Humanity (item)

Humanity is an item in Dark Souls. It is also commonly known as "solid" humanity, to distinguish it from its "liquid" form (see Humanity Mechanic).

Lore
The item humanty is actually a fragment of the Dark Soul found by the Furtive Pygmy. The Pygmy Fragmented the Darksoul leading to the birth of humans. Due to the nature of the Dark Soul, Humans will thrive in the absensce of light.

Availability
Humanity is an uncommon drop from Undead Rats. It also drops from the Baby Skeletons near the end of the Tomb of the Giants, the Humanity Phantoms in the Chasm of the Abyss (AotA only), and the Pisacas in the Duke's Archives. Humanity is automatically granted to players and phantoms that kill any boss. It can also be found in various chests and corpses scattered throughout Lordran, and purchased in limited quantities from merchants. Humanity is also obtainable through killing certain NPCs for solid Humanities, as well as using the Dark Hand strong attack to steal liquid Humanities from other Players and NPCs.

General Information
Using one humanity automatically restores the player to full HP, as well as granting players one liquid humanity. Using a humanity has a somewhat long animation. Using humanity has no effect on status effects such as bleed or poison.

Having liquid humanity also increases item discovery chance (stops increasing after 10 liquid humanity), as well as defenses (physical, magical, etc). See Humanity Mechanic.

Overview
Humanity is useful as players do not lose solid humanity upon death. This means that, as long as players have humanity in their inventory, they will never worry about being short even in the event of death.

Humanity is a popular item in PvP. Lloyd's Talisman cannot block players from using humanity to heal; additionally, while phantoms cannot use estus to heal in their hosts' world, they can use humanity to do the job instead.

Humanity is not such a popular item for healing in PvE, as it takes longer to heal than Estus and is harder to replenish.