This is a first-person novel adaptation of the action game Dark Souls. Its content is adapted from the game's script, and its progression and structure closely follow the original story, so the overall concept may feel very much like a conquest guide. However, this is an adaptation, not a work of reinvention, so I hope you will bear with me. I have also done my best to introduce an original theme without changing the original script. I hope both longtime readers and newcomers enjoy it.
Note: This book was completed before Dark Souls III was released, so many of its theories may have been disproved or may no longer apply. For the sake of keeping the work complete, I won't make any changes. In short, readers might as well treat this as a separate timeline.
