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[Dark Souls] Did Gwyn and The Painter kill the Age of Man?

In Dark Souls, when the Age of Gods went, the Age of Man was supposed to come, but Gwyn postponed the transition and cursed humanity with the Dark Sign, so our everlasting Dark Soul would leak out of us.    
And since Slave Knight Gael collected all the fragments of the Dark Soul at the end of the Age of Fire, and The Painter used it to create a painting, did they alltogether stop the Age of Man?
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The Age of Man as it was meant to be ended when Gwyn rekindled the First Flame, trapping the world in the endless cycle it is in. Even if someone would ensure that the fire fades, Gwyn made it impossible to extinguish forever. What we see when we meet Gael is the product of this. A world utterly ruined and exhausted by a cycle of ages that was never meant to be.

The Painter is creating an alternative to that. A world away from the Fire, free from Gwyn's actions.