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To Link the Fire

To Link the Fire

Reach "To Link the Fire" ending.

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How to unlock the To Link the Fire achievement in Dark Souls - Definitive Guide

After you defeat Gwyn; the last boss, you are presented with a bonfire. Depending on what you do at this point, decides whether you get the "To Link the Fire" ending, or the "Dark Lord" ending, and their corresponding achievement.

If you light the bonfire, you will get the "To link the Fire" ending; If you decide to turn your back and walk away without lighting the bonfire, you will get the "Dark Lord" ending.

Each ending nets you a separate, 90 point achievement.

This specific achievement relates to the "To Link the Fire" ending.
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16 Oct 2011 05:18

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Just want to suggest a few things for those who haven't yet defeated Gwyn: you'll do well to have the Black Knight Shield equipped - it gives you the ability to parry him if you want to try that, and also gives you heavy physical and fire resistance (just the kinds of damage that Gwyn does!)

Before crossing the door to his room, feel free to apply any useful buffs you might have - the stamina-boosting grass or Replenishment miracles might be wise.

As far as actually fighting him, you can either attempt to parry several of his types of blows (you'll probably know how to do this by the time you get here), or you can just bring a lot of pyromancer spells with you, especially if you have Quelana's ascended flame, and burn him to a crisp. Oh, oh, I'm sorry - to "Cinders".

Good luck with New Game +!
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By a tea tree on 31 Oct 2011 09:29
Just to clarify, when Carlos Again says "turn your back and walk away" he means walking back out the door you came in. I spent a full two or three minutes trying to find another door out of the room. Embarrassing.
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By bryan dot exe on 14 May 2012 16:56
Can anyone confirm if Solaire links the flame will you get this achievement?
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By RiverSquash99 on 07 Jul 2021 13:09
I agree with what "a tea tree" has posted and found it very helpful, thanks mate. I was playing as a mage and found that there were three or four pillars dotted around the centre of the arena. If you could get Gwyn lodged on the opposite side from yourself, he will end up attacking the pillar and using a side jump to get out of the situation which can give you that extra time to either drink from the estus flask or to cast a spell. I would recommend using the crystal homing soulmass/homing soulmass attack once you have done this since you can use your shield to stop the barrage of attacks he will then use. Keep rinsing and repeating and you should have no problems getting through the fight, I managed to use just one estus flask using this tactic. I hope this helps.
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By E5SX B01 on 31 Mar 2012 23:47
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Just one more thing to add as I got BOTH endings in one game cycle.

The trick was, saving the game exclusively on the usb stick. After defeating Gwyn, I placed myself in front of the bonfire. Now just the moment before I activated it I pulled the usb stick out and watched the ending. After the ending the achievement popped and the new game plus started.

I then loaded my savegame from the usb stick and just did the other ending by walking away.

As this solution corrupted someone's savegame: Make sure that while you pull the stick out the savegame flame does not show up because this might destroy your savegame. I think you can avoid this if you pull it out right after the game quicksaves as it saves regularly. Do not move and after pulling it out immediately press A to start the ending sequence.
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06 May 2013 11:32

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Works like a charm, thank you very much ;)
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By Nupra79 on 03 Jul 2013 18:49
thanks I might try this. Super afraid of corrupting my game though.
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By Shadow XBL on 01 Mar 2014 21:10
If you want to be perfectly save perhaps you wait in front of the fire until the game auto-saves (if it does so in regular intervals, not sure about this). Once it is done pull out your USB stick and immediately activate the fire. This should minimize the risk of corrupting your save.
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By Lathandertg on 02 Mar 2014 09:07
thanks! will try when I get to this.
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By Shadow XBL on 06 Mar 2014 22:19
Can anyone confirm if this trick corrupted their file?
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By ParoXysm QC on 15 Mar 2014 15:42
Kind of pointless as you have to do both endings on a single save anyway to get the 'all achievements unlocked' achievement.
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By SK Diabolic on 22 Mar 2014 15:10
You have to beat the game more than twice to get all achievements anyways. This tipp is only for these guys who want to finish the game only once but get both ending achievements.
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By Lathandertg on 22 Mar 2014 17:35
worked great for me. You don't even actually have to beat the game twice for all achieves - if you can get someone to drop you all the weapons.
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By Shadow XBL on 23 Mar 2014 05:06
Exactly, I have all the weapons, I don't need to beat the game more than once.
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By ParoXysm QC on 23 Mar 2014 23:25
Just so you guys know, I first thought that it'd be better to move the title update on the USB drive too, but it's not working if you do so. It worked perfectly just by moving the save file only.
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By ParoXysm QC on 29 Mar 2014 18:07
You sir are a god amongst men. Saved me 10-20 hours.
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By ATCS on 24 Apr 2014 02:09
Please can anyone say if getting in this way the both ending it will pop either the achivements of getting them all or it will bug it?
Thanks
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By mangiove on 07 May 2014 08:15
Well, thanks. I have already got the boss souls necessary to make the rare weapon (someone shared them with me). So I'm trying to go for 1000 GS on first run, I was only asking if the usb trick will bug the achivement "All achievements completed. Congratulations! ", or after the usb trick and the second ending it will unlock anyway...
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By mangiove on 07 May 2014 14:47
Not sure about this but I think it should unlock.
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By Lathandertg on 07 May 2014 20:31
This corrupted my file....
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By Xn3m0killsX on 05 Aug 2014 23:12
that sucks :( for other peoples' reference, you can't pull it out when the save flame is showing.
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By Shadow XBL on 06 Aug 2014 00:05
The save flame keeps popping up because you're in the online mode of Dark Souls, play in the offline mode & you won't have that flame popping up all the time. You still get the date stamp aswell. :)
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By A Cup oo Tea on 27 Jul 2015 21:14
Worked great, thanks!
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By Hurricane Matt on 28 Dec 2015 05:33
You can always copy your save to the cloud prior to the last fight and then play offline(Disconnected to the internet) and just log back on and use the cloud save for the other cheevo.
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By McQueen101 on 15 Jan 2016 04:39
Does this work in remastered? Maybe pull your Ethernet right when the achievement pops, then delete local save, reconnect, and sync?
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By Shadow XBL on 06 Jul 2018 12:47
You can skip the credits and still get the achievement. As an aside, if you are worried about the game randomly saving, you can change equipment (for example, equip a different sword) which will force a save, and then take it out and touch the fire.

Nice solution, saved me a playthrough. Upvote from me.
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By LV 1 Blue Slime on 15 Apr 2014 00:18
If you use the USB method and rip the stick out the moment before you activate the final bonfire you will watch the ending After that the game will try to save the game and can't do so as the storage device is gone. This will give you an error but NG+ will start nontheless and you will get this achievement.
After that put the USB device back in and load your game. As the game could not save your first ending your save is unaffected and you can proceedl with the other ending and going to NG+ if you wish.
If you are going for 1000 GS you will probably have to beat NG+ anyways (if you find nobody who shares his rare weapons with you) so this trick might not make sense as you will get both endings anyways.
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By Lathandertg on 07 May 2014 09:12
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I know I'm late to the whole Dark Souls party, but. . .

Here is a link to a full walkthrough of the game with full commentary. It began as a pyro focus build to help new players break the game early, but a Black Knight Halberd drop changed that. Either way, this is an efficient path through the game that any gamer can emulate.

NOTE: This was recorded from console and DOES NOT have the new DLC included. My channel however has boss videos against all the DLC bosses.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTaOHX8kEkD4Uh62ZXtLsc...

Hope it helps
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05 Sep 2012 14:06

After defeating the Gwyn you're able to earn one of two trophies. To earn this one just follow the instructions below.

When you defeat Gwyn in the Kiln of the First Flame, simply light the bonfire and the trophy is yours.
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31 Jul 2013 19:49

Once you have filled your Lordvessel with all four souls of the great lords you can challenge the game's final boss. You can either talk to Frampt, the serpent in Firelink Shrine or, if he isn't there anymore, you can simply jump on the hole he used to be and you'll reach the area Kiln of The First Flame, the last one of the game.

At the end of the area you will find the fog door leading to the final boss. Before going through make sure you have done everything you wanted to do in this playthrough because after you beat him you'll inevitably be thrown into New Game+.

After beating him you'll have two choices of endings. To acquire this trophy simply light the bonfire in the center of the area and end the game.

Check the bosses and covenants sections for more information on them.

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