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She was born to soothe the kingdom after a period of intense war against the
Dragons.
After Gwynevere fled the failing kingdom in, fear it was Gwyndolin who disguised
the fading of the light.
And finally, Gwyn's youngest daughter, Filianore, was truly a product of her
father's pride.
But there was a fourth child a nameless King erased from history. The God of War.
a war for the right to flesh and blood where before there was only stone.
A war for the right to the surface where before there was only the below.
A war for the right to a beginning, and to an end, for before there was neither.
And it was Gwynn's firstborn son, like his brothers and his sisters to come
So it was that the sons eldest born inherited the lightning from his father along
with this powerful
His weapon was an ingenious sword-spear that leveraged the user's own bodyweight,
this was the earliest form of what would become the cross spear which went on to
inspire the
The nameless king also wore an attire woven of sharp dragon scales, as they were
themselves
impervious to fire, and it seems that the best tools against the Dragons
were taken from the Dragons themselves.
A philosophy that another legendary figure, Havel, clearly took to heart as the man
cased himself in stone
Havel too, not only served the nameless King in the war, but also his first knight
Ornstein as well.
And so, it was with strength, courage cunning and unity that the war for disparity
was won.
"Dragons"
"Exhilaration,"
"Pride,"
"Hatred,"
"Rage."
"Me?
There is very little to be said."
With the war won, these Lords were the first to face an uncomfortable truth
that their glory ,much like that of the Dragons, would not last forever.
The everlasting dragons were vulnerable, now, and were forced to adapt to this
unfamiliar and hostile world.
So they gave birth and slowly began to mutate and deviate in their evolution.
Wyverns,
serpents, man serpents, and basilisks.
"A coterie of undead serves the dragon as they trained to become dragons
themselves."
"Sounds unlikely,"
As the gods really should have known, faith always finds a way,
and ironically, it was the gods, and not the Dragons, who failed to adapt.
A war had been fought in the name of disparity, but Gwynn's age of fire was nothing
of the sort.
Darkness was the enemy, now, and Gwyn would do anything to prevent his age of fire
from ending.
Anything.
So how righteous truly could their war against the ancient, unchanging dragons have
been,
his God of War who allied with the remaining ancient dragons.
driven by that famous desire to erase all that opposed him Gwyn, disowned his
firstborn son,
But as the gods ought to know faith always finds a way, and the Nameless King had
some faithful knights indeed.
Look within the rubble of these statues; look amidst the traces of the Nameless
Kings foot wrappings;
His braces, his attire, and you might just spy a familiar cross spear design
And for the captain of the Four Knights of Gwyn, this must have been a lowly role
indeed,
Executioner Smough, a cannibal and a glutton, someone who could never call himself
Ornstein's equal.
So as his fellow Knights faded away, as Gwyn burned to cinder for his age,
abandoned his post in order to search for the nameless King that he once served.
Funnily enough,
Smough, of all people, was the last Knight of Gwyn to remain at his post.
we can purchase his armor, which implies that Smough the Cannibal, may well have
been cannibalized himself,
an ironic twist of fate that Ornstein was lucky to avoid and we don't know exactly
where or for how long
But if one attempted to trace his path, one would find evidence
of the influence that these two men may well have left upon the world.
In Furossa, for example, we witness an order of lion Knights with armour blessed by
a certain war God.
Even more curiously, the figure depicted on their helmet stands his own against a
dragon.
would be allied with the dragons that are right outside his gate?
The world was changing and, in truth, those who aspire to conquer dragons
Look to our Nameless King, who was born for a war against them only to ally with
the vestiges of their race.
Look to Vendrick, who inherited Gwyn's legacy yet aspired to recreate their power.
Look to the kingdom of Lothric, whose Knights were originally hunters of dragons,
filled with serpents and ended up being summoned as their champion at Arch Dragon
Peak.
decided that the only one that would matter, was his pledge to Gwyn's exiled son.
And so it was, that the Way of the Dragon led him to the Nameless King's
stronghold.
In the years after his exile, the Nameless King had tamed a Storm Drake,
It was only a matter of time, after all, until Gwyn's Age of Fire would burn down
to ash,
and dragons, as we know, have both time and patience in abundance.
Alas. an Unkindled would eventually find his way here to Arch Dragon Peak,