Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-196.42.18.230-20140311222306/@comment-182.68.195.209-20150622105150

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Furtive means: attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble, secretive.

So that means the furtive pygmy was hiding his own found lord soul and didn't want to share it with anyone else. Who is to say that this was the ' Dark Soul ', it's just a theory made by fans assuming that what Kaathe says is true. There could have been more than four lord souls in the first flame, and someone totally different than the pygmy could have held the dark soul, if there was any to begin with.

So, the dark beings that arose in the intro to Dark Souls can now be divided into two groups:

A. Dark beings with Lord Souls;   and B. Dark Beings without lord souls.

Now after the everlasting dragons are dead, Gwyn and the rest subjugate the rest of the Dark Beings using their own Lord Souls so as to avoid an uprising against them ( they are still Dark Beings and not humanity in it's final form, so they maybe more powerful and potent in their basic form ).

This subjugation happens by altering their appearance by linking them to the first flame. This produces a curse, as we have seen in DKS and DKS 2. So the Dark Beings get fused with Souls ( probably found in the first flame too ).

These souls, combined with the dark sprites we call humanity, gives rise to the true nature of Humanity as we know it in the series. After that the later events of Dark Souls follows. No human knows their true nature of existence, up until in Dark Souls 2, when Aldia finally gets to know the truth.