Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-14138255-20170320024103/@comment-25936766-20170422191942

ACWeapons wrote: I just realized something watching a DS lore video. The only reason Unkindled Ash rise when the bell tolls is because they failed. They failed in life before becoming undead and are only called as a last resort. You're right and wrong.

The Unkindled are Undead who had the capacity to Link the Fire, but lacked enough will and force and thus were consumed by it instead. Put in another way, they weren't even fit to be kindling for the Flame. Indeed, try to Link the Fire yourself, you manage to achieve nothing.

The only reason they are being summoned, X amount of time later, is because the Lords of Cinder who can do it, aren't in a fit state to do it. It's not because they failed in life. But they are indeed being called as a sort of Last Resort. Then they are given the job of returning the Lords of Cinder to their thrones by the Fire Keeper.

The Unkindled died and were buried in the Cemetery of Ash, before being revived by the Bell of Awakening as an Unkindled Lord of Cinder (they can become a real LoC by using Ember). For the same reason they don't Hollow or need humanity unless they get branded with the Dark Sigil.

The question, however, is indeed "how did Pyrrha end up an Unkindled?". She never failed to Link the Fire. She never tried. But it has nothing to do with "failing in life" or "having regret".