Dark Souls II Key Items Checklist
Keys and story items that open the way. Where to find each one in Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin, DLC included.
Key
- Undead Lockaway Key: Huntsman's Copse: past the bridge by the prison, up the path on the left where Merciless Roenna invades; on a corpse.
- Lenigrast's Key: Bought from Merchant Hag Melentia for 1,000 souls (Forest of Fallen Giants, later Majula).
- Soldier Key: Dropped by The Last Giant.
- Key to King's Passage: Drangleic Castle: chest in the upper room at the top of the lift, together with a Soul Vessel.
- Bastille Key: Lost Bastille: on a corpse among crates at the edge of the broken bridge near the Servants' Quarters bonfire.
- Iron Key: Iron Keep: under the fire-breathing bull statue in the first building past Threshold Bridge; a later lever stops the flames.
- Forgotten Key: Black Gulch: kill the two giants in the hidden cave below the worm path.
- Key to the Embedded: The Demon of Song leaves it behind when you beat him in the Shrine of Amana.
- Brightstone Key: Dropped by Duke Tseldora in the Lord's Private Chamber after Freja.
- Antiquated Key: Chest next to Lucatiel of Mirrah's tower at the Tower Apart in the Lost Bastille.
- Fang Key: Free the petrified Lion Clan Warrior across the tree bridge by the Shaded Ruins bonfire, then kill it.
- House Key: Given by Cale the Cartographer in his cave in the Forest of Fallen Giants once you exhaust his talk.
- Tseldora Den Key: Given by whichever of Pate or Creighton survives their duel in Brightstone Cove (needs both questlines).
- Aldia Key: Light the four braziers in Aldia's Keep; the bone dragon in the entrance hall then lunges and dies, dropping it.
- Eternal Sanctum Key (Crown of the Sunken King): On a corpse in the Dragon's Sanctum room full of Sanctum Knights.
- Heavy Iron Key (Crown of the Old Iron King): On a skeleton in the Flame Salamander pit cave in the Forest of Fallen Giants (behind the Iron Key door).
- Tower Key (Crown of the Old Iron King): Brume Tower: on a corpse in the ash field guarded by Ashen Warriors, one lift level below the Foyer.
- Rotunda Lockstone: Bought from Licia of Lindeldt for 3,000 souls at the Majula rotunda (she also drops it).
- Giant's Kinship: Dropped by the Giant Lord in the Memory of Jeigh.
- Ashen Mist Heart: Given by the Ancient Dragon atop the Dragon Shrine; it also drops if you kill him.
- Ladder Miniature: Bought from Laddersmith Gilligan for 6,399 souls in Earthen Peak (7,999 in Majula).
- Dull Ember: Iron chest at the Tower Apart bonfire, reached via the bird's nest after the Pursuer.
- Dragon Talon (Crown of the Sunken King): On a corpse behind the Forgotten Key door in The Pit below Majula.
- Dragon Stone (Crown of the Sunken King): Chest in a hidden room near the spike floor of Dragon's Sanctum, revealed by a switch on a bridge support.
- Scorching Iron Scepter (Crown of the Old Iron King): On the altar at the bottom of the tower beside the main building of Brume Tower.
- Frozen Flower (Crown of the Ivory King): Drangleic Castle: on a corpse in a side room off the first Ruin Sentinel hall.
- Garrison Ward Key (Crown of the Ivory King): Frozen Eleum Loyce: past urns you light with a torch, behind a Flexile Sentry, after the blizzard is lifted.
- Eye of the Priestess (Crown of the Ivory King): At a flaming altar on the main path after the second bonfire of Frozen Eleum Loyce.
- Crushed Eye Orb: Undead Crypt: chest up the ladder off the cavern below the bridge, together with a Fire Seed.
Giant Soul
- Soul of a Giant: Memory of Orro: examine the giant's corpse at the end of the memory.
- Soul of a Giant: Memory of Vammar: examine the giant's corpse at the end of the memory.
- Soul of a Giant: Memory of Jeigh: examine the giant's corpse after the Giant Lord fight.
- Soul of a Giant: Black Gulch: dropped by the two giants in the hidden cave (with the Forgotten Key).
- Soul of a Giant: Dropped by the Ancient Dragon if you kill him at the Dragon Shrine.