Leda's Rune

Type

Golden Rune

FP cost

0

Maximum held

99

Maximum stored

600

Consumed when used

Yes

About this item

Blessing of Needle Knight Leda.

An unalloyed light that has never dwelled in an eye.

Use to gain 40000 runes.

Miquella gifted Leda with gentle gold to bring a soft hue to her faded eyes.

Helping Hornsent against Leda

Shadow Keep

Starting Site of Grace: Storehouse, First Floor

Before you go

• Choose Hornsent's assistance branch before Messmer.

1. Meet Leda and Hornsent at Highroad Cross. After approaching Shadow Keep breaks Miquella's charm, return and finish their new conversations.
2. Speak to Leda about her suspicions until she chooses Hornsent as her target. Rest and speak again if she has not settled on him.
3. From Highroad Cross in Scadu Altus, follow the main road north to Shadow Keep's southern gate. Ride the entrance lift and activate Shadow Keep Main Gate grace.
4. Defeat Golden Hippopotamus in the plaza. This is the front-door route; the flooded Church District provides a different way into the keep.
5. From Main Gate Plaza, leave through the west-northwest doorway, pass through the armory and climb the stairs. Continue up the wooden steps to the dining hall, where two Black Knights guard the route.
6. Leave the dining hall through its southeastern exit to the upper rampart. Follow the rampart past the burning boats and watch for the small Shadow Militiamen hiding beside them.
7. On the burning-boat rampart, find the paired red and gold signs near the stairs leading down. Use the gold sign to assist Hornsent against Leda.
8. Defeat Leda before she kills Hornsent. The assistance reward includes Leda's Rune and Swift Slash.
9. Complete this before entering Messmer's encounter. Do not leave the signs until after that encounter advances Hornsent's quest.

Notes

• Use one to gain 40,000 runes. Selling one to a merchant gives the same 40,000, so selling it does not increase its value.
• The item stays in your inventory when you die. After you consume or sell it, those runes join your carried total and follow the ordinary death-and-recovery rules.
• Golden Scarab and rune-gain foods do not increase this fixed value. Those effects improve eligible enemy rune rewards instead.
• You can carry 99 and store another 600. Unused copies carry into a later journey with the same value per item.
• This is currency, rather than an automatic level increase. Use only what you need before spending it on levels, upgrades or purchases.
• This is the earlier reward for helping Hornsent against Leda in Shadow Keep, alongside Swift Slash. The final Enir-Ilim group battle is a different event.
• The gold assistance sign and the red invasion sign give different outcomes. Helping Hornsent closes the opposing reward branch and changes Leda's later hunt, so choose for the quest rewards you want rather than only the currency.