Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-179.98.177.213-20160623014621

While playing I noticed that the Great Hero Soul is one of the rarest items avaible in the game, since there are only two, and I also noticed that both of them are found on locations related to very similar questlines.

My theory is that the Duke's Archives GHSoul belongs to Logan and the Lost Izalith GHSoul belongs to Solaire. I noticed this because their questlines are pretty similar. You meet then both outside of Anor Londo and both of them seem like "normal" dudes, they also are, apparently not from your era/world, as Solaire himself notes that: " The flow of time itself is convoluted; with heroes centuries old phasing in and out. The very fabric wavers, and relations shift and obscure. There's no telling how much longer your world and mine will remain in contact." and Rickert stating that Logan: " I hear he was quite the character...Only, that was a hundred years ago. " B oth of their questlines involving obsessions. Solaires obsession with the Sun, that eventualy leads him to have an ill-fated meeting with an Chaos Bug, but, also make him find his " grossly incandescent " sun. And Old Hat's obsession with Seath and his knowledge of crystals and souls, which leads him to grow gradually mad, as seen in his dialogue: " Oh there you are, it has been a while. Or, were you just here? This fascinating place defeats my sense of time... " and after buying all of his items " ...Who are you...Stay clear...stay clear of my work...Curses upon you!...How dare you disturb me! ".

Now, another coincidence is that, both of them are renowned characters. Solaire as a master of Faith, wielding his Sunlight Talisman and Sword and attacking with Lightning Spears, and Old Hat Logan as a master of Intelligence, wielding his Crystallization Catalyst and, not only, using crystal sorceries, but being responsible for creating them. And eventhough they are such powerful characters, the only thing you receive from them is their equipment and 1000 Souls, which in this point in the game is a pop of a Large Nameless Soldier Soul away.

So, my theory is that, you do not truly kill Logan and Solaire in their questlines, since both of them, like you, are Undead. When reality shifts and they appear in your world you only an aspect of them, hence why Solaire appears to be always waiting for you after some big challenge (Taurus Demon, Anor Londo Archers, Red Drake, Centipede and Bounding Demons), when in truth, he probably struggled a lot in his world to reach that place, which mentally drains him, leading him to hollow, thinking that he will never find his Sun; and also why Logan develops such powerful sorceries when he "just arrived" in Seath's Library and why he loses his sense of time with such ease, you are constantly being shifted in and out of his reality, while he is already neck-deep in maddening knowledge. So, after "defeating" them, you get only a portion of their souls, you probably only "banished" them from your world, destroying your world's existence to them, while they madly roam around, shifting through worlds, until the day someone (or something) killed them in their own world. And where that someone died you find the rest of their souls. Which, enriched by high intelligence/faith have become one of the most powerful souls, aside from the Lord Souls.

I came up with this whole thing alone, if anyone wants to contribute by adding any details of pointing out failures, please do, I'm a bit of lore fanatic, but I'm not good at uncovering this things by myself 