Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-46.64.182.203-20140312230146/@comment-6003396-20140402075944

BOSS SUKR wrote: Wait how come his armor isnt as golden like the last time you fought him,though this could be a lighting thing in DS2 It's not a lighting difference, but one possible explanation is that his armor simply aged with time.

Lazule wrote: What is more likely is that the Chosen Undead of DkS1 never killed him and at least that part of the story isn't canon.

This seems highly unlikely to me. Ornstein's item descriptions from the Dark Souls state things like: "Ornstein, who guards the cathedral in the forsaken city of Anor Londo." If he guards the cathedral, then he would have to be faced by the Chosen Undead. For From to rewrite something that is unavoidable seems sloppy and unnecessary from a storytelling perspective. The idea that Ornstein in DaSI is an illusion also seems implausible to me. The fact that the Pursuer can be encountered again after his defeat and the collection of his soul suggests that death means something different to these "special beings". If the Pursuer can be encountered after his defeat, then why not Ornstein? This idea allows for a huge amount of possibilities, and leaves many other questions unanswered, but if we are to assume that the Old Dragonslayer and Ornstein are indeed one and the same, then this seems like the most likely explanation (though I personally find it unsatisfying).