Talk:Solaire of Astora/@comment-75.73.102.30-20130104222736/@comment-86.27.125.13-20130322234759

1. "Where does it say that he is the leader of the covenant?"

It's he who invites you into the covenant. Look at all the others who do the same. They are leaders of their covenants save for Petrus.

2. "I wouldn't call it an obsession. He temporarily stops his journey to help the player atleast 3 times."

So it's not an obsession that he keeps speaking of the sun and heads deep down into Lost Izalith to find it? That is an obsession.

3. "Why would a mediocre armor + high skill in battle mean that he fights well due to being a god?"

Correction: crap armor + high skill in battle.

Now let's examine the facts:

+Possesses lightining spear miracles (described as the weapon of the God of War according to the Great Lightning Spear miracle).

+Seeks his own sun to OWN. The God of War was meant to inherit the sun before being cast down. If Gwyn really does have the ability to blur the past (as Kaathe would say) then it's possible this happened to Solaire but a part of his subconscious still remembers his past thus explaining his obsession to find his own sun.

+Appears at the end to fight Gwyn if you save him which seems fitting for the firstborn of Gwyn.

+Lights the bonfire in his world truly succeeding Lord Gwyn after-all. (http://soulswiki.forumsrpg.com/t2238-the-truth-about-the-dark-soul-kirk-online-system-and-other-details) I don't think the head director (Miyazaki Hidetaka) himself would have said this if it was never intended for Solaire to be the first-born (or at least a candidate).

+His name means "sun" itself. Other characters all have proper names. Solaire has a title.

+Doesn't pray to the Sunlight Altar (which is the statue of the firstborn).

Now of course - being Dark Souls - none of this confirms Solaire as the first-born but it certainly sets him up as it depending upon your interpretation. As that other "wiki contributor" above said "the lore of Dark Souls was designed to be ambigous with only the imagination left to fill in the gaps" and with Solaire there's certainly these evidences to paint him as the first-born.