Inescapable Frenzy

Type

Incantation

FP cost

22

Memory slots

1

Stamina cost

31

Damage types

fire

Requires

21Fai

Spell school

Frenzied Flame incantations

Incantation originating from the maddening Three Fingers.

Causes the yellow flame of frenzy to blaze from the caster's eyes. The caster then latches onto foes, spreading the madness.

This incantation also causes buildup of madness in the caster, and is only effective against Tarnished.

To gaze into one another's eyes is truly the most intimate form of human contact.

Shaft below Cathedral of the Forsaken

Subterranean Shunning-Grounds

Starting Site of Grace: Cathedral of the Forsaken

Before you go

• Defeat Mohg, the Omen.

1. In Leyndell, Royal Capital, start at Avenue Balcony. Descend the northwestern stairs and go through the door. Follow the railing west, then drop left onto the lower rooftops.
2. Drop off the right side of the roof, turn back north and find the well behind the broken wall. Climb its ladder, open the gate in the lower passage and take the next ladder down.
3. Follow the damp corridor northeast into the rat-filled sewer entrance. Go through the southeastern doorway and descend the ladder into the large Omen hallway.
4. Head northeast along the hallway and enter the first room on the left, opposite the summoning statue. Activate Underground Roadside grace.
5. Leave Underground Roadside and go northeast along the Omen hallway to the open floor grate. Drop into it, follow the rat tunnel northwest and take the side pipe on the right rather than the flower-filled route to Dung Eater's cell.
6. Follow the slug-filled pipe. Drop through its first floor opening into the dark room, leave through the door on the left and follow the next tunnel. At the slug-blocked bend, go left and drop through the next opening beside the corpse with Rainbow Stone Arrows.
7. In the lower chamber, watch for the ambusher near your landing and the Revenant farther inside. Use the tunnel in the western corner, continue through the open metal gate and follow the bends past the slugs to the square room with an Omen and ladder.
8. Climb the ladder and turn right to pull the lever, opening a shortcut back to Underground Roadside. Watch for two more Omen by the statue. Take the nearby doorway into the broken spiral-stair chamber.
9. Turn left and drop to the lower section of the curved stairs. Follow the short flight down and enter the passage on the right. Farther along, the downward ladder by the ledge leads to Nomad Ashes; continue into the other pipe route for Mohg.
10. In the Basilisk pipes, pass the first right turn with a door that opens from the other side. Take the next right into the Omen's room. Climb its ladder, cross the wooden bridge past the Imp and open the doors back toward Underground Roadside.
11. From that opened bridge, climb onto the upper pipe and follow it to the end. Drop onto the lower pipe and reach the wooden walkway by the corpse with Golden Rune (10). Enter the doorway and kick down the ladder to make another shortcut.
12. Drop onto the pipe below this platform, then through the opening in its top. Inside, take the northeastern direction from your landing. Follow the pipe as it bends southeast, then northeast to the fork beside Golden Rune (11).
13. Take the left fork and drop through its floor opening after the small rat. The route straight toward the giant rat loops to an earlier area. The correct lower landing is beside a Commoner and Smithing Stone (5).
14. Open the nearby gate for a shortcut, then follow the passage northeast. Climb down the ladder to the room with living jars and take its lift down to Forsaken Depths grace.
15. From Forsaken Depths, continue down the stairs into Mohg, the Omen's arena. Defeat him and activate Cathedral of the Forsaken grace. His direct reward is Bloodflame Talons; the chest by the altar contains Erdtree's Favor +1.
16. Strike the altar behind the chest to reveal the passage. If Morgott's seal blocks it, defeat Morgott in the capital before continuing. Mohg, Lord of Blood in Mohgwyn Palace is a different boss.
17. Enter the merchant-body chamber beyond the revealed altar passage and descend using the wooden beams. At the lowest beam, use the projecting coffin lids as separate landing points.
18. Look down before every drop. Follow the coffin ledges to the platform near the bottom with the corpse holding Inescapable Frenzy.
19. Loot the spell from that corpse. You do not need to open the final door, remove your armor or receive the Frenzied Flame for this pickup.

Notes

• Requires 21 Faith, uses one memory slot and costs 22 FP and 31 stamina. It attempts a short-range grab before delivering repeated Fire damage and Madness.
• The full grab works on players and eligible human NPCs. Most creatures and bosses cannot be grabbed, so this is not a general-purpose way to lock a boss into a long attack.
• A failed grab leaves you exposed and does not produce the full eye-to-eye sequence. Get within its actual reach rather than assuming a lock-on will close the gap.
• The successful grab's damage uses the seal's Faith-based casting strength. Strength, Intelligence or Arcane contributions to a hybrid seal's displayed scaling do not improve that damage in the same way.
• Its enemy Madness can still benefit from Dragon Communion Seal's Arcane status scaling. Damage scaling and Madness buildup are separate parts of the attack.
• An actively held Frenzied Flame Seal boosts this spell's damage by 20%, including when another seal casts it. Two active copies give 44% together. This damage bonus does not multiply the Madness buildup.
• Fire and incantation bonuses improve the damaging sequence. It cannot be charged for Godfrey Icon and is not a weapon skill for Shard of Alexander.
• The grab also builds Madness on you. Madness triggered during its protected grab animation does not reliably activate nearby-Madness attack buffs in the same way as triggering it outside the grab.
• Old tricks involving a powerful right-hand weapon adding its attack power or status to the grab were bugs. Do not choose a weapon expecting it to multiply the current spell's repeated hits.
• The spell is on a coffin ledge below Cathedral of the Forsaken. Taking it does not commit you to the Frenzied Flame ending; opening the final door is a separate choice.