Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-10209824-20140321195951/@comment-1855630-20140509065514

Humanity fed to First Flame? Is there anything in the game to actually support this theory? How could Gwyn set up the Bonfires if they're fueled by the bones of the Undead? Since when Humainty qualifies as a soul?

Mankind is fucked by Age of Dark because the advent of Age of Dark caused the Curse of the Undead(and this was mentioned in the intro, so we can assume it to be an irrefutable fact), which hit humans the most. Hell, it was bad enough to ruin entire kingdoms, like Balder. And let's not forget the Darkwraiths, who originate from the Abyss and whose sole job seems to be hunting Humans.

Wallager didn't say Dark was time of extraordinary peace, he said "peace so deep it was like... the Dark". Putting the fact that Dark Souls 2 is essentially bad fanfiction aside, you are heavily twisting his words and the context. The way he says it implies it was anything but a good thing; he might as well have said "peace so deep it was like death".

Why would serpents play both sides? They have nothing to gain from it. When you become Dark Lord, Kaathe gets nothing from it, you're the boss and he's still ugly, and just so Frampt gets nothing from you prolonging the Age of Fire. Do you even know whether Frampt is among the snakes that bow to you in Dark ending? What is the point of telling you to go link the Fire if he actually wants you to become a Dark Lord which you seem to imply?

You know I really thought you had something going on there but it seems you're just making it up as you go, cherry-picking whatever happens to support your theory.