
Luckily, you can use the statue of Velka in the Undead Settlement to absolve yourself and reset her prices back to normal.

Really 700 Years Old: Giving him the Giant's Coal reveals he's the same Andre from Dark Souls, hundreds - possibly thousands - of years later.Messy Hair: Has a massive, unruly mane of white hair.Still, he warns you of what using it entails, and urges you against using it, since it embodies everything the player character is fighting against, and could corrupt you irreversibly. Honor Before Reason: When given the Profaned Coal from the Profaned Capital, he's horrified at how dark it is, and REALLY doesn't want to make anything with it that you could use (it opens Dark, Blood and Hollow infusions), but considers that his duty as a blacksmith overrules his personal feelings.He'll even be mad at you for killing him and refuse to do any smithing for you, unless you go absolve your sins. In this game, however, you just need to reload the area and he'll be right back at his workstation hammering away. Even Andre himself stayed dead if you killed him in the first game. Gameplay and Story Integration: Andre is a rare instance across all three games of another Undead that will actually respawn (presumably) at a bonfire like you when you kill him instead of being permanently dead.Cool Old Guy: Because some things never change.Well, the only one still alive anyway, as you do encounter the Giant Blacksmith's corpse.

Although, now he's the only blacksmith encountered. The Blacksmith: As in the first Dark Souls, he is the first blacksmith encountered.Back for the Finale: Was nowhere to be seen in Drangleic, but in this game you see him almost as soon as you first enter Firelink Shrine and he serves you faithfully for the entirety of the game.Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Of the platonic variety giving him the Giant's Coal reveals that he and the Giant Blacksmith of Anor Londo were apparently friends, and he remembers the Giant with great fondness and sadness, considering you take the Coal from the Giant's corpse.Of course, he's almost certainly Undead, so it's to be expected. Ambiguously Human: Andre is hundreds if not thousands of years old and hasn't changed at all from the first game to the third.I don't want to see m' work squandered!Ī blacksmith from the fallen kingdom of Astora, somehow having survived since the Chosen Undead walked the lands of Lordran.
