Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-10209824-20140506193921/@comment-81.56.158.96-20140806201501

I'am quite entirely sure that she is the Witch of Izalith.

Their sin is the same, specifically in the way that they tried to rekindle the first flame by some ritual instead of sacrificing herself to it. Obviously because she is still alive.

And in Dark Souls 1, there is absolutely nothing that definitly says that she is dead. The only people that says all the witchs are dead are people that fled to never return there. And anyway, at this point, there is really only one known witch of Izalith that survived physically unharmed. But  she (can't remember the name of the NPC...) isn't omniscient, and is even proven wrong when we find another surviving witch of Izalith, though apparently insane, in Lost Izalith.

If i remember, it is pointed out that the ritual of the Witchs took place but didn't worked as planned, as they indeed succeded in creating something very powerful and having some of the attributes of the First Flame. But even with a part of the original Flame in it, what would become the Bed of Chaos was a twisted, living, creature of flame and rage, that, immediately after being created, proceeded to engulf them and then create multitudes of demons.

For me, the most plausible theory is that the Mother Witch of Izalith somehow survived, deprived of most of her power and her part of the original flame, and that she was never heard of again until Dark souls II because of her self-inflicted punishment. Their pride and arrogance made them think they could succeed in this ritual, but all they unleashed was their own demise, the destruction of their entire race and city, and the creation of one of the most terrible being ever summoned. Not only because of this creature, but also by the countless demons it then spawned. For such a sin, maybe the worst ever made, it doesn't seems to be a hard punishment anymore... Who has ever misbehaved more than her ? Her, who was rightfully deprived of the rest of the tomb ?