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Well it takes me more than one try, but the Four Kings go down! I've been looking up a few things online now that I don't have to worry about spoilers, and decided after a few fails to try the Havel build. Simply putting on the heaviest armour so I face no knockback and powering through with constant attacks. I don't think it'll be very effective in most fights but in the DPS race that is 4K it came in very handy!

It's then time to meet Kaathe, the other primordial serpent. I'm very glad I started NG+ if only for the conversation we have here, Kaathe offers an alternative view on the history we've been told to this point and drops some pretty big lore bombs on us along the way! He claims that the Age of Fire was unnaturally prolonged by Gwyn linking the fire, and that we should instead embrace the Age of Dark. A neat idea, and 'reject the gods and forge your own path' is far more in line with what I expected the game's story to be. I don't know why they hid this vital info somewhere virtually nobody would find by themselves, heck this is the first time in the whole game we hear of the titular Dark Soul!

As forthcoming as Kaathe is, he is still very vague about what the 'Age of Dark' would entail, and how it would differ from our current age, so I can't say I'm fully on board. I have no desire to become the 'Dark Lord', but going against our destined path is pretty appealing. I wish there was some third choice! Regardless, this is a great scene. Hopefully more info will be forthcoming, but the way this game has gone I suspect we may not hear much more on the topic.

Now we've joined the Darkwraith covenant, I head down to Blighty and meet... Quelana! All these important NPCs I missed the first time round! I'm not sure if this is the same Quelana whose clothes were on the corpse Ceaseless was watching over, they share a name but she doesn't mention CD and she doesn't seem cruel enough to let her brother think she's dead. Maybe parents in this world are simply incapable of giving their children original names (Quelana/Quelaag, Gwyn/Gwyndolin, Siegmeyer/Sieglinde, there's a lot of family similarity!). Quelana teaches us some pyromancy, tells us about a man named Salaman, and gives some family history. I'm already aware of most of this by now thanks to those in this topic, but wow they sure like hiding away a lot of very important information in unlikely spots >_>

Again thanks to those in this topic and the internet at large, I manage to open the shortcut to Izalith. Getting infected by the egg creatures makes Eingyi much friendlier towards us, and he also provides us with some new info. We use the shortcut and kill Chaos once more. Remarkably I complete the last section of the fight on my first try this time! Quelana thanks us and gives our final pyromancy as a reward, then I speed through Pinwheel and Nito to get that section down. It's so nice gliding through all these sections that caused me so much pain previously!

Next up I'll do the painted world, then it's time to head to the Archives.