Talk:Nashandra/@comment-6132984-20140427234612/@comment-13858305-20140505021220

Perhaps, maybe, the Rotten/Pharros tricked her; maybe Nashandra wanted the whole soul, or all of them, but Pharros kept most of it for himself. Nashandra came after him, and so he hid from her, beneath the Grave of Saints; the territory of the Rat King. In order to keep the Rat King from 'ratting' him out he made them countless contraptions, which, unlike most of his contraptions, were designed to harm invaders.

But he himself was sympathetic for the trespassers, and so he erected his sanctuary of the unwanted, as he was unwanted himself.

However, he ended up losing his ability for creation, as can be seen by the statue he tries to rebuild. ..In fact, maybe he made all the statues. As a paranoid precaution against Nashandra.