Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5632187-20130119213241/@comment-18016240-20150614122626

Praising the Sun is the heretical action, all good men praise Pricsilla and her fluffy tail!

Well, he was powerful enough to potentially end the age of fire and managed to keep himself from hollowing, maybe he's got enough spiral power or whatever to keep the dark from going mad. At any rate, in my opinion the  choices were to either keep to a state that's already known, but will eventually lead to everyone's destruction (the unnaturally extended Age of Fire) or take the route of uncertainty where we don't rightly know what'll happen (Age of Dark). Like you said it's a matter of perspective, but given how terrible the state of the world was around the end of the Age of Fire, and how many people were turning undead and thus on the way to going hollow (entire countries like Berenike and Baldyr had gone undead by that point) I'd have gone with the latter, if it works, I've saved the world from inevitable destruction, if it doesn't, I'm just putting it out of it's misery. Course, that's rather grim and fatalistic, but eh.

Well maybe, but the undead (and hollows) didn't start reappearing until *after* Gwyn linked the First Flame together, implying that he may have been at least partially responsible for the whole undead thing to begin with. Of course, correlation does not mean causation, (if it did, Jack Thompson would've managed to get video games banned years ago) but that's for another explanation and theory. Although I do have to ask, do you think that the precurssors to humans and Gwyn's people were one in the same? I mean the intro video implies it.