Is it possible to kill NPC in Dark Souls

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In Demon's Souls it was possible to kill all the NPCs, and I had to take great care not to kill them by mistakes (the R2 button having a tendency to get pressed whenever I put down my controller). And if you did hit a NPC even by mistake, he will turn hostile for the whole play-through.

As Dark Souls is a spiritual successor to Demon's Souls, I'm wondering whether the developer kept that element of gameplay. Is it possible to kill the NPCs in Dark Souls? Do I need to take care not to hurt them? If they are killable, what is the impact on the game, apart from their disappearance?

I could try to hit one of them, but as the game autosave after almost every modification of the world or character state, I prefer not to risk it.

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You can kill NPCs in Dark Souls, just as you did in Demon's Souls. Some people kill Lautrec early on, for example, to obtain his very useful ring. If you ever accidentally harm a NPC, they will be hostile towards you, but you can "absolve" your sins at the NPC "Oswald of Carim" in the Church after the Bell Gargoyle fight to make them unhostile. The cost is Soul Level x 2000. Some covenants will also become hostile if you dishonorably leave them (abandon covenant without use of Oswald, betray their rules, etc.), which is also something that can be absolved at this NPC.

Unless you kill Oswald, you can always resort to this method to make the NPC's like you again (note that this won't revive them however if you killed them).

You might miss out on some story/sub-plots, but you should still be able to complete the game having killed all the NPC's that you are allowed to kill. It is hard to say for certain what the impact on the game will be as there are so many NPC's in the game with different functions.

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Dark Souls – How to Sell Items

There is an NPC, Kingseeker Frampt, that will consume your items in exchange for souls. He appears near the Firelink Shrine after you have rung the two bells. So yes, there is a way to sell item, but not until later in the game.

However, there is almost no limit to the number of items you can have in your inventory (see this question Is there a limit to the number of item in inventory?). You can hold up to 1984 different items in your inventory, and if you purchase the Bottomless Box, from a merchant in the Depth, you can store all those items in it and have a manageable inventory.

However, I think you should just drop the duplicate items because the resell value is really low. This table, from one of the Dark Souls wiki, shows how many souls you'll gain from each class of item:

Weapons                    50
Armor                      100
Dung Pie                   200
Cracked Red Eye Orb        500
Copper Coin                1000
Some unique items          5000

Even if you resell 1000 longswords, you'll only gain 50000 souls. Compared to the time it will take you to sell all of them, and to manage your inventory, I think it is not a good trade-off. There are quicker ways farm souls.

During your second play through, reselling some of the unique items may be a cheap way to get some souls. However, reselling basic items does not seem interesting to me.

Dark Souls P2DE: Trainer Laurientus

The majority of his spells should also be obtainable by the chaos convenant's trainer (The egg burdened outside the firekeeper) and from The advanced trainer after training your pyromancy flame is ready to be ascended (+15). The advanced trainer is found in blight town sitting next to a pillar directly straight from Quelaags Domain's entrance.

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