Talk:Endings (Dark Souls)/@comment-17773214-20130921031916/@comment-5264386-20131013024801

Well, I wouldn't necessarily call the Chosen Undead a god if they kill Gwyn. Even after you kill Nito, the god of death, you don't become any more powerful than what you are, in that you don't start "ripping [everything] to shreds" with godly powers; you simply stay a 'humble' Undead.

The same principle would thus apply when you kill Gwyn. Sure, you can become the Dark Lord, but does Kaathe grant you any godly powers upon gaining this title? Nope. He, Frampt and the other Primordial Serpents simply promise to serve you, nothing more. As a result, "The Dark Lord" is nothing more than a title, and at the end of the day, you are still Undead; still cursed to one day go Hollow.

Also, it is more likely than not that, in the process of unlocking the door to the Kiln, the other Lord Souls were consumed by the Lordvessel in order to match the power of Gwyn's, much like you'd use Humanity to bolster bonfires. However, this is just a theory.