Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-29522860-20160918221029/@comment-29522860-20160920165618

I just noticed something interesting.

Most of the Lord Souls have an associated Lord, race, art, and flame.

The Death Soul has Nito, but the rest is never stated.

The Life Soul has the Witch, the children of Chaos, flame sorceries, and the Chaos Flame.

The Light Soul has Gwyn, the gods, miracles, and the First Flame.

The Dark Soul has the Pygmy, the humans, and dark sorceries. But do even the children of the Dark Lord have their own flame?

When you enter the Abyss to combat Wolnir, you find another body before him, and on this body is the tome of Grave Wardens. It tells how after becoming corrupted, Wolnir (who at the time was likely still alive and physically present in his own kingdom) found not just a black flame, but he found the black flame. With emphisis on "the" over here.

This flame is also connected to the pyromancy Black Flame, taught by Wolnir's text, which tells how it was "born from the Abyss" and is the "impenitrable fires of humanity" discovered down there. You can also find this pyromancy within the very first Abyss within the DLC of the first game, and though merely a pyromancy version, it tells that it was discovered and was not invented.

So there is a flame for humans. Just as the Chaos Flame burns in the hearts of Demons, the humans bear within them the Black Flame, ignited by darkness and burning lightless.