Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-24494913-20140319193521/@comment-86.170.6.40-20140509140203

Wait, what even IS the evidence that it's Lordran again?

As far as I can see Drangleic seems to be this weird place where you can even sorta resurect dead people (ghosts and tombstones all that jazz), so all the old homage bosses/Lord Souls/similar architecture could just be because some A-Hole (Vendrick) stole the Lord Vessel and set all the souls free. Think about it, if you tried to bring all the power of Lordran to a different kingdom, where souls could come back, what would happen? The absolute sh*tstorm that is Drangleic now, you've got the Rotten (Nito), Old Iron King (Gwyn, kinda) Lost Sinner (The Witch), Duke's Dear Freja (Seath, somehow), all the Lord Souls tried to revive themselves to varying success (as shown by NG+). The only soul from Lordran who seems to have truly managed is Ornstein (and I guess the gargoyles) and even then he seems to have succumbed to the Dark.

I dunno, I can't see a good reason Drangleic would be Lordran, and much as I want to outright say "No, just isn't Lordran, you lose", I still feel like we're missing something. I mean, we know why all the Lord Souls are here ( broken Lordvessel), hell we even know why they have the curse (Nashandra's stupid plan brought it with it with all the Lord Souls, they even mention when it kicked in), so I can say that any evidence it's Lordran is lost since Drangleic, it seems, stole all their sh*t. So of course it's there.

That's my theory anyway