Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25654683-20141110083826/@comment-138.163.160.42-20141229022515

The lordvessel is broken(found under the majula mansion) and this tells to me that all of the lord souls and lord soul shards should make an appearance. The only one that does not is the four kings. This could be for two reasons.

1) The four kings lord soul shard was broken apart when the lord vessel did and was thus divided into 4 respective souls.

2) The 4 kings shard, being smaller and weaker than seathe's shard desired to reconnect to the lord souls and combined with Seathe's

I think that a different thing happened. I am of the opinion that the old iron king is the four king's soul because of the fact that the lordvessel is broken and all the lord souls within in it must have been released to the world.

The lost sinner is the soul of The witch of Izalith

Duke's dear Freyja hold's Seathe's and in memory, you can get his younger soul.

The Rotten is of course Nito's soul

and then there is the old iron king... which must be the four kings because vendrick holds the soul of Gwyn. The Regal lord soul of flame.

"A powerful soul is like a curse and vendrick, king of drangleic used a powerful soul to keep the curse at bay" ~ Kings ring

this action falls in line with what Gwyn tried to do with his age of fire. He was trying to ward off the dark which he feared as Vendrick tried to ward off the Curse. It is more likely that the souls contained within the lord vessel all existed in the game prior to the DLC than it is that the four kings souls was inadvertently split or combined back with another soul.