Now, I ran through the Valley of the Drakes for the RtsR today, and after killing the Drakes I decided to do a quick run through lower Londo to invade a couple of people and see if I could get a slab off of a random DW. After successfully testing out my shiny new LHS on an unsuspecting host, I went back through the valley... and noticed another arch. The exact shape and size as the New Londo gate, but on the other side of the valley, seemingly leading straight into the mountain, and blocked by a sizeable mound of rubble.
Closer inspection revealed that it had the same hinges as the New Londo gate; in other words, it had the same type of door that served as a floodgate to New Londo. So where did it lead? Behind the other gate was the entrance to an entire city, there's no doubt that something equally large stood behind this broken gate. So did New Londo have a sister city, that had to buried as New Londo was flooded? Or was this gate part of the elaborate entrance to new Londo, a tunnel that led to the rest of the world outside Lordran and allowed for trade and traffic with New londo? It seems to go right underneath Darkroot if my reckoning is correct, whihc it may well not be.
Also, the gates would have opened outward, toward the valley and New Londo. That doesn't make sense for an entrance to a city defense-wise, you would want outward opening gates you can't push inward, like New londo's main gates. But it does make sense for a new city that had to be defended in a like manner to New Londo.
Closer inspection revealed that it had the same hinges as the New Londo gate; in other words, it had the same type of door that served as a floodgate to New Londo. So where did it lead? Behind the other gate was the entrance to an entire city, there's no doubt that something equally large stood behind this broken gate. So did New Londo have a sister city, that had to buried as New Londo was flooded? Or was this gate part of the elaborate entrance to new Londo, a tunnel that led to the rest of the world outside Lordran and allowed for trade and traffic with New londo? It seems to go right underneath Darkroot if my reckoning is correct, whihc it may well not be.
Also, the gates would have opened outward, toward the valley and New Londo. That doesn't make sense for an entrance to a city defense-wise, you would want outward opening gates you can't push inward, like New londo's main gates. But it does make sense for a new city that had to be defended in a like manner to New Londo.