Show Your Humanity | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

I had hollowing to about 48 and it just wouldn’t transform me into a humanity sprite (tried about 10 times) until I used a purging stone, then the next white branch turned me into humanity.

Not sure if there is any correlation though, could just be dumb luck it worked out that way, but every other character I’ve made had no darksign and transformed into humanity first try (that is, 9 other characters of varying build).

If you’re not turning into a humanity sprite, try purging maybe… otherwise you can try what some other guy said and face ur character towards the crystals nearby. I didn’t try that one.

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Use a white branch they say..
Much better use of that branch will be finding whom ever came up with this idea & beating them with it.

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boob

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"Use a White Branch twice while standing in the water"

Thanks. First I was transformed into a purple crystal. Then I was transformed into a gravestone. Really helpful.

Also — and this isn't really a complaint about the wiki, but I would like to see it mentioned — I didn't know that trying to move faster via running or rolling (ie pressing O/B) would undo the White Branch effect. So, when I finally did turn into a Humanity, I ended up f*cking it up immediately after, lol. I've wasted a few thousand souls now and several trips back to Firelink. Ay yai yai...

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There's a + in the hyperlink to Lapp maknig the link broken. I tried to edit myself but for some reason it's not possible.

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Are there any real upsides to redoing the Judicator fight in the church?

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The video neglected to show that there’s a Adjudicator and two ringed Knights. Really don’t appreciate that

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You can get the dragonhead shield without doing the puzzle, it's optional and not worth the time

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For anyone still saying "how could anyone have possibly figured this out" there are white branches hidden in the swamp area. It's a puzzle. It's sovleable.

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When fighting the Ringed Knights, if you just drop off the ledge they'll start walking around. If you don't go too far from the ledge you can aggro the Knights without aggroing the Judicator. You'll have just enough room to maneuver and fight without having to worry about the summons. You can fight them one at a time too, as long as you don't go too far from the ledge the spear Knight won't attack either.

So go just far enough to aggro the sword knight, kill him, then wait for the spear knight to wander up and aggro him.

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How was anyone supposed to figure that out by themselves? This is the definition of idiot game design right here. Thankfully this page exists. Also I guess there is nothing good up there so it's not a big deal.

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Part of the game is other players can leave messages on the ground, this means after one player finds the secret the information naturally deseminates itself through out the player base. This unique mechanic thats been around since demon's souls allows fromsoft to really bury the lead with their secrets. Its an essential ingredient in the soulsborne formula.

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If you use the 'Seek Guidance' iracle you will find theres a message in front of the chair in that same roomthat reads "If only I had a mimicry". Its not an ENTIRELY obscure secret, guys.

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If FromSoft really think this is a "puzzle", then they are so far up their own asses its ridiculous. A puzzle is supposed to be something you can figure out based on deduction and clues. This garbage is an easter egg that you can only "solve" by pure chance, from using an item that almost nobody ever uses. I'd like to see a list of how many players have solved this joke on their own without any googling or datamining. I'll bet its less than 10.

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This is an idiotic secret, you can't even call it a puzzle or a riddle because those have reasonable ways to figure out the answer, but there's nothing given to you here that would let you actually reason this out. There's no clues to let you suspect that using a white branch in a particular random spot would have a chance to turn you into a humanity phantom when those *haven't even been in this game* and there certainly aren't any of them around. And it's only a *chance*, meaning that even if you somehow stumble across the answer either randomly or by exhaustion, you can still not get it just purely by randomness. This is like a pixel hunt 'puzzle' where the pixel only even has a 1/3 chance to do anything when you click on it. It's like a switch puzzle where the 'switch' is a blank wall that doesn't even give you any feedback that interacting with it does anything until the third time. The souls series is pretty amazing overall, but it really gets too far up its own ass sometimes and forgets the 'but fair' part of the 'hard but fair' design maxim.

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This is an idiotic secret, you can't even call it a puzzle or a riddle because those have reasonable ways to figure out the answer, but there's nothing given to you here that would let you actually reason this out. There's no clues to let you suspect that using a white branch in a particular random spot would have a chance to turn you into a humanity phantom when those *haven't even been in this game* and there certainly aren't any of them around. And it's only a *chance*, meaning that even if you somehow stumble across the answer either randomly or by exhaustion, you can still not get it just purely by randomness. This is like a pixel hunt 'puzzle' where the pixel only even has a 1/3 chance to do anything when you click on it. It's like a switch puzzle where the 'switch' is a blank wall that doesn't even give you any feedback that interacting with it does anything until the third time. The souls series is pretty amazing overall, but it really gets too far up its own ass sometimes and forgets the 'but fair' part of the 'hard but fair' design maxim.

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I did some testing and:
I'm pretty sure that to turn into a ghost you just have to be looking towards black crystals.
So as some people here were previously saying, just come down the stairs, there are some crystals on the right, you don't have to be close, you just have to be looking at them. Use a white branch and you will be transformed first time. It is even possible to transform without aggroing the locust. I usually hug the left wall and use the white branch where the stairs end, maybe one step further. Works every time.

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Open gate shortcut. Run out the door next to bonfire to swamp. Kill the big hydralisk at bottom. Run out into swamp a bit, not far enough to agro. Use branches or chameleon repeatedly without moving until you turn into glowing white humanity. It took me 5 branches.

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Yes! I finally did it! I wonder whats up that ladder! *dies*

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If someone is still struggling to figure out the solution,just follow my lead, 1)go to to water in the swamp 2)unequip ALL your armor and 3) use the chameleon spell or a young white branch.
It worked first try doing this,hope it helps cheers!!!

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hey, you found the secret, congratulations. now take a room full of cancer.

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Unfortunately, this page cannot be edited even by registered users. Use Chameleon or the White Branches until you turn into a humanity (black ghost with a white outline), not necessarily a certain number of times. I doubt you need to actually be in the swamp, but that is one way to do it.

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Didn't work for me. Did it in the swamp water and it kept changing between the grave stone and the big gemstone thing wasted all my branches on this.

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Thanks for the help. I needed it

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Do a puzzle, get an area full of hell. Dark Souls logic in a nutshell.

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Pretty good explanation of the puzzle if you need a walkthrough of the area you are in the wrong place silly casuals

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How in the hell would you figure this out on your own, unless you have a habit of casting chameleon on yourself not just once but twice on every single different piece of terrain in every single area of the game?

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Literally took me 16 times before I finally made it to the inscription without being forced out of chameleon by the small drop you need to go down in order to get there

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its funny so many people are pissed off the guide didn't include the monsters, what game have you been playing? no gifts come free.

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this guide is fine, what are these people crying for wth, i you don't like the guide don't read them

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What's with all these comments calling the guy an asshole and not something else? Call him a stinky poo poo pee pee wiener toilet water drinker.

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hey asshole i hope the preachers get you hahaha fkng casual

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I did exactly what the guide says but just keep turning into things OTHER than the humanity being. Thanks for nothing OP, you useless fkn casual.

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Cast spook and hidden body before dropping down the ledge. Then run past the first ringed knight to find the summoner, who will immediately spot you. Kill him quickly and then trace back to take on the knights one at a time. That'll be the end of your summoning problems.

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I played other souls games, but I would never figure this one out by myself, I only could think "show your humanity" as not being hollowed.

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Thanks for cutting out all the important stuff from this video

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Hey asshole, how bout mentioning the cluster***** of mobs when you get up there...

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Forgot to mention two of those knights, and one of those freaking giants who summon tons of archers and Black Knights btw.

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M A K E H A S T E

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Why can't members update these pages? Could use a better discription of the location. Maybe even a picture.

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FYI: The wall inscription is in the room next to the Ringed City Streets bonfire room. The room has two Ringed Knight statues against a wall and the inscription can be found on the same wall just to the right of these statues. Can't edit the page and I know people will likely navigate to here without going via the walkthrough page so hopefully this comment remains visible enough to help.

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I turned into humanity and walked over to the door (even went across the lake like it suggested) and the door is still closed what should I do

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No need to use it twice. You randomly turn into something. If you are the black shadow with the white eyes, you turned into the correct thing. Beware, if you sprint, you turn back to yourself, so just walk there.

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1. No need to use "White Branch", you can use "Chameleon" spell as well.
2. Its NOT located "on in the Ringed City by the Ringed City Streets Bonfire" it is located in the room NEXT TO "Ringed City Streets Bonfire" room, the corner directly to the right.

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I don't understand the rationale behind the "official" Fextralife videos. Why did you run all the way across the swamp when you can just use a branch at the bottom of the stairs? If you're going to show climbing the ladder and going to the purging monument, why leave out that you have to simultaneously fight two ringed knights and a summoning giant on the way? Why leave in a minute of pointlessly running across the swamp but jump cut between the bonfire and the inscription location? It's a 3 minute video with 2:30 worth of misinformation.

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At least specifically

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This is honestly the worst place for dark souls info, and y'all really couldn't tell us WHERE the puzzle inscription was

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why is this video cut so awfully? can we get a decent one uploaded

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I dont have the option for kings decree why?

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So appart from having the inscription in the wall, there's two hints to the solution. Like someone said before, the young white branches found earlier in the level. But also if you use the Seek Guidance miracle, you can see a dev message in front of one of the chairs in the "show your humanity" room, which says "If only I had a mimicry". Funny how everyone bashes that miracle on its page for being useless.
I don't know if it's the water what makes you turn into the humanity form, I did it experimenting with Chameleon near one of the Abyss crystals and on the first try I got morphed into it, I guess it's the relation between the abyss and those enemies from DaS.
Took me three days to figure it out, on three sessions of an hour or so and lots of thinking off the game. Totally worth it.

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When I use the white branch I turn into a different form (not the dark ghost looking thing) but more like a statue and the ladder will not drop. Any idea what I am doing wrong?

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The Covetous Gold Serpent Ring +3 and Havels Ring +3 shouldnt be listed here, they have nothing to do with this location.
And usage of the White Branch is random, you dont have to use it more than once if you get the humanity shape on first try.

Why is this page not editable?

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I almost figured it out by myself I just didn't get the part where you stand in the water

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Wow... That's quite possibly the most obscure way to solve a puzzle. I don't even know how anybody could figure that out, unless you were being a troll and just messing around with the Chameleon spell to annoy invaders. :p

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The link for 'Lapp' links to a broken page.

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I was hollowed out and using two white birch's wasn't working for me. Worked only after I used a purging stone. Maybe you need to update page

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A big clue here is that you find a white birch tree with 3× white branch in the swamp area. which you'll supposedly play around with in the swamp, revealing the humanity sprite from ds1

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Why even bother to write this page?

How about including the fact that you have to face another poorly designed area with unkillable enemies that can see you no matter where you are?

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Was there any hint to this at all? "Show your humanity" is more of a red herring than a help to this puzzle. I gave it a genuine shot for 30 minutes, dropping embers in front of the wall (this game's equivalent to humanity), using embers, even going back to the fire keeper and turning back to human from hollow and nothing. How was I supposed to know I had to go down to the swamp, stand in water, cast chameleon until I randomly get a humanity lookalike and run back to the wall, especially as a melee character? I don't blame anyone for looking up the answer to this.

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Someone needs to put in a warning about the respawning summoner

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Should be you're not your. #grammarMatters

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This "puzzle" is the last nail in the coffin for the ideal that Dark Souls should be played spoiler-free

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does anyone know how to sin? I've been trying to do it for a while and i couldn't figure it out

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The monument needs an option to revive any choosen boss, it's fun to go back to areas to fight invaders, without being forced to go to a NG+

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I saw someone use this spell and I was like wtf is that thing (I was invading)

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lol used chamillion spell trolling invaders and this happened, had no idea it was connected. first i transformed into the broken statue right next to the riddle, then into the circle symble, then humanit, i was like WTF!!! thought it was a glitch.

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Even by Dark Souls Standards that is obtuse AF lol.

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Havel's Ring +3? Isn't it located before the Silver knight invader? You can acces it from other ladder.

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Best lead I had was to mimic as a Ringed Knight in front of inscription, since the Ringed Knight statue in front of the inscription was broken. Wasted 30 minutes farming to get the damn Ringed Knight Gauntlets and of course that didn't work. Give up and finally checked the wiki. Woulda been nice if the branch item description gave a clue, but nah that'd be too easy. Nice puzz, From. Ya nailed it

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Can you be invaded while in that form? Because that would be hilarious

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I can´t believe that anyone could find this randomly.

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I solved this randomly. I was trying to cross the swamp without aggroing enemies, so I used a branch in the water and *poof* first branch and I became a creepy black ghost, had a heart attack, reminded the abyss of ds1, got many feels, reminded the incription and "what?".

I still can't figure any link between the branch and the humanity thingy. It makes you resemble like surroundings, so, the water is... humanity? and even then, why the branch? no link with Dusk, no link with anything. I can't really understand how one could solve this without luck (my case) or the wiki.

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I really wish they would re-release DS1 on PS4

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Can't edit but the Young White Branch cycles between the round sword symbol, a rock looking grave type thing, and the humanity form, so you might need 3 branches.

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Uh i just saw LobosJr get all of these items as a human.

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Where is the Covetous Gold Serpent Ring +3?

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Both rings are obtained well before this area's ladder. Point being the purpose of the wiki is to make the game less confusing, not more. Otherwise let's list everything in the swamp on this page.

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you can also find the golden serpent ring +3 in a room with the npc, and you can drop to get havel ring +3

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For me it helped to read the inscription before trying to turn

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Can someone say what reviving Judicator Argo (Reinstate King's Decree) does? You just do the bossfight again or what?

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what exactly does reviving judicator argo do?

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I can't find out how to even open the door next to the bonfire anyone know where to go?

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Praise the sun

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You need to have no hollowing in order to turn into the humanity on the second use of the white branch. Make sure to use a purging stone before hand!

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How are people playing this early? It's not available from what I know in the U.K. Yet. But is there some way of getting it early (on PS4) like changing my time zone to a specific region? If so, what should I set it to?

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Wow, that's kind of obtuse. Wonder how people figured it out the first time. What are the items, anyways?

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I was finally able to solve this puzzle. Very simple yet very tricky to understand.

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where is it exactly?

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Also not sure what to do here.

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The legend never dies.

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It's a lie.

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