Talk:The Rotten/@comment-92.185.143.47-20170603220830

For what I've been told, The Rotten is actually not Nito but Pharros the Vagabond. He seemed to have been in love with the Emerald Herald while he was still human, but she sent him to Aldia's tower just like she does with the Bearer of the Curse. There, Aldia experimented with him, fusing his soul and body to others, until The Rotten was born.

Now Pharros still had the most powerful soul, so he was the one who controlled The Rotten entirely. He ended up in the Black Gulch, where he built those damm poison spitting statues. If you look closely, you'll realise the statues are quite similar in appearance to the Emerald Herald, being female and cloaked in design. Furthermore, the poison spit might also be a reflection of Pharros' hatred for the Emerald Herald, as he thought she had betrayed him and thought she was a lier, even when still in love.

That would be the reason why when you fight him, you can cut his left arm, causing a Pharros' Stone to fall (and if I can recall properly, even a full body, which would be Pharros). What do you think?