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Reminder he was meant to be Lothric's founding king until they rewrote the game like 4 months before release because DS3 is a fucking mess of a game that barely makes sense as it is. Once you see the cut content there's no going back because you just see the holes that are everywhere in the game.

So Gundyr. He's very clearly an Old King Doran expy. He was originally going to be in the Consumed King's Garden, which are filled with Pus of Man just like it. The area is even located to the left of the Lothric Castle path, just like the area you find Doran at in Boletaria in Demon's Souls, just like how the rest of Lothric takes after Boletaria. But instead you find Oceiros (who was a boss for a cut area) where Gundyr would be at, and behind Oceiros there's another section that gives you a gesture to access a completely isolated area (with more cut shit) and behind *that* there's a reused tutorial (likely standing for another cut area) with *another* Gundyr in it, guarding another Firelink shrine (there's like two more of those in the game) to which you're given no satisfactory explanation either. Of course the tutorial Gundyr was also replacing a boss that was moved (Yhorm, which is like several Demon's Souls references and was also replacing another boss that was moved, Wolnir, because they needed a boss for his area since they couldn't make the one they had planned work, at least until they repurposed it into DLC).

And this is just the first boss you fight.