The Furtive Pygmy is a mentioned-only character. All that is known is that the Furtive Pygmy was around one of the first to gain a soul and has hidden themselves for years. Darkstalker Kaathe's dialogue tells the truth about the furtive pygmy, the three lords rose from the flames and found the lord souls, but our progenitor found a unique soul, the Dark Soul. The pygmy claimed the soul and waited for the fire to subside, and soon the flames did fade, and only dark remained, and thus began the age of men, the age of dark. Gwyn sacrificed himself to save the humans from the flames fading and obscured your past, preventing the birth of the Dark Lord. Kaathe is the only being in Lordran to know your true fate, you will become the Dark Lord, just like the furtive pygmy did once before. With his dark soul he separated it into fragments so humans could live. The humanity item description asks "If the soul is the source of all life, then what distinguishes the humanity we hold within ourselves?" It is distinguished by the fact it was a fragment of the Dark Soul not any normal soul.

Why Manus is seen as the Furtive Pygmy

There are many things that contribute to this idea. First of all, how can one simply just come along, and corrupt a whole towns humanity, unless you were the controller of humanity originally? And also, why does he drop 10 humanity, and also, why is his soul a humanity black color on top of that? At the start of the game he is seen holding an item in his hands, and what is it? I speculate it to be the broken pendant found in Seath's archives, and he went crazy because that was what kept him sane, until it broke. How did Seath acquire this from him, and why does Manus kidnap Dusk? Another thing that links him more to the pygmy is his magic. These small black orbs are the color of humanity, which we all know came from the pygmy. How does he hold so much humanity that he can just release it that often. All of this is just my speculation but anyway, I think it's accurate, what do you think of the Pygmy and Manus?

More Theories

If Princess Dusk was supposed to be rescued by Knight Artorias, why did he become evil and hated after his defeat in battle vs Manus and why was Manus the controller of humanity in The Chasm Of The Abyss. Answer: Artorias was beaten and corrupted by Manus, sacrificing himself to save Sif. Manus broke Artorias' arm during the fight, leaving him solely with a greatsword. He is still revered in legends as the Abysswalker, but the real truth is that YOU stopped Manus in Artorias' name. Manus was the controller of humanity in the Chasm because, if assuming the above theories are true, he is the furtive pygmy, the master of the dark soul, the root of Humanity and the Age of Dark.