(DARK SOULS pt.4) Firelink Shrine

Hello everybody, last time we talked about some mechanics and today we will be exploring the new area called "Firelink Shrine", I will be doing a walkthrough of this place, which means I'll show you where are: all items, NPCs and (if they are any) bosses. So let's jump right in to it  

Right after you exit the bonfire you can see someone sitting next to the wall, this individual is Crestfallen Warrior, and he will not only mock you but will also give you a hint to what you have to do. 

Well what actually do you have to do? Well it's simple, you have ring two bells one in church and one in something called Blighttown, see easy.

 Now turn around and you will see the well with a corpse holding three Humanities.

Then if you turn left you will see a small doorway and behind it three new paths.

If you go to path to the right you will find yourself in a small hallway, go straight and you will find a corpse with six firebombs.

If you go to the path in the middle, first you'll see a message that tells you that you can actually do gestures in this game, and the we will meet second NPC of Firelink Shrine, Petrus of Thoruruland... Thoroululand? Thorolund yes that's it! Petrus of Thorolund. When you talk to him, he will nicely ask you to keep your distance from him, if you talk to him again he will apologize and give you copper coin in apology, after you talk to him for third time he will propose to teach you miracles. If you say yes to his offer he will ask you to join his covenant which is a COVENANT OF GODS, say yes and he will officially be your first shopkeeper of the game. Now you will be able to buy miracles and talismans from him.

Now if you look to your right you will see stairs, go to the top of them and you will find another corpse holding Soul of a Lost undead.

Now go down a little and to your right you will see two doorways and behind them an empty shaft, drop down and you will land safely. 

Where are we now? The mother lode friend. There are four chests here, all holding pretty good loot.

The first and closest one contains six Homeward Bones which are the items that let you teleport to last bonfire you rested at.

In the chest to the left you will find a talisman and weapon Morning Star. You see why I said cleric is kind of useless?

In the chest that was previously hidden behind wall to your left you will find four Cracked red eye orbs, an online item that lets you invade other people worlds when you're in human form.

The last chest is on a ledge straight from where you dropped from. There you will find four Lloyd's Talismans that are an item that lets you put to sleep a certain enemy.

Now you can either drop down to the graveyard and run back to the bonfire while running away from way stronger enemies or just use a Homeward Bone to get their quickly and safely.

And finally the path to the left. 

After you go through the giant doorway you'll now be in a giant empty room with one open chest. The way this chest works, is if in some way a key item will be dropped by the player it will respawn in this chest so that you won't get softlocked. 

Go up the stairs to your left and left again around the wall and you will find another Soul of a Lost Undead behind the tiny wall in front of you.

Now go back and go up the stairs to the upper floor. After you go to the other side of it you will find another Soul of a Lost Undead.

And now the graveyard. I hope you spent all of your souls because you might not be getting them back.

There are six items you can get here but all of them are protected by high level enemies so you'll have to make a run for it. Or if you want to fight with the enemies, use a blunt weapon like morning star that we just picked up, because it destroys skeletons for a few seconds so you're not in constant combat. 

First drop down the ledge to your left and grap the Large Soul of a Lost Undead.

Then run down the stairs in front of you and get Caduceus Round Shield

Go up and right to quickly grab another Large Soul of a Lost Undead

Then go up the hill to your right until you reach the giant tombstone with Winged Spear

Keep going straight 'till the next giant tombstone and grab the Zweihander from there.

Finally run straight to the ledge with corpse on it and pick up the binoculars. (Which I can't show because I chose them as my starting gift and game lets you have only one in your inventory)

And now the last one thing. Some of you probably already noticed that to the left of Crestfallen Warrior there're stairs. If you go down with them you will see an empty area with this gal locked up. If you try to talk to her you find out she can't speak but you will also get a menu with two options.

Reinforce Estus Flask which you can't do without an item called Firekeepers Soul.

And Talk which you also can't do.

And that would be it for the Firelink walkthrough,

 but there's actually a way for you to upgrade your flask now but it might take a few tries and it's not really in Firelink.

So from the Firekeeper (the person behind the bars) go right and you will find another staircase go down and follow the path until you came across a tiny room with an elevator inside.

Go down the elevator and now you're in New Londo Ruins but don't worry, there won't be any spoilers. We actually can't do much here this early in the game, so let's just get what we came here for and go back. 

Go to the wooden bridge and walk through it, at the end there will be stone platform covered in water that you can stand on but beware, right after you step on it the ghost will appear and right now you can't harm it because you're not cursed nor have a cursed weapon (For curse mechanics see mechanics post). 

Walk past the ghost and behind the wall to your right. 

You should be in some sort of small hallway, from here go straight on thin floor in front of you,

after you get to the end you should see a corpse with an item, pick it up and you just got yourself a Firekeepers soul.

Now just preform a cool bonfire skip.

And you're back at Firelink now.

(Here's a video if you have any trouble following the text)

Now get back to the firekeeper and reinforce your flask.

Now you can see a +1 next to the Estus Flask, this means that it's upgraded to plus one level, which means it restores more health now, neat.

Well it looks that'll be it, in the next DS post we will conquer another area of the game, the Undead Burg but for now I hope you'll have a great rest of the day, bye.