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Northern Undead Asylum

The crumbling prison where your Undead wakes up. It doubles as the tutorial, ends with the Asylum Demon, and can be revisited later for more loot.

  • Suggested level: 1

Bosses

  • Asylum Demon: Open the second fight with a plunging attack from the ledge for big damage. Its hammer drops only if you beat it on the first meeting.
  • Stray Demon: Waits under the collapsing floor when you return to the Asylum. Stick to its tail end; it drops a Titanite Slab.

Bonfires

  • Undead Asylum Courtyard
  • Undead Asylum Interior

Items found here

  • Demon's Great Hammer: Beat the Asylum Demon in your very first encounter, before getting your gear.
  • Crest Shield: Dropped by the hollowed Oscar of Astora when you return to the Northern Undead Asylum.
  • Rusted Iron Ring: Behind a locked door on the third floor west wing of the Northern Undead Asylum, on return.
  • Pursuers (Artorias of the Abyss): Leave the Soul of Manus in Snuggly's nest on the Northern Undead Asylum roof.
  • Dungeon Cell Key: Dropped into your cell by Oscar of Astora at the very start.
  • Undead Asylum F2 East Key: Given by the dying Oscar of Astora in the Undead Asylum.
  • Big Pilgrim's Key: Dropped by the Asylum Demon (Oscar gives it if you kill the demon early).
  • Peculiar Doll: In your old cell when you return to the Northern Undead Asylum.

Walkthrough: Northern Undead Asylum

  • Pick up the Dungeon Cell Key dropped into your cell and let yourself out.
  • The Asylum Demon jumps down in the courtyard. Either flee through the side door or beat it now with your bare starter gear to earn the Demon's Great Hammer.
  • In the next rooms, collect your class weapon and shield from the corpses on the floor.
  • Watch the stairs going up: a boulder rolls down at you. Step aside, then follow the hole it smashes.
  • Talk to Oscar, Knight of Astora, lying under the hole. Say yes and he gives you the Estus Flask and the Undead Asylum F2 East Key.
  • Use the East Key on the gate that leads to the courtyard bonfire to create a shortcut.
  • Magic users should grab their catalyst, talisman or Pyromancy Flame from the side rooms before moving on.
  • Fight the Asylum Demon properly: drop from the ledge above the arena with a two-handed plunging attack for big opening damage. It drops the Big Pilgrim's Key.
  • Head out the big door, pick up the souls on the left of the path up to the cliff and ride the giant crow to Lordran.

Walkthrough: Undead Asylum Revisited

  • Mind the collapsing floor in the Asylum Demon's hall.
  • Defeat the Stray Demon below for a Titanite Slab.
  • A Black Knight now stands by the cell where you woke up. He drops a Red Titanite Chunk, and the Peculiar Doll is nearby.
  • Another Black Knight waits where your starter weapon used to lie; he too drops a Red Titanite Chunk.
  • Kill the now hollow Oscar, Knight of Astora, for the Crest Shield.
  • Warp back to Firelink Shrine.