Brave Tarnished

Item Location

  • Fingerslayer Blade Location: Night’s Sacred Ground in Nokron

    Direct answer: the Fingerslayer Blade is in Night’s Sacred Ground, in the upper part of Siofra River, inside the chair-crypt holding a vast corpse. Getting there requires you to have already beaten Starscourge Radahn — Nokron is locked until then. This is the single most important item in Siofra for anyone running Ranni’s questline. Why…

  • Ash of War: Sacred Order Location in Altus Plateau

    Direct answer: the Ash of War you are looking for is called Sacred Order, not “Golden Order.” Its full skill description reads “Skill of the Golden Order fundamentalist knights,” which is where the confusion comes from. There is no item in the game called Golden Order. Sacred Order drops from a Teardrop Scarab in north-western…

  • Unsightly Catacombs: Perfumer Tricia and Winged Misbegotten Ashes

    Direct answer: the Unsightly Catacombs are in south-western Altus Plateau, at the base of Mt. Gelmir, directly beneath the Perfumer’s Ruins. The entrance is on the south-western face of the cliff below the ruins, sealed by an Imp Statue Seal. It costs two Stonesword Keys. Getting there Head west from the Abandoned Coffin Site of…

  • Second Church of Marika: Yura, Eleonora and Her Poleblade

    Direct answer: the Second Church of Marika is in central Altus Plateau, reached by following the road north from the Altus Highway Junction. It contains no Bell Bearing and no Haligtree Medallion. What it does contain is the end of the Bloody Finger Hunter Yura questline and the Eleonora’s Poleblade, which is one of the…

  • Divine Tower of Caelid: Godslayer’s Greatsword Location

    Direct answer: the Godslayer’s Greatsword sits in a chest on the far side of the Godskin Apostle arena, deep inside the Divine Tower of Caelid. The tower stands in Greyoll’s Dragonbarrow in the north of Caelid, and it is the only Divine Tower in the game you enter by climbing the outside. There is no…

  • Commander O’Neil Location: Swamp of Aeonia

    Direct answer: Commander O’Neil holds the centre of the Swamp of Aeonia. Beat him and you get the Commander’s Standard and the Unalloyed Gold Needle. The Needle is the important one: it is a hard gate on both Gowry’s and Millicent’s questlines, and there is no other way to get it. Why this one matters…

  • Abandoned Cave Gold Scarab Location

    Direct answer: the Gold Scarab is in the Abandoned Cave, a rot-flooded cave in the cliffs of northern Caelid above the ravine that leads to the Deep Siofra Well. It sits past two Cleanrot stragglers. The Scarab raises runes gained from enemies by 20%. Before you start Start at the Smoldering Wall Site of Grace…

  • Chelona’s Rise: Ranni’s Dark Moon Location

    Direct answer: Ranni’s Dark Moon is in Chelona’s Rise, in the south-west of the Moonlight Altar. The tower door is sealed with a message reading “Seek three great wise beasts.” You have to find and attack three spectral turtles, and the order and method of travel are what actually gates this. The rule that trips…

  • Dark Moon Ring Location: Raya Lucaria Grand Library

    Direct answer: the Dark Moon Ring is in a locked treasure chest in the Raya Lucaria Grand Library, and you get the Discarded Palace Key automatically when you defeat the Baleful Shadow in Ranni’s questline. Two steps, and the second one unlocks the first. Why this is the chain that matters The Dark Moon Ring…

  • How to get the Meteoric Ore Blade in Caelid

    The Meteoric Ore Blade is in a chest in an underground chamber beneath the Caelid Waypoint Ruins, in western Caelid west of the Swamp of Aeonia. The entrance to the underground level is a set of stairs going into the ground in the northwest section of the ruins, and the chamber is lined with stone…