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Valley of Drakes and the Asylum Return

Up out of Blighttown to the Valley of Drakes, through New Londo to Firelink, and back to the Asylum by crow.

With both bells rung, the road back runs uphill: from the Blighttown Swamp bonfire (back across the swamp from Quelaag's Domain), up the waterwheel and the ladders to a tunnel into the Valley of Drakes. The Valley has no bonfire and its drakes hit hard with lightning, so lure them one at a time. A locked door at the Valley's edge leads down through New Londo to a lift up to Firelink Shrine, and from the top of Firelink's ruins the giant crow flies you back to the Undead Asylum for a stronger demon, two Black Knights and a crow that trades. The Asylum allows no co-op help.

Quelana's pyromancies

Before you ride the waterwheel up, buy any of Quelana's pyromancies you couldn't afford on the way in: she sits by the far-left stone pillar nearest Quelaag's Domain, in the swamp. If you are still short, she stays there, a walk from the Blighttown Swamp bonfire.

RemedySpell
Location
Blighttown · Branch above the waterwheel – From the Blighttown Swamp bonfire, leave the tunnel, turn right and keep to the wall until you reach a wooden ramp lit with torches. At its top, step onto a blade of the turning waterwheel, ride it up and roll off onto the platform. With your back to the wheel, climb the ladder on the left (mosquitoes come from behind) to a second ladder with a Cragspider beside it. Leave that ladder for now: take the path to its left to a tree branch and walk across it carefully. On the far side, past another Cragspider and a ladder, the chest holds Remedy.
Requires
Summary
A sorcery in a chest on the climb out of Blighttown, one of the spells Wisdom of a Sage needs.
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Crimson SetArmor
Location
Blighttown · Branch above the waterwheel – The corpse lies next to Remedy's chest, across the tree branch above the waterwheel.
Requires
Summary
A sorcerer's armor set on a corpse beside Remedy's chest.
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Tin Banishment CatalystWeapon
Location
Blighttown · Branch above the waterwheel – On the corpse with the Crimson Set, next to Remedy's chest across the tree branch.
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Summary
A sorcery catalyst on the same corpse as the Crimson Set.
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Soul of a Proud Knight (sniper tunnel)Consumable
Location
Blighttown · Sniper tunnel – From Remedy's chest, cross back over the branch to the Cragspider's ladder and climb it: a Blowdart Sniper waits at the top beside another ladder. Kill it, walk past that ladder and out onto the side ledges of the huge tunnel on your left. Four more snipers shoot from ledges across and along it; stay on the upper ledges with your shield raised, and don't fall, since fire-breathing dogs roam the floor below. Take the left-hand path downward: the soul waits on a ledge there.
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Summary
A soul item on a ledge in the big tunnel above the waterwheel, guarded by Blowdart Snipers.
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Fire Keeper Soul (Blighttown)Upgrade
Location
Blighttown · Sniper tunnel, lower level – From the soul on the left ledge, carry on along the tunnel to the back, where the last sniper stands beside a ladder going down. Climb down to the lower level, where several fire-breathing dogs come at you; the Fire Keeper Soul lies on that level. The Daughter of Chaos in Quelaag's Domain is the nearest Fire Keeper to spend it with.
Requires
Summary
A Fire Keeper Soul: a Fire Keeper uses it to strengthen your Estus Flask.
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The Firelink bonfire

After the second bell the Firelink bonfire stays dark for a while; an optional step in Anor Londo can bring it back. Spend this Fire Keeper Soul on your Estus at another Fire Keeper (the next one on the route waits at the first Anor Londo bonfire), and check the cell below the Firelink bonfire when you pass: two items wait there.

Key to New Londo RuinsKey item
Location
Blighttown · Top of the ladders – From Remedy's chest, cross back over the branch and climb the Cragspider's ladder, then every ladder above it to the very top (the sniper tunnel opens off them partway up), dealing with Cragspiders on the way. At the top a cave opens on your left; the chest on your right holds the key.
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Summary
Opens the locked door between the Valley of Drakes and New Londo, the road back to Firelink Shrine.
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Large Soul of a Nameless Soldier (Valley)Consumable
Location
Valley of Drakes · By the New Londo door – Go through the cave at the top of the ladders (three Infested Barbarians block it) and out into the Valley of Drakes. Cross the small wooden bridge ahead and turn left: the corpse lies right beside a locked door.
Requires
Summary
A soul item beside the locked door to New Londo.
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Open the Valley gate to New LondoQuest step
Location
Valley of Drakes · By the New Londo door – Through the cave at the top of the Blighttown ladders (three Infested Barbarians), cross the small wooden bridge and turn left to the locked door. Open it with the Key to New Londo Ruins (the Master Key fits too). This is your way out once the Valley is done.
Requires
Summary
A lasting shortcut: the stairs behind this door lead down through New Londo to a lift up to Firelink.
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Undead Dragon (Valley of Drakes)Hidden spoiler – activate to revealBossMinor spoiler
Location
Valley of Drakes · Ledge past the long bridge – From the New Londo door, cross back over the small bridge, pass the Blighttown cave and follow the cliff ledge to a longer bridge. Across it the dragon lies on the ledge with the loot in its arms; it stays still until you strike it or take an item. Stand back at the edge of its reach, by the end of the bridge, and wear it down with arrows or spells; step back from its poison breath and its claw.
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Summary
A rotting dragon slumped over a ledge, guarding a sword and a shield. It can't leave its spot, so a ranged kill is safe.
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Astora's Straight SwordWeapon
Location
Valley of Drakes · Ledge past the long bridge – From the New Londo door, cross back over the small bridge and follow the cliff ledge past the Blighttown cave to the longer bridge. Beyond it, the sword and a shield lie in the arms of a huge dragon on the ledge. If the dragon is alive, it stays still until you hit it or take an item: grab the item farther from your way out first, then roll clear of its claw and poison.
Requires
Summary
A sword with magic in its blade, one of the rare weapons for Knight's Honor.
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Dragon Crest ShieldWeapon
Location
Valley of Drakes · Ledge past the long bridge – Beside Astora's Straight Sword, in the dragon's arms. If it wakes before you have both, run back out of its reach and try again.
Requires
Summary
A shield that resists fire, one of the rare weapons for Knight's Honor.
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Soul of a Proud Knight (Valley)Consumable
Location
Valley of Drakes · Path past the dragon – From the dragon's ledge, follow the path on past it (give it a wide berth if it's still alive); the corpse lies along the way.
Requires
Summary
A soul item on the path beyond the Undead Dragon.
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Humanity (Valley cave)Consumable
Location
Valley of Drakes · Narrow ledge – Past the dragon a lone Drake waits on the narrow ledge. It's too big to follow you all the way back along it, so draw it back and kill it where it gets stuck, from range. A little further on, a small cave on the right holds the Humanity on a corpse.
Requires
Summary
A Humanity in a small cave off the narrow cliff ledge.
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Brigand SetArmor
Location
Valley of Drakes · Drake bridge – From the Humanity cave, the ledge opens onto wider ground: a bridge on the left with a Drake on it, and a rubble-choked archway on the right (the rubble climbs to a lift up to Darkroot Basin). Kill the bridge Drake; the corpse lies past it.
Requires
Summary
An armor set on a corpse past the first drake bridge.
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Red Tearstone RingCollectible
Location
Valley of Drakes · Pillar ladder – Beyond the bridge, three more Drakes wait. Don't run for the ladder past them: lure them back one at a time to the wider ground and kill them there. Then climb the ladder on the pillar to the right for the ring, and climb back down rather than jumping. The great doors across the bridge stay shut from this side.
Requires
Summary
A ring that raises your attack while your health is very low.
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Soul of a Nameless Soldier (New Londo lift)Consumable
Location
New Londo Ruins · Stairs to the lift – Past the door you unlocked in the Valley, take the spiral stairs down into New Londo and keep the wall on your left until a doorway leads to two flights of stairs up to the lift. Where the second flight begins, look to the right of the stairs for the corpse.
Requires
Summary
A soul item tucked beside the stairs that climb from New Londo to the Firelink lift.
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Anastacia: search her cellHidden spoiler – activate to revealQuest stepMinor spoiler
Location
Firelink Shrine · Fire Keeper's cell – Walk back past the Undead Dragon's ledge and over both bridges to the door you unlocked. Take the spiral stairs down into New Londo, follow the left-hand wall into a doorway and climb its two flights of stairs to a lift (pull the lever left of the shaft if the lift isn't there). Ride up to Firelink; the stairs up from the lift pass the Fire Keeper's cell. Step inside and search it.
Requires
Summary
The Fire Keeper's cell below the Firelink bonfire stands open now, with two items inside.
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Dingy SetHidden spoiler – activate to revealArmorMinor spoiler
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Black Eye OrbHidden spoiler – activate to revealKey itemMinor spoiler
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Kingseeker FramptHidden spoiler – activate to revealNPCMinor spoiler
Location
Firelink Shrine · Drained ruin – From the Fire Keeper's cell, climb to the bonfire and go into the ruin that used to be flooded: Frampt is there. Talk to him. Never hit him; one blow wakes a sleeping serpent, but more than that sends him away for the run.
Requires
Summary
A great serpent, awake now that both bells have rung. He points you toward Anor Londo, buys items you feed him for souls and breaks large titanite into smaller pieces.
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The Crestfallen Warrior

With both bells rung, talk to the Crestfallen Warrior by the bonfire until his lines repeat. Hearing him out now makes him leave the shrine for New Londo, where a later stop of the route picks his story up again.

Domhnall moves to Firelink ShrineQuest step
Location
Firelink Shrine · Below the aqueduct – From the bonfire, head toward the aqueduct to the Undead Burg: Domhnall sits on its lower level, beside the corpse that held a Ring of Sacrifice. If he isn't there yet, he is still in the Depths and arrives later in the run.
Requires
Summary
With both bells rung, the merchant from the Depths sets up at Firelink, where his stock grows as you beat bosses.
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Fly back to the Undead Asylum from the crow nestQuest step
Location
Firelink Shrine · Crow's nest above the ruins – Already at Firelink? Start from the Fire Keeper's cell below the bonfire. Otherwise, walk back past the Undead Dragon's ledge and over both bridges to the door you unlocked. Take the spiral stairs down into New Londo, follow the left-hand wall into a doorway and climb its two flights of stairs to a lift; if the lift isn't there, pull the lever to the left of the shaft and wait, since an empty shaft is a long fall. Ride up to Firelink. Climb past the Fire Keeper's cell to the bonfire, go up into the ruins behind it through the middle archway and take the stairs on the right to the elevator. Ride it up a little, jump off onto the ruined ledge, step right onto the grassy cliff and roll across onto the tower's buttress. Climb the tower steps all the way up, past the roof where the F2 West Key lay, to the giant crow's nest: step in and curl up.
Requires
Summary
The giant crow's nest at the top of Firelink's ruins carries you back to the Asylum you started in.
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Keep to the edges of the demon's hall

The sunken middle of the great hall, where you fought the Asylum Demon, gives way under you and drops you into the Stray Demon's pit. Walk round the edges until you are ready for that fight. The Hollows on the slope now carry torches, and fire hurts.

Stray DemonHidden spoiler – activate to revealBossMinor spoiler
Location
Northern Undead Asylum · Pit below the great hall – From where the crow sets you down, walk down the slope past the torch Hollows and through the big door into the great hall. Keep to its edges, cross to the giant doors on the far side and rest at the Undead Asylum Courtyard bonfire beyond. Then walk back in and step down into the middle of the hall: the floor breaks and you land in its pit. Stay behind it and hit the tail. When it lifts its hammer for a slam, roll well past the tip of its tail to escape the magic blast; when it leaps up, back away with your shield up.
Requires
Summary
A tougher cousin of the Asylum Demon in a pit below the great hall. It drops a Titanite Slab, a Humanity and a Homeward Bone.
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Titanite Slab (Stray Demon)Upgrade
Location
Northern Undead Asylum · Pit below the great hall – The Stray Demon drops it when it dies. Keep it until the upgrade-trophy rows call for it: this run has exactly enough slabs for the trophies and no more.
Requires
Summary
The first plain Titanite Slab: one of the nine slabs (three plain, two each of blue, white and red) the ten weapon-upgrade trophies need this run. Spend it on nothing else.
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Black Knight (starting cell)NPC
Location
Northern Undead Asylum · Cell corridor – From the Stray Demon's pit, climb the ladder beside a torch in one corner and go through the broken bars into the corridor outside your old cell. The Black Knight stands there, to your left; the corridor is wide enough to circle him.
Requires
Summary
A Black Knight guarding your old cell. He doesn't come back once killed, and always drops a Red Titanite Chunk.
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Peculiar DollKey item
Location
Northern Undead Asylum · Your old cell – Inside the cell you started the game in, on a corpse, behind where the Black Knight stood.
Requires
Summary
Lets you enter the giant painting in Anor Londo, the way into the Painted World.
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Black Knight (shield-room hallway)NPC
Location
Northern Undead Asylum · Starting-gear corridor – From your old cell, follow the corridor and stairs up to the flooded room and climb its ladder to the courtyard bonfire. Open the giant doors, keep to the hall's edge and take the gate in its left-hand wall down to the Escape Route bonfire. Go round the water and through the door into the long corridor: the knight stands at its far end, where the archer was, and charges once you come close. Draw him into the side room where your shield lay to have room to circle him.
Requires
Summary
A Black Knight at the end of the corridor where your class gear lay. He doesn't come back once killed, always drops a Red Titanite Chunk, and the Asylum's knights can also drop a Black Knight Sword.
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Red Titanite Chunk (Black Knight, hallway)Upgrade
Location
Northern Undead Asylum · Starting-gear corridor – The Black Knight in the long corridor drops it when he dies.
Requires
Summary
A Red Titanite Chunk for the Fire and Chaos upgrade paths.
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Oscar (Asylum revisit)Hidden spoiler – activate to revealBossMinor spoiler
Location
Northern Undead Asylum · Second floor – From the Black Knight's corridor, climb the stairs at its end to the second floor. The iron-ball trap has reset: start up the stairs to set it off again and roll right onto the stairs going down. When the ball breaks the wall, the knight comes out and attacks. His two-handed swings hit hard and his roll is slow: block, wait for a roll or a big swing to end, then strike.
Requires
Summary
The knight of Astora is back behind the same broken wall, and this time he fights. He drops the Crest Shield.
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Crest ShieldWeapon
Location
Northern Undead Asylum · Second floor – Oscar drops it when he falls, by the wall the iron ball broke.
Requires
Summary
A shield with very high magic defense, one of the rare weapons for Knight's Honor.
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Rusted Iron RingCollectible
Location
Northern Undead Asylum · Third floor, west wing – From Oscar's wall, climb the stairs the ball rolled down to the third floor and go out through the balcony gate. Take the door on the right into the room where two soldiers, one with a sword and one with a spear, guard a locked door. The Undead Asylum F2 West Key from Firelink's roof opens it; the ring lies down the broken stairs beyond.
Requires
Summary
A ring that lets you move freely through swamp and bog.
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To leave, go back down the way you came to the Escape Route bonfire, up into the great hall and, keeping to its edges, out through the big door you came in by. Climb the slope toward the cliff top.

Snuggly the CrowNPC
Location
Northern Undead Asylum · Ledge on the cliff slope – Climb the slope from the great hall's big door toward the big nest at the cliff top. Past the torch Hollows, about halfway up, a small nest with blue eggs sits on a ledge to your right. Drop in one item only (any more are lost; upgraded items are refused), then quit to the title screen and load back, rest at a bonfire, or use a Homeward Bone; the gift is in the nest when you come back.
Requires
Summary
A crow that trades: drop one item in her nest and a gift waits there next time. Each trade works once per run.
Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
If a trade doesn't appear, save and quit to the title screen, then load back in.
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The Demon's Great Hammer

Missed the hammer at the Asylum Demon's first meeting? Drop an unupgraded Sack (one of the Depths Butchers usually carries it) into the nest; the hammer comes back in trade, and the Asylum's hammer row can be ticked.

Trade: Demon Titanite ×2Upgrade
Location
Northern Undead Asylum · Snuggly's nest – Drop a Dung Pie, collect the Demon Titanite, then do the same with a Prism Stone. The female merchant in the Lower Undead Burg sells both.
Requires
Summary
Two Demon Titanite for two cheap stones, one trade each.
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Trade: Purging Stone ×2Consumable
Location
Northern Undead Asylum · Snuggly's nest – Drop one Cracked Red Eye Orb. Four lie in the chest room under Firelink's ruins, reached by dropping down one of the two elevator shafts beside Petrus's stairs.
Requires
Summary
Two Purging Stones, which lift curse, for one Cracked Red Eye Orb.
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Trade: Rare Ring of SacrificeCollectible
Location
Northern Undead Asylum · Snuggly's nest – Drop one Twin Humanities, such as the pair found in the Lower Undead Burg.
Requires
Summary
A Rare Ring of Sacrifice for one Twin Humanities.
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Trade: Souvenir of ReprisalConsumable
Location
Northern Undead Asylum · Snuggly's nest – Drop a Pendant. If you picked the Pendant as your starting gift, trade it now.
Requires
Summary
A Souvenir of Reprisal, an offering for the Blade of the Darkmoon covenant, for a Pendant.
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When the trades are done, walk up to the clifftop nest and curl up in it; the giant crow carries you back to Firelink Shrine. Ride the elevator in the ruins up to the Undead Parish and rest at its bonfire: Sen's Fortress, now open beside it, is next.

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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