How can I respawn the dragon soul? Bonfire ascetic not work.

That's exactly what I was thinking as i entered, they said that in the beginning everything was grey, this must have been one of the first casualties of gwyn's crusade

Absolutely correct

Considering that in Dark Souls III you can leave items/soapstone notes in the current Firelink Shrine and see them in the Untended Graves Firelink Shrine this might not be too far off. Who knows, FromSoft does a lot of weird***** that seems unnecessarily complex. Lol

True, I mean the Dragon Aerie isn’t all THAT far from Majula anyway

You know it because of a youtube video

You probably wouldn't want to know

The Ancient Dragons were made of stone. They were never "alive", and they never had souls; at least, according to Dark Souls 1 lore (dragons having souls in DS2 makes no sense and is just one of many instances in which the lore gets warped due to the games having different writers). In any case, the dragon wasn't "petrified", it was just dead; killed by Gywn, the other Lords and the Silver Knights.

10,000 basilisks

The ancient dragons actually did gain souls, oct 2017 anon, after the age of fire started, they gained souls, so now no other real "dragons" were born. Most of the dragons we see in dark souls and dark souls 2 are actually drakes or wyverns, which have souls and are decendents of dragons as a side affect of the everlasting dragons having souls.

Seath had a soul.

Seath was given a part of Gwyn's soul (I think) and was born... different...

probably the first player who set a message down saying "try finger but hole"

Time

Amen

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Not humanity, but the gods and their followers rose to power.

This leapt into my mind immediately. Didn't even think of the ideas posited above.

ahh... makes sense

Correct. Except for the Humanity part. Humanity is linked with the Dark and humans, not the Lords of Gwyn, the Witch of Izalith, or Nito. The Furtive Pygmy is linked to it as they were likely the first of the coming mortal races of humans and pygmies. From my understanding, the first sign of Humanity came from the Pygmy's Lord Soul, the Dark Soul while Gwyn and the others used other powers from their Lord Souls. Gwyn betrayed the "pygmies" directly after the war against the dragons to stave off the coming Age of Dark (these events could still be thousands of years apart of course) and likely stole the Dark Soul in the process to begin the perverse lengthening of the Age of Fire via the Undead "Curse" as him and his followers put it. When in reality of course, it's just the birthright and eventuality of Humanity, humans, and the world entire to become Undead and filled with Dark.