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The rest of Anor Londo is one long climb through the great cathedral, held by Silver Knights who come back every time you rest. It holds Havel's hidden room, Siegmeyer's next step, the Giant Blacksmith who makes weapons from boss souls, and the pair of bosses who guard the princess and the Lordvessel. With the Lordvessel you can warp between bonfires, and the section ends with a round of stops at Firelink Shrine, Andre's forge and the Giant Blacksmith. Never strike the Giant Blacksmith, a merchant or the princess.
From the painting (where the jump out of the Painted World puts you), leave the chapel and climb the stairs outside. One path runs back to the walkway where the first Gargoyle fought you: open the door there, a shortcut toward the elevator and the Anor Londo bonfire. The other climbs a huge stairway to the cathedral's front, where two Sentinels guard the doors; pull them one at a time. The great doors and the small door left of them only open from inside, so go through the small door on the right and take the stairs on the right down to a ledge of Batwing Demons (one hit knocks them back, often off the edge). A flying buttress on the left of that ledge runs down to more Batwing Demons, and the next buttress on the left climbs toward two Silver Knight archers with huge bows.
Their arrows can knock you off the buttress. Sprint up to the small tower halfway, wait behind it until the shots stop, then run around it and up the last buttress. At the top go right toward the nearer archer with your shield raised, rolling toward the wall when he draws. Up close he switches to a sword, and blocking or parrying his swings on the narrow ledge often sends him over the edge. Poison arrows fired from the first buttress can also finish both of them from range.
From the Residence bonfire, climb the spiral stairs and walk round the stairwell into a corridor with a door on each side and a Silver Knight archer at its far end. The right door is locked; the left one opens into a bedroom where a Silver Knight jumps you from the right of the doorway. Its stairs lead up to a rooftop courtyard: an archer stands under the archway at the far end, and a sword knight at a doorway on the left. Keep to the left-hand railing, out of the archer's line, beat the knight, then weave toward the archer and finish him.
Climb back to the rooftop and go through the archway where the archer stood, then all the way down the long spiral stairs. At the bottom: a door on the left (the Titanite Demon), a door on the right (stairs down to the Silver Knight Set) and a long stairway straight ahead, up to the great hall.
The knights around the Residence bonfire come back each time you rest, and give good souls. The three Knight's Honor weapons below are rare drops from them, and the souls pay for the upgrades and the Giant Blacksmith's boss weapons later in this section, so this is a good place to grind. Holding more Humanity (up to ten) raises your item-drop luck.
Straight ahead from the foot of the spiral stairs, the long stairway climbs to a side balcony of the great hall. A Silver Knight archer stands on the balcony across the hall, and two Royal Sentinels guard the floor below; leave them for now. On your balcony, take the stairs on the left up to a broken window.
Buy Large Titanite Shards from him now. Andre needs them for the Raw Weapon and to take normal weapons from +6 to +10, and four +10 weapons come back here at the end of this section to become boss weapons.
Clear the great hall: draw the archer and the two Royal Sentinels one at a time, luring the Sentinels onto the stairs. Pull the lever left of the hall's main doors to open them, a shortcut from the front steps. In human form, Solaire's gold summon sign glows on the stairs below the archer's balcony; this fight is far easier with him.
The fight's end closes, for this run: Solaire's Sunlight Medal for this fight (summon him and keep him alive), the Leo Ring (kill Smough first so that Ornstein dies last), and Fall Control and Aural Decoy if you never bought them from Griggs at Firelink (only he sells them: buy them before this fight). Smough first also leaves you Ornstein's soul, which this run's Dragonslayer Spear needs, and decides which boss armor Domhnall sells. If the wrong one is about to die last, quit to the title screen and reload: you start again outside the fog.
One hit on Gwynevere changes Anor Londo for the rest of this run: her covenant closes and the Fire Keeper at the first Anor Londo bonfire turns on you, taking that bonfire with her. Nothing on this route needs it.
Rest at the Chamber of the Princess bonfire and warp to Firelink Shrine. If its Fire Keeper is gone, the bonfire there is dead: you can warp to it but not away from it, so the way on from the shrine is the elevator up to the Undead Parish.
Don't talk to Kingseeker Frampt while you carry the Lordvessel, and don't drop into the hole beside him. Either can settle where the Lordvessel goes before the route is ready, which costs a covenant for this run. The route places it later, in its own section.
Siegmeyer's next step, in the Blighttown swamp, needs three Purple Moss Clumps, and the route warps straight there. Buy them while you are at the shrine: the female Undead Merchant sells them in the aqueduct passage beyond Firelink's shortcut gate.
Soul Spear and Homing Soulmass are on sale at the shrine now: Logan sells them beside Griggs while he is still here (he trades only at 15 Intelligence), and Griggs stocks both once Logan has gone (10 Intelligence for him).
While you are at the forge, have Andre take four normal weapons to +10 for the Giant Blacksmith: an axe (Andre sells the Battle Axe), a spear or thrusting sword (he sells the Pike), a katana (the Iaito from Blighttown) and a halberd, scythe or whip (the Halberd from outside the Parish church or the Whip from Blighttown). From +5 on, each level takes Large Titanite Shards. Spend no slab on them, and never use a weapon on the Knight's Honor list as a base: the forging turns it into the new weapon. The bases for the next two runs come at the end of this one, at Andre.
Next is the Great Hollow, below Blighttown's swamp, reached by warping to the bonfire of the Daughter of Chaos.