Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5632187-20130119213241/@comment-18016240-20150924004049

Well yeah, there's three major civilized races in the first Dark Souls, Giants, Gwyn's Race (though they may actually be one in the same, it's tough to tell) and then you have Humans. Undead may be a seperate race depending on how you look at it. Along with these major races there's the Crow People, the sentient Mushroom Folk, and a couple other examples. They don't attack you after you kill Gwynevere because they're dead, or at least Smough is apparently.

Not entirely sure what you're implying, if you're saying that they're influenced by them there's little evidence. The Baldyr knights use rapiers and straight swords and are fond of parrying while the Berenike knights use big, powerful weaponry. The Baldyr knights fight nothing like either of them and aside from a reliance on brute strength, there's little resemblence between the knights of Berenike and Smough's fighting styles.