Talk:Knight Artorias/@comment-156.3.55.64-20131015163237/@comment-16047389-20131015175407

Chances are they didn't intend Artorias to be a boss at all when making the base game. They probably intended him to only be a referenced character like Allfather Lloyd or Salaman, but either too many fans really wanted to see him in the game or they decided to implement him themselves. The reason why he's not the final boss of the add-on though is because he's not a villain but rather a fallen hero. Whenever you have a fallen hero as a boss, they follow a typical scheme of either being the penultimate boss followed by the force that drove them to what they are, or they are not intended to die at all.