Made it through Sens Fortress and to my new home! Had to run up through blighttown-valley of drakes-firelink-parish-sens fortress-magical dragons to Anor Londo. I really can't say it was much more difficult than it ever has been. No problems, other than the invader who stabbed me in the back 2 inches form the boss door. I bet he had a good laugh.
Sat at my new warm fire, much better accommodations here then with the fair lady. I cant wait to turn this wretched land cold.
This is the way to do it. I dont care what the critcs say. Its the whole freaking reason there are fire keepers in the first place. I ran around in new londo a little bit. Had some serious revelations.
The keeper of the fire tells me that "the one will have a realization" or whatever, going straight out. This is where my brain exploded with connections. After clearing out the painting guardians and killing a couple dragons, I find "THE RING OF THE SUNS FIRSTBORN", on a corpse. The corpse next to what appears to be a statue of Gwyn. Interesting. I equipped that sucker. Made sure to read the description. Lots of people commonly think that Solaire is the firstborn, yet here is the firstborns ring on some corpse. Keep that in mind. It could be and it could not be true that solaire is the first born. However, I want to pause and come back to that later.
I thought a bit about the lore surrounding this firstborn. There is a lot of information about this firstborn. Information sprinkled about the items, the sunlight maggot, the ring, and the PENDANT and the medals.
This ring and the pendant say something VERY important. They basically say that the record of the first born was removed from "annals" of history. Annals is not a butt-hole. Annals is like the historical records. So the firstborn sun was removed from the historical records.
This begs the question: WHY??
WHY the heck was he removed from the records? It says, "his foolishness". So, officially, he was removed from the records for being "foolish", although now nobody knows his name or what foolishness he did, because he was removed from the record books of history.
WHOMEVER it was that removed those records, he did so because he did not want anyone to know what this firstborn sons foolishness was.
Yes, yes, so nicely fitting. This is all speculation folks. Except for that I am speculating it correctly.
Who would have the power to delete records? Gwyn probably. He would go over to the only library in town, and he would be like "yo duke, delete that **** bro". And boom it would be gone. The person who has the power is the one who deletes the history that challenges their very power.
LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THIS FOOLISHNESS.
If I am a demi-god that controls all the power of the land. If I am Lord Gwyn, I have everyone around my finger. I have the primordial serpents doing my bidding. I got Rhea linkin fires and ****. I done killed those old dragon biatches. I got it ALL!
Then I have a son. The firstborn. BECAUSE, I am a demi-god, the "power of the sun" automatically gets inherited by this boy. I am a proud father-god, Its like the family bloodline, yo! So I try to raise him up real smart-like. I show him how wonderfully powerful his inherited sunpower is. I show him about the linking of the fires. I show him that it is the linked fire that allows the "age of fire" to continue. It is to EVERYONES benefit if we link those fires up further. That is everyone EXCEPT those cute little accursed undead. To maintain power, we must keep them trapped in these cells, we must keep them hollowed with fierce opposition. Mainly though, we must use them against themselves. We will conduct experiments on them, we will find what makes them tick.. (which is apparently weird alien music btw). We must use their stupidity to help link our fires. etc. etc
So the son gets into his teenage years and he is all like, 'DAD I HATE YOU", and "WHERE ARE MY PIZZA ROLLS!".
"well son, there are no pizza rolls in lordran, do your homework"
and the firstborn is all "I HATE YOU, your not my REAL dad!"
Teen angst. We have all been there.
So the kid steals his dad's keys by telling him that he is gonna go kindle a bonfire somewhere, and he goes out into Lordran against his father's wishes. He NEVER returns. He is on a secret mission to DESTROY the bonfires and bring about the "AGE of MAN" . He failed at this task, but its okay cuz Im fixin to bring the age of man anyway.
This firstborn could indeed be Solaire. Or Solaire could be the SON of the first-born son. The Grandson of Lord Gwyn. There are some real similarities to solaire and the lore about the firstborn, and time is distorted, after-all. So why is his ring on this random corpse?
Here's what I think (could be wrong): In his stupidity and young age, he ended up getting some undead chick pregnant., and he created a son who inherited the power, and subsequently died under the statue of his grampie. Or this corpse is the son who inherited that power, and solaire is the grandson. Whichever way, it doesnt matter. This explains why Solaire helps you kill Gwyn if you let him.
So I am the chosen one after-all. Isnt someone going to beat me to the 3rd ending? Have I not convinced you critics yet??
Let me discuss PRISCILLA. She is somehow very important to all this. Perhaps she knows what the firstborn was doing exactly. Or perhaps she has the power that is capable of taking Gwyn down. No matter what the story is, she is integral. Just like the records were destroyed, she was banished to this painting. Imprisoned, hid away from the humans. To keep them from allowing this story to be pieced together. Unfortunately for Gwyn, piece it together is just what I will do, indeed.
She has the occult ember, which I def need in my faith build. There is power associated with her. That is my next hurdle in story logic.
I will tell you this much:
I know I am right about extinguishing these bonfires. It is all too obvious. The fire-keeper in new londo basically outright tells you. What do keepers do? They keep the fire linked. They are not allowed to speak to one-another. The keeper at fire link wont talk cuz she lost her tongue or something (she prob. talked to another keeper), - if saved- she tells you she sinned and whatever. SHE KNOWS, she knows she is perpetuating the age of fire AND she knows it is wrong. She knows, because of her dirty fire-keeper gossip, and since being punished so freakin harshly, does not take such risks. Neither do the other keepers.
You are lucky I am not keeping this to myself. I already know someone with more time is going to beat me to this easter-egg.
The plot obviously has to do with extinguishing these things!