Talk:Heide's Tower of Flame/@comment-72.211.176.119-20140322035633

In my opinion, this place is so unbelievably similar to Anor Londo that I think it actually is Anor Londo. Everything about it, from the cathedral literally looking exactly like the one in Anor Londo, the architecture, the mountains that also look exactly like the ones behind Anor Londo, the tower (I doubt it is the Duke's Archives, and I haven't entered it if you even can, but perhaps Drangleic took inspiration from it?), the floral patterns, the stained glass windows, the chandeliers, even the levers and flooring look like they are the same ones from Anor Londo and the Duke's Archives. Not to mention the Old Knights (who are mysteriously almost as tall as the giant sentinels) and Ornstein.

My theory is that, just like New Londo Ruins, Anor Londo was flooded to prevent the spreading of the Abyss. This would mean that essentially all of Lordran was flooded, since the city is high up in the mountains. Perhaps the whole "giants crossing the sea" thing (assuming giants are the same in both cases) were actually the giants evacuating the city as the gods flooded it. Perhaps Drangleic was still expanding in that direction, and by the time they actually found where the giants came from, they only saw ruins and assumed they came from the "sea" which is in actuality flooded Lordran. Maybe Drangleic then built over the ruins. It would also explain why I always found it suspicious that the gods would leave Anor Londo when the only way an Undead can enter is throught the Batwing Demons, which could have easily been killed. Perhaps the gods didn't leave because of the Undead curse, but instead because of the Abyss spreading. And maybe, Ornstein becoming corrupted (a completely different theory that he shared the same fate as Artorias, rather popular) was a sign that the gods needed to do something.

If all of this is true, then it would also mean the entirety of Drangleic is actually high up atop tall mountains. I don't know why the random bird-people statues are in Heide's Tower of Flame though...