Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25958616-20150206014401/@comment-16047389-20150206224522

No one will truly know. But it would've been difficult to implement in certain places.

For example, if he was supposed to show up after your battle with Gwyn, and you were going for the Dark Lord ending, what would happen if he killed you? Sure, you would just come back at the bonfire, but if his goal was to rekindle the First Flame, I doubt he'd just sit and wait for you to run all the way back to the Kiln.