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The Duke's Archives

Through the old golden fog to the Archives, the prison tower and the library, out to the garden.

With the Lordvessel placed, the golden fog in Anor Londo is gone and the Archives are open. Most of the guards are made of crystal and shrug off magic, so bring a fire, lightning or plain weapon, or pyromancy. The first trip ends at the top of the building in a fight the route needs you to lose; the rest of the Archives is opened from the prison tower where you wake. Someone you may have met before waits in that tower's lowest cell: free him, buy his stock, and never attack him. On the way, stop at the Giant Blacksmith for the two weapons that Darkroot's boss souls make.

Boss souls at the Giant Blacksmith

Turn these souls into Knight's Honor weapons now, at 5,000 souls each: the Moonlight Butterfly's (Crystal Ring Shield, from any shield at +10) and Sif's (Greatsword of Artorias, from the Straight Sword Hilt every class starts with, at +10). If the Core of an Iron Golem or the souls of Quelaag, Ornstein or Priscilla are still in your pack, make the Golem Axe, Chaos Blade, Dragonslayer Spear or Lifehunt Scythe as well. Keep the rest: a Soul of Smough (if he fell last) waits for Smough's Hammer in the next run. Never use a boss soul for souls: each run gives one, and one soul makes one weapon.

Crystal Ring ShieldWeapon
Location
Anor Londo · Blacksmith's workshop – Warp to the bonfire at the Chamber of the Princess, take the lift down into the arena and walk out into the great hall. Climb to its side balcony and go down the long stairs to the Giant Blacksmith, the way you came up after first meeting him. Hand him the Soul of the Moonlight Butterfly with a shield at +10 on the standard path, and pay his fee.
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A boss-soul shield for Knight's Honor, made from the Soul of the Moonlight Butterfly.
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Greatsword of ArtoriasWeapon
Location
Anor Londo · Blacksmith's workshop – At the Giant Blacksmith, hand over the Soul of Sif with a Straight Sword Hilt or Broken Straight Sword at +10 on the standard path, and pay his fee. Any other base makes the cursed version, which belongs to the next run.
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Summary
A boss-soul sword for Knight's Honor, made from the Soul of Sif. This run's soul goes into the version made from the Broken Straight Sword or the Straight Sword Hilt.
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Bonfire: Duke's Archives EntranceHidden spoiler – activate to revealAreaMinor spoiler
Location
The Duke's Archives · Entrance hall – Back up at the Chamber of the Princess bonfire, warp to the Anor Londo bonfire. Go out of its doorway and left to the building ahead, pass the Sentinels inside and climb the stairs on its right to the tunnel where the golden fog stood. Two boars charge down the tunnel, one at a time if you're careful (they can't follow you back past the fog's threshold); the bonfire is in the big room at its end, beside the lift.
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Summary
The first Archives bonfire, at the foot of the lift into the library. It can't be warped to, so rest here before you go up.
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Broken PendantHidden spoiler – activate to revealKey itemMinor spoiler
Location
The Duke's Archives · Top of the entrance lift – Ride the lift beside the entrance bonfire up (its lever stands at the centre of the platform). Clear the crystal soldiers and archers, then kill the Crystal Golem on the right-hand side of the doorway: it drops the pendant once Dusk has been freed and spoken to. It comes back if you kill it too early.
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Summary
The key to Artorias of the Abyss: holding it, you can enter a dark portal in the cove where Dusk was freed. Taking it makes Dusk's summon sign vanish until Manus is dead; buy her sorceries first.
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Soul of a Brave Warrior (under the library stairs)Consumable
Location
The Duke's Archives · First library room – Past the Crystal Golem, the tall first library room has a bookcase on each side of the entrance: fight the two crystal soldiers behind them, then rush the Channeler before it teleports away. Under the grand staircase a crystal soldier guards the soul.
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Summary
A soul item for souls, under the grand staircase of the first library room.
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Crystal Knight Shield (Mimic)Weapon
Location
The Duke's Archives · First library room, upper balcony – Climb the grand staircase (crystal archers wait on the way) and take the flight on the opposite side; a small outdoor balcony opens on the left as you go. At the end of the inside balcony two crystal soldiers guard a chest that is a Mimic: hit it instead of opening it. It may also drop a Gold Coin.
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Summary
A shield already on the Crystal path, dropped by a Mimic.
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Crystal Lizard (Archives stairwell)NPC
Location
The Duke's Archives · Crystal tunnel – Ride the lever lift at the far end of the Mimic's balcony and go through the only doorway. A Crystal Knight attacks in the tunnel, and the lizard scurries nearby: kill it quickly for Twinkling Titanite and possibly a Blue Titanite Chunk.
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Summary
A Crystal Lizard in the crystal tunnel near the top of the Archives. It doesn't respawn; if it escapes, it comes back after a quit and reload.
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A fight you are meant to lose

The fog gate at the top of the crystal stairs opens on a boss who can't be hurt here, and the story only goes on once he has beaten you. Equip a Ring of Sacrifice first if you have one, so you keep your souls and Humanity. You can still walk back out through the fog to put one on.

Seath's first meeting and captureHidden spoiler – activate to revealQuest stepMinor spoiler
Location
The Duke's Archives · Top of the Archives – From the entrance bonfire, ride the lift up, cross the first library room, climb the grand staircase to the inside balcony and ride the lever lift at its far end. Go through the tunnel past the Crystal Knight and up the crystal stairs to the fog gate, step through, and let the battle end.
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Summary
A scripted defeat at the top of the Archives. It sends you to the prison tower, where the rest of the Archives opens up.
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Bonfire: Archives Prison TowerArea
Location
The Duke's Archives · Your cell – You wake beside it, locked in a cell high in the prison tower. Rest before anything else.
Requires
Summary
A bonfire in the cell where you wake after the capture. You can't warp away from it while you are still locked in.
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Archive Tower Cell KeyKey item
Location
The Duke's Archives · Your cell – A Serpent Soldier sleeps outside the cell door next to the bonfire: hit it through the bars, then take the key from its body. Crystal soldiers lurk at the other end of your cell.
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Summary
The key to your own cell.
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The alarm

Stepping out of your cell rings an alarm, and the Pisacas (tentacle-headed creatures) swarm up the stairs from the bottom of the tower. Their grab is deadly; fight them at a distance or one at a time on the stairs. If they overwhelm you, the cost of dying is small here: you wake at the cell bonfire with the alarm quiet and the Pisacas back in their cell.

Archive Prison Extra KeyKey item
Location
The Duke's Archives · Prison tower cells – Leave your cell and work down the spiral stairs that line the tower, opening every cell you can (some hold crystal soldiers). The key is on a corpse in one of the cells on the way down.
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Summary
Opens the locked cells of the prison tower, including a door at the back of your own cell.
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Maiden SetArmor
Location
The Duke's Archives · Prison tower, top – Keep climbing the stairs and the ladder at the top. Leave the big double doors for now: walk left along the wooden planks to their end and drop onto a ledge, then into a cell. The set is inside.
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Summary
A light cloth set, in a cell reached by a drop from the top of the tower.
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White Seance RingCollectible
Location
The Duke's Archives · Prison tower, top – In the same cell as the Maiden Set. Dropping again from this cell lands you beside the cell bonfire.
Requires
Summary
A ring that gives an extra attunement slot.
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Soul of a Brave Warrior (below the cell door)Consumable
Location
The Duke's Archives · Below your cell – In your own cell, go past the crystal soldiers to the door at its back and unlock it with the Extra Key. Drop from the right side of the ledge outside: the soul is on the ledge below.
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Summary
A soul item on a ledge below the back door of your cell.
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Archive Tower Giant Door KeyKey item
Location
The Duke's Archives · Alarm balcony – From the cell bonfire, unlock the door at the back of your cell with the Extra Key and drop from the right side of the ledge, then drop again onto a balcony guarded by a Serpent Mage and two Serpent Soldiers. The key is in the chest at the back, beside the alarm lever. A ladder down (on your right as you look at the lever) is a good spot to fight the three singly.
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Summary
Opens the big double doors at the top of the prison tower, the way back into the library.
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Soothing SunlightHidden spoiler – activate to revealSpellMinor spoiler
Location
The Duke's Archives · Pisaca cell, bottom of the tower – Climb down the ladder from the alarm balcony and go right into the big cell full of Pisacas at the bottom of the tower; clear them (fire works well). The two by the pillar at the back don't fight back: kill both. Behind the bars at the back you can talk to Logan; his door and the item in the corner need a key from the library.
Requires
Summary
A miracle for Prayer of a Maiden, dropped by one of the two weeping Pisacas at the back of their cell. Only members of the Princess's Guard can cast it.
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Bountiful SunlightHidden spoiler – activate to revealSpellMinor spoiler
Location
The Duke's Archives · Pisaca cell, bottom of the tower – Dropped by the second of the two Pisacas that stand by the pillar at the back of the Pisaca cell.
Requires
Summary
A miracle for Prayer of a Maiden, dropped by the other weeping Pisaca. Like Soothing Sunlight, it can only be cast in the Princess's Guard.
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Climb back up the whole tower, through any cells you missed, and up the ladder at the top. The Giant Door Key opens the big double doors: past them, crystal soldiers and archers guard the stairs up to a balcony and back into the library. Two Channelers wait inside, one on a landing above you that casts from range and one just to the left as you enter; kill the near one, then head left past an archer and a hidden soldier to a corridor that looks down on the first library room from high above.

Strong Magic ShieldSpell
Location
The Duke's Archives · Rotating stairs – From the corridor over the first library room, take the stairs that climb on past it (an archer shoots from the landing above) and pull the lever halfway up to turn the staircase. Climb to the top and follow the walkway until you can drop onto a second staircase that has turned with the first; climb it and turn right to the chest.
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Summary
A sorcery for Wisdom of a Sage, in a chest past the rotating stairs.
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Bonfire: Duke's Archives BalconyArea
Location
The Duke's Archives · Second library room, balcony – From the Strong Magic Shield chest, go halfway down that staircase, pull its lever to turn it back and walk down, turning right to the doorway near its foot. Outside, an archer waits on a balcony; climb down the ladder on its right side and pull the lever in the floor at the bottom. The passage it opens leads into the ground floor of the second library room: turn left and go out onto the balcony to the bonfire.
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Summary
A bonfire on an outdoor balcony at the back of the Archives, over the garden. It can be warped to and is the closest one to the Crystal Cave.
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Channeler's TridentWeapon
Location
The Duke's Archives · Library (respawning Channelers) – The nearest one is in the first library room: from the balcony bonfire, take the shortcut on the ground floor of the bonfire's room back into the first library room (or rest at the entrance bonfire and ride the lift up). Kill it quickly, before it teleports away; the two near the doors from the prison tower count too. It is a rare drop: rest and repeat until it falls.
Requires
Summary
A rare weapon for Knight's Honor that only Channelers drop. The three in the Archives library come back every time you rest, so this is where to farm it.
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Blue Titanite Chunk (secret library)Upgrade
Location
The Duke's Archives · Secret library, small room – From the balcony bonfire, go back through the passage to the foot of the ladder: two doors there lead into the secret library. The chunk is in the lone chest of the smaller room, on the left.
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Summary
Upgrade material for the Magic and Enchanted paths.
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Enchanted Falchion (Mimic)Weapon
Location
The Duke's Archives · Secret library, large room – In the larger room of the secret library, the chest in the far right corner is a Mimic: hit it instead of opening it. It may also drop a Gold Coin.
Requires
Summary
A curved sword already on the Enchanted path, dropped by a Mimic.
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Archive Tower Giant Cell KeyKey item
Location
The Duke's Archives · Secret library, large room – In the larger room of the secret library, in one of the two chests on the left (the one further in).
Requires
Summary
Opens the barred door at the back of the Pisaca cell: Logan's cell, and an item beside it.
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Set of the ChannelersArmor
Location
The Duke's Archives · Secret library, large room – The other chest on the left in the larger room, the one nearest the door.
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Summary
The Channelers' robes, in a chest of the secret library.
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Crystal EmberKey item
Location
The Duke's Archives · Secret library, large room – In the larger room of the secret library, in a chest tucked between the bookcases behind the Mimic's corner, on the right.
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Summary
The ember that lets the Giant Blacksmith in Anor Londo put weapons on the Crystal path (the Crystal Weapon trophy). Keep it until you hand it to him.
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Free Big Hat Logan from the prison towerHidden spoiler – activate to revealQuest stepMissablePoint of no returnMinor spoiler
Location
The Duke's Archives · Pisaca cell, bottom of the tower – From the balcony bonfire, climb the main stairs of its room (not the rotating ones) to the floor above, where a short way leads back into the prison tower. Go down to the Pisaca cell at the bottom (more Pisacas may be waiting) and open the barred door at its back with the Giant Cell Key.
Why you can lose it
Free Logan from his cell before you kill Seath: if Seath dies first, Logan may never open his library shop.
Point of no return
Killing Seath the Scaleless in the Crystal Cave.
Requires
Summary
Opening Logan's cell sends him to the library, where he sells new crystal sorceries.
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Fire Keeper Soul (Archives Giant Cell)Consumable
Location
The Duke's Archives · Logan's cell – In the far corner of the barred cell behind the Pisaca cell, opened with the Giant Cell Key.
Requires
Summary
A Fire Keeper Soul: a Fire Keeper can use it to strengthen your Estus Flask.
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AvelynWeapon
Location
The Duke's Archives · First library room, bookcase top – On the way back from Logan's cell, climb to the top of the tower, go through the big double doors and retrace the way into the library to the corridor over the first library room. The chest sits on the tall bookcase that was on your left when you first came in from the lift: drop onto it carefully (missing it is a long fall), then drop to the floor and take the ground-floor shortcut back to the balcony bonfire.
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Summary
A repeating crossbow in a chest on top of a tall bookcase. Reaching it takes a careful drop.
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Buy every spell from Logan in the libraryHidden spoiler – activate to revealQuest stepMissablePoint of no returnMinor spoiler
Location
The Duke's Archives · Secret library, small room – Climb back up the tower and return through the short way to the balcony bonfire. Logan now sits in the small room of the secret library, where the Blue Titanite Chunk chest was. Buy everything he sells; if souls run short, buy the three crystal sorceries first and come back for the rest after Seath.
Why you can lose it
Free Logan from his cell before you kill Seath: if Seath dies first, Logan may never open his library shop. Never attack him.
Point of no return
Killing Seath the Scaleless in the Crystal Cave.
Requires
Summary
Logan now sells his old sorceries plus three crystal ones nobody else has, with no Intelligence check. His story only goes on once his list is empty.
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Homing Crystal SoulmassSpellMissablePoint of no return
Location
The Duke's Archives · Secret library, small room – Bought from Logan in the small room of the secret library.
Why you can lose it
Free Logan from his cell before you kill Seath; the buying itself can wait until after that fight.
Point of no return
Killing Seath the Scaleless in the Crystal Cave.
Requires
Summary
A sorcery for Wisdom of a Sage that only Logan sells, in the Archives.
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Crystal Magic WeaponSpellMissablePoint of no return
Location
The Duke's Archives · Secret library, small room – Bought from Logan in the small room of the secret library.
Why you can lose it
Free Logan from his cell before you kill Seath; the buying itself can wait until after that fight.
Point of no return
Killing Seath the Scaleless in the Crystal Cave.
Requires
Summary
A sorcery for Wisdom of a Sage that only Logan sells, in the Archives.
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Crystal Soul SpearSpellMissablePoint of no return
Location
The Duke's Archives · Secret library, small room – Bought from Logan in the small room of the secret library.
Why you can lose it
Free Logan from his cell before you kill Seath; the buying itself can wait until after that fight.
Point of no return
Killing Seath the Scaleless in the Crystal Cave.
Requires
Summary
A sorcery for Wisdom of a Sage that only Logan sells, in the Archives.
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In the larger room of the secret library, the lever in the back left corner reveals a staircase down. A crystal soldier waits at the bottom; the fog gate past it opens onto a wooden platform over the Archives garden, a wooded slope full of Crystal Golems. The Crystal Cave lies down the slope, past the great crystal on one side.

Crystalline SetArmor
Location
The Duke's Archives · Archives garden – From the wooden platform at the garden's edge, head into the middle of the wooded slope: the set is on a corpse there, among the Crystal Golems.
Requires
Summary
The Crystal Knights' armour, on a corpse in the garden.
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Blue Titanite Chunk (garden)Upgrade
Location
The Duke's Archives · Archives garden – Go back to the wooden platform, turn so the garden wall is on your right and follow it all the way round, fighting the Crystal Golems as they come: take every Blue Titanite Chunk on the corpses along the wall (one lies to the right as you come in).
Requires
Summary
Upgrade material for the Magic and Enchanted paths. More than one may lie around the garden.
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The golden golem in the garden

Once Siegmeyer of Catarina has left Firelink and you have helped him in Blighttown, a Golden Crystal Golem stands in the middle of the garden. It hits very hard. Freeing the knight inside and answering Yes about her father, here and again when she asks at Firelink, keeps the road open to a Titanite Slab later on, one of the nine slabs the upgrade trophies need.

Free Sieglinde from the Golden Crystal GolemHidden spoiler – activate to revealQuest stepMinor spoiler
Location
The Duke's Archives · Archives garden, middle – Once Siegmeyer has left Firelink and you have helped him in Blighttown, a Golden Crystal Golem stands in the middle of the garden, near the Crystalline Set's corpse. Destroy it and the knight appears where it falls.
Requires
Summary
Destroying the golden golem frees a knight trapped inside it.
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Sieglinde of CatarinaHidden spoiler – activate to revealNPCMinor spoiler
Location
The Duke's Archives · Archives garden, middle – She stands where the golden golem fell; talk to her. If she can't be spoken to, quit and reload, and look for her nearby.
Requires
Summary
A knight from Catarina searching for her father.
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Tell Sieglinde you have seen her fatherHidden spoiler – activate to revealQuest stepMissablePoint of no returnMinor spoiler
Location
The Duke's Archives · Archives garden, middle – Talk to her again in the garden until she asks whether you have seen her father, and answer Yes.
Why you can lose it
Answer Yes when she asks about her father; No may end her story for this run.
Point of no return
Beating Gwyn, Lord of Cinder, then lighting the bonfire or walking out of his arena: either ends this run at once and starts the next one.
Requires
Summary
Required: answering Yes keeps her story going toward the Titanite Slab the upgrade trophies need. She leaves for Firelink Shrine, where she asks again.
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About this guide

Three runs. The first is the full walk: every area, Artorias of the Abyss, every covenant, all four spell collections and the ten weapon-upgrade trophies, ending at the Kiln. New Game+ is a leaner run for the other ending and the last miracle. A short third run stops once the last Soul of Sif has been turned into a weapon. A few trophy weapons and covenant offerings only come from enemies, so expect some farming.

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