Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-10324940-20130602034026/@comment-10167444-20130602064424

Interesting questions. I'll give my opinions as best as I can express them.

1. I assume the Undead are discovered when they die, then start moving around again. Seem slike a pretty tell-tale sign. As for how they're determined to be accursed, it's probably propaganda put forward by the Church that all Undead are cursed.

2. There's a theory floating around that all humans go Undead when they die, as an effect of being the descendants of the Furtive Pygmy. Whether this is true or not I don't know. As for the Darksign being hidden, it depends on the nature of the thing. Whether it's physical, spiritual, varying in location, etc. Hard to say without knowing more about it.

3. Very likely. It is heavily implied that Sieglinde is still alive, not to mention the fact that the Undead Asylum is in the human world, and the crow is willing to ferry you back and forth, and is even noted by the Crestfallen Warrior to carry other people to and fro. Whether you have to be Undead for these privileges or not is unknown to this account holder.

4. Humanity and, to at least some extent, souls. Souls are most likely more effective as a means to delay Hollowing, whereas Humanity is used to actually reverse it. The reason I say this is because during your adventure there are two merchants that are very close to Hollowing, and barely retaining their sanity. No matter how many souls you give them, they will never leave this near-Hollowed state, but they also will not go full Hollow. Additionally, you cannot use souls to reverse your Hollowing, instead having to rely on Humanity.

5. I believe it is stated somewhere in-game that the Church are the ones responsible for locingk the Undead away. It is likely that they simply lock them away and leave them to go Hollow and rot.

The Asylum is a rather curious place though, to be sure. Not only does it have a demon guarding the door to the outside, but it also has another demon in the lower levels.This raises several questions.

First off, why is the Church making use of demons as jailers in the first place?

Second, how did they get them to stay obedient? Or at the very least one of them, as the other is named the "Stray Demon".

Third, what were their jobs? One was obviously meant to keep the Undead from reaching Lordran, but what of the other? He's in a rather closed off space, and one has to wonder how it is that he got there.