Game endings Dark Souls III Guide
Last update: 01 June 2016
There are 4 ways in which the story in Dark Souls III can end. As a matter of fact, the final battle remains the same and it is only the final cutscene that is different. Below, you can view all of the possible endings, alongside steps that you have to take to unlock them.
To Link the First Flame
This one is the basic and default ending that does not require any prior preparations. In there, you have to defeat Soul of Cinder, the final boss, and light the bonfire.
The End of Fire
1. Go to Untended Graves and defeat boss Champion Gundyr.
2. Enter the darker version of Firelink Shrine. Walk over to the location where you would normally find Irina and destroy the illusory wall there. Behind the wall, there are Eyes of a Fire Keeper's .
3. Return to the normal version of Firelink Shrine and talk to Fire Keeper. Return the eyes to her and exhaust the dialog, by picking "yes".
4. Defeat Soul of Cinder, but do not light the bonfire.
5. Instead, approach the bonfire next to the summon sign of the Fire Keeper.
6. Watch the cutscene and do not attack Fire Keeper until the very end.
Note: This ending can be averted if, after you return the eyes to Fire Keeper, you kill her before the game ends. As a result, she will be "erased" from memory.
The End of Fire - alternative version
Complete all of the requirements for the previous ending. The only difference is that you should attack Fire Keeper during the cutscene (when the screen goes dark for several seconds).
Usurpation of Fire
This one is the most demanding of all endings and to unlock it, you have to meet a number of requirements connected with quests of Yoel, Yuria and Anri.
1. Find Yoel right after you travel to Undead Settlement. You can find him by the edge, in front of the main gate of the settlement.
2. Talk to Yoel in Firelink Shrine.
3. Use Power Within five times. You will then receive 5 Dark Seals. To continue this quest, you have to do this before you kill Abyss Watchers and before Yoel dies. Apart from that, you cannot use the services of Fire Keeper at any point and heal Dark Seal - this will end the quest prematurely.
4. Find Anri and Horace in Road of Sacrifices, by Halfway Keep bonfire. Talk to them.
5. Talk to Anri and Horace in Firelink Shrine after you defeat Deacons of the Deep.
6. Find Anri twice in Catacombs of Carthus. Do not tell her where Horace is, if you have found him.
7. In Catacombs of Carthus, knock down the wooden bridge. Over the bridge, you will get to Smouldering Lake. Find Horace there and kill him, without telling Anri about it.
8. Find Anri in Irithyll in the Boreal Valley by Church of Yorshka bonfire. Talk to her and leave the area, without killing the assassin of Londor hiding among statues.
9. After you kill Pontiff Sulyvahn, go to Firelink Shrine and talk to Yuria. She should inform you then about the servant waiting in the temple.
10. In Irithyll in the Boreal Valley go to the area in front of the revolving tower that leads to Anor Londo. There is a passage there, on the right (behind the false statuette) into the temple. Before you climb down, take the sword from the servant and use it by the altar with Anri's corpse.
11. Return to Firelink Shrine and talk to Yuria for the last time.
12. Complete the game, kill Soul of Cinder and light the bonfire.