by Deathsitexxi Thu Oct 04, 2012 3:59 pm
I honestly don’t think it boils down to mother or father. If what I mentioned yesterday about the art book is true then that would mean part of Priscilla’s DNA is that of an ancient dragon, then the other part could be male/female. Also, if it’s a DNA thing why does it have to be only 2 people? It could be Seath, Dusk, and Ancient dragon… All we know is that Seath is scaleless and Priscilla seems to have some type of scales in an art book and seems to have the same type of fur that an Ancient dragon has, which Seath also does not have.
We’d have to dig a little bit into Seath’s history to see what exactly he intended when he was creating Priscilla. So before he went insane, he was trying to reproduce the scales of immortality (from what I understand, correct me if I’m wrong). So what does Priscilla do? She has lifehunt…which in the hands of a mortal turns on them… The gods fear lifehunt… Was the creation of lifehunt through Priscilla an accident? And if it wasn’t an accident, why would Seath create it? We see the gods feared it and locked it away with the occult ember etc. . We know Seath was a duke (next in line if the King dies) and had no problem betraying his kin. So creating something that could kill Gywn easier would benefit him.
Another theory could be… What if Seath didn’t create her at all? And why do we all assume he did? Besides the fact he was known for experimenting on maidens, most of his experiments look pretty monstrous. She is locked away with Velka’s items and Velka’s worshippers. Velka the goddess of sin and justice, I can’t think anything more full of justice than a half human /half dragon defeating Gywn.
My last and final theory, which I actually believed for the longest is… Seath was once human. We already know humans can obtain a dragon form, and when in dragon form humans look like larval dragons. So you could say that after a few centuries they would grow bigger and obtain full dragon form. Think about it, a human well versed in the magic arts obtains this larval dragon form, but is too impatient to wait for his full dragon form. He lusts for the immortality it brings, so he uses his knowledge in magic to try a forced evolution… We end up with Seath the Scaleless. Not human or dragon but mortal just the same, after all of his hard work he end up cursing himself with this blind deformed dragon body and still lacks the scales of immortality. So the DNA mixture to create Priscilla could simply be Seath’s DNA, and an Ancient Dragon’s DNA.
Unfortunately, these answers are not in the game, and unless From flat out tells us all we can do is speculate. However, as you can see from the 3 theories I put above (from just one person) it all depends on how you see the Dark Souls story when you are playing it. Not an exciting answer but that’s what’s great about the game.