Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-27085847-20160128233625/@comment-15235271-20160130102343

I'm guessing Firelink Shrine will just be a collective name; as in, there's more than one shrine and they are referred to as Firelink Shrines. When I first heard the news I thought the same thing, but nah it's more probably the idea I proposed. It's impossible to have the original Firelink Shrine without having the rest of Dark Souls 1 due to the fact that Firelink Shrine is connected to the rest of the map. Also the new game is set in Lordran, so again it's impossible to be the same.

One last possibility is that you temporarly teleport back to the original Firelink Shrine. Though from what I've heard Firelink Shrine will be the Majula of Dark Souls 3, so porbably not.