The Official Dark Souls Thread - .....It Begins

[lestatdark]

StokedUp said:
Ive got a few questions;
Which covenant is it when you can get summoned to defend ANOR LONDO? And what are you defending it from? Also does it matter what SL you are to get summoned?

That's the Darkmoon Covenant. You need to find the Darkmoon Seance Ring on the Catacombs first before you're able to access it though. It's located on the bottom floor of the rotating spiral stairway, outside the church in Anor Londo.

Once you have the ring, the wall in front of the bonfire there will dissapear and you'll appear next to a white fog doorway. Never enter that doorway if you want to be part of the covenant, as that will enrage Gwyndolin and he'll attack you (a boss fight) and you can never be part of Darkmoon for that playthrough.

Once you're part of the Darkmoon, you'll get two items, a Blue Eye Orb (which works like a Red Eye Orb, but only for invading "guilty" players - players who have commited sins in the game) and a Darkmoon Ring which has to be equipped in order for you to be summoned to go into another players darkened Anor Londo (to darken Anor Londo, you need to kill the Sun Princess Gwynevere). The first method is a normal invasion PVP, tied to the rules of online engagement (10% SL span), but the second is special in that the invaded player doesn't get a message about the invasion taking place (there are also no white fog barriers delimiting the invasion arena as there are in a normal invasion) and there are no Soul Level limits for it (this is a problem since usually you're pitted against much higher SL players).

@Xen - Congrats on getting the game, hope you have fun with it