Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-10209824-20130530153039

"All of this is total theory and based on the assumption that Manus is the Pygmy, anyones ideas are valid and discussion is the point."

So I posted that I had a theory about the pendant but actually at this point its two... but they can be combined.

The first is that after the Gods killed the Pygmy/Manus they took his Pendant as both a punishment/torture, assuming he is the Pygmy and was trying to bring about the Age of Dark, and/or for research. I say research because the area you find the Pendant is in Seath's Library which also serves as his research center so maybe the Gods were hoping to learn about the power of the Pendant because it is clearly powerful.

The second is that the Broken Pendant is actually the remains of the Dark Soul. Gwyn already proved that you can split one of the lord souls yet still retain the piece of the original fragment, so who's to say that the same didn't happen to the Dark Soul. It's description states that it has a "distinct air of reverence and nostalgia", the only other artifacts that I can think of that would have similar, almost impulsive, reverential feelings would be the three other lord souls. Furthermore, the nostalgia bit really got to me because "man" is also a creation of the Dark Soul and I have to imagine that if one were to find the Dark Soul there would be this sense of recognition, especially given that it is the origin of man.

That's all I have so far, I have more theories but they need some fleshing out. The Broken Pendant has to be one of the most open ended lore elements in the game so I am interested in hearing what you all think.

P.S. I want to clarify something. I started a seperate thread on Manus because the original one was months old and essentially dead. So I was hoping to renew the discussion and being that there are no post alerts the most prudent method seemed to be starting a new discussion. Apparently that offended some, and if that was the case simply asking me to remove one of those posts would have sufficed. Thank you. 