3. The Pendant's Mystery Solved
At the start of the game it is possible to select a gift for your Chosen Undead to enjoy. Many are quite useful - such as the Mastery Key which opens many doors, or Black Firebombs which cause lots of damage at the start of the game. There is, however, one item that appears to have no discernible use. Yup, it's the pendant. Unequippable, completely mysterious and seemingly capable of doing nothing, the pendant had Dark Soulers pondering for months over what the hell it was for. Surely it had a purpose, right? We just weren't trying hard enough. Well, the secret is my friends, it really had no purpose. A while back the game's director - Hidetaka Miyazaki - said in an interview that he completely played a prank on all of us just for the hell of it. The pendant does nothing. Yeah cheers Hidetaka - I'll never get those hours back.