Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-25950924-20150427191430/@comment-4511886-20150427193617

The general area is what is affected. That's really as specific as you can get when talking about all bonfires. You could also say that it affects what makes the most sense for it to affect. For example, the first bonfire, Exile Holding Cells, affects everything between the gate next to McDuff's workshop section to the shortcut that skips the Ruin Sentinels. As another example, the final bonfire in FoFG, The Place Unbeknownst, affects all the giant memories, and nothing else.