Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5632187-20130203042433/@comment-1852943-20130621200013

Please try not to ask the same question in more than one thread. t/y :)

At one point, I mentioned that I thought Solaire would make a good pick for being Gwyn's firstborn. This stated immediately after my disclaimer that Gwyn's son cannot be any character in the game, and was based solely on character traits. I have nothing to back up that preference, because I do not believe Solaire is Gwyn's firstborn, it just would have been ... fitting somehow, if he were. Whoever the firstborn is, wherever he is, I see no reason to assume he has somehow forgotten who or what he is. All we know is that he was a god of war, had respect for arms and nothing else, and his foolishness led to a loss of the annals (translation gap?), he was stripped of his deific status, and he left his miracle Sunlight Blade on his father's tomb on his way out of town. Sounds to me like he is still out there, a wandering demi-god or something.

Based on those character traits, there are similarities to Solaire in his reckless, cavalier attitude and wandering nature, and of course his search for the sun may be interpreted as him searching for his father the lord of sunlight. Given the fact that Dark Souls is the spiritual successor to Demon's Souls, I think it's more likely Solaire is the spiritual replacement for the original plan to include Gwyn's firstborn in the game content. Perhaps, they had all of this content for a firstborn character and they didn't want to entirely discard it, so they used some of those character traits and/or dialogue to create/modify Solaire.