Originally Posted by
Amaril
Yeah, but even that way isn't exactly what I'm thinking of. In Greek mythology, even if Olympus is connected to the mortal world, it always feels very much like another, separate realm--isn't it supposed to be impossible for a mortal to reach the home of the Olympian gods uninvited? Whereas in Dark Souls, to go back to that example, Anor Londo, the city of the gods, is literally just a normal city that humans can go to, where the gods happen to live (it's been sealed by the time of the games and is no longer so easily accessible, but ordinary humans lived there alongside the gods in the setting's past).