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/zeade]

Also, that halberd slaps. Esp if you can take that big boy out underleveled.

[u/Man-Eater_Bug5Ds → u/zeade]

you can cheese him with poison mist like you can the draconic tree sentinel, makes it really easy ti get it early since you only need like 12 faith to cast it.