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It certainly heavily suggests it, but it is not certain. It's fair to say those rings were used in vinheim, but it's also not incorrect to say it was used in lordran; by the cursed undead, perhaps the two sorcerers and who knows who else. It depends on if you interpret 'this ring' as the type of ring, or that ring in particular wich may be the same our chosen undead once held. Also many kingdoms rose and fell, it's entirely possible another kingdom once stood where lordran stood before it where such rings were also widely used.

Moslty drangleic once being vinheim doesn't make sense to me because of the nature of the cursed undead. The undead are drawn, without knowing why, like moths to the flame to the place to link the fire. This would mean that somehow at some point the first flame would have had to have been moved to where vinheim once was, wich seems unlikely. The presense of the lord souls all in that particular place also seems odd if it weren't lordran in the past.

Actually about the lord souls, scrap my earlier thoughts. The icon of the actual lord souls and the regular powerful souls is slightly different. So I guess all those big non lord souls are just really large souls.

That's really interesting, hadn't heard of that before. Anywhere I can find out more about this?

For me it's a close tie between ornstein (or old dragonslayer if you prefer) and the lost sinner. Ornstein is a little weaksauce without his buddy, but he's still my favorite.

Including the previous game I should say I don't think they come close to the great boss fights in the abysswalker dlc, both artorias and kalameet were glorious fights.

Why do the supposed dragons look pretty much exactly what were called wyverns in the previous installment? Was it an art change, or do the people of the time of drangleic simply call wyverns dragons?

Why does the ancient dragon at the peak of dragon shrine contain a giant soul? Does this have something to do with the presence of giant corpses in aldia's manor, or is it just a practical gameplay element to allow the player another giant soul?

Why do the dragon remnants covenant revere the black dragon kalameet? Even their dragon armor depicts the third eye of calamity, so there is no mistaking. Kalameet himself was already an oddity, being called a dragon but looking quite a bit different from the ancient stone ones.

Why does vendrick's soul have the same icon as a lord soul? Should he not have a dark soul, being a man? He did absorb the four lord souls as the cursed undead, but since those four are up and about again at the time of the story, one would assume he no longer holds any such lord souls.

Why is vendrick's soul located in a small inconspicuous cave in the shrine of amana? How did he part with it anyway, and why is it there specifically.

What did vendrick steal from the giants? Something that let's him breathe life in the lifeless as evident by his golems, and also something the giants held dear, but what could it be?

Why do the giants look so different from how we know them? Hawkeye gough, the blacksmith, and the three in sen's fortress all had their faces covered so it's possible they already had a gaping hole in their face, but these new ones also look lanky and imaciated. Have they gone hollow, can giants even become hollow? It would explain their crazed determination anyway.

Why can we absorb the soul of the giant king twice? Once in the memory, again as the last giant under the fort. Why is the soul of the last giant not a giant soul?

Who or what destroyed ash lake and killed the ancient dragon in the dragon memory? It's fair to say the dead dragon is the covenant leader one we met in the previous installment but it's not certain. Who or what could destroy all those mighty archtrees though.

Where is the kiln of the first flame? Since we're another chosen undead or however the game calls it, our final destination should be where we can link the flame, yet it is not even mentioned.

What is  the throne of want? Was it created by someone and if so by whom, and does it bear some connection to the kiln? The throne's style does resemble the kiln somewhat.

What does nashandra hope to do with the throne of want? All she ever had to do to bring forth an age of dark is prevent the linking of the flame, so why does she lead the chosen undead straight to there?

Why did vendrick's rule not see an age of dark, seeing as he did not link the flame? Or maybe the story plays right at the end of vendrick's age of dark? Or maybe there is a bit of a grace period where the flame can manage to stay alight until a new chosen undead comes along?

Why were there only hollow at the end of vendrick's rule? Linking the flame makes the curse subside, and vendrick did not link the flame. Shouldn't there have been hollows?

Why are there demons when the bed of chaos was in fact destroyed? Can demons be born in other ways?

Why does the lord soul of seath (old paledrake if you will) persist, while the soul of the four kings did not? Both were bestowed by gwynn (old king). For that matter, how is there an old king soul when gwynn did in fact throw himself in the flame to let his soul fuel the flame?

The iron king's kingdom predates drangleic, but vendrick absorbs the four lord souls before he forges his kingdom. For the new lord soul to have materialised by the time of our story this would have happened during or after drangleic's age, and yet the old iron king existed before that?

Why would we not have heard of the malfenito and the fenito in the previous installment. Both appear to be servants of the grave lord (old dead one), surely we would have encountered them then?

Aand I think that's all. Might come up with more though.

Mytha, the baneful queen. How do you guys deal with her.

Her ranged magic attacks are a joke, easy to dodge. Her lunging jab isn't a problem either, usually. It's that other jab, the one she combos sometimes. It's like you can't dodge that damn move, she keeps facing you no matter what direction you dodge and ends up hitting you. Can't dodge backwards either due to the range on her spear. I can never eeever dodge this god damn move.

She was a joke last time around with my dual club guy. Basically managed to stunlock her the entire fight, couldn't even fight back. With this character though I just don't know how to best her.

Summons are out, champion's covenant all the way. I don't know, any tips?

Edit: Forgot to mention, yes I removed some of the poison in the room.