Thread:DarksignHunter/@comment-64.90.69.66-20140830211550/@comment-3492791-20140830213533

You need to go to the Darkroot Garden and defeat Great Grey Wolf Sif. Upon death he will drop the ring Covenant of Artorias. You must be wearing this ring while in the abyss or you will die instantly. The reason you kept dying is you did not have the ring equipped.