Board Thread:Dark Souls III/@comment-17496033-20160419043701/@comment-66.189.45.84-20170213065457

167.154.37.78 wrote: Our 2nd DS hero however is neither as he/she chooses to either take up a throne or not (making him/her king/queen or not). Hope this helps and finds agreement amongst the others. Like the Chosen Undead, the Bearer of the Curse can be a Lord of Cinders or a Dark Lord. Taking their place on the Throne of Want wasn't meant to imply that they become a King or Queen. Once they take the throne, they either decide to link the fire, or do not. If they decided to link the fire, they became a Lord of Cinder. If not, then they became a "Dark Lord" which I imagine is meaningless, because someone else came along after them and linked the fire anyway. We don't get told what choice they made, but like I said, it didn't end up mattering. The only scenario in which the Bearer of the Curse isn't considered a Lord of Cinder/Dark Lord is if you follow the questline in the Scholar of the First Sin edition, kill Aldia, and choose to pull a Vendrick of sorts and seek another solution.