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Aftermath: /* First Fight */

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‎First Fight

Aftermath: /* Final Boss */

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‎Final Boss

Aftermath: /* Collecting the pieces */

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‎Collecting the pieces

Aftermath: /* The Stygian */

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‎The Stygian

Aftermath: /* Armageddon backtracking */

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‎Armageddon backtracking

Aftermath: /* Armageddon backtracking */

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‎Armageddon backtracking

Aftermath: /* The Black Throne */

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‎The Black Throne

Aftermath: /* Silitha's Dungeon */

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‎Silitha's Dungeon

Aftermath: /* First Fight */

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‎First Fight

Aftermath: /* The Ashlands */

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‎The Ashlands

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 Starting the game: There's no special setup before starting a new game, simply select it from the main menu. For difficulty, there's no speed difference, so you can choose what you like. Most games' difficulty will pump up enemy HP or defense, in Darksiders the only change is how much damage War takes from attacks. We have all of the damage routed, so it's not much of a concern, but I'd recommend playing on Easy while learning.
-During the intro cutscenes, hold right-click to skip the cutscenes as soon as possible. You can skip cutscenes with Esc, as well, but we won't use that as often. While they're playing, hold D and tap Alt to dash to the right and end up near a streetlight. Grab it with the Action button and strafe back to the left until you're standing on the far left crack in the asphalt. The goal of this fight is to kill the Car Thrower on top of the bus. Normally, he won't jump down until the first wave of minions is killed, but damaging him directly will force him to jump at you. The Car Thrower will start with a roar, wait for his hands to go back in front of him, then throw the lamppost with Q-mode.
+During the intro cutscenes, hold right-click to skip the cutscenes as soon as possible. You can skip cutscenes with Esc, as well, but we won't use that as often. While they're playing, hold D and tap Alt to dash to the right and end up near a streetlight. Grab it with the Action button (E) and strafe back to the left until you're standing on the far left crack in the asphalt. The goal of this fight is to kill the Car Thrower on top of the bus. Normally, he won't jump down until the first wave of minions is killed, but damaging him directly will force him to jump at you. The Car Thrower will start with a roar, wait for his hands to go back in front of him, then throw (E) the lamppost with Q-mode.
 Once he recoils, stand still and hit Block (Alt) just as he's landing to counter, then spam V to go into Chaos form. This position should get a hit as you land from the Chaos Form, after which you can do the fast combo of LMB RMB LMB to kill him. Untransform with V and dash forward to the right side of the bus in front and wait for the cutscene.

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	== Final Boss ==		== Final Boss ==
		+	=== Dragon ===
		+	This segment should always end up being about the same, similar to the Stygian fight, but you'll need to make sure to execute properly. We'll dash out of Vulgrim's shop and head into the sand, getting on the horse when it's available. Dash all the way to the back of the room and look for the shadow flight orb. The cliff to the left has a spot we can do a [[Darksiders/General_Tricks_and_Glitches#Horse_Height_Boost:\|Horse Boost]]. If you run into the second indented area along the cliff, going left from the orb, you can unsummon and resummon your horse to get boosted all the way to the top of the cliff. If you don't get quite enough height, you're at the wrong spot and need to move left slightly.
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		+	Once on top, pull up the Shadow Realm to gundash across the bridge and talk to Azrael. When we appear in the boss fight, we want to dash forward and start hitting the boss as he starts moving. The way this fight normally works is that the dragon will start to charge at you and prepare a claw attack, you go to the opposite leg and hit that to make him fall down. The better strategy is to hit him as he starts to move, which makes him fall immediately. There's no need to attack him while he's down, knocking him down is what dealt the damage. When he gets up after this first one, attack him again as he starts to run to knock him down.
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		+	After he gets up now, he'll do divebombs before beginning his run. The number after each knockdown is the same every time, 2 1 1 3. The best way to avoid the divebomb is to infinite jump above the hitbox, so we'll jump up a safe distance and wait for his first 2 divebombs. On the second, fall back down and attack him again as he sets off. This now moves him to the 1 divebomb round. Complete the same sequence to avoid his dive, then force him down again. He'll do 1 divebomb again, which we react to in the same way. On this last one, we'll get on the horse and casually dash away to avoid each of the hits. A good cue for dashing is when he makes his shrieking sound before falling. After the third slam, we want to get a pretty healthy distance between us and wait.
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		+	When he charges, he'll have an action prompt cutscene, so we just want to be tapping that as we wait. This takes him into the sky and has us tap Action some more before plummeting back down and starting the second phase of the boss.
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		+	=== Not Dragon ===
		+	This phase is similar to the other fights we've done, helped out by the fact that his pattern is the same each time. We want to sword cancel as quickly as we can before his first attack, which we'll need to block. Keep attacking afterward, then jump and swordflip to avoid his slam. Attack some more to get the button mashing contest with him, after which he teleports into the sky. You can just run to the edge where he is and wait, the boulders he throws will bounce off of the pillars.
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		+	When he finishes throwing those, he'll do a charging slash at you, but if you back up slightly, it's trivial to sidestep his attack and start sword canceling again. His first attack needs jumped over and if he does the second, it can be blocked. Button mash him to pass the round again, then wait for him to throw the boulders.
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		+	The third round is a little different, you can't attack him until he starts his attack or he'll get staggered and warp away, wasting a lot of time. So what you'll want to do is to sidestep his attack, but wait to start your attacks until you see him reach for his sword with his right hand. This gives him the defense effect so he won't get staggered. As long as you block, he'll keep doing the same attack, so it's just a game of patience and timing to get his health down for the last button mashing contest.
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		+	When that's done, the run is over! Wait out the credits until the skip button appears, then click on Load Game to check your autosave for the in-game time to see how fast you were.

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 === Collecting the pieces ===
-Azrael will now task us with collecting the 7 fragments of the Armageddon Blade, which are scatted across the game world, conveniently one to a map. We already collected one early from the Choking Grounds, so there’s 6 left for us to get. Backtracking is always a tedious affair, but given our unintended movement options, it’ll only take us about 7 minutes.
+Azrael will now task us with collecting the 7 fragments of the Armageddon Blade, which are scattered across the game world, conveniently one to a map. We already collected one early from the Choking Grounds, so there’s 6 left for us to get. Backtracking is always a tedious affair, but given our unintended movement options, it’ll only take us about 7 minutes.
 Once Azrael’s conversation is over, activate the shadow realm, then gundash backwards across the bridge and grab the first of the pieces. If you’re slow, you might have to activate the shadow realm again.

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 By manipulating the position on the first two charges, we can make where it comes up from breaking the mask the same every time. After it does the first charge at where we were standing, move the camera around and get on the horse. In front is a spot of dark-textured sand, run to the very left of it, this is where the Stygian charges next. After that, it'll start a set semi-circle loop before coming up, so we just want to cut it off where it pops up and start attacking. Generally, you won't want to dash since you'll quickly pass the worm, just stay on its face and try to get pushed along by the side of the mask. Once it's broken, we want to go to the structure in the center and jump on the right deck. The closest corner has a tiny standable area we'll use.
-The worm will continue on its script and small worms will get summoned, but they have an odd property. You're supposed to run and shoot to destroy them, but they also get destroyed when they run into you. They don't actually have to hit, though, as long as they're X and Y coordinates overlap yours, they die.
+The worm will continue on its script and small worms will get summoned, but they have an odd property. You're supposed to run and shoot to destroy them, but they also get destroyed when they run into you. They don't actually have to hit, though, as long as their X and Y coordinates overlap yours, they die.
 By standing up here, it's killing each wave faster than anything else we could do. Keep an eye on your hidden HP bar in the top left, when the Stygian comes back it'll appear again and let you know to jump down. Hop on your horse and hold the shoot button to hit the Worm. Ride in big circles and manage your distance with dash to finish the first round. Holding focus will let you shoot further, so hold that down or toggle it on. Use the minimap to watch for the walls of the area or the platform in the middle.

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 == Armageddon backtracking ==
 === Eden ===
-Hold back and right once you’re out of the second cutscene and dash to talk to Azrael. He’ll give you the Mask of Shadows and you’d normally fight Dark Link at this point. We’ll be jumping over the barrier and dashing to the main land instead. Watch out for the item notification, it might throw a wrench in your infinite jump.
+Hold back and left once you’re out of the second cutscene and dash through the pillars to talk to Azrael. He gives you the Mask of Shadows and you’d normally fight Dark Link at this point. We’ll be jumping over the barrier and dashing to the main land instead. Watch out for the item notification, it might throw a wrench in your infinite jump.
-Once you make it to the bottom of the stairs, try to gundash sideways up to the top using the minimap. If you face backwards, the stairs will eat your dash a lot. Keep going to the back of the room at the top of the stairs, you’ll get thrown into a cutscene once you reach the tree.
+Once you make it to the bottom of the stairs, try to gundash sideways up to the top using the minimap. If you face backwards, the stairs will eat your dash a lot. Keep going to the back of the room at the top of the stairs in order to hit a cutscene trigger. When the screen starts to fade out, spam the 2 key and Use Gear while holding RMB to skip the cutscene. You can immediately skip an extended sequence by using the mask to pull you back to the start of Eden, where you'll summon Dark War. After he’s up, jump out of the fight again and dash to the end of the bridge. This makes the game think you’re returning from the tree and it’ll summon the portal out of Eden.
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-Spam 2 and Use Gear while trying to skip the cutscene. You can skip this whole sequence by using the mask to pull you back to summon Dark War. After he’s up, jump out of the fight again and dash to the end of the bridge. This makes the game think you’re returning from the tree and it’ll summon the portal out of Eden.
 In the warp zone, dash along the straight path, then infinite jump around the pillar and across the zone to the portal.
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 Once Azrael’s conversation is over, activate the shadow realm, then gundash backwards across the bridge and grab the first of the pieces. If you’re slow, you might have to activate the shadow realm again.
-From here, it’s going to be a tour of every area to grab each piece. We’ll start by jumping off of the cliff and gteting on the horse. Dash over to Vulgrim and enter the warp menu. The order that we collect the pieces doesn’t matter at all. I go in a counter-clockwise order, so I’ll start with the Ashlands.
+From here, it’s going to be a tour of every area to grab each piece. We’ll start by jumping off of the cliff and getting on the horse. Dash over to Vulgrim and enter the warp menu. The order that we collect the pieces doesn’t matter at all. I go in a mostly counter-clockwise order, so I’ll start with the selecting The Ashlands.
-We want to use the same save and reload trick as last time. So, once you have control, pause, make a manual save, and reload it. We’ll just gundash out of Vulgrims area to the left just like last time, too. Get on the horse and head left again. Instead of going out in the open sand, we’ll hug the left cliff. At the top of this is our Armageddon Blade piece. Dismount the horse a bit away from the cliff and infinite jump up on top and grab it.
+For each of the pieces, the game will autosave, updating our status to say that we collected the piece, but because War can’t respawn in this location, it’ll keep whatever the previous autosave’s location was. Long story short, we can immediately reload our autosave to appear very close to Vulgrim and teleport to the next area. Since it saves your status at the moment you grab the shard, remember to switch back to gun when you're loading your autosave.
-For each of the pieces, the game will autosave the status that we collected the piece, but because you can’t reload to this location, it’ll keep whatever the previous autosave’s location was. Long story short, we can immediately reload our autosave to appear very close to Vulgrim and teleport to the next area. You’ll find that Vulgrim doesn’t always pop up when we go to his shop, it seems to be some weirdness when you’ve already unlocked his location. Run up to the platform to get the autosave, then run away from it to make him appear, and finally run back and interact with him.
+You’ll find that Vulgrim doesn’t always pop up when we go to his shop, it seems to be some weirdness when you’ve already unlocked his location. To get around this, run up to the platform to get the autosave, then run away from it to make him appear, and finally run back and interact with him.
-So, reload and gundash into Vulgrim’s area and select The Dry Road. We have to clear this warp zone semi-legitimately, luckily it’s a straight shot to the portal, so it should be pretty easy. When you are leaving Vulgrim’s area, don’t go across the gap immediately. There’s a room-wide cutscene and fight trigger between us and the piece that we want to avoid. Jump out of Vulgrim’s room and keep jumping up until you’re a bit below the top of the surrounding cliffs of the room, this will get us over the cutscene trigger, so now you can use the minimap to fall down on top of the Blade piece. Once you do, reload your autosave and warp to Drowned Pass.
+So, reload and gundash into Vulgrim’s area and select The Dry Road. We have to clear this warp zone semi-legitimately, luckily it’s a straight shot to the portal, so it should be pretty easy. When you are leaving Vulgrim’s area, don’t cross the gap immediately. There’s a room-wide cutscene and fight trigger between us and the piece that we want to avoid. Jump out of Vulgrim’s room and keep jumping up until you’re a bit below the top of the surrounding cliffs of the room, this will get us over the cutscene trigger, so now you can use the minimap to fall down on top of the Blade piece. Once you do, reload your autosave and warp to Drowned Pass.
 We have to navigate this warp zone manually, as well. When you get out, dash forward once to be able to summon your horse, then dash forward on it until you hit the edge of the path. The piece is right in front, so dismount and IJ forward a couple of times to get the piece. After this, just reload and select The Crossroads.
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 With that boost, do the last few dashes, activate the shadow mask, and pick it up. This one is special for whatever reason, we can pause as soon as War finishes the animation, instead of needing to wait for the notification. So reload your auto save and warp to Anvil’s Ford.
-The portal for this is on the right, so turn and jump behind the pillar from the starting platform to reach it. We’ll be gundashing through the pipes out to where we first got the gun. You should be able to line up with the door on the opposite side. Go through and do some downhill gundashes to get to Ulthane and start the cutscene. We’ll have to wait for the message about the Armageddon Blade, then we’ll just reload out autosave and be in the pipe across from Vulgrim. Gundash back to his shop and take the warp to Leviathan’s Drift. The savewarping works here, so use that to skip the serpent path.
+The portal for this is on the right, so turn and jump behind the pillar from the starting platform to reach it. We’ll be gundashing through the pipes out to where we first got the gun. You should be able to line up with the door on the opposite side. Go through and do some downhill gundashes to get to Ulthane and start the cutscene. We’ll have to wait for the message about the Armageddon Blade, then we’ll just reload out autosave and be in the pipe across from Vulgrim. Gundash back to his shop and take the warp to Leviathan’s Drift. The savewarping works here, so use that to skip the final serpent path.
 == Final Boss ==

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	== Armageddon backtracking ==		== Armageddon backtracking ==
		+	=== Eden ===
		+	Hold back and right once you’re out of the second cutscene and dash to talk to Azrael. He’ll give you the Mask of Shadows and you’d normally fight Dark Link at this point. We’ll be jumping over the barrier and dashing to the main land instead. Watch out for the item notification, it might throw a wrench in your infinite jump.
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		+	Once you make it to the bottom of the stairs, try to gundash sideways up to the top using the minimap. If you face backwards, the stairs will eat your dash a lot. Keep going to the back of the room at the top of the stairs, you’ll get thrown into a cutscene once you reach the tree.
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		+	Spam 2 and Use Gear while trying to skip the cutscene. You can skip this whole sequence by using the mask to pull you back to summon Dark War. After he’s up, jump out of the fight again and dash to the end of the bridge. This makes the game think you’re returning from the tree and it’ll summon the portal out of Eden.
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		+	In the warp zone, dash along the straight path, then infinite jump around the pillar and across the zone to the portal.
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		+	=== Collecting the pieces ===
		+	Azrael will now task us with collecting the 7 fragments of the Armageddon Blade, which are scatted across the game world, conveniently one to a map. We already collected one early from the Choking Grounds, so there’s 6 left for us to get. Backtracking is always a tedious affair, but given our unintended movement options, it’ll only take us about 7 minutes.
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		+	Once Azrael’s conversation is over, activate the shadow realm, then gundash backwards across the bridge and grab the first of the pieces. If you’re slow, you might have to activate the shadow realm again.
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		+	From here, it’s going to be a tour of every area to grab each piece. We’ll start by jumping off of the cliff and gteting on the horse. Dash over to Vulgrim and enter the warp menu. The order that we collect the pieces doesn’t matter at all. I go in a counter-clockwise order, so I’ll start with the Ashlands.
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		+	We want to use the same save and reload trick as last time. So, once you have control, pause, make a manual save, and reload it. We’ll just gundash out of Vulgrims area to the left just like last time, too. Get on the horse and head left again. Instead of going out in the open sand, we’ll hug the left cliff. At the top of this is our Armageddon Blade piece. Dismount the horse a bit away from the cliff and infinite jump up on top and grab it.
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		+	For each of the pieces, the game will autosave the status that we collected the piece, but because you can’t reload to this location, it’ll keep whatever the previous autosave’s location was. Long story short, we can immediately reload our autosave to appear very close to Vulgrim and teleport to the next area. You’ll find that Vulgrim doesn’t always pop up when we go to his shop, it seems to be some weirdness when you’ve already unlocked his location. Run up to the platform to get the autosave, then run away from it to make him appear, and finally run back and interact with him.
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		+	So, reload and gundash into Vulgrim’s area and select The Dry Road. We have to clear this warp zone semi-legitimately, luckily it’s a straight shot to the portal, so it should be pretty easy. When you are leaving Vulgrim’s area, don’t go across the gap immediately. There’s a room-wide cutscene and fight trigger between us and the piece that we want to avoid. Jump out of Vulgrim’s room and keep jumping up until you’re a bit below the top of the surrounding cliffs of the room, this will get us over the cutscene trigger, so now you can use the minimap to fall down on top of the Blade piece. Once you do, reload your autosave and warp to Drowned Pass.
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		+	We have to navigate this warp zone manually, as well. When you get out, dash forward once to be able to summon your horse, then dash forward on it until you hit the edge of the path. The piece is right in front, so dismount and IJ forward a couple of times to get the piece. After this, just reload and select The Crossroads.
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		+	The portal here is pretty high up on the right, be careful not to dash into the side of the walkway when you’re approaching. Once you’re in the Crossroads, we’ll be turning 90 degrees to the left and summoning the horse. Dash to the east-southeast and jump off the horse before you hit the building. The top corridor has the Armageddon Blade piece for this area. Reload again and warp to the last piece in The Broken Stair.
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		+	This warp zone has the portal right next to you, but the savewarp works, so we always make a manual save and reload it. The Broken Stair works a little differently than the others. The piece is actually located pretty far away and there’s a location-overwriting autosave on the way, so we’ll be taking a route that bypasses it. When you load in, gundash out of Vulgrim’s cave and head to the right of the stairs.
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		+	If you look up, you’ll see the broken bridges that we took to the Autoscroller at the start of the game, the piece is in that last building. So, jump up and go under the bridges toward the other two buildings. There’s a death zone under the bridges, it’s best to play it safe by scraping along the bottom of the middle bridge. The triangle-shaped building has an autosave on top, so we’ll be going on the left. Our height doesn’t matter too much, I think as long as you’re not on the building’s wall you won’t get the autosave. As we pass the building, you can use the wings and the gun trick to get a big height boost that takes us right to the Armageddon Blade piece.
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		+	With that boost, do the last few dashes, activate the shadow mask, and pick it up. This one is special for whatever reason, we can pause as soon as War finishes the animation, instead of needing to wait for the notification. So reload your auto save and warp to Anvil’s Ford.
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		+	The portal for this is on the right, so turn and jump behind the pillar from the starting platform to reach it. We’ll be gundashing through the pipes out to where we first got the gun. You should be able to line up with the door on the opposite side. Go through and do some downhill gundashes to get to Ulthane and start the cutscene. We’ll have to wait for the message about the Armageddon Blade, then we’ll just reload out autosave and be in the pipe across from Vulgrim. Gundash back to his shop and take the warp to Leviathan’s Drift. The savewarping works here, so use that to skip the serpent path.

	== Final Boss ==		== Final Boss ==

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	== Silitha's Dungeon ==		== Silitha's Dungeon ==
		+	=== Traveling There ===
		+	Exit Vulgrim’s shop and gundash back out to the main part of the Ashlands. We’ll be hopping on the horse and heading left, which is Northwest. After rounding the first rocks, adjust to the left again to be going West. You’ll need to stretch out your dashes here, we want to go on the open sandy area and run until the very end of the ground. On the right is a walkway, so when you hit the edge, jump off the horse and do a couple of IJs to make it on the path. Then gte back on the horse and run to the edge of that.
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		+	Normally you need a powerup for the horse to run across, but we can just jump off the horse and IJ forward. The death zone on the opposite side is shallow, so make sure you have enough height as you approach.
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		+	From here, jump back on the horse and dash, trying to conserve your dashes. When you run out, you’ll want to dismount the horse into a cliff, this will let you instantly resummon another and keep running. By the time you start running low on your second set of dashes, you should enter a cutscene that transports you into the fourth dungeon.
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		+	=== Iron Canopy ===
		+	From the very first speedrun strategy here, this dungeon has always been a straight line. The powerup and the boss are right in front, but the ways to get around the doors has changed quite a few times. It’s now settled on the easiest strat so far, which is not only the fastest, but got rid of some luck that plagued the whole area for a couple of years.
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		+	To start, just break out of the webbing with the action key, then dash to the edge of the platform. Straight ahead is a broken building with a web bridge going across, start jumping to it. The broken section has an invisible wall extending down until about the level of the bridge, so take care not to dash into it.
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		+	Jump to the upper part of the web bridge to get a short cutscene, then turn and open the door. The floor on our right will collapse and lead us to the new item for this dungeon. You can gundash down the stairs and into the door if you want to go faster.
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		+	Once you break the chest, you’ll get the customary cutscene and popup, during which you’ll want to spam 1 to select the gun and dash forward and right. Jump up quickly after the notification to dodge the attack from the spider and get to the Northeast corner of the room. If you keep jumping straight up, you should be able to slide your way through a hole in the ceiling, at which point you’ll want to go North for a couple dashes, then East, using the minimap to navigate to go around the walls of the building on your right.
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		+	Up until now, we’ve ignored the Yellow quest tracker on our minimap, but it’s useful in this case. Rotate your camera until you’re heading straight at it, then keep infinite dashing forward. After things flicker a few times, you should be able to see a door floating in the air. This leads to the Silitha fight, so we’re going to jump out to it and open in midair, the same as what we did in the second dungeon.
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		+	When you get there, just hold W to make sure you make it inside, and spam 2 to swap to the grapple for the fight.
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		+	=== Silitha ===
		+	This fight is pretty straightforward, but we don’t have it as controlled as the others. Each round, you’ll grapple into Silitha, do an air combo, then two hits on the ground to stagger her. She’ll then warp and attack you, the first round is one attack, the second is two, and the last is three attacks. Before each attack, she can appear on the wall up to four times in a row instead. There seems to be some manipulation possible, but it varies from runner to runner.
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		+	I think of the room as having 4 quadrants, split up by bisecting the skull horizontally and vertically. She spawns on the right side of the skull, sitting just inside the bottom section. After each damage round, standing on the opposide side as her position seems to lower the number of warps. Each attack will need some movement as well, which isn’t clearly understood.
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		+	I toggle focus on for this whole fight, since it extends the range you’re able to use the grapple. You’ll also need to use Q-mode to aim it, though. At the start, dash in once, then turn on focus and Q-mode and grapple into her. This first round has lower HP and she should stagger quickly. Once she does, back up to the opposite side of the skull, she shouldn’t do a warp this first time. When the attack is done, she’ll warp to be exactly opposite you and wait to take damage. I stand in the top left diagonal to force her position.
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		+	Grapple in and do the attack pattern to end that round, then dash back again. I stand in the left eye socket on the skull to bait the attack. After she comes in to attack, dash right into the bottom quadrant, then strafe back into the left eye socket. This usually makes her attack again immediately. Then stand slightly into the bottom quadrant so that her position is similar to where she was at the start.
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		+	When you stagger her again, dash back and walk through the left eye socket, then rotate down under the left cheekbone. Silitha will do one teleport before attacking. From here, I’m not sure how to force single warps, it seems to vary from fight to fight. Walking in a circle around Silitha seems to help. I think it has something to do with timing your position interrupting the walls as valid teleport targets, since she likes to appear on the spots farthest away.
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		+	Anyway, after the last attack, she’ll appear again and let you attack her. This time, she warps up to the ceiling and starts a cutscene. While she’s doing that, swap back to the Gun and wait for the cutscene to start, then infinite jump up a few times. When the cutscene is over, hit 2 to equip the chain, then use it to activate the kill cutscene.
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		+	Once you’ve waited that out, exit to the left and use the horse to dash back to the main part of the Ashlands. Keep in mind that the death zone on this side is short when you’re jumping over, if you drop the first infinite jump, you’ll generally die and get placed back in the sand. When you make it across, use the horse to dash up the path, then run it into the rocks and dismount, moving over the sand to the right. You’ll be able to pull the horse up again immediately, so do that and ration out your dashes while running back to Vulgrim.
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		+	When you get back to the road, dismount and gundash into Vulgrim’s cave. Open the warp menu and select Scalding Gallows. We’ll be returning 3 hearts at once to Samael, so gundash through and take the portal. When you appear in Vulgrim’s house, you can gundash back and right to quickly leave the house and get on the horse faster. Take the horse the normal way around the map and up to Samael. Since we have three hearts to turn in, we’ll have to get each of the cutscene for it, so hold S after the first and dash back to get the second, then hold forward and dash to go into the third. After that, you’ll be teleported to the start of The Black Throne.
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		+	If you try to shortcut onto Samael’s platform, you’ll get one of two results that I’ve seen. The first is that Samael won’t be loaded at all, which is when you try to jump straight from Vulgrim’s house. The second is if you cut in before the normal path leading up, everything will be loaded and seem to work correctly, but you won’t get teleported. Your screen just stays black and you get stuck in Scalding Gallows until you reload.

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 == Prologue ==
 === First Fight ===
-The goal of this fight is to kill the Car Thrower on top of the bus. Normally, he won't jump down until the first wave of minions is killed, but damaging him directly will force him to jump at you. During the intro cutscenes, hold D and tap Alt to dash to the right and end up near a lightpost. Grab the lamppost with the Action button and strafe back to the left until you're standing on the far left crack in the asphalt. The Car Thrower will still be in a roar, wait for his hands to go back in front of him, then throw the lamppost with Q-mode.
+Starting the game: There's no special setup before starting a new game, simply select it from the main menu. For difficulty, there's no speed difference, so you can choose what you like. Most games' difficulty will pump up enemy HP or defense, in Darksiders the only change is how much damage War takes from attacks. We have all of the damage routed, so it's not much of a concern, but I'd recommend playing on Easy while learning.
 Once he recoils, stand still and hit Block (Alt) just as he's landing to counter, then spam V to go into Chaos form. This position should get a hit as you land from the Chaos Form, after which you can do the fast combo of LMB RMB LMB to kill him. Untransform with V and dash forward to the right side of the bus in front and wait for the cutscene.

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 == The Ashlands ==
 This area has sand/ash that slows War's walk to a crawl and giant worms that will eat us if they catch us in it. Luckily, the gun animation overrides it, meaning we can gundash as long as we don't mess up. While we can't indefinitely outrun the worm, we can use our speed to make it to the end of this area and skip the bulk of this third dungeon.
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 As you pass through the cliffs, just dash forward through the room and keep an eye out for the exit on the opposite side. To the left of it, there should be this multi-tierd rockface with a pointy boulder in the middle of the top of it, that's where we'll land next. Try to get more height than necessary, the front is a little higher than it looks. After getting on top, just dash up the hill a few times until you fall off, then keep dashing forward. We'll change direction to the Northeast now and head to the end of this room. You don't have to maintain much height, so it shouldn't take too long to dash across. Drop onto the exit platform to trigger a cutscene. Then dash forward to enter into the Horse Arena.
 This little bit of weirdness is the most iconic part of the Darksiders speedrun. We've loaded the arena fight, but in skipping over loadzones, the arena itself didn't load. Enemies die from falling too far, but War has no restriction, so we'll be falling through several waves, clearing them much faster than fighting could be. After a few rounds, we'll see some horses drop down, this is the cue to start paying attention again. When these disappear, the car throwers appear and a bit of RNG comes into play. To clear this round, both of the car throwers have to fall, but the second one isn't guaranteed. To check for this, infinite jump up and look to the North, where both should fall into view if it's going to work. What determines whether or not they fall has long been a topic of debate, with each runner having superstitions about the preceding cave section affecting it in one way or another (I still harbor my own). However, after a lot of playing, I'm mostly convinced it's just randomness on what attack the car thrower does and the timing of it. I don't think the matter is fully settled though.
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 Normally the horse runs around a bunch, but this skips that and gives you the horse directly. Hold S as soon as you skip the cutscene to turn toward the exit gate, then jump off the horse and get over the gate. Once you clear it, hop back onto the horse and navigate through the cave section. It should be pretty straight forward, it has a small left, then a hairpin right hand turn leading out. When riding, the boost lasts longer than the visual effect would indicate, so you won't need to spam carrots that often. I count the hooves hitting the ground after the effect goes away, the dash speed lasts slightly more than 5 hoof cycles, so I dash on the 5th.
 When we come out of this cutscene, just spam dash forward. After the second, jump off the horse and start infinite jumping straight up, you should be in the shadows still and somewhere near a sand waterfall. The cutscene showing this worm is a little weird and we actually still have full control, so when it's over we should be pretty high in the air. We want to go on top of this right cliff and hop back on our horse.
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 This is another part that doesn't really have a perfect strategy, you'll basically try to ride in big circles and hit as many enemies as you can. It takes two hits to kill and we need to clear out quite a few. There's a limit either on number or distance for enemies targeting you, which complicates grouping more than usual.
 Once those are rounded up and the Stygian is introduced, just stand still at the start. This whole boss fight is incredibly scripted, the worm will come up to the sand to charge at us twice before it comes up to let us break its mask. After that, it wanders around a bit, then summons small worms that swarm us. Once those are cleared, it chases us to try to eat us, coming above the sand to let us shoot it. Once we deal damage for that round, it goes back under, then does a "surprise" attack from below 3 times in a row (which do no damage), and finally chases us again and we shoot it to death.