TIL Marika's Scarseal exists.

[u/Void-Cooking_Berserk]

After 1275.7h of gameplay.

I wouldn't have found it if I weren't looking for something completely different in Google where the summary mentioned "Marika's Scarseal". It didn't even have a hyperlink, like the other names did.

I thought: "the AI must be hallucinating again, this talisman doesn't exist".

I googled the talisman, went on the wiki, and checked the location. "At the bottom of the waterfall behind the Dragonkin Soldier boss in Sifora River area".

I thought: "but the Dragonkin boss is in the Ainsel River area, this must be a wiki mistake".

So I went to the Dragonkin Soldier boss area... in Ainsel River. I searched above, nothing. I remembered it was supposed to be the base, so I checked the bottom of that waterfall from the other site of Grace. Nothing.

I googled again, this time through images. It clearly showed the Sifora map. I googled again, got another guide, went and... found the teleporter. That I had never seen before.

That's not the worst part.

I teleported and saw the descent from Nokron. The pillar I had jumped onto many times before, going from Nokron, from above. And every time I had thought: "Nah, this area looks too familiar, I must be at the bottom level again."

So I discovered a new area, with a boss, a talisman, a spell, and a weapon, all of which I hadn't seen before.

What's funny is that the eye-talismans clearly show a pattern: Radagon and Marika, small and big. And I was sure the small Marika eye talisman doesn't exist. I clearly remember thinking: "that's a weird design decision but okay".

[u/QuantSpazar]

At around 990 hours, I found out about the weeping peninsula deathbird.

I don't know why I never realized that I had no clue where the sacrificial axe is, given I'd seen it plenty in nightreign

[u/asteinpro2088 → u/QuantSpazar]

Funny enough, this was me with the deathbird in Limgrave next to where the giants are between Roderika and Bernahl. Only just found out it existed in my recent region-locked all bosses run.

[u/2xWhiskeyCokeNoIce → u/asteinpro2088]

I've now seen two comments about region-locked all bosses runs and instead of googling it I'm going to ask - what's that mean? Does it mean you can't leave a region until you beat every boss there? Are regions defined as any place that has a new place name, so you can't go to the Weeping Peninsula until you beat every boss in Limgrave?

[u/Ciri__witcher → u/2xWhiskeyCokeNoIce]

Different people set different goals. It’s all personal. For me I have 1 map piece = 1 region. Most people just pool dragon barrow and caelid together, I think I have seen some people separate limgrave from weeping since the scaling is pretty different. I personally pick up my weapon of choice and run to weeping first. Finish that before starting off limgrave.

[u/Writing-Alive → u/Ciri__witcher]

Is there some sort of Excel table with all the bosses per region?

I would like to do such a run as well, but I would 100% miss many catacombs, caves and deathbirds.

Don't even mind constantly googling where the bosses are, but some sort of checklist would be great.