Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-9375302-20130715224416/@comment-5632187-20130718233540

One thing I can think of off the top of my head is that the Dark Souls and Dark Souls II universes are pretty non-connected. In an interview conducted by Rurikhan with Yui Tanimura, Tanimura actually stated that no NPCs will directly make a re-appearance in Dark Souls II.