Thread:Volknur/@comment-24474597-20140131100827/@comment-5264386-20140131103357

When you leave a covenant, you do lose some of your rank in the covenant (I think if you betrayal a covenant, you lose all your rank in that covenant, whilst if you abandon a covenant through Oswald, you only lose one rank, but I'm not sure on that). All this means is that you'll have to give Quelaag's Sister 7 more humanity, and you should get the Demon Ruins shortcut and Chaos Storm made available to you.

Hope this helps. :)