Talk:Furtive Pygmy/@comment-177.37.114.33-20161002192452/@comment-37.203.186.191-20161107223227

Well hes not really the origin of the curse, the curse was caused by the first sin (Dark souls II scholar of the first sin I believe as source)

All we know for truth is all those who are born as a decendant of the pygmy is that the dark sign they are branded with while giving them power above the first flame potentially. Drains away your humanity over time (I think dark sign dark souls III source). Likely as a result of having split the original dark soul into such tiny fragments, and its quite possible manus was having this same issue and a broken pendant was the last nail to be removed that tipped him to crazy / hollow.

Seriously, the pygmy split the flame to hide it from the others an give humans purpose but some point down the line likely the first sin, the dark sign appeared (original DS 1 opening), which is probably meant as a "dark lord get up already!" but really only caused 99% of humans to be "braaaaains", also the first flame having a personality and refusing to die out is likely why no dark lord really rose till ds3's hollow ending, cause "at last dark lord ti...*poof flame back online* ... son of a..."