New Londo Ruins

Lore

A great undead city that once held a thriving culture. When the Four Kings that ruled it fell to the Abyss and their knights were corrupted, and it became a cesspool of ravenous Darkwraiths, the city was flooded by Ingward and two other healers to contain the threat of the Darkwraiths, despite the massive loss of life.

Despite the Four King's former loyalty to Gwyn, strangely no statues or other signs of worship of him can be found in New Londo, only Velka. This might imply that Velka had a hand in the Four Kings betraying Gwyn.

These haunted, dark and initially flooded ruins are located directly beneath Firelink Shrine and are haunted by cursed souls. After draining the water, the lower part will become accessible.

Rickert of Vinheim can be found here.

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Design Works Interview

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Miyazaki: We tried a slightly different approach with the New Londo ruins, closely basing it on existing architecture, in this case Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy, France. Of course, it's not exactly the same, but if you compare the two, the similarities are obvious.

[…] It's much easier for the planners, designers and 3D artists to start with references from real life than to start from scratch. Real things contain such a mixture of influences, ideas and such an abundance of information. Of course, some things worked out better than others, but I think in the end we created something that wouldn't have been possible if we started from zero. Even with the areas that didn't turn out as I'd hoped, it was a pretty successful experiment. Looking at it against the other areas, I think the difference is actually fairly obvious. But since we used this different approach for this area it was the last area the artists worked on.

Waragai: Yes. While I was in charge of New Londo, the fact that it was based so heavily on a real world location meant that there wasn't actually a great deal of work to be done. All but the finest details were already in place.

Theories

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Key to New Londo Ruins
Key to the iron bars separating the ruins of New Londo and Drake Valley.
The ruins of New Londo were blocked off, for the cursed ghosts posed danger to life and spirit,
and the legends speak of a terrible Dark that was sealed away.

Key to the Seal
Key to the floodgates of New Londo, which seal away the Four Kings who fell to Dark.
The Sealers flooded New Londo to banish the Darkwraiths and the Four Kings.
The agonizing decision was made with the realization that countless lives, and the robust culture of the city, would be lost.
The victims now roam the ruins as ghosts.

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