Talk:The Rotten/@comment-12053-20150209193323/@comment-25288772-20150209210507

The source of the lore comes from a leaked image detailing an altered description of The Rotten's soul, which was supposedly going to come out with the 1.10 Scholar of the First Sin patch of Dark Souls 2. I can think of at least one other item such an altered description was supposed to come out for, but I shouldn't point anyone in the direction of spoilers. However, neither of these descriptions appears to have come with the 1.10 patch, meaning they were either red herrings by FromSoft, FromSoft withheld them specifically because they were leaked before the patch, or I haven't triggered something in my own game to change the descriptions (although I don't see why that kind of thing would be implemented specifically for two items and nothing else) or, perhaps most likely, these two leaked altered descriptions will be exclusive to the Xbox One, PS4, and PC re-release of Dark Souls 2, subtitled Scholar of the First Sin. Considering the patch and next-gen re-release were going by the same name, confusion probably arose about which was actually going to get these new descriptions.

Although, the 1.10 patch introduced plenty of new descriptions, so who knows why they aren't around?