Note: This is NOT a walkthrough. The order I list Progression steps is not meant to be followed front to back for a balanced playthrough. It's meant to be used as an answer to any "How do I get to this place I want to go?" questions. You can go several equally viable directions all at once from the start of the game, and it is recommended to explore around instead of following a linear progression.

In this post I'm gonna try and lay out all of the mod's new quests and progression routes, to serve as a single resource for players looking for how to do something in particular. I will undoubtedly make mistakes or misjudge the conditions for some things based on my own anecdotal experience, so feel free to post any corrections or info that should be added in the comments.

If a progression route isn't listed, it is unchanged from vanilla, i.e. firelink to tomb of giants.

Progression: To New Londo

1. In Firelink, talk to Petrus until he gives you the Lift Key.

2. Take the lift down to New Londo.

3. New Londo is extremely easy right now, there are very few enemies. Explore to your heart's content, and optionally kill Ingward for the Key to the Seal if you'd like to hop down to the Four Kings early. But beware - draining the water of New Londo has some rather dire side effects on the previously peaceful area.

Progression: To Undead Parish

1. Get to Darkroot Basin one of two ways:

   1. From Undead Burg

      1. Head up the stairs from Firelink and proceed through Burg as normal. Make sure to grab the Burg Latchkey by rolling through the barrels in the very first part of the burg and exploring around, as you'll need it to access a bonfire and save Griggs.

      2. Defeat Taurus Demon, receive Watchtower Key.

      3. Hellkite keeps too close a watch on the bridge these days, so use that key to go down to where Havel usually is and open the door to Darkroot Basin.

   2. From New Londo

      1. Explore New Londo for the key to Valley of the Drakes.

      2. Run down the valley hugging the right wall and take the elevator up to Darkroot Basin.

2. Go up the cliffside paths from the basin towards Andre.

3. There is a new boss in the room just before Andre's usual room containing a Titanite Demon. Defeat it to proceed.

4. Welcome to the Parish! Sen's Fortress is already open to explore, and Andre is just inside its main gates, so don't miss him.

5. Gargoyles are missing right now, but you can fight them after you acquire a set of heavy armor (or at least just the gloves).

Progression: Darkroot Forest Sealed Door

1. The crest of Artorias is no longer in the game. Instead, the door only opens to "compatriots of the abyss walker".

2. Get any of the following items:

   1. Hawk Ring - Drops from the giant that normally opens the doors to Sens Fortress

   2. Hornet Ring - Just after pinwheel, nestled in a big sarcophagus next to the mimic bonfire.

   3. Leo Ring - Drops from Ornstein

   4. Silver Pendant - Drops from boss at Grave of Artorias

3. Wear one of the rings or have the Silver Pendant in your inventory and interact with the door to open it.

Progression: To Blighttown

1. Explore New Londo for the key to Valley of the Drakes.

2. Enter Blighttown through Valley of the Drakes, and proceed as normal.

Progression: To Depths/Lower Burg

1. Travel up backwards through Blighttown to reach the door connecting it to the Depths.

2. Examine the door three times to get a key and open it.

3. Gaping Dragon isn't here right now - explore the area and continue upwards to Lower Burg.

   1. If you'd like to fight it, find the Peculiar Doll behind the group of torch hollows in Lower Burg and come back.

4. Capra's old boss room is a bonfire room now. Feel free to punch that fog wall.

Progression: Ringing the Bells

1. In this mod, ringing the bells does not open Sens Fortress as it is already open. Instead, ringing the bells wakes up the sleeping Nito and activates his fight. If you go to Nito before ringing the bells, there is a special encounter where you can steal away his soul. This means the bells are not even necessary to beat the game.

2. The gargoyles don't spawn when you first get there. To activate the fight, you need to possess heavy gloves like stone, giants, etc.

3. To ring the bell after gargoyles, equip aforementioned heavy gloves.

4. Quelaag's bell works as normal, take the New Londo to Valley of the Drakes path to get to Blighttown and ring the bell there.

5. Nito's cutscene plays, and his actual fight is now active.

Progression: Lost Izalith and the Lava

1. After killing Quelaag, proceed to kill Ceaseless and go through Demon Ruins as normal. Demon Firesage and Centipede are not in this area.

2. Upon activating the shortcut lift back to Chaos Servant covenant, go and check the shortcut to Lost Izalith, it should be openable.

3. Explore Lost Izalith as you please.

4. To get in the lava and kill Centipede demon, chug a Sunlight Elixir (it gives super fire resistance) and run to where the illusory wall that usually has a bonfire behind it is located. A daughter of chaos sits wounded within, and casts a spell on you to allow you to fight in lava just fine, so you can kill Centipede and get the orange charred ring to explore the rest of the lava area.

Progression: To Anor Londo

1. You can explore Sen's Fortress as soon as you reach it, but you cannot go to Anor Londo yet.

2. There are two ways to get to Anor Londo:

   1. Get the Pale Eye Orb from Patches's first encounter or the pit he kicks you down, then return it to its resting place in a coffin in the Catacombs, to return the pale servants to their post and enter via Sen's Fortress.

   2. Go to Painting of Ariamis by exploring lower burg and depths until you get a painted doll, then fighting Gaping Dragon. Upon exiting the painting, you are in Anor Londo.

3. Note that you can explore Duke's Archives immediately upon entering Anor Londo, as it it not blocked by sunlight fog.

Progression: Siege of Anor Londo

1. After killing Ornstein and Smough, you may notice Gwynevere's Chamber is locked. To get the key, kill Gwyndolin.

   1. Darkmoon Seance Ring is located in drained New Londo.

2. Upon opening Gwynevere's Chamber, the secret of Anor Londo is revealed, and the sun goes dark all over the world.

3. Your warping ability is blocked until you complete this event.

   1. However, you can escape via the Velka Raven in Painting of Ariamis if you need to. Your warping ability is only blocked while in Anor Londo.

4. Darkwraiths are sieging Anor Londo - help the silver knights kill them and make your way down to Gwyn's Tomb.

5. In Gwyn's Tomb is a new boss. Defeat him to regain your ability to warp.

Progression: To DLC

1. Pre-requisite: Kill Moonlight Butterfly to free Dusk.

2. Normal path

   1. Get the Lordvessel by completing Anor Londo, then take the usual DLC entrance that appears in Darkroot Basin.

3. Alternate path (locked after obtaining lordvessel!)

   1. Visit the Grave of Artorias and defeat the boss that awaits there for the Silver Pendant.

   2. Trade the Silver Pendant to Snuggly the Crow for the Broken Pendant.

   3. Take the usual DLC entrance in the basin.

   4. Optional: Revisit the Grave of Artorias after completing and leaving the DLC for a special fight.

   5. Revisit the DLC later to explore the rest of it, working backwards.

   6. In the pool area where you normally fight Sanctuary Guardian is a new boss, unlocked by some condition - either killing a number of NPCs, or having done step 4. Not sure yet.

Quest: Capricious Thrall and the Chthonic Spark

1. Capricious Thrall is what Capra Demon transforms into upon being killed in Lower Burg.

2. Capricious Thrall either kills you and vanishes (no rematch), or you "kill" it and it vanishes anyway.

3. There is another (optional!) encounter when you fight Iron Golem where the Thrall suddenly spawns and makes it a 2v1 fight.

4. When in Anor Londo, on the rooftop with three exits to stairs, it will spawn again, but this time you can truly kill it and are rewarded with the Chthonic Spark which gives you the ability to warp anywhere. However, this fight has a time limit, and if you do not kill it in time it vanishes once more.

5. If not killed in Anor Londo, the Thrall makes a final appearance in Duke's Archives, so you can get the Spark there if you missed it.

Quest: Xanthous King Jeremiah

1. After obtaining the Chthonic Spark, Jeremiah can spawn in one of a few locations: Izalith poison swamp, Bed of Chaos room, or Vamos's room in Catacombs if you give Vamos the spark (not recommended, rest of this quest assumes he kills you in Izalith).

2. If he kills you, he steals your Chthonic Spark and your ability to warp. You have no choice but to "chase" him out of Lost Izalith.

   1. If you kill him, his questline ends immediately and you get his drops.

3. Take the shortcut back to near Firesage's room, and go to the elevator up to Chaos Servants. Jeremiah takes it up before you can get on it.

4. When you take the elevator, if you saved the new daughter of chaos npc and she resides outside the covenant room, Jeremiah's items will be in front of her and his questline ends. Otherwise, Eingyi and Quelana's Sister will be dead, and Jeremiah moves on.

5. Proceed out of the Nursery into Blighttown. If Quelana lives (even if invisible), Jeremiah's loot will be in front of her.

6. Other progression routes unknown so far.

Quest: Havel the Rock

1. Before going to Duke's Archives, either find Priscilla's Dagger at the bottom of Sen's or kill Priscilla for her Soul. (must have dagger if doing velka pact).

2. Upon dying to Seath, he sees the remnant of the crossbreed and flees in guilt, abandoning his soul fragment.

3. Havel is locked away in the prison tower of the Duke's Archives.

4. Fetch the key to his cell on one of the gears in the center of the room.

5. Free him, and let him walk to the ladder.

6. When he's standing at the ladder, open the door at the top, and he'll climb up and teleport out.

7. In Seath's boss arena, you will find his soul fragment and no fight.

8. Head down to Ash Lake, where you may see Havel and Seath near the Everlasting Dragon. Reload the area until they are both gone and Havel's drops litter the ground.

Quest: Gravedaughter Ciaran

1. Optional step: Go to Tomb of the Giants before ringing the Bells of Awakening for a special encounter with Ciaran in Nito's room.

2. Complete the alt path dlc encounter by defeating Manus.

3. Return to Artorias's Grave and win the fight there.

4. Return to the DLC again and work backwards until you reach Oolacile Sanctuary, where Ciaran will be. Give her the soul of Artorias.

5. Ciaran will no longer fight you in Nito's boss fight.

Quest: The Pale Eye Orb and the Four Statues

1. Fetch the Pale Eye Orb either as a reward from Patches in the Catacombs or in the pit he kicks you down in Tomb of the Giants. Do not return it to its place in Catacombs.

2. There are several events that cause the Pale Eye Orb to quiver:

   1. Getting cursed.

   2. Killing a butterfly in the Crystal Caves.

   3. Exploring Ash Lake (hydra might need to be alive).

   4. Using the Soul of Manus.

3. These events will cause you to be able to obtain rings at the following statues (each event unlocks one ring, in corresponding order):

   1. Lithic Bond - Undead Parish - where firekeeper soul usually is below gargoyles.

   2. Empyrean Bond - Undead Parish - behind Hellkite.

   3. Serous Bond - Firelink Shrine - behind Frampt.

   4. Bond to Beyond - Painted World - in the middle of Phalanx dudes.

Quest: Black Phantom Rematches

1. Complete Anor Londo event.

2. The following bosses now have black phantom rematches and give additional new drops:

   1. Taurus Demon

   2. Gargoyles

   3. Moonlight Butterfly

   4. Quelaag

   5. Titanite Demon

   6. Ornstein and Smough

Quest: Ashen Ring

1. To get the Ashen Ring, complete the Anor Londo siege event.

2. With the Ashen Ring in your possession, black knight phantoms can be seen in some locations around the world, observing scenery:

   1. Undead Asylum, where you normally get your catalyst/bow/etc.

   2. Darkroot Forest, in the Forest Hunter area. To the right of Alvina's place, hug the edge until you find him.

   3. Sen's Fortress, behind the illusory wall up the ladder where the giant is.

   4. Undead Burg, on top of the near tower in Taurus Demon arena.

3. With all black knights defeated, when you kill Gwyn, the ring transforms into Gwynevere's Ring. It grants various buffs and helps with the Velka Pact quest.

Quest: Velka Pact

You can do the rest of the game in any order before, during, or after the following steps, as long as you do the steps strictly in order, i.e you must save the sinners until after making the pact for it to count. Also note the questline requires doing alt path DLC, so don't forget to do that before Anor Londo to avoid locking yourself out of it.0. It is recommended to do the Ashen Ring quest before or alongside this one, as it helps with the fight at the end.

1. Enter the Painted World, and just after the bridge you spawn on, explore to the right in the cliffy area for a raven.

2. The raven takes you back to Firelink and prompts you to make a pact with Velka. Accept.

3. The following events break the pact: Killing the Gravedaughter, killing Priscilla, anything that counts as a sin.

4. Kill Sinners to appease Velka: (any order)

   1. Complete Ciaran's quest, then punish Gravelord Nito for his sins by killing him.

   2. Complete Havel's quest and get his drops to punish Seath for his sins.

   3. Punish Jeremiah for his sins by killing him when he attacks.

5. Unsure if dying to him breaks the pact or if you can still get it by picking up his drops.4. Punish Gwyn for his sins by killing him.

6. After killing Gwyn, walk out of the kiln and back up the stairs, where the Velka raven is waiting. If you've done everything correctly, there is a prompt to travel to the past to fight Gwyn, Lord of Sunlight.

7. If you did the Ashen Ring quest, wear Gwynevere's ring to gain assistance from black knight phantoms during the fight.