CCRB RECORD No. 0057
Demon's Souls
Determination: Implied — Deicide 2, Denial 2
A saint of the Church who lost her faith caring for the dying is a boss you're sent to kill — and the game suggests she may have been right.
The game's religion is an explicit Church with named Saints, pilgrims of God, and Miracles worked through faith in “the Lord.” Its most discussed boss is Maiden Astraea, the Church's Sixth Saint, who travelled to the Valley of Defilement to comfort its abandoned sick, lost her faith when the demonic Fog arrived, and became a demon rather than abandon them. The Church turned on her; the player is sent to kill her, and she spends the fight seated beside a pile of corpses while her knight defends her.