Fire's Deadly Sin

Type

Incantation

FP cost

26

Memory slots

1

Stamina cost

28

Additional stamina cost

8

Hold action

Charge

Damage types

fire

Requires

19Fai

Spell school

Prophetic Flame incantations

Incantation originating from a deeply ominous prophecy.

Sets both the caster and the surrounding area ablaze with raging flames. The caster's body will remain engulfed in flame for a while, burning them and any who draw near. Charging enhances potency.

The prophet despaired, looking up at the Erdtree, for soon the kindling would burst into flame, bringing ruin.

"The burning of the Erdtree is the first cardinal sin. That is not the domain of mere men."

Painting spirit south of Windmill Heights

Altus Plateau

Starting Site of Grace: Windmill Heights

Before you go

• Examine the Flightless Bird Painting in Leyndell.

1. For the original capital route, enter Leyndell after obtaining two Great Runes and visiting the Two Fingers. From Avenue Balcony, descend toward the greatbow knight, climb the enormous stone dragon wing and continue up to West Capital Rampart.
2. From West Capital Rampart, use the southeastern doorway and descend the stairs toward the lower western courtyard. Drop onto the courtyard ground beside Fortified Manor rather than climbing the enormous root toward the sanctuary.
3. Enter the manor's ground-floor doorway, go through the door on the right and turn left into the dining area. Take the doorway at the far right of that room.
4. Activate Fortified Manor, First Floor grace and examine Flightless Bird beside it. This is downstairs in the manor, separate from the upper room resembling Roundtable Hold.
5. Reach Altus Plateau with the Dectus Medallion halves from Fort Haight and Fort Faroth, or defeat Magma Wyrm Makar at the top of Ruin-Strewn Precipice.
6. From Altus Highway Junction, follow the road north past the map monument to Forest-Spanning Greatbridge. The waygate beside that grace brings you to the northern end of the broken bridge.
7. Leave the northern bridge end and follow the road east across northern Altus, toward the windmills. At the village junction, take the uphill path through the wooden entrance arch and activate Windmill Village grace.
8. From Windmill Village grace, climb the main village path past the dancing celebrants. Stay on the rising path toward the highest windmill rather than the separate pastures along the northern road.
9. Continue past the Godskin Apostle’s position to Windmill Heights. Defeating him makes the approach safer and unlocks the grace, but the spell itself comes from the painting reward.
10. Walk to the southern cliff near the upper windmills and approach the seated painter’s spirit. After he disappears, collect Fire’s Deadly Sin from the ground. The spirit requires the painting to have been examined first.

Notes

• Requires 19 Faith, one memory slot and a sacred seal. Costs 26 FP; charging strengthens the initial explosion and the flames that remain on your body.
• The initial explosion scales with Incantation Scaling. The following contact flames use fixed Fire attack power, rather than continuing to grow with a stronger seal.
• The burning effect lasts 40 seconds and damages nearby enemies while also hurting you. Self-damage is 6 HP per second normally or 8 when charged, for 240 or 320 HP over the full duration.
• Its contact flames have 45 Fire attack power normally or 59 charged before defenses. These are not guaranteed HP losses on every enemy, and the body flame deals no stance damage.
• Godfrey Icon improves eligible charged damage. Fire bonuses help its Fire damage, while Giant’s Seal gives no school bonus to this particular spell.
• It is a body buff and competes with other effects in that group. Do not plan to keep Flame, Grant Me Strength or a protective body buff active alongside it.
• Fire can remove active Frostbite, letting a target build toward another frost burst while ending its existing Frostbite vulnerability. It does not erase every partly filled Frost buildup meter.
• Old Lord’s Talisman extends the duration to 52 seconds, which also means more time taking self-damage. Healing can offset the drain, but the spell does not heal by itself.
• The surrounding flame does not inherit Bloodflame Blade or Death Flare. Old demonstrations spreading a weapon’s Blood Loss or Death Blight through it describe patched behavior.
• Examine Flightless Bird Painting before Maliketh changes the capital. Then visit its viewpoint near Windmill Heights; finding the cliff first does not unlock the reward.