The shortcut turned out to link the bonfire directly to the elevator for the first boss, more generous bonfire placement! The Last Giant as he's called is a fairly standard Souls' boss - big but slow with ankles just begging to be swiped at. Having cleared the preceding area with ease I was feeling quite cocky and quickly spotting the boss type made me even more imprudent. Souls has a way of knocking you back down to earth though as soon as you get any notions! After using up all my fire arrows, fire bombs, magic bombs (whatever they're called) and ooze I had him twice down to very little health only to die. Down to half-life (due to the Demon's Souls type mechnic where you lose a bit of max HPO every time you die) had me getting almost one-shotted so I decided to use some humanity, err I mean Human Effigy, except I burnt it which didn't reverse the hollowing! Used it and got my 100% back and summoned Pate too, happy days.... until I lost having him down to one hit again! Eventually after a total of about 20 tries I beat him and received 10k souls and a Soldiers key which no doubt unlocks all the locked doors I'd seen on my way there.
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