Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5632187-20130119213241/@comment-25076912-20140620043641

I have this little bit of a headcanon about the furtive pigmy and Gwyn's firstborn sharing a connection. We know about the firstborn that 1) some part of the annals was erased because of his foolishness and 2) because of this he himself was erased from the annals. I've seen speculation here that these two facts are contradictory things referring to the same event but i feel it rather fitting that he be punished with the same thing he had comitted as a crime.

But history has a tendency of being forgotten here and there, so what he erased must have been pretty important for such drastic measures. What could he, as a god, have done to deserve such punishment? What information was worth so much to the Gods to strip him of his deific status upon this blunder? This train of thought led me to think of one of the most mysterious mentioned characters, the furtive pygmy. We know he found the Dark Soul around the same time the other Lord Souls were found, so he would be alive in the early Age of Fire, and since we don't know when exactly the firstborn was banished, this might as well be that time.

So my question is, what if the Lords knew of the fourth Great Soul and its fragmentation into Humanities? What if only THEY and maybe a select few knew about it, and not even they in great detail? I'm not sure if this is canon or not (I should verify this) but the gods/lords/giants (not sure how much of those three apply to each other either or if they are even all the same thing, really) seem to hold a certain disdain towards humans, so I am assuming there was a certain amount of oppression present (Seath's kidnapping maidens for example).

I am thus questioning whether or not the firstborn's "mistake" was truly a mistake or just a mstake in the Gods' eyes, in the end. Maybe he took pity on humanity and erased the oh so precious knowledge about their forefather, the Dark Soul, and all that may pertain to them. With Seath's descent into madness, the Witch of Izalith's transformation into the Bed of Chaos, Gwyn's hollowing as he linked the fire, there would soon be no one to remember the one who shattered a Great Soul to bring forth an entire people. As such, all that remains is vague memories of both of them, the myths distorted through time.

(This, 99% speculation as it may be, is better than my other far more farfetched theory that Artorias might be the firstborn XD I'm not going to go into detail about that one, it was based on the fact that he succumbed to the abyss before gwyn could learn the identity of the mysterious hero who defeated Manus, and in his need to stop the Age of Dark he probably thought he would similarly have to confront the abyss. Yeah, not very coherent, I know)