Talk:Old Dragonslayer/@comment-14.192.213.142-20150203174101

I'm going to base my theory on the Scholar of the First Sin's new Last Giant Soul description.

TL;DR Old Dragonslayer is Ornstein!

MINOR SPOILERS

According to the new description of Soul of the Last Giant, the Giant Lord and Last Giant are one and the same being.

This means that the bearer of the curse (player character) obtained TWO versions of one guy's soul.

It is possible that the player only took a (large) portion of Giant Lord's soul (the Giant Lord Soul itself) and then later after killing the last giant, took the remainder of the giant's soul (Last Giant Soul).

So I'm going to say that the Old Dragonslayer is Ornstein, who was defeated by the Chosen Undead and took a portion of Ornstein's soul.

Ornstein then fled Anor Londo and lived out his days wandering, somewhere along the way getting corrupted by the Abyss or Dark and ended up in Drangleic thousands of years later, as the Old Dragonslayer.

What I cannot explain is one of Ornstein's two ways to die: getting flatenned by Smough. He most assuredly cannnot survive that and the only way to backup this theory is to say that this death is non-canon and the other one is.