Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-10209824-20130530153039/@comment-24080141-20131106103312

Jefe454 wrote: well the abyss that we encountered in the Vanilla version of the game was nothing but emptiness, and i really do feel like that the Abyss in New Londo was close enough to the area of darkroot garden that I truly believe is Olliciale (sorry for the misspelling), because the areas look way too similar for it NOT to be, that they could be connected. But since it was never expanded upon, and there was literally nothing in the abyss, i guess we will never know Maybe Royal Wood and darkroot and the rest look too similar because the devs were to rushed to dish out the DLC that they HAD to use an existing model. (?) :D

SPECULATION ALERT!! :)

Anyways, I think the abyss can be likened to earth's magma; present everywhere benath the crust but where the land is "weak/weakened", the abyss/magma spreads outwards.So maybeWhoever succeeds in mastering "abyss power" could maybe rule over the entire dark souls world. So, Oolacile and lordran may not be the same geographical area. Maybe that explains why the location of the grave stone put up by ciaran is so far away from where we fight Sif (who is also guarding the same grave?); why the environment around kalameet's arena is so much different from hydra's battle field (even though they are quite obviously the same area). ..

oookayyy. I just realised that there are so many holes in what I stated.... but the point abt kalameet/hydra is true yes?