Blades of the Darkmoon |
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A silver pendant depicting the Darkmoon and a sword, the crest of the Darkmoon Knights, the original Blue Sentinels. Equip to pledge oneself to the Blade of the Darkmoon covenant. |
Blades of the Darkmoon is a Covenant in Dark Souls 3. The covenant can be gained by equipping its insignia of the same name, which is obtained from Company Captain Yorshka within Anor Londo. While a member of the covenant, you will be automatically summoned to defend those within the Way of Blue covenant whenever they are invaded.
Blades of the Darkmoon Information
- The insignia is located in Anor Londo, at a tower accessed by walking over an invisible path from the rotating platform. The rotating stairs can be in any position. If it is at the top (allowing access to Anor Londo) go to the bottom of the stairs. If it is at the bottom, go to the top. There is a bonfire on a tower directly to the left of you (if you are facing the Anor Londo bonfire), and a broken platform on the rotating platform facing towards it.
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- To obtain the insignia and join formally, the player must have learned the "Darkmoon Loyalty" Gesture from Sirris of the Sunless Realms and perform it in front of Company Captain Yorshka.
- Alternatively, Company Captain Yorshka can be killed to retrieve the covenant item required to join, but you will be unable to turn-in covenant items for rewards until the next new game cycle.
Effects of the Covenant
- While the covenant's insignia is equipped, the player will be automatically summoned into the worlds of those within the Way of Blue covenant whenever they are invaded.
- The matchmaking formula is covenant dependent:
Condition Min Max Summoning a White Phantom, Warrior of Sunlight, Mound-Maker or no covenant Host - 10 - (Host * 0.1) Host + 10 + (Host * 0.1) Defending Summons of Blades of the Darkmoon or Blue Sentinels Host - 20 - (Host * 0.2) Host + (Host * 0.1)
Notes
- The covenant is identical in function to the Blue Sentinels, with an additional rivalry with the Aldrich Faithful.
- While searching for worlds to defend, the covenant icon next to your status bars will fade in and out with a white color.
- You do NOT get an ear from killing Aldrich Faithfuls or Watchdogs of Farron. However, you DO receive a Vertebra Shackle in addition to a Proof of Concord Kept if the invader is a member of the Mound Makers.
- Blades of the Darkmoon are only summoned in response to players who invaded by using a Red Eye Orb. Hostile players who were summoned through red or white signs, or who invaded using the Aldrich Faithful or Watchdog of Farron covenant items, do not cause Darkmoons to be summoned.
- The Darkmoon phantom color is dark blue.
- If the Host of Embers enters a boss room, the Blade of the Darkmoon will be rewarded with a Proof of Concord Kept and be returned to their world.
- If the invader returns home, is killed by a monster, or dies by fall damage, the Blade of the Darkmoon will NOT be rewarded a Proof of Concord Kept. However, they will still get the same victory message.
- If the invader dies or returns home before the Blade of the Darkmoon spawns into the world, they will NOT be rewarded a Proof of Concord Kept. However, they will still get the same victory message.
- If an invader successfully uses the Black Separation Crystal, it will count as a victory for the player. However, they will not be rewarded with a Proof of Concord Kept.
- It is possible to be summoned to Archdragon Peak if the host is fighting one of the NPC summons of the lizard-men there.
- Summoning will prioritize the area that you are in, but will summon you anywhere after an indeterminate amount of time has passed.
- If you start new game plus, you CAN be summoned to maps (& bonfires) you have not activated yet on your second playthrough (tested on NG+).
- When a Darkmoon or Blue Sentinel spawns, a floating red eye will appear, locating an invader. For every invader in any given world, there will be one floating red eye that appears.
Rank Requirements
Ranks are obtained by offering obtained Proof of Concord Kept items to Company Captain Yorshka. These can be acquired by being summoned by the covenant insignia and defeating invaders. One is given for each invader banished and two are given for killing a red Aldrich Faithful.
Silver Knights also have a small chance to drop them (approx 1 in 30). See Proof of a Concord Kept for farming information. The rank requirements are additive, meaning you only have to earn a total of 30 to obtain all covenant rewards.
Rank | Requirement | Rewards |
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0 | Initial | None |
1 | 10 | Darkmoon Ring (Grants 2 additional attunement slots.) |
2 | 30 | Darkmoon Blade (Miracle) |
Trivia
- Blades of The Darkmoon first appeared in Dark Souls
, when they were led by Dark Sun Gwyndolin. - Due to the length of the name, it gets cut short when appearing the player's status screen, appearing as "Blade of the" instead of "Blade of the Darkmoon".
Achievements/Trophies
Covenant: Blade of the Darkmoon
Discover Blade of the Darkmoon covenant.
I swear everytime I invade there's a Blue but I never ever ever get summoned to be one.
- Anonymous
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til beating the games 30 times and getting the guaranteed ear every time is faster than farmiing this normally
- Anonymous
The worse covenant of Dark Souls III, the fact that it's a copy of the Blue Sentinels proves this was an oversight rushed through to meet the deadline. Should have been fixed with an update or DLC, never was. What a waste.
- Anonymous
Here's a crazy idea: don't waste hours farming this. Nobody cares about the achievement because all it means is you wasted several hours farming 1,000 silver knights (or several days waiting for summons). It's essentially designed to waste the time of people who think pretend videogame trophies matter. Fromsoft added this to mock you.
- Anonymous
I would like to apologize to the people who were target of my first (and last) ever ganking.
I was a blue.
I am so sorry, but I just couldn't stand the grinding anymore.
It was my only blue invite in something like 4 hours.
I am so sorry.
- Anonymous
The time it takes to be summoned makes dark souls 2 blue sentinels lock easier to max
- Anonymous
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I'd prefer Ng +30 to get the only guaranteed one 30 times instead of equipping this
- Anonymous
I am currently replaying this game and as in the old days I equipped this covenant(or Blue Sentinel) to help out others who get raided
well I have been summoned 3 times now and each time the host brought me to the invader and the invade ignored the host. one time they even stood together and waved at me to come closer. when I fought him, the host just watched.
seems like people "exploit" way of Blue covenant to farm forked tongues
makes this covenant pretty useless now. the first and second time I killed the invader. the third time I just used black crystal.
very lame guys, very lame
- Anonymous
Wouldn't it be nice to have a covenant for those players who play offline? Yes, yes it would.
- Anonymous
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Started playing in 2023 had this equipped almost all the time i never knew how lucky i was for getting a decent amount or summoning i got looking back at it now it kinda lame waiting hours to help someone. Should have stayed a watchdog
- Anonymous
i thought this game was dead as hell cuz of how long this covenant took to summon me...
in fact, however, it is most definitely not, equip aldrich faithful and i get summoned in most cases, literally FIVE SECONDS, if u wanna actually do some pvp then i really reccomend you equip that covenant, sometimes you even get a coinvader and you will have constant action, only downside is that covenant rewards are irrelevant if you're not sorcerer, and pretty trash even if you are. Ganks arent nearly as common as people say they are at reasonable SL ranges (like 50-60) that most new players are when coming out of pontiffs
- Anonymous
Having experienced how rare summons with this are, I now know the desperation and hunger of the blue. As a red, I don't begrudge them. I can get another invasion in 3 minutes, he's lucky to see another one in 3 hours.
If anything though, multiplayer has made me feel an intense disdain for hosts. The amount of times they throw their blues or sunbros under the bus or only come out from hiding once there's 2 blues and a summon is ridiculous. Please don't complain about invading their world or whatever rot I always see here to defend spineless hosts, invasions are just part of the game. There's no excuse to being a jerk to darkmoons or sunbros who are there only to help you.
- Anonymous
I DID IT!!
But At What Cost?
(Time... Time was the cost.... and the cost was high)
- Anonymous
Long ago, Blue and Red are on the same side, but Fromsoft just had to change it
- Anonymous
You know it's a trash covenant when even people who love PvP would rather farm silver knights for 5-6 hours.
- Anonymous
Only chads remember when this covenant was about invading the invaders marked in the book of the guilty. Now it's not only a lazy copy-paste from blue sentinels, it's also a copy-pasted dark souls 2 feature that, frankly, wasn't nearly as wacky as here. And you call this a "covenant"?
- Anonymous
art reflects life, nobody but the cruelest wants to be a cop
- Anonymous
You owe the entire trilogy's community almost a decade of counter-ganking, you royal blue pukes.
- Anonymous
The reward mechanic for this covenant is so scuffed. You're telling me if I do 90% of your HP in damage, but you jump off a ledge in spite, I don't get a covenant????
- Anonymous
Darkmoon blade sounds cool but as an Elden Ring fan I just couldn't be a blue. I'll go for dark blade instead.
- Anonymous
i put a summon sign to be summoned as a phantom behind pontiff's boss room where the aldrich peeps show up, sit there WITH darkmoon equipped, and i get summoned 20x more as a white to help with invaders that are already there than as a blue.
i don't think it's that infrequent that i get summoned, but the amount of times i get summoned into a normal invasion of a host of embers or invasion of a host + sunbro is practically 0, compared to the number of times i get summoned into some fight club or strange reverse gank where the invader and host are bizarrely friendly with one another or some other unexpected ritual. like why do yall need to have way of blue on for whatever wacky stuff you're doing? i'm just trying to get darkmoon blade man lol
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Psst. You're no hero when you're backstabbing someone in 1v1.
- Anonymous
The "I really really really want to gank but have 0 friends" covenant
- Anonymous
has a rivalry with aldrich faithfuls but does not get summoned to defend against them because faithfuls dont invade with the red eye. jesus christ what an oversight
- Anonymous
I did all the covenants except blue/watchdogs after pontiff and got summoned twice the rest of the game:
-Sat and watched as a blue, a gold and the host ganked the **** out of an invader.
-Host stood afk on the elevator by Stray Demon trapping us, not even an l1 spam to communicate. Proceeded to send us back the second we killed the demon.
I can invade as a sunbro and get medals, why couldn't they just let us invade people that use Red Eye often or something.
- Anonymous
The pain of waiting literally hours for one summon, only to have them kick you out manually when you arrive is real :(
This has happened for 4/6 times it's actually matchmade me to someone
- Anonymous
Only downside to this covenant is when you spawn in to help but there are already others there yet nobody wants to help you fight the one invader
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please friend me , help me kill boss , nick name : chaulinhtinh steam , name in game I_AM_DEAD
- Anonymous
I don't know if I just got lucky yesterday, but whilst going through the painted world I was summoned about 4 times in just over an hour at SL 101/2 with a +5 Sword. Seems the DLC areas are busy with people needing the help of the Blades as these were the only areas I got summoned to.
- Anonymous
This covenant is garbage for all sides.
1. If you are a darkmoon you spawn miles away from the host, sometimes in the place that you are completely unable to reach him (broken bridge, closed shortcut etc).
2. If you are host you always get some brainless darkmoons that die in 15 sec and refill invader's estus.
3. And if you are an invader, you chased the host for an hour, you killed all his gank squad, you saw him chug 15 times, but heeeeyyy let the host have 2 additional gankers and when they die, tadaaa instantly another 2 gankers.
- Anonymous
It's better to like c*ck and balls torture than it is to try and complete the game by doing ALL the achievements. Yeah, good luck waiting to be summoned to the host's world to get that goddamn proof to rank up. Goddamn it FROM, let's us farm covenant items in singleplayer, even if it takes a while.
- Anonymous
Give the miracke when joining the covenant and maybe increasing its power by ranking up or something. Dont make me waste so much time for platin for gods sake
The worst feeling is finally getting summoned as a blade after an hour of play and then getting the message “host of embers has died, returning to own world.”
Making covenant items only drop once in a blue moon from pve is a horrible decision. This basicly means you wait like 8 hours to do pvp or farm for 8 hours
- Anonymous
fu₵k the bull$hit covent item rewards and fu₵k from software
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
Well, a while ago i said invaders would toss the towel and farm the items or be spears of the church. Looks like that is happening now.
So much for half-assed, but "intended" stuff, eh? Congratulations, the red eye orb will be gathering dust in many people's inventory. Wish you a good farm, blues.
- Anonymous
Getting dmb at any sl is nearly impossible nowadays. Way too many gankers with unscaled phantoms and even hackers/glitchers. Welp, time to waste like 10 days of my life farming.
- Anonymous
Welp got the miracle. Now I don’t have to play this game online ever again lol
- Anonymous
its not the Darkmoon covenant with out the dark sun who made it
- Anonymous
Anyone who calls themselves a "royal darkmoon" should stop giving disgrace to gwyndolin's memory and ditch this covenant.
- Anonymous
Any tips for getting summoned faster? I’m sitting at pontiff bonfire with the covenant item on
- Anonymous
Do you ever get summoned in as the second blue to help a gank squad kill a solo red and think to yourself "Are we the baddies?"
- Anonymous
Don’t worry gwyndolin even though your gone I will always be a loyal Darkmoon
- Anonymous
I only joined to memoriate the soft smooth femboy bussy we lost to Aldritch
- Anonymous
In ds1 blades of the darkmoon hunted sinners as invaders but in ds3 they're just discount sunbro's???
- Anonymous
Why are blues soooo bad!?
>"Summoning Phantom" OH NO
>"Blade of the Darkmoon summoned through concord" whatev...
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
It's nice helping someone out when they're being invaded, especially if they are new, since experienced invaders tend to be very difficult to defeat... but it stops being nice when you see the host being a cocky bastard and pointing down the invader, despite obviously needing help on account of them using way of blue.
- Anonymous
I know getting summoned as a blade is cancerous, but if you stay around sl60, you’ll get summoned to pvp fights in road of sacrifices all the time. Now, most of the invaders are turds and either twink with murky or use the spiked mace just to make it hard to get concords, but if you’re good, you can get up to a dozen in an hour as long as you survive and invasions keep occurring.
- Anonymous
I wish we could become hostile towards the host the whenever it summons a white phantom.
- Anonymous
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i've been trying to help sentinels and blades of the darkmoon get their covenant items, but everyone just seems so bad..? like they dont even try sometimes, or they just cant find me fighting the invaders for 15 minutes straight
- Anonymous
While you were defending ganks so blindly and stupidly, most invaders said "fck this, i ll go to the spears of the church or just farm the items. Fck invasions".
And when all the imvaders make that decision, this covenant and the blue sentinels will be absolutely dead.
- Anonymous
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dont worry,lightning blade is just as good as darkmoon blade.
- Anonymous
I guess im not gonna get darkmoon miracle :( only summoned once and the invader won
- Anonymous
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Extensive testing has revealed that the game calculates a player's current level of crisis (a factor of health and stamina deficits) and uses this to queue invasions. As an example, being at <100 hp while midroll almost immediately triggers a summon as a blade of the darkmoon. But this only works if there is at least one enemy within target lock range.
The game also prioritizes players wearing farming gear.
Ideally, a player should dance around mobs at less than 100hp with the Symbol of Avarice equipped to shorten summoning time.
- Anonymous
This covenant puts me into the awkward position of not knowing who the bigger troll is.
Me, for ganking 80% of the reds I see?
Or invaders, for literally making this into a pve covenant by waiting by the boss fog and hoping for the host to die from normal enemies.
It really is a toss up. Is it my fault if I want to rush the reds before they run to hide somewhere? Or is it their fault for using that strat so often that I have no other options.
A real chicken and egg dilemma.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
This covenant is ass for both invaders and darkmoons. If you're a darkmoon, there's a large chance that your host will either die instantly or the invader will just hide behind mobs and drag out the fight. If you're an invader, you can end up fighting 2 darkmoons and the host with absolutely no help.
- Anonymous
Me as an invader with over 3000 hours: Man I don’t understand why BoD’s can’t be chill they’re always so aggressive.
Me getting summoned after waiting 2 hours as a Blade: I. WANT. MY. DAMN. EARS. NOW.
Ah. I see now why they are aggressive.
- Anonymous
Blades of Darkmoon in a nutshell : Host of Embers died. returning to your world *stalk dung pie noises in distance*
- Anonymous
idk why from just ruined darkmoon covenant in ds3, ds1 version is a lot better, faithful assassin who seeks guilty, not a ****ing wee woo wee woo im gonna wait 3 hours to be summoned and my host dies instantly. Like ds3 already have 2 "protective" covenants lmao + farming proofs woud be a lot easier
- Anonymous
So some time ago I was invading as Rosarias finger in Anor Londo for fun and get to another world, where was host with golden sunbro. They were both, how to say it politely, weak players and can not do anything against me than running and healing. After few minutes there comes blade of dark moon, who was skilled PvP player and with help of sun bro, they managed to kill me. Blue fantom then bow. That host, who was whole the time hideing in background, doing absolutely nothing, comes forward, point down on my corpse and his sunbro copy that. The point is, that the Blade of darkmoon then start attacking the host although he cannot damage him, just to show his disgust of that host. It was very nice of him and if he by some coincidence come to this post, I like to say hello to him!
- Anonymous
A true darkmoon knight would join mound makers to punish the guilty gankers.
If you want to keep going with your betrayal, dislike this.
Correction: Blades of The ****moon
Correction Alt: ***s of The Darkmoon
- Anonymous
Waahh. FROM are terrible developers! I just wanna invade a host while having a build specifically tailored to exploit their low leveled damage, defenses, HP and unexplored level without being bullied myself. T^T Hosts need to understand that I'm more important than them and I'm THEIR punishment for playing this game online and Embered. I'm above reproach, above being counter invaded and above being ganked (though if you get me down I won't think twice to beeline to a dense mob.)
this wiki mixed up darkmoons and sentinels, this wiki says darkmoon are dark blue and sentinels are light blue while its actually the opposite.
- Anonymous
Honestly, I hate what they did to the Darkmoon Blades. They were never cooperators, but hunters of sin, and this ruined that reputation. Why have two covenants serving the exact same purpose?! Why change what could have been an amazing covenant to being a copycat covenant with rewards?
- Anonymous
The sheer toxicity that stems from blue sentinels and darkmoons makes me think pontiff sulyvahn did nothing wrong.
- Anonymous
Way too many damn covenants. This one probably saw a month of ****ing activity at best.
- Anonymous
This is a sign of just how lazy some of DS3's development. BoD is actually a copy and paste of the Blue Sentinels, and both are recycled from previous games. The only difference now is that they made them both the most boring covenants in the entire game. The fact that the BoD are tied to the Way of Blue is just whack. If reds can invade anyone, anywhere, at any time, then why should the Blades be any different? It's just one of those times when you gotta wonder how anyone thought this was a good idea.
- Anonymous
Imagine trying to get all the rings and then killing Yorshka, 'couldn't be me'
- Anonymous
Gotta love waiting 3 hours to get summoned and then the host dying immediately as soon as you get summoned
- Anonymous
Gankers all over irithyll, you’ll be one them sooner or later.
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how to get there explanation is super confusing. From Anor Londo bonfire go back to the moving platform with a spiral stair case, go down the spiral stair case and walk straight off the ledge, you wont fall, its an invisible bridge... straight ahead you will see the prison tower and a bonfire.
- Anonymous
Love waiting 3 hours to get summoned, only to have the invader run off to enemies or to have to the host immediately die. Fun times all around.
- Anonymous
me have to farm proof of concord kept in order to get stinky miracle
- Anonymous
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Trying to farm these somehow. Playing with this covenant for a while but it’s quiet out there. Anybody interested? PSN: choko_unltd100
- Anonymous
Wish it was like the old system. Having played this a bunch, I can tell you most hosts are stupid as ****. You could be 1v1 with the invader and winning and the host will run off, and then come back with the entire areas enemies chasing them and get you both killed. I want to hunt the guilty, not babysit the disabled.
- Anonymous
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There is a bug where if u are in ringed city you get summoned as spear of the church wearing dark blades covenant
- Anonymous
I have to farm 10 for almost very covenant just for the ring :(
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