Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-24494913-20140319193521/@comment-10209824-20140322220645

Guy two posts above me, it's not Lordran. The Devs literally said it's in a different location. There's no other way to interepret that besides, "different area in the World." In no way, in the English language, is "different location" able to be equivilated with "not the Lordran we know now."