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[Dark Souls]What is really happening when the Fire fades?

I’ve played all 3 games, and all the DLC for each one, but I’m still a little confused by the ending to the Ringed City story. Best I can tell, at the very end, when I fight the Slave Knight, the world around me is made up of Ash from an unimaginable number of Fire Linkings, and the Slave Knight and I are the only things left living in the world.

But why does Linking the Fire or letting it die create such disastrous consequences, no matter which option you choose? Link the Fire, and new civilizations rise, and then fall when Undeath starts spreading. Let the Fire fade, and the sun itself literally goes out, plunging the world into darkness, man reverts back to its primal, insane nature. Is there no “good” middle ground, besides creating new painted worlds?
gpt
IIRC the fire Fading represents the end of the age of gods and the beginning of the “Age of dark”, which means the age of humanity.

Probably can be interpreted as humanity loosing its contact with the gods and having to fend off by ourselves (which works pretty well considering the properties of the Dark Soul) But is disastrous for the gods.