Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin |
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| HP | 6,800 | 8,160 (NG+) |
| Weakness | Slash, Lightning, Magic |
| Resistance | Fire, Dark, Poison |
| Immune | Bleed |
| Respawn | NO |
Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin is a Boss in Dark Souls 2 (DKS2). Lord Aldia, the elder brother of King Vendrick, played a crucial role in the establishment of the kingdom of Drangleic alongside his sibling. However, his subsequent withdrawal to his manor marked the beginning of a solitary pursuit for the secrets of life. Bosses are unique and challenging Enemies that drop Boss Souls capable of being transformed into powerful Weapons, Spells, and Items for the player.
Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin Information in Dark Souls 2
- This boss was introduced to Dark Souls 2 in Patch 1.10. He is available in SOTFS version by default.
- Benhart of Jugo can be summoned for this fight. His summon sign is located outside the fog gate.
- The Head of Vengarl can be summoned for this fight, provided the player has defeated his body after fighting the Duke's Dear Freja. His summon sign is located outside the fog gate.
- Bradley of the Old Guard can be summoned for this fight (SOTFS). His summon sign is located outside the fog gate.
DKS2 Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin Location
- When this boss is accessible, he may be encountered in the Throne of Want.
- In order to make this boss accessible, his dialogue must be exhausted at all three places he appears.
He will show up in the following locations:
1. When trying to light the fourth and final Primal Bonfire. Primal Bonfires may be activated in any order.
2. At the Undead Crypt Entrance bonfire.
3. At the Dragon Shrine Entrance bonfire.
You should accomplish this through normal gameplay, unless you skipped lighting the bonfires. - You must also defeat Nashandra, as well as the optional boss Vendrick.
Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin Drops in DKS2
- Souls: NG (0), NG+ (0), NG++ 0), NG+3 (0), NG+4 (0), NG+6 (0), NG+7 (0)
- Though considered a boss, Aldia does not drop either souls or a Boss Soul when defeated.
Dark Souls 2 Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin Combat Information
- Health Information
- NG (6800), NG+ (8160), NG++ (9792), NG+3 (11424), NG+4 (??), NG+5 (??), NG+6 (??), NG+7 (??)
Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin Attacks in Dark Souls 2
| Attack Name | Attack Description |
| Charged Large Fireball | Aldia starts charging a large fireball dealing huge amount of fire and dark damages, and the flames surrounding him go out. Melee characters should be wary as the fireball will still track you regardless whether you are behind Aldia or not. |
| AOE Tentacle | Aldia raises his arms/tentacles in the air and slams them into the ground. The tentacles resurface in a short area around him randomly. |
| Homing Tentacle | Aldia raises his arms/tentacles in the air and slams them into the ground. The tentacles resurface in a straight line homing into the target. easily blocked with a shield. |
| Homing Fire Mass | Aldia summons 3-5 fire/dark orbs above him which after a short period of time home in on a single target. Aldia can summon 3-5 more orbs after the first ones miss/hit the target. |
| AoE Blast | When Aldia teleports, he will create a high damaging blast around him when appearing again on the arena (Much like Smelter demon AoE blast) |
| Fire/Unknown aura | Aldia makes flames surround him in between attacks doing fire and an unknown type of damage. (1000 point fire resistant won't negate this (most likely Dark as with his other spells)) |
DKS2 Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin Strategy
Here is a playbook with helpful info on Aldia. He is about average difficulty overall, with some key things that are only learnable to people who have fought him. Aldia only has a few nuances that need to be noted, which I will explain below:
- Aldia tends to teleport. When he does, he may teleport on you, in which case you want to be standing about a foot outside of where the glow of his fire ends, as this marks the end of the AOE. This is a good way to give yourself time to hit him.
- Aldia is only really vulnerable when he is not ignited with flame all around him.
- Aldia has a multi-shot homing fireball attack. It is advisable to sprint through this attack by juking the fireballs, but at a time when there is space, as the fireballs come in bursts of variable length.
- Aldia has an attack where he charges a fireball. To deal with this, wait for him to fire, and IMMEDIATELY sprint, then roll as it is about to explode on the ground. You should clear the attack nicely.
- Aldia has an attack where he summons a bunch of tentacles in a line. He telegraphs by pulling out a single tentacle and planting it in the ground. During this time, back up so you have room, and when the attack starts going, roll towards where the first two tentacles come out,. The tentacles have a maximum turning angle of about 45 degrees, so using that is helpful. It is also really helpful to run towards his right flank at about 90 degrees from the front of his face, so avoid the tentacles.
- Do NOT hit Aldia when he is surrounded by fire. This can cause damage to you, and he will absorb only about 25% of damage.
That's basically Aldia for you.
Melee strategy
Aldia has no attacks that must be rolled. When he does his Charged Fireball attack, you have around 5 safe seconds to deal dmg to him. Run away from the fireball and it should miss you. When he slams just one tentacle in the ground, the attack can be a really badly tracking tentacle attack, much like Fire Snake pyromancy. It can also be a little bit better tracking but otherwise same kind of attack that starts not from the tentacle that slams in the ground, but from any side of Aldia closest to you. Both can be evaded by running clockwise around Aldia when he is slamming the one tentacle. After this attack you have time to deal 1-3 swings at Aldia before the fire shield comes back up.
When he does homing fire mass, just run sideways to avoid the balls, or use a spell parry shield. When he does the AoE tentacle attack, look for opening after the second AoE effect is starting (red dots on the ground) and go deal some damage to Aldia. Every time Aldia has a fire shield on, use whip, spear or any other longer range weapon to deal damage. He does, however, take less damage then, much like any boss with a hyper armor.
Aldia has around 5 spawn points in the arena, one in the middle and 4 in the corners of the arena. Its recommended to run around the middle, and when Aldia starts to spawn run to him for couple free hits. If Aldia happens to spawn really close to you, run away so the AoE blast he creates when spawning doesn't hit you.
Video Strategy:
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Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin Hints in DKS2
- Rebel's Greatshield with Dark infusion will make this fight almost trivial.
- Can be poisoned. (With Dark Fog, took 3-4 casts but he got poisoned)
- Some of his attacks drain his aura of fire, during this time he is vulnerable, press the attack and fall back when his fire starts emerging again.
Dark Souls 2 Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin Lore
- Lord Aldia is King Vendrick's elder brother. He aided his brother in founding the kingdom of Drangleic, but he then secluded himself in his manor, searching for the secrets of life, viewing the Undead as the key to finding it. Through his experiments, Aldia sought to learn the nature of the undead curse, and to shed the yoke of fate.
- Due to a dispute on the research of souls, or the research methods on how to end the Curse, Vendrick locked Aldia away in his keep. It was there that Aldia "kept Giants in his manor, and attempted to recreate a dragon, but after some time, was not heard from again".
- With the release of Scholar of the First Sin, it is revealed that Aldia did not become the Ancient Dragon, but was transfigured into a blob-like creature that appears to be composed of fire, witchtree branches and a glowing red eye. He will appear to the player at the the last Primal Bonfire they reach, the entrance to the Undead Crypt and the Dragon Shrine. If spoken to in all of these locations he will become the final boss after defeating Nashandra at the Throne of Want.
- His dialogue ranges from benign to going as far as to express outward rage at Gwyn, Lord of Cinder, who is referred to by Aldia as the "Lord of Light". The scholar describes how the old Lord of Sunlight expelled the darkness, and began the cycle of light and dark. This cycle, this curse, forced men to assume a fleeting form, reverting them back to their hollow form. They became less than what they were, and to Aldia, this is the first sin he has taken his name from. He claims that men are mere props, and that no matter how exquisite, a lie will remain a lie. The anger is audible in his voice at this point, an expression of his fury at the commitment of the first sin, the first linking of the flame.
Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin Notes & Trivia in Dark Souls 2
- Aldia is voiced by David Gant.
- Other notes and tips go here.
Wow, worse final boss hands down, I like his character but the fight is a$$ move set wise it’s really boring and sometimes he can just randomly explode for 75% of you HP. Then get no rewards besides a slight better ending. 1/10 boss fight
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I have a theory that maybe Aldia was never the SOTFS in the first place, but instead, it was Dark Souls 2 itself, the game's full name is "Dark Souls 2 Scholar of the first sin" so maybe SOTFS in this sense is refering to Dark Souls 2 as a title, and we were wrong about the game's lore all along, but this is just a theory, let me know what you guys think.
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Am I the only one who thinks he became a demon? All that wood/root and fire remind me a lot of Izalith.
He might not have the best fight, but the dude is arguably the big Chad winner of ds2.
He does what no one else could and breaks free from the pointless cycle, gets to chill and do whatever he wants.
He spectates us, gives us a fight for funsies without dying, and unlike anyone else he just let's us walk away and peace out if we don't to do the whole "rule again" thing, which might be the Canon ending based in the ds3 faram set description of defying deathike he did.
Yea he did cause tons of pain and death but in dark souls that's like going grocery shopping.
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Where is his dialogues? Does the answers to his questions change anything? His dialog refers to people and events, why these references are not mentioned in the Trivia section?
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I'm glad I didn't have to fight Throne Watcher/Defender and Nashandra after dying to the stupid teleport AOE attack
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listening to this dude and vendricks themes after fully understanding souls lore after 9 years is both indescribably mind opening and sad, 6/10 boss gameplay wise and 10 lore wise, bonus points for him just living in your head as a voice forever if you pick his ending and his borderline game breaking boss weapons
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I assume he just removed him self from the cycle, successfully m, that is.
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Quite like how Aldia is pretty much an omnipotent/omniscient being that just prods us out of curiosity. Unlike Gwyn and the gang where we put a dying pantheon to rest.
Like Aldia figured the world out and isn't concerned about what it's successors is up to.
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Isn't there lore connections to Dark souls 3? How The princes of Lothric were students of Aldia? Or are we supposed to keep these bits of information separate from each other when approaching the story from the point of time at ds2?
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If we beat Nashandra, then go kill Vendrick, does Aldia still appears when we go back to the throne of want ?
Or do we have to defeat Vendrick then Nashendra to make him appear ?
Thanks for your answers
The fact the he's still talking to us after defeating him, might mean we didn't really kill him, which is why we got no souls after defeating him. Did he succeed in his quest for immortality ?
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Aldia drops nothing, no souls, items, keys a big fat puff of smoke after you kill him. Unless you enjoy fighting bosses just for fun with zero reward or your a completist I advise skipping the boss.
In DS2 Aldia is literally the only boss I would consider 100% optional since you gain nothing from defeating him.
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All the theory section has essentially been debunked with SotFS, I see. Should be edited.
Aldia is not Seath lol. Seath possessed the Duke, created Freja, the scorpion hybrids, and other abominations, and his soul is found at Freja’s domain. Aldia, furthermore, sought to break the cycle of Fire and Dark, to use and even combine them in an effort to unveil the true nature of existence, and mankind’s place in it, and potentially learn to mitigate or avoid the downsides of the undead “curse”. Aldia would hold no love at all for Seath, who he would view as complicit in Gwyn’s sins.
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So...where is Aldia's soul? Did he stash it in another vessel? Did it just dissipate into nothing? Was losing it required to exist outside the cycle?
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Idk why there's a whole section on Aldia being the Duke when this guy exists:
https://darksouls2.wiki.fextralife.com/Duke+Tseldora
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If you killed Nashandra and Aldia didn't appear then go kill vendrick and use a bonfire ascetic on kings gate bonfire in drangleic castle and then when you kill watcher/defender and Nashandra again Aldia will appear you do Not need to go into the next NG cycle if you missed him.
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Aldia is definitely not the Duke of bright stone cove. It's literally the hollow guy with the rapier after Freja. Freja is likely the reincarnation of Seath as she drops his soul, though it could be the dead dragon, or the duke.
If Aldia was the Duke, then they would have just said Aldia, like they do everywhere else.
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"In order to make this boss accessible, his dialogue must be exhausted at all three places he appears." Does it need to be in order?
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Honestly not as bad as people claim. Yea yea he doesn't drop **** yada yada like these 150k souls would make any kind of diffrence in the endgame maybe like max 4+ to some stat or 2 DLC armor sets for which DLC provides souls anyway. Great OST cool looks and def better than nashandra which is not an achievement but still a better final boss than her.
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I just saw Vengarl's summon sign and I definitely did not kill his body this playthrough, so that is also incorrect.
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One of my favorite characters in gaming overall, but goddamn what an awful bossfight
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Two bosses in a row but the second one drops nothing... yeah, "this is dark souls 2" frustrating even when the game finally ends. Now here am I... waiting for the end of this >endless< game credits[...]
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He doesn't seem to be weak against lightning. I tried weapons with fire and lightning and they hit him almost the same.
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Me when there are still people who jump to ds2 hate bandwagon:
"A lie will remain a lie...!!"
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What a pathetic and underwhelming final boss for a game full of pathetic and underwhelming bosses, that are themselves sometimes regular enemies with a boss meter or straight up Dark Souls 1 bosses, again.
Most bosses in this game can stupidly be easily defeated with circle strafing, for him you literally stand still and shoot him until he dies and occasionally walk to the side to avoid an attack, embarrassment.
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dumb af to make him a boss that you have to beat, but then have him drop nothing at all.
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I haven't battled him. It seems you're to supposed to defeat Vendrick BEFORE defeating Nashandra. We'll see in NG+ then.
- Anonymous
Finally a ending that dosent need me to complete the most complicated npc questline known to man
- Anonymous
The thing i loved about ds2 is that the lore actually made sense. I rarley found myself asking questions
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Still cannot understand why people try to put DS2 out of the series, despite the deepest and darkest information about the world it reveals.
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>Rises from the ground
>Drops the biggest redpills
>Refuses to elaborate further
>Leaves
What a chad.
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I fought with this boss in my first playthrough by default without knowing we have to pass some requirements, but for my second character I don't know which part I missed and he didn't appear. I think I missed a bonfire which is weird :/
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i feel as though the "theories" section should be removed. even considering it was written before SotFS, most of it is plainly incorrect and even confuses Aldia for a different character altogether. it simply isn't relevant.
sure is funny, though.
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It reminds me of Exodes from Final Fantasy V: A Warlock that turned to be an Evil Tree
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I've seen many theories about Dark Souls but this one... This one is something else.
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Trash boss if you dont give souls or soul of aldia i have no reason to fight you its just waste of time
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the theory section is just discribing fnaf 4 lore forme 2016 lmao
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please remember the theory section was heavily built off of coke and opium, dont be too harsh on it
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i feel like all of those theories are completely wrong. the way it appears is that the entirety of ds2 is inside a shared dream world, all the ppl u meet and or fight are all victims of the dream tree in the starting cinematic. what happens is you go to the tree and then in the cinematic it puts you to sleep and pulls your mind into the shared dream world, this dream world is then a combination of places from all the victim's memories. the curse that vendrick and aldia are trying to break is the dream world itself not the undead curse, that curse is a part of the dream world, a mechanism designed to trick and distract the victims so that they dont try to break oout of the dream world and wake up. the problem is that most of the ppl in ds2 are already long dead, you can see the skeletons in the opening cinematic as well. the reason aldia is a cluster of flaming roots is because he merged his soul with that of the spirit of the dream tree itself, THATS the real curse hes talking about, he learned that his and vendricks bodies are long dead and this is what send vendrick into dispair and made him go hollow while making adia seethe with rage learning that his real body is dead and that he can no longer escape unless he dies, but because he merged with the tree the only way he can die is if the tree itself dies and the dream world is destroyed.
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Will I still be able to get the ending boss fight with him if I don't do the steps in order? I managed to make it to the Undead Crypt bonfire before clearing all 4 primal bonfires and he didn't show up like he does in a normal playthrough.
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It should be edited, you can fight Aldia when you kill Nashandra AFTER killing Vendrick. If you kill Nashandra first and then Vendrick, you have to use Bonfire Ascetic to kill Nashandra again and after that Aldia will show up.
I misunderstood the places where he shows up and didnt know its in order, so I just sat on the throne without killing him lol
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