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Solaire of Astora is a character who appears in Dark Souls. He is an exceptionally skilled warrior who purposefully became Undead so he could visit Lordran in his quest to find a sun of his own. He has become a fan favourite among the Dark Souls community due to his jovial attitude and memorable dialogue. Depending on the player's actions in Lost Izalith, Solaire will either be available for help as a summon against the final boss, or his descent into madness and despair will force the player to kill him.
The player first meets him after defeating the Taurus Demon in Undead Burg; after exiting the tower, before turning left and running across the bridge where the Hellkite Dragon lurks, instead turn right to find him gazing at the sun; he is immediately distinguishable by the painted sun emblem across his chest, his green pauldrons, and his red feather.
Encounters
- On the ramparts of the Undead Burg, right after defeating the Taurus Demon but before crossing the bridge to the Undead Parish.
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- At this point he can be Dark Handed for 6 humanity
- The player receives the White Sign Soapstone, an important online item which is used to enter another player's world as a friendly white phantom in an effort to help them defeat the area boss.
- It is possible to speak with Solaire before fighting Taurus Demon if you started with the Master Key.
- In Anor Londo, after crossing the buttress and getting past the Dragonslayer Silver Knight archers, Solaire can be found sitting in the room on the left, next to the Bonfire.
- Beside the Sunlight Altar Bonfire in the Undead Parish.
- After defeating the Centipede Demon, Solaire appears at the nearby Bonfire on the borders of Lost Izalith.
- On the bridge to Lost Izalith, between the only respawning Titanite Demon and the Chaos Servant door to Demon Ruins
- Solaire can survive this encounter if the player joins the Daughter of Chaos covenant first, and gives Quelaag's Sister 30 Humanity to open this door from the Demon Ruin's side. After it is open, kill all nine Sunlight Maggots and proceed to defeat the The Bed of Chaos. If he survives this, he can be found in the hallway, depressed, and available for summoning against the final boss. (you may only have to kill the chaos bug that drops the sunlight maggot in order for Solaire to maintain his sanity)
- It is possible to do so without joining the Chaos Servant Covenant, however. Doing so requires a Pyromancy Flame and the Poison Mist pyromancy, which can be found on a corpse in the Blighttown swamp. White Dragon Breath will work as well. Make your way to the shortcut door, and cast Poison Mist into the center of the door. It works best if you move yourself as close to the door as possible. Cast Poison Mist until you infect a mob on the other side, the target is aligned with the centre of the door. This mob is none other than the red eyed Chaos Bug that will drop the Sunlight Maggot. Once the Chaos Bug dies, you can continue on your way through to the Firesage Demon and the rest of Lost Izalith. If you find Solaire near the bonfire after killing the Centipede Demon, he will again appear near the Lost Izalith side of the shortcut door. If you killed the Sunlight Maggot before reaching this point, he will become summonable just before the Gwyn fight. A video tutorial on how to do this has been provided below. Although the Poison Mist pyromancy is very effective in damaging through walls, it is possible to kill the Sunlight Maggot through other means. (I had success with Dragon Greatsword's two handed R2 special attack).
- It is also possible to save Solaire by not speaking to him at the Anor Londo bonfire, or at any point before then. Then progress through the game as normal, Solaire will not be at the bonfire after the Centipede demon and will not go insane. Kill the bugs, then return to Solaire and proceed through his quest line. This will not require you to join the Daughter of Chaos covenant, and can be done by any character build.
Summoning points
- Before entering the white fog leading to the Bell Gargoyle bosses.
- Above the last staircase leading to the Gaping Dragon boss.
- In the huge hall before fighting Ornstein and Smough, his summon sign can be found on the stairs to the left.
- He can be made to follow all the way to the Darkmoon Tomb, but won't enter the Gwyndolin boss fight. He will however still award a Sunlight Medal upon defeating Gwyndolin this way.
- Just to the left outside the fog wall leading to the Centipede Demon boss.
(The player has to talk to Solaire at Sunlight Altar before his summoning sign appears.) - At the top of the stairs leading down to Gwyn, if he survived Lost Izalith.
Surviving Lost Izalith
- You’ll first encounter Solaire in the Undead Burg. He is in the area at the opposite end of the bridge on which the Hellkite Wyvern is perched. Talk to him at the bridge and accept his offer in order to get a White Sign Soapstone for MP play. After speaking to him in the Undead Burg, you’ll next be able to encounter him in Anor Londo. Once there, talk to him at the Bonfire located in the main building that Gwynevere is located in. You‘ll find him next to the Bonfire on the first floor. This one is optional and won’t break his path through the game, but it does affect whether or not he’ll be available for the Demon Ruins Boss fight. After leaving Anor Londo, go to the Sunlight Altar, and speak with him there. The Sunlight Altar is located to the right of the Bonfire in the Undead Burg near where you first met Solaire. It’s the Bonfire in the small room behind where the Hellkite Dragon was perched. The altar itself is in the area to the right of the Bonfire where the broken statue is located. Go to that area and speak with Solaire.
- If your Faith stat is at level 25 (as of patch 1.05, before was 50), then you'll be able join the Covenant: Warrior of Sunlight at the altar. This requirement is lowered by a value of 5 for each co-op summon session you play. E.g. 3 co-op sessions and the Faith requirement is only 10.
- What happens here is going to depend on how you enter Lost Izalith. If you go straight into Lost Izalith through the regular route which is right after speaking with Solaire after the Centipede Demon fight, then Solaire will become aggressive and you’ll fight him near the area where the door to the Chaos Bed Boss fight is located. However, if you instead take the shortcut from Demon Ruins into Lost Izalith then you’ll encounter nine Chaos Bugs in the corridor on your way to Lost Izalith. You must kill all nine of them. Do not leave a single one alive, and do not cross into Lost Izalith so that area loads before you have killed all nine of them. If even one is alive and you enter Lost Izalith, then Solaire will find them - so kill them all. If you miss one, then when you come back to the shortcut corridor, you’ll find Solaire with one of the bugs attached to his head, and you must kill him. If you kill all nine of them, then return Lost Izalith before returning to the start of the shortcut area you’ll find Solaire sitting on the ground just outside the door that you opened with the Daughter of Chaos’s Covenant. He’ll be depressed, but by talking to him here, you will trigger his final Summon Sign at the end of the game just before the final Boss fight. To find it, as soon as you get off the narrow bridge and arrive at the final spiral staircase, look left to see his Summon Sign.
- You’ll find the shortcut to Lost Izalith in Demon Ruins just outside the room where you fought the Demon Firesage boss. As you face that room, look to the right, and you’ll see a hole in the wall. Use the tree roots to reach the ground floor and then go to the end of the long hall where you’ll find a locked door. The way to unlock that door is to join the Covenant of the Daughter of Chaos, and then level that Covenant to +2 status. That will require 30 Humanity to raise the covenant that high. After you raise the Covenant to +2, then you can touch the locked door and it will open. Now proceed forward and kill the nine Chaos Bugs ahead.
- It is possible to do so without joining the Chaos Servant Covenant, however. Doing so requires a Pyromancy Flame and the Poison Mist pyromancy, which can be found on a corpse in the Blighttown swamp. Make your way to the shortcut door, and cast Poison Mist into the center of the door. It works best if you move yourself as close to the door as possible. Cast Poison Mist until you infect a mob on the other side. This mob is none other than the red eyed Chaos Bug that will drop the Sunlight Maggot. Once the Chaos Bug dies, you can continue on your way through to the Firesage Demon and the rest of Lost Izalith.(for those who are afraid of sitting at a bonfire, don't worry the Sunlight Maggot doesn't re-spawn) If you find Solaire near the bonfire after killing the Centipede Demon, he will again appear near the Lost Izalith side of the shortcut door. If you killed the Sunlight Maggot before reaching this point, he will become summonable just before the Gwyn fight. A video tutorial on how to do this has been provided below.
- It is also possible to save Solaire by not speaking to him at the Anor Londo bonfire, or at any point before then. Then progress through the game as normal, Solaire will not be at the bonfire after the Centipede demon and will not go insane. Kill the bugs, then return to Solaire and proceed through his quest line. This will not require you to join the Daughter of Chaos covenant, and can be done by any character.
- An additional way to save Solaire is, after killing the Centipede Demon, hit Solaire to make him hostile (Don't kill him) and proceed through Lost Izalith normally. NPCs who want to kill you will stay at the spot you hit them and will NOT progress in their storyline. You can proceed through this area and reach the Sunlight Maggot without opening the shortcut. Solaire will not be there. Then you can simply kill the required Chaos-Bug and request absolution from Oswald of Carim. Solaire will not go insane, and his story can proceed normally.
- If you kill The Bed of Chaos before making Solaire move to the first bonfire of Lost Izalith, you can make him move to the last location by entering any boss fight, even Gwyn Lord of Cinder.
Quotes
- "I am Solaire of Astora, an adherent to the Lord of Sunlight.
- Now that I am Undead, I have come to this great land, the birthplace of Lord Gwyn, to seek my very own sun!"
- —Solaire of Astora, upon first meeting the chosen Undead.
- "The way I see it, our fates appear to be intertwined.
- In a land brimming with Hollows, could that really be mere chance?
- So, what do you say? Why not help one another on this lonely journey?"
- —Solaire of Astora, introducing the chosen Undead to summoning.
- "We are amidst strange beings, in a strange land.
- The flow of time itself is convoluted; with heroes centuries old phasing in and out.
- The very fabric wavers, and relations shift and obscure.
- There's no telling how much longer your world and mine will remain in contact.
- But, use this, to summon one another as spirits, cross the gaps between the worlds, and engage in jolly co-operation!"
- —Solaire of Astora, explaining Lordran to the chosen Undead, and giving him the White Sign Soapstone.
- "Of course, we are not the only ones engaged in this.
- But I am a warrior of the sun! Spot my summon signature easily by its brilliant aura.
- If you miss it, you must be blind!"
- —Solaire of Astora, explaining the mechanics of online summoning and his gold summon sign to the chosen Undead.
- "Oh, hello there. I will stay behind, to gaze at the sun.
- The sun is a wondrous body. Like a magnificent father!
- If only I could be so grossly incandescent!"
- —Solaire of Astora, reflecting on the sun while staring at it in the Undead Burg.
- "Hmm! Ah, oh… hello there. Forgive me, I was just pondering… about my poor fortune. I did not find my own sun, not in Anor Londo, nor
- in Twilight Blighttown. Where else might my sun be? Lost Izalith, or the Tomb of the Gravelord… ? But I cannot give up. I became Undead
- to pursue this! But when I peer at the Sun up above, it occurs to me…What if I am seen as a laughing stock, as a blind fool without reason?
- Well, I suppose they wouldn't be far off! Hah hah hah!"
- —Solaire of Astora, reflecting on his search at the Sunlight Altar.
Trivia
- Killing Solaire will not affect the player's position with the Warrior of Sunlight covenant.
- All of Solaire's dialogue can be listened to.
- Unlike other Undead characters, Solaire is not a Hollow when he attacks the player in Lost Izalith; his apparent insanity seems to be either induced by the Sunlight Maggot or by his desperation to find his goal resulting in him wearing it.
Drops
Character Info
At Undead Burg/Parish:
- Armor: Iron and Sun Set
- Left Hand: Sunlight Shield
- Right Hand: Sunlight Straight Sword and Sunlight Talisman
- Rings: Orange Charred Ring
- Spells: Lightning Spear and Great Heal
- Special: none
AnonymousNot only does he have a great personality, he's also pretty strong and doesn't need to constantly be babysat and rescued - unlike the other npcs. All of this makes me kinda respect him tbh
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....but I didn't want to save Solaire. It was completely on accident >_>
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One thing Fromsoft does very well is really stupid npc questlines
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If your girlfriend would leave you for Solaire, you know she’s a real one
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The only npc that legit upset me to kill after he gets taken over by a bug
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"Spot my summon signature easily by its brilliant aura. If you miss it, you must be blind!"
Deliberately put it near the black knight archer instead of being near the fog gate..Solaire you ****, and this is the time we need to coop the most. don't **** around!
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"The flow of time itself is convoluted; with heroes centuries old phasing in and out. The very fabric wavers, and relations shift and obscure. There's no telling how much longer your world and mine will remain in contact. But, use this, to summon one another as spirits, cross the gaps between the worlds."
Also I would kill for an npc nearly this good in Elden Ring, Alexander isn't even close.
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so this is the game that is better than god of war 4? for users to have an idea of how to make a budget to clear the company's name so I can make a new ad
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If nobody else got me I know Solaire and (sometimes) Lautrec got me.
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I don't mind the sun sometimes, the images it shows
I can taste you on my lips and smell you in my clothes
Cinnamon and sugary and softly spoken lies
You never know just how to look through other people's eyes
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...Like half the gear I want for my fashion souls playthrough drops from him.....
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Solaire: If I didn't know better, I'd think you had feelings for me!
Me: ...so little you know, Sun-Hon, so little...
♡
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Maybe he's a coocoo but I'm still going to get these 30 humanities and save him because he was a real bro during my whole journey. I wish there was an ending, where you can let HIM to lit the flame after the fight with Gwyn. I bet he would be more than happy to do it.
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I remember my first playthrough I slaughtered him like a pig because I thought everyone was hostile
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don't know if anyone'll see this but, i killed orenstein and smough before ever having talked to Solaire and now he is gone and i can't find him. Does anybody know where he could have gone? Ps i havn't gone to lost izalith but i do not think he will be there as i havn't even talked to him.
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just kill him when you see him, like with crestfallen warrior
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He is not appearing for me when ive done all of the steps except centipede demon. is it required?
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This happend a while ago, back when I didn't even know about Solaire. I was ...well, in a quite severe state of depression, I went outside to try to get a breath and calm myself. The sky was completely clear, yet the sun had a diffent shape. The sunbeams formed a tight cross with very few going apart. It didn't look like that burning orb you usually see. And while I didn't know about Solaire I got a feeling someone's watching from out there, far away. And the exact thought was "Sun ...knight?" Perhaps I thought it's the sun reflecting off his helm. I've beem given that feeling of protection and light, and now it hits me how close it was to this knight!
Not very game related, I know. but the character does mean way more to me now. when you first meet him in game it's hard to describe. "you were there, also gazing at the sun?"
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For me Solaire did not appeared at Lost Izalith and as the result I was not able to summon him for Gwyn.
1. Visited him at Undead burg
2. Summoned for Gargoyels
3. Spoke with him near bonfire at Anor Londo
4. Went to Blightown, offered 30 humanity to Daughter of Chaos in order to open shortcut
5. Went there, killed the red eye bug, no Solaire
6. Never killed Cendepide
7. Looked and search for him, found him at the Sunlight Altar
8. They he was gone, still not available at the Lost Izalith
9. No summon for Gwyn :(
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Praise the sun! Paste this into another page to spread the word of Solaire!
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BTW, you do only need to kill the red-eyed sunlight maggot. I often leave the rest of them alive, and Solaire stays sane.
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Fun fact: In Demon's Souls, if you wear a certain ring, you Praise the Sun when casting miracles. I have no idea about the remaster tho
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not hating on the fans of this guy but this is a genuine question i've had for a while, why is he so popular in the series and fanbase? i understand that having someone who's upbeat usually and helps when and where he can helps in a world where things went horribly wrong but there's really not much else about this guy you can identify with or relate to beyond whatever finding his own sun means if you need a stretch
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Someone really saw Solaire using great heal?
Never saw it and I doubt it he uses a way of white miracle but please correct me if im wrong
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Does he get stronger as you progress? People are talking about him 1v1'ing bosses meanwhile he died in like 3 hits when I summoned him for Gaping Dragon.
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I'm a bit confused. I talked to him in Undead Burg and Anor Londo. Haven't seen him near the altar in Parish, but as I understand it's an optional encounter. And now I don't see him neither near bonfire after centipede nor on the bridge. Could it be that I broke smth by opening the bridge shortcut and exploring Izalith a bit before killing centipede?
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As a woman, I seriously wish there was an option at the end of Solaire’s questline to marry him.
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i wanted to let him alive but it was my first (blind) playthrough and I failed the quest after that i failed catarina too, should i restart the whole game?
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Genuinely amazing how this series can make such lovable and memorable characters with only a few interactions
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I got invaded yesterday in Anor Londo when I was kindling that one bonfire before O&S. Invader used Solaire as a cover and i accidently hit him... I lost this invade, I lost my beloved Solaire, I lost everything and now I'm forever alone in the dark...
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Talked to him in undead parish
And he isn't in anor londo(still avaible for O&S)
Killed all chaos bugs via izalith shortcut but he isn't in centipede demon bonfire
Bug or ....?
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You don't need to kill the bed of chaos in order to make him spawn, but u do need to kill the centipede otherwise he wont spawn in the hallways where the maggots are at. After you kill the centipede (do not go further then that bonefire, do NOT trigger lost izalith) warp back to daughter of chaos and do all that shortcut thingy, kill the maggots and go up the stairs towards the direction of the titanite demon then head back without needed to reload the area or anything and he will be sitting there.
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The fact that my comment about me worshipping my Solaire Bodypillow was deleted saddens me.
I only wish to show my devotion to my true sun.
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There are only 2 situations where I find wearing his armour agreeable:
1. You failed his quest and killed him in Izalith, and wear it out of respect
2. You killed him in NG, bombrush to NG+ to get him back, and wear it then, as we all know that impersonation is the greatest form of flattery
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His fate depends on your choices BEFORE Lost Izalith, not in Izalith.
If you're in Izalith, and you have already talked to Solaire at the bonfire after centipede demon, the path is locked in.
So don't go into Izalith, don't talk to him after the centipede demon.
Deal with the bug first!
No idea if this has been mentioned anywhere, but the exploit to kill the bug through the Lost Izalith shortcut wall seems to have been patched in Remastered. I tried Poison Mist, Dragon King Greataxe special, and Drake Sword special, and none of them worked.
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This dude is best npc in all of souls history becuase of the journey:
When you first meet him, he's like a shining beacon of hope that also kicks ass. Then he keeps meeting you and gettng stronger, but losing faith in his sun. You're the one that gives him hope by the end of the game, and considering he actually can solo gwyn on ng, it really does show how strong he got when he finally linked the flame and became the ultimate sunbro.
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Damn you Solaire, it was just missclick [used 100K souls for removing sins]
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solaire of astora would 100% ditch the sun and gwyn and boring age of fire and the chosen undead for a PKCS
he is not a meta trash casul
he knows that the PKCS IS OP
be like solaire
Use PKCS
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Is there a way to get his set and get him for the endboss in one playthrough
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I believe, solaire is miquella. Renna is the doll in Bloodborne followed by a beast.
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Solaire is surprisingly strong. I summoned him during the Ornstein and Smough fight and while I was fighting Smough 1v1, Solaire managed to defeat Ornstein on his own.
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I killed solar and took his armor. Now I have the big sheld and need the lightening still…
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i miss you sunbro hope in a distant future you make you way to the lands of limegrave till then Long may the sun shine on you Knight of Astora
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I killed the chaos bug with poison mist through the door. Then Solaire was still there, hostile, even though I could see the sunlight maggot item behind him where the chaos bug used to be.
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I like to imagine that while we summon him for gwyn. Solaire summons us for gwyn.
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Solaire……solaire….SOLE AIR. Okay miyazakis foot fetish has gone to far (not that thats a bad thing)
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Seems like I always end up screwing up his quest some way or another, but if you do manage to get to summon him for Gwyn, he completely trivializes the fight.
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Went through all the trouble of opening the shortcut via DoC covenant just to kill him in the end anyway. Don’t need help parrying Gwyn, sorry Sunbro.
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this is the single best NPC in all of gaming. it's such a shame I accidentally hit him in Anor Lando I should have been more careful but now he's dead at least it wasn't me who killed him but rather the silver knight... I have never been sadder over a death of a digital character. to all of the new players: he's the one single best friend in the entire game, do not kill him he's only done good and is the brightest beam of light you'll see in Lordran
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I don't think I've missed this written anywhere, but I've basically completed NG+ (only Gwyn to go) but I still need to meet Solaire at the alter of sunlight before being able to summons him for the fight. I believe I have met him everywhere else.
I've revisited the AoL and even done so after logging out. Did I do the wrong order? Am I too late? Have I missed my opportunity to have him for the final fight?
Thanx.
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he carry you the first game, and four games later. He's still the best
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gonna buy dark souls: remastered just so i can find solaire and praise the sun with him
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Game gone offline (backwards compatible) just after killing him. Loat all his loot.
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Y'know something? I killed him just before he went insane just because the way i see it being mercy killed is better.
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I beat the Centipede demon and sat at the bonfire after that before doing the trick with poison mist through the shortcut, and Solaire still lived
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They so could’ve made this guy a hidden final boss. Hear me out! What if you rescue him in Lost Izalith so he’s available as a summon for the Gwyn fight, BUT they’d programmed him to have slim chance of survival… so having defeated Gwyn with Solaire still alive he encourages you to link the fire and laughs maniacally when you do, or turns hostile if you try to leave and turns into some divine being as the gods’ last grasp at power and tries to kick your ass.
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Let's imagine if Patches know Solaire's "greed" about sun. Patches give Solaire a rumors of the Sunlight Maggot to punish Solaire's "greed".
I think that what happened
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i honestly love that solaire is one of the first npcs you meet in dark souls. hes a good reminder that not everything is horrible in this game.
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I still don’t understand why he headed so far underground to find a sun…
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killed this racist on sight in each of my runs. zero tolerance for the klan
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I wasn't able to collect enough humanity to give to quelaag's sister to open the thing so after I killed the titanite demon it was already too late and I had to kill him
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