Talk:Sinh, the Slumbering Dragon/@comment-216.249.87.75-20141008044617/@comment-216.249.87.75-20141008083141

I appreciate good discussion! It's such a rarity these days...

Indeed, every being in Dark Souls drops souls, I even mentioned as much my previous post. My interpretation of it was that the souls acquired from enemies were, like you said, souls they had accrued form slaying other beings with souls - it's the way I rationalize how Humanity Phantoms can drop souls when they are apparently pure Humanity.

I am under the impression that large souls (boss souls) are the individual souls of the beings that you acquire them from. Your notion that a soul can grow in strength from the consumption of other souls is most definitely supported by in-game evidence, but whether or not a soul-less being can congeal it's own soul from numerous other souls I don't know. The Rotten does lend strength to that notion, however.

The only problem I have with the idea the dragons must have souls because "the soul is the source of all life" is that dragons did exist before the First Flame and are widely considered to exist outside the cycle of life and death - Aldia believed as much anyway.

The fact that dragons can be killed may be that they are simply destroyed rather that being robbed of life through death, much like destroying an object or perhaps Nito - the one who gave us the first death - in conjunction with the disparity that came with the existence of the First Flame allowed them to be granted death. This is merely conjecture at this point, so forgive my rambling. The idea that something animate and sentient can exist without being alive is a strange notion and Dark Souls doesn't expand much on existence prior to the First Flame so it's difficult to say with any real certainty.