Remnants of the Flame

Two travellers have come to Firelink Shrine in Dark Souls III with what the dead of Lordran and Drangleic left behind.

Tharn of the Old Roads, at the foot of the middle throne past the bonfire, sells:

• Arms of Lordran: every weapon, shield, bow, crossbow and catalyst from Dark Souls: Remastered (about 180)
• Arms of Drangleic: the same from Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin (about 320)
• Spells of Lordran and Spells of Drangleic: their sorceries, pyromancies, miracles and hexes (about 180)

Maughlin the Armourer, standing beside him, sells:

• Armor of Lordran and Armor of Drangleic: every armor piece of both games (about 660), each one's own model rebuilt on Dark Souls III's skeleton so it fits and moves with your character
• Rings: the rings of both games (about 130). Each does what it did in its own game wherever Dark Souls III can, with its own game's numbers; the few Dark Souls III can't reproduce use the nearest Dark Souls III ring's effect, and their caption says so. Rings that only worked online or in a story are left out.

The Dark Wood Grain Ring does what it did in Dark Souls: at a light load your roll becomes its flip forward and back and its cartwheel to either side. The motions are Dark Souls: Remastered's own, fitted onto Dark Souls III's skeleton when the mod is built, and keep the light roll's invincibility and stamina cost.

Lordran's Firelink Shrine (new, in progress)

Dark Souls' own Firelink Shrine, rebuilt from your Dark Souls: Remastered: the shrine, its cliffs, the graveyard path, the aqueduct and the sky, with solid ground. It sits inside Dark Souls III's world, apart from DS3's own Firelink. Reach it from any bonfire: Travel → Cemetery of Ash tab → Firelink Shrine (Lordran). Its bonfire is already lit. No enemies or characters live there yet, and its lifts and ladders don't work yet (don't jump down the lift shaft).

Everything is built on your PC from your own copies of the three games. Each weapon keeps its own model, textures, icon, name and description, takes its stats from its own game (damage brought to Dark Souls III's scale), and uses the moveset and weapon skill of a matching Dark Souls III weapon. Each spell keeps its own name, icon, description and requirements, and casts as the matching Dark Souls III spell, or the closest one where Dark Souls III doesn't have it. Armor keeps its own look, name and description, with its own game's protection put on Dark Souls III's scale (or Dark Souls III's own numbers where Dark Souls III has a piece of the same name).

Boss gear unlocks as you play

Weapons, spells, armor and rings from boss fights go on sale as you beat Dark Souls III bosses:

• After Vordt of the Boreal Valley: early bosses' gear (Drake Sword, Quelaag's Furysword, Chaos Blade; the Last Giant's, the Pursuer's, the Lost Sinner's...)
• After the Abyss Watchers: mid-game bosses' gear (Greatsword of Artorias, Moonlight Greatsword, Smough's Hammer; Freja's, the Looking Glass Knight's, Velstadt's...)
• After Pontiff Sulyvahn: late and DLC bosses' gear (Great Lord Greatsword, Manus Catalyst; Nashandra's, the Fume Knight's, the Ivory King's...)

Unique weapons upgrade to +5 with Twinkling Titanite; the rest go to +10 with Titanite.

Good to know

• You need all three games installed. The first Play builds everything in a few minutes, then Dark Souls III starts.
• Nothing in your game folders is changed, and the mod ships no game files.
• The merchants speak in subtitles only, in English in every language.
• Weapons can't be infused in this version.
• The Dark Wood Grain Ring changes the player's roll files, so the mod won't combine with another mod that changes rolling.
• Dark Souls III has room for only so many new icons: many armor sets, mostly from Dark Souls II, show one icon (the set's chest piece) on all their pieces.
• Lordran's Firelink Shrine adds to Firelink's map, its texture archive and the travel menu's pictures, so the mod won't combine with another mod that changes those.
• Coming next: Lordran's Firelink gets its own enemies, then summon signs for famous allies (Solaire, Siegmeyer, Lucatiel and more) before Dark Souls III bosses. Bosses from Lordran and Drangleic come later.

Credits

SoulsFormatsNEXT (soulsmods, from JKAnderson's SoulsFormats), UXM (JKAnderson, Nordgaren), Smithbox (Vawser), Paramdex (soulsmods), ESDLang (thefifthmatt), SoulSplitter (FrankvdStam), HKX2 (Katalash, Meowmaritus), HavokLib (Lukas Cone), SoulsGym (Martin Schuck), Dark Souls Series Combo Randomizer (sesouthall / LordBobbot), DSR-Gadget (JKAnderson), DS2S-META (Nordgaren), MinHook (Tsuda Kageyu), BouncyCastle, ZstdNet. Runs through ModEngine2 (Katalash). Built with Claude for Melty. Full source is included under GPL-3.0.