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Kindling bonfires is a great way of ensuring your continued survival as you travel through Lordran. 

When performed, Kindling will increase the number of Estus Flasks in your inventory by +5, meaning you can heal more often in between checkpoints. 

Human Form

The only way to Kindle a Bonfire is to first offer up a Humanity to transform yourself back into Human form.

Once this is performed, you can Kindle a bonfire by offering another Humanity.

The Bonfire you have Kindled will remain so for the rest of the game unless the Fire Keeper who governs over that Bonfire is slain, in which case you will have to restore them to life first.

It is good practice to make sure you have enough Humanity stored and only Kindle bonfires where it is stategically necessary. Ideally, it would be best to Kindle bonfires in areas where you are struggling to survive, but with effective Humanity farming you shouldn't have any problem Kindling most Bonfires in the game.

Bonfires with Firekeepers Present

If there is a visible Firekeeper who controls the flame of a Bonfire, that fire as standard will give you ten Estus Flasks. 

All other standard Bonfires will give you 5.

The Rite of Kindling

Once you obtain this item in The Catacombs after defeating Pinwheel it is possible to ascend a Bonfire three times rather than once.

This means that for every Humanity you offer to the Bonfire, your Estus Flask total will increase by 5, up to a total of 20. so you can expect 10 Estus Flasks at Kindle Level 1, 15 at Level 2 and 20 at Level 3.

New Game Plus

As soon as you hit New Game Plus all bonfires will stay in Kindled state.

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