Are there any optional areas?

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There are 4 optional areas:

  1. Smouldering lake - get here from climbing down the broken rope bridge in catacombs of carthus.
  2. Consumed King's Garden - after the Dancer of the Boreal Valley boss, head left before getting to lothric castle proper.
  3. Untended Graves - behind an illusionary wall after the boss fight in Consumed King's Garden.
  4. Archdragon Peak - use Path of the Dragon Gesture in Irithyll Dungeon at the petrified dragon acoylyte.

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