Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-187.153.178.160-20140112045534/@comment-147.194.135.69-20140809182154

Here's my take on Priscilla's origins.

I'm certain Seath was involved, somehow. We know Priscilla is a crossbreed between dragon and something else, presumably a human or a god. Her appearance has a general white motif, and how many white dragons do we know of in the DS universe? I mean, how many albino dragons could've survived the near-total genocide of the ancient dragons?

That settles the father. The question then becomes, who is the mother? A lot of people like the idea of Gwynevere, and while I do find it appealing, that's purely because I'm a sucker for tragic romances. In reality, I doubt Gwynevere was the mother. Priscilla, while very tall by human standards, is nowhere near as tall as Gwynevere, so she more than likely got her height from Seath, as well.

Of course, as has been mentioned, it's possible that Gwynevere being so giant is only because Gwyndolin made it so. Gwyn and Gwyndolin are both tall by human standards, but they aren't the giant behemoths that the illusion of Gwynevere is. So, with that considered, it's a little less unlikely that Gwynevere isn't the mother.

I guess the final factor falls to whether or not Seath had Priscilla before or after he went full-on nutso. I always thought it odd that Priscilla was in the Painted World, a place presumably treated as a dumping grounds by the gods for anything that endangered or offended them, yet the majority of Seath's creations wander freely in the Duke's Archives. I ended up with the feeling that Priscilla was created before Seath's madness, when he still had the sense to try and hide her, considering her taboo nature. Only after he went mad did he stop giving a shit, and simply let his monstrosities roam the archives.

It's possible that Seath simply created her with some random human female, considering we know his Channelers specifically target women. Whether or not he did it after he went crazy, depends on how you view my previous point.