Shadow Bait

Type

Incantation

FP cost

15

Memory slots

1

Stamina cost

14

Requires

13Fai

Spell school

Two Fingers incantations

Incantation of the Two Fingers' servants, who once served as the assassins of the Roundtable Hold.

Creates a pale gold shadow before the caster, luring foes of human build and attracting their aggression.

This incantation can be cast while in motion or crouching, and will still affect foes that are already in a combat state.

It is said that those beguiled by the shadow see within it a hated foe.

Passage beyond the large sewer gate

Subterranean Shunning-Grounds

Starting Site of Grace: Underground Roadside

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. Leave Underground Roadside and turn toward the large closed gate in the main Omen hall. If it is open already, go through and search the corpse guarded by an Omen beyond it.
10. If the gate is closed, take the ladder ahead and left of the grace to the pipe-filled chamber. Cross the pipes toward the far-right doorway and follow the passage around to the gate’s opposite side.
11. Open the gate for the shortcut, then deal with the Omen and collect Shadow Bait from the corpse in the passage. Defeating Mohg below the sewers is unnecessary.

Notes

• Requires 13 Faith, one memory slot and a sacred seal. Costs 15 FP and 14 stamina.
• Throws a pale decoy that draws the attention of susceptible humanoid enemies. It does not deal damage, heal you or turn an enemy into a friendly summon.
• Can be cast while moving or crouching. Aim at a useful patch of ground to draw an enemy away from a doorway or expose its back.
• Soldiers, knights and some other humanoid foes can be distracted, including certain Omen. Appearance alone does not guarantee that every enemy uses the same response.
• Do not rely on it to disable a boss or control another player. A distracted foe can return to you quickly, so use the brief opening to move, escape or attempt a backstab.
• The thrown decoy can be placed farther away than White Shadow’s Lure, the separate weapon skill. Neither one is the same as a Bewitching Branch’s charm.
• It cannot be charged and has no damage scaling. More Faith, a stronger seal, Godfrey Icon or an incantation damage talisman does not create a damaging attack.
• Assassin’s dagger talismans can reward a successful backstab after the distraction. The lure itself does not trigger their critical-hit recovery.
• Found on a sewer corpse beyond the large gate beside Underground Roadside. The Omen guards a fixed pickup rather than dropping the spell randomly.