Talk:Old King Soul/@comment-77.81.150.25-20140504142307/@comment-25076912-20140618074245

I know of the Old King Soul's references to Gwyn, the weapon descriptions and the bit from Shalquoire and I realize the four Old Souls are the four characters who fought the Ancient Dragons in DS1's intro cutscene, but I was thinking that while Nito and Izlith's Lord Souls were not fragmented, Gwyn's was and shards were given to both Seath and one of the Four Kings. So while Gwyn is still in possession of one of the lord Souls, it is incomplete (as evidenced by Seath's fragment appearing separately as the Old Paledrake Soul, since he did not appear to drop an own soul. I'm not even sure if any of the Ancient Dragons had souls to begin with since they existed since before the First Fire). My point is, if Seath's Lord Soul fragment appeared once again, as did Gwyn's, where is the last fragment? Is it because of its holder's succumb into the Dark? That leads me to think of the Darklurker. The two bosses' location being Chasm of the Abyss and Dark Chasm of Old, the Four Kings even somewhat resembling the Darklurker, I feel.

So if Lord Soul fragments appear once again as separate incarnations without merging with the original soul they were taken from, I must conclude that there is no reason for the Four Kings' Soul shard not to exist as well, and in my mind the Darklurker is the most obvious cahdidate. Either that or it did not make an appearance at all in the game which would be weird since all the otehrs appear, even a shard of Manus' Soul (though Humanities seem to have been replaced by the Effigies, I wonder what that connection is).