Talk:A Confounding Absence/@comment-36004295-20180627124326/@comment-36004295-20180627153243

Getting the Hollow Heart and going South doesn't require that you have St. Fortigan's Candle, nor does it require a Book of Crimson Prayer. Once you're done in the South, you're automatically sent to the Chapel of Lights. This lets you get St. Fortigan's Candle, which locks you out of the normal action to get the Book of Crimson Prayer, so you can't zail to the Chapel of Lights to get St. Gawain's Candle (and of course can't go South again). They added this branch as a workaround for that.