Talk:Drangleic/@comment-13858305-20140416073727/@comment-24568519-20140425002612

It could be that without any instability e.g the undead. That the kingdom had already stagnated by the time undeath had occured, with the hollow curse coming around to pick clean the bones of Drangleic, which could by why the castle and several other areas appear relatively untouched. With no-one to fight the Hollows could just exist. One theory is that our chosen undead actually failed in DS1 and didn't make it to the first flame which is why we have the situation in DS2, since it's not specified how much time has passed it's perfectly reasonable that another undead or several came along and either left the flame or kept it going in a vast cycle.