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[DARK SOULS 3] Did/do regular people exist?

There are all of these cities and building, but barely any normal things...were there ever regular people around? Everything is grotesque and bizarre, but there are also regular environments that could exist in reality as well.
gpt
Yes.  Very few by the time of DS3 because the fire has faded so much and everything has gone all timey wimey wibbley wobbley, but regular people did exist and did populate all the kingdoms we pass through while hunting for the Lords of Cinder.

The existence of regular people was a bit more explicit in DS1, where the NPCs talked about their homelands as places they had been recently exiled from.  Lordran was the only ruined kingdom, while life in Catarina or Astora was pretty much normal.