[quote=Sho Minazuki]
/Sees Dark Souls in Casual Interest check./Laughs.
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omg take my like...

[quote=Silent Esper]
Yeah, I know it's possible to create demi-human elves/dwarves, but I just really don't think characters like that would fit into the Dark Souls world. I know it could work, but I'd really prefer to swerve away from custom races such as that.
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I mean it's not too difficult. Based on where your plot is going, these demi-human races could easily be as a result of the abyssal mutation. But that's cool if you want to keep it strictly to human and giants too.

[quote=Silent Esper]
Yeah, I'm finalizing a little concept right now. Unless you guys are against it, I think I'm going to go off of the ending of Dark Souls 1 where the Chosen Undead became the dark lord. It'll be set at least a few hundred years later, and the abyss will be running rampant across the world. Undead will be far more common, hollows for the most part. We'll probably have something like you said where the humans still send undead to the asylum, and we could probably start up there for the most part. And yeah, most areas will be extended. We'll probably be in what used to be Lordran, though it will be completely different by now, and it'll be scaled a bit larger too. I'd still like to keep to the more dungeon-like feel though, so there will be a lot of action for sure.
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It's also entirely possible that you could toss in the return of the Lord Souls as well. Each cycle of dark is always accompanied by an age of light, so the story could be set during the very beginning of this new age where Undead battle against the abyss using the power of the new lord souls.