Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5613590-20140630003024/@comment-16047389-20140701131733

I'll agree with that to an extent. I agree that they probably were not planning on doing anything with Dusk, but I do believe that the cycles was planned in lore. I mean, it makes sense if you think about it. In Dark Souls 1, you're basically sent of to the First Flame to rekindle it in the exact same manner that Gwyn did. We know that it added time, but ultimately changed nothing. We were basically told and learned through the lore that even if one did kindle the First Flame, it would basically just be postponing the inevitable. I think FromSoftware had the idea of cycles of sacrifice already planned. They may just not have planned on delving into it for Dark Souls 2.