[quote]
Another idea though, perhaps we could do an alternate ending of Dark Souls 1? From the events of Dark Souls 2, it pretty much makes it known that the Chosen Undead kindled the first flame, but what if he didn't? I'm not an expert in Dark Souls lore, but what do you all think about this? Perhaps the first flame went out, and the world was thrust into the Age of Dark. The Age of Dark setting in would cause abyss to spread across the world, and possibly all humans to become undead, though I'm not sure how that works exactly. I was thinking that maybe the only sources of hope left would be the lord souls/soul shards, the ones from Gwyn, The Witch of Izalith, Gravelord Nito, and the Furtive Pygmy. This would only be a legend to the remnants of the living humans/undeads, but I was thinking that our characters would be attempting to find these souls.[/quote]

Then there would be an Age of Dark that would eventually end, we already know this from Dark Souls 2

Remember the dull ember from DS2?

It pretty much implies there can never be true dark, because the flame will always eventually reignite

[quote]One thing. I feel like its a huge waste to include stuff like history and personality. This is Dark osuls right? All of that should come from item discriptions. I plan to have that for everything I use, magic included.[/quote]

Your character's personalities and histories are not told via descriptions in items that's absurd, this is a roleplay not a video game

There's no reason you can't have either in your CS, just because we the players know the history and personality of a character doesn't mean other characters do

There's a big difference between OOC and IC