Dark Souls Lore

What happened to this guy?

Was he really this big in life or is he just enhanced by the abyss?

why doesn't he stand up? what happened to his skeleton legs?

Are those people in the undead settlement living their lives like usual until we just come in and screw shit up? Is life normal in DS universe? Seems like some literal hell where everyone just dies and comes back to life. Nobody ever goes to the markets and buys food?

i rewatched the old trailer and this guy is clearly in the room where you fight yhorm. why did they change it?

Was the place where you fight Champion Gundyr a representation of what his world looked like?

Like, pitch black outside of that little arena?

Also, was Gundyr a human, giant, or "god" (as in a god from Anor Londo)?

He was a pyromancer and a Carthus warlord, he "fell" into the abyss, and there he found some holy items like those bracelets and the sword that helped him survive.
That's why one of his soul items is a dark pyromancy, and the other is a faith greatsword, and you also find a dark pyro tome where you fight him.

So he found that stuff inside of the abyss?

Wtf else could be hidden in there?

who is Salaman?

I noticed Quelana mention the guy while maxing out pyro and it occured to me i've never heard the name, and I thought i'd caught up on mentioned but non existing characters by now.

He is a lich that amplified his size through dark magic. The 3 bracelets are his phylacteries.

The dudes in the undead settlement were being led by the evangelists to big guys with cages on their backs to be taken to the Cathedral of the Deep to be turned into a deacon or fed to Aldrich.

The entire fight is an illusion, Wolnir is the cup.

So what would happen if someone walked into the room and pooped in the cup then ran away?

Considering Greirat asked you to bring something to a woman who used to live here I assume life was fairly ok until Sulyvahn sent his troops to bring snacks for Aldricht.

If their asscheeks didn't touch the cups, I guess nothing.

The first human pyromancer, taught by the witches of Izalith.

A big dick pyromancer, might be the fire sage demon you fight before you enter Izalith propper.

It says the bracelets were taken from the corpses of clerics, so I assume he found them there. The other option could be that clerics went wondering through the tombs (like in DaS1 those Way of white clerics visit catacombs to search for Rite of kindling) so it could be possible that clerics still go around Catacombs and this guy just ganked them when they came to his and took their stuff.

Probably because it made more sense to have the fight against the giant TRIGGERWARNINGDATSHIT in the catacombs.

But would the microbes in the poopy cause the abyss to activate?

>touch the cup
>suddenly surrounded by darkness
>except for a brightly shining item
>oh boy I wonder how badly I'm gonna get fucked for grabbing this
>mfw
I was expecting something, but I just wasn't prepared for that.

Same, too bad the actual battle sucked