Talk:Age of Dark/@comment-143.105.66.54-20170427015702/@comment-67.11.161.251-20190720190744

Considering that time is always contorted during the waning of the Fire, it's entirely possible that people have been far enough into the future to see what an age of Dark is really like.

It's even possible that there have been small, curtailed ages of Dark in between the games. Certainly the state of the Untended Graves in DSIII implies that one of these two options is currently occuring in the world, and that the Kiln the player gets to after originally fighting Iudex Gundyr is not actually in the same time period as most of the rest of the game, but actually in an earlier one, before it was fully known that Gundyr had failed.