Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-24210164-20131206034348/@comment-96.48.25.0-20131206092820

A lore question, so maybe it should be moved.

Anyway, from my pov, Gwyn has already "died" 1000 yrs ago, and that's probably the only "solid" piece of info we got. It's not known if these "Drakes" are true "Dragons". It's also interesting that they breath lightning. There are only 3 "living" Dragons in the game we can compare them to and both aren't good comparisons. The other 2 are undead, so that's even worse. The rest of them are just legs...., so we don't even know how or why they are that way. Maybe the leg thing means that the Dragons can't really be killed per se, and the chaos flame that give birth to life even though it's twisted, reanimated the left over legs and their scales.

The 3 "living" dragons aren't good representations of their race though. As we have been told, the Duke, isn't a typical dragon. It's also interesting that he/she (we don't know if there is such a thing in dragons) is researching reproduction and immortality. Gaping Dragon..., maybe this one survived because he was locked up down there, but all we know is that he/it mutated to anything but dragon-like. The everlasting Dragon in the Ash Lake is a complete question mark. It does not speak. It dos not offer you anything else other than its covenant. Is it trying to gather enough dragon scales to be brought back to "life"?

The only pesudo explanation (which is pure speculation) I can give base on info given is that, they are not really "dragons". Maybe they are the leftover experiments from Seath and Gwyn, but we don't know that. We have no idea how Dragons are "born" or if they were "birthed" at all. We have no idea how they or if they reproduced. Since Dragons were supposedly everlasting, it made no sense for them to reproduce at all. We don't know how they came about either. The only thing we can speculate on is the fact that -

1.  Maybe the scales of immortality is related to the Primordial crystal, they created a sort of reasonance? Some claim Seath is a true immortal/undead and he/she/it hallowed after its research into the crystal, but we don't know.

2.  Since you can easily kill Drakes, that means they aren't "everlasting" dragons. The speculation is that the first flame gave "birth" to light and dark, life and death. Therefore, death becomes possible after the first flame. (then, what is the undead then?)

If you are interested in lore, there are a lot of videos online that explores a lot of this stuff, so go check it out.

One thing of note, there are a lot of plot holes in the game, due to the fact that they had to rush it for release. The expansion content was supposed to be in the original game as well. The few admitted plot holes From Soft is - 1. Priscilla was suppose to be a heroine, so making the whole Seath lore even murkier since that plan was canned. 2. Giant blacksmith, the first born. That got shelved too. So sometimes, not even the creators have an answer for everything.