Shiva's Bodyguard

Lore

The bodyguard of Shiva of the East who appears next to Shiva at all times, in the Darkroot Garden and in Blighttown. He accompanied Shiva in his journey from the East and will become hostile towards anyone who harms Shiva.

He wears the Shadow Set and the Dark Wood Grain Ring which implies he is a spook and therefore may be a spy or an assassin. He will occasionally use pyromancy like Fire Surge which is a pyromancy foreign to the Great Swamp.

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Icon	Name	Description
	Shadow Set	Black cloth garb worn by spooks from an Eastern land. Designed so as not to hinder their unique form of martial arts. While it sacrifices defense for the sake of greater mobility, it does offer resistance to bleeding and poison among other things, perhaps due to the nature of espionage.
	Fire Surge	Pyromancy foreign of the Great Swamp. Creates a surge of flame from palm to hand. Not all pyromancy originates in the Great Swamp. One hear rumors of unknown pyromancers inhabiting various lands, and this spell is the work of one such outlander.
	Dark Wood Grain Ring	This special ring crafted in an Eastern land is made of gold, but with a wood grain crest on its surface. Agents of subterfuge in this faraway land are particularly fond of the dark gold wood grain, which greatly alters its wearer's rolling action.

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Shiva of the East dialogue

• After speaking to his bodyguard

Ah, did you notice that one? Sharp eyes!
He's one of the clan. From the East, like myself.
Always slinking in the shadows, but he's a tough one.
You'll see what I mean.
Hah hah hah hah!

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Comments

Jerriel 31 Jul 2017 14:23

Very interesting character to be this strong and easily kill. Confuse ? Well if any of you travel entirely blightown you will find many PC death in there. But right is about shiva bodyguard… He is found death at the highest plataform at the edge of a staircase, I take four ways he end up there. One, he was kill by the flesh eating monster that got the staff , two he was poison by the dart midgets there , three smash by the big guys that hold club the one found at the entry of blightown before going down the stairs. And last and for me the most sense making, kill by shiva. Ok for a body guard he would have been impossible to get ambush by e flesh eating monsters, they are to loud and scream soon as they see you, two toxic dart would not do anything he is a assassin ninja meaning he got antidote for all that and would have cure himself fast along by killing the little people. Three could not be killed by the fatso due to they are heavy and would have been easy for the ninja to take them on easy. Plus he was invisible only one that can see him would have been the flesh eating monsters due to they would know by scent, the insect of course . And by shiva in which by turning his back to the person he was protcting would have made him easy target. Why blightown ? Well after the event where the player meet shiva for the second time the player possesses the chaos blade and shiva want it just like the blacksmith ask you to have the Amber you found. You say know and he take it. So feeling the ninja saw that as wrong he confronted shiva about this action which have him kill also could have been he desiable him to where the blight town monsters got the drop on him . Got hit by a dart, he try cure himself and shiva took the antidote , then the fatso came up and smash him dropping down the floor trying to get away only to find the eating flesh monsters and die there while shiva escape to the top floor through the depth into dark roots down to sen fortress , since the iron golem been kill previously to the players visit he made it there and into the world of ariamis.