Gwyn | Lord of Cinder

A self-aware god, a majestic and strict old man, yet quite understanding, well-mannered, but with a strong character. Ready to wipe you off the face of the earth for the slightest reason, but a merciful ruler to ordinary creatures.

Lord Gwyn wears an impressive set of royal drapes, with gold bands on his arms, and a crown atop his head. On his feet are what appear to be a form of moccasins and anklets, and he wields a greatsword imbued with the power of light and of the First Flame, which he uses to adequate effect. His face is that of an aged man with calm eyes, and he has an impressively long, grey beard and hair of the same nature. Very tall. Something like 7ft tall. Can't be defeated in a battle, because literally a god.

Gwyn is one of the primordial humanoid creatures that appeared underground after the First Flame appeared, bringing life, death and "disparity". He was one of those who found the four Lord Souls, souls of immense power, together with Gravelord Nito, the Witch of Izalith and much later the Furtive Pygmy.

Thanks to the immense power of his soul, the greatest even among all the other Lords, Gwyn established an underground civilization, becoming its king and forming a developed army of Silver Knights at his orders. At some point Gwyn also had a relationship with an unknown woman and from their union were born his firstborn son and his eldest daughter, Gwynevere.

Once his army has been prepared and armed with huge bows that used arrows as big as iron spears and massive spears, Gwyn went to the surface with the intention of waging war against the Dragons and conquer the world together with his other Lord allies. A war that turned out to be very bloody as for each of the majestic creatures slain three of Gwyn's soldiers perished, in fact the body of dragons was harder than stone and was able to resist fire and magic making their killing difficult. At one point Gwyn was even forced to integrate into his ranks the primordial humans, descendants of the Furtive Pygmy who had found the Dark Soul, and who had developed their own weapons and armor infused with the life-giving power of the Abyss.

At a certain point Seath, a pale dragon born without the scales of his kind due to the "disparity", betrayed the dragons and stole their Primordial Crystal before allying himself with Gwyn. The Lord Soul of Gwyn allowed him to manipulate the light of the sun thus developed an effective countermeasure against dragons, transforming the rays of sunlight into lightning, a form of energy capable of penetrating dragon scales. Gwyn himself would thus fight against the dragons, throwing spears of sunlight to peel apart the dragons's scales while his knights would infuse their weapons with lightning to pierce the creatures' armor more easily. The dragonslayer knights would have thus found that in order to pierce dragonscale, lightning should not be hurled as a bolt, but rather be thrust as a stake directly into the dragon's hide, to be truly effective while the few women who served in the army would have developed bows made entirely of lightning to enhance their lightning arrows.

With the help of the other Lords, Gwyn thus continued the war which was now turning in their favor: the Witch of Izalith and her witches weaved great firestorms, destroying the archtrees and burning the dragons while Nito unleashed a miasma of death, rotting the archtrees and infecting the dragons. Gwyn's eldest son would also take part in the war with his father, killing several dragons with his lightning spears and primordial cross spear. After a long struggle Gwyn and the Lords emerged victorious, exterminating most of the archdragons and thus conquering the surface world.

Despite having won the war against the dragons, Gwyn found himself having to resolve another issue that undermined his future dominion over the world: the Furtive Pygmy had in fact found the Dark Soul, a special soul which, despite continuing to fragment among its descendants, did not lose power and indeed continued to produce life through the Abyss. The Lord, however, resolved the issue very skillfully without having to clash with the pygmies: despite their contribution in the war Gwyn managed to make them perceive themselves as inferior to his clan and make them agree to submit and be made vassals. Gwyn "gave" them a magnificent ringed city at the edge of the world, the title of "rulers" and even his youngest daughter Filianore, although he promised her that he would have come back for her.

With this clever move Gwyn ensured that the Pygmies Lords and their Dark Soul would remain trapped inside of the Ringed City and out of history, keeping a role of subjection to his dominion, eliminating from history even the contributions of the Ringed Knights during the war against the dragons and the very existence of the Furtive Pygmy. Despite this, Gwyn continued to fear humans and the potential of their soul, going so far as to make an even more extreme move towards them: using the Flame to "mark" their Dark Soul and bodies with a Darksign. The fire would thus have castrated the powers of humans, making them mortal and incapable of making use of their natural abilities thus assuming a "fleeting form".

Having secured absolute dominion over the world, Gwyn thus began the Age of Fire, a time of prosperity but defined by the power of the First Flame and the vision of the Lord. Gwyn's clan placed themselves at the top of the world's order, assuming the role of deities for humans that remained subjected to their control, and Gwyn took the title "god of sunlight". The gods were thus venerated and lived in the city of Anor Londo in the region of Lordran, building an economy and culture around the use of souls and even hunting the descendants of dragons for sport and domesticating some of them. Gwyn would have left the other two Lords to their business: Izalith would have built her civilization underground while continuing to study flame sorcery while Gravelord Nito would have remained in the Catacombs to administer death with his soul.

Gwyn would also establish the order of his Four Knights, choosing them among his most trusted warriors and entrusting them with several vital tasks along with fragments of his powerful Lord Soul. Dragonslayer Ornstein was chosen as leader of the order, Hawkeye Gough as leader of the Dragonslayers and Greatarchers, Artorias as leader of the Knights and Ciaran as leader of the Lord's Blades, an order of only female assassins with the function of eliminating Gwyn's enemies in the shadows and with poison

Gwyn proved himself a skilled ruler, using his power to bind and hold close to him the potential powers of the world. He amply rewarded the betrayal of the dragon Seath and his indispensable contribution to the war, giving him the title of Duke and accepting him into the nobility of the gods and become part of his family, even going so far as to give him one of the daughters of his mother in marriage. Gwyn also gave him a fragment of his powerful Lord Soul along with the Archives, leaving him to his studies near Anor Londo. He also did a similar thing among the remaining humans in the world, recognizing the abilities of four of their great leaders and rewarding them with the title of king, a fragment of his powerful Lord Soul[13] and letting them build their civilization of New Londo near Anor Londo. At one point Gwyn also manages to befriend the Primordial Serpent Frampt and apparently convince him of his ideals and vision of the Age of Fire.

At some point Gwyn would also have his lastborn child Dark Sun Gwyndolin who was born with a strong affinity for moon magic and a "fragile and repulsive appearance", particularly due to the snakes coiled around his lower half. Due to his birth under the "feminine sign of the moon" and its influence that gave him a strong moon magic, as well as his lineage, Gwyn raised him as a female so that he could not officially become his heir, even making him wear women's clothing and a magic ring which would allow Gwyndolin to move and act like a girl, leading him to behave like a sullen brooding goddess

At one point the Witch of Izalith used her Lord Soul in an attempt to replicate the generative properties of the First Flame, resulting in her producing a Flame of Chaos and transforming herself into a Bed of Chaos that began producing Demons. The Flame of Chaos would eventually be controlled by Izalith and her daughters, that learned how to use it, moving from being fire sorcerers to developing pyromancy and thus creating a new society together with the demons generated by the Bed of Chaos and that learned their pyromancies too. These developments pushed Gwyn to wage war against the chaos demons, developing weapons and fighting techniques strong enough to face the size of their new enemies and sending his Silver Knights to Izalith. During the war their armor and weapons were charred black but despite their strength Gwyn's knights failed to defeat the demons or the Bed of Chaos, ending up retreating and only managing to banish the demons underground while also enslaving some lesser demons who would become servants of the gods.

Although the Age of Fire and the rule of the gods lasted for centuries, at some point the First Flame began to fade out naturally. Gwyn understood that this would lead to the return of the humans, carriers of the Dark Soul, and that a Dark Lord would arise among them capable of countering its power. The god feared this outcome and his decision was drastic: sacrifice his immense soul power, link the dying Flame and prolong its life in an unnatural way thus resisting the course of nature to mantain the world of gods, a decision he made and followed personally, not delegating the sacrifice to another member of his clan. Before sacrificing himself, Gwyn divided the power of his Lord Soul among the members of his large clan and the power of the sun to his children, entrusting the inheritance of his throne and crown as "king of the gods" and "god of the sun" to his firstborn son. Gwyn also left his sons and Frampt with the task of sheparding the humans, with the intention of continuing the linking of the Flame forever, creating a legend of an undead who would follow Gwyn's sacrifice and repeat his act and become a "king" like him.

Now bereft of most of his Lord Soul's power, Gwyn now with only the power of his soul, left for the Kiln of the First Flame, the structure built to house and protect it, with only his robes, his mighty greatsword and his powerless crown, accompanied only by a guard of Black Knights. Eventually Gwyn linked the First Flame, prolonging its life but being consumed by it, remaining the first empty husk of cinders guarding the core of the Kiln. The explosion of the newly kindled fire melted the surroundings and burned his knights to ashes, leaving them to wander the world as disembodied spirits.

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