Dark Souls 3 -The Fading of the Flame and The Birth of Demons - Gaming World

The War Against The Dragons

     "With the strength of Lords, they challenged the Dragons. Gwyn's mighty bolts peeled apart their stone scales. The Witches weaved great firestorms. Nito unleashed a miasma of death and disease. And Seath the Scaleless betrayed his own, and the Dragons were no more."
Nito, the Witch of Izalith, and Gwyn became Lords with the power of the flame, and waged war on the dragons. To aid in their battle, Gwyn used the power of the sun to spawn the first miracles, and the Witch of Izalith created the first pyromancies. The Lords, with the help of the dragon Seath the Scaleless, defeated the dragons and won the war.
Seath was the first mortal dragon, born without scales, which were the dragons' source of immortality. He became fearful of death, and sided with Gwyn. Seath was a brilliant academic, and focused on research, which spawned the first Sorceries.

The Age of Fire

With the Dragons defeated, the Lords settled their own kingdoms.  Nito ventured deep into the Catacombs where he rewarded his servants and created the Finito and Milfinito.  The Witch of Izalith and her daughters returned to Izalith in order to study their Flame Sorceries. Gwyn settled at the pinnacle of all of their kingdoms in the golden city, Anor Londo,  where he and his brethren proclaimed themselves Gods. At this time, Gwyn gives Seath the title of Duke and grants him the Archives for his research.
Little is heard or known about the Pygmy, only that he is the forebearer of all of humanity. After his descendants reproduced, through many generations, a large number of human kingdoms arose, and humans began learning sorceries, miracles and pyromancies. It is speculated that the human's affinity for magic is attested to the power of the Dark Soul fragments scattered within all mankind. Examples of the kingdoms of mankind are:  Baldur, Astora, Vinheim (known for its Dragon School of magic tracing back to the Creator of Sorcery, Seath), New Londo (a human city large enough to be ruled by 4 kings),  Oolacile,  Carim, and Catarina. 
Because the race of Gods was far more powerful than humans, humanity considered them true gods and started to worship them forming religions. These Gods also saw the humans as their subjects. 
Gywn plays a fundamentally important role in many future events, and it is important to know about him and those to whom he is related. He had four elite knights at his command, Dragonslayer Ornstein, Hawkeye Gough, Lord's Blade Ciaran, and Artorias of The Abyss, who will play an important role in the events of Oolacile. He also bequeathed fragments of his own soul to Seath and The Four Kings of New Londo for their contributions.  Gwyn had 3 children, Gwyndolin, Gwynevere, and an unknown son who was exiled and demoted from his deific status. 

The Fading of the Flame and The Birth of Demons

    Eventually, something that no one expected happened, the fire began to Fade. The Lords noticed that their power diminishing and became worried. The Witch of Izalith decided to try and recreate the First Flame in Izalith.  This went horribly wrong, and the Chaos Flame and Bed Of Chaos were born, both of which were a twisted mockery of the First flame that transformed everyone into demons. The Witch of Izalith's failure births pyromancy as it exists in the games, and destroys Izalith. Only ruins, chaos and fire remain where Izalith once stood. The only survivor of this event is Quelana, who passes the knowledge of pyromancy to her first pupil and it extends to the Great Swamp.
Gwyn, in order to avoid the end of the Age of Fire, decided to offer his own body and power as sacrifice to the First Flame. Upon relinking the First Flame, Gwyn becomes cindered. This offered a temporary solution, but the fire again began to fade. Gwyn's actions were influenced by the primordial serpent Frampt. An important dialogue on this matter is given by Kaathe:

"Hmm… You are astonishing. The truth I shall share without sentiment. After the advent of fire, the ancient lords found the three souls. But your progenitor found a fourth, unique soul. The Dark Soul. Your ancestor claimed the Dark Soul and waited for Fire to subside. And soon, the flames did fade, and only Dark remained. Thus began the age of men, the Age of Dark. However… Lord Gwyn trembled at the Dark. Clinging to his Age of Fire, and in dire fear of humans,
and the Dark Lord who would one day be born amongst them, Lord Gwyn resisted the course of nature, by sacrificing himself to link the fire, and commanding his children to shepherd the humans, Gwyn has blurred your past, to prevent the birth of the Dark Lord.

I am the primordial serpent. I seek to right the wrongs of the past to discover our true Lord. But the other serpent, Frampt, lost his sense, and befriended Lord Gwyn. Undead warrior, we stand at the crossroad. Only I know the truth about your fate. You must destroy the fading Lord Gwyn, who has coddled Fire and resisted nature, and become the Fourth Lord, so that you may usher in the Age of Dark!"

Gwyn's faithful  Knights followed him to the Kiln of the First Flame and were incinerated when the fire was linked. This changed their silver armors to charred black, creating the Black Knights.