Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5632187-20130119213241/@comment-5613590-20150128031247

Dark Jeto wrote: Hereticalthoughts wrote: Dark Jeto wrote: Hereticalthoughts wrote: Luckystarz103 wrote: Hereticalthoughts wrote:    "One day, fire will fade, and Dark will become a curse. Men will be free from death, left to wander eternally. Dark will again be ours, and in our true shape... We can bury the false legends of yore... Only... Is this our only choice?" - Vendrick

He's talking about the ending of the Age of Fire, and the beginning of the Age of Dark/Man. Sounds like hes talking about how if its even worth it to live forever.

But it still doesnt quite add up, what rlly causes the curse of undeath? Immortality is when your own soul wont wither, and you will not lose your mind or die of old age, as the dragons could only die if they were killed. Undeath is when you die or are killed, you respawn from the flame, at the small cost of a bit of your soul.

Hollows were able to die/be killed during the age of fire, because their humanity as well as their soul would feed the first flame, but as the flame died out, it could no longer be sustained on weak hollow souls alone. If you Link the Fire you grant the fire strong fuel so it will burn for a while longer, and allow hollows to die. If you become the Dark Lord, there will be no flame to collect your soul, but there will also be no flame to spawn you if you are killed once again. It still seems weird tho, I mean, strong fire allows hollows to die but it also, for some reason, allows the Chosen and Cursed Undead to respawn. Perhaps it was only the very first flame that allowed death, tho that wouldnt explain all those lootsble corpses.

Idk, why is it that enemies respawn after u die/rest at a bonfire, I mean if u die then the souls that u killed could be returned, but if u just rest then mayb the flame just gives random souls to hollows, with none to call their own. Or it could just be a convenient game mechanic.

What I find curious in the games, is that although the gods won the war against dragons, later on humans seek immortality, what the dragons possessed during the age of grey. Lord Aldia, a man of dark, used the bright soul of a giant, to seemingly acheive this. Though Im not sure he did as Sweet Shalquoir mocks him.

Perhaps the true unseeen rulers of immortality.... are cats. And also, holy shit this thread goes back to January 2013.