Dark Souls information thread

Reinier · Sep 29, 2011

Since I seem to be making alot of Dark Souls threads I figured it would be better to have one thread with information on the game.

Here is some cool information I found today about the different factions you can join in the game and the benefits each faction has:

Way of White

Involves everything "related" to Gwyn and it's followers. You get this covenant not by talking with Gwyn himself, but by communicating with his body guards while having a lot of humanity. "This covenant is for helping out other players online. Players who are in this covenant will automatically be drawn closer to each other on the network. This makes Miracle Resonance easier to perform, as well as helps block people from antagonistic covenants from coming closer on the network."

Princess's Guard

Increases flask amount. Not many details at this time. Is hidden deep inside a castle, following the "Fat Guy" + "Slim lancer" boss fight.

Blade of the Darkmoon

This is the true Gwyn covenant. He wants to destroy all other lords and get their flames, so he can get enough power to lead the rest of the world into his perfect future. You get it late in the game. This covenant allows you to obtain the Dark Knight armor that has special effects. "The goddess of Sin Velka oversees this list of the guilty, who have disrespected the Gods or their covenants, and shall one day face the wrath of the Blades of the Darkmoon." The Blade of the Darkmoon's primary objective is to assassinate other players who have broken their covenant by using a list of names found in the "Book of Guilty" item.

Warrior of Sunlight

It is related to the Solaire of Astoria, a member of a kingdom different from the one you are in. Think of it as the "South Boletaria" of this game. According to Japanese wiki, 50 Faith is required to join.

Forest Hunter

The player finds this covenant in the dark forest by talking to the huge cat referred to as "Alvina" in a small stone building towards the wolf boss. Joining this covenant will result in Alvina giving you a white pearl ring, which she will use to summon you when other players, whom aren't part of the Forest Hunter covenant, journey into the first part of the forest. This covenant exists to make the walk to the giant wolf extremely difficult towards the end.

Killing enemy players that don't belong to the covenant will result in you gaining a reward of sorts. It is not confirmed whether it will be humanity, souls, or a mere token you can use for something. It does, for sure, however, result in you gaining something for your efforts.

With this covenant, you learn that Alvina hates the wolf that guards the large sword and she actually prefers that you kill him. Not doing so results in the breaking of the covenant, and your name appearing in the book of the guilty for the members of the "Blade of the Darkmoon" covenant to hunt to their hearts content. Breaking the covenant by letting the wolf flee results in the gaining of a sword, however, in exchange for this disadvantage.

Breaking the covenant is extremely easy, otherwise, considering your not allowed to kill ANYTHING that lives in the end-part of the black forest. No trees, mushroom men, hunters, ghosts, and the catbear. Making an attempt to kill Alvina will also result in the breaking of the covenant.

Darkwraith

A hidden covenant. You get it by speaking to the "Absolute Darkness" that wishes to engulf this world. It's nice to have this covenant because you apparently do not have to fight a more difficult boss in the game.

Path of the Dragon

Hardly anything is known about this covenant, but is widely believed to have A LOT to do with sorcery characters and Seethe. Information wednesday.

Gravelord Servant

Must have the lowest possible humanity. You embrace your undead existence and gain access to curses. The covenant is supposedly gained by having the lowest possible humanity, 00, and dying multiple times while undead to receive an absolutely terrible looking character. This doesn't create the pact itself, however the pact is supposedly formed during the fight with Nito himself. This is doubt-able, and will be confirmed by Wednesday.

Being a Gravelord's servant allows you to invoke the gravelord ability, which consists of you placing a soul sign of your own on the ground. This soul sign will appear in 3 other player's worlds, wherever you sat the sign down. It is in the best interest for players to hide the soul sign to avoid what I'm about to mention. While the gravelord is invoked, black phantom monsters (upgraded versions of already difficult creatures) will be summoned in 3 other worlds.

The reason for invoking the gravelord isn't to gain humanity. Invasions are. When using the gravelord, if a player dies while under the effect of it, his blood stain will be robbed of half of his souls, all of which are given to the gravelord. If a player finds the soul sign of the gravelord, he can invade the gravelords world and kill him, thus freeing all 3 worlds of the curse. To be frank, all 3 players can invade at the same time, which makes the gravelord very risky, abeit extremely fun.

Being a member of the gravelord also grants access to "Illness inflicting" weapons and spells. The skull lantern, in particular, can breathe a miasma that inflicts both plague and poison. Other weapons and effects are unknown at the moment, but will be revealed Wednesday.

Chaos Servant

This is the witch's covenant. You get it by proceeding deep into sewers and arriving at the chaos area, just after the swamp. Taking an oath with the witch will result in you gaining much more powerful fire spells for a pyromancer, namely a large lava bomb and a very, very random firestorm.

To break the covenant, you need only hit the witch, kill her, or hurt/kill a daughter of chaos.

One of the most important things to realize is that if a player breaks/abuses the covenant in any way, he will gain eggs on his head, and be forced to take an item to remove them. Not much is known about how these eggs work, or even if you have to break the covenant to gain them, but the covenant most certainly involves you having to keep the eggs off of your face and body to fight properly, as they are apparently highly flammable.

A side note: If you break the chaos servants covenant, and gain eggs, you will no longer be able to buy the antidote for the eggs, become extremely flammable (as in lose resistance), and have to kill egg vessels for the antidote.
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Source = http://darksoulswiki.wikispaces.com/Covenants

The bosses that you fight in the game depend on that faction that you join (sounds like its good for replay value).

Reinier · Sep 29, 2011

Heres a video of a guy playing the English version of the game (no idea how he got it before the 4th of October)

A look at the Art book and contents of the collectors edition:

Yizelin · Sep 29, 2011

So then does that art book video confirm that NA shipped collector's in fact have a physical copy?

Reinier · Sep 29, 2011

Yizelin said: ↑

So then does that art book video confirm that NA shipped collector's in fact have a physical copy?
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Thats a video of the European copy of the collectors edition, it includes a physical copy of the art book with a hard cover, the soundtrack on a cd, and a "making of Dark Souls" dvd.

btw I found a picture of the Princess Covenant Guard, shes hawt!

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