Talk:Soul of Cinder/@comment-33384696-20170216163306/@comment-153.153.2.125-20180813102311

I can understand comparing the build up to Gwyn and Nashandra, but Gehrman's build up is nonexistent. He's just the feeble, crippled old man you talk to in the workshop like 2 or 3 times before disappearing completely and becoming irrelevant for the rest of the game until the end. Yes, he's a fun boss to fight, but there was nothing that made you aniticipate fighting him. Also, your definition of build up seems to be based around whether or not the boss was ever explicitly mentioned/interacted with which is quite honestly very shallow. SoC was built up to in the theme, world and atmosphere of DS3. You feel there's a huge desperation to link the fire and that it requires a truly powerful soul. The situation is so desparate and dire that they even bring back multiple previous lords of cinder. The whole game, you are constantly being told about those who linked the fire and how it is the ultimate undertaking achievable only by those who have amassed great power in themselves. Then after your long arduous journey of fighting the lords of cinder, linkers of the fire who have been your objective the whole time, you face a being who is an amalgamation of all of them. You even fight Gwyn, the first lord of cinder, again at the very end. It really does not get any more poetic than that. Yeah, SoC is never explicitly mentioned, but there is really isn't a need for it. The story, world and atmosphere built up to him perfectly well, and imo there was no better way to end the series than with him as the final boss.