Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-26331079-20150617060625/@comment-26096594-20150622060843

To the Anon above, you might also be onto something there. After all, this whole 'Age of Dark' theory is based of what Kaathe said...but what if he's just using the Chosen Undead to further his own goal? What if he, himself, doesn't know what will happen, or that he's believing in a lie?

Either way, the setting might be more along the line of the Old Chaos being released. It has been said above that the protagonist will fight the Lords of Cinder...which could be kinda like the Ivory King: Rulers lost to the flame, that became corrupted by its power (or simply by being reduced to ashes, like the Rubric Marines from Warhammer 40K: souls trapped into their suit of armor, automatons without a body...)