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However, that was also at a time when the fire still had some life left. Why do we need the Lords of Cinder? In times past, it was enough to just kill everyone, and enter the Kiln of the First Flame to link the flame and save the world.
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Yhorm is likely the oldest, as we will talk about later, and Lothric is the newest since he was the next in line before giving up on his destiny. In order to beat the game, we need 5 Lords of Cinder to sit on their thrones, so it’s likely that it would be the five most recent as they would be the strongest. Although it’s not made entirely clear why these specific lords are chosen to be awoken, we suspect that it’s due to the timeline in which each Lord of Cinder has linked the fire. The Abyss Watchers, Aldrich, Devourer of Gods and Yhorm the Giant all wake-up, along with us, the player. The opening for Dark Souls 3 lets us know just what the bell awakens. This is the last call to save the fire, and should this bell ring, and the hero fail, the First Flame will flicker out of existence once and for all. It echoed out from Firelink Shrine, as an emergency beacon. With the First Flame untended, the land of Lothric was left to its own devices, until one day, a bell began to ring. The world has been in the Dark for countless many years now, the Undead Curse has nearly consumed everyone, and the First Flame is only its last flicker of light.
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He cast aside his destiny, refused to Link the Flame, and thus ushered in an Age of Dark, where the Undead Curse was allowed to flourish. So Lothric has not doomed the world, but he has set it on a path that, to our best knowledge, it has not been on before. The biggest example being the Undead Settlement, an entire town lived in and maintained by the Undead! We see this all over the world in Dark Souls 3. The only notable change in the world is that the fires will fade and the Undead Curse will continue to grow. If no one links the flame, the world does not halt, people do not just fall over and die. The world continued to turn, but the Undead Curse was not pushed back, it continued, it flourished, and the fires continued to dwindle.Ī misconception about the Age of Dark is that it is the end of times. What does this mean? Prince Lothric, the hero who should link the flame, did not, and thus ushered in an Age of Darkness. Even in the opening cinematic, he is not mentioned as one of the Lords of Cinder. So we know Lothric was destined to be a Lord of Cinder, but his physical situation, as well as his attitude towards his destiny, tells us that this never came to be. Why has the flame faded? Well, typically, a hero will rise up and link the flame, the age of fire will renew, the Curse recedes and an age of peace will reign for countless years until the Curse returns. The ashes that remain are hungry for a new fire, but there is nothing there. The flame is fading, and in fact, nearly out. The line we’re told during the opening scene conveys much, with few words.