Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-5613590-20130119072920/@comment-5264386-20130910075258

The ultimate goal of Kaathe is to bring about the Age of Dark, not to spread the Abyss everywhere. Also, it is very unlikely that we will meet any characters from DaSI in DaSII, as the developers have said that Dark Souls II will pretty much be on the other side of the world from Lordran. Thus, we must assume that, although DaSII is a sequel, it will be almost entirely independent of the events and lore of DaSI.