Talk:Shiva's Bodyguard/@comment-5632187-20121221021603/@comment-5632187-20140722053239

When referring to entities in the game, the community tends to make a difference between AI and NPCs. Any entity that is typically hostile towards the player character is typically referred to as AI, while any entity who can be interacted with in non-violent fashions is referred to as an NPC.

What Zelron means is that an invader cannot kill any characters vital to the player character, as that would just be poor design to allow invaders to completely ruin someone's game like that. Any NPCs who can be interacted with in a friendly manner are immune to any sort of damage from invaders and phantoms alike.

As for what I was referring to in my original comment almost 2 years ago, Shiva will eventually move to Blighttown and so I would lure Cragspiders to him and his bodyguard and once one died, the other would start attacking.