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Gotthard got me hard

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goat

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Black hand? More like BACK HAND THE LIVING **** OUT OF THE ABYSS WATCHER goddam goat

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his blinking corpse is a running gag by siegmeyer back in dark souls 1.

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she black hand in my gotthard till i by my sword!

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“Unofficial comment goes here”

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Black hand Gotthard more like chad hand Gotthard amirite lads

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I COULD'VE GOTTEN HIS HELP WITH THE ABYSS WATCHERS!?

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summon sign at abyss watchers only appears if you dont have Londor summoned (possibly any other summon)

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I was so close to beating pontiff each try but just needed something to push me over the edge and this guy did that. Thanks random npc!

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this dude is a freaking chad

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"The body has the sheath of Onikiri and Ubadachi, so the corpse might not be Gotthard's." Then why would said corpse posses Gotthard Twinswords?

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Sadly this champ died to Pontiff Sulyvahn, I guess you could say it GOTTHARD for him.

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Okay, I feel like I'm going crazy but does no one else remember black hand gotthard being a summon in ds2 at the shrine of amana. When I played ds3 for the first I made a big deal out of it. In ds2 he had two katanas like his corpse in ds3.

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NG abyss watchers w/o gotthard = get wrecked over and over

NG+ abyss watchers with gotthard = don't even have to use an estus

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Killing Emma stops Gotthard's summon signs from spawning, someone needs to add this

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He's summon won't appear before Abyss Watcher if you have summoned Heysel

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He stopped appearing outside Pontiff's arena for me. Does a certain event cause him to disappear?

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My theory is a technicality issue
That corpse IS supposed to be Gotthard's but they ****ed up, chose the wrong model and put Kamui there instead of Gotthard

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Do summon make boss has more HP?
Do summon make boss give less souls?
Because I want to solo boss.
And there are no other way to get this gesture except to summon him.

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I don't think the corpse is him. The corpse has a bow in the back, and is using different katana twinswords. I think it's just another Blackhand and Gotthard saw him die, and gave up and left his sword there.

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This says something about a cut scene where the eclipse appears (i geuss they mean when the sky turns red as well) but i've never ever seen this cut scene. Or do they just mean when you get summoned into the Dancer's room by the Handmaid? Is there a specific order to trigger it?

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I like to think he didn't die but is actually in a bout of chronic back pain and he like "Hey dude my back is killing me right now,go ahead and take my seords and key,I'm gonna go ahead and take a nap. could you do me a favor and bring me some painkillers or something if you find some some?" And then you just don't get him any because your lazy

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My guess is that that corpse outside the grand archives isn't gotthard but actually the third blackhand member since the body has twin katanas equiped, gotthard's twinswords are twin straightswords. I think the reason is because, gotthard is loyal to the old king(s) he served who wanted the fire linked, like anon 10 Aug 2020 08:56 says. He wants the fire linked but he's sworn to serve the king so he does it indirectly so he helps you kill the other lords of cinder. And maybe he did try making his way to twin princes but when he was forced to kill the third blackhand member he couldn't bring himself to continue so he leaves his swords and the key on the body and leaves.

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Gotthard The Real MVP

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Ladies call me White Hand Stayhard

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Here’s a theory: so black hands serve successive kings, right? Maybe Gotthard wants the fire to be linked, as it was by the earlier kings that he served. He’s betraying the lothric princes by helping us out, since they refused to link the fire and he sees us as the next great hope for the fire to be linked. He tries to return to lothric castle but the princes, discovering his betrayal, order dragonslayer armour to block him from entering and he dies on his way to the door.

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I wish there was more to him. Like dialogue, mentioning him by his confederates (Kamui or whatever) etc. He's been one of the people that actually try to help us on our journey without drawbacks. (like killing Swordmaster for Vordt, becoming Lord of Hollows for Paleshade).

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what if... hear me out bros, the reason he's blinking is cause he IS alive, but his black hand GOT HARD (he has black plague or some sh#t) and he's just in pain on the ground.. THE LORE IMPLICATIONS MAN

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I summoned Sirris first and then i was going to summon him to Abyssal Watchers, well his sign was gone. Yeah i am noob. I went to boss w Sirris and she died early as i guessed she would (i am playing pyro) and i couldnt save her. Then i just surrendered and let AWs kill me. Then i went back to check his sign and his sign was gone.. forever. GL to me trying to kill AWs w pyromancy :D 1st run as knight w him no problem..

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Update that may have relevant lore implications: on my current play through, I killed Emma and the dancer early, before the abyss watchers as well as before the crystal sage. His summon sign did NOT appear before the abyss watchers boss door. Needs further testing tho

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I have not seen his summon sign at abyss watchers, even when looking for it. I would like a picture or video location of it.

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The first time I saw his summon sign, i thought he was a player-made character because of his name. "Got Hard." Heh heh.

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The corpse in front of the grand archives has Onikiri and Ubadachi with it, so perhaps Gotthard was just leaving for a vacation and told one of his colleagues to hold his swords for him

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"The description of his twinswords (Gotthard Twinswords) may suggest that he had intended to flee from the Black Hand ranks, and might have been hunted down by Kamui or other assassins in the Lothric castle. After helping our character twice under unknown motives in our journey through Lothric, perhaps prince Lothric began to fear both him and ordered someone to kill Gotthard before he could do more damage. (potential theory - not official)" Theories don't belong in the trivia section. They belong on fan forums and here in the comments, where people can discuss them, not blindly accept them as fact.

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This guy is absolutely amazing. He saved me from so many death by Abyss Watcher combo by staggering him everytime the Watcher was going to coup de grace me into a second early grave.

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FromSoftware, please remove blinking eyes on corpse, it’s ruining my immersion. Do it or I swear I’ll leave a bad steam review!!

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All hail the true MVP

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It would be cool if you could save him by killing Kamui or Twin Princes before killing the other three or something like that. Also, who’s the other member of the Black Hand? Isn’t there an item that says there’s three black hands

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Gotthard is a baller - in my experience he hasn't come close to dying once and seems to have semi-intelligent AI as during Abyss Watchers his aggro was fixed on the "true" boss.

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I came across his summon sign in my first play-through, but his goofy last name made me think he was a player character, not NPC.

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He really looks like a black church hunter from bloodbornew

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Black Hand Gotthard sucks. I summoned him near Abyss Watchers boss then led him back to the Old Wolf of Farron bonfire because I couldn't find any other phantoms to help me kill the Stray Demon miniboss above the bonfire. It turns out Black Hand Gotthard can't climb the ladder to get to the bonfire. He was my only hope since I'm really underleveled to summon real people and I can't fight Stray Demon by myself. Black Hand Gotthard was my only hope =(

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This dude just shows up for business. No Sunbros? No problem.

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Why is he dead before the grand archives?

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So has anyone figured out why his corpse has Onikiri and Ubadachi on it?

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Since I didn't see Sirris' sign at the Abyss Watchers fight, and I wasn't going through Anri's questline, Gotthard was my go-to summon for the Watchers and Pontiff. I don't know if how competent he is depends on how much of a casul you are (I think I'm in the filthy category), but he helped my strength character whittle them down before I smashed them. That being said, I ended up soloing the Watchers because I ran out of Embers, and he didn't live through the Pontiff fight, but I'm still holding on to his twinswords.

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My theory is that he asked by Emma to help those who were hunting down the Lords of Cinder. He chose to do this, feeling that his duty to his kingdom was greater than his duty to the princes (which put him at odds with Kamui). He came to help with two of the most essential fights in the Unkindled's journey, and, upon watching their defeat of the resurrected Lords of Cinder from the shadows, Gotthard went back to Lothric Castle to unlock the Grand Archives. However, in the time that he had been gone, the Pilgrim Butterflies appeared, and animated the Dragonslayer Armor. He managed to get past it, but he expired shortly afterwards.

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He cannot be summoned for Abyss Watchers if you've already summoned Londor Pale Shade.

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should change his name to black hand retard, literally stood there and stared at me while i soloed pontiff, *****ing useless *****

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You must have the wolf of farron covenant equipped for his sign to show up outside the abyss watchers.

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holy***** i summoned this guy for pontiff and he tanked everything and survived. I just attacked the pontiff and while this guy kept this attention. NG+ btw

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My theory is that Gotthard fled the castle when Oceiros went mad. So once he escaped he thought that maybe he could use the help of the Ashen Undead to finally kill the king, which is why he left his sign. Unfortunately, he never made it to Ocieros, which is why his corpse is found outside of the Grand Archives. Either way, he was a trooper...

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Gotthard is useless for Pontiff, he rarely survives the first phase

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I was unable to summon him for the Abyss Watcher fight while Yellowfinger Heysel was summoned, his summon sign wouldn't show up. I tried restarting the game, teleporting from bonfire to bonfire, and even dying and re-embering to no avail.

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I started a new game and made a new character. I did every same thing during my previous playthrough but his summon sign is gone this time around. I only got to summon sirris for the abyss fight. Are there requirements now for him to appear???

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Black hands get me hard too bro.JACK JACK JACK YOUR DlCKSO SLIPPERY AND SWEETUP AND DOWN UP AND DOWN UP AND DOWNSKEET SKEET SKEET SKEETSKEET

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Cant find his summon

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WHY IS HIS NAME GOT HARD??????

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Cutscene turning the sun into an eclipse? Huh? When did that happen?

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It may be considered Gotthards because of the weapons you get off him, but upon closer examination he is wearing the scabbards for Onikiri and Ubadachi. This is probably just a reused model but I thought it was interesting to point out.

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Is there anything that may cause or prevent his sign from appearing for the abyss watcher's fight? More often than not I just never see it for the fight.

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Can't go to Grand Archives cause his corpse never spawned in my NG+ :(

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His armor is obtainable from the shrine hand maiden at some point

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I don't remember a cutscene where the sun turns into an eclipse

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The Black Hand Set states that there are (or have been) three members of the King's Black Hands. The Black Hand Hunters were the shadowy unit of Lothric's political hierarchy meant to handle those dirty situations that the King's Three Pillars were unable or unwilling to deal with. We know of two: Gotthard, obviously, and second is Kamui, wielder of Onikiri and Ubadachi.The question then is who is the third? I don't believe a third Black Hand is ever encountered, alive or dead, in the game. They are distinguished by their standard uniform, and the paired weapons they wield. There are other paired weapons, but all of them (The Drang Twinspears/Maces, the Brigand Twindaggers etc) have lore of their own, unassociated with the Black Hands. Why do we only come across two of them, when the game specifically states that there are three?This seems a little odd considering Dark Souls, and its tendency to be rather consistent (if vague) in its lore. Was the King's Black Hands co-founded by Gotthard, Kamui, and the unnamed third, or was the third perhaps the founder, mentored the other two, and was out of the picture by the game's start? I'm kind of hoping DLC might shed a little light on this... I find the Three Pillars and the Black Hands to be a very interesting concept that doesn't seem to be touched upon that much in the vanilla game. It would be interesting to learn more about them.

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There are 3 Black Hand members gotthard the Dual Katana and the corpse in front of the archives. Katana and corpse dual wielding katana and Gotthard is dualwielding his straight swords. Either Black Hand is specialized in katana wielding or the dual wielding, more likely the first. Only higher ranking members of Black Hand get a customized weapon the gotthard swords are named after him so it means they are customized for his fighting style. The dual katana are the same and dont look any special. Maybe its possible that the three members of Black Hand were put into charge for lothric and they are coming somewhere past irithyll. After Gotthard found out that his partner dual katana betrayed Black Hand and joined Lothric he and corpse wanted to go to their headquarters. Gotthard were forced to fight the abyss watchers and pontiff because they made their way back but the only way back is through the catacombs. Why isnt he avaialbe in the wolnir boss fight? He and corpse were lost in the labirynth of the catacombs or wolnir is one of the past kings. And after he saw us fighting pontiff he helped us. Corpse still shocked about the betrayal couldnt fight and is forced to stay back. Somewhere between the unkindled defeated both yhorm and aldrich, gotthard and corpse were sent back to deal with their former friend. During our way to the archives gotthard fought the katana one but is surprised by the partners of katana. Gotthard were defeated and corpse had to see is all. He knows that he could defeat katana and his partners if gotthard couldnt defeat them. He also knows that Gotthards Seord are his most precios possesion and so he tried to save the sword along with the archives key from katana which he both aquired but were his by a backstab. The fatally wounded corpse locked the archives and his last sight was the unkindled one that fought alongside Gotthard. He left the keys and Gotthards swords visible on him before he died, while hoping the unkindled can defeat or talk reason in his friend katana. Gotthards corpse is found stripped his clothes because katana couldnt see them on him anymore. His corpse has the greater soul of champion. Which is found near katana. Lastly the Gotthard sword and gotthards garb were gifted to us as the unofficially new leader of team Black Hand Gotthard division.

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When I first summoned him for the Pontiff fight I thought he was an actual player character until he gave me the gesture...

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If you reach past the Dragonslayer Armor boss fight, before killing the Lords of Cinder, Gotthard will not spawn dead... Getting past the two bosses noted doesn't seem to help either, it seems he may be tied to killing one of the Lords of Cinder leading up to the Twins. Not sure as I'm still progressing/haven't killed many other Lord's of Cinder yet. My guess would be the Devourer of Gods needs to be killed, as he is tied to Pontiff? Not sure.

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Anyone know if you kill him early inside of firelink if he drops the keys to the archive? or does it break my game?

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He is not the corpse before the archives. The Black Hand corpse holding the keys is wearing a set of katanas, just like Black Hand Kamui does (member of the Gank Trio). The Black Hand set also says there were three of them. So Kamui, Gotthard and Corpse I guess.

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Does not show for me on Abyss battle, but Sirris does..

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