I got up to Drangleic Castle and when I got to the bonfire behind an illusionary wall, lit it, and brought up the bonfire select screen it had more than before. So far I had uncovered 22 (main picture) locations but in all I now had 27 but 5 of those were grayed out. Also on the main Drangleic Caslte picture I had 4 bonfires pictures in all with 2 grayed out. But I only had lit 2 bonfires in the castle.

Has this happened to you? It seemed a bit odd so would be interesting to find out.

It happens to everyone, in all versions. Not sure if its a bug, or if its meant to do that.

Thanks for clearing that up, the grayed out ones are all levels then? It felt like a cool bug anyway. A bit like that big bug bug when I thought it wasn't moving.

Ya, they are places you haven't been to yet. And some places might have bonfires you missed or haven't been able to get to yet also.

Yeah what sterling said. It just represents the bonfires you haven't found. It gives you a nice idea on what areas you might not have cleared as well as you thought you did while also giving you an idea of how much of the game is left.

Yea it just seems to happen at some point to be like "This could all be yours"

I think it's intentional. Maybe From doesn't want you to go on clean-up patrol until you're sufficiently far enough into the game for that to matter.