Talk:Great Swamp/@comment-172.56.8.184-20140215044731/@comment-6003396-20140302095241

The Great Swamp is sort of like the epicenter of Pyromancy outside of Lordran, and many pyromancers come from there (Tattered Cloth Hood description). When Laurentius speaks of people shunning Pyromancy, he is speaking in a more general sense and doesn't name a particular place.

The Great Swamp and the poison swamp of Blighttown are different places as evidenced by the fact that Blighttown is a desolate place, containing no humans, while the Great Swamp is referenced as a place where people live. The Great Swamp is also a selectable origin location during character customization, so it wouldn't make much sense if the Chosen Undead came from Blighttown and was then captured and sent to the Undead Asylum only to make his grand pilgrimage back to Lordran to revisit the place.