Talk:Great Grey Wolf Sif/@comment-172.56.11.233-20150213190120/@comment-4511886-20150213224922

All forms of Humanity are pieces of the Dark Soul. The Dark Soul is in no way unique to humans, as it is yet another lord soul, but it appears that it reacts very differently when humans absorb it compared to giants or gods. As we can only play as humans, we don't know how Gwyn's soul would affect another god.

Too much humanity will consume you, but humans seem to have a higher "resistance" to this, leading to them becoming corrupted before they're consumed. (All "abyss" enemies are humans originally. Manus was a "primeval man" while both Oolacile and New Londo were human settlements.)

It is possible wolves, and other non-humanoid organisms, are resistant to the Dark. Sif's psyche doesn't seem to have taken damage from the abyss and the only physical difference is his size.