Sen's Fortress

DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED guide · The trap-filled gauntlet opened after ringing both bells

Sen's Fortress is an ancient testing ground filled with swinging pendulums, dart traps, and rolling boulders that unlocks after ringing both Bells of Awakening. Players must navigate narrow bridges and solve directional boulder puzzles to ascend through the fortress interior to the open-air rooftop. Reaching the top allows you to defeat the Iron Golem and gain passage to the city of Anor Londo.

Items

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Lightning Spear: Dropped by the Mimic chest in the room beneath the boulder-rolling mechanismSlumbering Dragoncrest Ring: Found on a corpse on a high ledge above the control room drop-offCovetous Gold Serpent Ring: Found on a corpse in a hidden room filled with accumulated bouldersCage Key: Found at the bottom of the broken tower accessible by jumping the gap near the Crestfallen MerchantShotel: Located on a corpse in the lower area guarded by a Serpent Mage near the boulder track

Secrets

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Bonfire on the rooftop | Walk out onto the rooftop walkways and drop down off the outer broken ledge on the right side to land directly at a hidden bonfire.Big Hat Logan's cell | Turn the boulder redirection device so it fires down the path leading outside to shatter a cracked wall, revealing Logan locked in a cage hanging from the wall.Cage shortcut elevator | Unlock the two hanging cages on the rooftop using the Cage Key to create a direct elevator connecting the roof to the entrance level.

Enemies

Serpent Soldier

Weak to Thrust damage, Backstabs

Can be easily parried or baited into the swinging blade traps.

Serpent Mage

Weak to Physical damage, Backstabs

Fires ranged lightning bolts from elevated ledges and can bite up close.

Titanite Demon

Weak to Lightning damage

Four of these lurk in the tar pit at the bottom of the fortress, where player movement is severely slowed without the Rusted Iron Ring.

Iron Golem

Weak to Strike damage, Lightning

Hitting his legs repeatedly will stagger him and can cause him to fall off the edge of the arena to his death.

Shops and people

Crestfallen Merchant: Green Titanite Shards, Titanite Chunks, Balder set, Catarina set, and various rings
Big Hat Logan: Sells advanced sorceries including Soul Spear and Homing Soulmass once rescued and moved to Firelink Shrine

Tips

Equip the Rusted Iron Ring before dropping down into the tar pit at the base of the fortress to retain normal movement speed.
The arrow pressure plates in the fortress corridors can be triggered to kill the serpent guards walking ahead of you.
You can climb the highest rooftop tower to kill the giant tossing firebombs before entering the fog gate to fight the Iron Golem.

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