Bells of Awakening

The Bells of Awakening are plot destinations early in game.

General Information
The bells of awakening, while actual bells, serve as more of plot markers early on in the game. The crestfallen knight instructs you upon your first arrival at Firelink Shrine that to prove yourself as the Chosen Undead, you need to go ring the two Bells of Awakening so that something will happen. This is essentially all the instruction and plot that you are given early in the game.

The first bell (relative, as you can go about ringing them in whichever order you like, but recommended that you approach this one first) is located in the Undead Parish, which requires traversal of the Undead Burg first. After dispatching the Belfry Gargoyles, the player can climb to the top of the belltower and ring the first bell.

The second bell is significantly more of a trek to get to. The player must first move downward into the lower Undead Burg, dispatching the Capra demon, progress through the Depths , taking out the Gaping Dragon , and finally into Blighttown , a poisonous and confusing labyrinth. At the end of Blighttown you face off against Quelaag, the chaos witch. In a spire just after Quelaag's lair is the lever to ring the second bell.

Upon ringing the second bell, a short cutscene plays showing an iron golem hearing the bells and opening the heavy gates, allowing access to Sen's Fortress. It is at this point that Kingseeker Frampt appears in Firelink Shrine, and instructs the player that his new task is to secure the Lordvessel, proving that the player is in fact the Chosen Undead.