Nightmaiden & Swordstress Puppets

Type

Spirit Ashes

Summoning cost

97 FP

Upgrade material

Ghost Glovewort

About this spirit

An old puppet crafted in the Eternal City.

Use to summon the spirits of a nightmaiden and a swordstress.

These sisters, members of a cold-blooded race who wield flowing weapons, became puppets of their own volition.

Sealed room beside the upper bridge

Nokstella, Eternal City

Starting Site of Grace: Nokstella, Eternal City

Before you go

• Reach Nokstella; this approach uses Ranni's quest.
• Bring one Stonesword Key for this room.

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 the ruins as cover against the hanging creature's projectiles. Pass through the ant tunnel and activate Nokstella, Eternal City grace when the city opens ahead.
8. Climb the city stairs west of the grace. Pass the first landing with the Ant's Skull Plate side room, then the next building filled with electrically charged Silver Tears. Continue north and up toward the bridge guarded by a rolling silver ball.
9. Use the statues on your side of the bridge to keep the ball from rolling straight into you. Before crossing onward through the upper city, turn back south and look around the right side of the nearby building for an imp seal.
10. Use one Stonesword Key to open the sealed room. Defeat the two hooded Nox Monks inside and open the chest between them for Nightmaiden & Swordstress Puppets.

Notes

• Costs 97 FP and summons both sisters. Upgrade the paired ashes with Ghost Glovewort.
• Their flowing melee weapons can overwhelm smaller enemies with repeated attacks. A boss that withstands those hits can punish their lighter defenses.
• The Nightmaiden can create a damaging mist. Its enemy-damage role does not mean she takes damage from her own cloud.
• They are two separate bodies sharing one summoning cost and upgrade level. A broad attack can hit both when they crowd the same target.
• The chest is in Nokstella behind a Stonesword Key seal. These puppets do not require Seluvis's potion, shop or a hostile NPC quest choice.
• Nokstella is in upper Ainsel River, while Nokron lies beneath Limgrave. The normal Ainsel River Well reaches a lower area rather than this city approach.