Talk:Unkindled/@comment-31218426-20170326025816/@comment-83.252.134.168-20170330112057

Aldrich, the Undead Legion and Yhorm were all resurrected from their graves by the bell, so they couldn't really have survived. Basically, Lothric rekindling the flame was "plan A", and when he refused to (presumably because of his studying by a sorcerer who doubted the Age of Fire), they enacted "plan B", which was to revive four previous Lords of Cinder. When three of them forsook their duties like Lothric, it was time for "plan C", which is to revive all the "Unkindled Ash" that attempted to link the fire but, at some point during their quest, failed. Exactly what "failed" means isn't really clear since neither Anri nor the Ashen One are hollow when they wake up. Perhaps all it means is that someone beat them to it and they were scorched or consumed by the ashes of the First Fire, like the Black Knights were when Gwyn linked the flame in DkS1. It seems that, somehow, whoever (presumably some of the remaining Gods, or Oceiros, or a Lord of Cinder, etc) set up the entire tolling of the bell system had the ability to wake these Unkindled out of the ashes.