Oracle Envoy Ashes

Type

Spirit Ashes

Summoning cost

72 FP

Upgrade material

Grave Glovewort

About this spirit

Ashen remains in which spirits yet dwell.

Use to summon the spirits of four Oracle Envoys.

Spirits of a monstrous band of musicians who employ sacred arts. It is said that when Oracle Envoys appear, playing their pipes, they do so to herald the arrival of a new god, or a new age.

Upper branches near the starting area

Miquella's Haligtree

Starting Site of Grace: Haligtree Canopy

Before you go

• Reach the Haligtree through the Ordina sending gate.

1. Obtain the right Haligtree Secret Medallion half from Albus in the Village of the Albinaurics. He is disguised as a pot on the uphill path, before the bridge leading toward the Omenkiller.
2. Obtain the left half from the tower beyond Commander Niall at Castle Sol in the northern Mountaintops. After winning, continue behind his arena, ride the lift and loot the rooftop corpse.
3. Return to Grand Lift of Rold with both halves and switch to the secret-medallion prompt. The ordinary Rold Medallion sends you to a different destination.
4. Take the main stairs through Hidden Path to the Haligtree and leave into Consecrated Snowfield. Continue north through the blizzard, following the road toward Inner Consecrated Snowfield, then on to Ordina, Liturgical Town.
5. Activate Ordina's grace and find the evergaol seal toward the back of town. Enter it to light the four statues. Invisible assassins patrol the streets and Albinauric archers fire from the rooftops.
6. From the evergaol seal, go left down the stairs and left again to light the street-level statue. Head toward the second stairs leading toward the town grace, but take the path around the building on their right instead of going down.
7. Climb the ladder around that building and the next ladder to its rooftop statue. After lighting it, drop from the eastern side onto the red roof, cross the connected rooftops and climb the next pair of ladders to another statue.
8. Go down those ladders and return to the evergaol courtyard. Pass the right side of the building, drop to the snowy ground and head west around the next building to the last pair of ladders. Light the fourth statue to lift the seal.
9. Back in ordinary Ordina, climb the long northern staircase and use the sending gate at its top. Activate Haligtree Canopy when you arrive.
10. From Haligtree Canopy, head east along the branch, climb over the pink mushroom near the envoy and turn south at the junction. Continue past the patrolling envoy to the next junction, then follow its northeastern branch to the end and look southeast for the branch below.
11. Drop onto that branch. The larger envoy is to the east; return west toward your landing and look south for the mushroom cluster with a corpse. Descend onto the mushrooms, keeping clear of the edges and using them as cover from bubbles.
12. Go north along the branch past the envoys to the ant patrol. Draw the ants onto a wider section before fighting, then turn back south and take the first broad branch east-southeast.
13. At its next junction, turn southwest uphill. Just beyond the smaller branch on your left, drop south onto the broad branch below. At the fork, use the southern branch, then turn right onto the thin branch before its far tip.
14. Follow the thin branch over the next branch, turn northeast onto that one and climb as it curves north. Pass the envoy and turn southeast toward the next envoy, then return west to the large junction.
15. Take the northwestern mushroom ledge with the Preserving Boluses corpse. Drop southwest onto the mushrooms below, then southwest again onto the main branch.
16. Head north-northeast. Beyond the branch sticking vertically up on your left, use the mushroom patch on the right to drop onto the branch beneath. Follow it to the larger branch, turn left and continue north-northeast, then northwest at the junction toward the huge envoy firing bubbles.
17. At the huge envoy firing bubbles from the broad upper branch, stay on that upper branch instead of dropping toward the trunk ladder. Follow it east-northeast as it curves left toward the trunk.
18. A group of three envoys of different sizes guards the far end. Clear enough space to move safely, then loot the body just past and to the right of the huge envoy for Oracle Envoy Ashes.
19. This is still above Haligtree Town. Neither Loretta nor Malenia has to be defeated for the pickup.

Notes

• Costs 72 FP to summon four small Oracle Envoys. The four spirits share one summon cost and one upgrade level; this does not summon the giant canopy envoy.
• Their bubbles deal Holy damage. Their close horn strikes are a separate attack, so an enemy's Holy resistance chiefly limits the ranged bubbles rather than turning every hit into the same damage type.
• The bubbles travel on a curved path and can miss a small enemy that is already very close. Give the envoys room and keep their line of fire clear, rather than expecting all four to hit through walls or a railing.
• The group can spread enemy attention and fire from different positions, but wide attacks can catch several of them together. They are not a single heavily armored knight intended to absorb every hit.
• Upgrade the group with Grave Glovewort through Roderika, to a maximum of +10. The final rank uses Great Grave Glovewort, not the Ghost Glovewort used by renowned knight summons.
• Your Faith does not directly improve their bubbles in the way it improves your own horn skill. Their reinforcement and applicable summon bonuses matter; Envoy Crown is a bonus to your own eligible weapon skills.
• The ashes are on a corpse beyond the group of envoys near the upper trunk. Neither Loretta nor Malenia needs to be defeated for this pickup.