Reddit reviews Will of Steel (The Men of Medicine Ridge)

My theory:

In this regard "wild" corresponds with "desire" from DS2.

The counterpart "corrupt" corresponds with "greed".

This also makes sense in regards to Artorias' "Will of Steel" because a will of steel describes a resistence to greed but not desire and you can consider Manus as a manifestation of desire an unfavorable match up.

The will of steel is likely a reference to Romance novel from Diana Palmer.

A story about a cowboy who didn't budge for the temptations of money, but eventually found the love of his life.

> A quick edit here: There's also the theory of Dusk being mixed with Pygmy's soul, being her transformed in Manus. This theory uses, in example, the fact that all the statues of Oolacile are defaced, combined with her royalty status, to claim that she entered the chasm of the abyss, she was beset by the dark there, and was transformed into Manus, bringing then the Abyss. I think it's a theory pretty acceptable, too.

I actually consider this theory the strongest because this explains quite well why a man such as Artorias with his unbendable will of steel was overcome by the abyss.

Not to mention, figures in the world of dark souls tend to live quite long and with Cairan and Artorias both being members of the four knights of Gwyns and the several hundreds of years of chance ...well you get the gist of it. Gough DOES mention that Oolacile was "our entire land" but it is unclear to me if he means it to be their territory or their native land.

> "I suspect thou hast taken a gander at it,
But the Dark of the Abyss, which swallowed poor Artorias, threatens to devour our entire land of Oolacile."

Artorias could have held feelings for another, but I'll leave the likelyhood of such a thing to your own interpretation.

> But of course it isn't clear either that there was anything bad about the primeval man before the people of Oolacile messed him up. So the ambiguity of the Frampt/Kaathe conflict remains. But I am just saying that if you call one side's products corrupt then maybe you are leaning toward the other side being right, when the game doesn't really say at all which side is right.

There is no real "right" side. That is what politics are about. You make decisions based on what you consider most needed. Ideals can easily be shattered by the shortcoming of whatever system you introduce.