Talk:Bonfire (Dark Souls)/@comment-115.164.185.107-20150326163229

I think bonfire is a switch, activate it and the you actually travel into many paralel worlds. It's like a wolrd within worlds. The world will repeat itself but with few differences. The idea is the chosen undead is tricked into activating the switch and lastly replacing Gwyn, another chosen undead will eventually doing the same and replacing the previous chosen undead, and the cycle continue. The Age of Fire is maintained by that.

This explain invasions, you can invade other world, people of other world can invade your world. It's a paralel universe with endless posibilities. Once you rest at bonfire you actually shifted into another posibilities. The enemies are not actually respawn, but they are always there. But some don't, because they are not bound to the loop. maybe they acted as guardian or something who are always inside all paralel world, but if they are dead then they permanantly gone. So after killing certain enemies, then rest, the next loop don't contain them.

This also explain the grinding, the chosen undead can farm souls. It is because the player actually shifted into another similar world and kill and harvest souls. If the player character is dead, the player character respawn at the bonfire last rested, but that actually the player character in other paralel world. The player character do not actually respawn, but he/she is another copy in another paralel world. That's he/she can retrieve him/herself

If the chosen undead choose The Age of Dark, then the last switch is not activated, and the chosen undead remain, there will be only one possibility now, that it is the last age, and the world will ended. There's no more loop.