Run 1 of 3. 0 of 387 items. 133 missables still open. 2 endings. About 120h to go.
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Lost Izalith is a field of lava full of Bounding Demons, then ruins of Stone Demons and Chaos Eaters, and the Bed of Chaos at the end. Wear the Orange Charred Ring (the Centipede Demon's reward) for every step on the lava: it cuts the burn to almost nothing, though your armor still wears down, so repair at the bonfires. The Bounding Demons don't come back once dead and hurt each other; a bow from a high perch deals with most of them. The poison pit later on is easier with the Rusted Iron Ring. Neither Izalith bonfire can be warped to, so everything here (including the Sunlight Medals the Warrior of Sunlight rank needs) is done in one visit, before the boss.
Solaire's talk by the shortcut door and his sign at the final fight depend on one thing: the red-eyed Chaos Bug in the corridor behind the Demon Ruins shortcut door must be dead before you set foot past this bonfire. If you haven't killed it, go back to the Demon Ruins and do the Chaos Bug step first. Going on with it alive loses both for this run.
From the Lost Izalith Tower bonfire, walk straight out of the tower across the lava into the fallen tower piece ahead and climb the root inside it up into the ruins. Stone Demons fill the passage under a bridge; take them one or two at a time and carry on to a stone staircase. At its top a Chaos Eater waits (keep your distance: its acid eats equipment and its grab hurts). Go through the door beyond to a junction with three ways on: stairs going up, a middle way down, and roots on the far side leading down. Every way on from here starts at this junction.
Back over the bridge and down its stairs, the dark cave passage leads to the Chaos Eater pit. A corpse lies in the passage, and the floor gives way under you as you walk in: you land on a ledge above the pit. These Chaos Eaters never come back, so don't kill them all before Siegmeyer is there.
If you haven't yet met Quelana, the pyromancer in the Blighttown swamp, and opened her shop, do it before you break either of this boss's roots: once it is dead she never appears, and her five pyromancies and Fire Tempest are gone for this run. Kirk's last invasion also ends with this fight, and with it his Set of Thorns and any last chance at his sword and shield.
Now a round of visits: Quelana in Blighttown, the Sunlight Altar, Sieglinde at Firelink Shrine, Snuggly at the Asylum and Ash Lake. If you won all three of Kirk's invasions, his Set of Thorns lies by the rear wall of the room with the Daughter of Chaos bonfire, where the first warp lands.
The ascended flame you take to Snuggly is gone for good. The only other flame is Eingyi's gift (with 11 Intelligence): keep it to go on casting, or give it to Snuggly at +0 for a Red Titanite Chunk; it can't do both. To keep your upgraded flame instead, raise Eingyi's flame to +15 here and have that one ascended.
Back to the Asylum for Snuggly: each trade works once per run, and only on a single item dropped in the nest (extras are lost; upgraded items are refused). Drop one, then quit to the title screen and load back (or rest, or use a Homeward Bone and walk back), and the gift is waiting in the nest.
When the trades are done, climb to the clifftop nest and curl up in it: the crow carries you back to Firelink Shrine.