Why are humans undead in Dark Souls?

The curse is introduced as a punishment inflicted upon Humanity by the Gods. The Gods gave the gift of fire to Humanity, but when they became too powerful and began to challenge the Gods, they cursed humanity with the Darksign, the mark of the undead.
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How did people become undead in Dark Souls?

The Undead Curse was a consequence of Lord Gwyn artificially extending the Age of Fire, which prevented the Age of Dark from occurring, naturally. Gwyn's meddling caused the dead to awaken at bonfires, and to eventually become hollow. This is why the Dark Lord ending is known as the True Ending.
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Why do humans go hollow in Dark Souls?

Hollows are those cursed with the darksign that have suffered death and now lack humanity. Deprived of humanity enough, they become completely mindless, losing any shred of reason and hungering for humanity, blindly attacking anyone that possesses it.
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Is everyone in Dark Souls undead?

The land is cursed. Though the endings available in Dark Souls 1 allow you to end the curse, the subsequent games are based on the grim outcome. Everything is dead because at some point, it actually died. The curse results in undeath.
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Are all humans cursed in Dark Souls?

After playing dark souls 1-3, it seems like the answer is no. The word "curse" implies its an affliction, something you have to get. If it were innate to all humans, it would just be considered part of their lifecycle similar to how immortality is part of the dragons.
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Does God exist in Dark Souls?

The gods are mostly forgotten by this point in time, with their names unknown, though there remains the ruins of old cities who once worshiped the old gods. The souls of the three Lords are said to have been reborn and try to influence the world despite being mere fragments.
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Do normal humans exist in Dark Souls?

All human beings are made Human by a fragment of the Dark Soul, known as their Humanity, which looks like a black sprite with blank white eyes. Humans are also capable of withstanding the Abyss, provided that they have not become untuned to it, and even find a sort of comfort in it.
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What started the undead Curse?

The Gods gave the gift of fire to Humanity, but when they became too powerful and began to challenge the Gods, they cursed humanity with the Darksign, the mark of the undead.
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Who created the curse in Dark Souls?

The curse of undeath was created when Gwyn, Lord of Cinder and Ruler of the Age of Fire, began to feel threatened by the kin of the Furtive Pigmy: humans were immortal beings, born from the Dark yet able to live in a world enlightened by the Fire, whose souls did not lose power despite being endlessly splitted and ...
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Are all Dark Souls related?

All three Dark Souls games take place in the same world but at very different times and often in different places. Dark Souls one takes place primarily in Lordran at the very tail end of Gwyn's age of fire.
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What's the point of humanity in Dark Souls?

Using Humanity

Humanity can be spent at bonfires to reverse Hollowing or to kindle bonfires. Reversal of hollowing allows players to summon other players and invade worlds; kindling increases the maximum amount of Estus Flask charges a bonfire provides.
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Is Hollowing bad Dark Souls?

Hollowing has no negative effects on gameplay. However, it is required for certain NPC questlines and provides a bonus to luck when wielding Hollow weapons with a hollowing level of at least 15. Hollowing can be temporarily cured by paying the Statue of Velka to reverse hollowing, or by consuming a Purging Stone.
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Can you lose humanity in Dark Souls?

"Note that when you die, your used humanity is dropped in the same spot as your souls. Do whatever it takes to get them back!"
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Is creating undead evil?

The rules don't directly say that creating undead is evil... but they do say that it's definitely not good, and only evil people would do it often. From the description of the Necromancy school in the general spellcasting rules, emphasis mine: Necromancy spells manipulate the energies of life and death.
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Who is the first dead in Dark Souls?

Nito, the first of the dead, is one of the original Lords who found a Lord Soul at the dawn of the Age of Fire. His soul turned him into a living manifestation of illness and death, a mass of skeletons held together.
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Do the undead feel pain?

Long story short; zombies have most likely experienced nerve damage that contributes to the common notion that they experience little to no physical pain. It could just be due to trauma, injury, infection, or Trioxin. But they most certainly seem to ignore discomfort in their ultimate pursuit of human flesh.
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How were demons created in Dark Souls?

↑ As stated by Miyazaki in the DS1 Design Works interview: "All demons are born from the fire of chaos, but he [Ceaseless Discharge] was the first, born so long ago, when the fire wasn't yet stable.
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Who is the disturbing boss in Dark Souls?

The Duke's Dear Freja

Capable of launching lasers from its mouths and summoning a horde of arachnid minions, it's easily among the most grotesque in the Dark Souls series.
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Who is the villain of Dark Souls?

Gwyn, also known as the Lord of Sunlight and the Lord of Cinder, is the main antagonist of the Dark Souls trilogy.
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Why did Gwyn create the undead Curse?

As the Flame began, Gwyn would come to fear the Human population and the progressing and continual spreading of the Dark Soul. When the Flame began to fade, Gwyn created the First Linking of the fire, also known as the First Sin.
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What is the age of darkness in Dark Souls?

What exactly the term "Age of Dark" implies is never made explicitly clear in the games, however it is stated in the canonical Dark Souls Trilogy Compendium to be a time when the Light fades, a Dark Lord is heralded, and humanity dominates the world.
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What is the difference between being hollow and human in Dark Souls?

Human form as highter curse resitances and can summon phantoms, you also cannot kindle fires in hallow form. So really not much difference other than being able to summon other players and be invaded?
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Why are humans so big in Dark Souls?

DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin

A different race of humans or something else? Don't ever recall seeing this discussed by the almighty lore gods. The popular theory is, more powerful the individual, larger the body (in relation to the "normal" size for that species) to house the more powerful soul.
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Is Humanity permanent in Dark Souls?

You lose “soft” Humanity when you die, just like the Souls you're carrying. You regain it if you reach and interact with your bloodstain — again, just like Souls. As long as you have “soft” Humanity, you can use it to Reverse Hollowing and become Human, which we'll cover in the next section below.
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Why did Gwyn go to war with dragons?

The world can not progress to be a land of life, death, light, and dark without the source of the curse being snuffed out. Society cannot exist so long as this curse persists, and so Gwyn struck down the dragons.
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