Thagomizer
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There's two endings..just like Demon's. Either you take over as the new end boss of the game, or you don't. They're exactly the same. In essence, the end of both games is "the world continues just as it was, except now you're not so weak". Doesn't really need to be a giant cutscene or gobs of text to let you know in the end you haven't really done a thing to affect the world. Look out at the vistas from the castles in both games..endless, desolate, nothing. Flowers and shit don't sprout up all of a sudden just cause you won.
To add to this:
Linking the Fire. Physics doesn't work like it does in the real world, and in this case, the First Flame is the source of all fire- without it, there is literally no fire. It also has some side effects, including possibly providing the God's (Gwyn, Ornstein, Nito, The Witch of Izalith, etc.) power. At some point the Fire began to wane, so the Witch tried to rekindle it. This backfired spectacularly, turning her into the Bed of Chaos and her daughters (and, presumably, the rest of the population of Izalith) into demons. After some time, Gwyn divided his power and Lord Soul between Seath and the Four Kings, who at this point were still sane. He then took an honor guard to the Kiln- this was necessary as it had been infested by the Bed of Chaos and it's demons- and relinked the flame, with himself as the fuel. At the time of the game, the Flame is waning again, and Frampt and Gwyndolin, his son (Gwynevere has long since left Lordran and the one in her throne room is an illusion created by her brother), are trying to find a successor to Gwyn to reinvigorate the Flame. It's unclear if Gwyn was involved in this backup plan. However, most everything Frampt tells you either isn't proven or is an outright lie to get you to go along with it. In addition, Gwyndolin wants you to kill his father so that he can inherit all of his power, as Gywndolin is rather weak compared to his father.
Dark Lord. In this ending, you turn away from the Fire to rule the Age of Darkness. While Kaathe makes this sound like the dawning of a new age, there's no indication that anything actually changes for the better, besides that the player character isn't burning for eternity (or until the flame starts waning again), and in fact, may make things even worse by removing fire. Hope Lordran doesn't have winter.
Dark Lord. In this ending, you turn away from the Fire to rule the Age of Darkness. While Kaathe makes this sound like the dawning of a new age, there's no indication that anything actually changes for the better, besides that the player character isn't burning for eternity (or until the flame starts waning again), and in fact, may make things even worse by removing fire. Hope Lordran doesn't have winter.