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World Tendency Guide for Demon's Souls and Demon's Souls Remake explains the World Tendency Mechanic and provides tips and tricks for players who want to change their World Tendency.

• Please see Character Tendency for your character's "alignment" system.
• Please note that, unlike the original 2009 release, Demon's Souls Remake does NOT have server tendency and your World Tendency is only affected by your own actions.
• Please see Resurrection for a miracle that revives summoned phantom players.
• Please see Ceramic Coin for unique items that appear only in Fractured Mode when in Pure White and Pure Black tendency.

 

Introduction to World Tendency System

 

World Tendency

As stated before, each Archstone region has its own World Tendency. These are all completely independent of each other; your actions in one Archstone can never affect the Tendency of other Archstones, and there’s nothing to stop you from simultaneously having one Archstone be a shining beacon of hope and good will while another acts as a blackened bastion for all things unholy. You’ll want to use this to your advantage, since you might find greater benefits in keeping a certain region white while the allure of turning another region black draws you.

In worlds of Black Tendency, you’ll find that enemies give you a lot more trouble than usual but also give you more souls and better drops once defeated. That former point is the result of their attacks being stronger and your HP being lower. In White Tendency worlds, the opposite is true: enemies aren’t as difficult, your HP is at its max potential (depending on form, of course), but the rewards for putting down enemies aren’t as great as they could be. And as mentioned before, the degree of these effects will grow with how white or black the region is.

So now that you know what you can strive for, here’s what you need to do to get there. When you defeat a boss within a world, it’ll shift Tendency towards white. If you lose your body within a region (which is to say, you die while not in Soul form), it’ll shift Tendency towards black. These are your most basic ways of changing World Tendency, and your only options to initially stray from neutral Tendency. Once you’ve pushed things enough to white or black, new options will open up to help you shift back in the opposite direction. For example, in regions that have achieved a certain level of black Tendency, a special Primeval Demon will appear. Killing it will help shift Tendency back to white. This is the more basic example, however.

Each Archstone region has a special NPC that is deeply rooted in World Tendency. At the further end of white World Tendency, you’ll open up access to this NPC, and will find yourself rewarded with typical RPG goodness: new quest, new item, etc. However, should you not be happy with your white World Tendency, you’ll find that offing the NPCs spawned by it is quite convenient for taking things in the other direction. Should you blacken the region enough, you’ll find yourself greeted by its special NPC once again, only you might notice they have a different aura about them this time... Now they’re a Black Phantom NPC, and like most characters in Demon’s Souls, they want you dead. As you might already have guessed, killing these Black Phantom NPCs can greatly shift World Tendency back toward white. As an aside, whether the NPC you’re killing happens to be good or evil, you can always count on their corpse to yield new, usually rare goodies, which will differ depending on their friendliness at time of death. It’s incentives like these that’ll ensure you won’t simply leave World Tendency be.

What Does World Tendency Look Like?

If you are wondering how to tell if you have pure white or black world tendency, you need to navigate to the World Tendency tab on your options menu. You'll notice a sphere below each Archstone. The following colors represent its tendency. Pure White and Pure Black world tendencies have glowing effects: Pure White has a horizontal line indicating a lens flare, while Pure Black has red wisps floating within the icon.

 

 

Do Invasions Affect World Tendency?

The answer to this is both yes and no.

Using the Black Eye Stone or Red Eye Stone to invade does not have any effect on World Tendency, regardless of the outcome. It doesn't matter if you kill the host or a blue phantom, invading has no effect on the WT of the person invading. This is not true of Character Tendency - killing other players in PvP will move your CT towards black.

Being invaded by someone using the Black Eye Stone or Red Eye Stone does have an effect on World Tendency: killing an invader will move World Tendency toward white, but only for the host - this does not apply to any blue phantoms. Dying to an invader as the host will move the host's World Tendency toward black, but only because the host died in body form (hence, dying to an Old Monk invader while you are in soul form will have no effect on your World Tendency).

Defeating an invader in PvP will also move the Character Tendency of the host and any blue phantoms that are in the host's world at the time the invader is defeated toward white.

This is true for both the original Demon's Souls (though player invasions are no longer possible there due to a server shutdown) and the Demon's Souls Remake.

Does the Resurrection Miracle Affect World Tendency?

No.

World Tendency Changes

In Demon's Souls, it's quite difficult to measure the current status of your World Tendency, however, you can check the list below of various events to get a rough estimate of where your World Tendency is.

• Those that are highlighted yellow are only done in online mode.
• Rows that are marked with a (*) causes an effect on all 5 Archstones.
• (+) yields to White World Tendency and (-) falls toward Black World Tendency

 

 

WT Character Parameters

World Tendency in Demon's Souls also influences your stats as a Black Phantom and in Soul Form. Listed in the table below, you'll find the following parameters that will influence the various stats for both Black and White World Tendency.

 

 

World Tendency Events

Listed below are the various events that can trigger in the world for both White and Black World Tendency.

All worlds

Boletarian Palace

 

Stonefang Tunnel

Tower of Latria

Shrine of Storms

Valley of Defilement

 

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