Elden Ring: Black Knife Catacombs Dungeon Guide
The Black Knife Catacombs is one of the many small dungeons in Elden Ring’s Liurna region that gives players the opportunity to hone their skills, gain some runes, and find useful items to grow their character’s overall power.
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The Black Knife Catacombs is a particularly interesting variant of the catacomb style dungeon that you can find throughout the game, offering an additional optional boss in the form of the Black Knife Assassin as well as the dungeon’s primary boss, the Cemetery Shade. From these bosses, two pieces of useful loot can also be obtained: the Assassin's Cerulean Dagger and the Twinsage Sorcerer Ashes.
The Black Knife Catacombs will be familiar in structure to those who have already taken on the other catacombs dungeons in Liurna and Limgrave, with a few interesting twists. Firstly, this dungeon is guarded by an armored knight. Whilst it’s possible to just run past them, you’ll gain a good amount of runes and have an easier time entering the dungeon if you defeat them first.
Secondly, this dungeon is filled with standard skeleton enemies that can only be fully defeated by killing a nearby necromancer that is summoning them. Be aware that for this reason, there are lots of skeletons that will rise continually after being down until the nearby necromancer is defeated.
As with the other dungeons, you'll be looking for a lever near a statue to progress to the final boss, the Cemetery Shade. Towards the end of the dungeon, however, an illusory wall can be unveiled to reveal a mist wall to another boss: the Black Knife Assassin.
Beyond the site of grace, continue onwards and find the door between statues. You’ll need to return here later to fight one of the
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