Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-10209824-20140506193921

I know there are already two of these but I plan for this one to be a bit more organised, if I posted this in an existing thread it would be a massive jumble. Also, as an early caveat, much of my theory that I'm about to propose centers on the Lost Sinner being prominent around the same time as Vendrick and Nashandra.

I've seen a ton of people who have been speculating about what exactly is the crime that the Lost Sinner committed. In game it states she tried to rekindle the first flame, but that always seemed to simple a reason. Well I thought about it and I'm now deciding to take that statement at face value with a caveat: the Lost Sinner didn't just try to rekindle the first flame, somehow she succeeded and because she succeeded she restarted the cycle of the Undead Curse.

Wellager states that after Vendrick and Nashandra raided the Land of the Giants/Lordran, and took what was most likely the Lordvessel, a peace fell over Drangleic that he states is like the Dark. This lasted until the outbreak of the Curse and the Invasion by the Giants. We know why the Giants invaded, to avenge themselves of Vendrick's earlier raids, and to most likely retrieve the Lordvessel, but the Curse just kinda springs out of nowhere. Which is odd because while the Age of Dark, which is what I'm taking Wellager's statement to mean, is active the Curse should be dormant.

But if the Lost Sinner rekindled the First Flame, then she obstensibly restarted the cycle. The only problem is that if she did, then the Curse shouldn't have returned until years, like hundreds of years, down the line as, in DS1, it only manifested during the fading of the Age of Light, when Gwyn was desperately trying to unnaturally prolong it. So what I think is that while she did rekindle the First Flame, she didn't do it completely. Would make sense, in the first game you needed 3 Lord Souls to even enter the Kiln because the Lord Souls comprised parts of the First Flame. The Lost Sinner only had the the Old Witches Soul/Chaos Lord Soul, so her attempts to rekindle it may have brought about a severly weakened and shorter Age of Light. Hence, why the Curse manifested itself so quickly this time around and why she was locked up. She didn't just rekindle the First Flame, she also inadvertently restarted the Undead Curse. 