Talk:Gravelord Nito/@comment-39.50.64.15-20170615134843/@comment-4511886-20170619103741

All creatures appear to have the ability to absorb souls. Notably, all enemies grant points to the "liquid humanity reward" and once you reach enough points to get the humanity, you absorb it along with the rest of the foe's soul. Also, you need to remember that the Lord Souls were probably in the same state as soul items when they were initially found. While we don't know how or why souls are contained within themselves, it's pretty easy to see that you simply break the "container" so you can absorb the soul power with, essentially mimicing the process of killing a creature and absorbing its soul. Another idea is that the Lord Souls were free floating, because nothing could absorb them until the Lords found them. The third possibility is that the Lords did whatever amounts to "defeating" the First Flame, allowing them to, again, absorb the souls.

On the point of Nito's connection with undeath, you need to remember that Nito's domain is described as "light-devouring" and not, say, "really freaking dark." (Or something that can be roughly translated into that.) It's possible that, considering the existence of the Rite of Kindling, the large amount of dead humans and the "light-devouring" quality of the Tomb all hint at Nito, or at the very least the Catacombs and Tomb of the Giants, having some affinity for the Dark. Also, Nito would presumably have absorbed quite a bit of the Dark if he actually recieves and then repurposes the unabsorbed souls of the dead, since all humans had it even prior to undeath becoming a thing. Perhaps this means that Nito was cool with the Dark, since he knew something no one else did about it due to said affinity. Alternatively, he might have created the undead curse because he messed with the Dark to stop the Age of Fire from ending, and instead unintentionally created an autonomous mechanic within humans that revived them using their own souls, while retaining their willpower. A minor note, although it feels a bit far fetched to me, is that the Dark Sign is often depicted as a ring with roughly the same color as Nito's magic. I don't know if it's actually significant, but it's there at least.