Talk:Furtive Pygmy/@comment-204.108.212.245-20150218172830

Manus is not the furtive pygmy. The pendant he has shows just as much. At most he's the first Man; the first human Hollow being given life and existence with a portion of the Dark Soul. Why is Manus so strong? That's an entire HALF of the Dark Soul he was given. That's literally half the strength of a Lord Soul given to a mere Man. It's a bit like the Ring in LoTR- its power comes at a price not really noticed until it becomes too late. Half of the Dark Soul. Half of Darkness itself.

The Pygmy is the progenitor, not the ancestor. He did not invent man, he gave man their Humanity via splicing the Dark Soul. So, it stands to reason that Manus was one of- if not THE- first man given humanity.

The Pygmy is long gone or forever split among the humanity he gave to humans. Perhaps he became an ordinary man himself, with a scrap of the Dark Soul, no more powerful than any other ordinary human, but dividing it all the same.