Talk:Ash Lake/@comment-1687225-20130106151555/@comment-76.25.107.180-20140928081415

One thing I've noticed is that while every area seems alright on it's own, sometimes the entire world of lordran doesn't make sense. For example the fact that you have to go down to reach ash lake. If lordran really was held up by archtrees, then the witch of izalith's scene wouldn't make sense, because she and her daughters of chaos burned down the archtrees, and since the kiln of the first flame is accessed in lordran, she wouldn't have been able to burn the archtrees below without causing the landmass to fall. Also there's the fact that building whole cities like anor londo, the undead burg, and that strangeness that is new lond (apparently underground cities where in style) would affect the weight of the landmass being held up by those archtrees. To me it seems that the developers where in fact drawing from real world phenomena, since there are caves big enough that actually have a cloud layer, and possibly a little bit of hollow earth. Everything in ash lake is ancient, things that were eradicated before gwyn's age of fire. Much like how those who believe in hollow earth say that there are prehistoric creatures inside our earth, it could be that the idea was taken and used in dark souls, so that the stone dragon, and all the archtrees are just remnants surviving outside the view of the world.