Lady of the Darkling

Description

The Lady of the Darkling (also known as the Darkmoon Knightess) is Anor Londo's Fire Keeper, bound to the bonfire to keep it lit. After becoming Undead, she visited the Dark Sun Gwyndolin, became a Blade of the Darkmoon, and assumed the flame-keeping duty. She received the Brass Set armor, which hides her hideous form and helps her hunt the guilty. She also acts as a guide for the city of Anor Londo, giving directions to the Chosen Undead.

Location

Anor Londo
Next to Anor Londo's first bonfire, leaning against the wall.

Dark Anor Londo
If you kill Gwynevere, Princess of Sunlight, she will be at the cathedral side of the spinning bridge, hostile.

Use

• If given a Fire Keeper Soul, she can improve your Estus Flask power by one level. Use the "Reinforce Estus Flask" option on her dialogue menu.

Stats

Playthrough	HP	Souls
First	719	1,000
NG+	1,258	3,000
NG+7	-	-

Equipment

• Estoc
• Parrying Dagger
• Brass Set
• Darkmoon Talisman
• Darkmoon Blade miracle

Drops

Fire Keeper Soul (Darkmoon Knightess) - 100% drop

Notes

• Like any other Fire Keeper, the bonfire becomes unusable when she dies, although it can still be warped to.

• As a Blade of the Darkmoon, she becomes hostile when you break the covenant. This includes:
  • Trespassing Darkmoon Tomb.
  • Killing Gwyndolyn.
  • Killing Gwynevere.

• When you're a covenanter yourself, she'll have additional dialogues.

• Most of the time, if you made her hostile, she will be near her bonfire. The bonfire becomes unusable not because she was made hostile, but because there's an enemy nearby. So, if she does become hostile and she is waiting on the cathedral side of the twisting tower, her bonfire is still usable.

• You can kill the Lady of the Darkling after you joined the Blade of the Darkmoon without getting kicked out of the Covenant. You do not lose a Rank either.

Strategy

• She wields an Estoc and a Parrying Dagger. Similar to Lautrec, she can block with her left hand weapon. She'll attempt to parry your attacks.
• She can cast Darkmoon Blade miracle on her Estoc, and seems to have no casting limit.

Dialogue

All dialogue text is © From Software Inc.

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Video: Lady of the Darkling's Dialogues

• Speak to her for the first time
  Well, you are a rare visitor.
  Welcome to the lost city of Anor Londo, chosen Undead.
  If you seek Lord Gwyn's old keep,
  exit here and head straight yonder.
  If you are the chosen one, a revelation shall visit thee.
  … What follow thereafter, depends upon you…

• Using "Talk" option
  1. Hm, what is it?
     What am I? Well… I am the Keeper of the bonfire.
     If not for me, what beacon would there be in this lost city?
     A gatekeeper, and a guide; that is my calling.
  2. The bonfire attended by the Keepers are special.
     They are linked to one another, and their flames never die.
     Yet never shall the Keepers of these flames meet.
  3. If you require rest, now is the time.
     That is, after all, what the bonfire is for.

• Greeting
  1. If you require rest, now is the time.
     That is, after all, what the bonfire is for.
  2. Hmm. You have survived. Impressive.
     If you require rest, now is the time.

• Speak to her after talking with Gwynevere
  Hmm. So, you have received a revelation?
  Very auspicious. I hope for the best.
  I pray that through you, Her wish will be granted.

• Additional dialogue using "Talk" option (after you put the Lordvessel at the Firelink Altar)
  Have you heard of Seath the Scaleless?
  In legend, he turned against the ancient dragons.
  He became Lord Gwyn's confidant, was granted dukedom, and was allowed to pursue his research.
  At the Regal Archives, he immersed himself in research on scales of immortality, the one thing that he did not have.
  … But his very research drove him mad…
  The Archive became a dungeon, a place for sinister experiments.
  Now, nobody dare even approach the duke's forbidden Archives.
  It looms over this land, high atop the mountain.
  But I should warn against even an approach…

• Greeting if the player is a member of Blades of the Darkmoon
  1. Oh… You are one of us.
     That is a surprise. But a pleasant one.
     We are both Blades of the Darkmoon, now.
     I shall look forward to fighting alongside you.
  2. Go ahead, you may rest here.
     Even an undead requires repose.

• When you approach her after you killed Gwyndolin
  So… it was you, was it?
  How dare you produce a blade upon a deity? How did you ever get this far?

• When attacked without made hostile
  • What!
  • How dare you!
  • Hrk!
  • Rrgh!

• When attacked and made hostile
  Very well. So be it.
  Expunging fools like you is part of my charge.

• When killed
  … But, how…
  … This man/woman is a threat…
  … Master Gwyndolin…

Voiced by: Jenny Funnell