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Royal Wood

Through the Royal Wood for the Blue Titanite Slab and the Guardian Set, Marvelous Chester's shop, a first look at Kalameet's valley and Knight Artorias.

The Royal Wood is a wide forest full of Scarecrows with forks and shears and slow, heavy Stone Guardians: pull them one or two at a time. Three things here are required: the Blue Titanite Slab in the pool at the centre of the wood, a look at the black dragon over Kalameet's valley (Hawkeye Gough, met in the next section, will only help after you have seen him there) and Knight Artorias, whose arena is the way on. Never attack Marvelous Chester if you want his shop.

Guardian LeggingsArmorDLC: Artorias Of The Abyss
Location
Royal Wood · Upper wood – From the Oolacile Sanctuary bonfire, take the path right of Elizabeth over the bridge into the wood; Scarecrows wait up the slope ahead, and more rush out of hiding. Then follow the wood's outer edge to the left to a flower bed where a Stone Guardian stands: the leggings are on the corpse behind it. Dodge its hammer rather than block it.
Requires
Summary
Heavy leggings of the Stone Guardians, first piece of the Guardian Set.
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Blue Titanite SlabUpgradeDLC: Artorias Of The Abyss
Location
Royal Wood · Centre pool – From the Oolacile Sanctuary bonfire, cross the first bridge into the wood and head for its centre (from the Guardian Leggings, turn back toward the middle). A chest sits in a small pool there, ringed by Scarecrows and two Stone Guardians: pull them away one or two at a time, then open the chest.
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Summary
One of the nine Titanite Slabs the ten upgrade trophies need, for the top of the Magic or Enchanted path. Never spend it on anything else.
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Guardian GauntletsArmorDLC: Artorias Of The Abyss
Location
Royal Wood · Ruined tower – From the pool, go back to the wood's outer wall and follow it on round (clockwise) to a small ruined tower. The gauntlets are inside. The lift in this tower doesn't work from here yet; it turns into a shortcut later, from Chester's side.
Requires
Summary
The Guardian Set's gauntlets, inside a small ruined tower.
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Guardian HelmArmorDLC: Artorias Of The Abyss
Location
Royal Wood · Ledges past the bridge – From the ruined tower, go back along the outer wall to the stone bridge on the wood's left side. As you start across, a black dragon swoops in, perches on the bridge for a moment and flies off; it can't be fought now. Over the bridge, go right along the narrow path (a Stone Guardian may drop down from the ledge above), then drop to the lower ledge and turn left, where a faster Scarecrow with shears waits. Turn to face the cliff you dropped from: a gap splits off a rock. Jump it and climb the slope to the helm.
Requires
Summary
The Guardian Set's helm, across a gap past the bridge.
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Guardian ArmorArmorDLC: Artorias Of The Abyss
Location
Royal Wood · Ledges past the bridge – Come back down from the helm's slope to where two Stone Guardians march in front of a cliff. Follow the cliff edge: the armor is on a corpse hanging off it by some bushes.
Requires
Summary
The Guardian Set's chest piece, on a corpse hanging over a cliff edge.
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Elizabeth's MushroomConsumableDLC: Artorias Of The Abyss
Location
Royal Wood · Ledges past the bridge – Go back to the gap by the split rock and, from there, keep the wall on your left: past a Scarecrow, squeeze round a tight corner into a hidden nook with the mushroom on a corpse.
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Summary
The only Elizabeth's Mushroom lying in the world: a strong heal over time.
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Large Soul of a Proud KnightConsumableDLC: Artorias Of The Abyss
Location
Royal Wood · Ledges past the bridge – From the mushroom's nook, carry on toward the ridged ground ahead and into the tunnel there: keep going round the edge of the big chasm to its dead end by the cliff, where a corpse holds the soul.
Requires
Summary
A soul item to use for souls, at a dead end by the big chasm.
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Gold CoinConsumableDLC: Artorias Of The Abyss
Location
Royal Wood · Ledges past the bridge – Drop back down from the chasm's edge. Of the two ways on, take the left-hand slope down: three Scarecrows stand there and leave you alone until you loot the corpse with the coin, so be ready for them.
Requires
Summary
A Gold Coin, a curio with little use in Lordran.
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Soul of a Proud KnightConsumableDLC: Artorias Of The Abyss
Location
Royal Wood · Lower level – Go on until the trees thin out and only a Stone Guardian and a few Scarecrows stand between you and a stone tower on the right: that tower holds the lift down. The corpse with the soul lies behind it.
Requires
Summary
A soul item behind the stone lift tower that leads down toward Artorias.
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Marvelous ChesterHidden spoiler – activate to revealNPCDLC: Artorias Of The AbyssMinor spoiler
Location
Royal Wood · Lower level – Step onto the plate in the stone tower to ride the lift down to the lower level. Leave the tower, go right and cross the bridge: Chester stands at its far end behind a candelabra. Whatever you answer him, his shop opens. Past him, a tower holds a lift up to the ruined tower of the Guardian Gauntlets: ride it once to open the shortcut, then ride back down.
Requires
Summary
A merchant from another age who sells consumables and arrows at steep prices. His lift opens the shortcut back to the start of the wood.
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Shop: Humanity ×13 (Chester)ConsumableDLC: Artorias Of The Abyss
Location
Royal Wood · Lower level – Buy it from Marvelous Chester, across the bridge from the lift tower's foot. Each one costs a lot of souls, so buy them when you can spare them.
Requires
Summary
Humanity in Chester's stock, a limited supply for each run.
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Soul of a Brave Warrior (valley ramp)ConsumableDLC: Artorias Of The Abyss
Location
Royal Wood · Top of Kalameet's valley – Come out of the stone lift tower at the lower level and turn round to the right: a corpse lies at the top of a ramp leading down.
Requires
Summary
A soul item where a ramp leads down into Kalameet's valley.
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Large Soul of a Brave WarriorConsumableDLC: Artorias Of The Abyss
Location
Royal Wood · Top of Kalameet's valley – Follow the ramp down into the valley. At the bottom turn round and follow the stream back to the dead end near its source: two dogs guard the corpse. Then come back to the foot of the ramp.
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Summary
A soul item at the quiet end of Kalameet's valley.
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See Kalameet at the valley's endHidden spoiler – activate to revealQuest stepDLC: Artorias Of The AbyssMinor spoiler
Location
Royal Wood · Top of Kalameet's valley – Coming straight from the Blue Titanite Slab's pool: go back to the stone bridge on the wood's left side and cross it, take the narrow path to the right, drop to the lower ledge and head on through the trees toward the coliseum in the distance, until a stone tower stands on your right past a Stone Guardian and a few Scarecrows. Step onto the plate inside to ride the lift down, leave the tower, turn round to the right and take the ramp down into the valley. From the foot of the ramp, keep going ahead (not back up the stream), past three dogs, to the edge of the waterfall: the dragon flies by. Don't go down the long ladder on the left into the valley proper: until Gough brings him down, his fire breath kills almost at once. Walk back up the ramp.
Requires
Summary
Seeing the black dragon fly over his valley is what lets Hawkeye Gough offer his help later. Required: Gough grounds the dragon, and that opens the way to a Titanite Slab in his arena.
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Knight ArtoriasHidden spoiler – activate to revealBossDLC: Artorias Of The AbyssMinor spoiler
Location
Royal Wood · Coliseum – Back up the valley ramp, the coliseum fog is close by at the foot of the stone lift tower. To rest first, cross the bridge to the right of the tower: past Chester, a lift rides up to the first part of the wood, so you can walk back to the Oolacile Sanctuary bonfire and return the same way. Never block his leaping strikes or his dashing thrust: roll, then hit as he recovers. When he backs off to gather dark power, interrupt him with heavy hits or an arrow to the head, or step well back from the blast that follows; if he finishes, his hits grow much stronger for a while.
Requires
Summary
A legendary knight twisted by the Abyss. Required: his arena is the only way into Oolacile Township. He drops the Soul of Artorias, one per run: keep it for now (see the tip below).
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Keep the Soul of Artorias unused

While the Soul of Artorias sits unused in your pack, a knight named Lord's Blade Ciaran appears at a small grave in this arena after you rest or reload. She is the only source of the Gold Tracer, the Dark Silver Tracer and the Lord's Blade Set. Don't consume the soul for souls, feed it to anyone or turn it into the Abyss Greatsword until you have dealt with her in the next section. There is one soul per run.

With Artorias dead, a door opens at the far side of his arena: the Oolacile Township bonfire is beyond it.

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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