Thinking about how the guys at FromSoftware and the Souls Office have a lore bible that will never ever come to light. That their stories probably do have a kinda correct and mostly consistent order of events and lore but when they give it to you in the games they just give the most enigmatic bits.
You will never see the whole thing, just bits of it and they clearly inform each other and there is SOME story there. But it is nearly impossible to sus out the deeper meanings behind everything. It just leaves you with delicious speculation for the rest of time.
with the new elden ring DLC especially, it's so funny how many people talk about the missing and unclear bits of story as if they were left out by mistake, and not, like, as a purposeful means to communicate how much of their worlds' have been lost that even their history can only be guessed at
Alternatively, I like to think the Dark Souls story started out as "human-shaped beef jerky is trying to light a fire" and once the brutal level design was finished, they retrofitted the justification for those fuckers in Anor Londo with gigantic bows by writing in a war against the dragons.
