Somber Smithing Stone [7]

Type

Upgrade material

About this upgrade material

Polar smithing stone drained of color.

Strengthens special armaments to +7.

Special armaments with unique characteristics cannot be strengthened with colored smithing stones. Number of steps and amount strengthened differ from standard equipment.

Tempest-Facing Balcony bell-bearing unlock

Crumbling Farum Azula

Starting Site of Grace: Tempest-Facing Balcony

Before you go

• Reach Crumbling Farum Azula.

1. After defeating the Fire Giant, use the Forge of the Giants grace to advance the story and arrive in Farum Azula.
2. Walk toward the building ahead. At the broken right-hand railing, drop onto the balcony below and enter the hallway.
3. Take the left stairs down. Pass the Beastmen and check the left room in the next corridor for Crumbling Beast Grave grace.
4. Continue outside across the curved ruins. The dragon is optional; pass it to the far doorway for Crumbling Beast Grave Depths grace.
5. Go through the bone-table room. In the next large hall, take the right stairs down, watching for Beastmen and lightning from above.
6. Cross the hall and leave through its far northeastern doorway to Tempest-Facing Balcony. Activate the grace.
7. Loot the corpse beyond the broken railing for Somberstone Miner's Bell Bearing [4]. The Godskin Duo is farther ahead.
8. Offer the bearing to the Twin Maiden Husks at Roundtable Hold to open its unlimited shop stock. Buy Somber Smithing Stone [7] for 16,000 runes each.

Notes

• One stone upgrades a compatible special armament from +6 to +7, plus the blacksmith's rune fee. Each Somber rank uses one stone rather than the ordinary path's 2, 4 and 6 pattern.
• Somberstone Miner's Bell Bearing [4] from Tempest-Facing Balcony unlocks unlimited purchases at 16,000 runes each from the Twin Maiden Husks.
• This rank's unlimited supply comes from its bearing rather than Iji's early Somber stock. The bearing can be handed in without collecting the earlier numbered bearings first.
• Ordinary Smithing Stones with the same number are not substitutes. The material family is set by the weapon's upgrade path, rather than whether you like its skill or appearance.
• The earlier Somber upgrades must be completed in order. Finding a high rank early does not let you jump directly from +0 to that reinforcement level.
• The handed-in Somberstone bearing preserves its upgrade-material shop in later Journeys. Fixed world pickups remain one-time collections within the current Journey.