Dark Souls III

Soul of Cinder

The Time To Link The Fire Has Come

The Lords of Cinder have been slain. Their ashes will become the kindling for one massive fire, the time has come to Link the flame. But...honeyed words and a writhing black mass within the body tell us "Play the usurper". An age of fire must begin, but is it the age that the people have wished for? These questions can't be answered until the last incarnation of fire is destroyed. The time has come. Let the age of Hollows begin..........

If you've played through Dark Souls III then you probably saw this coming, hints were dropped multiple times about the direction I was taking the end game. I'll explain a bit more about that later, for now there is the fight.

The Soul of Cinder is fairly tough, I'll admit that I lost the first time round, though I came close to beating him. The Soul of Cinder takes everything that you have learnt and puts it to use against you. He throws spells and combos at you like no man does. Therefore its best if you pay attention to what stance he takes towards the end. The Soul of Cinder is reminiscent of Gwyn in a lot of ways and has many homages to the first Lord of Cinder, including using his sunlight spear (Which you can transpose from the Soul of Cinder).

To be honest for a last boss I felt that this guy didn't pose as much as a challenge as lets say the Moon Presence from Bloodborne, that fight had multiple things to be aware of and while the Soul of Cinder defiantly posses a threat, he isn't really all that tough. Another thing to keep in mind however was that I had help from both Yuria and the shade of londor. With the Soul of Cinder slain we can now link the fire......

I went for the Lord of Hollows ending. I'll be honest here I felt really, really bad about it. Terrible in fact as you had to put an end to so many characters who were mostly innocent. Orbeck, Anri, Horace to name a few and in a wider sense you also betray all those who put their faith in you as a Champion of Ash. This ending left a bitter taste in my mouth, an ending where there is no ending...for anyone. To be hollow is to be without purpose, to be without death. It seems that the Primordial Serpent, Kaath, had his wish granted. An age of Hollows. Londor is great again.

And so began an Age of Hollows, an unceasing world of lifeless beings unknown to death. The gaping hole of the dark sign grew like a blackened sun and all who stood beneath it were plagued by the curse of the undead. What a somber world that would be.....