

Restoring humanity reverses the effects of Hollowing but nothing can undo the effects of death. They gradually lose sanity to a process called Hollowing, and those who lose their battle become Hollows unless they can find Humanity small parts of the Dark Soul. When they are 'killed', they resurrect at a bonfire. The mark of the Undead is the Darksign, proof the curse has taken hold.Īn Undead doesn't die in human terms. It isn't known what caused people to be Undead, but it happened to almost everyone regardless of who they were. It's also something to be feared, and Undead are rounded up by the living and sent to the Undead Asylum where they are expected to go insane and be forgotten about. In Dark Souls, to be undead is to be just that. Gwyn sacrificed himself to the First Flame, kindling it with his own body, but in doing so created the Curse of the Undead. Mutation, chaos, and monsters were born of the cataclysm. Fearing a new Age of Darkness, the Witch of Izalith tried to use her power to create a new flame but it didn't work, and the spell went wrong. As time went on, the Fire of the First Flame began to dwindle and fade. With the dragons gone, the Gods ushered in a new era, of fire and light and prosperity. Seath The Scaleless betrayed his own kind, and the dragons were exterminated. Nito unleashed death and disease upon the land. The Witch of Izalith used her pyromancy flames to burn all the arch trees. Lord Gwyn used his powers of lightning to break the dragon's scales. There was another powerful Soul, the Dark Soul, which was found by humanity's ancestor, the Furtive Pygmy. The Lords used their new powers to go to war against the Everlasting Dragons, relics of the old age, as they ushered in an era of Light. They were found by Gwyn, the Lord of Sunlight, Nito - First of the Dead, and The Witch of Izalith. Within this First Flame were the Souls of Lords, powerful Souls which granted the God-like finder status.

Then there was fire, which brought with it light, heat, and death stark contrasts to the world that was. Before the world was formed, it was ruled over by dragons immortal beasts that were kings of a dark land, and the unformed world of archtrees and fog.
