Introduction

Welcome to our Hollow Knight guide. The first thing you need to know about this game is that it's a 'Metroidvania'
game. The term Metroidvania derives from Castlevania and Metroid. As you can imagine, Metroidvania games
feature mechanics similar to these 2 games. More importantly, these games feature a world containing locked doors
and passages that the player can see from at any point, but can only access after meeting certain requirements,
such as a key, an ability, etc. Hollow Knight doesn't hold your hand or tell you what to do; you are dropped in this
world and it is up to you to explore, discover and finish. This guide will help you explore the maps, find optional
items and progress with the story (hopefully).

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Game Basics
In this section we'll go through the most basic aspects of the game and some general tips.

Hit Points
Health is represented with little white masks on the top left corner of the screen. You start with 5 and every time
you're hit, touch spikes or any other damage dealing structures, you lose one mask. Being hit with only one mask
left means death. You will be teleported to your last rest stop and lose all your Geo (the game's currency). You will
leave a 'Shade' behind. A ghost that will have to kill in order to recover your stuff. Killing enemies will replenish your
soul bar, which is what you use to 'Focus' and recover hit points. Check your configurations to see which key
triggers focus, you will have to press and hold, your character will charge and recover hit points.

Geo
The game's currency. You can get these by killing enemies or hitting Geo rocks. The latter are found scattered all
over the world.

Completion Rate
This game features a 107% completion rate. Many items, abilities, spells, quests and bosses contribute towards that
percentage. We will do our best to list every item and might make a more detailed section later on.

Basic Tips

Do not worry too much about grinding Geo early in the game. The Geo drop rate proggressively scales as you make
progress. Make enough to buy a Map, Compass, and a Quill. These will help you explore the world. Grinding for
more than this can end up being a waste of time, as you will get more Geo innevitably.

Jump and hit. This is how you get to some places that are otherwise unreachable. When you jump and aim down
before you attack, you can bounce depending what you hit. Spikes and other structures will make you bounce and
reach higher altitude with your jumps.

Explore. The game doesn't tell you where to go, and the only way to progress is to explore and trigger events, find
keys, items, among other things that will help you progress through the game.

Avoid death. If you've got Mask left and ahead there are only hard enemies or you don't wanna risk it, quit the game
and load your save. You will maintain all your progress and spawn on the last Bench you rested at.

Charms & Spells

Charms & Notches
In Hollow Knight, there are rare special items called “Charms” that can be acquired throughout the game. These
items will give the Knight a number of bonuses depending on which Charms are being used, and can only be
equipped and unequipped when resting on a bench. Charms occupy slots called Notches. You can equip as many
Charms as you want, as long as you don't exceed the number of Notches. You start the game with only three
Notches to use, so there isn’t a lot of choice in what Charms you can use together at the beginning, or if you can
use multiple charms at all. Like Charms, more Notches can be found throughout the game.There are 45 Charms in
total, although only 40 can be kept at any one time as 5 are able to be replaced throughout the game. There are a
total of 11 Notches in the game.

There is a way for the player to equip a Charm if they don’t have the necessary Notches to do so. After attempting to
equip a Charm five times, it will eventually work, however the Knight will become Overcharmed. While the Knight is
Overcharmed, the health bar will have a purple aura and the Knight will take twice as much damage from anything
that can cause it. To remove this effect, remove the Charm that broke the Notch limit. You will not be able to add an
additional Charm if all of the Notches are in use, and only one Charm can be equipped past the Notch limit.

List of Charms:
Wayward Compass

Notches Required: 1.

Effect: Shows the player’s location on the map.

How to Acquire: Can be bought from Iselda in Dirtmouth for 220 Geo.

Gathering Swarm

Notches Required: 1.

Effect: Collects dropped Geo, preventing the player from losing any that fall into hard-to-reach places.

How to Acquire: Can be bought from Sly in Dirtmouth for 300 Geo.

Stalwart Shell

Notches Required: 2.

Effect: Increases the invincibility duration after being hit to 2 seconds.

How to Acquire: Can be bought from Sly in Dirtmouth for 200 Geo.

Soul Catcher

Notches Required: 2.

Effect: Gain an additional +3% SOUL with each hit.

How to Acquire: Can be found at the end of the Ancestral Mound, after killing the Elder Baldur.
Shaman Stone

Notches Required: 3.

Effect: Increases the damage, size and hitbox of spells casted.

How to Acquire: Can be bought from Salubra in Forgotten Crossroads for 220 Geo.

Dashmaster

Notches Required: 2.

Effect: Allows the use of Dash to be more frequent as the cooldown is halved, also allows you to use Dash
downwards.

How to Acquire: Can be found beneath a statue in the Fungal Wastes, down from the Mantis Village.

Fragile Heart

Notches Required: 2.

Effect: Adds two masks of health while in use.

How to Acquire: Can be bought from Leg Eater in Fungal Wastes for 350 Geo, can also be repaired for 200 Geo if it
breaks.

Fragile Greed

Notches Required: 2.

Effect: Causes enemies to drop more Geo while in use, the amount varies each time.
How to Acquire: Can be bought from Leg Eater in Fungal Wastes for 250 Geo, can also be repaired for 150 Geo if it
breaks.

Fragile Strength

Notches Required: 3.

Effect: Increases the strength of the Nail while in use.

How to Acquire: Can be bought from Leg Eater in Fungal Wastes for 600 Geo, can also be repaired for 350 Geo if it
breaks.

Steady Body

Notches Required: 1.

Effect: Knight won’t get pushed back after attacking an enemy.

How to Acquire: Can be bought from Salubra in Forgotten Crossroads for 120 Geo.

Longnail

Notches Required: 2.

Effect: Increases the range of the Nail, this way being able to keep your distance from dangerous enemies.

How to Acquire: Can be bought from Salubra in Forgotten Crossroads for 300 Geo.

Mark of Pride

Notches Required: 3.

Effect: Increases the range of the Nail, more so than Longnail.

How to Acquire: Can be found in Mantis Village in a chest after defeating the Mantis Lords.
Fury of the Fallen

Notches Required: 2.

Effect: Increases the strength of the Nail dramatically when on one mask of health.

How to Acquire: Can be found in King’s Pass right at the start inside a chest behind a cave full of spikes.

Thorns of Agony

Notches Required: 1.

Effect: When the Knight takes damage, it deals damage to nearby enemies for double the base damage of the base
Nail.

How to Acquire: Can be found in Greenpath beyond many thorns, the Mothwing Cloak is needed to reach it.
Quick Focus

Notches Required: 3.

Effect: Can use the Focus ability twice as fast.

How to Acquire: Can be bought from Salubra in Forgotten Crossroads for 800 Geo.

Deep Focus

Notches Required: 4.

Effect: Allows the Focus ability to heal 2 masks of health, but the speed the ability is used will be slowed down.

How to Acquire: Can be found in Crystal Peak after breaking a fake wall, the Crystal Heart is needed in order to get
to it.

Lifeblood Heart

Notches Required: 2.

Effect: Adds 2 Lifeblood masks to the Knight’s constitution after resting on a bench.

How to Acquire: Can be bought from Salubra in Forgotten Crossroads for 250 Geo.

Spore Shroom

Notches Required: 1.

Effect: Releases a cloud of spores after using Focus that deals a small amount of damage with each particle.

How to Acquire: Can be found in Fungal Wastes, near alternate routes to the Deepnest and the Queen’s Garden.
The Manis Claw is needed in order to reach.
Dreamshield

Notches Required: 3.

Effect: Creates a shield that will follow the Knight when worn and tries to protect them.

How to Acquire: Can be found in Resting Grounds behind a fake wall underneath the Seer’s room.
Spells & Abilities
The white energy that can be gained by hitting enemies and Soul Totems is referred to as SOUL. It can be seen in
the top left corner of the screen as a circular meter that will fill up with a white liquid as SOUL is gained, giving the
meter a mask appearance when it’s full.

SOUL is needed to use the Focus ability, which heals the player, or to cast spells to attack enemies. When the
meter does not have enough to be used, the colour inside will be a dull grey, but once enough SOUL is
accumulated, it will glow for a moment before becoming white inside.

Of course, with Focus and the variety of spells you will be using, the SOUL you collect will deplete very quickly. Soul
Vessels can be acquired throughout the game and are used as additional storage for SOUL. They are shown as
small circles left of the main SOUL meter. When the main meter has empty space, any SOUL stored in the Soul
Vessels will quickly fill up the main meter.

To acquire a Soul Vessel, the player must collect Vessel Fragments in order to create the additional space. It takes
3 fragments to create a full Soul Vessel.

Locations of Vessel Fragments:

The very first Vessel Fragment you can find can be bought from Sly in Dirtmouth for 550 Geo.

Spells
You can use SOUL to cast Spells, activating them by holding down Focus/Cast, tapping Focus/Cast, or looking up
or down. This is where Soul Vessels become a necessity as you gain more and more Spells to use.

List of Spells:

Focus

How to use: Hold down the key set for Focus/Cast to regenerate health and drain SOUL.

How to Acquire: It’s available to you right at the start of the game.

Vengeful Spirit

How to Use: Tap the Focus/Cast key, or Quick Cast without looking up or down to launch the attack at an enemy.

How to Acquire: It is given by the Snail Shaman in the Ancestral Mound in the Forgotten Crossroads.
Desolate Dive

How to use: Use the key for Focus/Cast while holding the key for down. This causes the Knight to smash into the
ground that causes a shockwave that deals damage to any enemies that are around.

How to Acquire: Defeat Soul Master in the Soul Sanctum in City of Tears.

Howling Wraiths

How to use: Use the key for Focus/Cast while holding the key for up. This causes a wave of energy to be released
above the Knight, dealing damage to any enemy in the way.

How to Acquire: Can be found in the Overgrown Mound in Fog Canyon.

Shade Soul

How to use: Use the key for Focus/Cast without holding the keys for up or down. This launches a blast at the
enemy, but will blast through all objects in its way, including walls, shields and shells.

How to Acquire: An Elegant Key is needed, which can be bought from Sly in Dirthmouth. Located in Soul Sanctum
in City of tears, it is the upgrade for Vengeful Spirit.

Descending Dark

How to use: Use the key for Focus/Cast while holding the key for down. Like Desolate Dive, this causes a
shockwave that spreads twice and reaches much further.

How to Acquire: The upgrade for Desolate Dive. Can be found on the corpse of a Snail Shaman in Crystal Peak
inside the Crystallised Mound. Both Crystal Heart and Desolate Dive are needed to reach it.
Abyss Shriek

How to use: Use the key for Focus/Cast while holding the key for up. Like Howling Wraiths, This causes a wave of
energy to be released above the Knight, this time sent out in 4 quick bursts.

How to Acquire: Can be found in the Abyss. In the room at the bottom left of the Abyss is a pedestal you can stand
on. While standing on it, use the Howling Wraiths spell.
Abilities
You can find Abilities throughout the game, these will help you reach places once impossible to get reach.

List of Abilities:

Mothwing Cloak

How to Use: Press the key bound for Dash to dash a short distance the direction you’re facing. This can also be
used in mid-air, and can help the Knight reach places that were once impossible to get to.

How to Acquire: Found after defeating Hornet in the Greenpath.

Crystal Heart

How to use: Hold the key bound for Super Dash while you’re on the ground to concentrate and build up energy.
Release the key when the ability is fully charged and fly through the air.

How to Acquire: Can be found in Crystal Peak in an old mining machine.

Monarch Wings

How to use: Tap the button bound for jump while in the air to perform a double jump.

How to Acquire: Can be found in the Ancient Basin after fighting the Broken Vessel.

Isma’s Tear

How to use: Allows you to swim in acid while taking no damage.

How to Acquire: Can be found in the Royal Waterways, the Crystal Heart is needed.

Shade Cloak

How to use: Press the key bound for Dash to dash through Shade Gates, as well as blast through enemies. The
Shade Cloak is an upgrade to the Mothwing Cloak.

How to Acquire: Can be found in the Abyss after standing inside a bowl of a shadow fountain, this will cause a black
substance to spread over the Knight, giving them the ability.
Dreamgate

How to use: Use the key bound for the Dream Nail and either hold the key for up or for down. Allows you to place a
Dream Gate before warping from any area to the area you desire.

How to Acquire: Given as a reward by the Seer in the Resting Grounds after gaining 900 Essence.

NPCs
A list of characters that the Knight can find and meet within Hallownest.

Vendors

Cornifer

Location: Travelling around Hallownest.

Information: Iselda’s husband and a resident of Dirtmouth. You first meet Cornifer at the bottom of Forgotten
Crossroads and he explains that he creates and sells maps. He then tells the Knight to pay his wife a visit at her
shop in Dirtmouth for any mapping supplies they might need.
Iselda

Location: Dirtmouth.

Information: Cornifer’s wife and a resident of Dirtmouth. After meeting her husband in Forgotten Crossroads, her
store will open and the Knight will be able to buy mapping tools from her, as well as any maps you miss purchasing
from Cornifer for a higher price.
Sells:

Mapping tools

Quill for 120 Geo.

Wayward Compass for 220 Geo.

Map Pins

Bench Pin

Use: Mark the benches you rest at, they’ll come in handy again later.

Cost: 100 Geo.

Requirement: Meet Cornifer.

Cocoon Pin

Use: Mark the blue cocoons you find on your adventure.

Cost: 100 Geo.

Requirement: Meet Cornifer.

Hot Spring Pin

Use: Mark the hot springs you find on your adventures.

Cost: 100 Geo.

Requirement: Meet Cornifer.

Stag Station Pin

Use: Mark the Stagway Stations you visit for your convenience.

Cost: 100 Geo.

Requirement: Open the first Stag Station.

Vendor Pin

Use: Mark merchants you meet on your adventure to visit again.

Cost: 100 Geo.

Requirement: Meet Cornifer.

Maps

Ancient Basin for 150 Geo.

City of Tears for 120 Geo.

Crystal Peak for 150 Geo.

Deepnest for 50 Geo.

Fog Canyon for 200 Geo.

Forgotten Crossroads for 40 Geo.

Fungal Wastes for 100 Geo.

Greenpath for 80 Geo.

Howling Cliffs for 100 Geo.

Kingdom’s Edge for 150 Geo.

Queen’s Gardens for 200 Geo.

Resting Grounds for 75 Geo.

Royal Waterways for 100 Geo.

The Last Stag

Location: Stag Stations.

Information: A large stag beetle that acts as a fast travel mechanic for the game, taking the Knight to Stag Stations
they have unlocked. The Last Stag also gives a bit of lore, providing information for each Stag Station he first visits
after it’s unlocked.
Sells:

Stag Station Prices

Dirtmouth – open after the first Stag Station is opened.

Forgotten Crossroads – 50 Geo.

Greenpath – 140 Geo.

Fungal Wastes, Queen’s Station – 120 Geo.

City of Tears, City Storeroom – 200 Geo.

Resting Grounds – free.

City of Tears, King’s Station – 300 Geo.

Queen’s Gardens – 200 Geo.

Deepnest, Distant Village – 250 Geo.

Hidden Station, Palace Grounds – 300 Geo.

Howling Cliffs, Stag Nest – unlocked when all Stag Stations are open.

Sly

Location: Dirtmouth.

Information: A resident of Dirtmouth, you first meet him after defeating the Gruz Mother in Forgotten Crossroads.
The Knight finds him in an abandoned hut, slowly falling prey to the infection. After talking to him, he’ll snap out of it
and return to Dirtmouth to open his shop, allowing you to buy various items. Once he’s given the Shopkeeper’s Key,
he’ll have more items for sale.
Sells:

Simple Key

Cost: 950 Geo.

Requirement: None.

Rancid Egg

Cost: 60 Geo.

Requirement: None.

Lumafly Lantern

Cost: 1800 Geo.

Requirement: None.
Gathering Swarm

Cost: 300 Geo.

Requirement: None.

Stalwart Shell

Cost: 200 Geo.

Requirement: None.

1st Mask Shard

Cost: 150 Geo.

Requirement: None.
2nd

Cost: 500 Geo.

Requirement: Buying the first Mask Shard.

3rd

Cost: 800 Geo.

Requirement: Shopkeeper’s Key and buying the previous Mask Shard.

4th

Cost: 1500 Geo.

Requirement: Shopkeeper’s Key and buying the previous Mask Shard.

1st Vessel Fragment

Cost: 550 Geo.

Requirement: None.
2nd

Cost: 900 Geo.

Requirement: Shopkeeper’s Key and buying the first Vessel Fragment.

Heavy Blow

Cost: 350 Geo.

Requirement: Shopkeeper’s Key.

Sprintmaster

Cost: 400 Geo.

Requirement: Shopkeeper’s Key.

Elegant Key

Cost: 800 Geo.

Requirement: Shopkeeper’s Key.

Confessor Jiji

Location: Dirtmouth.

Information: A resident of Dirtmouth, Jiji lives just beyond the town’s graveyard. Her home is initially locked, her
stone door unbreakable. To enter and meet her, you need to find a simple key, or buy one from Sly for 950 Geo. Jiji
is able to summon the Knight’s Shade from any point in Hallownest, which will then lead to a fight with the Shade in
order to repair the SOUL meter and regain the Geo lost.
Sells:

Shade summon for 1 Rancid Egg.

Salubra

Location: Forgotten Crossroads.

Information: A resident in Forgotten Crossroads, to reach her you need to defeat the Gruz Mother and obtain the
Mothwing Cloak to Dash to the cliff her shop is located on. She sells Charms and Notches, as well as a Blessing
after collecting 40 Charms.
Sells:

Charms
Lifeblood Heart for 250 Geo.

Longnail for 300 Geo.

Quick Focus for 800 Geo.

Shaman Sone for 220 Geo.

Steady Body for 120 Geo.

Notches

1st Charm Notch

Cost: 120 Geo.

Requirement: Own 5 Charms.

2nd

Cost: 500 Geo.

Requirement: Own 10 Charms.
3rd

Cost: 900 Geo.

Requirement: Own 18 Charms.

4th

Cost: 1400 Geo.

Requirement: Own 25 Charms.

Salubra’s Blessing

Cost: 800 Geo.

Requirement: Own 40 Charms.

Millibelle

Location: Fog Canyon, Pleasure House.

Information: A resident in Fog Canyon, her bank can be found at the bottom of the area. She will open an account
for the Knight for 100 Geo, and any Geo stored in it can be withdrawn at any time, and will remain safe even after
dying. However, if more than 2500 Geo is stored in the account, Millibelle will abandon her bank after you rest at a
bench or fast travel in any way. You can find her again at the hot spring in the Pleasure House after visiting the bank
and finding it empty. You’ll be able to retrieve your stolen Geo by striking her, dealing no damage as you knock the
Geo out of her.
Sells:

Opens account for 100 Geo. A maximum of 4500 Geo can be held in it.
Leg Eater

Location: Fungal Wastes.

Information: A resident of Fungal Wastes, his shop also provides a location of rest. After giving Leg Eater 86 Geo,
he’ll open his shop to you, selling three fragile Charms that can be repaired by him for a small fee.
Sells:

Fragile Heart

Cost: 350 Geo.

Repair: 200 Geo.

Fragile Greed

Cost: 250 Geo.

Repair: 150 Geo.

Fragile Strength
Cost: 600 Geo.

Repair: 350 Geo.

Nailsmith

Location: City of Tears.

Information: A resident of the City of Tears, he will comment on the Knight’s Nail before offering to refine it for a
small fee. He can refine it three more times, but will need both Geo and Pale Ore to upgrade the Nail.
Sells:

Sharpened Nail for 250 Geo.

Channelled Nail for 800 Geo and 1 Pale Ore.

Coiled Nail for 2000 Geo and 2 Pale Ore.

Pure Nail for 4000 Geo and 3 Pale Ore.

Relic Seeker Lemm

Location: City of Tears.

Information: A resident of the City of Tears in a tall tower, he will buy rare trinkets the Knight has collected during
their travels around Hallownest.
Buys:
Wanderer’s Journal for 200 Geo.

Hallownest Seal for 450 Geo.

King’s Idol for 800 Geo.

Arcane Egg for 1200 Geo.

Enemies
Hollow Knight has a large variety of enemies to fight, ranging from completely harmless to downright terrifying. In
this section we’ll list all of the enemies you can encounter, where to find them and what they drop, as well as any
additional information.

You can obtain an item called the Hunter’s Journal after finding a camouflaged creature called The Hunter in
Greenpath. Once given to you, any enemy you kill or have already killed will be added to the journal. To gain more
information on a type of enemy, you’ll have to kill it again a certain number of times depending on the enemy.
Enemy List

Crawlid

Locations: King’s Pass, Forgotten Crossroads, Greenpath.

Drops: 2 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 1.

Behaviour: Pretty docile, simply wanders back and forth without paying the Knight any attention. It cannot climb up
walls or along ceilings.

Vengefly

Locations: Forgotten Crossroads, Greenpath.

Drops: 3 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 45.

Behaviour: Limits its flight to a small area when undisturbed. Once the Knight comes in range, it will let out a squawk
before diving to attack. Killing this enemy is easy as it constantly moves towards you, simply stand still and hit it
when it flies in range, or jump down to strike at it.
Vengefly King

Locations: Greenpath.

Drops: 65 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 2.

Behaviour: First seen hanging from the ceiling with the old Knight Zote in its clutches. Jump up and strike at it to
initiate the fight. Despite its size, the Vengefly King isn’t too hard to take down, and only has two attacks. It’s more
common attack involves it opening its jaw wide and lunging down at the Knight before curving back up. You can
easily avoid this attack by jumping over it as it moves towards you, even down striking it to get some extra damage
in. Its second attack is a screech that summons 1 to 3 Vengeflies to help attack you. You’ll want to take them out
quickly as they’ll make dodging the Vengefly King harder.

Gruzzer

Locations: Forgotten Crossroads, Gruz Mother (summoned as help).

Drops: 2 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 30.

Behaviour: It flies around aimlessly, bumping into walls, changing direction after coming into contact with whatever it
flies into. Easiest way to kill it is to follow behind and hit it to avoid it bumping into you.
Gruz Mother

Locations: Forgotten Crossroads.

Drops: 50 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 3.

Behaviour: Found sleeping in a boss area, and will only attack once she takes damage. Unlike her offspring, the
Gruz Mother has two attacks she can use. A ramming attack, where she will charge herself into an enemy, and a
second, somewhat unpredictable attack, bouncing from the ceiling to the floor and back again at an enemy. When
she charges, you can simply jump over her and attack her from behind when she slams into the wall. With her
second attack, it’s easy to predict where she impacts and stand in a spot of safety as she goes on her rampage.
Once the Gruz Mother dies, she will spawn a swarm of Gruzzers, consisting of 7-8. They must also be killed in order
to leave the boss area, but will drop nothing.

Tiktik

Locations: Forgotten Crossroads, Ancestral Mound, Greenpath.

Drops: 2 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 30.

Behaviour: Relatively harmless if you don’t come into contact with them. They crawl and climb along the surface of
the platform they reside, able to make their way up walls and along ceilings. They do not try and attack the Knight.

Aspid Hunter

Locations: Forgotten Crossroads.

Drops: 6 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 20.

Behaviour: Before being approached by the Knight, it will hover around aimlessly. It prefers to attack at a long
range, spitting orange blobs of Infection at its enemy. Try to get in close as soon as possible to strike it down.

Aspid Mother

Locations: Forgotten Crossroads.

Drops: 10 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 15.

Behaviour: Like the Aspid Hunter, she will hover about until the Knight approaches. She attacks by spawning Aspid
Hatchlings to fight, birthing them one at a time. She can only spawn in a maximum of four at any time, but they can
easily overwhelm you early in the game. It’s best to take the mother out as soon as possible to avoid getting
swarmed by her children. She’ll spawn two more hatchlings once defeated.

Aspid Hatchling

Locations: Aspid Mother (summoned as help).

Drops: Nothing.

Kills for Journal: 30.

Behaviour: Spawned by an Aspid Mother, it will immediately fly for the Knight if they’re still in range. Easy to deal
with when there’s only one or two, but can quickly become a problem if four swarm you. Two more will spawn when
an Aspid Mother is killed.

Wandering Husk
Locations: Forgotten Crossroads, Greenpath.

Drops: 3 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 35.

Behaviour: Wanders about back and forth when undisturbed. When the Knight comes into range, it will run and flail
its arms in their direction, dealing damage when it comes into contact. You can either stand still and hit the husk
back as it approaches, or jump over it as it tries to rush you and strike at it from behind.

Husk Hornhead

Locations: Forgotten Crossroads, Greenpath.

Drops: 4 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 35.

Behaviour: Like the Wandering Husk, it will wander aimlessly until the Knight approaches it. As soon as it’s
disturbed, it will lower its head and charge at you, but can be easily dealt with by standing still and hitting it back as it
charges, or jumping over it to strike from behind.

Leaping Husk

Locations: Forgotten Crossroads, Greenpath.

Drops: 3 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 35.

Behaviour: Wanders back and forth until the Knight comes into range. It attacks by leaping and landing on you, but
can easily be avoided if the surface is at ground level. Strike at it as soon as it’s back on the ground.

Husk Bully

Locations: Forgotten Crossroads, Greenpath.

Drops: 3 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 35.

Behaviour: Wanders back and forth until the Knight comes into range. Its attack is much like that of the Wandering
Husk, but having a heavier body slows its attack down and shortens the distance. Due to this, it’s relatively easy to
take out and only a real threat when dealing with multiple enemies.

Husk Warrior

Locations: Forgotten Crossroads.

Drops: 6 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 25.

Behaviour: Will patrol a small area, going back and forth until it spots the Knight. As soon as it’s disturbed, it will
draw up its shield to any attacks from the front, protecting it from strikes before slowing its shield and striking three
times in a row. Once it’s finished striking, it will pull up its shield again and repeat the same sequence. You can kill it
quickly is to attack it from the front, and jump over it as it begins its three strike attack to hit it from behind.
Downstriking it can also work.
Husk Guard

Locations: Forgotten Crossroads.

Drops: 45 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 10.

Behaviour: Will stand in place until the Knight approaches. Once disturbed, it will battle you with two kinds of
attacks. The more powerful attack where it jumps into the air, raising its club and smashing it down at you, this deals
2 masks of damage. The second is a shockwave created when it jumps down, sending waves both left and right.
The first smashing attack can be difficult to avoid without jumping to a higher platform or having the ability to Dash,
while you can simply jump over the shockwaves it creates. It's easier to get a hit or two in after it does this weaker
attack.

False Knight

Locations: Forgotten Crossroads.

Drops: City Crest.

Kills for Journal: 1.

Behaviour part 1: The main boss of Forgotten Crossroads, it will immediately begin its attack as soon as it falls into
the boss arena when the doors close. It has three kinds of attacks: the first where it uses its mace, raising it above
its head and smashing it down towards the Knight, causing a shockwave in the direction the False Knight is facing.
This can easily be avoided by jumping over the wave before it hits you. The second involves it jumping into the air
and using the weight of its body to cause damage as well as its mace. It will lock on to where you’re standing and
jump into the air, raising its mace above its head and bringing it down with the rest of its body to the spot where you
stood before it jumped. Getting hit by its mace or body will deal damage. This is another attack that can be avoided
if timed right. Simply run under the False Knight as it jumps so it lands with its back facing you, this will give you the
opportunity to get a few hits on it. Its final attack is only triggered after you knock it down and hit the Maggot that
falls out. After being dealt enough damage, it’ll return into the armour and will get angry, smashing its mace from
side-to-side, causing the whole boss area to shake. This causes rocks to fall from the ceiling that will do damage to
the Knight if they hit.

Behaviour part 2: To defeat the False Knight, the battle follows a set pattern due to it having separate health for its
head and its body, or rather its armour. You need to strike its armour and deal enough damage to cause it to fall
down, making the Maggot controlling the body to fall out. When it’s out, you’ll get the chance to deal some serious
damage to the head, gaining SOUL as you do this. You do not gain SOUL for hitting the body, so make sure to use
your Focus ability wisely. Once the Maggot is dealt enough damage, it will crawl back into the armour and go on a
rampage, before returning to its two previous attacks. These attacks will become more intense, with the first
shockwave attack now causing rocks to fall from the ceiling. You must knock the False Knight down two more times,
after the third time, it will get back up and use its rage attack one more time before falling through the floor. You then
jump down after it and finish the Maggot off.

Lifeseed

Locations: King’s Pass, Ancestral Mound, Greenpath.

Drops: 1 Lifeblood Mask.

Kills for Journal: 10.

Behaviour: Lifeseeds emerge from destroyed Lifeblood Cocoons, and will move away from the Knight in an attempt
to escape.

Baldur

Locations: Ancestral Mound, Elder Baldur (summoned as help).

Drops: 4 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 20.

Behaviour: Once disturbed, it rolls into a ball and launches itself at the Knight. If it doesn’t hit, it will continue to roll
and bounces off of walls and other Baldur. After a small amount of time, it will unroll and change to face your
direction before rolling towards you again. You can easily jump over it and strike it from the air or from behind to
deal with it.

Elder Baldur

Locations: Forgotten Crossroads, Ancestral Mound.

Drops: 50 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 1.

Behaviour: Does not move from its spot, attacking only when an enemy is at long range and curls up into its shell
when you try to strike at it, becoming safe from any damage. It will either summon Balder to attack for it, or spit
venom in your direction that will linger for a short period. Any spawned Balder do not drop Geo, but do provide you
with SOUL to use the Vengeful Spirit spell, as this is the only way to kill the Elder Baldur when it’s not curled up.

Mosscreep

Locations: Greenpath.

Drops: 2 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 35.

Behaviour: Hides in the grass until disturbed. Once the Knight comes in range, it will rustle its leaves before rising
up and wanders back and forth. It does not try to attack you.
Mosskin

Locations: Greenpath

Drops: 3 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 25.

Behaviour: Wanders back and forth until the Knight approaches. As soon as it spots you, it will rush at you, flailing
its arms much like the Wandering Husk does. Only they move much faster, and striking them as they approach does
not knock them back, so you have to time your jumps more carefully.

Volatile Mosskin

Locations: Greenpath.

Drops: 5 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 25.

Behaviour: Wanders back and forth aimlessly until it’s disturbed. Once it spots the Knight, it will begin to shake its
body before causing an explosion of orange gas that causes damage. Move away from the Mosskin as soon as it
starts to shake to avoid the orange cloud before rushing in to strike at it as soon as the gas subsides, or attack it
from afar with the Vengeful Spirit spell. After it’s killed, its body will cause one last explosion, so make sure to avoid
where it lands. If it lands in a body of water, it will not explode.
Fool Eater

Locations: Greenpath

Drops: 9 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 15.

Behaviour: Hides in grass that makes it difficult to see. When the Knight walks on it, it will rustle for a second before
snapping up at whatever dares to tread on it, and will stay in that position for a few moments, allowing you to get a
few hits on the plant before it hides back in the grass. You can bait the Fool Eater to snap open by walking on it for
a second and jumping back before rushing forward to strike. You will often find this carnivorous plant guarding Geo
rocks.

Squit

Locations: Greenpath.

Drops: 5 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 30.

Behaviour: Essentially Hollow Knight’s variation of a mosquito. They will hover about in a small area before being
disturbed, where they will lunge full force at the Knight. They won’t stop until they hit you or anything else they come
into contact with. They can be easily dealt with by baiting it to slam into the ground and then striking it before it can
get back in the air.

Obble

Locations: Greenpath.

Drops: 4 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 20.

Behaviour: Flies around aimlessly, bouncing off the surfaces it comes into contact with. It will occasionally spit out
four balls of Infection diagonally. You can avoid this attack by standing below it or to the side of it before rushing
forward to strike it down.

Gulka

Locations: Greenpath.

Drops: 6 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 15.

Behaviour: Emerges when the Knight comes into range and shoots out spiked balls in their direction. You can either
dodge or reflect these balls back at the Gulka to deal damage. It will disappear into the wall again if you get too
close, making it impossible to hit with the base Nail. You must either increase the Nail’s range with a Charm, or use
a long range spell

Maskfly

Locations: Greenpath.

Drops: Nothing.

Kills for Journal: 15.

Behaviour: Probably one of the most peaceful enemies in the game. They will sit together in a flock before flying
away when disturbed by the Knight. It’s impossible to get in range to kill them unless you can Dash forward and
strike, or use the Vengeful Spirit spell from afar.

Moss Charger

Locations: Greenpath.

Drops: 8 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 15.

Behaviour: Hides in the bush and grass until the Knight comes into range. It will then jump up from the ground and
charge at you before diving back into the greenery when it reaches the end of the platform. When a Moss Charger is
struck, the leaves will fall away and will reveal a small bug. It will run away to the end of the platform opposite from
the Knight and dive back into the greenery; it will then appear again and charge. Hitting it the first time only knocks
its leaves off and doesn’t deal any damage. An easy tactic would be to use your Nail for the first hit and then a long
range spell for the second.

Massive Moss Charger

Locations: Greenpath.

Drops: 120 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 1.

Behaviour: First encountered acting as a giant bush until the Knight gets close. It starts rustling before revealing its
head and letting out a large roar, and then dives into the greenery on the platform. The Massive Moss Charger is
just three Moss Chargers living together, and hitting it won’t cause the three bugs underneath all the foliage to
emerge. They attacks with two attacks that are relatively simple, but are not easy to dodge with how big and fast the
Massive Moss Charger is. Their first attack is more or less the same as a normal Moss Charger. They’ll launch
themselves at you to deal damage before diving down into the ground to ready themselves for another attack.
Dodging this attack can be difficult as the enemy is quite tall to jump over; instead this is the perfect opportunity to
down strike it once or twice as it passes underneath you. Its second attack involves it leaping into the air and using
its large body to slam down onto the Knight. This can be dodged by moving a little towards the Moss Charger as it
jumps so it lands with its back facing you. Once it’s defeated, the three small bugs will pop out and burrow into the
platform where three normal Moss Chargers can be found. The Massive Moss Charger does not respawn.

Moss Knight

Locations: Greenpath, Lake if Unn.

Drops: 40 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 10.

Behaviour: Usually found pretending to hide as a pile of leaves, waiting for the Knight to get into its territory, or
patrols back and forth in wait for an enemy. Skilled with its Nail and Shell, this enemy has four ways to protect itself
and deal damage. When not preoccupied with another attack, it will bring its shell up and block from all sides if you
try to attack, even if you strike from above. Its second attack involves it striking with its Nail, swinging one or two
times and moving forward each time it swings. You can take advantage of this attack by baiting it, and then jumping
over it to get a few strikes at its back while the sequence of its attack plays out. Its third attack is more of a defensive
repositioning, leaping back away from your Nail strikes to avoid taking damage. This is often followed up by its
fourth, ranged attacked. It will spit out balls of thorns at the Knight, taking the opportunity to strike with its Nail while
you try to dodge the thorns. Melee battling with this enemy can be quite tough at the beginning of the game, so
using the Vengeful Spirit spell to deal damage would help.
Durandoo

Locations: Greenpath.

Drops: 6 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 8.

Behaviour: Passively paces in the acid pools at the bottom of Greenpath. It does not attack the Knight if they get
close, and cannot be harmed from the back or above thanks to its hard shell. Instead it can only be hit from the
front.

Duranda

Locations: Greenpath.
Drops: 4 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 8.

Behaviour: Hovers back and forth peacefully, and doesn’t try to attack the Knight if they get close. It does not take
damage from the back or above thanks to its hard, spikey shell. Much like the Durandoo, it must be hit from the
front.

Uoma

Locations: Fog Canyon.

Drops: Nothing.

Kills for Journal: 25.

Behaviour: It floats around, not paying attention to anything around it. It only deals damage if the Knight touches it.

Ooma

Locations: Fog Canyon.

Drops: 5 Geo.
Kills for Journal: 12.

Behaviour: It continuously floats up and down in the same area. It doesn’t attack the Knight if they get close, but
their long body can sometimes make it difficult to manoeuvre past them. If it, its body will explode and the orange
ball inside will be freed before homing in on you, exploding if it touches either you or a surface. This explosion will
deal 2 masks of damage, so it’s best to avoid Ooma if you’re low on health.

Ambloom

Locations: Fungal Wastes, Fungal Core.

Drops: 2 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 15.

Behaviour: Wanders back and forth, paying no attention to the Knight but will deal damage if touched. Unlike the
Crawlid, it can be pretty fast, so take it out quickly to avoid getting cornered.

Fungling

Locations: Fungal Wastes, Fungal Core.

Drops: 2 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 35.

Behaviour: It floats in place, only moving from its spot when the Knight gets close enough. It will then slowly float
towards you, causing damage when touched. Their movements can be easily avoided.
Fungoon

Locations: Fungal Wastes, Fungal Core.

Drops: 6 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 20.

Behaviour: It floats around until the Knight gets close enough. It doesn’t move towards the Knight to cause physical
damage, instead spits out a cloud of infection down directly below it. It can only attack in this direction, so it’s better
to attack from above or the sides.

Sporg

Locations: Fungal Wastes, Fungal Core.

Drops: 3 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 20.

Behaviour: Hidden in the wall, on ceilings and on floors until disturbed where the mushrooms will emerge and shoot
a ball of clustered spores that will explode on impact. It will only shoot out one at a time, but one is more than
enough as this explosive will home in on you until it either hits its mark or explodes after a certain amount of time.
The explosion has a large hit radius and deals 2 masks of damage if successful. The Sporg will retreat back into the
surface it’s attached to if the Knight comes too close, making it impossible to hit. It’s possible to bait it out and attack
it before it can retreat, but it’s difficult to do. Attacking with a spell like Vengeful Spirit will help greatly.

Fungified Husk

Locations: Fungal Wastes.

Drops: 5 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 10.

Behaviour: It wanders back and forth until the Knight comes in range. Very similar to the Volatile Mosskin in the way
it attacks; it will shake its body and create a cloud of infected gas that has a larger radius to a Volatile Mosskin.
Once it’s been killed, its body will cause one last explosion that is the same size as its Mosskin cousin.

Shrumeling

Locations: Fungal Wastes, Fungal Core.

Drops: Nothing.

Kills for Journal: 20.

Behaviour: At first it looks like a normal mushroom sprouting from the ground. Once the Knight gets close, it will
uproot and flee, causing no damage if touched. Easy farming for SOUL.
Shrumal Warrior

Locations: Fungal Wastes, Fungal Core.

Drops: 8 Geo.

Kills for Journal: 30.

Behaviour: Will stand still until disturbed by the Knight where it will let out a short cry before rolling into a ball to
perform one of two attacks. It will either jump into the air and launch itself down at you, or charge directly at you on
the ground. Both of these attacks leave a trail of infectious gas.

Hornet

Locations: Greenpath.

Drops: 225 Geo.

Behaviour part 1: First encountered as the Knight enters Greenpath. She’s then seen several times after, always
darting away when you get too close. Eventually, you’ll approach her at the end of the map, as she’s standing by the
body of another like you. She’ll claim she knows what the Knight is and says she cannot allow them to go any
further, triggering the fight to start. She has four moves she uses to fight. The first is a simple lunge where she
rushes forward with her needle out; this attack doesn’t cover the whole boss area, so you can easily avoid it by
jumping back enough. Her second attack is similar to the first, but this time she lunges for you from the air. She
locks onto your position after jumping before rushing down at you, somewhat similar to one of the False Knight’s
attacks. This attack can also be evaded by moving towards Hornet as she strikes down. Her third attack involves her
throwing her needle in your direction on a thread before pulling it back. This attack doesn’t quite reach the entire
boss arena, so it’s possible to move back enough to be just out of reach. This attack also does damage as the
needle returns to Hornet. Her final attack has two variations as she’s able to perform it on the ground and in the air.
This time she uses her thread as a weapon, slicing anything that comes close to the area around her as she waves
her needle.

Behaviour part 2: Unlike the last boss fight, a couple of Hornet’s attacks give you enough time to heal safely without
having to worry about the next strike. When she throws her needle or uses her thread to slice everything around her
are the moments as they both take time to carry out. Using the Vengeful Spirit spell in this battle will be extremely
helpful as well, as it does more damage than the Nail at this point. When she dashes forward to hit you with her
needle, jump over her and get a few hits in from the back. This is an easy way to deal damage and gain SOUL if you
don’t have enough to use Focus or Vengeful Spirit. Four times throughout the fight, Hornet will fall to her knees to
recover. This is another good opportunity to heal, or use the Vengeful Spirit as hitting her will cause her to recover
immediately. After being defeated, she’ll flee and you’ll be able to pick up the Mothwing Cloak from the corpse,
allowing you to use the Dash ability.

Shade

Locations: Wherever the Knight was last killed.

Drops: All Geo on most recent death.

Kills for Journal: 1.

Behaviour: After dying, a shadow of the Knight appears where they die, or before the room they die in. As you get
close the Shade’s location, it will make an odd noise before homing in on you. It will attack by using its Nail and
using any spells you have learned before dying. The Shade has no set health as it gets stronger as you make your
way through the game.

Additional Information: You will have a broken SOUL meter until the Shade is killed, and it won’t be possible to fill it
up to full until the meter is fixed. If you kill the Shade, your SOUL meter will return to normal and all of the Geo you
lost from your most recent death will be returned to you. However, if you were to die again before killing the first
Shade, all Geo lost with that Shade will disappear. Meaning, if you die with 2000 Geo, collect 50 Geo as you make
your way back and then die again, the Shade you have to kill will only drop 50 Geo.

Walkthrough
Before you read: this game has several possible paths to finish. Meaning that you can go a completely different than
the one described in here and still finish the game. If you're wondering why we chose this path, it's because it's a
path that will net you most of the items needed for the 107% completion rate, without being overly tedious. Some will
be ignored on purpose for that same reason; at the end of the walkthrough we'll make a list of all the items missing.
King's Pass
Bosse Stag
Charms Notches NPCs Grubs Abilities/Equipment
s Station

Fury of The
None None None No None None
Fallen

Before you start, take a few minutes to look at the controls and configure them how you like.

After the intro scene, you'll fall and gain control of your character. The only way to go is to the right. To proceed
break the blockades with a regular attack and continue doing so all the way to the right. You'll encounter some
simple enemies. They won't attack you, their pattern is fairly simple; they go from one side to another endlessly.
Beat the enemies and keep going right until you a more open space with a few floating structures. To the rightmost
side is a Geo rock, which you can hit for some Geo (the game's currency). Grab those Geo and make your way up.
Jump over structure to another until you see a path to the left. As soon as you land on the top, a spike will fall from
the ceiling, it's fairly easy to dodge and it will make a noise before dropping. Make your way left and inspect the
white oval. It'll explain about Souls. You fill your Soul meter by killing enemies, this allows you to Focus and heal
yourself. Later in the game, you'll gain more abilities that are dependant of your Soul meter. A little bit to the left
there's another open space with floating structures and a flying enemy. Remember that you can attack in the air,
and aim up/down/left/right. You might need to jump and attack the flying enemy.

You can now choose to go up or left. Go left first, and make your way to the top, kill the flying enemy and grab the
Geo rock. Note that touching the spikes on the floor will remove one Hit Point and make you start over. On the path
above you'll encounter another flying enemy, a dropping spike and another one of the first enemies you fought.
Once on the top, you'll find another fork. To the left is a blue cocoon that you can destroy, it will drop two blue
creatures that when you kill them, they will grant you 2 additional temporary Hit Points. Now go right, and break the
blockade to continue. As you're going to the right, the floor will break and you will fall. It'll take a few steps for the
floor to break, you can safely take a few steps and back to make the floor break without dragging you down. You
wanna do this to get to another Geo rock that's slightly to the left of the breakable floor. If you fail, don't worry, you
can quit the game without losing any progress and reload, but you'll have to start from the beginning (it isn't too far
away, you'd get there in just a few minutes).
To your right is a spiked floor with 3 platforms where you'll have to jump to get to the other side. Once you're in the
middle floating point, spikes will fall from the ceiling.Instead of going up, drop from the last platform to the bottom
right, avoiding the spikes on the ground. Here you'll find what it seems like an unreachable platform, because the
ground is filled with spikes, but if you jump and hit the spikes before you touch them, you will bounce and make it to
the platform. Do this to get to the other side and follow the way down to acquire the Fury of The Fallen Charm. Drop
to the left and this will take you back to the lower level. Make your way back to the 3 platforms and go up this time.

Follow the way right and up, and break the wood to break the ground and continue. The white oval to the right will
explain a bit of the area you're in. You'll have to break the structure to your right in order to continue. You don't take
fall damage in this game, you can safely jump down. Make your way right to get to Dirtmouth.

Dirtmouth - The Fading Town

Bosse
Charms Notches NPCs Stag Station Grubs Abilities/Equipment
s

None None None Yes

Elderbug None None
(Locked)

Confessor Jiji
Iselda
(Vendor)
You'll see the Elderbug as soon as you enter the town. Talk to him and use the Bench to his right to rest. Remember
every Bench you come across, they are your checkpoints and are useful in other ways. After getting a map, resting
on a Bench will update the map with new areas you've discovered. There's a house to the right that you can inspect,
you can't do anything here right now, but later you'll be able to buy accesories for your map. Further ahead is a well
and beyond that well is a dead end with a simple lock. After finding a small bug called Sly in the Forgotten
Crossroads, he will return to his shop back in Dirthmouth where he sells various items, including a simple key for
950 Geo. Take the simple key to the dead end and you'll find Confessor Jiji inside. For a Rancid Egg, Jiji can
summon your Shade to your location. Right now, down the well is the only way forward.

Forgotten Crossroads
Stag
Charms Bosses Notches NPCs Grubs Abilities/Equipment
Station

Soul Gruz 4 (+1 out of the Vengeful Spirit (drop from False
None Sly Yes
Catcher Mother way) Knight)

False
Knight

Let's start by exploring this map to the left. There's a path leading down with a new enemy and a Geo rock. This one
will actually attack you, it will charge for a second and try to tackle you. Each hit you land will push it back, so you'll
get a chance to hit it again. It takes 3 hits to kill it. Kill the enemy and grab those Geo. There are two more enemies
to the left, but these two won't attack. Kill them for some Geo and continue left. On this screen you need to go down
all the way. Ignore the enemies for now. As soon as the next screen loads, you'll hear a humming. Follow it and
you'll find Cornifer. You'll find this guy in some more levels and you can buy maps from him. The map is your
biggest ally in this game, for 30 Geo you can purchase one from him, I suggest you do so. After doing this you're
gonna want to go back up to the town. Buying a map from Cornifer will unlock the shop and there's one item in
particular you want to purchase, a Quill, it costs 120 Geo and it lets you update the map with new areas. Kill some
enemies while you're on your way back to the town, make sure to gather 120 Geo before you back to the town for
that Quill, optional but highly recommended is to buy the Wayward Compass, it will pinpoint your position in the map
and costs 220 Geo. After you've done that, go back to where you left off, the big screen above Cornifer. On the top
left exit you'll find a lonely worm (The Grubfather), there's nothing to do here, but you can come back later for some
rewards. You'll often find secret paths in the game that will lead you to rescuing a Grub, that Grub will then go back
to the screen with the Grubfather, and Grubfather will reward you with some Geo. There are few more paths in this
screen, the middle left one is a dead end. You'll encounter a big enemy that's guarding the entrance, but you don't
have what you need to go through here, yet. Exactly below the middle left path is another path. You can walk the to
the edge of the ledge and start moving left as you fall, to get to this second path. Here lies a somewhat difficult path.
You'll encounter two flying enemies and a spiked floor. Further to the left is where things get complicated. There are
spikes on the floor and on the walls and no obvious path. To get to the other side, you have jump and aim down to
hit the spikes on the wall, this will make you bounce and give you an edge to keep going up. It's a bit difficult, but
with some practice you'll get it. One "easy" way to do it is by jumping and pressing your attack button constantly and
move right from the left spikes and vice versa until you get to the top. There are also spikes on the other side, but
you can jump and position yourself in the middle to avoid all the spikes while falling. In the next screen, you'll get a
tip that will tell you, you can aim down to look below. Get to the bottom to a floor that will break and drop you further
down. Make your way to the left and follow all the way up. Midway, you'll find a totem of some sorts that will charge
your Soul meter when you hit it. Continue your way up, once on top, you can go right. There's a piece of the floor
that will break here as well so be on the lookout and jump immediately when you hear the floor breaking. At the end
of the way is a Geo rock. For now, you should avoid going to the right, a boss enemy awaits there and might prove
very difficult without any abilities. Go back to the screen where Cornifer is, from the floor below him drop from the
left side and go left to the next screen.
You'll have to avoid some worms to get to the other side, just wait until they hide and jump. In the next screen you'll
encounter a new flying enemy. It takes 3 hits to defeat it. The best way to beat these is to hit them as fast as you
can, eventually they'll spawn other smaller enemies and if you give them time, they can overwhelm you with
numbers. That said, they shouldn't be too hard to beat. Continue your way left, avoid the spike falling from the
ceiling and rescue the Grub. You can now go back to the Grubfather to claim your reward if you choose to. You can
ignore it for now, seeing as the reward for one Grub is minimal (10 Geo). There's one more path you can explore on
the huge screen above Cornifer; it's the only path to the right, right in the middle. There's a Geo rock above you from
the entrance and a Grub that you can't rescue right now. In the next screen you'll encounter a new enemy, it might
catch you off guard at first, its attack pattern is a bit different than most enemies you've encountered so far; it jumps
and strikes, but that's all it does. Beat these enemies and continue on your way right. Beat the first enemy and jump
to the floating points, look out for a spike dropping from the ceiling on the floating point in the middle. Keep going
right, ignore the path down and make your way up for another Geo rock. There's one more Grub you can rescue,
but it's guarded by a somewhat difficult enemy. Leave this screen to the right of the Geo rock, jump on the floating
point on the next screen, get to the top and leave this screen from the right. The guard will be there.

It might look very hard at first, but just know it has a 3 different attacks. One is a very quick swing of its weapon, the
second is the same as the first, but it'll take a second to charge and swing its weapon, the third attack is the one you
should look out for, it will take a step back and drop on the floor to release a wave that will hit you unless you jump.
Get near it, and wait until it performs the second or third attack, you can then jump briefly after it's done and hit it. It's
best you avoid trying to hit when performing the first attack. Once you're done, go to the end of the way and rescue
the Grub. You can now go back one screen and leave from the bottom to the right, to a new area. You will hear
someone singing a cheerful tone, make your way right and meet Myla, just a regular NPC. On the elevator, you can
make a left on the first path to find a totem that will replenish your health when you hit it. Make your way to the right
to the last screen. This part is just for the sake of exploring the map, there's nothing of interest right now. Go back to
the screen with the Geo rock surrounded by two flying enemies and go down this time. You'll find yourself blocked
by two gates, the area below is where you have to go, but you have to go all the way around it.
On the screen to the right of Cornifer, you'll see a floating point that leads to 3 Geo rocks, and when trying to break
the Geo rock to the right, you'll reveal a new path with another Geo rock. Entering the area below this Geo rock will
trigger an event where you'll have to beat 3 flying enemies to get out of the area. It shouldn't be too hard, but like I
said earlier, don't let these enemies live for too long or they'll overwhelm you with numbers. Leave from the bottom
left to a new area. There's a ledge immediately to your left, but you can't get there, yet. This is a Dash area
(#DashArea1). Dash is an ability that you'll get later in the game, use your browser's search option and type what's
between parantheses to get here, look at the image below for reference. There are 3 Geo rocks on the bottom of
this screen and not much else to do.

Go back one screen and continue your way right. In the screen with the 3 flying enemies, you can leave that screen
from the top right to discover a Hot Spring that will replenish your Soul meter and a Bench. I suggest you go there to
get a Checkpoint, replenish your Soul meter and update the map on the Bench. Once you're done, leave the 3 flying
enemies screen from the bottom right. Immediately below and to your right, there's a Geo rock with an enemy
guarding it. Make your way right, avoid the worms and get to another Geo rock below the exit. You just have to fall
without jumping once the worm is hidden and you'll get there without losing any HP. You should probably beat the
flying enemy first, seeing as it will follow you down and can get tricky to get out of there with that enemy and the
worm. Leave this screen from the right. Here you go 3 ways, up left, there's nothing but two enemies there, then to
your right or up and right. You need to go up if you wanna reach a Geo rock that's below two adjacent worms.
Before going below the worms, go all the way to your right to find another Geo rock. You have to hit it once or twice
when the worm is hidden and step back, so on and so forth. Go back and break the other Geo rock and leave this
screen from the right. Go below the sign to the right, by jumping over the floating points to get to a Geo rock. All the
way down and to the left is a dead end, another one of those cages is there. While trying to leave this screen from
the right, you'll encounter a Soul totem, use it and continue right to the next screen. Make all the way right and you'll
see a sleeping monster called Gruz. This is a boss fight, and a fairly easy one. There's not much to say about it that
you won't immediately notice, it has 3 attack patterns, most often it will bounce up and down from one side to the
other. You can easily hit him once you're on the opposite direction of the attack, it will also spit and smash the
ground. You have to defeat it to continue going right. After you defeat it, hit the right exit and it will explode and
spawn several flying enemies. These mostly roam aimlessly, it shouldn't be too hard to get out of here. Once you're
done, drop down and go to your left. Enter the little hut and meet Sly, you have now unlocked another shop. He will
be in Dirtmouth from now on. All the way right is another dead end, a Dash area (#DashArea2).

To go back up, go left from Sly's hut and break the wood. Make it all the way to the top and leave this screen from
the upper exit. This screen can be a bit difficult, there are 3 of the flying enemies that can spawn other smaller
enemies. You should beat them fast, before they get a chance to spawn too many. There's a Geo rock at the top
and to the right. To reach it, you need to perform a small jump without touching any of the spikes on the floor or the
ceiling. Below the Geo rock, you can leave this screen to the right, it's a dead end for now, but take note of this
location, you will come back later. There's a Geo rock below the door with the open slot, you can't see it from above
but it will be revealed once you get close to it. Leave this screen for now. There are two more exits to the left, ignore
the top exit for now and go through the one below. There will be another set of spikes where you have to bounce by
jumping and aiming down before attacking. At the end, awaits one more Grub you can rescue. Now go back one
screen and take the top exit. Meet a new enemy, the hardest one to beat so far. It will actually block your attacks
with a shield and swing its sword a few times afterwards, hit it once and take a few steps back until it starts
attacking, attack him right after his attack animation is over. Leave the screen from the left. Before you face the
boss, take a minute to go up and hit the lever to unlock another entrance. To the right of the lever is a completely
dark area, you should avoid this place for now, later in the game you'll get an item that will help you navigate this
area. Make sure to fill your Soul meter completely and head to the boss's path. In the first screen you'll encounter a
Husk Guard, which you can avoid by jumping over it and get to the next screen. If you want to fight it, just wait until it
jumps back and sends the shockwave, you safely land one hit before it attacks again, two hits if you wanna risk it.
The next screen is where the boss fight will happen.

Make your way up to start the battle. Refer to the Enemies section for a more in-depth explanation of its pattern.

False Knight
This isn't the hardest boss, you can safely wait until it performs its shockwave attack to jump and land a hit or two.
Sometimes you can get up to 3 hits if you time your attacks right. After a few attacks, you will knock down the False
Knight and it will reveal its head. You can now attack the maggot inside, you have to do this 3 times. After the third
time, it will attack once more and fall down to the floor below where you can finish it off. When the fight's over, it will
drop a City Crest.

Note: You can actually skip this boss after the first knockdown. It will hit the wall above gate to the left, which you
can break to escape the area. You can come back later and beat it once you have more abilities, but I suggest
beating it now, since some areas will be blocked until you beat him, and beating the False Knight is required for
107% completion.

Once you're done, open the chest on the left side of the screen and leave from the exit below the chest.
In the next screen, go all the way up and enter the next area where the pink glow is. Rest on the Bench and talk to
the Snail Shaman NPC to begin a mini quest. She will give you the Vengeful Spirit spell. Kill the Wandering Husk to
your right and continue to the next area by destroying the wood blockade. There's a Vengefly and a Baldur on this
screen, kill them and make your way up. Break the wood, kill the Tiktik and the Baldur on the top. Break the wood to
go down where the Baldur is, kill this and the one below, before of the ceiling on the floor below, it has spikes. The
next area has a floor covered with spikes and two Vengefly, try to kill them by aiming up to avoid being pushed with
each attack. Kill the Baldur to the left and the one below. There's a Soul Totem to your left, use it if you need Soul.
Keep going left and finish off the 3 Baldurs in this area, along the one to the right. There are 2 Geo rocks here and a
blue cocoon that will grant you two temporary health masks. Dropping from the right will take you back to the Soul
Totem, go all the way right and break the wood to go down. In this area you'll find an Elder Baldur, which you might
recognise from that blocked path you stumbled upon, but now with your Vengeful Spirit spell, you can actually
defeat it. It takes 4 spells to defeat it and your Soul meter only lets you cast the spell 3 times, but if you stand far
from the Elder Baldur, it will spit regular Baldurs that you can kill to refill your Soul meter. After you kill it, go left and
inspect the glowing point to grab the Soul Catcher. Break the wood to fall down to where you started and talk to the
Shaman. She will now open the gate. You can rest on the Bench if you want, but it will consume your blue health
masks. Drop from the left side and go all the way down to a lever on the bottom left side, hit the lever and proceed.
This will take you back to Cornifer's screen. Now it's a good opportunity to claim your rewards from the Grubfather.
Now you can go defeat that Elder Baldur. In case you forgot, exit the lonely worm's screen and jump down to exit
the area from the middle left exit.
Go all the way left to the next screen to reach the Greenpath.

Greenpath
Notche
Charms Bosses NPCs Stag Station Grubs Abilities/Equipment
s

Thorns of
Vengefly King No Zote Yes 3 (+1 out of the way) Mothwing Cloak (Dash)
Agony

Hornet Tiso Mask Shard

Even before reaching the next map, you’ll see how the scenery begins to change past the Elder Baldur. You’ll have
platforms you need to jump across to avoid falling into the pool of boiling acid below. There’ll be a high platform and
a low platform you can jump to, but either one you choose won’t matter as you’ll have to take the low road
regardless. To jump across from the high platform, you need to have the Dash ability. Follow the path from the low
platforms and it’ll take you to the entrance of Greenpath.

As you enter Greenpath, the scenery has completely changed from Forgotten Crossroads. This level with be
noticeably trickier as there are more obstacles to avoid and somewhat tougher enemies to fight.

First thing you're gonna want to do is to get the map from Cornifer. Step outside Cornifer's room, surround it by
going up the platforms and get to the top right side of Cornifer's Room exterior. Looks like a dead end? Well, there's
a hidden path there that you can reveal by jumping and going right. You'll see there's a platform attached to a vine.
Cut it down, return to Cornifer's room and follow the way up to a Grub.
Go all the way left a few screens and use the Bench (the blue icon on the image below) to get a new Checkpoint.
Jump down to the platforms, get the Geo rock to the right and drop down to leave this screen from the right. Kill the
Squit and cut the vine holding the platform to help you jump to the next platform. Cornifer is all the way to the right.

There's another path down. You have to cut the vines from 3 platforms, this will lead you to a Grub that you can
rescue. You will now find yourself on an area with just a few platforms and acid all over the place. There will be a
Squint there that might pose a threat as it can make you fall into the acid. Wait for it to attack first and hopefully it'll
go to the closed path to your right. Follow the platforms above you and you'll see a Geo rock stuck to a wall to your
left, and a Soul totem to your right. You can now go back down and leave the screen from the bottom left exit, but
before you do that, go above the Soul Totem and all the way to the right to get to a dead end, with an optional NPC
that will give you The Hunter's Journal, now go back andleave from the bottom left exit. You'll see the Hornet (this
stage's boss) escape as soon as you enter the screen. Just below you there's a dark path that you can't see unless
you walk through it, and there's an item you can inspect. There's an exit that leads down, leave the this screen and
in the screen leave from the right to find a Bench and update your map. Leave the Bench screen and use the path
immediately below you. This will lead you to a place called The Stone Sanctuary. It is technically still within
Greenpath's territory. It's a dead end, but at the end you'll find a Mask Shard. An item that increases your health
once you find 4 of them and contributes towards the 107% completion rate.
There's nothing else to do here. The path down leads to Fog Canyon, a different area that you can't explore, yet.
You can come back here when you get the Shadow Dash ability, and to go left you need the Dash ability. The only
way is back up (from the Bench go left and up). There's a Geo rock all the way to the bottom left, guarded by a Fool
Eater. Leave the screen from above the Geo rock. Jump to the other side, you'll face a Moss charger here. These
enemies can be a bit annoying seeing as they hide after you hit them once, and you have to hit them twice before it
hides to deal damage to it; it's best to ignore them (this screen is full of them). Make your way left and you'll see the
Hornet escaping once again. You can't get to the path below just yet, just keep going forward. You'll see the Hornet
going up this time. There's a Soul totem directly below you. There's not much you can do to the left right now so
follow the Hornet up. There's a Geo rock a bit to the left. Make your way up and you'll reach the Bench, that is
currently blocked unless you pay some Geo to unlock it. Alternatively, you can go all the way around by going back
to the main screen. In any case, your next objective is to save Zote from the Vengefly King, an optional boss. Note
that you can avoid doing this and you'll get the "Neglect Zote" achievement, but you'll miss an optional if you don't
save him. On your way to the Vengefly King, you'll encounter the Moss Knight, a kinda tricky enemy. He'll block your
attacks with his shield and strike once or twice, and that's your cue to attack him, right after a strike. Note that you
can catch him off guard and jump over him to attack him from above. The first time you do this he won't block your
attack, but he will after you've engaged him. It's not a bad idea to farm this enemy here, it gives 40 Geo and you can
fight it over and over again, just don't go overboard, Geo will be plentiful later in the game.
Vengefly King

Not a very hard boss. It has only one direct attack, it will Dash against you. The other attack is a screech that will
summon regular vengeflies. It will usually attack you once you've failed an attack towards it. Try to wait until it's in
clear range before jumping to attack it. It takes around 18 hits to beat it. Use the spawned Vengeflies to filll your
Soul meter if you're low on health or just to attack it with your Vengeful Spirit. Once you're done with it, drop down to
the next screen from the left. You'll find a Grub guarded by a Moss Knight all the way to the right. Below the Moss
Knight, there's a platform that you can cut down, do this to create a shortcut. This stage's boss is on the left exit, but
before you go encounter it, leave this screen from the exit below the Hornet's path. Down here go left and activate
the Stag Station (#GPSS) and use the Bench to recover health and gain the Checkpoint in case you lose the first
time against the Hornet. When you're ready, to the Hornet's screen. Above the entrance is an area with 2 Moss
Knights and 3 big Geo rocks, you can make up to 300 Geo in this screen alone. When you're ready, go face the
Hornet.

Hornet

The Hornet has 4 attacks. One is a simple strike, the Hornet will dash towards you and hit you with its needle. It can
do the same thing in the air. The third attack is an AoE (area of effect) attack around her. The last one the Hornet
will throw its needle and pull it back.

It can be a bit hard to anticipate whether it's a normal strike or a throw. If you're far away, you wrongly anticipate a
normal strike, and it's a throw, you will be hit. To avoid this stay relatively close to the Hornet, close enough that you
can turn right mid air to drop above the Hornet and attack, but not close where you won't be able to escape its AoE
attack. It's best if you avoid trying to Focus while fighting the Hornet, its attacks are way too fast and will probably hit
you right after you're done Focusing. The only safe time to Focus is when the Hornet is regaining energy after you
hit it a few times. Outside of that, use your Soul to attack it with the Vengeful Spirit spell.
When the battle is over, the Hornet will drop the Mothwing Cloak, aka the Dash ability. Go to your left and make use
of the Dash ability in this area. Get the Geo rock to the right by dashing and make your way down. Make all the way
left where Moss Knight is and enter the building to find the Quirrel. Finding this NPC in several locations throughout
the game will grant you the "Witness" achievement. Now you have to backtrack a little bit to get the Thorns of Agony
Charm.

Go back to the entrance of the Stag Station but go down this time. Hit the level if you haven't and open the path
below, mine the Geo rock to the left and drop down to the next screen. Leave this screen from the right, and go up
on the next screen. You'll have to go through a tricky path here to get to the other side and grab the Thorns of
Agony Charm. Our next destination is the Fungal Wales. We need to pass through the Fog Canyon, first.
Remember we encountered it before? Here's path to it in case you forgot.
Just drop straight and hug the walls to the right. The enemies here are passive and won't go after you, but if you kill
the big one (Ooma), the core will explode and sometimes go in your direction. You will have to pass through one
more screen and you'll make it to Queen's Station.

Fungal Wastes
Stag
Charms Bosses Notches NPCs Grubs Abilities/Equipment
Station

Shrumal
None 1 drop from Shrumal Ogre
Ogre Cloth Yes 1 Mantis Claw (Wall Slide)

Leg Eater
Once you're there, drop down to the lowest floor and enter the room to your left to activate the Stag Station (if you
travel to Dirtmouth, you'll find Zote right next to the map shop. You'll also find Tiso, a new NPC, left of the well).
From the Queen Station, leave from the top right.

You'll encounter a new enemy, the Fungoon. It spits gas in a linear direction and floats around, not really much to
say about it. It can float up pretty high, though. Jump to the other side and go down from the sign. In the next room
you'll hear Cornifer's usual humming. Get to the bottom and you'll find him on the narrow path to the left. Go back to
the previous screen for now, we'll explore the right side later. From here go to the right, drop to the platform below
the Fungoon and continue to the right. Meet a new enemy, the Fungified Husk. They don't pose much of a threat but
they will explode on death, just as the Volatile Mosskin. Leave this screen from the right. Watch out for the Spores in
this screen, they attack with explosives spores that will follow you and detonate in proximity, not only that, the
explosion will remove 2 Health Masks from you, and it can be quite tricky to fight with 2 of them at the same time,
and there are 3 of them in this screen. You need to make your way up, you'll notice an NPC lying on the ground to
the right, but the entrance is blocked. Continue going up, eventually you'll make it to the upper level. There's an exit
to the right, and a Geo rock above the exit. Use the exit and get to the next screen. You'll encounter a new enemy
here, the Shrumal Warrior. These can be a bit tricky to fight at first without knowing its attack pattern. It'll either jump
and smash the ground in your direction or roll towards you leaving a trail of gas behind it, which will hurt you if you
touch, which makes it a bit tricky to jump over it to avoid the roll. Make sure you hit it to bounce off it and avoid the
gas trail. There are 4 of these in this room. You have to make your way up to the upper level and leave from the left.
Hit the lever to open the gate and go up to face a mini-boss. Make sure to heal and fill your Soul meter before facing
it.

Shrumal Ogre

You'll be facing two of these. They're not hard to beat. Usually one of them will to the other side and leave a splash
on the ground that will last a few seconds and hurt you if you touch it. You'll get a chance to hit it several times, after
that it will smash its head to the ground repeatedly, this is your cue to dash to the other side and hit the other one.
Do this enough and they'll go down eventually. This mini-boss drops a Charm Notch. Leave this screen from the
right.

This screen has a fork, you can go right or up. We're interested in going to the right, but there's a Bench on the way
up and a Vendor NPC, the Leg Eater. He will ask you to pay him 86 Geo to show you "something nice". If you
accept, he will open up the shop for you and sell you 3 different Charms, all of which break upon death. I wouldn't
buy any of these unless you really can spare the Geo. Whatever you do, go to the screen to the right of the fork.
There are two Shrumal Warrior on this screen and not much else to do, continue going right. You'll see a Fungoon
as soon as you enter, take the path below it, watch out for the Sporgs. Once you get to the bottom, you can go right
or left. The path to the right is dead end with nothing but an item to inspect. Take the path to the left. As you go
forward, the ground will tremble and an NPC will appear, Cloth. Cloth is an NPC you'll encounter in several locations
throughout the game, 5, to be exact, including this one. You'll see a Geo rock right above you on the next screen, as
well as some shiny mushrooms. The way you get to that Geo rock is by jumping and hitting the mushrooms, this will
make you bounce. Hit the small one, then with the impulse, hit the second one and Dash to the right to mine that
Geo rock. Now you know how to cross the left side.

Once below, you'll find a wide open room, with several mushrooms you can bounce on. The exit you're looking for is
to the bottom left of the screen. You'll find two Geo rocks just below the platform and 2 Ambloon roaming the area,
kill them and grab the Geo. There are several Sporgs in this screen, but not much else to do, ignore them and take
the exit below you, the middle left one. You have to go up and to the right. You'll find several Funglings along the
way, and on the top you'll see a corridor with bouncing mushrooms on the floor and ceilling, and it's covered by
Funglings. Take a short jump and use your Vengeful Spirit to kill them all in one go. Go to the end of the way and
rescue the Grub. Now go to the left side of the top, kill the 2 Funglings and mine the 2 Geo rocks below. There's a
small dark empty space to the right of the Geo rocks, you can drop from there. Continue left after the fall. There's a
Geo rock below the Ambloon and a lever above. After opening the shortcut, go all the way right, pass the room with
the Grub and you'll be at the wide open screen with the Sporgs. Leave this screen from the bottom right exit. Use
the mushrooms to reach the upper level. You'll meet a new enemy, the Mantis Warrior, wait for it to attack and
dodge it by dashing to the opposite side of the attack, it might be difficult to time at first, but you'll get the hang of it.
Kill it and continue right until you see a flying mantis, the Mantis Youth. Keep going forward, you'll encounter another
Mantis Warrior. Soon you'll see some mushrooms at the corner of the ground and a Mantis Warrior on the other
side. To the right of that Mantis Warrior and 2 Mantis Youth, an item you can inspect and not much else. You can
avoid them by going down and leaving the screen from the left. Make your way down, this will make you go to the
right below you can keep going down. You'll see an exit to the left, but don't go in, yet. Below that exit are 2 Geo
rocks, if you look down, you'll see another Geo rock below the 2. But you have to go all the way around it. Go all the
way to the bottom of the screen and to the right to find a Bench. Use it and exit this screen from the exit above the
Geo rocks. Jump to the platform to the left to get to the other side. Go all the way to the left until you find a lever, hit
it to open the gates above you. Make your way there, climb and get inside to find the Mantis Claw. Use your new
ability to get the Geo rocks in there. The structures to the right hold 2 more Geo rocks and a little puzzle you have to
go through using all your abilities. You can now climb the walls to leave this screen by going up.

In this screen go right all the way and climb the corridor up to get the Wanderer's Journal. Leave the screen from the
top right exit. Backtrack all the way to wide open area and leave that screen from the right.
You need to go right. Near the centre of the screen you'll find a hidden room with a Soul totem if you climb the walls
up. As you make your way through, move the camera down to see where the levers are, there are 2 levers you can
hit to raise the bridges so you don't have to do this again. If you find yourself losing too much HP, just backtrack and
use the Soul totems or kill enemies to gain Soul and recover health. Soul totems recharge after you leave the
screen. Insert the City Crest on the knight statue and proceed. As you make your way through, the gates will lower
and you'll be locked. Climb the walls up to to find a Geo rock, and go right to leave this screen.

Copyright 2018 Jonathan Escobedo and Sophie Bayles

City of Tears
Charm Notche
Bosses NPCs Stag Station Grubs Abilities/Equipment/Items
s s

Quirrel Yes 1 Rancid Egg

Nailsmith (Nail Upgrade) Sharpened Nail

Relic Seeker Lemm Wanderer's Journal x2

Zote (if saved from the Vengefly King) Hallownest Seal

Cornifer Simple Key

You will meet some new enemies in this area. The Husk Sentry and the Belfly. The Husk Sentry will attack with one
single swing of its sword and sometimes a combo, with two following attacks. Whereas the Belfly will simply fly
towards you and kamikaze against you, basically. Abuse the Dash ability and attack the Husk Sentry from above
when possible, for the Belfly, just avoid them and let it kill itself. Make it all the way right until you can start going
down. Keep going down in the next screen and use the elevator. It will descend ignoring a path to the right that
contains an item you can inspect and nothing else. The elevator has spikes on the roof, so you have to descend in
it. Use the Bench to the right of the elevator and talk to the Quirrel. Take the path down and kill the Husk Sentry on
the next screen. Below it is a chest that contains Geo. Use the elevator and take the left path. In this screen make it
all the way to the left and up to the right to find the Nailsmith. Talk to him and he'll offer to upgrade your Nail for 250
Geo. This is a no-brainer, just do it. Go back to the elevator and use it, but don't go all the way up, jump to the
platform to the right and kill your first Winged Sentry. Keep jumping from platform to another, going up to find the
Hallownest Seal. Now go right and leave the screen from top right exit. You'll see a Heavy Sentry right off the bat.
It's a narrow space so your reaction might be to jump over it, but it can jump and attack so wait for it to attack first
until you get the hang of its attacks. Use the elevator to your right and go up to find a Rancid Egg and the Geo
chest. Take the path down when you're ready. In this screen, go to the dark side on the right to find Relic Seeker
Lemm. You can sell the Wanderer's Journal and Hallownest Seal to him for some Geo. To the left side of this
screen there's a lever, use it and grab the Geo from the chest. Go back to where you found the Rancid Egg, take
the elevator and take the first left and then all the way up. Climb your way up and make a right, kill the Winged
Sentry, use the lever and drop down to the next screen. Use the lever here as well, go to the right, jump on the
platforms and leave the screen from the top exit. Use the elevator and on the first stop you'll find a Winged Sentry
and a Grub. If you step foot on the room to the left, the gates will close, a Heavy Sentry will spawn, when you defeat
it, a Winged and Husk Sentry will spawn, too. After the fight, the gates will open up again. Make your way up and
you'll start hearing Cornifer's usual humming. If you pay 150 Geo on the machine left of Cornifer, a Bench will
appear on that spot. Leave this screen from the left. You'll find Zote on this screen a bit to the left, keep going left to
the next screen. In this wide open area there are several "hidden" rooms to the right. The top right one contains a
Simple Key. Use the lever on the bottom left to open a shortcut to the entrance of the City of Tears. After that you
can just leave this screen from the top left. Here go left, grab the Wanderer's Journal lying on the ground and go
back right to go over the spiked roof towards the exit to the right. Use the Bench and unlock the Stag Station. Leave
this screen and go all the way left. You'll see a machine, pay 150 Geo to call the elevator, use it.

Forgotten Crossroads Part 2

Stag
Charms Bosses Notches NPCs Grubs Abilities/Equipment/Items
Station

Long Nail (Salubra Salubra

Buy one from Salubra 1 Vessel Fragment
300 Geo) (Vendor)

Steady Body Buy a Second one

Visit Sly Mask Shard x2
(Salubra 120 Geo) (requires 10 Charms)

Lumafly Lantern (Sly 1800

Geo)

Go left all the way through the corridors and grab the Vessel Fragment. We're gonna explore some parts we left out
from this map and use the new abilities to get to some areas. You can skip to Crystal Peaks if you're not interested
on the optional stuff. You should see a Bench on the bottom right part of the map. We couldn't get to it before
because we didn't have the Dash ability, but we can do that now.
Enter the little hut and meet Salubra. She's a vendor and has several Charms and Notches you can buy. You can
buy Notches from her, but there's a catch. To buy a second Notch you need to own 10 Charms, 18 for the third, and
25 for the fourth. Consider buying a Charm or two, I recommend the Long Nail and Steady Body Charms. Make sure
to have at least 1800 Geo, you'll need that later. Next stop is a Mask Shard on a wall we couldn't reach before.

From the left entrance of this screen, go a bit to the right and climb a wall that will lead you through a series of small
corridors and finally to the Mask Shard. Break the scaffolding to exit this area. Since we're close, visit the Grubfather
for some Geo and another Mask Shard, but first, there's a Grub we can now rescue.
Go back to Dirtmouth and buy a Lumafly Latern from Sly. Next stop is the path to Crystal Peak. It's a room that was
previously completely dark, but which you can travel easily now thanks to the Lumafly Latern.

Once there, pay the Geo to open the gate. Go below, kill the new enemies (Glimback), they don't do much other
than going back and forth, but you can only hurt them from the front. Mine the 2 Geo rocks to the left, then go right
mine the Geo rock and break the scaffolding to continue.

Crystal Peak
 Charms Bosses Notches NPCs Stag Station Grubs Abilities/Equipment/Items
Crystal Cornife No, but elevator to
Deep Focus None 4 Shopkeeper's Key
Guardian r Dirtmouth.
Wanderer's Journal

You'll have to make your way to the right, passing through some conveyor belts to get to the other side. Check the
direction they're going before jumping straight into it, seeing as you can fall to death. Once you pass the conveyor
belts, you'll get to a mining site filled with Husk Miner, a new enemy. There's a Bench on the next screen leaving
from the bottom right side. Use it and go back to the mining site screen, this time go up. Take the left on this screen
and make your way up. There's a little bit of a challenge here that involves climbing the vertical conveyor belts
without touching the spikes on the walls. Not much strategy needed here, just make sure to Dash through horizontal
paths once near the end of the conveyor belts. A grub awaits at the end. Open the gate and go up to the next
screen. You'll have to pass this screen without being touched by the lasers emitted from the crystal creatures. Make
your way up and towards the exit to the right. There's another Grub here and a fairly easy challenge. Note that the
crushers smash at different speeds, besides that there's not much to it. Rescue the Grub, open the gate down and
go back to the previous screen. Pass the laser room and leave the screen from the top left exit. Get the map from
Cornifer and go back to the previous screen. Use the upper exit this time. Go through the side with the 2 lasers and
get to the right side, climb this wall all the way up and grab the Shopkeeper's Key. Use the exit below. A new boss
awaits here.

Crystal Guardian

This boss uses 2 different attacks and sometimes (most times, really) combines two. One is a sky attack that fires 3
lasers vertically and the other is a horizontal laser that the boss itself fires. You have two ways of dealing damage in
between attacks. First, you jump and dash to the back of the Crystal Guardian and safely attack it from behind, the
other one is to simply attack it from the front when the sky beams allow you to. If you're caught up in an air attack,
simply attack it from above. This won't deal damage, but it'll allow you to bounce off of it to the other side. You can
do this instead of dashing in mid air, but both ways work. Once you've dealth enough damage, grab the Geo, use
the Bench. You're gonna want to fight this boss twice for a Mask Shard, if you follow it up, you'll be able to fight it
again. Once it's down, go left and claim the Mask Shard.

Go back to the previous room, jump to the left side and go up to leave this screen. Make your way to the upper left
side and talk to the Quirrel and leave this screen from the right. Keep going right until you can drop down, hug the
right wall and use the first path to the right. There's a Geo crystal there guarded by the laser creatures, and if you go
all the way around it to the upper left side, you can pick up a Wanderer's Journal. Keep going down, hit the lever, go
through the newly opened path and use the lever below. If you go left from here, you'll go back to the Crystal
Guardian's room, since this part isn't in the map, you can use the bench there and then come back to this room.
Whatever you do, go back up to first lever you hit and go down from the right. Make it all the way down, once on the
bottom, go left and hit the lever. Explore the left side now that you can, use the Soul totem if you need it, and leave
this screen from the bottom right when you're ready. This room has several trap platforms. You have to jump
platform to platform until you see a path above. There's a vertical conveyor belt you need to use to get to the top.
There's a Soul totem to the left and a laser path to the right, avoid the beams and go right. Once again, you'll have
to cross to the right by jumping on the platforms. You'll find a Soul Totem at the end of the way and a path down.
Follow the path down and to the right. Inspect the element to consume the Crystal Heart. This is the Super Dash
ability, this will allow you to do a massive dash, taking you all the way horizontally. Try it now seeing as the bridge is
destroyed and cross to the other side. Do it again on the left side. This will lead you straight to a Geo crystal. You
can now rescue the Grub on this screen. Jump over the Geo crystal and before you leave the screen, climb the wall
and Super Dash to the right side to rescue the Grub. Leave from the left. Pass the crushers and leave from the left
again. Here, go left and drop to where the Husk Miner is. Kill it and hit the fake wall it was mining. Super Dash here
to reach the wall and slide up to the other side. You'll have to Super Dash once again, but be careful of the lasers.
Once you make it to the end, use the left exit. Go left and drop down, inspect the element to obtain the Deep Focus
Charm. Go back to the previous room and use the conveyor belt to go back. Immediately go up and all the way
around to leave from the upper left exit. You'll have to Super Dash a few times here, do it until you reach a path
down. Kill the 2 Crystal Hunters and get to the bottom right to what it seems to be a Grub, but it's actually a 'Grub
Mimic'. Upon destroying the container, it will go berserk and attack you. Kill it for a Hunter's Journal entry and go
back to the previous room. Leave from the left and hit the lever to unlock this path. You have to backtrack now and
take the exit to Resting Grounds. Quit the game to main menu if you used the bench, for a shortcut. There's one last
Grub we can rescue before leaving, it's on a room we haven't explored, yet.

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Go down to the conveyor belt part and you'll see a room to the left with a Geo Crystal and some Husk Miners. You
have to go below it and make your way up to get to it. You can then hit the lever and keep going down, but get the
Geo Crystal that is further down in this room before doing that. Now go all the way down, follow and pass through all
the crushers to get to that Chest you saw earlier. Pass through the crushers again and drop down to find the last
Grub. Drop down this room and follow the image below to Resting Grounds.

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Resting Grounds

Charms Bosses Notches NPCs Stag Station Grubs Abilities/Equipment/Items

Dreamshiel
None None Seer Yes None Dream Nail
d
20 Essence
Mask Shard
Elegant Key from Sly
After dropping down from Crystal Peak, turn right and follow the path into the next room. You’ll soon come to a
shrine dedicated to the Dreamers, Monomon the Teacher, Lurien the Watcher and Herrah the Beast. After
inspecting it, the Dreamers will use what little of their power they have left to send you into a world between reality
and sleep. Once there, continue right where a Moth will lead you to a platform with another shrine before offering
you the Dream Nail to escape from the dream world.
You’ll soon wake up in to find yourself in Seer’s house and find out she grants you the Dream Nail. She’ll tell you
about an energy that can be collected with the Dream Nail, known as “Essence”. Collecting enough Essence will
gain you rewards from Seer, such as Charms, collectibles and achievements. Exit Seer’s house and drop down until
you come across a Whispering Root. The strange, small trees you’ve been seeing throughout the game so far are
one source of Essence you can use. Hold down the key bound for the Dream Nail and strike the Root, this will
cause 20 Essence to appear around for you to collect. In the same area there is a room to the left, opposite the Stag
Station, where you can find the Dreamshield Charm. Once you’ve done that, open the Stag Station and return to
Dirtmouth to return the Shopkeeper’s Key to Sly to unlock the rest of his wares, buy a Mask Shard and the Elegant
Key. Pay a quick visit to Iselda to buy the map for the Resting Grounds and then travel to the City Storerooms via
the Stag Station.
City of Tears Part 2

Charms Bosses Notches NPCs Stag Station Grubs Abilities/Equipment/Items

None None None Lemm Yes None Simple Key
28 Essence
Exit the Stag Station and head down to the right balconies to use the Dream Nail on a Whispering Root. This will
give you 28 Essence to collect around this area, but be careful as it involves a lot of jumping, and the buildings at
the bottom on either side have spiked roofs that will deal damage. There will also be a lot of enemies like Vengefly,
Winged Sentries and Lance Sentries flying about, so it’s best to deal with them first before collecting all of the
Essence. Once you’re done with that, head up to the highest balcony and go inside the room to find a Simple Key.

After that, head all the way to the right and drop down to where Relic Seeker Lemm is. Here you can sell anymore
collectibles you might have found since last being in the city for some extra Geo. After that, head down a little more
and there will be a stand with an open slot where you can put the Simple Key you found in, this will unlock the
entrance to the Royal Waterways.
Royal Waterways
Charms Bosses Notches NPCs Stag Station Grubs Abilities/Equipment/Items

Dashmaster Dung Defender None Cornifer No 2 Rancid Egg x4

Tuk

Eternal Emilita

Bretta

Let's go left and find Cornifer to get a map of the area. The first enemy you'll see are the Pilflips. They go from one
side to another and jump to attack, but outside of that they shouldn't pose a threat. There's a Soul Totem, guarded
by a Belfly on the upper left side. Drop down one level from the left and go left to another room. Go down, notice the
shaky floor and continue left. You'll encounter a new enemy, the Hwurmp. After attacking it, they will inflate and
become much bigger, but they don't do much. Reach the upper left level, drop down and meet one funny enemy,
the Flukemon. After a few attacks, one of its parts will become a flying enemy and after beating that one, the tail will
attack you as well. Continue left to the next screen. Drop down (the water doesn't hurt) and follow the way up on the
part by climbing the wall. Go all the way left until you meet a fork, there's a Rancid Egg you can pick up on the top
right side, and a Soul Totem all the way to the left. The only way left is down. Cornifer is to the left. Defeat the
Hwurmps to unlock the gate and get the map from Cornifer. Make sure to hit the lever to unlock the path to the
bottom left. This takes you to an unexplored part of the Fungal Wastes. We'll take a little detour here. Once in the
Fungal Wastes, go down all the way and grab the Dashmaster Charm. There's a hidden path left of the Charm, take
it. Kill the enemies here and climb the wall to the left. You'll have to make sure of the Dash and Super Dash abilities
to make it to the end. You're gonna need your Soul meter filled, just in case. Halfway to the end are narrow paths
with spikes on the wall and might take you a few tries to make it. Once you get there, meet Bretta. You can now go
back to Royal Waterways. Leave Cornifer's screen from the right and drop into the water on the next screen, then
go left grab the Geo chest above, drop into the water and go all the way left to find a Mask Shard. Leave this screen
from the bottom right. You'll hear a pumping sound on this screen, it's a Rancid Egg directly above you. Use the
platforms to reveal the dark path. Keep going right until you hit a wall. There's a hidden room to the right, you'll hear
a Grub's cry nearby. Break the wall to reveal the path and rescue the Grub. Use your map, check the image below
and go all the way right to find Tuk. (You'll have to break a wall right next to a Geo Chest to get there).

Tuk will sell you Rancid Eggs. Exit Tuk's screen and leave the one from the bottom exit (right below the entrance to
Royal Waterways). Get to the bottom and then go left. You'll reach a room with a shaky floor, climb the wall to the
left and it'll reveal a hidden path. Rest on the Bench and break the scaffolding. Go right all the way to the other side
to find a Rancid Egg. Now go left and drop down, then go right all the way. Near the end of the screen, you'll hear a
voice, follow the voice up to the next screen. The path here is straight-forward. Prepare for a boss battle.

Dung Defender
Usually attacks by throwing dirt balls that bounce on the screen, and then he goes underground while the balls
bounce. You can hit the balls to get them out of your way, but they take a few hits to destroy. The Vengeful Spirit will
usually destroy them in one hit, but it's very situational, you might get hit while casting the spell. Look out for when it
starts throwing the balls, you can usually land 5 or 6 hits while it's doing this. After a few hits it'll fall and stay on the
ground for a limited time, you can hit it, but only once, I recommend you Focus while it's on the ground instead and
land a hit if you're full health. After falling twice or thrice, it'll shout and start doing a different attack. It'll be constantly
underground and jumping from underground, while creating 4 dirt balls. The easiest way to hit it while it's performing
this attack is to wait for it to start dropping back underground. After defeating it, it will drop a Defender's Crest, pick it
up and go wait for the gates to open. Go right and hit the pump switch. Break the scaffolding to open up a path. Now
you have to backtrack a few screens and go down like the image below.
Go all the way left, go down the platforms and head right. You have to use Super Dash here, don't stop, you still
have to pass in between the spikes on the next screen. Stop before the wall stops you. Slide down the left all and
Super Dash to the right side, then slide up. There's a Rancid Egg on the upper left side. Go right and all the way up.
There will be an element X you can inspect at the top. Drop down and leave the screen to the right. Climb the walls
up and go all the way right, then down. You'll get to a wide open area where you'll be locked until you defeal all the
enemies there. Leave that screen from the right and go all the way down until you reach Isma's Grove. Once in
Isma's Grove, go all the way right and inspect the item on the floor. You'll consume Isma's Tear, this will you allow
you to swim through acid. Try your new ability by dropping down to the acid and swimming all the way to the right.
Climb the walls and rescue the Grub. Keep climbing up and go left all the way, then drop down and leave from the
left. You'll backtrack to "element X". From there follow the way left. You'll eventually get to a dead end and a path
up. Climb the walls up, then go right until you see a light you can "enter". Climb the walls and leave from the left.
Meet Eternal Emilita, talk to her and hit the switch to open the door.

City of Tears Part 3

Charms Bosses Notches NPCs Stag Station Grubs Abilities/Equipment/Items

Spell
Soul Twister Yes 2 Desolated Dive
Twister

Soul
Hallownest Seal
Warrior

Soul Master Shade Soul

Go left two screens and hit the lever, then inspect the fountain. Go back to Emilita's door and this time go up, using
the two platforms right above. You'll see some new enemies in this area. Be careful of the Great Husk Sentry, it is a
very difficult enemy. It covers with its shield and leaves a narrow window to attack it. Avoid them whenever you can.
Once you get to the second platform get inside the building. Kill the enemies there and get through the fake wall on
the right (you have to do a small jump to reveal it) and kill the Gorgeous Husk, an enemy that will drop a lot of Geo
(around 400). There's a Grub in the building on the bottom right platform, but it's guarded by a Great Husk Sentry.
You might wanna get to the Bench first.

Once you're done, leave the building. Jump to the platform to the right, jump to the right once again and leave from
that exit. You'll see 2 platforms to your right, jump down to the one below and then down to the right side below your
platform. Use the Bench, and activate the Stag Station. If you haven't go get that Grub, if you have, use the Stag
and travel to City Storerooms. This will take you back to the left side of the map.

Leave the Stag Station and the next screen take the path down. Leave this screen from the bottom right. Keep
going right. Go down from left of the Bench and take the path down. Go right all the way and leave this screen from
the top exit. You're now in Soul Sanctum. A mini-boss that fires magic orbs at you will materialise out of nowhere, a
few hits should take it down. Get towards the center of the screen and hit the lever, after that take the elevator on
the left all the way up and enter the room.

Soul Warrior

Another mini-boss, shouldn't be too hard. It will thrust forward with its sword and teleport. If you hit it while jumping,
it will teleport and thrust back again immediately. You can take advantage of that clear pattern and hit it again.
Sometimes it will fire orbs at you that will follow you (barely). Travel all the way towards the top left side of this room
and leave the screen.

Use the elevator on the right side and make it all the way to the top left side then leave the screen.Ignore the path
down and continue left. Hit the lever and make it all the way to the left, but do not leave, jump and climb the walls to
reveal a hidden path. Kill all the enemies and reveal another hidden path to the right to find the Spell Twister Charm.

Soul Master
This boss, unlike the other two, makes excessive use of the orbs. It will teleport constantly so you have to be quick
and use the dash if you're far, to hit it. Sometimes it will charge against you, from one end of the screen to the other.
You have to jump and dash to avoid it. Whenever it teleports, you'll have a small window to dash and get near it;
most of the times you'll have to do this in order to hit it. After landing a few hits, it will take a moment to recover, you
can only hit it once on this state, so I suggest you Focus once and hit it. Finally, it will fly high and smash the ground,
creating two waves going on opposite directions. Once you've dealt enough damage, it will leave a trail, when you
try to grab it it will smash the ground and take you to a level down.

Immediately, it will start smashing the ground repeatedly. After a while it will focus and orbs will form all over the
room. Look out for this attack as it is when you can deal the most damage. You can land several hits while he's
focusing. This part won't take long if you take advantage of its focus moments. Once it's down, consume the
Desolated Dive and read the instructions. Leave the screen from the left. Go all the way to the top left side, use the
Soul Totem if you need it and grab the Geo Chest. Now you can finally break those patches of shaky floor you've
encountered before. Backtrack a little and find the shaky white ground. Use Desolated Dive to break the white floor.
Defeat the enemies and hit the lever. Use Desolated Dive once again. Get on the first platform and inspect the item
to obtain a Hallownest Seal. Go back to the now broken patch of floor, use the Soul Totem to the left and break the
floor besides it. There's a Grub there, but the dive will lead you straight down. Go all the way right and climb up. Hit
the lever and climb back up to get to the Soul Totem and then to that Grub you missed. Leave from the top right exit.
Go right, use the Soul Totem and get to the next screen. Dive and destroy the floor here, it will take you to where
you fought the Soul Warrior. There's one last thing you can do here. Remember that Elegant Key we got from Sly?
Now is the time to use it. Look at the image below.

Get there and use the Elegant Key on the locked door. You'll have to fight a few enemies and the Shade Soul will be
yours. This is an upgrade for your Vengeful Spirit spell.

Now you have to make it to the Fungal Wastes exit. Look at the image below.
You'll be back on Fungal Wastes, but now we can climb that narrow path and Dive to open a shortcut. As soon as
you enter this screen, climb the walls up and get all the way to the end. Spot the shaky floor and Dive into it.

Fungal Wastes Part 2

Charm Boss Item

Mantis
Mark of Pride Hallownest Seal
Lords

Get to the Bench on the bottom part of the map.

Now go to the Mantis Village and drop from the bottom exit. You'll have to go through a series of locked doors to get
to the bottom of this screen. Prepare for a boss fight (fill your Soul meter and make sure you're max health) and
make your way to the bottom. When you get in the middle of the bosses, you'll see a note that says 'Challenge'.
Inspect it and prepare for the fight.

Mantis Lords
One mantis will jump and fight you first. It will do 1 of 3 attacks and then jump out of sight for a second, then attack
again. The first attack is a simple swing of the spear forward that will travel the whole level. Sometimes it will appear
above you and drop straight down with its spear. The last attack is a spinning spear that travels like a boomerang.
Wait for it to attack (dash towards the Mantis Lord if you're far) and attack the Mantis Lord. The intervals between
attacks will become faster as you hit the Mantis Lord.

The second challenge will be against the 2 remaining Mantis Lord. They will attack at once or very quick after the
other. The double spinning spears is the hardest attack to dodge and attack, I suggest you simply dodge this attack
and wait for the other 2 to attack them. They won't go down at once, but chances are that when one of them is out,
the other's missing a single hit to be dealt with. After the fight, you'll get the achievement 'Respect' and the gates will
open. Take a look at your map and head towards the top-right exit.

You'll notice that the Mantis guarding the lever won't attack you and bow before you. Go right into the next building
and hit the chest above you to get the Mark of Pride Charm. There's another chest above this one that contains a
Hallownest Seal. Drop from the right and notice that path sligthly below this level to the right, it's a hidden path with
a Geo Chest. There's one last hidden path below with a Bench, use it, go back to the Mantis Lords area and leave
from the left, towards Deepnest.

Deepnest
 Charm Stag
Bosses Notches NPCs Grubs Abilities/Equipment/Items
s Station

Nosk Cloth No 2 Pale Ore

Zote Tram Pass

Quirrel

Go left until you find an opening that goes up. There's a Geo box to the right and on the top left corner is Cornifer.
Buy a map from him and continue left. Avoid touching the spykes and go up when you're at the other side. On the
opening to the left is a Geo chest, and there's another one to the right. Go up and leave the screen. You'll see
worms passing by to your right, that path leads to 2 Geo boxes. Follow the path left and up. You'll meet your first
new enemy, the Dirtcarver. It moves fast, but it isn't much of a threat. There's a Geo box below you, take it and
continue left. Avoid the worms and the spikes, and meet a new enemy. There's a fake floor here that will lead you to
another Geo box. You wanna take the path up to circle it up and left to the bottom-left exit. Leave this screen from
the bottom exit. The path to the right is a dead end; go left and down all the way to a fake floor. Follow the worm to
the right and take this path to the end. One of the fake floors will make you fall to a hot spring with a Bench. Use the
Bench and leave from the left. Jump on the platform, then to the left and Super Dash to the right. This will take you
to a fake wall, break it and leave from the left. Rescue the Grub, and climb the wall to the little opening on the left.
There's another fake wall here. Follow it all the way to the end and break the fake wall here. Follow your clone (yep,
there's another one of you here.

This part can be a bit difficult to explain and it's certainly confusing, but know that you have to leave from the bottom
right. Go right and blockades will appear behind you as you go along. Prepare for a boss fight, and when you're
ready go right to meet Nosk.

Nosk
First, it will charge against you forward and back. When it's back it will shoot orange blobs from its core that will stick
to the ground for a few seconds and damage the knight. You want to jump and dash over it before the charge is
over. More often than not, it will try to start firing those blobs when it's near the knight. Sometimes it will jump and
rain blobs all over the place. The easiest way to avoid it is to wait for the last blob and dash to the opposite direction.
Nosk is quite fast and usually wanders the whole area, which makes it hard to heal. The easiest way I found was to
wait for the blob rain attack and run towards the end of the screen, hugging the locked path and heal, but even this
way can be tricky as Nosk will drop straight on you if you're not quick. Besides this, there's no real strategy as the
layout of the screen doesn't allow for much. Get used to its attacks, the charge specifically, seeing as it is the most
common attack, and if you wanna play it safe, wait for the eruption attack to counterattack.

When you're done, continue right and pick up the Pale Ore. Leave the screen from the left. Leave this screen from
the top right. Super Dash to the right side and follow the way up. Get to the top left side of this screen, you'll see a
Grub slightly to the left, but the floor and walls are covered with spikes. Super Dash to the left and climb up to
rescue the Grub. Slide down and Super Dash back. Follow the way right, get the Geo box to the right and leave the
screen up. Ignore Zote (for now) and take the path up. Take the top left path that will lead you to the NPC Cloth and
a Bench. Drop down and follow the way right to a fake floor, and go back to the Bench room. It doesn't look like it,
but there's actually another path to the left. Take it. This leads you to the Failed Tramway. Meet a new enemy, the
Carver Hatcher. It will spawn Dirtcarvers, but goes down pretty quickly. Follow this path all the way left to an
abandoned building; you can enter it from the top left side by dropping down, and backtrack to where you saw Zote
to save him and go back to the the first Bench, the one on the bottom of the map. You'll see the Quirrel once again.
Leave the screen from the right. You'll have to follow the worm's path to the bottom right side and leave the screen.
Inspect the element and insert the Tram Pass. Enter the building, use the Bench and take the Tram to Ancient
Basin.

Ancient Basin
Charms Bosses Notches NPCs Stag Station Grubs Abilities/Equipment/Items

Broken
Cloth 2 Pale Ore
Vessel

Monarch Wings

Leave the Tramway room down. Go down a little bit and you'll start hearing Cornifer's voice, follow it to him and
purchase a map. Go back to the Tramway room and drop down from the bottom left this time. You'll hear a Grub's
cry as soon as you enter the screen. Go left a litttle bit and drop down. Here's a fake floor, use your Dive ability to go
down. Make it all the way to the top left side and kill the enemies there. After you're done with the enemies, the
Cloth will show up. Go right and drop down this time, follow the way left where the Lesser Mawleks are. Inspect the
element and pick up the Pale Ore. Drop down to your left and follow the way right. Watch out for the 2 Belfly on this
part. You can jump and use your Shade Soul ability to kill them both. There will be another one to your right, where
the higher terrain is, and one more near the scaffolding. Go back to the Tramway room and drop down the lit hole to
the screen where Cornifer was, but go to the bottom left side and leave from there. Use the Toll Machine to spawn a
Bench if you want (for 150 Geo) and Super Dash to your left. You can stop midway for a Geo rock. Leave the
screen from the left. Fall down the first hole, grab the Geo rock to your left and fall down the hole.

You'll meet a new enemy here, the Mawlurk. It stays still and spits orange blobs constantly, if you stay close to it
and hit it, the blobs won't reach you. Go right and slide down the left wall to avoid the spikes on the floor. Keep
going forward, eventually you'll see a Mawlurk on the ceiling. It can be tricky to kill it so I suggest you ignore it.
There will be another Mawlurk a bit to your left, and another one on the ceiling a little further left. Ignore that one and
drop down the hole then go right. Pass through the big worm to a hidden path to get a Simple Key. Then follow the
way left and up, it's a straight forward path that leads to another screen. Follow this path to the top left and break the
scaffolding for a shortcut. Collect soul and prepare for a boss fight to your left. Read the strategy below before
entering combat, you might wanna change your Charms.

Broken Vessel
This boss has several attacks and many of them are quick enough to catch you off guard. This makes it very difficult
to heal as well. Consider bringing Quick Focus Charm for that. Mark of Pride and Longnail will go a long way on this
fight as well. The attack you need to watch out for is when it starts spawning blobs. This will float about on the room
and can overwhelm you with numbers. Attack the Broken Vessel once and start getting rid of the blobs, seeing as
they won't let you dodge the Broken Vessel's slash. An easy way to attack it while it's spawning blobs without taking
damage is with your Desolate Dive ability.

Leave the screen from the left and follow it to the end to pick up the Monarch Wings. Time to try out your new ability,
look at the image below and follow the path to a room with a Grub that will require you to make use of all your
abilities.
If you can't figure out how to get there, check the video below.

Go back to the Tram room and take it to the right to Kingdom's Edge.

Kingdom's Edge
Charms Bosses Notches NPCs Stag Station Grubs Abilities/Equipment/Items

Hive 1 at Colosseum of To Queen's

Hiveblood Bardoon 6 Mask Shard
Knight Fools Station

Quick Nailmaster
Hiveblood
Slash Oro

Dash Slash

Wanderer's Journal x2

Use the Bench, leave the Tram and leave from the top right exit. Make it all the way to the top and leave the screen.
We're taking a little detour to Royal Waterways. Leave this screen from the top as well. Swim a little to the left until
you see an opening above you. Use double jump to get there, rescue the Grub, and go all the way right to a fake
floor to get back where you started. Super Dash to the left. Follow the way down and to the right, break the
scaffolding and go all the way right to Emilita's Room. Check your map and go all the way left towards the Nailsmith
for an upgrade. Quit to the Main Menu and load from the Bench at the Tram. Go to your right this time and enter The
Hive.

Break the wall and defeat the enemies. Follow the way right to another screen, and make it all the way to the bottom
left and leave the screen. Go all the way left to get the Bench out of the honey. Make it to the right end, grab the
Geo rock and the Essence tree. Make it all the way up and to the left to leave the screen. Leave from the top, hit the
Geo rock to your right, then go all the way up and to the left for some more Geo, then go right to leave the screen.
There's a grub right in top-middle side of the screen and can be a little tricky to get there, you have to Super Dash
and double jump mid dash to get there. There's a video below if you wanna see how to get there.

Get to the bottom of this room and notice the "breakable" wall to the left and the Mask Shark. The only way to break
these walls is lure the Hive Guardian/s (the bouncing bees) and make it smash against the wall. Leave from the left
of the Mask Shard and break the scaffolding. We're now heading towards a boss so make sure to fill your Soul
meter. Go back to the bouncing bees room and leave from the left.

Hive Knight
As soon as the room is locked, the Hive Knight will perform the first attack before showing up. Bees will fly down
towards you, and even though you can hit them (and fill your Soul meter) they cannot be killed. The second attack
you'll probably see is a simple, albeit fast thrust forward with its spear. Do what you always do with this kind of
attack and jump over it, dash if necessary and attack it either from above or behind. After every attack it will quickly
teleport out of sight and attack again. Healing should be easy with this boss, as after a few hits, the Hive Knight will
be vulnerable for a few seconds, during which you can Focus and attack him once if you do it fast enough. When
the battle's over, follow the way right and grab the Hiveblood Charm, then leave from where you came from.

Go back to where you found the Mask Shard and leave from the left. Follow the bottom left path, break the wall and
leave from the left. Break the scaffolding and take the platforms up to leave the screen. There's a Soul Totem to
your right, use if you need it and take the path up then to the right. You will reach a scaffolding and a fake floor.
Break the scaffolding then dive. This will lead you to a Grub, rescue it and go back to the scaffolding you broke and
go through.

Climb up a little bit, staying close to the left wall and you'll start hearing Cornifer's humming. Buy a map from him
and leave the screen from the bottom right. Look at the map and head to the Bench. Enter the building and talk to
Nailmaster Oro, he will ask 800 Geo in exchange for teaching you a new skill. Pay the 800 to learn the Dash Slash.
There's a fake floor right near the end of the screen, dive a few times until you get to a room full of spikes. Head
right and rescue the Grub at the end. This is optional, but there's a fake wall below the Grub that leads to several
fake floors and a big Geo rock (420 Geo). Head to the left from here, pass all the spikes and leave from the bottom
left exit. Follow the way up and stop halfway to go right to pick up the Quick Slash Charm.

Leave the area from the top left exit. Break the scaffolding, follow the way to the top left side, hit the Geo rock and
take the path up. Take a left here to the end, take platforms leading up, and go towards the top right exit, but dive
into the fake floor to the right side. This will lead you back down, but jump back from the platform you're on and
notice the narrow path to the right and the glowing object. Inspect it and get a Wanderer's Journal. You can now
leave the screen from the top exit. Take a right, break the fake wall and follow the way up to another Grub. Go all
the way up to the top right side of the screen and instead leaving the screen from the right, go left and break the
fake ceiling. Pick up the Wanderer's Journal and use the Bench. Follow the path on the image below to get to a new
NPC.
Talk to Bardoon and leave this screen from the middle-left exit. Drop down to the bottom right side of this screen
and hit the Essence tree with your Dream Nail to collect the Essence. Be careful not to fall down the hole, it will you
back down a few screens and you'll have to go all the way around it and start over if you fall. After collecting all the
Essence, make your way towards the top left exit and leave the screen. Go all the way left and take the path up.
Break the scaffolding to the left and then go all the way right. Here lies the Colosseum of Fools. If you saved Zote
you'll see him trapped in a cage here. To his right is a Bench that you should use. To the right of the Bench is a fake
wall that you can destroy to reveal a Hot Spring. If you talk to the NPC at the entrance, it will ask you if you want to
contribute to take the Trials. The first one is very rewarding, seeing as it will reward a Charm Notch. I personally did
it the first time, but be advised that it can be a bit long and difficult at times. Check out the image below and make
your way to the City of Tears.
Drop down and get to the bottom right side of the screen, hit the lever and drop the hole. Jump over the platform to
your left and go slightly to find a Grub. Then go back to King's Station by the swimming to bottom right side of the
screen (there's a hidden path), use the Bench and take Stagway the Queen's Station.

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To
Spore Shroom 2 Mask Shard
Greenpath

Leave the Stag Station and go all the way right, you'll find a little challenge that takes you up to a Mask Shard. Grab
the Mask Shard and take the top right exit. Look at the image below and follow the path to that screen, containing a
Grub and the Spore Shroom Charm.
The Grub is on the top left side of the screen. Get there by using the bouncing mushrooms. The Charm is on the
botom right side. Below the Grub is a fake wall that leads to Deepnest, take it.
All the way left leads to a dead end with infected bushes that you can inspect. When going back the floor will fall and
leave a huge hole, taking you down with it. From the bottom, go left and make it to the top, then Super Dash to the
right side and take the exit below. There's a fake wall on the middle right side of the screen, a bit above the giant
worm. Break the wall and continue. There are 3 fake grubs and a real one. Go back to the main menu and reload on
the Bench at Queen's Station, then travel to Greenpath.

Greenpath Part 2
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Shape of Unn Nailmaster Sheo 1 Rancid Egg

Baldur Shell Great Slash

Now we're going to that wide open area full of thorns that we couldn't pass through before. Look at the image below
and follow the path. Make sure to fill your Soul meter on the way there.

You'll encounter a challenge before you get there. You'll have to make use of all your abilities. It's clear what you
have to do in most parts, except maybe for the last part, there's a narrow corridor with thorns on the floor and
ceiling. You have to reach the high ground to the left and Super Dash to the right.Grab the Rancid Egg below before
continuing. Talk to the Nailmaster and choose yes to learn the Great Slash. Do not use the Bench so you can reload
from the previous one. Open your map and go all the way to the Lake of Unn.

Once there swim all the way to the left, Super Dash to get there faster and swim across a hidden path. Follow the
path all the way to the bottom. A creature will emerge from the acid and spit the Shape of Unn Charm. Reload from
the previous Bench again. Leave the Bench room and the next screen from above. Go all the way to the top left side
and leave the screen. You're now at the Vengefly King boss' room. If you didn't save Zote, hit the skull for an
achievement and continue right all the way to Howling Cliffs. Go all the way to the top right side, hit the chest and
jump into it to fall down. There will be 2 Elder Baldurs that you have to kill. Go right and pick up the Baldur Shell
Charm. There's a passage that goes up, slightly to the left of the Charm. Take the path and follow it to a Grub. Then
leave this screen from the top left side. You should see the Howling Cliffs title on the screen.

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Nailmaster
Joni's Blessing King's Idol
Mato

Wanderer's Journal

Cyclone Slash

Go all the way left and pick up the King's Idol. Go back a few steps and hit the Essence tree with your Dream Nail.

Collect the Essence and go to the top right side of the screen and you'll start hearing Cornifer's humming. Buy a
map from him. A bit below Cornifer and above the Essence tree is a fake wall that you can break. Through that path
is a white glowing object you can inspect and a hole leading to a Wanderer's Journal and another fake wall to the
right. This path will lead you to the corpse of a large bug, use your Dream Nail on it. Now go back to the previous
room and notice the artifact, it looks like background decoration, but you can interact with it. Get in the middle of it
and aim your Nail up and attack several times to activate it. Like so:
Go back to Cornifer's room and take the path to the right. In this new room, make it all the way to the right, you're
start seeing Lifeblood trails (the blue flowers). Follow those and they'll lead you to a corpse with a glowing object on
it. Pick it up, it's Joni's Blessing Charm. Backtrack to Cornifer's room and go above him to the top right side of the
screen to leave. Immediately go down and follow the bottom side to the right. You'll get to a building with a Bench in
it. There's a hidden path to the right that will lead you to Nailmaster Mato, who will teach you the last Nail Art, the
Cyclone Slash. Get out of the building and follow the way up and right until you see a cliff, then Super Dash to
Dirtmouth.

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Nailmaster's
Glory

Grubsong

Enter the large tent and go all the way right, an NPC called Grimm will show up. He will give you the Grimmchild
Charm. Enter Sly's store and you'll see an entrance to his basement. Enter the basement and go all the way right
and talk to Sly to receive the Nailmaster's Glory Charm. Buy any maps and Pins you can from Iselda. You'll find
Grey Prince Zote boss on the rightmost house, but I suggest fighting him later. Make a visit to the Grubfather to
receive Geo, Grubsong, Rancid Egg, Hallownest Seal and Pale Ore (NOTE: If you didn't rescue all the Grubs so far,
you won't be getting the Pale Ore and miss on a Nail upgrade. What you can do is beat the Colosseum of Fools
Trial #2 for another Pale Ore). Go back and take the Stag to King's Station.

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Reelic Seeker Lemm Wanderer's Journal

Coiled Nail

SECTION IN PROGRESS

Use Simple Key here:

You'll find a Wanderer's Journal here, a spirit that you can use your Dream Nail on, a Racid Egg on the fourth floor
and a Bench at the top. Right to the Bench is a fake wall that leads to Resting Grounds. Go past the fountain, near
the exit towards Royal Waterways to sell your stuff to Relic Seeker Lemm. Go all the way left and upgrade your Nail
on the Nailsmith (you should have 2 Pale Ore), and finally, unlock the elevator leading to Forgotten Crossroads on
the top left side of the map, and take it.

Infected Crossroads
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Fragile Heart Salubra

Fragile Greed

Fragile
Strength

Head to Salubra and buy as many Charms and Notches as you can. (She's on the right side of the screen, near the
Bench. Then take the Stag back to Dirtmouth. Equip the Defender's Crest when you're near a Bench for a discount
later. Drop down the well, go left to the big screen before the Grubfather. As soon as you enter the screen, use your
double jump ability and aim up to hit a fake ceilling. When it's broken. climb up the walls and get to a hidden path to
the left that will lead you to an Essence tree. Use your Dream Nail and collect the Essence. Get into Ancestral
Mound, the entrance is between the Bench below you and the Lifeblood Cocoon. (It's the place with the Shaman
who gave you your dash ability). Once inside, get all the way to the top left side and you'll see a lit path above you.
Use your double jump to reveal a path to the right and hit the Essence tree to collect the Essence. Look at the
image below and make your way to Fungal Wastes.

Before you leave Infected Crossroads, go right from the hole and Dive into the fake floor on this screen. This will
lead you to a Fossilised Goam you can inspect for a Hunter's Journal entry.
Once in Fungal Wastes, open your map and check the path to the right, where the Bench is and buy everything from
the Leg Eater. He'll give you a discount if you're wearing the Defender's Crest. Leave the screen and go directly left,
there's a small pool of acid you'll have to swim through, take the path to the left and hit the Essence tree. Once
you're done collecting the Essence, leave from the top left towards Fog Canyon.

Fog Canyon
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1 in exploding egg's 1 at Teacher's Archives

Uumuu Quirrel Hallownest Seal x2
room screen

Howling Wraiths

As soon as you enter, go all the way up and reveal the hidden path to the left, then get to the bottom platform to pick
up a Hallownest Seal. Go around and take the exit below the Hallownest Seal. This screen will be filled with bubble
eggs that explode when you touch them. Get to the bottom left side of the screen and grab the Charm Notch. Exit
the screen from where you came from. Drop down until you find an exit to the left and take it. Follow the platforms to
the top left and follow Cornifer's humming to buy a map from him. Go back to the previous screen and this time
leave from the bottom left exit. Get to the Teacher's Archives screen and Super Dash from the top right ledge. It will
lead you to a Grub. Talk to the Quirrel outside of the archives and enter the building. Go all the way right and use
Bench above to prepare for a boss fight before dropping through the hole. Read the boss tactic before you decide
which Charms to equip. You'll find the boss on the bottom of the building.

Uumuu
Uumuu only has 2 different attacks and each of them include spawning a burst of lightning on the screen. One of the
attack will randomly spawn bursts of lightning all over the screen and the other one will spawn in your position.
Despite only having 2 attacks, Uumuu can be a bit of a challenge. There's very little time to Focus, which makes
Quick Focus a must in this battle. Not only that, Uumuu is invulnerable most of the times, except for when the
Quirrel randomly shows up and attacks Uumuu. This will leave Uumuu vulnerable to your attacks. This means that
you won't be landing many hits and thus, not gathering soul. To counteract this, equip the Grubsong Charm.

After the fight, explore the rest of the place. Get to the tank full of lightning for a new entry on your Hunter's Journal
(Charged Lumafly). Continue to the bottom left side of the screen, you'll see a huge water tank. Get to the top and
the Quirrel will show up after you inspect the tank. After the scene, use the Dream Nail on the spirit in the tank.
Once inside the dream world, hit the spirit several times and Focus to get the 'Teacher Achievement'. Leave the
Teacher's Archives when you're ready.

Go left from the building and break the scaffolding to continue. Open your map and notice the path to Greenpath.
Get to that screen and take the path to the left. Take the first path up you see. This will lead you to a Lifeblood
Cocoon and a Hallownest Seal. Go back to the previous room and continue left. Take the path up and go around to
the other side to break the scaffolding. Then go to the leftmost side and enter the building into Overgrown Mound.
Once inside get to the top right side and the gates will close. Defeat the enemies and continue. Get to the rightmost
side and consume the Howling Wraiths, a new spell. Break the scaffolding to your left and leave Fog Canyon from
the exit to Greenpath.
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No Eyes 1 (big acid screen) Wanderer's Journal x2

Vessel Fragment (big acid

screen)

Hallownest Seal

Vessel Fragment (City of Tears)

Hug and climb the walls to the right. You'll reveal a hidden path. Pick up the Wanderer's Journal, and leave the
screen from the left. You can fight or ignore this mini-boss. Leave the screen from the left and the next one from the
bottom left. Go all the way left from the acid river until you see 3 platforms going up and right, they'll lead you to a
Grub. At this same height, but to the right is a Geo chest you can pick up. Keep going left until you see the platform
you can cut down, but climb the walls above you and go right to a Vessel Fragment. You can cut down the platform
to the right for a shortcut. Backtrack to the screen where you picked up the Wanderer's Journal and take the path to
the right (the one below the Bench) but use the Bench first and prepare for a boss fight. Go all the way to the right
and enter the building, 'Stone Sanctuary'.

You've been here before to pick up a Mask Shard, during our first time in the Greenpath. All that's left to do here is
to challenge the No Eyes grave. Use your Dream Nail on the spirit.

No Eyes
You'll see several white spirits roaming around the room. They won't directly follow you, but they'll go out of their
way a little bit if you're near the spirits. The boss will teleport after staying on the same spot for a few seconds. This
fight shouldn't be too hard, you'll only be dealing with contact damage from the roaming spirits. If you're struggling,
just go to the bottom middle and Focus there, the spirits won't touch you that low. The more you hit the No Eyes, the
more spirits will spawn and the faster it'll teleport. Just keep hitting it and going down to Focus and you'll be done
with this in no time. You'll gain 200 Essence after the fight.

Go back to the first screen and drop down to Fog Canyon. Leave the first screen through the bottom right exit and
the next one from the bottom right as well towards Fungal Wastes (Queen's Station). Once in Queen's Station, go
through the middle left exit into Willoh's Room. Double jump at Willoh's position to reveal a hidden path and pick up
the Hallownest Seal and take the Stag to King's Station.

Leave the station and take the path up.Take the elevator and head right on the first opening to pick up a Wanderer's
Journal then take the elevator again. Make it all the way up and leave from the top left. Go right, the gates will close.
Defeat all the enemies and go right to pick up a Vessel Fragment. Go back to the previous screen and leave
through the left path. Don't take the elevator, instead climb up the right wall until you hit a ledge. Jump to the left,
dash and use your wings for a final push up the ledge. Head towards the Colosseum of Fools.

Kingdom's Edge Part 2

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1 from Trial of The

Zote?? Pale Ore (Trial of The Conqueror)
Warrior

Oblobble King's Brand

Hornet Wanderer's Journal.

Once in the Colosseum, you have to complete the first 2 trials, Trial of The Warrior and Trial of The Conqueror.

Trial of The Warrior

You'll have to go through 11 waves of enemies and Zote will be the final boss if you saved him before. Once it's over
you'll receive a Charm Notch, 900 Geo and the Warrior achievement.

Trial of The Conqueror

This one has 16 waves and a final boss, Oblobble. Unlike Zote, this boss will actually fight back.

Oblobble
You'll fight 2 of them. They have 1 main attack with which they spit acid and's all they do. One thing you should
know is that when you kill the first one, they other one will go nuclear and heal and boost it's HP, meaning you have
to focus your attack on one of them, seeing as the other one will recover its health anyway.

Once you're done, pick the Geo,Pale Ore and make your way to the Bench in the image below.
Prepare for a boss fight on the Bench, and leave then go all the way right.Leave the next screen from the right as
well.

Hornet

This time the Hornet will use the same attacks, but the intervals between attacks will be faster, she also has a few
new attacks. One of them is a counterattack when you attack her from above. The other one are 3 threads that will
hurt you on contact and which you can attack to remove, and you should make sure to do so, if you let her, she'll fill
the screen with them. Once again, your time to heal is when she's vulnerable after a few attacks. Focus once if you
need it, and then attack her.

Continue to your right to drop down a level and leave the screen from the bottom left, into the Cast-Off Shell. Go all
the way left and pick the King's Brand. After the scene, check out your map and get to the bottom exit to City of
Tears, but before you leave, climb the wall all the way up to the scaffoldings and break them for a Wanderer's
Journal. Take the exit, use the hidden shortcut from the bottom left (you have to swim). Once in City of Tears, take
the bottom path to Ancien Basin

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Flukenest Flukemarm Hornet

Wanderer's Journal

Lifeblood
Arcane Egg x2
Core
Abyss Shriek
Shade Cloak

A little detour first. Take the first exit to the left towards Royal Waterways. Pass through the Dung's Defender room.
You can actually talk to him this time, and go to the only Bench you should be seeing. Prepare for a boss fight once
you get there. Go below the Bench and Dive into the fake floor. Go all the way to the bottom right side until you hit a
dead end and start going left to leave from the bottom left side of the screen. You should stumble upon a fake wall,
this will lead you to a large river. Keep going left until you see a giant bug hanging on the center of the room and hit
it to begin the boss fight.

Flukemarm
The only attack it uses it spitting Flukefeys (2 at a time). They stack, so make sure to kill them as soon as you can or
you'll have a screen full of them. You should be able to kill them with one hit with your upgraded Nail, but if you're
not killing them with one hit, consider using the Fragile Strength charm you bought from the Leg Eater. Staying on
the ground and ocassionally jumping on the first platform to the right is a good position for this boss, but don't stay
on that platform for too long because it'll spit the Flukefeys your way and you won't have time to dodge them while
standing there.

When the fight's over, pick up the Flukenest Charm from the top left platform. Now backtrack all the way to the
bottom towards Ancient Basin. You can find an Essence tree on the bottom right side of the huge vertical screen (in
a hidden path). Go left of the huge vertical screen. As soon as you enter you can pick a Wanderer's Journal from the
bottom right. Leave the screen from bottom left into Ancient Basin.

Use the Bench at the Tram and equip Fragile Heart, Joni's Blessing and Lifeblood Heart. You have to have 15 blue
masks when you get to the next objective, that means you don't have to lose any health. Go down from the lit hole.
Leave this screen from the bottom as well. Inspect the element and continue left. Find the Lifeblood door by falling
down towards the middle left side of the screen. If you have 15 Lifeblood masks. the door will open.

The place will be covered in spikes; you have to get to the bottom right side to pick up the Lifeblood Core Charm,
but first, go below the Charm to pick up the Arcane Egg, you can miss this item permanently though it doesn't count
towards completion. Once you pick up the Charm, you'll be back at the entrance. Drop to the bottom of the Abyss
and go left all the way. Step on the platform and use Howling Wraiths (Focus/Quick Cast while holding up) and get
the Abyss Shriek. Leave the screen and from the bottom of the Abyss, go right. Go right once again and climb the
platforms to the top of the building, then get inside. Hit the lever to turn the lights on and drop down to the bottom
then go right with a Super Dash. Get to the end all the way right and get the Shade Cloak, backtrack and pick up the
second Arcane Egg. Take a few more steps left and you'll see an opening leading up, follow it to a hidden path. Use
the Shade Cloak to pass through the black gate, inspect the structure to the left to add a new entry to the journal
and climb up the top of the Abyss then talk to the Hornet and go back to the Tram. You can remove the Charms now
if you want. Take the Tram to Deepnest.

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Sharp
Vessel Fragment
Shadow

Mask Shard

Head left into the worms screen and leave from the bottom. Drop down and take the first right, dash through the
black gate. Follow the path and pick up the Sharp Shadow Charm. Break the scaffolding, go up and left to a hidden
path to the corpse of a Garpede for a new entry. Go back to the worms screen, leave from the top left. To get to the
to the top left side of the screen, you'll have to bounce on the Garpede with your Nail. You'll find a Vessel Fragment.
Take the Tram to Ancient Basin.

Drop 3000 Geo into the hidden fountain for a Mask Shard.Go to Palace Grounds and break the fake wall to the right
to get into Hidden Station. Activate the Stag, go to Dirtmouth and take the elevator to Crystal Peak.

Crystal Peak Part 2

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1 near Essence Tree King's Idol

1 in Crystallised Pale Ore

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Mound.

Descending Dark

Go all the way right to the end of the crystal floor and pick up the King's Idol then leave the screen. Check the image
below and follow the path.

Go all the way right into a new screen and rescue the Grub. Go back and hit the Essence tree with your Dream Nail
then collect the Essence. Get to the left side of the screen and start climbing up, then leave from the top right side.
Climb up until you reach Hallownest's Crown and go all the way left to pick up a Pale Ore. Drop from the cliff and go
all the way to the bottom right side of the map towards Crystallised Mound. Dive as soon as you enter the building
and follow the way to the top right side to rescue another Grub, then break the crystallised shadow to the bottom left
side of the Grub for the Descending Dark spell. Drop into Resting Grounds

Resting Grounds Part 2

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Soul Eater Xero Seer 1 Below Coffin Pale Ore

Dream Wielder King's Idol

Hallownest Seal

Challenge Xero's Grave (or go to the Bench first).

Xero
Xero attacks with 2 Nails that will deal damage when coming back to him. As you deal enough damage, he will
attack with 4 Nails. You can safely Focus below him without fearing being attack, this means it's a great opportunity
to use Deep Focus Charm. This also means you should prioritise Charms that help you fill your Soul Meter. At this
stage, Xero shouldn't be much of a threat.

Go and talk to the Seer 3 times. Once will unlock the Glade, then you'll get a Pale Ore and Dream Wielder (if you've
been following this guide). Go through the Glade (right of the Seer). You can fight all the spirits in here, but it's
optional. Go to the top right side and hit the Essence Tree with your Dream Nail then collect the Essence. There's a
hidden room below the Essence tree, at the top of the waterfalls with a King's Idol. Go back to the large vertical
screen that leads to the Seer and on the bottom, dive into the coffins. After diving fall through the fake floor, find the
hidden path to the right, get the Geo Chest, then go up for a Grub. To the right of the chest is another hidden path,
that going right from it will lead eventually to another hidden path for a Wanderer's Journal. Instead of going through
that last hidden path, you can go up for the Soul Eater Charm. There's one more hidden path left on the left side of
the screen. It will lead to several hidden paths and eventually to a Hallownest Seal. Once you're done, take the
elevator down to City of Tears

City of Tears Part 5

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Knight Relic Seeker 1 after Sentries

Hallownest Seal
Watcher Lemm room

Nailsmith

A few things you can do here: Visit Relic Seeker Lemm for some Geo (you'll also encounter him at the fountain),
then upgrade your Nail to its last form, the Pure Nail. After upgrading the Nail, the Nailsmith will step outside. If you
talk to him he'll say that his final wish is to be cut down with the Pure Nail and will give you the 'Purity' achievement,
but if you spare him, you'll get an achievement later if you visit him at his hut in the Greenpath. Check the image
image. Get to the Bench, prepare your Charms for a boss fight (look Watcher Knight section below) then drop into
the room below outside of the Bench's room and finish the Great Husks and Lance Sentries, then hit the lever to the
right of the room.
Get into the room to the right, hit the lever for a shortcut and leave the screen from the top right. Go all the way left
to a new screen, hit the lever to open up a shortcut then come back to the previous screen. Go up and take the
elevator up, take the right path and go up, this will lead you to a Grub. Go back to the previous screen and take the
left path. Take the elevator and prepare for a boss fight.

Watcher Knight
Sharp Shadow and Quick Focus will make this battle a lot easier. Use Sharp Shadow and dash through their spin
attacks and it's gonna be hard to find a moment to heal, hence Quick Focus. When they attack with their Nail, dash
through them and attack them from behind. When the spin bounces, try not to use the dash, seeing as the other one
might spin as well.

Continue right when you're done, go up then all the way left for a Hallownest Seal and a Geo Chest, then leave the
screen from the top. Take the elevator up, notice the body on the stone flinth, use your Dream Nail on it. In the
Dream World, hit Lurien The Watcher and Focus. Go all the way to King's Station and take the Stag to Queen's
Station.

Queen's Garden
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Passing Marmu's
Traitor 1 hidden path above
Cloth spirit, through hidden Hallownest Seal
Lord large horizontal screen
path

Elder White
1 hidden path White Fragment
Hu Lady

1 after breaking glass and

Mask Shard
Super Dash Challenge
Take the top left path to Fog Canyon. Take a left once again and meet Millibell The Banker. This is optional, but you
can deposit at least 3350 Geo then sit on a Bench, when you come back, she'll be gone and when you hit the front
of the bank, you'll realise it's just a cardboard. Go back to Fog Canyon, open your map and take the middle left exit.
Swim below the thorns and leave from the left. Keep going left and you'll encounter the Cloth if saved back in
Ancient Basin. Leave from the left, go down the platforms and leave from the bottom left.

The gates will close as you enter the room. Defeat the enemies and continue right. Follow the papers towards
Cornifer and use the Bench to his left. To his right are the spirits of Caelif and Fera, put them to sleep with your
Dream Nail. Leave Cornifer's screen from the left and this one from the bottom right. Go into the next screen from
the bottom right. Check your map, on the bottom right side is a scaffolding you need to break to open a shortcut,
and the path above contains the Love Key, which you need to pick up. Go back to the previous screen, hit the
Essence tree to your left and collect the Essence. Leave from the bottom left.

Go all the way left into a new screen for a Bench you need to activate with 150 Geo. Go back to the large horizontal
screen and leave from the top left. Once here, the gates will close and you'll have to defeat the enemies. Continue
right when you're done and get to the top left side of the screen. You'll hear a Grub's cry, it's in a hidden path, left of
the Geo rock on the top left side of the screen. Rescue the Grub and leave from the top. Get to the top left side and
to the next screen. Go all the way left to a new screen and find the hidden path leading up to a Grub. Drop down to
the bottom and go left, then to the top left for a Hallownest Seal. Leave the screen from the bottom.

Pass Marmu's spirit and go right, reveal the hidden path to the right and activate the Stag Station, hit the lever and
use the Bench. Go back and challenge Marmu. Marmu doesn't need its own section, it's easy enough because it will
bounce every time you hit him. Use your Nail Art Cyclone Slash for an easy repel every time he comes at you. Talk
to him after the fight, go back to the Bench screen and leave from the right.

Leave this screen from the top right. Hit the lever but leave from the top left. Get to the top and there will be only a
path to the right, but you can break the glass to your left that leads to a Super Dash challenge and finally a Grub.
Now take the path to the right and hit the Essence tree to collect Essence, then go back to the previous screen and
leave the screen from the bottom left (prepare for a boss fight soon enough). Go all the way left and up. Gates will
close and Cloth will join the fight if you saved her.

Traitor Lord
This is a big boss in a small area. Focusing will be hard in this battle, the best moments are when Cloth is fighting
the boss. Your Shade Cloak ability will really come in handy here, seeing as the only way to avoid the wave attack is
by dashing through it. Wait until it performs its slash attack and dash through it, then attack from behind. Often times
it will perform the slash several times and interrupting the convo with an aerial strike. Keep this up long enough and
it'll be done with.

Leave the screen from the left. Go all the way left and into the building. Follow the path to the end and meet the
White Lady, she will give you the White Fragment. Go back to the Stag Station and take the Stag to Queen's
Station. Follow the path below (use the Bench on the way to prepare for a boss fight.
The Elder Hu shouldn't be too hard, the attacks are simple enough to dodge and with the Shade Cloak, they're even
easier to dodge. Check the image below and make your way to another Essence Tree.

PathToEssenceTree IMAGE HERE

Collect the Essence and leave the screen from the left into Fungal Core. Leave this screen from the bottom. Drop all
the way to the bottom and into the lit hole to get to Deepnes and pick up the Mask Shard.

Deepnest Part 3
Notche
Charms Bosses NPCs Stag Station Grubs Abilities/Equipment/Items
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Weaverson Top right side outside of 1 Near Weaver's

Galien Hornet Rancid Egg x2
g Beast's Den Den

1 in Beast's Den Hallownest Seal

Vessel Fragment

Make your way to the Bench on the left side of the map and prepare for a boss fight. Leave the Bench screen from
the huge hole on the left and into the Failed Tramway. Leave the screen from bottom exit just a few steps to the left
of the entrance. Leave this screen from the left. Go all the way left and challenge Galien.

Galien
Not a particularly hard boss either. Just keep using your Shade Cloak to dodge the spinning axe and hit Galien in
between. Keep this up long enough and it'll go down.

Get the Lifeblood Cocoon above Galien and go back to the previous screen and leave from the right once again.
Leave this screen from the bottom. Make your way to the left side and leave the screen. Go all the way left, you'll
eventually hit a dead end, but you can make your way up with the platforms. Dropping to the left side revealing a
hidden path will lead you to a Rancid Egg. Start making your way to the top right and you'll see a Grub, you have go
around it from the left end to get to it. Look down, spot the platform and drop on it to get to the right side to get to a
building, the Weaver's Den. Once inside go all the way right, then towards the top left to pick up the Weaversong
Charm. Go back, jump on the platform below the grub and go all the way left. Hit the Essence Tree and collect the
Essence. Leave the screen from the top left. Keep going left until you reach Distant Village. Follow the way up and
slightly left to find a building. Use the fake Bench there to start a challenge.

Once in the Beast's Den, make it all the way up and find the Grub that is under a fake floor. At the very top will be a
spirit you can put to rest. You'll get an achievement afterwards and encounter the Hornet. Drop from the right and
keep hugging the right side to get to a Rancid Egg, this one can be missed permanently, but doesn't count towards
completion. Then going to the bottom and left will lead to a Hallownest Seal can be missed permanently as well.
You'll find the exit dropping from where the Hornet is, all the way left. Just continue falling until you see a lit path to
the right. This will lead to a Bench and a fake floor that will lead you to the entrance of the building. Check your map
and go through the top right exit. Activate the Station and the Stag will tell you about this new place. Take it to the
Stag Nest and grab the Vessel Fragment. Take the elevator to the right and drop down to Howling Cliffs. Challenge
Gorb, Super Dash to the right towards Dirtmouth and take the Stag to King's Station.

Kingdom's Edge Part 3

Charms Bosses Notches NPCs Stag Station Grubs Abilities/Equipment/Items

Grubberfly's The Grubfathe To Resting 3 Tower of

King's Idol
Elegy Collector r Grounds Love

Markoth

If you gave Geo to Millibelle, go to the Pleasure House and get what's yours, she'll be on the hot spring at the top.
The next objective is below the Stag Station you came from (prepare for a boss fight). Jump on the water and keep
going right. Check the image below.
Go to the top left side and use the Love Key. Follow the path to the end and you'll encounter The Collector.

The Collector
This boss will usually leap all the time and drop glass cases that will spawn enemies. Focusing shouldn't be an
issue, as long as you're on the other side of the screen (and there isn't more than 1 enemy) you will be able to
Focus just fine, his leaps are slow, but bring Quick Focus if you're struggling. Aside from that, there isn't much
strategy, the pattern is very predictable.

After defeating The Collector, go to the right and above for the last 3 Grubs! A little bit to the left of the last Grub is
The Collector's Map. This will let you see missing Grubs in the map. Take the upper right path to Kingdom's Edge.
Take the path from the image below towards the shadow gate and challenge Markoth.
Markoth
Markoth has a shield floating around him all the time and will attack with Nails that will appear out of nowhere on
different parts of the room and go towards (but won't follow you). After a while it will make his shield circle around
him, but faster and reaching farther. After attacking him enough, he will summon a second shield and the intervals
between nail attacks will be shorter. You should aim to heal during the shield attacks, but if you don't need to heal,
you can get near him after the shields have reached farther and he will be vulnerable to attacks. If you can spare the
Soul, climb the walls and use your Shade Soul attack against him.

When you're done, check the world map to see if you've missed any Grubs and let's pay one last visit to the
Grubfather. Take the Stag from King's Station to Dirtmouth.

SPOILER
If you visit the Grubfather one more time after sitting on a Bench, you'll come back to an inflated Grubfather and
you'll hear the Grub's cries from inside him. It isn't clear if this is a cruel act, but I'm inclined to believe otherwise
seeing as the achievement is called 'Metamorphosis'

Take the Stag to Resting Grounds.

Resting Grounds Part 3

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Charms Notches NPCs Stag Station Grubs Abilities/Equipment/Items
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Seer To Infected Crossroads Vessel Fragment

Grey
Dream Gate
Mourner

Quirrel Arcane Egg

Tiso Delicate Flower

Mask Shard

Pay a visit to the Seer and claim your prizes. Now open your map and follow the path from the below to the Geo
Chest.

Break the fake ceilling above the Geo Chest.Follow the light above into a new screen and go right, enter the building
and talk to the Grey Mourner. Accept the gift.

Delicate Flower Quest

To complete this quest, you have to take the flower to the traitor's child grave in Queen's Gardens, but there's a
catch. You can't use the Stag or or you'll break the flower. I'll show you the shortest path below with images. Keep in
mind that losing even 1 Mask of health will destroy the flower and you'll have to start over. If you don't wanna take
any chances, you can check the images below and clear the path of enemies without using any Benches (so that
enemies won't respawn) and then start the quest.
You'll meet the Quirrel one last time on your way and you'll get the Witness achievement.You'll find Tiso on the
other side of the lake.

There's an acid river you need to swim through at the end to reveal a hidden path to Fog Canyon.
Place the Delicate Flower at the Traitor's Child grave then take the Stag to Resting Grounds (or reload if you didn't
use any Benches) and talk to Grey Mourner and grab the Mask Shard. Take the Stag to Infected Crossroads.

Infected Crossroads Part 2

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Charms Bosses Notches NPCs Stag Station Abilities/Equipment/Items
s

Glowing
Failed Champion To Resting Grounds Awoken Dream Nail
Womb

White Defender Mask Shard

Leave the Stag Station and enter the path above you that leads to the left. Break the fake wall that appears on the
image below.

It'll lead you to a hidden room with a passage covered in spikes. Super Dash to go through it and leave from the top.
Get to the end and the gates will close until you defeat all the enemies. When you're done go right and pick up the
Glowing Womb Charm. Go back to the fake wall and leave the screen from the left into False Knight's room. Break
the fake wall on the top right side and Dream Nail the spirit of Failed Champion.

Failed Champion
The attacks are the same as the False Knight, but much more faster and making contact with the body or mace will
deal 2 Masks of damage, and it will sometimes create one wave after the other. Usually the best way to dodge one
is by double jumping and using your Shade Cloak if you're caught too to jump. As with the False Knight, Focus
when the boss is down and attack it.

When you're done, take the Stag to Resting Grounds, visit the Seer for the Awoken Dream Nail ability and the last
Mask Shard. Take the Stag back to King's Station.

Take the path to Ancient Basin. Take the top left exit towards Royal Waterways. See that platform to your left? Dive
below it and prepare for a boss fight. Dream Nail the Dung Defender's spirit.

White Defender
The attacks are mostly the same as the Dung Defender's, but faster and it has a new attack where it will rise spikes
of dirt in a wave form. Use your Shade Cloak to dodge this attack. Like most Dream Boss fights, you don't die when
you lose, this means you can use Fragile Strength and/or Fragile Heart without fear of losing it. Fragile Strength and
Mark of Pride will really come in handy in this battle. This boss has plenty of health so you're gonna want to deal
more damage and you'll find yourself dangerously close to the boss more often than not.

Leave the screen from the right and get to to the bottom then leave from the left and towards Ancient Basin.

Ancient Basin Part 3

Charms Bosses NPCs Abilities/Equipment/Items

Kingsoul Lost Kin Seer

Use the Bench and prepare for a boss fight. It's another Dream Boss so leave your Fragile Strength Charm
equipped and consider equipping the Defender's Crest or the Spore Shroom. From the Bench on the left side, Super
Dash to the left and continue to the end where the Broken Vessel's spirit is.

Lost Kin
Mostly the same as the Broken Vessel, use Fragile Strength without fear of losing it this time and Defender's Crest
or Spore Shroom to help with the Infected Balloons.

When you're done head all the way to Palace Grounds and use your Awoken Dream Nail on the white armour. Enter
the white palace, jump over the mechanic bees and use the Bench. Go all the way to the top right, using the
platforms and into a new screen. Defeat the Kingsmould and continue. Go around the platforms to the level above
the Kingsmould and hit the lever. Go back to the previous screen and step on the platform to go up. Leave the
screen from the top exit. Follow the platforms to the right and leave the screen from the rigth. Keep going right. Past
the razor blades then you'll have to go up avoiding the razor blades. Once you're at the top, leave from the left.

Find your way towards the left exit through the challenge. Get to the bottom and hit the lever. Drop down and hit the
lever to turn on the lantern. Go all the way left, you'll see a lit area that takes you out of the White Palace, use the
path below to the left. Find your way to the top left exit. There's a lantern all the way to the right. Hit the lever, leave
from the right and drop down. Hit the lever and follow the platforms to the right to a platform that will take you up.
Take the platform up and leave from the top. There will be a Bench and an exit towards the top. Find your way to the
top exit once again. Go all the way around to the top right then drop down. Hit the lever and go right, get to the end
of the ledge and you'll see a platform on the far right, double jump, dash and you'll get there. Find your way to the
top right side and Super Dash to the left. Go all the way to the top and hit the skeleton to collect the other White
Fragment and form the Kingsoul Charm.

ENDING SPOILER
You can equip the Kingsoul and head to the Abyss' bottom to reveal a hidden area. There's an Arcane Egg there
and if you use your Dream Nail on the Black Egg at the end, the Kingsoul will turn into the Void Heart and you'll see
a different ending, but you won't get the normal ending achievement.

Take the Stag one more time to the Seer and get the Ascension achievement. Take the Stag to Dirtmouth.

The Grimm Troupe

 Charms Notches Bosses NPCs Abilities/Equipment/Items

Unbreakable
1 from Grimm Grimmkin Novice Divine
Strength

Unbreakable Greed Grimmkin Master Grimm

Troupe Master
Unbreakable Heart
Grimm

Nightmare King

Use the Bench and equip your Fragile Charms. Talk to Divine in the small tent and he'll make your Fragile Charms
unbreakable. She'll ask for Geo each time and it's gonna be a lot of Geo. Go to Relic Seeker Lemm and sell all your
stuff if you're lacking Geo. Equip your Grimmchild Charm and open a Dream Gate right next to the Bench. Open the
world map and look for the Flames locations and defeat the Grimmkin Novice in all 3 locations. You have to do this
3 times, each time with a different enemy. Each time you defeat one, use the Dream Gate to go back to Dirtmouth
and talk to Grimm.

Grimmkin Novice
They will fly out of range as you try to approach them, you have to wait for it to perform an attack before you try to
hit it. Equip your best Charms, the Unbreakable Strength is a must. Another good addition is the Sharp Shadow
Charm. The Grimmkin Novice will sometimes charges at you, and you can dodge while hurting him.

Grimmkin Master
The behavior and tactics are the same here. It's a little stronger and the attacks are slightly different, but it's mostly
about the same.

Troupe Master Grimm

You're gonna be dashing through a lot of his attacks, this makes Sharp Shadow essential. This is gonna be a hard
one, and the only moment I found where you can heal is when it does the cloak spikes attack. You can heal in
between, but it's much better if you have quick focus. This is obviously gonna take some practice, but it's not
impossible. After the battle, a chest will show up to your left, open it to get a Charm Notch.

Grimmkin Nightmare
This one is the same as other Grimmkin creatures, but tougher than both of them. As usual, take Sharp Shadow and
consider Unbreakable Strength as well. When you've killed 3 of them, go back to Dirtmouth, enter the big tent and
use your Dream Nail on Grimm at the end. Then go back and fight the Nightmare King.

Nightmare King
The attacks are similar to Grimm's, and you can only heal during one of his attacks, but now it's much faster,
therefore much harder. I suggest bringing Deep Focus and only healing during stagger. Sharp Shadow is more
valuable than ever, you'll find yourself dashing through most of his attack. Another invaluable Charm can the Dream
Shield, this will block the firebats attacks and some of the Nightmare King's attacks as well. The combination of
Charms are plenty, you can also try and maximise your health with Joni's Blessing, Lifeblood Heart and
Unbreakable Heart.
When you're done with the Nightmare King, you will receive the Ritual achievement and spawn back outside on
Dirtmouth.

Alternative Path

You can go talk to Brumm near the Lantern in Howling Cliffs and you get the Banishment achievement.

Final Steps
All that's left now is the final boss, but if you're eager for more, there a few more things you can do. You can
complete trials at the Colosseum of Fools for an achievement, go to Salubra to get her blessing and more
achievement, and defeat every enemy in the game for another achievement, as well as defeating the remaining
Dream Bosses. If you're eager for more, you can defeat the final boss and re-play the game to complete the
achievements you missed, such as saving or neglecting Zote, sparing or killing the Nailsmith, etc. There are also a
few other challenges, such as speed-running the game.

When you're ready, head to Black Temple in Infected Crossroads.

Temple of The Black Egg

This has been here since the beginning, but it was idle until now. Enter the building and watch the entrance reveal
itself. Keep going right, you'll reach a Bench eventually. Examine the object to its right and you'll be able to see your
completion percentage. It should say 107% if you've followed our guide, Go right and break the chains, and prepare
for the final fight.

The Hollow Knight

The fight will be divided by phases. After attacking The Hollow Knight a few times, it will roar and stun you.

Phase 1: The first attack you'll probably see is a triple slash combo. The Hollow Knight will attack forward with its
nail. The second attack is a simple lunge of the Nail, and the third is a jump towards you.

Phase 2: It will use 2 more attacks during this phase. Sometimes it will open its chests and fire a group of orange
blobs towards you, the second one is a jump followed by a thrust towards the groun that will spawn many flame
pillars emanating from the ground.

Phase 3: The Hollow Knight will float while its chests fires orange blobs all over the room, and sometimes it will float
and smash the ground repeteadly. It becomes slower during this phase so it's a good idea to heal if needed.

Phase 4: During the last phase, The Hollow Knight will only use the bouncing attack and a swing of the Nail. At the
end you'll be prompted to Focus.

Strategy: Attacking from above is the way to go here, it's especially easy to do during the Lunge or Triple Slash
Combo. You can bounce off it a few times to land extra hits. You can dash as soon as you the jump attack. During
the blob explosion attack, you can position yourself into safe zones where the blobs don't reach. You use this to
Focus or simply to avoid dodging the attacks. Use your Shade Soul when you're far from The Hollow Knight,
especially after a teleport.

Well, that's it, folks. Hope you enjoyed the game and reading through our guide, cheers.

Copyright 2018 Jonathan Escobedo and Sophie Bayles