Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-108.129.75.244-20130528195600/@comment-6003396-20140320070927

I am skeptical of the possibility that Drangleic was once Lordran. You've probably gotten further than I have, so I may not have all of the pieces, but in regards to Chloanne's dialogue, I'm assuming your reffering to what you quoted on the Drangleic page: "Since long, long ago, many kingdoms have risen and fallen on this very spot." but if you read the description of the Ring of Blades: "The kingdoms of Alken and Venn long ago flourished on these very grounds." The description of the Lingering Dragoncrest Ring can be interpreted in many ways, one such could be that Vinheim existed in the place where Drangleic is. There is also no indication that Giants never ventured outside of Lordran, or perhaps even that they were ever confined there to begin with.

The landscape of Drangleic is also very different from Lordran. Granted, land formations can change over time, and perhaps the world of Dark Souls is subject to more extreme elements than in the real world; however, there is no sign of a coastline or the ocean in Lordran, and from what I have seen so far, there is no central plateau in Drangleic where Anor Londo would have been.

Beyond this, though, developers have stated things like: "If Lordran was to be an area in a world called, say, Earth, the setting of this game will be somewhere completely different." (source) and "The game is set in a different part of the same planet – to put it another way, if the first game was set in the North Pole, this one would be in the South Pole; that sort of contrast." (source)