The Grand Archives is a location in Dark Souls III. It is a subsection of Lothric Castle.
Description
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The library's layout is conformed by six levels:
First floor
- First appearance of the Crystal Sage.
- Only a few Thralls along the library's perimeter.
Second floor
- First vat filled with wax at the far end of the library.
- Small studio with the Crystal Chime guarded by a spear-wielding, red-eyed Lothric Knight.
- Darkened room with a moving bookcase that gives access to a secret room with the Witch's Locks and the Power Within pyromancy.
Third floor
- Kickable shortcut ladder to the second floor, from where the Avelyn can be reached by jumping on top of a series of bookcases below.
- Lever between two bookshelves near the front-central railing and guarded by several Clawed Curses. Pulling it reveals a hidden corridor on the second floor with a chest containing a Titanite Slab.
- Ladder that connects to the fourth floor on the balcony.
- Second wax vat upstairs and to the left.
- Hidden area revealed by pulling a lever to the right of the wooden bridge (must be reached from the fourth floor), with a corpse sitting on a chair holding the Scholar Ring.
- Wooden bridge where the final confrontation with the Crystal Sage is more likely to take place (the bridge reaches the fourth floor's level at its highest section).
Fourth floor
- Hidden room behind an illusory wall on an alcove on the left wing with a Boreal Outrider Knight inside that drops the Outrider Set, and a corpse sitting on a chair holding the Soul Stream sorcery a bit further.
- Shortcut lift to the first floor at the middle of the stairs that lead to the fifth floor.
Fifth floor
- Area guarded by four Grand Archives Scholars and several Clawed Curses.
Sixth floor
- Corpse holding the Fleshbite Ring at the end of the corridor filled with Clawed Curses on the right.
- Exit from the library to the roofs section.
- Undead Bone Shard on a corpse sitting on a chair on the rear-central area (after coming from the roofs section).
- Kickable shortcut ladder to the fifth floor.
- Third wax vat near to the library's main exit.
- Ultra greatsword-wielding, red-eyed Lothric Knight in front of a balcony on the front-central end, guarding two Titanite Chunks.
- Main exit from the library and to a courtyard where Knight Albert, Kamui and Kriemhild ambush the player.
Adjacent locationsEdit
BonfiresEdit
- Main article: Lothric Castle (bonfires)
The Grand Archives is a subsection of Lothric Castle and comprises the following bonfires:
Grand Archives
Twin Princes
EnemiesEdit
RespawningEdit
- Clawed Curse
- Corvian
- Corvian Storyteller
- Gargoyle
- Gertrude's Knight
- Grand Archives Scholar
- Hollow Soldier
- Lothric Knight
- Man-grub
- Thrall
Non-respawningEdit
- Black Hand Kamui
- Boreal Outrider Knight
- Crystal Lizard ×8
- Crystal Sage (mini-boss)
- Daughter of Crystal Kriemhild
- Lion Knight Albert
BossEdit
ItemsEdit
- Avelyn
- Blessed Gem
- Chaos Gem (drop: Crystal Lizard)
- Crystal Chime
- Crystal Gem (drop: Crystal Lizard)
- Crystal Scroll (drop: Crystal Sage)
- Divine Blessing
- Divine Pillars of Light
- Ember
- Estus Shard
- Fleshbite Ring
- Golden Wing Crest Shield (drop: Lion Knight Albert)
- Gotthard Twinswords*
- Grand Archives Key*
- Greirat's Ashes*
- Heavy Gem (drop: Crystal Lizard)
- Hollow Gem
- Homeward Bone (×3)
- Hunter's Ring
- Large Soul of a Crestfallen Knight / Soul of a Great Champion (×2)
- Lingering Dragoncrest Ring+2
- Onikiri and Ubadachi (drop: Black Hand Kamui)
- Orbeck's Ashes*
- Outrider Knight Set (drop: Outrider Knight)
- Power Within
- Refined Gem (drop: Crystal Lizard)
- Sage's Crystal Staff (drop: Daughter of Crystal Kriemhild)
- Sage Ring+1
- Scholar Ring
- Sharp Gem (drop: Crystal Lizard)
- Shriving Stone
- Soul of a Crestfallen Knight / Soul of a Champion (×2)
- Soul of a Nameless Soldier / Soul of a Seasoned Warrior
- Soul of a Weary Warrior / Soul of an Old Hand
- Soul Stream
- Titanite Chunk (×10)
- Titanite Scale (×13)
- ×8 are found on corpses throughout the area.
- ×2 are dropped by a Crystal Lizard.
- ×3 are found in a chest.
- Titanite Slab (×2)
- Inside a chest that is accessed from opening a hidden pathway behind a bookcase.
- Awarded after defeating the three Gertrude's Knights at the top of the area.
- Twinkling Titanite (×12)
- ×9 dropped from Crystal Lizards throughout the area.
- ×3 are found in a chest at the highest floor.
- Undead Bone Shard
- Witch's Locks
* If required conditions are met.
GalleryEdit
Exterior
ReferenceEdit
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