Talk:Soul/@comment-109.205.252.205-20150124201740

Here is my theory:

When a person levels up, they "reinforce" their own soul. The souls they were carrying on them turn into 1 soul used for reinforcement: e.g. Chosen Undead levels up from SL 1 to 2, using, say, 300 souls. These 300 souls get turned into 1 soul, and reinforces the Chosen Undead's Soul.

When you kill and enemy or boss, you get all the souls they were carrying. But the souls you get from soul items are souls that were used to reinforce someone's soul. In essence, that means that, for example, Gwyn was SL 20,000, since he reinforced his souls 20,000 times.

The reason my theory doesn't hold up is the fact that it would mean that the Chosen Undead's soul can be worth 713 souls at most.