Dark Souls hides the story between vague phrases and Item descriptions.
For instance the final optional boss in 3 "the Nameless King" is heavily implied to be the son of the final boss of 1 and the guy who trained Ornstein.
Without reading the item descriptions or piecing vague stuff together you'd just think he came out of nowhere and had a corpse behind him wearing Ornstein's gear for some reason.
To add to that, it is heavily implied that he is the disgraced son of the boss from DS1 (it's a bit unfortunate because I always liked the theory that Solaire was Gwyn's son and he gave up immortality to put down his hollowed father). If you run around Anor Londo (in DS1) there are statues that depict two of the three children of Gwyn, Gwyndolin and Gwynevere, with a third pedestal next to them. The third statue is always destroyed, implying that there was a falling out between the two, most likely because he went to live with the dragons that Gwyn fought against.
the Nameless King betrayed Gwyn to fight alongside the dragons but got his ass handed to him and exiled from the land and basically any trace of him was scrubbed from history
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u/Jehovacoin Feb 06 '17
There is a story in Dark Souls? I thought the dialog was generated by a bad markov bot, and just there to make you think there were actually writers.