Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-24799266-20140410152501

Ok so. I don't know if this has been brought up before, but from what I've read in the comment section of articles, people seem to think that enemies reappear due to some form of chosen undeaed time travel. I don't think time travel is the case.

You kill them, & you "rest at a bonfire", eg. waiting for some period of time, and they come back from the dead. This is simply because they are undead. You don't  travel back in time to the last bonfire. How else would you be keeping your items? You're  a lot like sonic the hedgehog losing his rings and dying. But then you can pick them up again before it's too late!

This also explains why bosses and lords die for good. They have plenty of souls The hollow do not have as many.

But what I want to know is, why do the hollow people attack you and not themselves? I mean, especially when you are hollow...

Also I think most people might think this too but I think humanity is on the verge of extinction. They almost always has been, because for much of their history (at least a thousand years or two, that's truly a long time. Very few things survive that long, humanity changes constantly) they have turned to undead and therefore eternal. The have rarely had a time to be human and procreate and develop a culture based on little more than survival. With all these cycles and all the chaos and turmoil, they've barely even time to develop an excellent language. I believe this is why people talk so queerly. whereas older beings talk much more eloquently (they're old, but they're also older than shit, which explains why they never tell you anything straight. They're so old the've forgotten the details and/or have no reason to talk it out with you anyway).

It's also why we don't know anything about anything in this game. Humans haven't had the luxury to sit down and truly think about things, like understanding history. It's why we have so many names and places, but almost nothing in the way of what happened, how it happened, why it happened.  