So, this game doesn't make sense

So, this game doesn't make sense.
>Did he travel to Undead Asylum to free us?
>Where did he find the key?
>Why does he free US?
>Why do we go kill 4 powerful dudes and link the fire? Because he asked us to? At least in 2 and 3 you have a reason to do stuff, here it's just "you do it BECAUSE ALL OF OUR BUDGET WENT INTO WORLD DESIGN!!! AND WE ONLY MANAGED TO DO IT WELL FOR 1/3 OF THE GAME!!"
>If he's undead, why doesn't he simply respawn at a bonfire after getting rekt by the asylum demon?

>Why was the doll for the painted world in our cell?
>Why were gwyn's knights there?
>Why does the crow have eggs in both nests?
>How were you supposed to know you have to remain in the nest for 30 fucking seconds for the crow to pick you up?

>Why does Gwyn wear cool clothes and a crown before finding his lord soul? Where did he find them? I thought there were only mindless hollows and 4 of them just got lucky
>How did Nito become this giant skeleton made of skeletons?
>How many years did the age of fire last?
>Did someone link the fire between Gwyn and us?

>Why do you need a key to open the shortcut from upper undead burg to lower when you have bombs? That's even more retarded than the DaS2 pile of rubble forcing you to go through 10 different areas.

>Why does Andre stay in his place, between a church and darkroot gardens with a titanite demon near him? Why does he have the artorias crest?
>Why don't you just team up with crestfallen, taurus of pethrolund or whatever and le onion guy to reach the first flame?

>Where are all the gods? Gwynevere went with Flann to build Heide's Tower of flame, her trap brother is starving in an empty room fucking around with sun illusions, Velka is implied to be the crow and Seath is going full REEEEEEE GIVE ME SCALES FUCKING NORMIES!!
>Were the silver knights always mindless husks controlled by gwyn or were they persons with thoughts and everything at some point?

>Why is this game so cringe compared to DeS, Bloodborne and DaS3?

>>Why is this game so cringe
Ironic coming from the autist who wrote this list.

>being this autistic
at least do your research before you shitpost faggot

Damn OP you better pay somebody a monthly fee to 'interpret' (make up) the lore.

questioning dark souls lore is like questioning why life exists. it's just not worth the effort for no payoff once you learn the truth

>I cannot answer a single question and didn't understand a single aspect of this game, THEREFORE I'll have to call him an autist.

Of course I was jocking about some stuff, but I was serious about the rest. Do you have at least SOME answers? At least the lord stuff from the cinematic and Oscar from the first minute of the game?
>do your research
I did, can't find info on this stuff.

I can understand a big part of DaS2/BB and DaS3's lore by myself, but can't for das.

bump, I want to replay DaS but I need at least some info on why I do stuff.

last bump and I let it die.

I'm pretty interested in some of these questions answered. Like above, people only mocked you and gave no answer, sorta hypocritical. I see a couple flaws in your list but a lot of it i'm curious about.

>>Did he travel to Undead Asylum to free us?
No, he wanted to fulfill his prophecy himself
>>Where did he find the key?
Who cares
>>Why does he free US?
Because he gave up
>>Why do we go kill 4 powerful dudes and link the fire? Because he asked us to?
Well, wyh did you? You have to answer that for yourself
>>If he's undead, why doesn't he simply respawn at a bonfire after getting rekt by the asylum demon?
Because he gave up or was too far gone. Undead can loose their sanity over time
>>Why was the doll for the painted world in our cell?
Does it matter?
>>Why were gwyn's knights there?
Looking for chosen undead to stop them from killing gwyn
>>Why does the crow have eggs in both nests?
She's a slut
>>How were you supposed to know you have to remain in the nest for 30 fucking seconds for the crow to pick you up?
Community secret sharing. Someone found it out

>>Did someone link the fire between Gwyn and us?
No
>>Why do you need a key to open the shortcut from upper undead burg to lower when you have bombs?
Because video games
>>Why does Andre stay in his place, between a church and darkroot gardens with a titanite demon near him? Why does he have the artorias crest?
Because it's a good moment to learn about weapon upgrades
>>Why don't you just team up with crestfallen, taurus of pethrolund or whatever and le onion guy to reach the first flame?
Cause they don't care

>>Why is this game so cringe compared to DeS, Bloodborne and DaS3?
It's not, but you are

Look up lore information. Vaati something on YouTube did a series of lore videos on dark souls.

Vaati is a fag who just parrots whatever he reads on Sup Forums and reddit in a whiney voice.

i wanna succ him

The game does not explicitly give you a reason. It's a roleplaying game. You play your character and decide why stuff matters.

They present you with these two options:
1. Link the fire and let the Age of Fire continue.
2. Let the fire fade.

You need to decide your character's motivations. What were they before they became undead? What would they do when presented with these options? You need to roleplay.

>No, he wanted to fulfill his prophecy himself
So he was locked in a cell like us, somehow managed to escape without a key, found a key god knows where and instantly knew the key was for OUR cell?
>Because he gave up or was too far gone. Undead can loose their sanity over time
Yes, but it takes time. Look at Lucatiel or the map guy in DS2, they slowly lose their sanity and start to forget stuff. Siegmeyer and Siegward keep their sanity because of their resolve, but you can see it gets foggy in their heads with the amount of "hmmm, hmmmm, I have to think". Oscar talks fine, no sign of going insane. And if he gave up, he must be the shittiest knight that ever lived, to give up after 1 try. Also, where did he find his flask?
>Does it matter?
Well yeah, kinda. The painted world, accessed by a painting in Anor Londo where a crossbreed dragon lives requires you to have a doll. Said doll is for some mysterious reason in an undead asylum, specifically in the cell where you start the game, but not since the beginning.
In a game where every items placement and description matters, why would they do this. Sure, just like every other soulsborne game half the content was cut, but they could have put the doll in a place that makes sense, like in seath's archives or anor londo.
>Looking for chosen undead to stop them from killing gwyn
So they came after the CU already had left, and they stood there despite not finding him?
>Because it's a good moment to learn about weapon upgrades
I meant, in the universe of DaS, why would a blacksmith chose THIS location? It makes no sense. In DaSII he's sitting in comfy Majula with best soulsgirl, a talking cat, a ladder guy and a merchant. In DaS3 he's chilling in Firelink Shrine. Here he's in a place that makes no sense.

Well in DaS2, McDuff has his shop in a blown out section of The Lost Bastille...

And this is a bad thing because?

Why spend 5h looking through an ocean of faggotry and cringe to find one info instead of watching a 20mn video where a guy gives you all the infos?
>b-but he steals EVERYTHING!!!
Just like every soulsborne lore youtuber? He always give credit to individual users who pointed out stuff and apologizes when he makes a mistake. And like the good lore youtubers (SilverMont, Ashen Hollow, ParagonDS), 99% it's not bullshit and headcanon, he does good work.
>whiney voice
The voice is cool, come on now.

>So he was locked in a cell like us

Yes. The Gods explicitly created this system because Undead are required as kindling for the flame.

>Yes, but it takes time.

Given that the Chosen Undead can go back and forth from the Asylum, why couldn't he do the same? Information is never given on the specifics of how and where he went, save for his dialogue, which suggests he left the Undead Asylum and then came back.

>So they came after the CU already had left...

There's more than one Chosen Undead, as you have already admitted.

>I meant, in the universe of DaS, why would a blacksmith chose THIS location?

He's not undead. So, going to Firelink Shrine doesn't make sense. He's one of the few humans you meet in the game, in fact.

But DaS2 is supposed to be the worst game ever made, the b-team disaster, the non canon game that shits on 1.

DaS1 is supposed to be the flawless masterpiece where everything is tight and coherent.

if you care about the plot in souls games you're an actual mongoloid

Who are the other humans? If Gods hated the Undead, why aren't they cleansing them?

If Frampt was great friends with Gwyn, why does he help Undead? Aren't they the enemy?

>Aren't they the enemy?

No. Gwyn is a hollowed undead, at the point of time the game takes place in.

The Gods lied. It's really that simple. They didn't hunt undead - only the Way of White did that, and they were attached to Allfather Loyd, who in a later game (III I think), is revealed to have been a fraud.

The Gods of Anor Londo specifically had undead put into the Asylum so that they could be used as kindling for the Fire.

>Who are the other humans?

I don't remember. There aren't many.

His voice is obnoxious.

So Gwyn was branded by the Dark Sign?

My understanding of the story has become muddled after playing DS2 and DS3.

>Who are the other humans?
The entire world, short of Lordran, are human civilizations.
>If Gods hated the Undead, why aren't they cleansing them?
It's near-impossible to do so. Killing them only means they will revive later somewhere else. The Asylum is there to simply house them so they don't die and respawn.

>So, this game doesn't make sense.
Allow me to explain.
>Did he travel to Undead Asylum to free us?
He was probably an inmate himself.
>Where did he find the key?
Why does that matter? He just found it somewhere.
>Why does he free US?
The other guys are all running around naked so he freed the only person looking halfway decent.
>Why do we go kill 4 powerful dudes and link the fire? Because he asked us to? At least in 2 and 3 you have a reason to do stuff, here it's just "you do it BECAUSE ALL OF OUR BUDGET WENT INTO WORLD DESIGN!!! AND WE ONLY MANAGED TO DO IT WELL FOR 1/3 OF THE GAME!!"
That is for you to decide? Why did you do it? because you were asked to? Because you thought it was right? Because you wanted to see what happens when you touch the fire?
>If he's undead, why doesn't he simply respawn at a bonfire after getting rekt by the asylum demon?
He does. But he's hollow from there on.
>Why was the doll for the painted world in our cell?
For no real reason.
>Why were gwyn's knights there?
To fuck your shit. But seriously, they're just lost and google maps doesn't exist yet.
>Why does the crow have eggs in both nests?
Have you ever heard of the saying "putting all eggs in one basket"?
>How were you supposed to know you have to remain in the nest for 30 fucking seconds for the crow to pick you up?
For no fucking reason.
>Why does Gwyn wear cool clothes and a crown before finding his lord soul?
When is he shown to do that? Anyway, it's never mentioned if the souls shaped their owners or the other way around.
>Where did he find them? I thought there were only mindless hollows and 4 of them just got lucky
Nobody knows. The age of ancients is not elaborated on much.

cont.

>So Gwyn was branded by the Dark Sign?

Yeah. He became undead on purpose to link the fire.

How did he do that? Is Nameless King also an undead too? I thought they were Gods.

cont.

>How did Nito become this giant skeleton made of skeletons?
Magic. And because it looks cool.
>How many years did the age of fire last?
For all we know, a long ass time.
>Did someone link the fire between Gwyn and us?
No. CU is the first to do it but not the first to try.
>Why do you need a key to open the shortcut from upper undead burg to lower when you have bombs? That's even more retarded than the DaS2 pile of rubble forcing you to go through 10 different areas.
Because it's a game.
>Why does Andre stay in his place, between a church and darkroot gardens with a titanite demon near him?
Where should he go instead. He probably even nicked that demon's leg for some smithing.
>Why does he have the artorias crest?
No clue.
>Why don't you just team up with crestfallen, taurus of pethrolund or whatever and le onion guy to reach the first flame?
Most of them are dicks. But you do actually team up with some of them. That's what summoning is.
>Where are all the gods? Gwynevere went with Flann to build Heide's Tower of flame, her trap brother is starving in an empty room fucking around with sun illusions, Velka is implied to be the crow and Seath is going full REEEEEEE GIVE ME SCALES FUCKING NORMIES!!
The left when it was no longer hip to be a god. And when most of their power faded with the flame.
>Were the silver knights always mindless husks controlled by gwyn or were they persons with thoughts and everything at some point?
I assume they were people, why would they not be?
>Why is this game so cringe compared to DeS, Bloodborne and DaS3?
Because of your shit taste.

It's not explained.

The Nameless King and Gwyndolin are both Gods. However, the Fire, due to a certain metaphysical quality of Lordran dealing with disparity, requires Humanity to feed on. Undead and Humans are the only beings that produce Humanity - undead produce a lot more humanity than normal humans.

It's possible that Gwyn gave up the last of his Lord Soul to become what he was before he gained the Light Soul. He had already split the Light Soul between a few of his subordinates. That's just conjecture on my part, however.

>Oscar
He was around the Asylum and happened to free you since you aren't as horrifically hollowed as...well, every other person there. The same as how you free Lautrec and help out other Undead along the game. The key was somewhere, it really doesn't matter considering how ruined the asylum is.
>CHOSEN UNDEAD
That's literally bullshit spewed at you by the snakes. The idea is that no hollow can really reach the First Flame. Undead who are immensely powerful are the only ones who would be capable of so much as reaching it, but if you had the strength to actually overcome all of the trials put ahead of you, you would be strong enough to either snuff the flame out after wiping out Gwyn, or strong enough to keep the flame burning until the next yahoo comes along.
>Painted World
It was more than likely a coincidence of circumstance. Some undead after you probably had a doll and dropped it there. The Black Knights were just aimlessly wandering everywhere after they were all pretty much hollowed. It's not too far fetched to see a few of them with painted world dolls in hand to protect Priscilla, or seal her in.
>Crow
No real indicators, just curiosity and patience. It'd be better if it wasn't a full 30 seconds, and rather 10 or so.

>Gwyn's threads
That wasn't him discovering them, that was him distributing them.
>Nito
He was pretty much an ascended necromancer when he received his chunk of the Lordsoul. The bodies he is draped with are just corpses he's working with
>Age of Fire
Unknown and unknowable. No, no person could have linked the fire with Gwyn there. He hollowed completely when he linked the fire with himself.

>>>How were you supposed to know you have to remain in the nest for 30 fucking seconds for the crow to pick you up?
I guessed waiting would trigger it because it worked for the coffin in the crypt

>So, this game doesn't make sense.

Don't bother trying to figure out the lore, so much content was cut from the game that they probably lost any semblance of continuity, like Andre being Gwyn's son or Oscar being your rival. I think the game tried to put a lot of emphasis on duality since regardless of what you do the age of fire goes on anyway because a different undead will light the flame if you don't.

>Undead burg key
Video game nonsense, it's not something that would be fun if you could just blow every door and lock away. Same with how every bitchy cuck and their mother is mad about rubble.
>Andre
I don't think the demon moves to attack anybody unless they get really close to it, and he doesn't get close to it. It's also interesting considering he might just steal runoff from the demon and return to forging. I dunno about the crest.
>Fellows
Crestfallen is too depressed from hollowing and dying to go anywhere but Firelink Shrine. Petrus is a scheming faggot, much like Lautrec. Siegmeyer actually tries to help you progress, but gets himself caught, and will either die trying to clear a path for you, or die later on.
>Gods
Almost all of them left Lordran after realizing how fucked it was with the situation of Hollowing, which none of them wanted to be around. Gwyndolin and Gwyn are pretty much the only gods left in Lordran. Gwynevere left with a fire god, Velka fucked off forever, Seath was never a god at all, just an albino retard dragon.

Silver Knights turned into the Black Knights after they attempted to get rid of the Bed of Chaos, but failed, which burnt their silver armor black and warped it to have horns. The Black Knights returned and defended the kingdom from hollows and undead, but eventually hollowed themselves. They are basically Gwyndolin's equivalent of green army men.

Did the sequels ruin Dark Souls story?

Hell no. DS2 some great stories in the world and DS3 expanded on it well.

Can you tell me what the Pygmies are? Are they Undead too?

In the Ringed City screenshots there is a big knight with humanity for a head. What's up with that?

>How did Nito become this giant skeleton made of skeletons?

I think Pinwheel and his story is an allusion to the process Nito likely went through

>want to bring precious people back to life
>their souls are gone, have to bind them to yourself if you want them to be anything more than mindless (or something)
>become strengthened by the process, even as you lose your humanity
>literally amass a great following

Plus it's way cooler than just turning into a Lich

>Can you tell me what the Pygmies are? Are they Undead too?

The Furtive Pygmy wasn't undead. He was the first human. That's about all we know about him.

>What's up with that?

I dunno what the exact relationship is between the Abyss and Humanity, but it seems more likely that its head is made from the Abyss, not Humanity.

The Ringed City was a city for humans that was eventually corrupted by the abyss like New Londo and Oolacile?

Ringed City IS New Londo.

Odds are that its a mishmash of a bunch of different cities, all smushed together by the fractured nature of Lordran.

says who?

>LORDS
The first group that found souls were a group that doesn't have a name in the series but I'm going to call them "Lords". The four strongest of these Lords found the "Lord Souls". Nito found the Death Soul, The Witch of Izalith found the Life Soul, Gwyn found the Light Soul and the Furtive Pygmy found the Dark Soul. The remaining Lords also found powerful souls, this includes beings like the Silver/Black Knights. Lords could only revert back to their natural "hollow" state when all of their souls had been released like Gwyn at the end of Dark Souls.

>GIANTS
I believe that Giants were the second group to claim souls but due to the Lords taking the majority of the souls not as many Giants could be born (hence the lack of Giants in the games). The Giants were more plant like in nature so they were not affected by pain as much (hence the massive health reserves of them) which also made them great allies to the Lords. Over the millennia between DS1 and DS2 the Giants evolved to become even more plant-like so much so that their "hollow" form is really them being reborn as a tree.

>HUMANS
The Furtive Pygmy felt sorry for the remaining hollows and the fact that they couldn't be whole beings like the Lords and Giants. He eventually fractured his Dark Soul into millions of pieces now called Humanity. Due to the souls of Humans being so small in comparison to the Lords and Giants they would have looked up to them even naming the strongest of them Gods and began worshiping them. When a human turns "hollow" it appears to be quite similar as when a Lord turns Hollow, they become mindless zombies acting purely on instinct.

>Did he travel to Undead Asylum to free us?
Propably not. Most likely trying to find a path to lordan/firelink shrine. Just happened to find us
>Where did he find the key?
From a hollowed guard he killed most likely
>Why does he free US?
I think he was trying to get us to help him
>Why do we go kill 4 powerful dudes and link the fire? Because he asked us to?
Humans think that age of fire ending = end of everything. Nobody wants that.
>If he's undead, why doesn't he simply respawn at a bonfire after getting rekt by the asylum demon?
He respawned as a hollow. You even put him out of his misery.

>Why was the doll for the painted world in our cell?
Devs wanted to reward you for bactracking. But otherwise dunno
>Why were gwyn's knights there?
Black knights were demon slayers, so i think they were looking for stray demon
>Why does the crow have eggs in both nests?
Because devs are lazy
>How were you supposed to know you have to remain in the nest for 30 fucking seconds for the crow to pick you up?
It's called an easter egg
>Why does Gwyn wear cool clothes and a crown before finding his lord soul? Where did he find them? I thought there were only mindless hollows and 4 of them just got lucky
Maybe he was just a mindless husk. The scene doesn't state that it was at the moment he found the soul. He could be mirin his soul
>How did Nito become this giant skeleton made of skeletons?
Privilege for dying first
>How many years did the age of fire last?
No idea. Does it even matter

>Did someone link the fire between Gwyn and us?
No

>Why does Andre stay in his place, between a church and darkroot gardens with a titanite demon near him? Why does he have the artorias crest?
Because there is lot of traffic and customers. He probably made a deal with the forest covenant. He makes weapons for them and he gets the crest to sell
>Why don't you just team up to reach the first flame?
You can with soapstones, but the characters you mentioned don't want to help, have other motives or are ahead or behind you

>Where are all the gods? Gwynevere went with Flann to build Heide's Tower of flame, her trap brother is starving in an empty room fucking around with sun illusions, Velka is implied to be the crow and Seath is going full REEEEEEE GIVE ME SCALES FUCKING NORMIES!!
You just answered that for yourself
>Were the silver knights always mindless husks controlled by gwyn or were they persons with thoughts and everything at some point?
I think they were persons, but most of the knights you meet are just illusions by trap god so not quite sure

Not really, the sequels expanded on the story and lore. DaSII showed you the dark ending of DaS, and DaSIII takes place after the link the fire ending.

If anything, DaS story/lore is tiny, limited and retarded as fuck, while in the sequels it's huge, develloped and way more coherent.

Usually the people who hate on the sequels' lore are DaSbabies who didn't understand what's going on in any of the game.

Ok but that would imply he was already smart and had a working brain before finding his lord soul.

The intro suggests everyone was a hollow that just wandered aimlessly, and 4 of these hollows just go extremely lucky and stumbled upon lord souls.

If Nito wasn't braindead before finding his lord soul, were there other non braindead "people" roaming around? Everyone is naked, even the pigmy, but Gwyn is already a roided beast with a crown and sick clothes, the chaos witch seems to already be a hot witch with clothes and not a naked hollow, and Nito is already a necromancer or someshit.

And the silver knights.
Were they naked hollows and Gwyn created them armors and weapons thanks to his lord soul?
Or did he create them entirely?

Is the undead curse a thing just in Lordran or everywhere in the world? Are undead present in Pethrolund, Astora or Mirrah?

From the catacombs you can see ash lake, which is the bed of the world with archtrees spread over infinity that support the world, but just above it there's firelink shrine.

Why don't we see ash lake from firelink shrine or the rest of the surface? Why don't we see the "roof" when we're in ash lake considering less than 50m above us there's stuff.

The ringed city is Londor, we see the Sable Church and a pilgrim. The question is, is it ONLY Londor or are there multiple cities and things collapsing on themselves like in the rest of the world. And where is it located (even tho distance doesn't make any sense and distant lands are teleporting and mixing themselves around lothric's castle) compared to Lothric, the intro makes it sound like the pilgrims traveled a long ass time. It can be New Londo collpasing on itself and pulling stuff to it since Yuria and Yoel are friends with Kaathe and Kaathe was near the four kings.

In the 16mn gameplay video, we get an item on something that looks 99.99999% like the beginning area of Lothric's High wall.

Ok, thank you user, exactly what I wanted to know. You're a fine human bean and a real hero.

I have one last question.
You say the four strongest of these lords found the 4 souls. What were these 4 lords doing days/weeks/months/years before discovering their souls? Were they braindead hollows or were they somewhat functional? Were there cities, weapons and food around or was everyone in dark caves bumping into each other?

I know it's retarded, but I just want to visualize how life was at that moment. I understand the absolute nothingness of the age of dragons, but I can't wrap my brain around how did gwyn have access to roids and a crown and cool clothes before finding his Light Soul.

>>Did he travel to Undead Asylum to free us?
Yes.
>Where did he find the key?
He wandered in the Asylum, he probably found it somewhere around.
>>Why does he free US?
He frees as many undeads as possible to fulfill the prophecy.
>Why do we go kill 4 powerful dudes and link the fire?
Play the game
>If he's undead, why doesn't he simply respawn at a bonfire after getting rekt by the asylum demon?
He went hollow soon after. You fight him when you come back there later.
>Why was the doll for the painted world in our cell?
Fuck if I know. maybe you're directly linked to Velka in some way
>Why were gwyn's knights there?
Heard about undead getting away so they came in the asylum to make sure no one else does.
>Why does the crow have eggs in both nests?
Why are you such an autist?
>How were you supposed to know you have to remain in the nest for 30 fucking seconds for the crow to pick you up?
Gameplay.

>Why does Gwyn wear cool clothes and a crown before finding his lord soul? Where did he find them? I thought there were only mindless hollows and 4 of them just got lucky
The soul consumes him, eating his flesh and his very own.
>How did Nito become this giant skeleton made of skeletons?
Nito is the first of the dead, the catacomb monarch, it's an entity. I guess he's made of skeletons to remind us that he is the incarnation of death itself.
>How many years did the age of fire last? Hundreds of years.
>Did someone link the fire between Gwyn and us?
No.

>Why do you need a key to open the shortcut from upper undead burg to lower when you have bombs?
Gameplay.

>Why does Andre stay in his place, between a church and darkroot gardens with a titanite demon near him? Why does he have the artorias crest?
He knows a lot of undead have to go through him to progress (sens fortress, Garden, Church) and figured out it was a good way to gather souls for himself. Don't know why he has the Crest though. Maybe he's the one that sealed the door and is its keeper.

>Why don't you just team up with crestfallen, taurus of pethrolund or whatever and le onion guy to reach the first flame?
They have no business in doing so. They don't care.

>Where are all the gods?
They moved away when they knew the fire was going cold.
>Were the silver knights always mindless husks controlled by gwyn or were they persons with thoughts and everything at some point?
They always Gwynn servants. I think you can see they have no face IG

>Why is this game so cringe compared to DeS, Bloodborne and DaS3?
herp derp

Oscar had a different role originally, surviving to the end and then fighting the chosen undead in opposition of EITHER ending they chose.
That is gathered from datamined unused voice lines, and is obvious enough to not be open to interpretation.

In the actual game, he is investigating the Undead Asylum for his quest.
The assumption is that he aims to free every Undead there in order to aid a potential Chosen Undead, since his quest is simply that: to fulfill the prophecy.
Presumably, he gets caught strolling around the roof by Asylum Demon and gets fuked before he could free even more undead. Note that Asylum Demon jumps in from the ceiling when you first encounter it.

As for why he doesn't respawn, it has to do with how the curse of Undead works.
You can either die too often and turn hollow, or you have such a weak soul that you didn't last a single death in the first place.
Or, you could lose your will to carry on, or lose sight/accomplish your goal, and turn hollow.

Any of those could have applied to him.
The player character is only special because he has some unknown endless driving force (the player) forcing him to bash his rotting body against bosses over and over until he clears the game. Any other equally autistic and driven undead could have ended up the Chosen Undead, since its part of the curse that they never die so long as they remain motivated.
Oscar wasn't.

You know EXACTLY what happened during the dark ages in our current history?
Or the dark ages of greece/egypt when "sea people" invaded and wiped out civilisation and all records for almost a thousand years?

Same thing here.
There are no records left in "modern" dark souls times, probably because they haven't invented writing and there wasn't much for Gwyn to write home about in the first place, other than how much he hated dragons.
You will just have to deal with it that everything concrete is lost as myths and legends, like where the fuck Troy actually is, or who "sea people" actually are.

-You ever kill something and it fell off a ledge?
-It was on the hollow he killed
-He doesn't. The guy who had the key fell in your cell
-He doesn't ask you to kill anyone. He says an undead will travel from the Asylum to Loderan
-Only those with the Darksign respawn

-Different prisoner took your place after your escape
-They're everywhere man
-Because they're crows?
-You weren't. You just explored until you got a prompt and you either did it or didn't. Or your read a guide.

-From the clothes and crown store? I don't fucking know. There was a whole world that came and went from then to when the game takes place.
-He's a necromancer, friend.
-It's still occurring when you play and depends on how you end the game
-Not in your timeline

-Firebombs aren't bombs, they're basically Molotov cocktails

-He's a blacksmith and there's an anvil. Anvils are heavy. Probably found it or it was sold to him.
-Crestfallen is crestfallen so google up that word, Thorofag has a guro fetish for the maiden and that's all he cares, Onion doesn't care about the flame, he's just exploring

-You answered your own question.
-Yes. They're soldiers.

-Locked 30fps

Anything else I can clear up?

YOU HAVE TO SPEND A MONTHS OF TIME ON YOUTUBE TO UNDERSTAND THE STORY

ALSO YOU HAVE TO PLAY THIS GAME 24 HOURS A DAY FOR A MONTH STRAIGHT TO ENJOY IT

GET GUD XDDDD

Git. It's git. Fagit.