>>712743184
Wrong, Consort Radahn has all of those. It has so much quests, material and actual foreshadowing in the base game. It's also the only reasonable explanation to the Battle of Aeonia itself.
Fucking Helphen's Steeple states that only those who die in battle valiantly return to Helphen, which was the Tree preceding the Erdtree.
There's so much lore dedicated just to foreshadowing Consort Radahn alone that it's undeniably that it was planned all along.
>reused animations from a DS2 enemy
Also completely false