Talk:Ending/@comment-193.150.228.149-20140114030947/@comment-68.103.204.20-20140319011032

Sirdude's response isn't entirely accurate. Your character will possibly remain undead if you become the dark lord, whereas yes, if you link the fire you die. However, the undead exist because of lord gwyn and his refusal to allow the age of dark to begin. So the darksign curse is a curse on man because of gwyn. The undead, until the fated chosen (you), are being used by gwyn and his allies to try and  prolongue the age of fire.

The age of dark is also called the age of man. It is NOT an age of evil. In the eyes of those that hate the pygmy and his descendants (mankind), it is evil, but in mankind's eye it would be liberation. Because of the macabre world that is dark souls, everything about the age of man seems like darkness and evil. But the age of fire is abuse and selfishness. There isn't really a good or bad way out, it's whether you want to serve your own (mankind) or your "superiors" (the lords and whatever giant-people they are born of).