Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5632187-20130119213241/@comment-33384696-20161028112924

Speaking of ornstien, I have a different but related theory about him. I think that we did kill him back in Anor Londo (Or atleast Smough did), and that he didn't necessarily "Survive", but rather,  he lived on,  as a disembodied spirit. Now then, My reason for thinking this comes from the Black Knights. The Black Knights themselves are described as "Dismbodied Spirits", which would imply that they are really just a possessed suit of armor. So perhaps something similar happened to ornstein. assuming this is true, it would expand the possibilities as to why his armor is just found laying on the ground in the Archdragon peak, as if he were to be "killed", then his armor wouldn't exactly have a corpse to be found on.