The noble tradition of failing to keep up with npc questlines in every game.
Seems like the general rule of thumb in DS games is that the NPCs are better off if you never interact with them.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't in many of the cases
Yeah, but at least they get closure and even a triumphant or worthy death in a lot of them. Otherwise you just show up to somewhere and there's a mutilated corpse of the quest line NPC on the ground.
For some reason I can't keep Sigward of Catarina alive in my recent runs