Talk:Gravelord Nito/@comment-39.50.64.15-20170615134843/@comment-39.60.190.102-20170618192309

I see your point. What confused me was that the skeletons we encounter in the Catacombs and ToG were technically dead and also temporarily alive- because while they are certainly corpses, they also drop souls upon their... well, 'destruction'. As the Lord of Death I expected Nito to be able to grant death (through disease or whatever), capture or at least manipulate the departed souls- but certainly not be able to transfer them again into some lifeform, since that would be tantamount to giving life. But if the skeletons actually ARE dead and simply reanimated in some type of pseudo-life, to be mindless servants of the Gravelord, perhaps that provides insight into the power of the death soul- the soul that interacts with the dead and raises them again, albeit without any sense of self. The souls gotten from the skeletons could be similar to how we get souls every other creature- like demons (chaos) and even the gods (souls of light)- only in this case they would originate from the (pieces of?) death soul powering the skeletons. Nito could also be a gigantic corpse propped up by Death Soul, but not mindless due to his status as a Lord.

We can only wonder what Nito does with the souls of the deceased. It's probable his reduced powers may account for corpse items, but he doesn't seem to have the type of soul absorption other creatures do. Absorbing and extracting power from foreign souls is a fairly uncommon ability- so far, shown only in creatures such as Undead non-hollowed humans, crystal lizards, the Soulfeeder and Monstrosities of Sin monsters  (who themselves were once human oracles)  from DS3 (I don't know about DS2). Nito doesn't seem to gain power from the souls if  he is capable of absorbing them. I mean, it can't be very hard for a God of Death to replenish his strength by killing a few people with juicy souls? Perhaps it's his job to separate souls from dead bodies. It's even possible that the souls don't float down to Nito at all, but wander off to facilitate some other lifeform, or be inherited by the person's offspring.

As far as the First Flame is concerned, I doubt Nito just sat and chilled in his grave while the other 2 Lords went bonkers over the fading Fire. I have a feeling Gwyn and Nito are somehow connected to the creation of the Undead curse. Gwyn's Black Knights were supposedly dispatched to Izalith but somehow managed to end up in Undead Asylum and Catacombs as well. Not to mention the Rite of Kindling is present in ToG and undead clerics are sent after it.