BLACK SOULS II Walkthrough — First Cycle Route, Missables & White Door

Two jobs, two pages:

• This page is the first-cycle route through Wonderland to Alice End (A).
• Boss Order is the numbered boss list. Map is the area flowchart (shortcuts, one-ways, DLC). Use them together.

Two routes:

• Main Story Route — light bonefires, survive Lutwidge, open the white door at 10 torches, defeat Dinah, stay with Alice.
• 100% / All Missables Route — same spine plus SEN-0 memories, Red Hood’s ten meetings, Leaf’s Queensland ring, Vernai, Griffy, Gerda/Kai. That prep is for F/G on the next cycle, not for A.

Steam percentages mark how far the playerbase got. They are not ending triggers. Exact flags live on the endings page.

Official first-cycle media

Area template — Library Dream → Rabbit Hole → Lutwidge

1. Starting checkpoint — Library Dream (hub) and the first bonefire in Rabbit Hole (71.3% of players light it). Warp is always here.
2. Required — Leave Crash Chamber (door three times). Cross Rabbit Hole into Lutwidge and light the town bonefire. Ketch is an optional living-state Nightmare, not a story gate.
3. Optional but important — Learn Run like Dodo (53.2%). Play with the Cheshire Cat in the Park of Fog (52.8%). Talk to Vernai in Rabbit Hole before you forget he exists.
4. NPC conversations — Node sleeping (Dreaming Rabbit, 48.9%). Red Hood on the bridge only at SEN 0. Mary Ann’s Leaf’s Ring event is later in Queensland, not Lutwidge.
5. Missable warning — If Red Hood does not spawn on the Lutwidge stairs, drop SEN below 0 and reload before you walk on; the first meeting flags the rest of her bonfire ghost hunt. Kidnapper deaths dump you in the Slaughterhouse (one-way, has an exit).
6. Important items — Leaf’s Ring is later in Queensland: advance Prickett’s route and leave Mary Ann (Leaf) peacefully in the sealed jail. The same ring supplies the achievement and F/G inventory flag.
7. Recommended level/build — Keep enough sustain for the town killers; drop SEN on purpose only when you are hunting memories or Red Hood.
8. Optional Nightmare — Return to Rabbit Hole’s red-door route while living / non-Hollow for Ketch the Executioner (50.9%). Defend his attack-buff into charged multi-hit sequence.
9. Exits — Park of Fog, Upper Lutwidge, Mental Ward, Slaughterhouse (by dying).
10. Checklist before leaving town — Bonefires lit. Dodo run learned. Cat found. Vernai spoken to. Red Hood flagged if you want F/G later. Then open the map for Upper Lutwidge / Ox Ward / Tea Party.

Before anything else

• Light the first bone fire (71.3% of players’ first act). Bone fires are your checkpoints; learn the rhythm immediately.
• Learn “Run like Dodo” from Dodo (53.2%). Mobility is the early game’s best defense — over half of all players pick this up, and the half that doesn’t wishes it had.
• Read the SEN System guide or at minimum: sanity is a resource; horror drains it; low SEN changes what you see and how the world treats you.

Phase 1 — The Park of Fog and Lutwidge Town (44–53%)

Wonderland opens gently, by its standards:

• Play with the Cheshire Cat in the Park of Fog (“Tomfoolery”, 52.8%) — he is the game’s sideways hint system, worth revisiting whenever you’re stuck.
• Ketch the Executioner (50.9%) is an optional early Nightmare in Rabbit Hole. The living / non-Hollow state triggers his red-door invasion; the Butcher Greataxe is the reward.
• Find sleeping Node (“Dreaming Rabbit”, 48.9%).
• Meet Red Hood in Lutwidge Town (“Old Friend”, 44.5%) — the series’ most direct callback, and an early emotional anchor if you played the first game.
• Early Fairy Tales start appearing: [Rascal] (48.8%), [Iron Hans] (45.8%), [The Ugly Duckling] (45.4%). Pick up what crosses your path; don’t detour hard yet.
• One warning: losing to a Kidnapper ships you to the Slaughterhouse (“Fresh Meat”, 44.8%). It’s a real place with a real exit — some players go on purpose.

Phase 2 — The Town Bosses (37–44%)

A dense band of named human monsters — Wonderland’s serial-killer gallery, most drawn from real Victorian and criminal history:

Boss	Defeated by
Monster Butler Archibald	44.6%
Cotton the Witch	44.2%
Hollow Soldier Christie	44.0%
Angel Manufacturer Amelia	43.6%
Cannibal Sawney Bean	41.2%
Fleeing Knight Jim	41.0%
Wainwright the Sinful	40.9%
Dark Doctor Harold	38.8%
Fist Duelist Byron	38.1%
Corpse Thief Hare & Corpse Carrier Burke	37.9%
Frederick of Fear	37.7%
Franklin Bollvolt I	37.7%
Sadistic Mistress Brownrigg	37.5%

Along the way: deliver the Queen’s Tarts to Lorina (“Royal Dessert”, 38.2%). Leaf’s Ring comes later from Mary Ann (Leaf) in Queensland’s sealed jail; that single handover supplies both “Never lose it, okay?” (37.2%) and the F/G inventory flag.

Phase 3 — Deeper Wonderland (28–37%)

• Barber Todd (36.2%), Captain Kidd (34.4%), Acid Practitioner Haigh (34.3%), Killer Clown Gacy (34.1%), Teacup Poisoner Graham (32.9%), Blackbeard Edward (29.4%), the Whale Beast (28.2% — boss guide)
• Feed souls to Humpty Dumpty for the Chick’s birth (“A Christmas Miracle”, 34.8%)
• Optional dark events accumulate: the Duchess in the Walrus’ Dwelling (26.4%), the Serpent God’s curse (25.3%), even visiting the Moon (“Nuclear Chaos”, 24%)
• Questlines are now live and failable: Griffy (Turtle Soup), Vernai (Moonlight Greatsword), Chikerost, Gerda and Kai. The missables guide lists their failure points.

Phase 4 — First credits and beyond (under 28%)

Ride the white door to the Alice End (A) (39.1%) — the intended first conclusion. Save in Library Dream before the door. After credits, start New Game+ (“Encore!”, 41.2%).

• Same door, other letters, one per cycle: C Catastrophe (lose to Dinah, 35.3%), D Death (Kill at SEN > 0, 29.0%), E Exclusion (Kill at SEN ≤ 0, 29.0%).
• B Born (22%) is not the door — nine Covenant Lv3 partners, then Node.
• Hidden next cycle: F Fairy (Leaf) and G Good (Red Hood), then H after G.
• The rare bosses: Repulsive Hindley (23.8%), Mad Devil Hyde (18.1% — boss guide), and the Prince of Fear (16.5% — boss guide), the rarest kill in the game
• The full Fairy Tale collection, ending with every book set in the Library’s shelf (“Sweet dreams”, 15.3%)

The complete ending matrix is in the endings guide, and the Route Planner turns all of the above into checklists.

What to do next

• New to the game? The beginner guide covers the first hours in more depth.
• Sanity troubles? How the SEN System works.
• Collecting? Fairy Tale locations and the Item Finder.