Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24459775-20140315020817/@comment-1961216-20140427020758

I skipped ahead when I noticed folks talking about how you killed so-and-so and they can't still be around, etc.

Did you forget that everyone comes back after they get killed? That's the entire point of the Dark Souls world - the curse of immortality and its hold on everyone in the land(s).

Gwyn died casting himself into the First Flame just like the Chosen Undead does. So why's he still there as the last boss?

Because death doesn't stop anyone else anymore than it stops you, that's why.

All Seath needs to do to get petrified is keep one too many Basilisks in his belfry.