The trail of flames his sword leaves behind now can actually damage you. In additon to a few new moves the existing ones get powered up as well. There won't be any additional Watchers joining in on the fun but the one that's left is much more dangerous than the others. Phase 2 begins and now the boss is on fire. Once he's down the blood of the wolf begins coalesce into the dead body of one Abyss Watcher. So it is wise to try and lock the second and third watcher into battle and take care of the first one while the other two fight. You can kill the second and third Watcher, but they will get back up after a short while. Mostly the third focuses on his colleagues, though. That third one will actually attack both the Abyss Watchers as well as you if you get too close. Because the third Abyss Watcher that joins the battle will be a red-eyed one, presumably corrupted by the Abyss. Fighting against two can be a much more difficult challenge, however, this being a relatively early boss fight the game is not too cruel. They don't share a health bar so your job is to beat the first one. A short time after the battle starts a second Abyss Watcher will join the fray. Even the opening of the music is reminiscent of Artorias' theme.Īs long as you learn to deal with their swings one Abyss Watcher isn't going to give you a lot of trouble. They use a weapon that looks very similar to the Greatsword of Artorias too and a lot of their moves mimic Artorias' Style from the first Dark Souls. This link to Artorias shows in the fighting style of the Abyss Watchers. It is not too far fetched to assume that the Abyss Watchers, aka the Legion of Farron is what became of the Forest Hunter covenant from Dark Souls after Alvina, another of Artorias' animal companions, left. Considering that there is a part of the Abyss inside them too it's quite ironic that they are locked in an eternal battle against each other. The Abyss Watchers' duty is to fight against creatures of the Abyss. That wolf is the Great Gray Wolf Sif, loyal companion to Artorias, the Abysswalker and Wolf Knight. In this specific case they are multiple lords of cinder, though technically they are united by the blood of the wolf that flows inside them.

A Lord of Cinder is somebody who has linked the fire before. And so we fight our first Lord of Cinder.

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