Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-25173123-20140825050403/@comment-25173123-20140826063355

Yes I found the portion about them "burned to ashes in newly kindled fire, wandering the world as disembodied spirits ever after." a bit odd seeing that they don't appear to be disembodied currently. Though they could simply be disembodied spirits wearing/inhabiting the armor that was charred black during the chaos demons battle?

But as you basically said, the lore is mostly conjecture for portions of both the Silver and Black Knight history. And as we have seen here, we normally don't post it as fact if we can't prove anything past conjecture.

It appears on the Wikia we claim the black Knights were once silver Knights but have no real evidence of when the Silver Knights became Silver Knights. Nor anything stating that Black Knights were ever Silver Knights. Only that they were charred black during a battle and turned to Ash after the Fire was kindled.