06-02-2025, 09:14 PM
Everyone already knows what the pendant is but I wanted to revisit this particular item thirteen years later, by the way this is mostly a script for the video version of this post which I have yet to upload, apologies for any mistakes in this, I wasn't originally going to post the script for the video but here it is.
Video version:
https://youtu.be/Bo4eznvXSb0
https://old.bitchute.com/video/4Qx6FmSvtTqt/
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Among the eight starting gifts you can choose one of those is the pendant, it's item description says it's a trinket with no effect but fond memories will comfort travelers. Oddly enough the item description for the pendant at one point had the text as the sunlight medal, I believe this was when the Prepare to Die Edition of the game was released, I have no idea how or why that was the case. Outside of that little oddity there's a few other things to note about it, the pendant can be obtained indefinitely from the Forest Hunter covenant after successfully defeating a host, this is a random chance and you won't always get a pendant.
Outside of obtaining it as a starting gift and through this covenant there are no other ways to obtain it, it's a fairly uncommon item but nothing like getting a slab from a Darkwraith obviously. When Dark Souls released everyone started searching for the true purpose of the pendant as it appeared to be a rather useless item at first in a game where every other item has a use, it stood out a lot.
Urban legends started on forums about how the pendant would lead to a third, true ending of the game or would open new areas. Some theories were tested such as hitting many walls in the game with the pendant in the players inventory or going into NG+ with it.
Eventually a use for it was discovered and it's pretty decent, you can get a souvenir of reprisal from Snuggly the crow for the blades of the darkmoon covenant, just one of these will help you rank up a lot easier if you're playing offline and farming the crows in the painted world for the souvenirs. It's not the most amazing discovery but everyone was pretty disappointed by it so we kept searching for another purpose.
When Artorias of the Abyss released there was an interview with Hidetaka Miyazaki which I always thought was mistranslated because it makes no sense, I should mention prior to this interview people would ask him what the purpose of the pendant is and he stated he would never tell everyone the purpose of it. Then during said interview he said he just wanted to make a joke or a prank, I'm a little confused by this, by the looks of it when he's saying it's a joke he's talking about the pendant despite it having a purpose in the game, maybe he was just being cryptic.
Speaking of the Artorias of the Abyss DLC it's interesting that to enter the DLC you need a broken pendant that assumedly belongs to him, I heard a theory that the pendant from the main game represents the chosen undead like how Manus' own pendant represents him, he must have a lot of memories with it to pull you back in the past for it. Finally, there's a third pendant from Anor Londo that was given to Artorias, the silver pendant. This pendant is oddly found in a random chest in Oolcile, the odd thing is to get to the room with the chest you need a sunlight maggot, lantern or the cast light spell, it's very unique.
This pendant is awesome in concept but it's almost never used as it's not that helpful, it reflects dark spells, both from other players and enemies and I wouldn't recommend using it against Manus honestly, I'll be showing some footage of it in action.
I don't know whether to believe these other two DLC pendants have a connection to the main one, as far as unused cut content goes there's nothing to do with any of the pendants and that's really it, my idea with this video is to maybe rekindle discussion about it online, perhaps Miyazaki or other developers will comment on it again someday.
Fast forwarding to March of 2014, Dark Souls 2 is released. And there's no pendant in here, nor in the Scholar of The First Sin version of the game. Fast forwarding again to March of 2016, Dark Souls 3 is released and there may be a reference to the pendant in the Dreamchaser's ashes, the shrine handmaiden says that these ashes are the stuff of a fool, it looks like Miyazaki's joke came full circle. Well anyway, my idea for this post / video was to maybe rekindle discussions about the pendant online and have people theorize on it again, perhaps Miyazaki or other developers will comment on it again someday.
Video version:
https://youtu.be/Bo4eznvXSb0
https://old.bitchute.com/video/4Qx6FmSvtTqt/
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Among the eight starting gifts you can choose one of those is the pendant, it's item description says it's a trinket with no effect but fond memories will comfort travelers. Oddly enough the item description for the pendant at one point had the text as the sunlight medal, I believe this was when the Prepare to Die Edition of the game was released, I have no idea how or why that was the case. Outside of that little oddity there's a few other things to note about it, the pendant can be obtained indefinitely from the Forest Hunter covenant after successfully defeating a host, this is a random chance and you won't always get a pendant.
Outside of obtaining it as a starting gift and through this covenant there are no other ways to obtain it, it's a fairly uncommon item but nothing like getting a slab from a Darkwraith obviously. When Dark Souls released everyone started searching for the true purpose of the pendant as it appeared to be a rather useless item at first in a game where every other item has a use, it stood out a lot.
Urban legends started on forums about how the pendant would lead to a third, true ending of the game or would open new areas. Some theories were tested such as hitting many walls in the game with the pendant in the players inventory or going into NG+ with it.
Eventually a use for it was discovered and it's pretty decent, you can get a souvenir of reprisal from Snuggly the crow for the blades of the darkmoon covenant, just one of these will help you rank up a lot easier if you're playing offline and farming the crows in the painted world for the souvenirs. It's not the most amazing discovery but everyone was pretty disappointed by it so we kept searching for another purpose.
When Artorias of the Abyss released there was an interview with Hidetaka Miyazaki which I always thought was mistranslated because it makes no sense, I should mention prior to this interview people would ask him what the purpose of the pendant is and he stated he would never tell everyone the purpose of it. Then during said interview he said he just wanted to make a joke or a prank, I'm a little confused by this, by the looks of it when he's saying it's a joke he's talking about the pendant despite it having a purpose in the game, maybe he was just being cryptic.
Speaking of the Artorias of the Abyss DLC it's interesting that to enter the DLC you need a broken pendant that assumedly belongs to him, I heard a theory that the pendant from the main game represents the chosen undead like how Manus' own pendant represents him, he must have a lot of memories with it to pull you back in the past for it. Finally, there's a third pendant from Anor Londo that was given to Artorias, the silver pendant. This pendant is oddly found in a random chest in Oolcile, the odd thing is to get to the room with the chest you need a sunlight maggot, lantern or the cast light spell, it's very unique.
This pendant is awesome in concept but it's almost never used as it's not that helpful, it reflects dark spells, both from other players and enemies and I wouldn't recommend using it against Manus honestly, I'll be showing some footage of it in action.
I don't know whether to believe these other two DLC pendants have a connection to the main one, as far as unused cut content goes there's nothing to do with any of the pendants and that's really it, my idea with this video is to maybe rekindle discussion about it online, perhaps Miyazaki or other developers will comment on it again someday.
Fast forwarding to March of 2014, Dark Souls 2 is released. And there's no pendant in here, nor in the Scholar of The First Sin version of the game. Fast forwarding again to March of 2016, Dark Souls 3 is released and there may be a reference to the pendant in the Dreamchaser's ashes, the shrine handmaiden says that these ashes are the stuff of a fool, it looks like Miyazaki's joke came full circle. Well anyway, my idea for this post / video was to maybe rekindle discussions about the pendant online and have people theorize on it again, perhaps Miyazaki or other developers will comment on it again someday.