Shiva of the East

Darkroot Garden; Blighttown

Access And Services

Requirements: Join the Forest Hunter covenant and remain a member.

What to do: Find Shiva outside the building where Alvina sits in the window. Finish his conversation, then descend to the Blighttown swamp. His weapon shop is beside the base of the wooden waterwheel elevator.

Consequences and cutoffs: The forest conversation and continuing covenant membership are separate requirements. Attacking him or his bodyguard ends the friendly branch; do not kill them while relying on this shop.

Darkroot Garden; Blighttown

Bodyguard

Requirements: Shiva and his bodyguard remain alive.

What to do: Use his shop before deliberately attacking either member of the pair. The bodyguard's Dark Wood Grain Ring is a separate combat drop.

Result: You choose between preserving the merchant relationship and taking the bodyguard's ring.

Consequences and cutoffs: An attack is covenant betrayal. Absolution cannot revive a dead Shiva or bodyguard.