Dark Souls Trivia
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100 free Dark Souls trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
You died, then you learned. This Dark Souls trivia quiz covers all three games in the trilogy: the Chosen Undead's climb through Lordran to the Kiln of the First Flame, the Bearer of the Curse's hunt for King Vendrick in Drangleic, and the Ashen One's pursuit of the Lords of Cinder in Lothric. Expect Gwyn, Manus, Nashandra and the Soul of Cinder, plus Solaire, Sif and the DLC that closed the story in the Ringed City. It also covers the games' history: Demon's Souls and why Dark Souls could not be its sequel, the Prepare to Die Edition and DSFix, who directed Dark Souls II, the 2018 Remaster, sales figures, and Hidetaka Miyazaki's path from an Oracle sales job to president of FromSoftware. A few questions reach out to Bloodborne, Sekiro and Elden Ring. Difficulty ranges from things any player knows (what do bonfires do?) to lore that only the item-description readers will get. Every answer is checked against the Wikipedia article for the game or character, with the citation on each question.
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Q 01The first Dark Souls is set in which decaying kingdom?
Lordran
Lordran is the land of the ancient lords, where legend says an undead will one day make pilgrimage; after you break out of a northern asylum, a giant crow carries you there.
Q 02In 2021, which awards named Dark Souls the 'Ultimate Game of All Time' after a public vote?
Golden Joystick Awards
The Golden Joystick Awards added the one-off prize to mark 50 years of video games; voters put Dark Souls first, and picked the PC as the best gaming hardware of all time.
Q 03Dark Souls needed a new name and a new world because which company owned Demon's Souls?
Sony
Sony owned Demon's Souls yet passed on publishing it in the West: its studios chief gave up after two hours, calling it 'an unbelievably bad game', and later named that one of Sony's biggest mistakes.
Q 04Who freed the Chosen Undead from the Northern Undead Asylum at the start of Dark Souls?
Oscar of Astora
Oscar of Astora drops a corpse carrying the cell key through the roof, then is found dying nearby; he hands over his Estus Flask and asks you to ring the Bell of Awakening in his place.
Q 05Ringing the two Bells of Awakening wakes which serpent, who sends you to Anor Londo?
Kingseeker Frampt
Kingseeker Frampt can be heard snoring beneath Firelink Shrine after the first bell and surfaces after the second; he will also eat your unwanted items and pay for them in souls.
Q 06Who is the final boss of the first Dark Souls, fought in the Kiln of the First Flame?
Gwyn
Gwyn waits in the Kiln of the First Flame: the god who first linked the fire is now a hollow, charred husk, and nearly every attack he has can be parried.
Q 07Which being finds the Dark Soul in the opening cutscene of Dark Souls?
The Furtive Pygmy
The Furtive Pygmy split the Dark Soul among his descendants, and they became mankind; for all that, the opening narration calls him 'so easily forgotten'.
Q 08Where are your dropped souls left when you die in Dark Souls?
A bloodstain at the death spot
A bloodstain at the death spot holds them, and dying again before you touch it wipes them out for good; online, other players' bloodstains replay their last seconds as a warning.
Q 09Before release, Miyazaki referred to Dark Souls' bonfires by what name?
Beacon Fires
Beacon Fires was the name he used in a 2011 interview, where he picked them as his favourite new feature: a place to recover, and one of the few heartwarming spots in a cold, dark world.
Q 10Which blacksmith in Dark Souls ascends weapons down the lightning path?
The Giant Blacksmith
The Giant Blacksmith of Anor Londo is the only smith who works the lightning path or forges boss-soul weapons; in the third game his body still sits at the same spot, holding the Giant's Coal.
Q 11Which cathedral did a Dark Souls designer cite as a reference for Anor Londo's buttresses?
Milan
Milan's cathedral gave the artist the idea: walking beneath its buttresses on a visit, he thought how fun it would be to walk on top of them, which is how players get into Anor Londo's great hall.
Q 12What was the Windows version of Dark Souls, released in August 2012, called?
Prepare to Die Edition
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition exists because fans petitioned for it: the team had never planned a PC version, and the port arrived bundled with the new Artorias of the Abyss chapter.
Q 13Which fan-made mod fixed the locked internal resolution of Dark Souls' PC port?
DSFix
Q 21Dark Souls III ended the fan theory that Solaire was a god's exiled firstborn by introducing which optional boss?
The Nameless King
The Nameless King, fought on the back of a storm dragon, is widely taken to be that lost heir: a dragon-slaying god of war struck from the annals for siding with the dragons his father fought.
Q 22Which recurring FromSoftware trickster kicks the player off a cliff in the first Dark Souls?
Patches
Patches has a special hatred of clerics, and if you survive his trick he tries to buy you off with a small gift; he returns in several later FromSoftware games, once as a spider with a human head.
Q 23Dark Souls: Remastered arrived on which console last, in October 2018, running at 30 frames per second?
DSFix appeared almost at once, a fan's patch that unlocked the port's fixed 1024x720 rendering; the team had never planned a PC version and shipped little more than the console game.
Q 14The Artorias of the Abyss DLC takes the player into the past to save which land?
Oolacile
Oolacile brought the Abyss on itself: its sorcerers dug up the grave of a primeval man to tap his dark power, and his rage began to swallow the land, so the DLC sends you back centuries to stop it.
Q 15Who is the 'Father of the Abyss' that Artorias failed to defeat?
Manus
Manus had already corrupted Artorias, yet legend still credits the knight with stopping the Abyss when the player did the work; fragments of Manus return in the sequel, one of them as its queen.
Q 16Which companion did Artorias manage to save from the Abyss?
His wolf, Sif
Artorias left his greatshield as a barrier around his wolf, Sif, before the Abyss took him; Sif grew up to guard his grave in Darkroot Garden, fighting with the knight's own greatsword.
Q 17Solaire of Astora gives the player which item at their first meeting?
The White Sign Soapstone
The White Sign Soapstone is his answer to a land where, as he puts it, the flow of time is convoluted and heroes phase in and out: leave your sign and another player can summon you for 'jolly co-operation'.
Q 18In Dark Souls, Solaire's covenant lowers which stat requirement for players who help others beat bosses?
Faith
Faith of 25 is the entry bar, but each boss you help another player beat as a summoned phantom cuts it by five, so five wins waive it; the covenant's altar also teaches Solaire's signature gesture, Praise the Sun.
Q 19Where does the player usually last meet Solaire, driven insane by a Sunlight Maggot?
Lost Izalith
Solaire's last stop is Lost Izalith, where a Sunlight Maggot drives him mad unless you open the Chaos Servant shortcut and kill the maggot first, keeping him sane to be summoned for the final fight.
Q 20Which Dark Souls covenant does the serpent Kaathe offer in the Abyss?
Darkwraith
The Darkwraith covenant opens only if you beat the Four Kings before placing the Lordvessel; the knights of New Londo who first joined preyed on the living, so the city's floodgates were shut to seal them in.
Nintendo Switch
The Nintendo Switch version was planned for May 2018 with the others but slipped five months to 19 October; it runs at 30 frames per second where the rest aim for 60.
Q 24Dark Souls II is set in which fallen kingdom?
Drangleic
Drangleic fell because its king was talked into raiding the land of the giants across the sea; the giants came back for revenge and left his kingdom in ruins.
Q 25Hidetaka Miyazaki only supervised Dark Souls II; which game was he directing at the time?
Bloodborne
Bloodborne grew out of talks that began in 2012, just as the first game's PC edition was wrapping up, so Tomohiro Shibuya and Yui Tanimura directed the sequel instead.
Q 26In Dark Souls II, which item reverses hollowing and restores your shrunken health bar?
Human Effigy
A Human Effigy undoes the hollowing that shaves your health with every death, normally down to half the bar; it can also be spent to ward off invasions by other players for half an hour.
Q 27Unlike the rest of the series, Dark Souls II matched players online by which system?
Soul Memory
Soul Memory counts every soul a character has ever gained and never drops when souls are spent or lost; players wear the Agape Ring, which soaks up souls in their place, to stay in one matchmaking bracket.
Q 28Which Dark Souls II boss guards the Great Soul of Brightstone Cove Tseldora?
The Duke's Dear Freja
The Duke's Dear Freja is a giant two-headed spider, thought to be the pet of a duke so obsessed with spiders that he looked on content as they overran his mining town.
Q 29Dark Souls II's three DLC packs were collectively titled what?
The Lost Crowns
The Lost Crowns trilogy comprises Crown of the Sunken King, Crown of the Old Iron King and Crown of the Ivory King, all later bundled into the 2015 Scholar of the First Sin edition.
Q 30Which Dark Souls II boss is carried into his first fight by a giant bird?
The Pursuer
The Pursuer tracks cursed undead from one area to the next, so he keeps coming back; in his main fight, the arena's ballista can strip most of his health in a single volley.