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[Lectorog]

Spoiler: Nito (click to show/hide)

Nito offered most of his power to death. I think he's responsible for skeletons, basilisks, and maybe other unnatural beings I'm forgetting, but this isn't backed up by any lore.
On that note, is the cause of the hollowing suggested at any point?

With Nito himself in such a weakened state, Pinwheel moved in. Pinwheel stole most of the power of Nito, (incidentally) ensuring his entrapment. Of course, Pinwheel is the weakest boss in the game, so I haven't a clue what was done with that power. Maybe most of it was for creating the copies guarding Nito.

So it would seem that if a player wants to be a true Gravelord, they should kill Pinwheel and offer Eyes of Death to Nito, from which he may draw power. Nito's priority, though, is for you to use those eyes to bring extra death to other worlds.

[nogoodnames]

On that note, is the cause of the hollowing suggested at any point?

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I am under the assumption that it's a side effect of Gwyn linking the Flame to unnaturally extend its life. I don't think anything conclusive is said about it, but this seems to be the most likely explanation given the symptoms of hollowing and the fact that it's only appeared in about the last 100 years, right as the gods' power is waning.

[Cthulhu]

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I was under the impression that the Fire was the source of life and its burning out is the source of the Curse of the Undead.  The Gods I assume can't preserve themselves using Humanity like humans can, which is why they want to Link the Fire. 

Basically, you can sacrifice yourself to Link the Fire and reverse the curse, or you can let the Gods die and preserve your humanity with Lifedrain.

Either way the world is dying.

[Girlinhat]

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I think Dark Souls 2 is going to be a prequel (after all, if the ending is your choice then sequels are tough) and it's going to be about the start of the undead curse and the fall of the gods.

[Cthulhu]

I just saw the worst thing ever.  An SL8 forest hunter who jumped down onto the path to Darkroot Basin to wait for someone to kill me, so he could get the fog ring.  I alt-f4ed his ass and if I see him again I'm fucking him up before he gets there..

[Girlinhat]

I just saw the worst thing ever.  An SL8 forest hunter who jumped down onto the path to Darkroot Basin to wait for someone to kill me, so he could get the fog ring.  I alt-f4ed his ass and if I see him again I'm fucking him up before he gets there..

Everyone's gotta start somewhere...

[majikero]

I do that to gankers. They usually follow me down and I stab them while the heal.

[Cthulhu]

I didn't see him again, unfortunately.  Instead I got a decent wave of fun fights and then some dude with an ascended pyromancy flame who just spammed great combustion showed up.  He was horrible, as those kinds of people usually are, but he only needed one hit to kill me.  When I finally kicked his ass he switched to power within for even more one-shotting and (of course) popping humanity if I tried to stall him out.

What a dick.  It'd be one thing if he gave decent souls but he only dropped like 6900 which wasn't worth the effort considering how drastically unfun it was to fight him.

[Lectorog]

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I think Dark Souls 2 is going to be a prequel (after all, if the ending is your choice then sequels are tough) and it's going to be about the start of the undead curse and the fall of the gods.

Further support for Dark Souls 2 being a prequel:
There appears to be fire magic. In one of the videos, the player casts a flame from the same wand as other magic.

Catalyst of the Witch of Izalith of long ago, when her daughters were still flame witches, before they were engulfed by the Chaos Flame. Before the birth of pyromancy, their wands were mediums for sorcery, but knowledge of this flame sorcery has long since vanished.

[WillowLuman]

Maybe they just moved all the schools into the same catalyst for convenience, but added more variety and stat specialization. It would be interesting to see exactly what that backstory lore about flame sorcery means, though, so here's hoping for a prequel.

Today I beat Nito and the Centipede demon. Holy shit; Four Kings? Easy. Tomb of the Giants? At least I don't have to go back there again. Izalith is certainly shaping up to be more fun.

[Jelle]

You're going to eat those words when you're going to further playthroughs. The four kings are easy if you can dispatch each one before the next spawns, but when things get harder on succesive playthroughs you quickly get overrun. I tried to kill the kings as first boss on a rather low level character; insanely hard when you can't kill them fast enough.

[WillowLuman]

Looking at the HP table for subsequent playthroughs (I've minorly spoiled myself there), I should be fine as long as I get more charges for Crystal Soul Spear first.

[CognitiveDissonance]

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I think Dark Souls 2 is going to be a prequel (after all, if the ending is your choice then sequels are tough) and it's going to be about the start of the undead curse and the fall of the gods.

Further support for Dark Souls 2 being a prequel:
There appears to be fire magic. In one of the videos, the player casts a flame from the same wand as other magic.

Catalyst of the Witch of Izalith of long ago, when her daughters were still flame witches, before they were engulfed by the Chaos Flame. Before the birth of pyromancy, their wands were mediums for sorcery, but knowledge of this flame sorcery has long since vanished.

Hmm, I'm fairly certain that Dark Souls 2 is happening at roughly the same time. They said it will be related, but not a direct sequel. *Shrug* From are huge trolls though, for which I love them.

[Cthulhu]

I'm very excited for the Mirror Boss.  Then again, knowing how a lot of people play, it could be bullshit.  It'd be one thing to have some super thematic phantom come out played by someone who's more interested in having an exciting battle than getting some souls and a hat, but I can already see that mirror breaking and a guy coming out in balder armor and dusk crown with pursuers already charging up.

I gave up on that greataxe build I mentioned.  Midroll as a gravelord servant is ill-advised and there's no way to fast-roll with a demon's greataxe without gouging End (and I needed those points for Int so I could Dark Bead).

Instead I'm doing a Quality build with Murakumo (or whatever, the fun part about Quality builds is just about any enchantable weapon is fair game) and GMW, here.

And it still looks fucking sweet.

[ShoesandHats]

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I think Dark Souls 2 is going to be a prequel (after all, if the ending is your choice then sequels are tough) and it's going to be about the start of the undead curse and the fall of the gods.

Further support for Dark Souls 2 being a prequel:
There appears to be fire magic. In one of the videos, the player casts a flame from the same wand as other magic.

Catalyst of the Witch of Izalith of long ago, when her daughters were still flame witches, before they were engulfed by the Chaos Flame. Before the birth of pyromancy, their wands were mediums for sorcery, but knowledge of this flame sorcery has long since vanished.

Hmm, I'm fairly certain that Dark Souls 2 is happening at roughly the same time. They said it will be related, but not a direct sequel. *Shrug* From are huge trolls though, for which I love them.

How could it? Dragons are still around in it, and it's been pretty well established that they're pretty close to extinct by the time Dark Souls 1 takes place.