Note: Miquella's Needle

Type

Info Item

About this item

Note written by a nomadic merchant succinctly detailing knowledge acquired.

"The Empyrean Miquella crafted a needle to resist the influence of outer gods.

Those who have inherited the flame of frenzy, yet wish not to become its lord would do well to seek Miquella's needle."

Merchant tent below the Cathedral of the Forsaken

Subterranean Shunning-Grounds

Starting Site of Grace: Cathedral of the Forsaken

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. Descend using the wooden beams first. At the lowest beam, look for the coffin lids projecting from the walls and use them as individual landing points. Check each landing before jumping; a direct fall to the bottom is fatal.
18. Work down to the platform with the corpse holding Inescapable Frenzy. Enter the adjoining passage on the right and follow it through the bodies to its end.
19. On this lower level, follow the passage past the bodies and find the tent concealing an item near the Fingerprint Stone Shield route. Keep the nearby living Nomad alive.
20. Put the tent between yourself and that enemy and bait its frenzy attack into the canvas. Collect Note: Miquella's Needle after the tent breaks. The upper tent containing merchant armor is a different pickup.
21. You can leave after collecting the note. The Three Fingers door at the bottom of the shaft does not need to be opened.

Notes

• An optional written clue about a way to suppress the Frenzied Flame. Collecting or reading it does not give you Miquella's Needle or remove the flame.
• Read it through the inventory to view the clue again. It does not need a quick-item slot, FP or a handover to another character.
• To obtain the actual needle, help Millicent against her sisters at the end of her assistance branch, recover her Unalloyed Gold Needle and return it to the scarlet flower after defeating Malenia.
• The red sign that challenges Millicent gives a different outcome and does not provide this needle route. Finish her assistance dialogue and collect the returned needle without attacking her.
• Use Miquella's Needle inside Dragonlord Placidusax's arena to suppress inherited Frenzied Flame. Winning that boss fight is unnecessary if you can safely use it in the arena.
• Removing the flame allows other available ending choices again, but does not restore Melina after she has left or reverse every consequence of entering the Three Fingers door.
• The clue is not required to obtain or use the actual needle. You can complete Millicent's assistance route without finding this hidden tent.
• Miquella's Great Rune from Scadutree Avatar serves a different purpose: it clears the final Enir-Ilim boss's charm mark. It cannot replace the needle for ending changes.