Talk:Lothric, Younger Prince/@comment-2603:3011:208:EA00:40ED:51E5:AFB8:46E1-20181011143908

The scholar they refer to is Pontiff Sulyvahn. He studied as a scholar at the Grand Archives after leaving the Painted World and before joining the Church of the Deep/Aldrich. Since he supports Aldrich, he's a proponent of letting the fire fade, and I'm sure he passed the idea along to as many people as he could, which could and probably does include Lothric, Younger Prince.

The question remains, though, with Lorian being the eldest brother, why was he not the heir to the Holy Throne of Lothric? Why did they choose Lothric, the middle child, as the heir instead? Obviously Lorian was healthy prior to Lothric's birth & cursing, because information exists that he fought as a knight before being stricken with Lothric's curse and being made lame. It seems to me that you'd want the older, stronger, more capable offspring to lead the kingdom rather than the younger, frail, and deformed one. The lore says that Lothric was purposefully bred for the throne, but with the eldest normally being the heir and it becoming apparent that Lothric was not the result they'd desired, why not choose to have Lorian succeed Oceiros then?