Talk:Shiva of the East/@comment-33537755-20171101134353

There is a way to get Shiva back if he disappears, but it's quite of complicated. You have to go to the Darkroot garden, join the covenant and hit a nearby NPC (don't hit Alvina). Shiva will appear inmediatly after that and all the forest guardians will try to kill you, incluiding Shiva and his bodyguard.

WARNING: If you hit the forest guardians while you are in Alvina's covenant, Alvina will disappear and there will be no way to join her covenant again. I'm not sure if you can join it if you go to talk with Oswald, the cleric below the first bell, and request him for to absolve you.