Kind of like the Lords are a bit disillusioned at their choice to light the flame and andd swayed by the idea of the deep as the alternative.ĮDIT ah here we are where I was thinking some of my stuff came from. Would have been cool to see Pontiff play a ‘deeper’ role. If I remember correctly there are cut game content that insinuates Pontiff is a big driving force behind the Lords leaving their thrones and him and Aldritch have them all believing in the deep. I am sure there is a concrete answer here but I don't know it. They abandoned their thrones, therefore unwilling to test newly awoken undead, causing the undead in Dark Souls 3 to have to seek them out instead.

The Lords of Cinder were never intended to link the flame, but serve as obstacles to test the fortitude of the next in line. The Four Lords arose to the call without any utility, causing them to go AWOL.ģ. Perhaps this is why they abandoned their thrones, except for Ludleth, who never burned. The Lords of Cinder were never going to be able to link the flame, but they arose anyway as undead. This allows Lords of Cinder to link the flame while preserving part of their soul, which perhaps returns to strength during their gestation.Ģ. Maybe so much time has passed that the power of souls has only grown since Gwyn and The Chosen Undead. So there's a few different interpretations here:ġ. Otherwise Gwyn could have perpetually linked the flame and preserved his reign. This is the lore established (or at least implied) with Gwyn in Dark Souls 1. You seem correct: an incinerated Lord should be 'spent' and therefore unable to link the flame. I'm mad because for all the time I've spent thinking about Dark Souls I never really meditated on this particular point.

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