Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25654683-20141110083826/@comment-10407900-20141116011326

This is a pretty far-fetched and shoddy theory in my opinion.

1.) There's more than Four Kings mentioned in this game, many kingdoms have risen and fallen over time and there's plenty of mentioned kingdoms with established monarchies which we haven't come into contact with.

2.) Out of the 4 kings you mention we can obtain 3 of their souls and none of them make the slighest mention of containing a part of the Four Kings bequethed shard (unless use of the word "king" is your idea of evidence).

3.) Why would the Four Kings Bequethed Shard emerge at different points in time and become scattered? From what we saw in Dark Souls the Four Kings Bequethed Shard was a single Shard (shown by it's name, picture in our inventory, and the animation where we drop it into the Lord Vessel)

4.) " While I admit that the fall of each respective kingdom was not directly caused by the Children of Dark, that was the intent." The only intent Alsanna had was sustaining herself, which she even states in her dialogue. There goes that idea.

5.)  Since not all of the kings you mention led their kindgoms to ruin or were even a factor in their fate there's just another strike against your theory, seeing as Four Kings were directly responsible for what happened to New Londo.

6.)  "All of them, save the Old Iron King, were seduced by the Dark." When you have to exclude a major component from your theory just to make it work, that generally means you're wrong.

The only connections you have here are that 4 kings existed through out different periods of time, had a good deal of power, came into contact with a being of darkness (which can be said for almost every character in Dark Souls 1 and 2 since all humans are beings of dark), and befell an unfortunate fate.