Messmer's Kindling

Type

Key Item

About this item

The kindling that burned inside Messmer the Impaler, a dark thing, eaten away at by a wicked serpent.

Burns the sealing tree said to be found at the old Rauh ruins.

Messmer, much like his younger sister, bore a vision of fire.

Messmer the Impaler in the Dark Chamber

Shadow Keep

Starting Site of Grace: Dark Chamber Entrance

1. Enter the Realm of Shadow after defeating Starscourge Radahn and Mohg, Lord of Blood, by touching the withered arm in Mohg's arena.
2. 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.
3. Defeat Golden Hippopotamus in the plaza. This is the front-door route; the flooded Church District provides a different way into the keep.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Take the stairs leading north-northeast toward the large lift, passing the Fire Knight in front of it. Ride up and activate Storehouse, First Floor grace.
7. Inside the storehouse, use the stairs behind the central specimen to climb through the book-lined galleries. Stay on the ascending route rather than taking the side lift toward West Rampart.
8. On the third-floor walkway, get past the Fire Knight and the small ambushers. Jump onto the feet of the large hanging specimen, climb along its body and jump from the head to the balcony with Storehouse, Fourth Floor grace.
9. Leave the fourth-floor room through its open window-door, turn left and climb the outside stairs. Follow the balcony past the bats and go back inside through the next doorway.
10. Follow the inner gallery around the bookshelves and climb the stairs past the Fire Knights and shadow scholars to Storehouse, Seventh Floor grace, in the room where Freyja can appear.
11. Leave that grace room and cross the northeastern wooden bridge. Follow the walkway to the hanging bull, then reach the lower gallery beside it and pull the lever that moves the central specimens.
12. From the balcony near the lever, jump onto the newly positioned wooden beam. Follow it inward, cross the raised specimen platforms and climb the next specimen's tail and back to jump from its head onto the upper balcony.
13. Go through the small room and back outside. Turn right, climb the stairs and cross the outer bridge toward the large closed doors. Defeat Fire Knight Kood, who guards this approach and awards Winged Serpent Helm and Flame Spear.
14. Collect Kood's helm and Flame Spear after the fight, then open the doors and climb to Dark Chamber Entrance grace. Messmer beyond the next doors is optional for these two rewards.
15. Prepare at Dark Chamber Entrance, enter the next doors and defeat both phases of Messmer the Impaler. His rewards include the kindling; Kood on the bridge does not give it.

Notes

• Carry this to the sealing tree beyond Romina's arena at the Church of the Bud in Ancient Ruins of Rauh.
• Burning the tree opens Enir-Ilim and advances several followers' quests. Finish their conversations, deliveries and optional assistance events first.
• Defeating Messmer gives the kindling. The later interaction with the tree is a separate action.
• Receiving the kindling does not burn the Sealing Tree automatically. You can leave it unused while finishing the companions' outstanding requests.
• Romina must also be defeated to reach the tree behind Church of the Bud. The interaction there takes you to Enir-Ilim; it is separate from burning the Erdtree in the Lands Between.