"Disasters are gone after defeat of the gravelord serpent." ???

[vic_viperman]

This message pops up while I am playing... wtf. I dont remember this from the original Dark Souls. wtf is this?

[JaKeD]

It's one of the effects of the Gravelord covenant. I'm not too familiar with how it works but I believe gravelord servants can infect other players worlds with black phantoms if you are on NG+. If a gravelorder is killed those phantoms vanish.

[Rhinehalt]

Originally posted by JaKeD:

It's one of the effects of the Gravelord covenant. I'm not too familiar with how it works but I believe gravelord servants can infect other players worlds with black phantoms if you are on NG+. If a gravelorder is killed those phantoms vanish.

Well they infected me on just NG itself.

[inosk0pedjfk]

I saw this immediately after leaving Undead Asylum so it's not just NG+

[JaKeD]

Originally posted by Top Ramen Hob Goblin™️🍜:

I saw this immediately after leaving Undead Asylum so it's not just NG+

You'll get the message regardless of game cycle, the effects of the covenant don't actually take place until NG+.

[Resident Asswhole]

Disasters are gone after defeat of the gravelord SERVANT.

If someone is a Gravelord Servant, they infect your game, spawning super powerful wraiths in specific locations (if you are playing in NG+)/ otherwise you may encounter a small crab like creature which will spew several magic missles at you and will be placed in bad spots (such as on the walk way with the archers in Anor Londo).

A Gravelord Servant will leave a trail with a black colored summon sign that will allow the infect players to invade his world so he can attempt to harvest their humanity.

In the event the Gravelord Servant is killed, anyone who has their world infected will recieve the message telling them that the "disasters" (powerful enemies) have gone since he was killed by somone else.

[SL 1]

Originally posted by R13-The 2nd Type:

Disasters are gone after defeat of the gravelord SERVANT.

If someone is a Gravelord Servant, they infect your game, spawning super powerful wraiths in specific locations (if you are playing in NG+)/ otherwise you may encounter a small crab like creature which will spew several magic missles at you and will be placed in bad spots (such as on the walk way with the archers in Anor Londo).

those are "Vagrants" and they actually only spawn when a large number of souls/.humanity had been lost in that area
so they are more commonly found near difficult parts of the game

[Le_MaeMae]

Originally posted by JaKeD:

It's one of the effects of the Gravelord covenant. I'm not too familiar with how it works but I believe gravelord servants can infect other players worlds with black phantoms if you are on NG+. If a gravelorder is killed those phantoms vanish.

Apparently it doesn’t have to be NG+ for this to happen…

[Old Captain Yon]

The Gravelord guy CAN infect your world when you're on NG, you may find his sign and invade him. However, there is no consequence of being infected in NG, so you only really should try to kill the Servant if you wanna some extra PVP. When you're on NG+ tho, there WILL be consequences in form of black enemy phantoms populating your world. Vagrants are a different story and do not relate to Gravelord Servants in any way (except maybe some Gravelords leave many Eye of death items on the ground while cleaving ganks so they may indirectly cause the vagrants to spawn)