Talk:Dragon Slayer Ornstein and Executioner Smough/@comment-166.147.104.158-20140116064557/@comment-166.147.104.144-20140123063019

Ornstein didn't just "get hit hard in the gut". He took a massive beating from the Chosen Undead. As a last piece of evidence I forgot to mention earlier, you only absorb the souls (and, by extension, power) of an undead when they die. The player does this every time they kill an enemy, and Smough was obviously dead when Orns absorbed his power. Thusly, Orns must have been dead before Smough crushed him.