Talk:The Duke's Dear Freja/@comment-173.231.92.202-20140423131607/@comment-71.184.113.243-20140505045910

Not sure how much stock we should put into the size of the corpse mattering. Seath WAS an ancient dragon, he was just born without the scales that would have made him immortal. He's roughly the same size as the bodies he's standing on in the intro to Dark Souls; any discrepancy from game to game could probably just be chalked up to a model update.

I'm 100% absolutely convinced that Seath's essence, at the very least, was what we found in The Duke's Dear Freja. Whether it was Seath's body suspended by webs behind him? We'll never know for absolutely certain, because this is friggin Dark Souls. I think you can argue either way that this IS Seath's corpse, and we enter his memories later to grab the soul of a DIFFERENT dragon, or it's the corpse of the REAL Ancient Dragon that the fake one in the Shrine didn't imagine you'd find. Personally I think that it actually is Seath's body, and its proximity to a colony of the spiders is what let his fading soul exert control over them and eventually Duke Tseldora.