Talk:Old Dragonslayer/@comment-25769495-20141121045426/@comment-4511886-20141121065354

It's quite clearly canon, as the game is made by the original developers. And it wouldn't be Dark Souls 2 if it wasn't canon.

It could be that it's a "possible timeline" thing, like in Legend of Zelda. However, the game often talks about how the flame will always change between stages, and that process can only be temporarily changed. This would mean that the ending of DaS is pretty much effecless, except that you die in one, and live in the other.