PowerRankings

One cited deathDark Souls III · 2016
Does this death move the ranking?

Confirms the ladder

The higher-ranked entity killed the lower-ranked one. Record and ladder agree.

Aldrich, Devourer of Gods vs Dark Sun Gwyndolin

The killerAldrich, Devourer of GodsDark Souls & Demon’s Souls · rank 14
8 places
The victimDark Sun GwyndolinDark Souls & Demon’s Souls · rank 22

Nothing moves, because the ranking was assembled out of this. What makes the pairing worth a page is the direction of the inference: everywhere else on the site a position is argued first and the record consulted afterwards, and here the record came first. Eight places of separation is what one act of consumption bought. It is therefore the only page where striking the citation would strike the rank with it — and the longest divine tenure in the series ends as a garment.

The connecting record

shownDark Souls III · 2016

Aldrich, Devourer of Gods killed Dark Sun Gwyndolin in Dark Souls III.

consumed, and worn — the fight is Aldrich using him

What each of them is ranked on

The killer · Aldrich, Devourer of Gods · rank 14

Ate one — ds3

Dark Souls IIIgame

He is on this list for eating something else on this list. Aldrich consumed Gwyndolin and wears him, which is the only successful god-devouring anywhere here and the reason a saint's corpse is fought in Anor Londo wielding a moon.

  • shownDark Souls III · Anor Londo

    Devoured Gwyndolin and fights using his moonlight sorceries. — 2016

Aldrich, Devourer of Gods on the Dark Souls & Demon’s Souls ladder

The victim · Dark Sun Gwyndolin · rank 22

Anor Londo's last god — ds1

Dark SoulsDark Souls IIIgame

The only one of Gwyn's children still doing the job. Gwyndolin held Anor Londo together with an illusion for an entire age after everyone else had gone, which is a longer tenure than any other god in the series manages — and it ends with him being eaten by an entry twelve places above him.

  • statedDark Souls · Anor Londo

    Maintains the illusion of Anor Londo and its sun long after the gods have left. — 2011

Dark Sun Gwyndolin on the Dark Souls & Demon’s Souls ladder

What this does not settle

One death in one work. It is the only place the record puts these two in the same room, and it is evidence about that meeting and nothing wider — not a general matchup, not a rematch, and not a ranking of its own.

The ladder above it is argued from everything either of them has been shown doing; this page is argued from one citation.

Where the two disagree, the disagreement is the point, and it stays visible rather than being resolved by whichever of them happens to be on this page.