Aldia inhabited the bonfires and encounters the Bearer of the Curse after they defeat the four Old Ones and before lighting the fourth and last Primal Bonfire.

The once revered and despised by some known as Aldia, after many years of experimenting he had taken the form of a severely deformed human head covered with branch-like tentacles and flames. His body had flattened out at the bottom like a slug that spews out flames. A small red orb can be seen above his mouth, presumably an eye.

"Many monarchs have come and gone. One drowned in poison, another succumbed to flame. Still another slumbers in a realm of ice. Not one of them stood here, as you do now. You, conqueror of adversities...." Aldia narrowed that glowing left eye amidst it's roots.

"Give us your answer.." His guttural reverberated voice asked with curiosity.