Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5613590-20140324204506/@comment-16047389-20140414205246

LORD SADDLER wrote: I'm pretty sure there's not another ending, but I get that many hope that there is considering the one that we've got.

SPOILERS, kinda

You've become king, now enter this magical stone burrito and lock yourself in...what lies ahead only you can tell...

What does that mean? Who knows, I think it's useless to theorize on it. The lore this time is even more inexistent than the previous game. Hey get the 4 great souls, meet the king...now I dunno, defeat the Queen because of reasons and become the king. What do I mean by that? Defeat the crappy final boss and watch the cryptic nonsensical ending. What? The Curse? Can't be cured, sucks to be you. Well you could technically grab a bunch of human effigies, a bonfire and become immortal, ruling the land of the living...but that would be lame, KILL ALL THE BOSSES!

I kinda miss the two choice ending of DeS and DaS, they were cheap and short but at least they made sense. This is...I can't even tell what's going on, and I've finished the game three times reading every item description (some on the internet), talking to everybody and even reading theory about it, but i still don't get it. The idea is that the ending is the exact same ending as Dark Souls. The Throne of Want is supposed to be the modern method for linking the First Flame. Nashandra is supposed to be a part of either the Furtive Pygmy before death, or of Manus after death. Like the smallest part. So small that she realized her weakness and sat out to claim power. If the Throne of Want really is connected to the First Flame then everything kind of makes sense.

Nashandra convinces Vendrick to steal the Throne of Want from the Giants (or perhaps Giant's Kinship. idk it gets vague there, but it whichever it was it IS related to accessing the Throne of Want) so that she could claim its power. As an original part of the Dark Soul, she would be more attuned to the First Flame, the source of the four great souls, than any other. Perhaps she could've used its power to achieve the same power Gwyn once had? Somewhere along the line, Vendrick realizes this, and does "something".

This is the part where it gets weird. I believe that Vendrick sealed the Throne of Want away with his King's Ring, leaving the Throne Watcher and Throne Defender to guard the Throne, then fled into the Undead Crypt with it, hoping that Velstadt and the Undead that roamed the Crypt would prevent Nashandra from retreiving it. It is uncertain as to why you actually need the Four Great Souls. You can even access Drangleic without them if you have enough soul memory. Maybe it was a test set up by Nashandra to find someone strong enough to retreive the Ring? Or maybe it was another preventive measure set up by Vendrick?

In a way, the story of Dark Souls 2 isn't that different from Dark Souls. In both games, you are an Undead that comes to a dead/dying Kingdom in seek of answers about the Undead. In both cases, you are instead led by outside parties to sacrifice your own life for the "greater good". So basically, you're just a poor bloke looking for the truth, and instead are manipulated by forces you can't possibly comprehend to do a task that you never asked to be a part of.