Talk:Furtive Pygmy/@comment-24411414-20180707074031

This is a very solid reading into the game's evidences indeed, but there may be a bit of an incongruence or a misphrasing in the Lore's second paragraph, lines 1 and 2.

To say that Humanity's essence is rooted in the Abyss makes it sound like the Abyss generates Humanity and those who bear Humanity should be totally, or partially, immune to its effects by connection, but the evidences imply the other way round. The game's elements pertaining to it suggest that Abyss is to Humanity as Bed of Chaos is to the Witch of Izalith's Lord Soul: when you tamper with a soul's nature, it gets twisted and manifests itself in uncontrollable, destructive ways. Manus' soul description itself summed with Chester's dialogue make implications on how the phenomenom comes to be, and the fact you are automatically disintegrated the moment you step into the Abyss in New Londo if you don't have the Covenant of Artorias' tells between the line the Abyss is just as dangerous to humans as it is to deity-like beings; it's important to remember that the place we venture into in Oolacile is called Chasm of the Abyss, not The Abyss(it's been known Miyazaki cherry picks his names and terms carefully). The former still bears the traits that encompass a physical place, with rock surfaces and an actual floor upon which to step on, whereas the latter is pure nothing, implying that the first may have been an Abyss that was in the process of full development. That's why we can traverse the Chasm without the ring.

"But what about the citizens of Oolacile? They did not wear rings and got mutated, why didn't you?"

I don't have much in the way of evidence other than a theory involving the pendant. The mutation was most likely Manus' doing, and while the other citizens of little mattered to him, you have the one trinket he pulls you through time and space for. In his place, I would certainly not twist and mutate the person who has something I cherish a lot into a creature with so little brain that could destroy what little remains of it into smithereens. I would rather much lure said person to where I am, as I myself cannot leave because not only am I bound to that place, I'm also stuck in a frigging hole.