I know this topic has been discussed many times over before but I just got done reading another posting on it and it got my brain spinning.
We all know this covenant is broken and at this point won't be fixed for this game which is sad because this covenant had such potential. Imagine for a moment if it was based more around the same principle as the forest hunters covenant where very early in the game you were given a ring with a discription explaining to wear this ring when black phantoms pop up in your world only in a very cryptic way that will leave people scratching their head as to what this ring is for.
Now for the gravelords when they put their sign down or with this change it would not require a sign but something else that would send out black phantoms to anyone else online within their soul range regardless of what area the player is in. The player could simply ignore the black phantoms if he or she chose to but this would be unwise as the longer the black phantoms stay in their world the stronger they become and they will grow in numbers as well to the point that the player would see black phantoms everywhere. Now if the player is killed by the black phantoms they will disappear but a black phantom NPC much like the guy with the katana from Demon Souls world 4-1 will be waiting for you at your blood stain. If the player kills the NPC the cycle will start over again until the gravelord is killed. Now for the player to invade the gravelord he or she would simply put on the ring to invade the gravelord much like the forest hunters do now.
What do you guys think, good idea or not?
We all know this covenant is broken and at this point won't be fixed for this game which is sad because this covenant had such potential. Imagine for a moment if it was based more around the same principle as the forest hunters covenant where very early in the game you were given a ring with a discription explaining to wear this ring when black phantoms pop up in your world only in a very cryptic way that will leave people scratching their head as to what this ring is for.
Now for the gravelords when they put their sign down or with this change it would not require a sign but something else that would send out black phantoms to anyone else online within their soul range regardless of what area the player is in. The player could simply ignore the black phantoms if he or she chose to but this would be unwise as the longer the black phantoms stay in their world the stronger they become and they will grow in numbers as well to the point that the player would see black phantoms everywhere. Now if the player is killed by the black phantoms they will disappear but a black phantom NPC much like the guy with the katana from Demon Souls world 4-1 will be waiting for you at your blood stain. If the player kills the NPC the cycle will start over again until the gravelord is killed. Now for the player to invade the gravelord he or she would simply put on the ring to invade the gravelord much like the forest hunters do now.
What do you guys think, good idea or not?