12th century

>12th century
>The undead curse from dark souls suddenly spreads.

How would we deal with it?

Same way they deal with it in DS1. Shunt them off to an asylum and hope they don't get out.

Can we cure it through linking the fire?

kill it with fire

That's more of a 15th century thing

Keeping the fire lit is the problem to fix it you need to let the flame go out.

>dark souls
Slap the DM

That just turns everyone into hollows though.

We blame climate change and china.

>12th century
>Answers with climate change and China

I see reading comprehension is not among your strengths user.

serpent pls go

Well I mean, it was completely uncurable in Dark Souls. If the philosopher-mage-god-king who created the curse is still alive, track him down and try to get him to disspell the curse before he does something stupid like self-immolate, thereby dooming the world to suffer the curse until the universe dies of heat death and we all have to go live in a painting to fight off entropy even though the entire painting questline was about the inevitability of entropy and how you can't hide from it even in a painting.
So, I mean, just don't let that dude kill himself until after he's cured the world or you'll get two shitty sequels and a slapdash ending.

ahhh yes, dark souls, my favorite board game

It's quite fun, yeah. Wouldn't say it's my favourite though.

Our world contains neither a First Flame nor a Dark Soul. The curse of the Darksign on Earth would just result in literally everyone becoming either undead or regular dead.

>Get back in da hole!

>Oh no, everyone is dying from the black plague !
>I know, we should just kill everyone so that no one is infected anymore !

This has been done to (un)death.
From the 1100s to the 1800s, bodies were routinely buried with the heads removed and placed at their feet in the coffin and the body facedown so that when it did wake up, it would dig down, not up.

In ...iceland, I think, the legs and feet of the dead were mutilated so that they couldn't walk.

In Dragon Age, most cultures cremate their dead to prevent demons from possessing them.

so on and so forth.

The curse of undeath doesn't affect the already dead. One must still be alive to become undead. Once one becomes undead, they can never truly die. An undead who is killed just reforms, totally unharmed, at the last place where they rested.

The problem is that the whole curse of the undead thing is built into the bones of the Dark Souls world, so it would take too much finagling to get it to work in the real world.

>Final Fantasy villain motives/5

Was the curse actually created by any conceivably sapient being in dark souls? I thought it was because hollowing is the natural state of the universe that all things tend to gravitate towards, like entropy. That's what I thought was the obvious conclusion from the intro to the first game.

...probably nothing changes at first. The Pope may call for an additional Crusade to attempt to regain God's favour by taking Jerusalem or whatever.

Gwyn cursed mankind with undeath because he was afraid of how they could harness and utilize the Dark Soul without turning into monsters. The Darksign binds humanity as a whole to the First Flame and causes them to become undead as the Flame fades. This is probably why undead respawn at bonfires. Hollowing is the result of the Flame burning away an undead's Humanity with each death.

Vengarl's head would like a word.

I completely forgot about Vengarl. How the hell does that dude even work? He's the only one in the entire world who's just fine after being beheaded.

Can you point me to somewhere going further in-depth to this? This is in contradiction with everything I know about Dark Souls.

The last DLC confirmed that the darksign is the brand of a covenant the pygmies made with Gwyn. Gwyn then killed himself before he could take it back.

Man, what a dick.

this