Talk:The Lost Bastille/@comment-6132984-20140425161804

to skip the Sentinels get the old key from the chest with the Covetous Silver Serpant Ring, this will require entering from the Forest to get the key and exiting to returning from the Wharf route to get past the gate near McDuff's workshop.

you will need a Pharos Lockstone to get to the Iron Maiden lift that leads to Sinner's Rise, you will not be able to get to the Belfry until you kill the Sentinels