Rune of an Unsung Hero

Type

Golden Rune

FP cost

0

Maximum held

99

Maximum stored

600

Consumed when used

Yes

About this item

Golden remnants of the grace bestowed upon heroes who fell in the realm of shadow.

Use to gain 50000 runes.

The great heroes of the war were richly blessed by the grace of the Erdtree, but were not honored in death.

Lower lift platform in the Storehouse Loft

Shadow Keep

Starting Site of Grace: Storehouse, Loft

1. From Highroad Cross in Scadu Altus, follow the road east to Moorth Ruins and activate the grace beside the cross.
2. Pass through the large stone arch east-southeast of the grace. At the house ahead, turn left toward the leaning tower. Avoid the large open shaft behind the house, which is too deep for a direct drop.
3. Find the smaller gap between the broken building and the rock wall in front of the leaning tower. Drop onto the balcony-like ledge, turn right past the dogs and follow the cave inward.
4. At the open chamber, use the back-left ledges to reach the lower roof. The shrine below is a landmark; its optional chest is not needed to continue east.
5. To continue east, drop from the lower roof to the ground and take the cave beside the building on the left. Follow it to the long ladder and climb out of the well at Bonny Village grace.
6. Go east through Bonny Village, watching for the large cleaver-wielding villagers, and cross the two suspension bridges. The second brings you to Bridge Leading to the Village grace.
7. Follow the road north through the woods to Church District Highroad grace. Take the northwestern road through the entrance tunnel and activate Church District Entrance inside Shadow Keep. This eastern entrance leads to the flooded district, rather than the main-gate Hippopotamus arena.
8. Jump from the entrance ledge onto the first roof below. Follow its northwestern edge and jump from the raised roof section to the stone wall opposite, rather than taking the southwestern log platforms toward different loot.
9. Follow the wall around and climb its northeastern rise. Jump to the next roof northwest, where a Fire Knight patrols. Clear it or make enough room to continue safely.
10. Cross toward the next large church and jump onto the sloping stone support on your left. Walk southwest up that support to the high roof, then use the broken roof opening to drop onto the central beam below.
11. Follow the beam to the adjoining upper corridor and drop through the opening in its floor onto the raised church passage. Stay above the water and continue northwest; the Prayer Room door is a separate side destination.
12. Pass the small side room holding a Rune of an Unsung Hero and continue into the corridor patrolled by two Fire Knights. The first left exit leads toward the drainage wheel, while the later left exit leads to the Storehouse lift.
13. Take the later left exit in the Fire Knight corridor, cross to the lift and ride it up into the rear storehouse. Use the doorway on the left to reach Storehouse, Back Section grace. The earlier left exit goes to the drainage wheel instead.
14. Go west across the small wooden bridge and climb the ladder on its right. At the top, go east up the stone stairs, watching the Fire Knight above.
15. Continue northeast past the bookshelves toward the room with Fire Serpent. Use the hole in the southern wall, turn right outside and climb the wooden walkway and stairs to Storehouse, Loft grace.
16. From Storehouse, Loft, ride the small northern lift up to the rafters. Go west-northwest across the beams toward the ladder, clearing the bat before you climb.
17. At the upper level, follow the beams southwest around the central support, then look east toward the huge suspended wooden gear. Clear the next bat before lining up the drop.
18. Drop onto the gear and loot Wrath from Afar. Do not jump to the floor beneath the storehouse; this is a narrow suspended pickup, not a ground-floor corpse.
19. From the gear, jump to the adjoining beam and climb the ladder toward the pair of interior lifts. Deal with the Fire Knight before using the narrow platforms; its ranged attacks can knock you into the drop.
20. Use one of these paired interior lifts as a passenger to reach the small lower platform guarded by a Fire Knight. Do not follow the separate outer lifts toward Shadow Keep, Back Gate.
21. Clear or avoid the Fire Knight and loot the corpse at the platform's edge for Rune of an Unsung Hero. Hilde's higher ledge requires a different lift maneuver.
22. The corpse is a fixed pickup. Defeating Messmer or Commander Gaius is unnecessary for this selected Church District and Loft route.

Notes

• Use one to gain 50,000 runes. Selling one to a merchant gives the same 50,000, so selling it does not increase its value.
• The item stays in your inventory when you die. After you consume or sell it, those runes join your carried total and follow the ordinary death-and-recovery rules.
• Golden Scarab and rune-gain foods do not increase this fixed value. Those effects improve eligible enemy rune rewards instead.
• You can carry 99 and store another 600. Unused copies carry into a later journey with the same value per item.
• This is currency, rather than an automatic level increase. Use only what you need before spending it on levels, upgrades or purchases.
• Gives the same 50,000 runes as Lord's Rune. It does not increase Scadutree Blessing or Revered Spirit Ash Blessing.
• The selected pickup uses the Storehouse Loft's interior lifts. It is separate from the Fire Knight Hilde reward above a lift cage.