live forever, and coinsidently, it also petrified him. Seath's petrified body has stood the test of time, and is actually one of the great souls we acquire.

Pure speculation, but a lot of the pieces seem to be there. Only thing I can think to put this down is that we killed Seath in the first game. Unless, the Seath we killed may have been an illusion created by Gwyndolin or whatever, but me no knows :p. I just really liked the theory.