Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-10209824-20140321195951/@comment-10209824-20140321211440

True, but this game takes place 1000 years after the first. Kingdoms rose and fell, according to a lot of characters in the game, so it's highly likely that Vinheim fell and Drangleic is just the latest Kingdom to arise in its place. Still, subsequent Kingdoms would bear traces of its predecessors and alot of the Rings, Weapons, and Armors have to do with Dragons, and look an awful lot like the image on the Crest rings in DS1.