Baulder's Knights failed.
The Berenike Knights failed.
Knight King Rendall failed.
Prince Ricard had failed.
Black Iron Tarkus fell.
Witch Beatrice failed.
Paladin Leeroy Had but a fleeting victory.
Knight Lautrec failed.
Big Hat Logan went mad.
Griggs lost his master.
Laurentis never found the flame he sought.
Pinwheel failed he failed himself and them.
Crestfallen never got the chance to fail.
Oscar died without a name.
Hawkeye Gough Could see the inevitable better than anyone else.
Lord's blade Ciaran never moved on.
Dragonslayer Ornstein abandoned his post.
Artorias the Abysswalker never even knew what happened until it was too late.
Sif died trying to protect his saviour.
Quelaag Couldn't protect her.
Quelana Couldn't face them.
The fair lady Couldn't save them.
Kirk Couldn't ease her suffering.
The Black Knights failed.
The Silver Knights faded.
Executioner Smough died guarding a false truth.
Gwynevere couldn't face the end and ran.
The gods followed.
The Darkmoon Knightess accepted the lie and protected it.
Gwyndolin hid away but even that couldn't save him.
Prisicilla never wanted to leave and she never wanted anyone to come to her either.
Seath went mad.
The people of new londo drowned.
The Kings faded into the abyss that they had called forth.
The sealers vanished, unable to live with what they had done.
Ceaseless discharge couldn't protect her grave.
The witch's daughter wanted to protect mother.
The witch of izalith lost herself trying to prevent the inevitable.
Gravelord Nito ignored the end but those in denial could not.
The residents of Oolacile were their own executioners.
Manus just wanted his pendant.
Dusk died trying to keep Oolacile's legacy alive.
Solaire's sun was snuffed out.
Frampt tried to stop that which will always happen.
Kaathe tried to stop that which will always happen.
Gwyn faded like his flame.
Yorshka sat and had no idea what was happening.
The chosen undead matters not their choice simply determined when the world died.