Dark Souls

Anybody willing to theorize about dark souls story? My own personal theory is that it's a tragedy ( obviously) similar to the legend of Zelda, in that the " great hero" is being reincarnated in each game. Think about it. In both dark souls 1 and 2 we are undead with pretty much going after the same thing: a cure for the curse. Both of the first two games( not including scholar of the first sin DLC) they both end with us being the new ruler of the kingdom. Both of the first two games have us playing as more or less the same basic classes: the strong knight, the wise sorcerer, the devout cleric, the stalwart warrior, or the rougeish bandit.there are a few exceptions, such as the pyromancer and the traveler, but basically it's the same crew. In each game we befriend an undead who is slowly going hollow. We also appear to have the same strong will to be able to avoid going completely hollow for a great while. Finally, each of the characters we control loose our sense of what brought us to lordran and drangleic in the first place. At no point in either of the first two games introductions to our quest do we want power or the throne. But as the games go on, we slowly loose sight of that goal and eventually forget about it entirely. Now I haven't played dark souls 3 yet, so I hope to find more evidence there. Anybody else have a theory about the story of the souls games?

May contain spoilers for people who are extremely oversensitive to spoilers, but I'm not really telling anything much integral to the actual story of Dks3 ~.^ Also, I'm not sure if I misinterpreted anything wrong @Leo I haven't played Dks1 or 2, but I'm a huge fan of the lore and read up on it quite a bit. You're very right. In the first game the cycle is already established in a way. Just like Gwyn linked the first flame every time there's somebody who needs to link the fire again, yet the linking of the fire is a sin that goes against nature itself, for the nature of the world is darkness. In the second game the person that was supposed to link the fire lost his way and decided not to do it which causes a kind of lingering (correct me if I misinterpreted that). It's up to you to link the flame again as it's always up to somebody. The question however is what will happen when the flame is not linked but extinguished. That might just break the cycle that is a very clear theme and is emphasised more in Dks3 (I'm not going to tell you what happens, but it's heavily linked with the whole cycle theme and especially with Dks1. Also, if this comes across as too spoilery, tell me and I will remove it).