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  1. Plot
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  3. Dark Souls has a minimalistic plot and it is mostly left up to the player to put the pieces of the story together. Historical events in this world and their significance are often implicit and left to player interpretation rather than fully shown or explained. Most of the story is given to the player through dialogue from characters within the game, item descriptions, or through a number of the game's scarce cutscenes.
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  5. The opening cutscene begins in primeval times, where the world was unformed and the immortal Everlasting Dragons held sole dominion over all. The First Flame was ignited from an unknown source, which brought disparity in the form of light and dark. Within the flame, four beings discovered the Lord Souls and became godlike entities: Nito, the First of the Dead; the Witch of Izalith; Gwyn, the Lord of Sunlight; and the Furtive Pygmy.
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  7. Three of the Lords, led by Gwyn and with the help of the traitorous dragon Seath the Scaleless, defeated the race of dragons in a great war and began their Age of Fire. The first flame of the world cannot last forever, and is doomed to wither and die. Realizing this, the Witch of Izalith and her children unsuccessfully attempted to recreate it, which turned her into a monstrosity known as the Bed of Chaos and birthed the creatures known as Demons. In a last-ditch effort, Gwyn ventured to the Kiln of the First Flame with some of his faithful knights and sacrificed himself to the fire and rekindled it temporarily.
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  9. As the flame is in danger of fading, bearers of the accursed Darksign known as the Undead appear amongst humanity. Those branded with it can no longer die, but eventually lose their minds and go "hollow". Since mindless hollows are threats to humans, Undead are corralled and locked away. The player-named protagonist starts the game locked in a cell in the Undead Asylum, but escapes with the help of a knight known as Oscar of Astora. Oscar tells the player about a prophecy concerning a Chosen Undead who is destined to leave the Undead Asylum and ring the Bells of Awakening in Lordran.
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  11. Once the Chosen Undead has progressed far enough to ring both Bells of Awakening, the serpent Kingseeker Frampt wakes up in Firelink Shrine. Having awaited the true Chosen Undead's arrival for a millennium, he explains that they must gather the Lord Souls and succeed Lord Gwyn by defeating him and linking the fire, thus undoing the curse of the undead. To complete this arduous task, the player must travel through Sen's Fortress and retrieve the Lordvessel from the land of Anor Londo, former city of the gods. When that is obtained, the player must obtain the powerful Lord Soul fragments to ignite the Lordvessel and unlock the door to the Kiln of the First Flame: one fragment from Seath the Scaleless; one fragment from the Four Kings; one whole soul from the Gravelord Nito; and one whole soul from the Bed of Chaos.
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  13. If the player refrains from placing the Lordvessel on the altar, he can instead meet Darkstalker Kaathe in the Abyss, who is another Primordial Serpent who opposes Frampt. Kaathe tells the player that the Furtive Pygmy, whose Lord Soul is known as the Dark Soul, dispersed some of his power in order to create the human race. Kaathe desires to "usher in the Age of Dark" by destroying Gwyn and extinguishing the fire forever, ending the reign of the gods and making the player the Dark Lord, and says that Frampt lost his senses when he allied with Gwyn.
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  15. Whichever serpent the player allies with, they must fight Gwyn inside the kiln of the first flame. Once Gwyn is defeated, player may either sacrifice themselves to rekindle the flame, or to let the flame become extinguished.
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  17. In the light ending, the protagonist sacrifices his/her body and soul, burns intensely and prolongs the age of fire. In the dark ending, multiple primordial serpents are seen bowing before the protagonist in the new dark age, also known as the age of Man.
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  19. Artorias of the Abyss DLC
  20. At some point, one of the primordial serpents convinced the inhabitants of a land called Oolacile to upturn the grave of Manus, the primeval man and Father of the Abyss. Upon his awakening, Manus started to expand the abyss, and the inhabitants of Oolacile mutated into crazed demonic creatures. Artorias, one of Gwyn's knights, was sent to stop the spread of the Abyss, but failed, and became corrupted by the dark. Meanwhile, Manus has captured Princess Dusk, and searches desperately for his long-lost pendant across space and time.
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  22. In the DLC, Manus grabs the Chosen Undead and pulls them into the past, if they are able to find Manus' broken pendant. Inside the past, the protagonist defeats the corrupted Artorias, destroys Manus, halts the spread of the abyss and saves Princess Dusk. The events become legends, but the protagonist's exploits are falsely attributed to Knight Artorias.
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