8 Utterly Mind-Blowing Dark Souls Trilogy Fan Theories

8. Pinwheel Is A Man, Wife And Child Fused Into One Body

If you've only played Dark Souls once, chances are you might not even remember Pinwheel. If you do, you probably remember him as that boss in the Catacombs that was surprisingly, mercifully easy. Though fans of the series commonly regard Pinwheel as something of a joke, there's a lot of interesting lore speculation surrounding him.

Pinwheel is a single body wearing three masks: Mask Of The Father, Mask Of The Mother and Mask Of The Child. The theory states that after his wife and child passed away, the man attempted to find a way to resurrect his family (hence why he's found near Gravelord Nito, God of Death). Meddling with dark magic is risky business, however, and the family was fused together as a single entity.

Mask Of The Father's item description talks of the great burden the man carries, which appears to be entirely literal, as the Mask Of The Father is the lowest on Pinwheel, as if under the cloak he's carrying the Mother and Child. There's also the fact that players fight Pinwheel in a crypt filled with hundreds of books, as if he's desperately researching some sort of fix. And to top it all off, one of Pinwheel's main attacks is separating itself, as if trying to split back into three different entities.