Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25533072-20141013090439/@comment-12334531-20150610055840

Here's my two cents: Artorias had diarrhea. You see it everywhere in Oolacile. He literally spread his shit all over town. You follow it as a trail to the Chasm of the Abyss. It explains why he's 'groaning' and piss-mad when you run into him. He NEEDS to go badly. Very badly. But where? Since there isn't a toilet big enough in that town, the only place would be... the nearby river, near Kalameet's lair. Why does he have diarrhea in the first place? He received a few mushrooms from Elizabeth, since he was there to rescue Dusk. You get mushrooms too. He found Manus, fought him, and ran low on health. So he used a mushroom. But the mushrooms tasted funny, and upset his stomach. So he ran for it, while his bowels spewed the blue stuff all over the place. The great knight you're fighting isn't really consumed by the Abyss. He just needs to take a nice long dump. One last note: check out the little 'headstone' after killing him (where Ciaran kneels). There is what appears to be a piece of black turd, ripped from the colon of the late Knight Artorias :)