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Dark Souls III Key Items Checklist

Keys, tomes, scrolls, coals and ashes that open the way or stock the shops. Where to find each one in Dark Souls III, DLC included.

Key

  • Fire Keeper Soul: Top of the Firelink bell tower, reached with the Tower Key.
  • Tower Key: Shrine Handmaid sells it for 20,000 souls.
  • Small Lothric Banner: Emma gives it when you speak to her in the High Wall chapel.
  • Cell Key: High Wall of Lothric: in the big hall where the first Estus Shard sits on an anvil.
  • Lift Chamber Key: Ringfinger Leonhard gives it at Firelink once you carry a Pale Tongue.
  • Grave Key: Shrine Handmaid sells it for 1,500 souls after you give her the Mortician's Ashes.
  • Loretta's Bone: Undead Settlement: on the corpse hanging from the balcony of the first house.
  • Transposing Kiln: Dropped by the Curse-rotted Greatwood.
  • Small Doll: Dropped by the Deacons of the Deep.
  • Jailbreaker's Key: Irithyll Dungeon: in a cell reached through the broken walls of neighbouring cells.
  • Old Cell Key: Irithyll Dungeon: at the end of an alcove past the Mimic that holds an Estus Shard.
  • Jailer's Key Ring: Profaned Capital: in the toxic pit area below the capital, reached through the plank maze.
  • Sword of Avowal: Given by a Londor pilgrim near the Darkmoon Tomb entrance if Anri's questline reaches the wedding stage.
  • Hawkwood's Swordgrass: Andre gives it once Hawkwood has left the shrine to wait at the Abyss Watchers' grave.
  • Basin of Vows: Emma gives it after three Lords of Cinder are dead, or drops it if killed.
  • Grand Archives Key: On Gotthard's corpse by the Grand Archives door once Abyss Watchers, Yhorm and Aldrich are dead.
  • Eyes of a Fire Keeper: Untended Graves: behind an illusory wall in the dark shrine, where Irina would normally sit.
  • Contraption Key (Ashes of Ariandel): Dropped by Sir Vilhelm in the library beneath the Ariandel Chapel.
  • Champion's Bones (Ashes of Ariandel): Dropped by Champion's Gravetender and Gravetender Greatwolf.
  • Small Envoy Banner (The Ringed City): The Dreg Heap: on a corpse near the Demon Prince arena after the fight.
  • Blood of the Dark Soul (The Ringed City): Dropped by Slave Knight Gael.

Cinders

Scroll

  • Sage's Scroll: Farron Keep: in a corner guarded by Ghrus near dead mushrooms, left of the Keep Ruins ramp.
  • Golden Scroll: Farron Keep: in a cave with basilisks, reached by following the right-hand wall through the swamp.
  • Logan's Scroll: Profaned Capital: dropped by the court sorcerer on the roof of the building in the toxic pit.
  • Crystal Scroll: Grand Archives: dropped by the Crystal Sage copy that teleports around the first floors.

Tome

Coal

  • Farron Coal: Road of Sacrifices: at the back of a stone room guarded by a Black Knight, below the main path.
  • Sage's Coal: Farron Keep: inside a small ruin guarded by a Darkwraith, along the left-hand cliff wall.
  • Giant's Coal: Anor Londo: beside the corpse of the giant blacksmith through the left gate.
  • Profaned Coal: Irithyll Dungeon: in a cell full of Wretches next to the room with several Jailers.

Ash

  • Mortician's Ashes: Undead Settlement: among the graves near the white tree shot at by the giant, past the Dilapidated Bridge.
  • Paladin's Ashes: Cathedral of the Deep: behind a hostile knight to the left of the first bonfire.
  • Dreamchaser's Ashes: Farron Keep: behind an illusory wall upstairs near the Old Wolf of Farron bonfire.
  • Grave Warden's Ashes: Catacombs of Carthus: up the stairs behind an illusory wall off the main hall.
  • Excrement-covered Ashes: Irithyll: in a small dead-end alcove of the sewers below the lake.
  • Easterner's Ashes: Irithyll: on a lower roof of the building where Silver Knight archers shoot at you.
  • Xanthous Ashes: Irithyll Dungeon: in the far cell of the Jailer room; appears only after Alva has been defeated.
  • Prisoner Chief's Ashes: Irithyll Dungeon: in a cell opened with the Jailer's Key Ring, one level below the bonfire.
  • Hollow's Ashes: Untended Graves: in the dark shrine where Yoel would sit, if Yuria never appeared; killing Yoel also drops them.
  • Greirat's Ashes: Grand Archives: only if Greirat dies on his Lothric Castle scavenging trip; on a ledge past the Corvian area.
  • Orbeck's Ashes: Grand Archives: on Orbeck's corpse after the Twin Princes fall, if he left the shrine to study there.
  • Dragon Chaser's Ashes: Archdragon Peak: on a side ledge to the left of the long path to the summit altar.
  • Cornyx's Ashes: Drops if Cornyx of the Great Swamp is killed.
  • Irina's Ashes: Drops if Irina of Carim is killed.
  • Karla's Ashes: Drops if Karla is killed.
  • Yuria's Ashes: Drops if Yuria of Londor is killed.
  • Patches' Ashes: Drops if Unbreakable Patches is killed.
  • Captain's Ashes (Ashes of Ariandel): Painted World of Ariandel: on the rafters, up the outside ladder at the top of the snowfield tower.
  • Old Woman's Ashes (The Ringed City): The Dreg Heap: on the old woman's corpse at the very start of the DLC.