Talk:Undead/@comment-29855659-20180809220351

I have started playing recently and I'm not even close to finishing the game (I have recently beaten the Bell Gargoyles), but the few information I have been given on undeath and hollowness are confusing me. The whole concept of undeath seems to be very important for the rest of the game and my brother, who has also played the game and knows much more about its lore and plot couldn't clear things up for me, which is why I'll just ask here:

As far as I have understood most NPCs that I meet are undead. So far I have met Oscar, Oswald, Petrus, Solaire, Siegmeyer, Andre, Laudrec and the Sorceror and most if not all of them seem to be undead (the Sorceror outright told me). They don't look particularly undead though. I meanwhile look like a hollow, so do the merchants in the city.

If I am killed I respawn, apparently because I am undead. Undead enemies respawn too, but not at a bonfire, for some reason. However, the Crestfallen Warrior did not respawn when I (accidentally) killed him. I thought it might have something to do with the fact that he isn't a walking corpse like me, but if I use humanity to make myself look human, I still respawn. He also told me to "sit down and get confortable" as soon "we will both be hollow anyway" - so he definitely IS undead. Is he just in a completely different (earlier?) stage of hollowing that doesn't respawn? If that's the case, then why didn't the Undead Merchant with the Uchigatana respawn? (Killed that one too, accidentally) He is just as hollow as me, right?

This is still my first playthrough, I'm a complete noob and don't know much about the game (yet), but it seems really interesting to me and I am really annoyed that I don't understand the game's main feature. Is this a question that gets answered eventually? Or have I just missed something? I have gotten the impression that this game is very stingy with its lore, so I'm not sure if I will ever get any additional information. (Capra Demon is already frustrating enough, I cant have the lore confuse me as well )