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50 free Dark Souls trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Aug 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 decaying kingdom of the first Dark Souls, home to Firelink Shrine, Anor Londo and the Kiln of the First Flame, where the Chosen Undead must decide the fate of the fire.
Q 02Who publishes the Dark Souls games outside Japan?
Bandai Namco
Bandai Namco publishes Dark Souls outside Japan; FromSoftware self-published the 2011 original at home, while Namco Bandai Games handled the Western release that October.
Q 03The 2011 game is a spiritual successor to which 2009 FromSoftware title, whose IP Sony owned?
Demon's Souls
FromSoftware wanted a direct sequel, but Sony owned the Demon's Souls IP, so a new world was built instead.
Q 04Who freed the Chosen Undead from the Northern Undead Asylum at the start of Dark Souls?
Oscar of Astora
Oscar drops the Estus Flask and dies moments later, but his armour is the Elite Knight set most players end up wearing.
Q 05Ringing the two Bells of Awakening wakes which serpent, who sends you to Anor Londo?
Kingseeker Frampt
Kingseeker Frampt wakes beneath Firelink Shrine once both Bells of Awakening ring and urges the Chosen Undead through Sen's Fortress to Anor Londo to claim the Lordvessel.
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 hollowed, burning shell, and his attacks are famously easy to parry.
Q 07Which being finds the Dark Soul in the opening cutscene of Dark Souls?
The Furtive Pygmy
The Pygmy is the ancestor of humanity, a thread picked up in Dark Souls III's Ringed City.
Q 08In Dark Souls, dying leaves your dropped souls at what marker until you return?
A bloodstain at the death spot
Die again before you reach the bloodstain and they are gone for good, the single most punishing rule in the series.
Q 09Before release, Miyazaki referred to bonfires by what name?
Beacon Fires
He described them as rare places of warmth in a dark world; resting at one also respawns most enemies.
Q 10Which blacksmith in Dark Souls ascends weapons down the lightning path?
The Giant Blacksmith
The Giant Blacksmith, found in a side room of Anor Londo, ascends +10 weapons to lightning and sells Twinkling Titanite; Vamos in the Catacombs handles the fire and chaos paths.
Q 11Which cathedral did a designer cite as a reference for Anor Londo's buttresses?
Milan
Milan Cathedral's forest of flying buttresses and pinnacles was the reference for Anor Londo, the city of the gods whose great cathedral hosts the Ornstein and Smough fight.
Q 12What was the Windows version of Dark Souls, released in August 2012, called?
Prepare to Die Edition
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition brought the game to Windows on 24 August 2012 with the Artorias of the Abyss content included, after a fan petition pushed Namco Bandai into the port.
Q 13What was the fan-made mod that fixed the PC port's locked internal resolution called?
DSFix
Q 21Fans long theorised Solaire was Gwyn's firstborn son in disguise; which game disproved it?
Dark Souls III
The firstborn turned out to be the Nameless King, an optional boss in Dark Souls III.
Q 22How many copies had the original Dark Souls sold worldwide by April 2013?
2.37 million
Namco Bandai put worldwide sales of the original Dark Souls at 2.37 million copies by April 2013, roughly eighteen months after its console launch.
Q 23Dark Souls: Remastered arrived on which console last, in October 2018, running at 30 frames per second?
Nintendo Switch
The Nintendo Switch version of Dark Souls: Remastered launched on 19 October 2018 at 30 fps, five months after the PS4, Xbox One and PC releases, which targeted 60 fps with dedicated servers.
DSFix, written by the modder Durante within a day of release, unlocked the port's 1024x720 internal rendering resolution and later added a 60 fps option.
Q 14The Artorias of the Abyss DLC takes the player into the past to save which land?
Oolacile
Oolacile is the land the DLC sends you back to; you arrive via the Broken Pendant and face four bosses there, including the corrupted Artorias himself.
Q 15Who is the 'Father of the Abyss' that Artorias failed to defeat?
Manus
Legends still credit Artorias with stopping the Abyss, though the player did the work; Manus's fragments return as Dark Souls II's queens.
Q 16Which companion did Artorias manage to save from the Abyss?
His wolf, Sif
Artorias shielded his wolf, Sif, in the Abyss; Great Grey Wolf Sif is later fought in Darkroot Garden and greets you with a different intro if you saved it in the DLC.
Q 17Solaire of Astora gives the player which item at their first meeting?
The White Sign Soapstone
Solaire hands over the White Sign Soapstone at the Undead Burg bonfire overlook; it lets you leave a sign to be summoned for 'jolly cooperation', while his own covenant sign glows gold.
Q 18Solaire belongs to which covenant?
Warriors of Sunlight
Solaire is a Warrior of Sunlight; joining the Warriors of Sunlight at the Altar of Sunlight grants the 'Praise the Sun' gesture and the Lightning Spear miracle.
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 is offered by Darkstalker Kaathe in the Abyss?
Darkwraith
Darkstalker Kaathe offers the Darkwraith covenant in the Abyss below New Londo; its members receive the Dark Hand and the Red Eye Orb to invade other worlds.
Q 24Dark Souls II is set in which fallen kingdom?
Drangleic
Drangleic is the fallen kingdom of Dark Souls II; its hub is the seaside settlement of Majula, from which the Emerald Herald sends you to collect four Great Souls.
Q 25Who directed Dark Souls II, the only game in the trilogy not directed by Miyazaki?
Tomohiro Shibuya and Yui Tanimura
Tomohiro Shibuya and Yui Tanimura co-directed Dark Souls II, released in March 2014, while Miyazaki supervised; he became FromSoftware's president that May.
Q 26In Dark Souls II, repeated deaths reduce your maximum health down to what floor?
50 percent
Each death in Dark Souls II hollows you further, cutting max health until it bottoms out at 50 percent; a Human Effigy restores full health and human form, and the Ring of Binding holds the floor at 75 percent.
Q 27Dark Souls II's matchmaking used which system, based on the total souls a character had ever collected?
Soul Memory
Soul Memory tallied every soul a character had ever gained, even ones later lost, so a careless character could be matched with far stronger players; the Agape Ring was added to stop it growing.
Q 28Which Dark Souls II boss holds the Great Soul in Brightstone Cove Tseldora?
The Duke's Dear Freja
The Duke's Dear Freja, the giant two-headed spider kept by Duke Tseldora, holds the Great Soul of Brightstone Cove Tseldora; the Rotten, Lost Sinner and Old Iron King hold the other three.
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 30Dark Souls II had sold how many copies by April 2015?
Over 2.5 million
The publisher reported that Dark Souls II had sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide by April 2015, a year after its March 2014 launch.