Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5632187-20130209000209/@comment-78.223.238.69-20150607141544

If we go on with Manus= Furtive Pigmy, here's what I think may have happened:

1) Kaathe explains that the FP is waiting for the flame to fade in order to bring the age of Dark/Humans. Either he tried to bring it to soon by inciting Oolacile's scholars to awaken him, or Frampft dit it hoping that the menace could be taken care of since this probably was in the apogy of the Age of Fire before Gwyn sacrificed himself to link the first flame.

2) Was it planned from the start or only in reaction to the dire situation, the Lord's Blades are sent to deal with the problem, but Artorias fails. We know he later formed a covenant with the Abyss, probably to keep his corruption at bay. He may have made a pact with Kaathe himself, deceiving him by staying loyal to Gwyn since he battled against the darkwraith. Kaathe says that all of those he entrusted with bringing the Age of Dark failed him (not even speaking of the other undead that could have been the Chosen one, since independantly of joining Kaathe or Frampft they died before they could reach Gwyn, as we find the corpses of all starting classes during the game; or the Sealers that flooded Anor Londo, thus countering his plans).

3) Why kidnap Dusk or bring people from other time periods? Well, here enters the pendants. We know hollows tend to cling to their possessions. We know there's a starting gift that serves no purpose other than comforting travelers with fond memories. We know how undeads that stay focused on a task and keep motivated tend to not go hollow. I think Manus' pendant works a similar way. If he's the FP and first of all humans, we can see he practically oozes semi-sentient humanity. The pendant must have been a way to keep the overflow in check, and it's broken. Probably thinking Dusk may have the other part of it, he kidnaps her. But due to Lordran's time distorsion, it falls under our hands, so he brings us in Oolacile to retrieve it. Why, would you ask, if the Abyss is spreading and the Age of Dark coming?

4) Without it's humanity in check, the dark aspect of it is corrupting humans into bloatheads. Not really the Age of Dark that was envisionned. Since Manus has totally gone berserk and it's too late to restore him with the pendant, we must kill him to ensure that one of his progeny (the humans cursed by the Dark Sign are probably all far descendants of the FP, thus probably sharing a fragment of the Dark Soul; notice how Kaathe explains that the FP found the Dark Soul, still the game's title is Dark Souls, plurial?) will bring the Age of Dark in time, when the flames are fading.

5) Kalameet. The bringer of destruction. Not so useless in the lore, in fact. It ensures that without our intervention Oolacile gets obliterated anyway, thus explaining why Oolacile was already "reduced to ashes" before the DLC cam, since without someone to finish him on ground Smough is only capable to hinder him. If we're not here to take care of Magnus, Kalameet is here to ensure continuity ;)

Anyway, the primeval man may have been a close descendant instead of the Furtive Pigmy itself, thus making him somewhat of an early darkwraith. Only he kept too much humanity on him instead of giving him to the serpent (may it be Kaathe or Frampft, the later then deciding that assisting Gwyn in prolungating the Age of Fire was a better idea).

What I find interesting is that Oolacile was most probably a human realm, since most of the people we encounter are non-humans from Lordran (Smough, Artorias and Ciaran). It may have been the most advanced of its time, starting to develop in magic of their own (maybe what happened explains why afterwards humans used draconic magic instead of humanity based magic since using the dark side would have proven catastrophic) and thus one of the kingseekers must have thought it was time to challenge the Lords and their gods and to end the Age of Fire, but it backwarded. Which explains a bit more why Gwyn really doesn't want the Age of Dark to come, since he constated with Artorias' corruption that he and his progeny wouldn't be able to do anything against it.