Elana, the Squalid Queen

Elana, the Squalid Queenis a boss in Dark Souls II. She appears in the Crown of the Sunken King DLC.

Location
At the bottom of the Dragon Sanctum

Summoning
Steelheart Ellie and Benhart of Jugo can be summoned for this battle. Ellie's summon sign is just before the fog gate, but Benhart's is further back, behind some of the large pillars you were previously on top of.

Lore
Elana, the Squalid Queen, like Nashandra, was a fragment of Manus, Father of the Abyss, supposedly a fragment representing the trait of wrath. Regaining her form, she became Elana, and later wife of the Sunken King. It is unknown if she designed to betray the Sunken King or if she truly loved him, but one day Sir Yorgh and his Drakeblood Knights besieged Shulva, killing the Sunken King and awakening Sinh, the Slumbering Dragon, who then let forth a toxic cloud that annihilated the whole city.

Somehow, Elana survived the siege, and became furious and vengeful for her city's destruction and possibly her husband's death. She took on her true form, and now accompanies Sinh, accruing souls for the day of her vengeance.

Strategy

 * Elana will cast Affinity, Chaos Storm (Dark Souls II), Dark Hail, Dark Orb (Dark Souls II), Darkstorm, and Flame Swathe.
 * When close, she will attack the player with the Wrathful Axe.

Trivia

 * It's possible that the Velstadt character she summons is in fact a mimicry of Raime instead.
 * Her greeting dialogue doesn't seem to be directed at the player, but at her fallen city, saying that it was not "deserving of the mire," and "forever [it] shall rot."