>>9215446It's an actual concept in Dark Souls. Basically in their creation myth four lords find the first flame and create the current world with it, which is called an "age of fire". Out of those lords, there's the Furtive Pygmy that finds the dark soul. After some time the fire fades and the other lords start to lose their power. You kill them in Dark Souls one, and either launch an age of darkness, or rekindle the first flame and make the age of fire last a bit longer. It's one of those infinite cycle premise.
In Dark Souls 3, you find out that the pygmies were put in a city frozen in time at the edge of the world. Gael (
>>9215502) goes there to find the "blood of the dark soul" to give that to a girl so she can paint a new world (she's already in a painted world that's dying too), since the world in Dark Souls can't die properly. Gael finds out that the blood of the pygmies is dry, so he eats them so his blood can become the blood of the dark soul, and then fights you. You kill him, bring back the blood to the painter, and she can start a new world.
