Talk:Age of Dark/@comment-182.253.36.253-20140401092850/@comment-67.11.161.251-20190720194137

Hardly. Nothing in any of the Souls games other than possibly the Untended Graves area of DSIII shows anything like what an Age of Dark would look like. The undead curse (darksign) itself is unambiguously a result of the imbalance in the system cause by Gwyn's re-initialization of the Light (the "First Sin"). Undead cannot easily die because they were unable to live as they naturally should have, in a true Age of Dark.

The incidence of undeath is even increasing over time, unsurprisingly, as the repeated rebellion against nature known as the linking of the flame continues.