Talk:Furtive Pygmy/@comment-31664784-20190122135451/@comment-67.11.161.251-20190720133827

This is inaccurate, as hollowing actually involves the physical vessels of humans losing the "Humanity" fragments of the Dark Soul that is their essence.

To say that the hollows are the true forms of humanity would be a materialist philosophy in this setting, saying that the souls have nothing to do with actual humans.

To be perfectly accurate, there were four beings of some sort which appeared along with the First Flame, drawing their opposing attributes from it. Light (Gwyn "The White"), Dark (The Furtive Pygmy), Life (Izalith), and Death (Nito).

Hollows are beings without souls, not necessarily humans, since humans are the descendants of the being who claimed the Dark Soul, while gods are those who are descended from the being who claimed the Light Soul, or are otherwise recepients of parts of that soul.

Oddly, Nito doesn't seem to have split his Soul, at least not voluntarily, though perhaps he gives power to necromancers to animate the dead.

Izalith may have divided her Soul between her daughters, I do not know. However we do know that she tried to recreate the original flame of disparity (not really the "First Flame", which is a mechanism to convert souls or possibly "humanities" into light and heat) and failed, distorting herself into the Bed of Chaos and her daughters and the living things around into demons.