Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-24494913-20140319193521/@comment-16047389-20140410175316

I choose to believe the developers when they say that Drangleic is far and seperate from Lordran, and I believe that would also make it seperate from Vinheim, Astora, etc. Now, Mirrah could be Astora or something like that, but I do not believe Drangliec is any of them.

82.156.96.105 wrote: If it's certainly not Lordran, how come we get the exact Sun Bro altar as in the original Dark Souls in the mines? It's true, the altar is the same exact model used in Dark Souls. But, think of it like this. The altar in Lordran was an an overlook in the middle of a city, while the altar in Drangleic is in the middle of a poisonous valley. So what's more likely? That the altar was moved to Drangleic from Lordran and simply rearranged in the same manner? Or the entire geographic landscape of Lordran being terraformed from the Undead Burg into Harvest Valley without disturbing the altar? I believe in VaatiVidya's theory that Drangleic is built on top of the old kingdom that Gwynevere founded when she left Lordran. The altar is most likely a depiction of Gwyn's Firstborn, who would have been Gwynevere's brother. The altar may have been moved from Lordran to Heide (assuming that's what it was called back then), or she may have had an assembled statue already that fell into disrepair due to the passing of time and coincidentally appears the same as the one in Undead Burg (and by coincidentally, I mean FromSoftware intended to do it to make the reference to the Sunlight Altar more obvious).