Cathedral Evangelist |
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Enemy Type | Undead |
Weakness | Frost, Bleed, Thrust, Backstab |
Resistances | Fire, Strike |
Immune | N/A |
Cathedral Evangelist is an Enemy in Dark Souls 3
Cathedral Evangelist Enemy Description
Commonly referred to as Evangelists, after the name of their armor set.
Often mocks you or chants, even when not actively attacking.
Cathedral Evangelist Locations
Cathedral Evangelist Combat Information
- The color of the glow from her spellbook shows which spell is coming, pale yellow for Gnaw and smoldering orange for the fiery grab attack.
- The mace is very dangerous if it connects, but slow and leaves openings. The bible thump comes out much faster and is mostly used in self-defense to interrupt your combo.
- Deals Strike Damage, Standard Damage, Fire Damage and Dark Damage. May also cause Blood Loss.
- When using grapple attack or casting Gnaw, she can easily be backstabbed.
- Weak to Frostbite, Bleed and Thrust Damage.
- Resistant to Strike Damage and Fire Damage.
- Mace and book attacks can be parried and followed up with a riposte.
- Evangelists have more poise than most enemies, raising the appeal of using heavy weapons in melee combat.
- One of the only enemies to call out their attacks with spoken words, as introduced in Bloodborne. Specifically the immolation hug, the rest is just mad cackling and mumbling.
- "Oh, child... [FWOOSH] ...come to me!"
- "I'll cleanse the- [FWOOSH] ...bastard's curse!"
Cathedral Evangelist Notes & Trivia
- The Cathedral Evangelist bears a striking resemblance to the Fat Officials from Demon's Souls.
- Best taken out at range - grapple attack often triggers during your combos, and mace has powerful knockdown/stamina effect.
- Knocking her down very close to the player will occasionally knock down the player as well, dealing very little damage and causing a long wakeup animation.
- On her belt are several real-life torture implements, including a pear of anguish
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- The Evangelist in front of the big tree in Undead Settlement, where the Estus Shard is located, is praying with her hat off.
- The Evangelists are voiced by Clare Corbett, who also voiced many other characters in the Souls games, such as Saint Astraea, Gwynevere, Priscilla, and Alsanna.
Cathedral Evangelist Variations
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Drops |
Undead Settlement | 657 | 380 | Evangelist Robe |
Cathedral of the Deep | Evangelist Robe Blessed Gem (Rare) |
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Irithyll of the Boreal Valley | 800 | Dorhys' Gnawing |
Cathedral Evangelist Gallery
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Literally just strafe around her anticlockwise until she gives up and lets you backstab her.
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when really looking deep into the design like some of the things said in this page fromsoft really metal AF :0 (in a good holy cr@p way)
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My friends and I call these enemies big bois even though they're female. Eretyui
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I love that they PUNISH you over the head with a book like Mozgus.
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The female version of Fat Officials from Demon's Souls. Epic.
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Judging by the downvotes, I guess some people don't know that all Evangelists are women.
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"Hey no, I don't want a hug listen I don't want to get near you, social distancing no stop GET AWAY WAIT SH- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
-Me
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Remember, these women have the same voice as Gwynevere and Dragon Waifu.
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Also, she has both good hitboxes and bad ones: sometimes, when being staggered, getting up from a riposte or landing from a jump, she can stagger you and deal little damage if you're behind her... but after those animations have passed where she does something that would make sense if it dealt damage; The good hitbos is that you can duck under hammer swings by doing certain attacks
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Sekiro's Corrupted Monk is basically this: "thick boned" woman with a big weapon that deals massive damage and laughs maniacally
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I love it when they smother me with their undead tiits.
Evangelist > lady Dimitrescu
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****ing hate this enemy so much.
I just lost 20000 souls to two of em because they shoved me out of a building.
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Here’s a fact about these things, some of them cry when you kill them.
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Fun fact: a few big mods for the game reintroduce her cut weapon, the missionary axe
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Nobody:
Evangelist: “my name is Barry Allen and I’m the fastest man alive”
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some guy in a youtube comment section said the voice actor of this enemy also voiced gwynevere and priscilla...........wtf?
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That Butcher from the Depths of Lordran? This is her ultra-religious zealot half-sister.
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At the dilapidated bridge bonfire, farmed the evangelist just above. 97 runs done. 1 spiked mace. 1 blessed gem.
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Amusingly, Gnaw is very effective on them. Turn the swarms against them!
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haha I wish she had a sitting attack haha
I just thought it'd be funny if she sat on me haha
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No trivia mention about how she is totally based on Mozgus, even in the way that she strikes you in the head with the bible?
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There aren’t many more ominous noises than the hollow clang of the mace echoing, but with the evangelist no where to be seen. Cathedral of the Deep with headphones on is eerie.
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Only possible in NG+. But get rapport. Then when you see the first one, the one by the burning tree in the undead settlement, rapport her. It is a treat seeing the entire congregation descend upon her and massacre her.
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hey uh, dorhys, i think you got the wrong enscription, the lyrics to ameno don't go "AAAAARGH, BLRRRGH, URRGARGARGGAGRHH"
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I typed in dark souls 3 Mozgus and the search knew what i mean
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***** this fat piece of***** annoying as ***** garbage trash ass enemy
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I came here thinking this bruhhhh looks like lord mozgus from berserk lmao
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Or maybe its appearance is inspired by history, and not a *****ing anime, for us grown ups.
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I never noticed the Pear of Anguish on their belts before, that's an amazing (and terrifying) little detail.
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Is swear to god, if I ever see someone with an Evangelist costume I'm going to send so many lightning bolts their way that they themselves could power New York city for three months.
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Reminds me of Sylvia Pittston from the first Dark Tower book. Enormous women that use some sort of religion/cult to enthrall the township. The ending of the series also involves cycles and starting from the beginning. Could easily be coincidental though.
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The information on the Evangelist in Irithyll is incomplete, that Evangelist can drop the regular items as well! Don't know if she can drop all of them but just got the Evangelist Trousers so most likely the whole Evangelist set at least. As for tactics in dealing with them, alluring skull can be quite effective, makes getting past the duo in undead settlement much easier and you find 2 skulls just before encountering them so doesn't matter if you had any beforehand.
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p sure she says "Poor child, come to me" and "O, cleanse the bastard's curse."
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Whoever keeps putting "Berserk" comparisons in the Trivia section is going to be banned. FYI.
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the fact that the pear of anguish specifically is there is the most terrifying part of ds3...
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A fat religious zealot just like real life ones !! Hate these bitches
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For those in NG+, you can Rapport them. It makes dealing with the two in the building past the demon in Undead Settlement very enjoyable.
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I’m very curious to what their goals are. Clearly they are spreading some form of new religion and purifying hollows by burning them. One theory is they are purging the pus of man from the hollows. There’s a YouTube video called “The Bastards Curse” which dose an AMAZING in-depth lore perspective and even talks about what the Deep is and how the evangelists are tied to it. I really recommend it!
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Ahhh, almost 200 hours into this game and i still remember the first one you meet near the burning tree with the other undead.. one of the most memorable moments for me since I was noobish as hell at that time. I hated everything about that enemy.
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Sometimes the one patrolling the area between the Road of Sacrifices and the Pit of Hollows will fall off the bridge and start walking around the sewers with the root skeletons. That was probably the most pants-shitting experience I've had in any Souls game.
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As ugly as their armour is it's pretty awesone stats wise and not as heavy as one might think.
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What if they're actually men who had their nards removed, so they grew up sounding feminine?
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There's no mention that all book and mace attacks can be parried. None of the spells or the hug though.
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It scared the crap out of me the first time one said "Oh child..." and gave me a fire hug!
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I think they are weak to thrust damage, can anyone else test this?
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