Talk:Age of Dark/@comment-80.6.199.137-20170123095811

It's not really the age of Man but rather of the age of primordial serpents. Man will only exist as mindless humanity sprites as we saw in the first game. Kaathe and Frampt are literally the Genesis serpent, whispering lies to man (as Kaathe did to the residents of Oolacille, telling them to uproot Manus' grave which led to all of their deaths and also to the four kings of New Londo which led to their corruption) and providing them knowledge that is purely in their interests only (shown in Dark Souls 3 with the serpent statues outside of the Archives so clearly they continued to have a role giving knowledge to Mankind to deceive them). The difference? Frampt lies for Gwyndolin and Kaathe is lying for his own selfish desires.

Before souls, humanity or even dark and light existed, the world still existed but was primordial with dragons ruling. The lore mentions serpents being imperfect dragons, so no doubt Kaathe and his lot were planning from the beginning to take over from the dragons but the gods got there first. So in Dark Souls 1, we have Kaathe using humans to take control for the serpents. Your character isn't the first to be used, every single Darkwraith including the four kings were used.

The manipulation is evident. When you gain humanity as a Darkwraith, who do you give it to? Kaathe, only he benefits from your murder spree, not you which only supports what Ingward says about Darkwraiths being the enemy of every living thing with a soul since they only attack those who are alive, drain their souls and humanity and then give it to Kaathe to feed off of it. Bringing in the age of Dark will mean that the serpents will have an infinite supply of humanity sprites to feed on.

The age of Fire, just like fire in the real world allowed humanity to evolve and build civilization but it's not without it drawback as it eventually brings about the Undead curse as humans begin to revert back to mindless creatures.

The whole point of Dark Souls is that there isn't a good ending. Even bringing in the age of Dark isn't permanent as fire will reignite. It's a never ending cycle. The natural age of Ancients is gone, that was the natural state of the world.

Humans will always be cursed because the pygmy found the imperfect Lord Soul known as the Dark Soul which is the curse as revealed in DkS2. The gods on the otherhand found regular Lord Souls so there was no curse for them, no dark to corrupt their hearts.