Talk:Dark Soul/@comment-178.83.44.242-20150109220226/@comment-4511886-20150109235551

If you are to believe the intro, nothing was alive at the time before the First Flame.

My guess is that the first souls were just power absorbed from the First Flame, which is also why you need pieces of all four Lord Souls to enter the Kiln of the First Flame.

So before the Souls of Lords, there was no such thing as a soul. And all creatures were given a soul in some event related to the First Flame. Possibly the Flame is just a soul at its purest form, and the "smoke" is enough to make something live. That's pure speculation though.