Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-10209824-20140506193921/@comment-10209824-20140507174907

Like I said in your thread, I like your theory. I am, however, starting to think it is a mistake to assme she is the Witch. First off, you killed the Witch. Secondly, if we are basing this off of her having the Old Witches Soul then we would also have to assume that The Rotten is Nito and Old Iron King is Gwyn and I don't think that's the case. The possessors of the Great Souls do seem to have taken on alot of the traits, and obsessions, of the original wielders; the Old Iron King being the best example as like Gwyn he wanted to create a kingdom that would be indestructible and eternal. My belief is that the Great Souls are just so powerful they begin to subsume the identity of the new wielder, which would explain why all of them end in tragedy.

Also let me restate the Lordvessel part. We know that the 4 Great Lords got the 4 Lord Souls from the first flame. Also that Gwyn was able to use his Lord Soul to fuel the fire and even though much of it was burned up, it still was extremely powerful when you obtained it from killing him. Curiously, enough almost every NG+ Great Soul seems to state that: "This once-magnificent soul continues to exert influence over the land, even after the eons have reduced it to these remnants." It could be that time eroded it, but I find that hard to believe.

All that being said, I completely agree that there is a shit ton of proof pointing to her possibly being the Witch. That being said, I'm starting to think that, the ingame, proof is slightly misleading and that it points more towards a connection between the two, rather than that it is her.