Talk:Hollow/@comment-2605:E000:3086:3600:F86D:EF91:DBFE:C67C-20191004034351/@comment-43940928-20191015000140

In Dark Souls 2, Aldia and the Bearer of the Curse wanted to find a cure for Hollowing. By the time of Dark Souls 3, it's likely that such a cure was mostly found, but the undead curse was never cured. It's likely that the pilgrims just no longer had any energy to move, despite still being cursed to live, giving the impression that they are dead. Following the demise of the first flame after the death of the Soul of Cinder, maybe the Undead Curse disappeared with it, since everything except you and Gael (and the painter) were dead by the end of The Ringed City. It's mostly up to player speculation