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Okay so there's a lot of debate as to whether Manus is the Furtive Pygmy or not but recently I came to a Realization on the matter. Whether he was the Pygmy or wasn't, he was the Pygmy.

Dark Souls, especially the DLCs, is a story of identity. We see it with Lucatiel in II, we see it with Aldrich in III, we see it everywhere. Shit, we see it when you slay Manus and people think you were Artorias.

I promise there's a point here, stick with me pls.

Let's look for a second at the role of the Pygmy in Dark Souls. Someone forgotten by history, someone who was seen by Gwyn as such a threat they needed to be 1984'd because of the potential of their soul. As we all know, Gwyn's attempt to tamper with shit he didn't understand screwed over the entire universe, with undead curses and lethal slave knights popping up.

Now, what exactly happened to Manus, again? He was tampered with by the people of Oolacile who didn't understand, and it screwed over the universe.

In effect, the same overall outcome as the Pygmy's life.