Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-1852943-20130424155230/@comment-4511886-20130707195920


 * 100% speculation please don't yell at me :c ***

Pinwheel (the father) was a necromancer/gravelord servant who stole Nito's powers when his wife (the mother) and child (the child, obviously) died. He tried to fully reanimate them (rather than just building up their bones and reviving them like normal skeletons) but failed, causing all of them to fuse together into one creature (the reason for the "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry" sounds.) The copies are attempts to split them into three separate beings again. The reason that he is so weak is because he simply wants to die. Alternatively; he's weak because of all the attempts to split them up. (The copies)

He can be seen "working" with a skeleton on the table, the only item in the room that isn't a book. This might be an attempt to succeed in a full revival. And the books might be his notes to figure out how to split them. Maybe he could've succeded, if he had more time.

The masks are physical manifestations of the family members after they were fused together.

As for why he drops the Rite of Kindling. He stole as much power from Nito as possible, not caring about what he got until he fled to the room he is found in. The Rite is completly useless to him as there are no bonfires in the room, nor does he have any use for estus anyway, so he ignored it. It proves invaluable to the chosen undead, however. The cleric party went past Pinwheel simply because they thought Nito had the Rite.

The Rite is shown as an item for player convenience.