# Convenants

## Covenant Betrayals

There are two different ways to be punished for leaving or breaking a covenant. One is less severe and merely halves your offerings to that covenant. Even when that occurs, you can freely rejoin that covenant without issue.<sup class="footnoteref"><a class="footnoteref" id="bkmrk-"></a>1</sup>

<table class="wiki-content-table" id="bkmrk-action-betrayal-type"><tbody><tr><th>Action</th><th>Betrayal Type</th><th>Penalty</th><th>Sin</th></tr><tr><td>Leaving a Covenant  
(with or without Oswald)</td><td>Soft Betrayal</td><td>Covenant offerings are halved, and rank is reduced accordingly</td><td>Not a sin</td></tr><tr><td>Getting kicked out of a Covenant</td><td>Hard Betrayal</td><td>Covenant offerings are eradicated to 0</td><td>1 point of PvP Sin obtained (identical to being indicted once)  
Also toggles PvE Sin to the "on" position, [Absolution](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/absolution) will fix if covenant leader is still available</td></tr></tbody></table>

It is only possible to be kicked out of four specific covenants: The Blade of the Darkmoon, Chaos Servant, Forest Hunter, and Princess's Guard covenants.

## Covenant Restricted Items

Some items obtained from (or relating to) covenants can be used regardless of your current membership. The following, however, require an active membership to use:

<table class="wiki-content-table" id="bkmrk-item-covenant-requir"><tbody><tr><th>Item</th><th>Covenant Required</th></tr><tr><td>[Blue Eye Orb](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/blue-eye-orb)</td><td>Blade of the Darkmoon</td></tr><tr><td>[Darkmoon Blade Covenant Ring](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/darkmoon-blade-covenant-ring)</td><td>Blade of the Darkmoon</td></tr><tr><td>[Darkmoon Blade](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/darkmoon-blade)</td><td>Blade of the Darkmoon</td></tr><tr><td>[Cat Covenant Ring](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/cat-covenant-ring)</td><td>Forest Hunter</td></tr><tr><td>[Eye of Death](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/eye-of-death)</td><td>Gravelord Servant</td></tr><tr><td>[Red Eye Orb](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/red-eye-orb)</td><td>Darkwraith</td></tr><tr><td>[Bountiful Sunlight](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/bountiful-sunlight)</td><td>Princess's Guard</td></tr><tr><td>[Soothing Sunlight](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/soothing-sunlight)</td><td>Princess's Guard</td></tr><tr><td>[Sunlight Spear](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/sunlight-spear)</td><td>Warrior of Sunlight</td></tr></tbody></table>

## Notes

- Covenant items can be given when acquiring a rank. They can only be owned once (e.g., [Great Chaos Fireball](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/great-chaos-fireball), [Great Lightning Spear](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/great-lightning-spear), [Dark Sword](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/dark-sword)) on a character. Although in case of weapons ([Dark Sword](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/dark-sword), [Gravelord Sword](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/gravelord-sword), and [Darkmoon Talisman](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/darkmoon-talisman)), they can be obtained online from [another player](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/online) (for example through trading).

- To unlock a covenant-related trophy/achievement, select "Join Covenant" and wait for the box to appear that says "Join Covenant? (abandons former Covenant)." A few seconds later, the achievement will be unlocked automatically. Selecting "Yes" or "No" is not necessary.

- Current covenant levels can carry over to a [New Game Plus (NG+)](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/new-game-plus)

- Dark Souls Remastered: You can now join and swap covenants with bonfires. The covenant level of your covenant you leave will still be halved though.

- Dark Souls Remastered: If you betray a covenant (hard betrayal), you won't be able to rejoin it with a bonfire; you will have to absolve your sins with [Oswald of Carim](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/oswald-of-carim) first.

- Dark Souls Remastered: If you kill a covenant leader, you will not be able to rejoin it with a bonfire (for example killing [Dark Sun Gwyndolin](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/dark-sun-gwyndolin) prevents you from entering the [Blade of the Darkmoon](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/blade-of-the-darkmoon) covenant via a bonfire, because you cannot rejoin it through the legitimate way either). The only way to rejoin it is with [New Game Plus (NG+)](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/new-game-plus).

- Dark Souls Remastered: In [New Game Plus (NG+)](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/new-game-plus) you will lose all covenants and won't be able to join any of them through a bonfire at the start, except for the one you're in when you begin the new game cycle. It is highly recommended to carry over the [Darkwraith](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/darkwraith) covenant because, with this method, you won't have to do [Darkstalker Kaathe](http://darksouls.wikidot.com/darkstalker-kaathe)'s questline again. The other covenants don't require much investment to join, and most of them are available early in the game.