Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-7889951-20140530054919/@comment-16047389-20140530174517

Why would it be more than one if it was the Dark Soul? Humanities were split off the Dark Soul. The Dark Soul wouldn't be multiple Humanities. Or if it did, perhaps that's why Manus drops 10 Humanities.

Manus is unlike any other being in Dark Souls:


 * His soul is made of Humanity, which not even other human souls are.


 * He is the Father of the Abyss.


 * According to Hawkeye Gough, "The Dark emanates from Manus himself".

No human, or god for that matter, has ever had such mastery of the Dark, the Abyss, and Humanity. Only the Dark Soul would have that much power over the Dark.