Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5632187-20130203042433/@comment-11227880-20131007232010

to follow up on what you said, you could be completely ture, dark souls 2 either has stated or there is a rumour from released videos that there is no humanity and the game takes place after the flame was linked, in the new Age of Fire. So dragons are no longer extinct, thank you path of the dragon'ers, and  the pyro sorceries we see are the result of apparent rediscoveries, since we can see the Daughter of Chaos drop a catalyst in Dark Souls but no flame sorceries exist, yet.