Drangleic

"What makes a king? Some say that it is birthright, while others call it destiny. Perhaps it is not important, as long as the king's name serves to unite his people. "

— King's Crown

Drangleic Castle.

Drangleic (ドラングレイグ) is a location in Dark Souls II. Drangleic is the region where the events of Dark Souls II take place.

Description

The region of Drangleic is geographically defined by natural barriers: to the north stretches a vast coastline while the other three sides are surrounded by mountains.

Far in the north of Drangleic, beyond the great sea, there is an unexplored continent where the race of the giants lives. To the east, Drangleic borders with the kingdom of Mirrah while in the distant east the land of Jugo and the ruins of the kingdom of Forossa are located. To the northeast, Drangleic borders with the frozen ruins of the kingdom of Eleum Loyce. To the west, Drangleic borders with the city of Volgen. To the south, Drangleic borders with the kingdom of Melfia while in the distant south the land of Lanafir is located.

Lore

Drangleic's Rise

The coat of arms of Drangleic with the heralds of the twelve subjugated kingdoms below.

The kingdom of Drangleic was founded by Vendrick when he, together with his older brother Aldia and his mighty army, invaded and trampled the domains of the Old Iron King, the ruins of previous realms, and the surrounding lands, uniting the inhabitants of the region under his banner.

Vendrick was the leader of a people of skilled warriors whose cavalry did not employ ordinary horses but instead rode wyrms, a race of land wyverns. Those who fought on the backs of these creatures held the title of Dragonriders, a rank obtained only by their strongest. As a frontline commander, Vendrick favored simple, honest warriors who relied only on their own brute strength; as such, his army avoided dependence on sorceries or miracles, valuing physical ability alone. Before they could aspire to ride wyrms, Vendrick's warriors had to learn to wield great bows that required inhuman strength just to merely draw and great skill to shoot. To become fully-fledged Dragonriders, these knights were then called to tame their wyrms; those who failed to handle the beasts were torn apart and devoured. Those who emerged victorious boasted unmatched strength, and the sight of magic imbued halberd-wielding Dragonriders on wyrm-back soon became a feared sight on the battlefield. Dragonrider knights who served in the campaigns that founded Drangleic were rewarded with service as Vendrick's royal guard.

A Dragonrider that served under King Vendrick.

Vendrick organized his army under simple ranks like Royal Guards, Knights, Soldiers and Infantry. He valued his royal army greatly, and included in its ranks even mere infantry, equipping each royal soldier with high-quality equipment crafted by the royal blacksmiths and armor with a design inspired by a brave knight from an old legend. The stalwart soldiers of Vendrick did not abandon their posts even as they became hollows, guarding their stations without relent. Distinguished soldiers were rewarded with magical rings that empowered them to carry more equipment, as proof of their meritorious deeds. Velstadt and Raime, two distinguished knights, became the left and right arms of Vendrick. Raime was enticed by the strength of his lord and acknowledged him as a father figure, while Velstadt was lured into Drangleic from a faraway home and devoted himself in life and death to his lord, eventually forgetting why he even came to the realm. Velstadt also became the leader of the elite knights and soldiers that guarded the Royal Castle, who were equipped with refined shields and armors crafted by the castle blacksmith.

Vendrick's crown.

As the King of Drangleic, Vendrick proved himself a fair and just monarch, and expected similar behavior from his subjects, whom he trusted and rewarded according to their loyalty and deeds. Drangleic prospered and became an influential nation to the point of making Vendrick known as "the one that ruled over the world of man" Having obtained total political dominion over the lands of Drangleic, he left extant religious institutions and their traditions intact. The king had a lukewarm opinion of their holy powers, and clerics were kept at a distance from the royal court, their inherited roles relegated to ceremonial positions, without opportunities for attaining greater power.

Vendrick's influence extended beyond his kingdom's borders, going so far as ordering his chancellor to hire a craftsman from Mirrah who knew how to manufacture the "geisteel" alloy produced in that country, to give his army an edge over his enemies. Chancellor Wellager managed to bring the artisan Llewellyn to Drangleic with the promise of an immense salary, uncovering the secrets of the alloy of Mirrah. Llewellyn became the castle's resident master smith and began working for Vendrick, distinguishing himself for his lack of ostentation and focus on simplicity and sturdiness. Only for a select few including the chancellor, he also forged armor and shields that combined lightness and strength, as well as a long dagger for the king that Vendrick then gifted to his Chancellor.

The artisans and blacksmiths of Vendrick studied the advanced metallurgical technologies of the fallen civilization of Heide, to try and replicate the composition of their mysterious alloy. Even though they failed, their attempt to imitate it resulted in a similar bradden steel. This fine alloy was forged from ores that were mined in the south of the kingdom and were widely used, particularly to craft armors that provides a sturdy defense with the design of the ancient elite knights of Astora. The king was also interested in sorcery, coming into possession of magic from Melfia like the Soul Greatsword and rediscovering ancient sorceries from Olaphis like Soul Bolt. Vendrick was also concerned with the history of the kingdoms before his own, collecting different types of Golems created by different civilizations throughout the history of Drangleic like the Old Knights of Heide, the Ruin Sentinels from Olaphis, the Belfry Gargoyles from Venn, the Manikins from Earthen Peak and the Old Ironclad Soldiers from the Iron Keep.

Drangleic's Curses

Nashandra becomes the Queen of Drangleic.

At a certain point Nashandra, a woman of exceptional beauty, arrived in Drangleic from a foreign country, and entered Vendrick's good graces, becoming his consort. The woman warned the king of a country of Giants beyond the Northern Sea, creatures that possessed souls of immense power and that apparently presented an impending threat to his kingdom. Vendrick was himself interested in the strength of the Giants, which he coveted as a means to step closer to fire, to end the curse of Undeath. The king was seduced by Nashandra's words, and followed her advice to gather an army and cross the Northern Sea, in an effort to subjugate the Giants and claim their souls for himself. When Vendrick landed on the realm of the Giants, a brutal war ensued, where he slaughtered, pillaged and conducted every act of barbarism with Nashandra at his side. Once his army "triumphed" in subjugating his enemies, they returned to Drangleic with a number of captive Giants and an immense number of souls as their prize.

Studying and experimenting on the inhuman creatures and their souls, and via studies on artifacts from older kingdoms, Vendrick and Aldia^{[citation needed]} pioneered the creation of Golems, very similar in appearance to the captured giants. Vendrick made Nashandra his queen, and had the golems build his Royal Castle, as proof of his gratitude and affection to her. Beneath the royal castle was the ancient Throne of Want, an artifact capable of connecting to the First Flame, the source of souls and beginning of all that the king was seeking. Studying the First Flame and the mysteries of the soul with his brother Aldia, the king acquired a profound understanding of the history of the world and the rules of reality, how the Flame brought Disparity and everything from it, propagating souls in the world every time someone linked it, giving it new strength. He also understood how the Dark was kept under control as long as the fire flourished, and that once the fire naturally weakened the curse would strike humans again.

Vendrick discovers the Throne of Want.

Thanks to this discovery Vendrick became the monarch who came closest to becoming a true "King" and turning his wants into reality. He had access to the primordial Flame whose power could decide the fate of the world, either by linking it to prolong the state of the world or refusing this fate and leading the world to darkness as a Dark Lord. Vendrick, however, never made either decision and continued to reign over Drangleic. Both he and his brother were not convinced by the two possible choices and, anchored to the illusion of the form that life had during the Age of Fire, they looked for a way to maintain it, searching for a way to free humans from the curse of Undeath and breaking the seal of fire that imprisoned them. As he deepened his knowledge of souls and curses, Vendrick effectively reigned over Drangleic, protecting the country from any external threats. Nashandra helped bring peace to the kingdom, a peace so profound that it reminded humans of the Dark from which they came.

From the day the king returned from his incursion into the land of the Giants, a dark shadow had gradually covered his expression, with even his vassals noticing a change in his character. The king of Drangleic became interested in the fate of other rulers of the past who might have found themselves in a situation similar to his and undertook expeditions on the ruins of the Brume Tower, Shulva and Frozen Eleum Loyce, but later decided to leave those lands cursed by several catastrophes, partially withdrawing his forces and sealing their access via magical altars.

The trial to test those aspiring to join the guard of Vendrick.

With the knowledge gained from his research on giants, the king also realized a particular golem in the form of the Looking Glass Knight, a ritual trial for those among his brave knights that wanted to become a part of his royal guards. This knight awaited his challengers in the King's Passage, the route taken by those that wanted to prove themselves, and was equipped with armor with high lightning defense, a thorned greatsword and a mirror that was able to deflect spells and summon warriors from other times and worlds. Similar to his army's trials before the conquest of Drangleic, those who failed in overcoming the Looking Glass Knight were slain by the golem as sacrifices.

While Drangleic prospered under Vendrick, the king's older brother Aldia never took an interest in the political affairs of the kingdom he had helped found, preferring to remain in his mansion and dedicating himself to the research of the truths of the world. His keep attracted the greatest minds of the kingdom, who were keen to help with his studies and strange rituals. However, his research, motivated by a boundless desire to understand life, eventually took a dark turn, leading him to create blasphemous spells with a will of their own that chased their enemies, a characteristic of the Dark. He also created excessively destructive pyromancies just to test the limits of the Chaos flame through rituals, along with sorceries that augmented the magic imbued in a body well beyond their limits, damaging the life of the caster.

Aldia's studies soon turned towards humans, with his acolytes employing every instrument available to dissect the bodies of their victims, in the name of their research. Their dark rituals involved human sacrifice. Those invited to Aldia's mansion became victims of unspeakable deeds; their subjection to cruel experiments resulted in magical rings that turned lifeforce into magic, monstrous creatures like the Ogres, or deformed and malformed abominations, examples of Aldia's experimentation of hybridizing different life forms and pushing the biology and souls of every creature to the limit, driven by a boundless desire for knowledge. Lord Aldia went so far as to experiment directly on citizens of Drangleic who were starting to become undead. He came to view the undead as the key to the mystery of life; to understand how souls could maintain life, he infused corpses with souls, leaving these people horribly disfigured, their lifeforce barely sustained by unstable and highly-volatile souls. Aldia also carried out atrocious experiments to free humans from the Darksign; the result was the Forlorn, beings that lost both their corporeal forms and homes, remaining ghosts who ended up spreading in a Drangleic where time began to stagnate. Their separation from the body also deprived them of their consciousness, leaving them only to wander in and out of worlds.

Aldia creates an artificial Ancient Dragon.

Having accumulated immense knowledge through his vast, twisted experiments, Aldia directed his research towards infusing the qualities of the everlasting dragons into humans, to free them from the shackles of their fleeting form and transcend, like the followers of the Dragon Remnants were trying to do using stones infused with the power of the dragons. The scholar obtained some of the Giants that his brother had captured and kept them in his manor as experimental subjects in an attempt to use their bodies and souls to recreate a dragon, only producing creatures with bones resembling draconic features that were killed once they had outlived their usefulness. His sustained efforts resulted in humans that turned into half-dragons, transformed into undead aberrations with deformed skulls that became close to those of the dragons but still degraded into hollows.

After continuous failures he finally succeeded in a feat bordering on the impossible: creating an Ancient Dragon. Using a Petrified Dragon Bone found on the fossilized corpse of a dragon discovered deep within the mines of Tseldora, a Giant Soul, and knowledge on souls and golems gained through decades of study, Aldia artificially created a dragon, giving it a great soul to power it as a construct and the fake memories of one of the authentic creatures that dated directly to the Age of Ancients. The ultimate goal was to transfer the immortality of primordial dragons to a human being, and so Aldia continued his project by artificially contriving Shanalotte as a daughter of dragons. However, she was not deemed a success by the scholar, either because she was unable to maintain a sufficiently humanoid form or because she was unable to overcome the shackles of the Darksign. In the end, despite the immense resources, research, sacrifices, time and horrors committed to try to overcome the Undead Curse, Aldia failed.

The Dragon Shrine behind Aldia's Keep.

In the mountains east of Drangleic, Aldia also created the Dragon Aerie to raise hundreds of wyverns under the control of his spells. The Dragon Shrine was also built at the center of the wyverns' nest, as a site of worship for the Ancient Dragon. It was a place where members of the Dragon Remnants and those who venerated the dragons in an attempt to transform to obtain their immortality and transcend human existence were welcomed, while also collecting artifacts such as the Petrified Egg to study dragon biology. After the king's brother had developed the nest to raise the creatures, the Dragonriders of Vendrick's royal guard stopped riding the obsolete wyrms and moved on to creatures closer to the ancient dragons.

Drangleic's Fall

The Giants invade Drangleic to get their revenge.

The peace of Drangleic was disrupted with the landing of an invasion army on its northern shores, led by the Giant Lord, intent on avenging the slaughter of their people by Vendrick.

Sir Syan, the king's most faithful knight, volunteered to lead the vanguard against the invaders, to give his lord time to mobilize the army; however his forces were slaughtered without honor by the Giants. The sacrifice of Syan and his party gave the royal army enough time to repel the first wave of Giants. On the north coast of Drangleic, the immense fortress of Cardinal Tower was built, which would become the cornerstone of the kingdom's defense. The army blacksmiths began to produce armor characterized by a shape that favored movement and offered great defense, ignoring all ornamentation in favor of suitability for battle. However, even the magnificent Royal Greatswords used by Drangleic knights were terribly inadequate when fighting the mighty Giants. Despite Vendrick supplying his bravest men with the best equipment available, very few managed to return alive, much less victorious. The king even commissioned replicas of Syan's armor and halberd to commemorate their heroism, which he then bestowed to promising knights, but not long after they donned the armor they would go thoroughly mad.

As the war dragged on, Vendrick's army began a decline caused by attrition in the face of the Giants' will of steel. The king was forced to hire mercenaries from Forossa and Volgen to reinforce his ranks, and Desert Sorceresses from Jugo were added to the defense of the Royal Castle. The endless battles also began to take their toll on the population. Those who could afford it ran away to other countries while the poor were left without a place to sleep, the kingdom now reduced to ruins. The conflict continued for three generations unabated, with the Giants sustaining their attacks on northern fortifications and trying to push their way inland towards the Royal Castle. The bodies of the many dead giants that littered the region slowly grew into great trees, covering the area around Cardinal Tower in a dense forest.

At a certain point Raime and Velstadt clashed and Raime was defeated and deemed a traitor, leading him to resign from his post and reconsider his way of life. Reborn as a stalwart warrior, he started to seek someone to whom he could dedicate his life. Velstadt continued to serve at Vendrick's side, as if he was his lord's own shadow.

To make things worse, Vendrick also found himself dealing with the fate of all kingdoms in the history of the region: the First Flame began to weaken, and the number of undead grew. The king himself was forced to draw from the power of his immense soul to keep the curse at bay, feeling it growing despite the strength he had pillaged from the Giants.

Initially the king took over the existing structures that had helped contain the curse under previous countries such as the Lost Bastille and the No-man's Wharf, using the golems and creatures already present such as the Flexile Sentries and the Ruin Sentinels as jailers. Undead Citizens of the kingdom who died and returned to life cursed would thus be locked in the squalid fortress and, once the numbers swelled to fill the cells, forced inside rickety ships and sent to certain death in the open sea. But the ongoing conflict and the resulting increase in deaths would only lead to more undead and more hollows. In an attempt to stave off the curse of undeath that was plaguing his kingdom, Vendrick hired some deserted members of the shadow knights from Mirrah, skilled assassins, to put down the hollows, making them work in the No-man's Wharf where they sent the imprisoned undead to die in the sea, but before long they became hollow themselves. More and more desperate, Vendrick came to call into his kingdom even mad warriors almost resembling beasts, that came from well beyond his borders and unknown lands.

Left to his own devices after his brother's failure to grant humans the immortality of dragons, Vendrick desperately sought to purge the curse of Undeath that was slowly devouring his kingdom. One of these experiments was conducted on the Milfanito, creatures conceived by Gravelord Nito to keep Undead under control. They resided in the ruins of the Shrine of Amana close to the Drangleic Castle. At least one Milfanito was taken as prisoner inside the castle and she was bound to a magic ring that was capable of making even hollows appear like humans, as the king was fascinated with reclaiming what he feared he would soon lose. At some point Vendrick learned of the monstrous rituals and experiments that his brother carried out in his Keep even on the subjects of his kingdom. Although they had once sought the truth about souls and a mean to free humans from the curse, their means were different and the fervor of their desperate search had eventually withered their familial ties. Understanding how his older brother had now abandoned morality to experiment on humans, Vendrick decided to confine him and his servants in his mansion, leaving him alive but building a King's Gate that would limit anyone from entering or leaving that wasn't the king himself, but consequently also losing access to the wyverns raised in the Dragon Aerie beyond the villa that represented an important military asset.

With his army exhausted by losses and desertions, Vendrick was forced to use the arts of the Old Iron King to produce the ancient Ironclad Golems, iron husks that were granted life with an enchantment of souls. These warriors wearing decrepit armor one day emerged from the Drangleic Castle and quietly assumed positions among the royal army, without speaking a word or revealing their faces. At the peak of the war against the Giants, Vendrick abandoned all moral reservations and attempted to revive the terrible experiments that his brother had carried out and which had led to the birth of the Primal Knights. Even if only fragments of the rituals remained, the king restored the forbidden art to create the inhuman abominations, to obtain warriors that would match their enemies in brute strength thanks to immensely heavy shields, swords and armor.

In the darkest hour of his reign, Vendrick also realized that his Queen, Nashandra, was a creature of the Abyss, and harbored an insatiable desire for strength. She was a fragment of a dark creature taken a human form, obsessed with the King's powerful soul. Impelled by her cravings, Nashandra sought souls, and strove to make the strength of the Giants her own, everything to reach the Throne of Want and the link for the First Flame so it could spread the Dark. Her painting in the castle was in fact able to curse the undead, making them hollow and draining their life, and only the king knew whether the depiction of the Queen was a resentful mockery, or an affectionate exaltation. At this point Vendrick had achieved a profound understanding of the truths of the world. He understood how the fire of souls was not enough to harness the curse, and how the Flame would soon fade and the souls of ancient beings would reemerge, before Dark would descend as a curse on humans, making them take their true, immortal form. With the fire extinguished men would finally regain their true form and bury the shackles that the gods imposed on them. Yet he continued to look for an alternative, a way to maintain the world and life as it had always been, frightened by a future of Dark. As the kingdom was on the verge of being overwhelmed by the Giant Lord's offensive, King Vendrick disappeared. As every last attempt to purge the curse of Undeath had failed, he understood that the only solution available was to link the Fire himself, sacrificing his immense soul to temporarily eliminate the undead curse and give a glimmer of hope to his ruined kingdom.

Vendrick fled the Castle through the King's Passage never to return, fearing Nashandra's wickedness. He left the Looking Glass Knight behind him, ready to expunge those who would challenge him, forever true to his original command, as the first line of defense against those who would attempt to pursue the runaway king into the Undead Crypt. The king took with him only a handful of Royal Soldiers and the faithful Sir Velstadt, and found refuge in the Shrine of Amana. Vendrick was initially intent on reaching the Throne of Want and link the First Flame but in the end the king understood that if he did so, Nashandra would have gained an easy access to the throne connected to the Flame. Vendrick thus decided to free himself from his soul, abandoning it among the ruins, to descend even deeper into the Undead Crypt. Here, left alone, he isolated himself in a secluded room wearing only his robes, crown, sword and his ring. Overcome by nihilism, Vendrick was consumed by the curse and soon became a hollow, mindlessly roaming the empty crypt forever to protect the ring that would grant access to the Throne of Want. Velstadt protected his king even in death, although the darkness of the Crypt soon corrupted his soul and equipment and eroded their divine protection. The knights and soldiers left at the Castle waited patiently for the return of their king and leader but turned to stone after decades of service, becoming Stone Knights and Stone Soldiers.

As Vendrick went hollow, Drangleic still suffered the onslaught of the Giants; when its army seemed about to be overwhelmed, an unknown warrior felled the Lord of the Giants, whose beaten and broken remains were then dragged beneath a stronghold to be sealed away, leaving the remaining Giant forces to scatter and flee without the resonance of their leader to guide them. In the meantime, the soldiers of Vendrick defending their fortress died and eventually became hollows, though they continued to defend their country with honor, patrolling the area. Even with the Giants eventually defeated, victory had come all too late. Without a king, an exhausted army and with a country reduced to rubble, depopulated and infested with hollows, the kingdom of Drangleic fell apart. With the collapse of Vendrick's kingdom, the defense of the region's borders deteriorated and the mountains surrounding Drangleic became the refuge of countless brigands that would prey on travellers trying to cross into the realm.

As the First Flame continued to wane, an Abyss opened beneath Drangleic, the result of the scattered fragments of an ancient abyss and the dissipated Manus, Father of the Abyss. Coalescing again, this abyss expanded across the region and assimilated all things into its growth, with its darkness felt even by those attuned to magic in neighbouring regions. A group of Undead led by Darkdiver Grandahl, called the Pilgrims of Dark, started to make pilgrimages to what they considered holy sites and delved into the Dark Chasm, to overcome the trials that lurked in the depths to refine the darkness within them. In the heart of the abyss, the Darklurker manifested: A dark, angelic creature that manipulated darkness along with sorcery, pyromancy and miracles and demonstrated superhuman abilities.

In the lands outside of Drangleic, the legend spread that, with the help of souls found in the region, the Undead could save themselves from the curse, avoiding losing their humanity and remaining Hollow forever. For this reason, those who died and returned to life as undead came to the ruined kingdom beyond the mountains with the hope of avoiding their fate.

Centuries after the end of Vendrick's reign, Drangleic would be known in Lothric as "Drang", the land of the legend of the Linking of the Fire. Vendrick's name has been lost to history, who is remembered only as the "Old King of Want", an ancient ruler that was cursed by an all-consuming thirst, making him no king at all in the end. The Dragonriders of his royal guard and their immense strength are also properly remembered. A group of soldiers, who proclaimed themselves descendants of Drangleic and wore the geisteel armor made by the blacksmith of Vendrick's Castle, abandoned the region and became sellswords. Known as Drang Knights, they scattered across the lands and quickly became known for shieldless, aggressive fighting tactics that utilized twinspears and hammers, striking fear into the hearts of their enemies.

Artifacts

• Dragonrider Set
• Dragonrider Greatshield
• Dragonrider Bow
• Dragonrider Twinblade
• Dragonrider's Halberd
• Syan's Halberd
• Syan's Set
• Royal Swordsman Set
• Royal Greatsword
• Drangleic Helm
• Hollow Soldier Set (Dark Souls II)
• Hollow Soldier Shield (Dark Souls II)
• Royal Soldier's Ring
• Elite Knight Set (Dark Souls II)
• Infantry Set
• Infantry Axe
• Foot Soldier Sword
• Foot Soldier Shield
• White Priest Set
• Priest's Chime
• King's Crown
• Royal Dirk
• Llewellyn Set
• Llewellyn Shield
• Looking Glass Set
• King's Shield
• Thorned Greatsword
• Old Ironclad Set
• Drakekeeper Set
• King's Crown
• King's Set
• Ruler's Sword
• King's Shield
• King's Ultra Greatsword
• King's Ring
• Aldia Hammer
• Spitfire Spear
• Northern Ritual Band
• Southern Ritual Band
• Soul Geyser
• Unleash Magic
• Forbidden Sun
• Dragon Acolyte Set
• Bone Shield
• Malformed Claws
• Malformed Shell
• Malformed Skull
• Warlock Mask
• Cursed Bone Shield
• Drakekeeper Set
• Drakekeeper's Ultra Greatsword
• Drakekeeper's Warpick
• Drakekeeper's Great Hammer
• Drakekeeper's Greataxe
• Drakekeeper's Greatshield
• Drakekeeper's Sword
• Drakekeeper's Shield
• Priestess Set
• Stone Twinblade
• Stone Soldier Spear
• Stone Parma
• Forlorn Set
• Greatsword of the Forlorn
• Scythe of the Forlorn

• Shield of Want
• Dragonrider Bow (Dark Souls III)
• Drang Set
• Drang Twinspears
• Drang Hammers

Characters

• King Vendrick
• Aldia, Scholar of the First Sin
• Queen Nashandra
• Chancellor Wellager
• Sir Velstadt
• Sir Raime
• Captain Drummond
• Dragonriders
• Royal Guards
• Royal swordsmen
• Royal soldiers
• Royal infantrymen
• Drangleic priests
• Drangleic priestesses
• Golems
• Looking Glass Knight
• Dragon Acolytes
• Prowling Maguses
• Undead Abominations
• Guardian Dragons
• Ancient Dragon
• Shanalotte
• Old Ironclad Soldiers
• Drakekeepers
• Undead Citizens
• Undead Laborers
• Stone Knights
• Stone Soldiers
• Forlorns

• Drang Knights

Areas

Things Betwixt

Majula

Forest of Fallen Giants

Heide's Tower of Flame

Cathedral of Blue

No-man's Wharf

The Lost Bastille

Belfry Luna

Sinners' Rise

Huntsman's Copse

Undead Purgatory

Harvest Valley

Earthen Peak

Iron Keep

Belfry Sol

Shaded Woods

Doors of Pharros

Brightstone Cove Tseldora

Majula's Pit

Grave of Saints

The Gutter

Black Gulch

Shrine of Winter

Drangleic Castle

Shrine of Amana

Undead Crypt

Aldia's Keep

Dragon Aerie

Dragon Shrine

Throne of Want

Artwork

The Dragon's Nest by Tom Zhao

The Iron Factory by Tom Zhao

Forest's Ruins

Coastal location artwork