Nito, one of the four lords, a being with his own lord soul, overseeing death and disease. Let's start with his origins. There are currently 2 main theories of how Nito was born. The first is that Velka, or whoever the first firekeeper is, created Nito to be the God of Death. The other is that the lord soul literally created him, drawing the bodies together and granting it a sentience. Now in the artbook there are 2 side by side pictures of Nito. One with red eyes and a skeleton in the middle and a second with blue eyes lacking the central skeleton. What this tells us is although Nito is a collectivemass of skeletons there is a central skeleton that can be truly classified as Nito while the erst is for protection. Therefore I consider it more likely that Nito was this single skeleton touched by the lord soul, given "life" and formed his body around himself. I will present more proof of this further in.
Now onto his motivations. Nito is odd in that he is the leas active force in Lordran. WhileSeath is out conquering and the BoC is spreading demons around Nito is quite happy to it down in his tomb and let events transpire. Viral theorized Nito wished to create an age of the dead however I do not think that is entirely true. There are 2 possible goals that nito has and they are tied to either of his beginnings.
If Nito was created by Velka it is possible he is much like an puppet, that he only works when given orders. If so it means he will remain buried in lordran until his creator returns to give him a new goal to work for. This explain his lax attitude to the pinwheel stealing the rite and the lack of retribution for kiling him if you're in his covenant.
Now if Nito created himself/the lord soul created him it is now different. Nito may not have a true sentience. The proof for this is in his servants. The minor necromancers animate small skeletons, driving them to kill the player then reviving them when they die. The pinwheels are theorized to control the giant skeletons. They cannot revive them but they irder them around. In the same way the lord soul/the central skeleton acts as the necromancer for Nito's body, animating and controlling it.
Tolvo wrote:Who's to say what is done with the Lordvessel if you link
the flame? What if his servants could get it back and revive him
through that, or if he already lives on in them, sort of like how the
dark soul lives on through humanity. Nito might be one smart cookie,
having basically a situation in which no matter what he doesn't lose
anything more than a mass of bodies.
It could also be as you
said, he just doesn't care about his own existence. Maybe he
understands only a cause, but not identity. In that regard Nito might
not actually be totally sentient, which is so bizarre it kind of fits if
you ask me.
In this case it is more likely that Nito is working towards his own agenda. Based off the infinitely spawning baby skeletons it can be seen that Nito wants to propogate the dead, creating millions. In this case its possible he was creating an age of the dead.
). To me, that screams planning, which requires thought (sentience). What I had been getting at, is Nito may have seen a lose-lose scenario. He either ceases to exist when the fire goes out, or he dies, the fire gets linked, and at least his cause can continue. Or he could be like a lich, and have a pathway back to "life". The Lord Souls strike me as being returned to the flame or sacrificed in order to allow passage there.
by DoughGuy Sun Apr 22, 2012 8:38 pm