Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24459775-20140315020817/@comment-167.154.37.78-20160422170459

After reading every item, armor, weapon, boss, and souls descriptions and connecting that information with the dialogue in number one this is what Ive personally conjured up...PREPARE FOR A LONG MESSAGE:

In a long ago Era, the world was ruled by the everlasting dragons. The world itself was unformed and shrouded by fog. Humans and other creatures have yet to make an impression upon the world. A moment occurred where fire was born, and with fire came disparity, heat and cold, life and death, and of course light and dark. It was during this time that the lord souls were found, within the first flame. These lord souls were split between Nito, the first of the dead, the Witch of Izalith and her daughters of chaos, Gwyn, the Lord of Sunlight, along with his faithful knights, and the furtive pygmy, so easily forgotten. While Gwyn, Nito, and the Witch amassed an army including Gwyn’s knights and followers to both Nito and the Witch, the Furtive pygmy (thought to be the ancestor of our hero) owned the Dark Soul and planned to use it and its power to bring about the age of dark. Gwyn, Nito, the Witch, and their followers mounted a destructive war against the everlasting dragon. Gwyns mighty bolts peeled apart the dragons’ stone scales after using the information provided by the betrayer, Seath the Scaleless. The witches weaved great firestorms. Nito unleashed a miasma of death and disease; winning the war. Thus began the age of fire. During his reign, Gwyn built his own kingdom of Lordran by building lands (New Londo, Anor Londo for the Gods, the Town of Oolacile, Sen’s Fortress, the Dukes Archives, and so on.) Nito ruled over the dead down in his Tomb of Giants beneath the catacombs, the Witches practiced and created stronger flames in their ruins (the great city of Izalith) beneath the Great Swamp of Blighttown, and Seath, who was pronounced Duke and given a piece of the lord soul by Gwyn for his act of treachery against the everlasting dragons, maintained in the Dukes Archives and crystal caves to study and experiment with sorcery and the crystals in an attempt to find everlasting life. Quelana, one of the daughters of Chaos, developed her own type of “fire-bending” known as pyromancy. After being seen by a man named salaman, she took him on as her pupil and taught him what she had mastered. Salaman used his newfound knowledge of pyromancy to spread the art to fellow followers (which wasn't accepted by a wide public but very few.) During this time Gwyn had three children; Gwyndolin (who was raised as a female due to his connection with the moon), gwynevere (who eventually leaves and marries Flann the Flame God), and a nameless King (who was later stripped of his deity for the suggested idea of siding with the remaining ancient dragons.) Seath created the Moonlight butterfly and Priscilla through experiements; Priscilla being a cross-breed between dragon and human. Travelers came from all over; Knights from Astora, Knights from Balder Kingdom, Knights from Berenike, and people from the town of Carim, fighters from the Eastern Land, and Sorcerers and witches from Vinheim. The kingdom’s populace was growing. New Londo had acquired four kings to rule over; all of which were given a shard from Gwyns lord soul due to their foresight. As the populace grew, and as generations passed, covenants were born. Covenants were created to pay homage to the Lords or Gods of the land and legends. The Blade of the Darkmoon covenant paid their loyalties to Lord Gwyndolin and acted as arbiters through punishing the sinful and those opposing the gods. The Chaos Servent Covenant paid their loyalties to the “White Fair Lady,” Quelaag’s sister; to learn the arts of pyromancy. The Darkwraith Covenant’s followers offered their sponsorship to Darkstalker Kaathe and followed his philosophy of dark and so began to seek humanity. Along with the mentioned covenants are the forest hunter covenant, the gravelord servants, the path of the dragon covenant, the princess’s guard, the warriors of sunlight, the way of white covenant, and many other elementary covenants; one of which conspire against Nito and successfully steals the rite of kindling from him (Pinwheel). After ages pass, the flame begins to fade. The three Lords (Gwyn, Nito, and The Witch of Izalith) share a panic fearing that their reign is coming to an end due to a prophecy that prophesizes, “at the very end of the age of fire, an undead champion will appear and undertake the pilgrimage to ring the bells of awakening in the “land of Ancient Lords,” Lordran”. Gwyn immediately dispatches two gargoyles to stand guard upon the church to prevent the bell of awakening from being rung. The Witch, two of her daughters and her youngest son attempt to use their manipulation of flame to reignite the first flame. In their attempt, they were devoured by the flame. Along with their many followers, they were all mutated by the effect. The Witch herself took the form of an enormous fire-twigged monster with a chaos bug. Her two daughters, Quelaag and the fair lady, mutated into half-spider half-human demons. Her son, Ceaseless Discharge, mutated into a large lava being who continually suffered from the pain the lava created. Their followers mutated into a number of different demons to include chaos eaters, Demon firesages, Demonic statues, demonic foliage, the egg-burdened, and so on. The entire Bed of Chaos maintained their residency in the Demon Ruins with the exception of Quelaag, the fair lady, and Quelana. Before leaving her mutated family and the city of Izalith, the Fair Lady gave to her brother an orange charred ring. This ring would allow for Ceaseless Discharge to remain in the lava with the lowest minimal burn, eliminating most of his suffering. Ceaseless discharge, maintained the ring for not too long before accidentally dropping it into the lava. Where the ring dropped spawned another demon; the fire centipede. The fair lady, feeling absolute sorrow for her servants that became the egg-burdened (suffering from a parasitic disease), did her best to consume as much of their poison as possible resulting in her becoming poisoned leaving her weak and blind. Her sacrifice to help the egg-burdened increased their loyalties to her, with Eingyi being the most subservient. Quelaag, loving her sister, decided to not abandon her and dwells in a cave at the end of the great swamp of blighttown. Her only two cares are to prevent harm by anybody to her disabled sister and to prevent the ringing of the bell of awakening. Quelana, who was not present during the attempted rekindling of the first flame, is still in her natural form. Her sister, Quegana, is also in her normal form (but driven mad) and remained in Izalith protecting her mother, the witch of Izalith, from any intruders. Quelana resides in Blighttown, just outside her sisters (Quelaags) domains. She somewhat abandoned her family after their attempt to rekindle the first flame. She waits for her sisters’, mothers, and brothers deaths so they could be freed from the horrible tragedy that had transformed them into foul demonic beasts. In the meantime, during the attempt to rekindle, a human man by the name of Manus from the town of Oolacile creates the Abyss after his humanity goes completely wild. The Abyss threatens to consume all of Oolacile. Gwyn, seeing trouble from both the demons created by the bed of chaos, and the abyss created by Manus, hastily decides to sacrifice himself in the Kiln of the First Flame to reestablish the Kingdom shortly after dispatching many of his knights to fight the demons in the demon ruins (the once City of Izalith.) Those of his knights that did not join the war against the demons either followed him into the Kiln or stayed back to protect Anor Londo in his absence. Prior to leaving, Gwyn dispatches his four most trusted knights to different areas with different goals. Dragonslayer Ornstein is dispatched to supervise the protection over Anor Londo and his children; Gwyndolin and Gwyevere (who was an illusion created by Gwyndolin to influence the player to light the fire). Gough and Ciaran are dispatched to Oolacile to stop the growing threat of the abyss. Artorias is to be used wherever his knightly skills are needed. However, Artorias makes his way into the Abyss and joins the covenant being granted a magical ring that allows for him to traverse the abyss. As Gwyn attempts to reignite the flame using the lord soul, he creates chaos and the curse of the undead. In the Kiln, his trusted Silver Knights become charred by the flames explosion darkening their armor to a sharp black. Unsuccessful in his attempt to reignite the flame, Gwyn tries to fight back against the curse of the undead that was created. New Londo’s kings become influenced by the dark and their followers become known as the darkwraiths. Artorias begins hunting down the darkwraiths to prevent their spread and terror. Manus kidnaps Princess Dusk creating panic in the land of Oolacile which eventually succumbs to the darkness and his abyss leaving nothing but hollows and mutated monsters behind. During the fight against the Undead, Gwyn realizes the curse is spreading. Those with weak will power succumb to the curse and go hollow while others with much stronger will power continue to live and fight on or to hide (such as Rickert of Vinheim). Gwyn has a prison built to house the rapidly growing undead and employs the services of a chaos demon to watch over the Undead Asylum. Artorias, along with his pup Sif, decides to go into the abyss and defeat the monster Manus once and for all. He brings along a pendant that can block magic attacks that he was awarded from the Lords of Anor Londo. He does his best fighting through darkwraiths and other monsters created from the abyss to eventually make his way to Manus, who influences Artorias with his awesome power of the dark, ending the once great knight. Sif, who was protected in a shield barrier created by Artorias, eventually is saved by a hero and watches over the grave of Artorias. He [Sif] also maintains the ring Artorias once held that allowed him to traverse the abyss. With Artorias’ absence, Ingward, Yulva, and another sealer known for their healing magic decide to flood New Londo to keep the Darkwraiths and the abyss at bay. While Ingward stayed in New Londo Ruins waiting for the chosen undead who finds the lordvessel, Yulva made her way to blighttown perhaps to share her remedy of poison miracle and the other sealer disappears. The Kindom of Lordran is in a state of fray with the cursed hollowed roaming the lands. Gwyn exiles himself to the Kiln of the First Flame and becomes more hollow as time passes. His only goal is to reignite this flame and regain his place at the throne. Seath, having gone insane from is reclusive lifestyle, continues to research sorceries and immortality. The bed of chaos resides in the Demon Ruins with no further intent while Nito remains in his tomb; accepting deaths as they come and his own fate as the darkness lingers and grows with the passing generations. Until one day, Oscar of Astora travels to the land of Lordran in an attempt to fight off the undead curse. He makes his way to the undead asylum, guarded by a stray demon, and locates a cell key. While on the damaged roof, he finds a cell he can peer into to find a lonely hollow sitting against the wall. He drops the key to the hollow and explains that the hollow must succeed him by making it to Lordran. After dropping the key, Oscar attempts to slay the stray demon on the roof with no success. All battered and beaten, Oscar finds refuge within the asylum waiting to either heal or go hollow. And so begins the journey of the champion undead; who will either sacrifice himself to the flame and extend the age of man and fire, or allow the flame to extinguish to usher in the rightful age of dark becoming the prophesized new dark lord.

During DS playthrough:

The Chosen Champion (You) eventually defeats Manus and saves Dusk. Upon Manus' defeat, he leaves behind several shards of himself (darkness) that eventually manifests into corporeal beings (Nashandra, Elana, Alsanna, and Nadalia). The daughters all make their way to different lands and live over the course of eons; each of them finding a king or lord and attaching themselves. During their leave, our hero defeats all the Lords holding the Lord Souls and faces Gwyn with the choices to either link the flame or surrender to the eventual age of darkness.

After an undetermined amount of time (at least a few centuries in my opinion) we begin DS 2 and our hero is succumbed to face yet another cycle of dark and light. Similar to the first cycle we progressed through (DS1) the initial goal is to end the curse; however, as the journey continues, we are influenced by NPC's through dialogue to instead usurp the throne. We are literally pulled from ever considering the link or extinguishing of the flame, all under the ruse of Nashandra who wants the throne for herself. We are also fighting along with the understanding that experiments have been conducted by Aldia (supported by Vendrick) to find another way to end the curse as they don't believe the flame holds the answer. Creating this was fun. I really enjoyed creating a linear storyline from the use of everything the game offers regarding Lore. Let me know what you guys think :D -Cubby88