Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25958616-20150210211714

Shiva is only meetable if the player is a memeber of the Forest Hunters and as a person is shadowed in mystery. From the far East and captain of the brigade he'll sell you exotic weapons that are normally obtainable through luck like the Uchigatana (from killing the Undead Merchant), Demon Machete (from killng Capra Demons) and Demon Greataxe (from killing Tarus Demons). He was originally intended to be a traitor and kill you if you forge the Chaos Blade from Quelaags soul. Like Lautrec you'd use a black eye orb to confront him in his world, which for some reason is in the Painted World of Ariamis. This quest was most likely scraped due to having the player upgrade a weapon into the Chaos Blade and then get killed in Blighttown, which a lot of players refuse to go to if it doesn't involve the main story. Unlike Lautrec, Shiva offers no reward other then the weapon he stole from you. Lautrec was meant to be a mysterious figure that worked to his own motives and took the main bonfire away from you. Hunting down Lautrec served a meaningful purpose that benifited the player in the end, but Shiva on the other hand was meant to be a traitor who served no purpose to you alive or dead. 