Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-196.42.18.230-20140311222306/@comment-18016240-20160429154806

167.154.37.78 wrote: So Solaire is NOT the son of Gwyn, The Nameless King is the firstborn son of Gwyn. The Nameless King was stripped of his power (for the alleged reason of siding with the dragons; but that is alleged with strong evidence) and deific status by Gwyn. There is plenty of lore on it (resource is dark souls 3). Thought I would throw that out there so the Solaire theory of being the first unborn son can finally rest. -Cubby 88 I wouldn't say that the Nameless King's power or "deific" status was taken from him by Gwyn. As far as we know, Gwyn didn't have that kind of power, and the gods weren't really "gods" in the western sense (ie all powerful unkillable beings), if they were, there wouldn't have been so many casualties in the war between the "gods" and dragons as Hawkeye Gough described.

Also he uses lightning and still has super strength and all that, I doubt he'd have that if his power was "stripped" from him. He was just exiled.