I got this a few days ago and have been playing with keyboard and mouse just fine; except for jumping, that's a pain in the ass. I have a lot of buttons on my mouse, which helps. They were very lazy in porting it though: the tuts are all for an xbox (not that they help much any way) and you can't map items to a key. I want to assign the estus flasks to 1 & 2, firebombs to 3, etc. but can't and have to scroll with the mouse wheel instead.
Sounds like quite the adventure, heh.
You can find Pontiff at the end of Ithyrill of Boreal Valley (Prolly butchered that spelling), just before... oh...
"ronA odnoL"
I'm afraid I haven't been playing PVP since my brother doesn't have Xbox Live, if I ever do get the game on PC, I'll start taking part in it then.
Side note, I've dubbed Aldrich as "Raper of Ashes" and "Devourer of Waifu's"
Well if you look at Oolacile in the DLC for Dark Souls 1, basically all of it has been swallowed by the Abyss and consumed by darkness... I imagine that is what the age of Dark would be like...
I think it's implied somewhere that fire will one day appear again and cause another age of fire, and that by linking the fires you actually stop things taking their natural cycle.