Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-94.13.191.233-20150117094150/@comment-26534662-20150708110225

I personally think that Ornstein and Smough as we see them in dks1 are both illusions created by Gwyndolin just as the giants the sun and Gwynevere are. I actually believe that EVERYTHING in Anor Londo is an illusion save for the firekeeper Gwyndolin the blacksmith and maybe the batwing demons. I think that Anor Londo is a much more runied city that it appears to be. I believe it looks a lot more like Heides Tower of Flame does, infact I sbscribe to the theory that drangleic and lordran are the same place in a different time (its pretty much drilled into you by every freaking npc). My theory is that Ornstein left Anor Londo for what ever reason and was likely corrupted by the dark. I suspect that he returned to find his home in ruins and his partner dead and was likely mourning when you walk in to his chamber in dark souls 2. Perhaps it was this state that Anor Londo was in that corrupted him.