Talk:Furtive Pygmy/@comment-31664784-20190122135451/@comment-67.11.161.251-20190720134625

Simply, hollows are beings without "sufficient" souls. If they are human hollows, the "proper" souls that are needed to restore their form are "Humanity" fragments of the Dark Soul. We can see that they are not truly immortal either, as human corpses can sometimes be found wholly inanimate rather than simply reduced to insanity or further to bestial nature.

We can also see that they ALWAYS have some amount of souls (indeterminate soul fragments) when killed, though often not many.

That being said, the Age of Dark is naturally an oscillation opposed to the Age of Light. Lots of oscillation between life and death goes on in the setting. Those two Soul aspects of disparity are in balance, or close to balance. Light and Dark on the other hand are not balanced. It has been an age of light since the victory of Gwyn and his allies after the Flame of Disparity appeared. The longer it is prolonged and the brighter it burns, the longer and deeper the inevitable Age of Dark afterward.