Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-46.64.182.203-20140312230146/@comment-9527834-20140325031251

Daifukkatsu wrote: All of those things could have been moved to Drangleic, and they evidently have been moved to a certain extent, as the Sunlight Altar, for example, is clearly in a very different location than where it was in the first game. And devs have stated that the two take place in different locations.

Being a Dark Souls game, it is not at all surprising that From will have brought back familiar items and placed easter eggs from the first, but this does not necessarily mean that Drangleic is the future Lordran. Characters referencing events from the first is also nothing definitive. Consider the amount of lore and items that were foreign to Lordran that were in the first game.

A side note, I saw this on redit: fragments of the Lordvessel are apparently in the basement of the abandoned mansion in Majula.

It could just be re-used assets or a design type in Drangleic.