Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-26331079-20150617060625/@comment-4511886-20150617121125

To me, the "giant" looks like either a combination of Artorias and the Giant Lord, or some form of possessed armor. Either way, if we fight it, I hope it's better than the Giant Lord fight was.

Something I find more interesting is the architecture. If you compare it to Bloodborne's architecture, they look really similar. Perhaps Souls is moving into the renaissance? While the idea of guns in Souls doesn't seem like a good addition to me (Souls technology is, and should in my opinion always be, based on a medieval/fantasy setting), the new design opens up new possibilities for area designs, and will likely be a nice change of pace.

If "only embers remain", maybe the game focuses more on the Dark? DaS focused on death while DaSII focused on rebirth, so it's not a long shot that Dark could be a possible theme, as it's directly related to the undead. Of course, DaSIII is supposedly not the final DaS, so maybe they're reserving it as a finisher of the series.