Ant's Skull Plate

Ainsel River

Starting Site of Grace: Nokstella, Eternal City

Before you go

• Reach Nokstella. Ranni's quest opens the portal in Renna's Rise after you give Ranni the Fingerslayer Blade.

1. Start at Caria Manor in northwestern Liurnia. Defeat Royal Knight Loretta and enter Three Sisters behind the manor. Visit Ranni at the top of Ranni's Rise and agree to serve her. Speak to the spirits downstairs, then return to Ranni to finish the conversation.
2. Defeat Starscourge Radahn at Redmane Castle. Return to southern Mistwood and find the new crater near Fort Haight, marked by floating rocks. Descend using its ledges and enter Nokron, Eternal City.
3. Work across Nokron's rooftops to the streets and continue to Mimic Tear. Defeat it and cross the long bridge beyond its arena. Leave the bridge on the left into the woods, then follow the cliff to Ancestral Woods grace.
4. Jump from the cliff beside that grace onto the roof below. Follow the rooftops and narrow building ledges into Night's Sacred Ground. Continue across the broken stone arch into the church, descend inside, and leave onto the lower street. Follow that street to the enormous seated figure and open the chest underneath it for Fingerslayer Blade.
5. Return the blade to Ranni at her tower. Before doing this, finish any remaining Seluvis rewards you want. Rest after speaking to Ranni, then visit Renna's Rise, the northern tower in Three Sisters. Climb it and use the sending gate to Ainsel River Main.
6. Collect Miniature Ranni from the coffin near where you arrive. Rest at Ainsel River Main and select Talk to miniature Ranni repeatedly until she answers. Finish her dialogue.
7. Follow the river through Uhl Palace Ruins, using pillars as cover from the hanging creature's projectiles. Continue through the ant tunnel to Nokstella, Eternal City and activate its first grace. The upper-city chest is before Nokstella Waterfall Basin.
8. From that grace, climb the broad stairs on the western side of the city. At the first landing, enter the room on the left, on the southern side of the stairway.
9. A Nox Swordstress guards the room. Defeat her and open the chest inside to collect Ant's Skull Plate. You do not need to finish the upper city to reach this chest.