Shadow Realm Rune [5]

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 those who fell in the realm of shadow.

Use to gain 17500 runes.

In a long-forgotten place where none would tread, the light of grace quietly grew ever more brilliant.

Outside stairs below the fourth floor

Shadow Keep

Starting Site of Grace: Storehouse, Fourth Floor

1. Enter the Realm of Shadow after defeating Starscourge Radahn and Mohg, Lord of Blood, by touching the withered arm in Mohg's arena.
2. 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.
3. Defeat Golden Hippopotamus in the plaza. This is the front-door route; the flooded Church District provides a different way into the keep.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Take the stairs leading north-northeast toward the large lift, passing the Fire Knight in front of it. Ride up and activate Storehouse, First Floor grace.
7. Return upstairs and follow the shelf-lined walkways up the next two levels. Watch for Shadow Militiamen beside the stairs and the Fire Knight on the third-floor walkway.
8. Continue southwest past that Fire Knight to the walkway corner where more militiamen approach. Find the large feet of the suspended specimen, climb onto it and follow its body upward.
9. Jump from the specimen's horns onto the balcony with the cross and activate Storehouse, Fourth Floor grace. The ordinary stair route does not directly replace this climb.
10. Leave Storehouse, Fourth Floor through the western doorway. Follow the outside balcony south toward its stairs, watching for the Fire Knight.
11. Search the corpse beside the lower outside stairs for Shadow Realm Rune (5). The lower room holding Secret Rite Scroll is a different pickup along this exterior route.
12. Neither Messmer nor the scroll handover is required to take this rune.

Notes

• Use one to gain 17,500 runes. Selling one to a merchant gives the same 17,500, 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.
• This selected corpse is on the Storehouse exterior, rather than a reward for giving Secret Rite Scroll to Ansbach.
• It can be spent outside the Realm of Shadow and does not increase either blessing. The (5) indicates its item tier, rather than five levels.