Painter Spirits

Homing Instinct painting reward

Limgrave · Homing Instinct

Starting Site of Grace: Seaside Ruins

Before you go

• Examine Homing Instinct Painting at the Limgrave Artist's Shack.

1. From Agheel Lake North in Limgrave, follow the road southeast and cross the bridge. Avoid the mounted soldiers and troll-pulled convoy if you are not ready to fight them.
2. Take the road north at the fork beyond the bridge. As it bends northeast, leave it for the rising trail to the northwest. Follow that trail to Artist's Shack and activate its grace.
3. Enter the ruined wooden shack and examine the Homing Instinct painting. You must collect the painting before its reward spirit becomes available.
4. Travel to Seaside Ruins on the southern Limgrave coast. Head northwest toward the gravestones and ruined stone arch southwest of Dragon-Burnt Ruins, keeping to the slope rather than jumping off the high cliff.
5. Find the seated painter's spirit among the headstones beside the arch. Approach and wait for it to fade, then pick up Incantation Scarab from the item it leaves. The painter appears where the picture was painted, rather than at the distant landmark shown in it.

Prophecy painting reward north of Church of Pilgrimage

Weeping Peninsula · Prophecy

Starting Site of Grace: Church of Pilgrimage

Before you go

• Inspect the Prophecy painting in Stormveil Castle.

1. Enter Stormveil Castle and reach the large courtyard near Liftside Chamber. Look for the small side room off the courtyard containing a painting and inspect Prophecy before leaving.
2. Travel to the Weeping Peninsula. From its main road, take the western route toward the northern hill and Church of Pilgrimage.
3. Walk north from the church to the cliff overlooking the sea and Stormveil in the distance. Look for the seated painter's spirit near the edge.
4. Approach and wait for the apparition to disappear, then collect the glowing reward for the Warhawk Ashes. The painter only appears after you have inspected the painting.

Resurrection painting reward behind Caria Manor

Liurnia of the Lakes · Resurrection

Starting Site of Grace: Behind Caria Manor

Before you go

• Examine Resurrection Painting and defeat Royal Knight Loretta in Caria Manor.

1. On eastern Liurnia's high ground, start at Liurnia Highway North and follow the muddy path north. Stay on the plateau rather than descending into the lake.
2. Reach Artist's Shack near the cliff, northwest of Carian Study Hall. Activate its grace and examine Resurrection Painting inside. This is the Liurnia shack, not the Homing Instinct shack in Limgrave.
3. Reach the western Liurnia road and follow it north through Kingsrealm Ruins. Strike the illusory wall blocking the road at the northern end, then continue past Iji at Road to the Manor.
4. Ride toward the large manor while avoiding the magical strikes falling along the approach. Activate Main Caria Manor Gate grace at the entrance.
5. Inside, follow the courtyard path northwest toward the building in the far corner. Fingercreepers hide among the plants and beneath the ground; do not stop on a buried hand.
6. Enter the building with the seated spirit and climb its stairs to Manor Lower Level grace.
7. Take the elevated walkways east and continue straight along the main route at the first junction. Spectral soldiers appear along the bridges. Reach the far building and take its lift up to Manor Upper Level.
8. Leave the upper grace, pass the wolves in the garden and climb the main stone stairway toward the Troll Knight and sorcerers.
9. Continue up the stairs beyond the troll and Pages to the large circular courtyard. Defeat Royal Knight Loretta, then activate Royal Moongazing Grounds grace.
10. Leave Loretta's arena through the rear exit into Three Sisters. Follow the path clockwise around the manor's northern side to reach Behind Caria Manor grace.
11. Continue southeast from that grace toward the cliffside graveyard east of the manor. Search among the graves for the seated painter's spirit, with Raya Lucaria visible in the distance.
12. Approach the painter and wait for it to disappear. Collect the Juvenile Scholar Cap, Juvenile Scholar Robe and Larval Tear it leaves. If there is no spirit, make sure you examined Resurrection Painting at the Liurnia Artist's Shack first.

Redmane painting reward below the Minor Erdtree

Greyoll’s Dragonbarrow · Redmane

Starting Site of Grace: Dragonbarrow Fork

Before you go

• Inspect the Redmane painting in Sellia.

1. In Sellia, inspect the Redmane painting in the ruined alcove beside the main street. The reward will not appear until you have interacted with the painting.
2. Reach Dragonbarrow's Minor Erdtree east of Dragonbarrow Fork. Go to the cliff south of the tree and look down for large roots and branches protruding from the rock.
3. Descend onto the upper branch, then use the lower branches and ruined stone platforms one landing at a time. Do not jump directly to the distant lower plateau.
4. On the lower platform, keep away from the resting golem and approach the middle ledge overlooking the valley. Find the painter's seated apparition.
5. Wait for the painter to disappear, then collect Rain of Arrows. Defeating the golem is not required.

Champion's Song painting solution

Altus Plateau · Champion’s Song

Starting Site of Grace: Rampartside Path

Before you go

• Collect Champion's Song Painting from The Shaded Castle.

1. From Erdtree-Gazing Hill in Altus Plateau, ride east down into the valley, then follow it north between the cliffs. Stay on the lower ground rather than climbing toward Mt. Gelmir's campsites.
2. Continue through the narrow gap until the Shaded Castle appears in its poison swamp. Use the rocks beside the broken southern wall to climb inside, then follow the wall right to Shaded Castle Ramparts grace.
3. Follow the northeastern rampart to the stone support descending toward the courtyard. Enter the wooden shack beside it and examine Champion's Song Painting.
4. Travel to Rampartside Path in eastern Altus. Climb onto the high ground south of the grace, near the area where Ancient Dragon Lansseax appears.
5. Follow the northwestern edge of that high ground and look for the seated painter overlooking the landscape. Approach and wait for the spirit to disappear.
6. Collect Harp Bow from the item it leaves. The painting must be examined first; neither Elemer nor Lansseax has to be defeated for this reward.

Painting spirit south of Windmill Heights

Altus Plateau · Flightless Bird

Starting Site of Grace: Windmill Heights

Before you go

• Examine the Flightless Bird Painting in Leyndell.

1. For the original capital route, enter Leyndell after obtaining two Great Runes and visiting the Two Fingers. From Avenue Balcony, descend toward the greatbow knight, climb the enormous stone dragon wing and continue up to West Capital Rampart.
2. From West Capital Rampart, use the southeastern doorway and descend the stairs toward the lower western courtyard. Drop onto the courtyard ground beside Fortified Manor rather than climbing the enormous root toward the sanctuary.
3. Enter the manor's ground-floor doorway, go through the door on the right and turn left into the dining area. Take the doorway at the far right of that room.
4. Activate Fortified Manor, First Floor grace and examine Flightless Bird beside it. This is downstairs in the manor, separate from the upper room resembling Roundtable Hold.
5. Reach Altus Plateau with the Dectus Medallion halves from Fort Haight and Fort Faroth, or defeat Magma Wyrm Makar at the top of Ruin-Strewn Precipice.
6. From Altus Highway Junction, follow the road north past the map monument to Forest-Spanning Greatbridge. The waygate beside that grace brings you to the northern end of the broken bridge.
7. Leave the northern bridge end and follow the road east across northern Altus, toward the windmills. At the village junction, take the uphill path through the wooden entrance arch and activate Windmill Village grace.
8. From Windmill Village grace, climb the main village path past the dancing celebrants. Stay on the rising path toward the highest windmill rather than the separate pastures along the northern road.
9. Continue past the Godskin Apostle’s position to Windmill Heights. Defeating him makes the approach safer and unlocks the grace, but the spell itself comes from the painting reward.
10. Walk to the southern cliff near the upper windmills and approach the seated painter’s spirit. After he disappears, collect Fire’s Deadly Sin from the ground. The spirit requires the painting to have been examined first.

Sorcerer painting reward on the bridge

Mountaintops of the Giants · Sorcerer

Starting Site of Grace: Snow Valley Ruins Overlook

1. Defeat Morgott in Leyndell, speak to Melina for the Rold Medallion and follow the capital's eastern exit through Forbidden Lands to the Grand Lift of Rold. Use the ordinary medallion for the Mountaintops, rather than the secret destination.
2. Use the ordinary Rold Medallion at the Grand Lift of Rold to reach the Mountaintops. From Zamor Ruins, follow the eastern path around north through the mountain gap and across the narrow stone crossing, using its low cover against the Golem's arrows.
3. Continue to Ancient Snow Valley Ruins and follow the valley north. Turn right along the frozen river, then climb the left-side path by the cliffs to Freezing Lake grace.
4. From Freezing Lake, follow the cliff uphill around to the west rather than crossing the lake. Pass through the graveyard toward Snow Valley Ruins Overlook and continue west over the high ground.
5. At the larger graveyard, take the descent north toward the walking mausoleum and Castle Sol. Activate Castle Sol Main Gate grace outside the entrance, away from the mausoleum's feet.
6. Enter Castle Sol and turn left through the courtyard barricades, keeping clear of the two Lion Guardians. Enter the room with Skeletal Slimes on the western side and climb its ladder.
7. Follow the northern and western ramparts past the phantom soldiers and mounted ballistas. Use the walls for cover, then cross the wooden bridge toward the central building's roof.
8. Climb down the roof ladder into the otherwise locked room. Examine the Sorcerer painting to add it to your inventory, then open the door from inside. Commander Niall is optional for this painting.
9. Return to Snow Valley Ruins Overlook and ride west through the graveyard where enormous skeletons rise from the ground. Continue to the broad stone bridge near Shack of the Lofty, northwest of Stargazers' Ruins.
10. Walk along the bridge and check the eastern edge near its middle for a seated painter. Move close and wait for him to fade, then pick up Greathood from the ground. The spirit does not appear until you have examined the original painting.

Incursion painting viewpoint

Gravesite Plain · Incursion

Starting Site of Grace: Greatbridge, North

Before you go

• To enter the Realm of Shadow, defeat Starscourge Radahn and Mohg, Lord of Blood, then touch the withered arm in Mohg's arena at Mohgwyn Palace.
• Collect the Incursion painting from the Artist's Shack.

1. From Gravesite Plain, follow the road north past Scorched Ruins to Three-Path Cross. Head west through the natural rock arch toward Belurat and activate Main Gate Cross.
2. Face back toward the arch and take the narrow path southeast, then south up the cliff through the bats. Activate Cliffroad Terminus above, then continue south past the woods and climb the rocky rise southeast of Prospect Town to Artist's Shack.
3. Interact with the Incursion painting inside the shack. Merely seeing the painted landscape does not unlock its reward.
4. Return to Three-Path Cross and ride north to Greatbridge, North beside Abandoned Ailing Village. This area is west of Ellac Greatbridge; crossing the bridge toward Castle Ensis goes the wrong way.
5. Head west toward the lake, keeping clear of its Ghostflame Dragon. Follow the southern shore toward the rocky rise southwest of the water, with the natural arch to Belurat visible ahead.
6. Approach the painter's spirit on the rise near the tree. Wait for it to vanish, then collect Serpent Crest Shield from the glowing pickup it leaves. The dragon and Belurat bosses are unnecessary.

Domain of Dragons painting reward

Jagged Peak · Domain of Dragons

Starting Site of Grace: Jagged Peak Mountainside

Before you go

• Examine the Domain of Dragons painting first.

1. 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.
2. Defeat Golden Hippopotamus in the plaza. This is the front-door route; the flooded Church District provides a different way into the keep.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. On the rampart with the burning boats, find the ladder beside the moat and descend. Pass behind the waterfall, climb down the next ladder and interact with Domain of Dragons in the painting room.
6. From Castle Front, follow the road southeast toward Pillar Path Waypoint. At the fork, use the lower road toward Igon rather than climbing to the Suppressing Pillar.
7. Continue south-southwest past the broken dragon statues. An Ancient Dragon-Man invades along this approach. The cave entrance is on the left near the end of the path, marked by a fire.
8. Activate Dragon's Pit grace and follow the lit passage down. Watch for skeletons below the first ledge and around the next corner. Strike their glowing remains after knocking them down to stop them getting back up.
9. In the large cavern with the pillars, follow the left-hand ledge down and take the passage beside the distant crossbow skeleton. Continue onto the sloping stairs in the next chamber.
10. Take the downward route toward the large altar and pit. The stairs going up lead to an optional Magma Wyrm; that fight is not needed to reach the exit.
11. At the bottom, approach the message beside the deep chasm. Walk straight off this lowest ledge into the pit to land safely by the boss mist. Do not jump from the higher rooms or aim toward the side walls.
12. Defeat the Ancient Dragon-Man behind the mist. Open the large doors at the back of the arena instead of using the return-to-entrance exit, then follow the tunnel to Dragon's Pit Terminus grace.
13. From Dragon's Pit Terminus, descend to the first drake's lake bed. Use the northeastern archway and follow the path uphill as it bends southeast. The drake fight is optional.
14. Continue along the narrow cliff path until you reach a spiritspring on the east side. This is the first spiritspring on the ascent, before the bridge to Foot of the Jagged Peak.
15. Use the spiritspring to jump east, then cross the bridge south-southeast and activate Foot of the Jagged Peak grace.
16. Follow the southern uphill path over the rocks to the two fighting drakes. You can skirt their arena to continue east without defeating them.
17. Take the eastern canyon, climb using the next two spiritsprings and follow the valley uphill. Two boulders roll down the slope ahead; use the rocks on the right for cover before continuing.
18. At the top of the boulder slope, turn east-northeast toward Ancient Dragon Senessax. You can ride past the dragon and take the northern uphill exit instead of fighting.
19. Climb past the dead dragons to Jagged Peak Mountainside grace. Lightning strikes along the upper mountain, so move away from the marks that appear on the ground.
20. From the grace, follow the western cliff toward the first spiritspring. Use it to reach the rocky outcrop by the dragon corpse rather than continuing directly up the main ascent.
21. Cross the natural rock bridge and descend the small ledges on the right to the north-facing overlook southwest of the grace.
22. Approach the seated painter. Let the spirit disappear, then collect Rock Heart from the ground.

The Sacred Tower painting viewpoint

Rauh Base · The Sacred Tower

Starting Site of Grace: Temple Town Ruins

Before you go

• To enter the Realm of Shadow, defeat Starscourge Radahn and Mohg, Lord of Blood, then touch the withered arm in Mohg's arena at Mohgwyn Palace.
• Collect The Sacred Tower painting.
• Defeat Messmer and Romina, then burn the Sealing Tree to reveal Enir-Ilim.

1. From the opening Gravesite Plain grace, ride north past the spiritgraves to Scorched Ruins and activate its grace.
2. Head east and northeast toward the cliff face, directly east of the wandering Furnace Golem. Look for the shallow cave at the foot of the rock, south of the Backhand Blade area.
3. Enter the cave and examine The Sacred Tower on its easel. The Furnace Golem does not need to be defeated, and this is an open cave rather than a boss dungeon.
4. After revealing Enir-Ilim, travel to the map monument east of Temple Town Ruins in Rauh Base. Find the sealed spiritspring against the cliff to the east.
5. Follow the path south-southwest and destroy its sealing rock beside the broken wall. Return to the spring and use Torrent to jump up, then use the second spring to reach Northern Nameless Mausoleum's plateau.
6. Follow the plateau's western edge south toward the slope and the two projecting rocks facing Enir-Ilim. Approach the painter's spirit, wait for it to disappear and collect the seal it leaves behind.