Lost Bastille (1)

There are two ways in reaching this place; one is by using the ship in No-man's Wharf. You can only use the ship after defeating the Flexible Sentry. The other method is by defeating The Pursuer in the Forest of the Fallen Giants which by then you'll have to examine the nest in the area behind where you fought him and you'll be carried by an eagle to this location.

Arrival via air

As soon as you land, you can light up the bonfire. Go to the main path and follow the narrow ledge to the left. Before going to the balcony, keep going left while carefully hugging the wall to find a corpse containing a Large Titanite Shard and Radiant Lifegem.

Enter the next room through the window and take out the crossbowman. There are a lot of hounds in the bottom floor and they do drop various Souls items. You can also drop a gunpowder barrel from the ledge to kill all enemies caught up with the explosion below. Make sure to fall back away from the edge so you won't get caught in the explosion. Open the door and loot the lone chest containing an Antiquated Key and Covetous Silver Serpent Ring. The latter increases the amount of souls you can collect from defeating enemies, enabling you to earn more souls when farming enemies.

Make your way first towards the tower with a black door. Blow up the gunpowder barrel and open it. This can only be opened from this side and will you connect you to the path leading back to the dock which you will access if you rode the ship from No-Man's Wharf. This door will remain open permanently no matter which path you came from.

Now climb back up and enter the tower from the door you opened. You'll find an NPC here named Lucatiel if you're able to talk to her and exhaust her dialogue in the No-Man's Wharf bonfire. (she's a summon NPC on your way to the boss in Sinner's Rise) You have to cross the broken pillar to the left and enter the door there. This will lead to the sentinels boss area. Refer to the "Making Way to the Sentinels" page.

Ship Arrival

Leave the dock and enter the bastion. Ride the lift up and inspect the prison cell beside the lever to find a corpse containing a Soul of a Proud Knight and Radiant Lifegem. Continue along the stairs and enter the broken prison cell to your right. Loot the skeleton there to get Common Fruit x2.

A few steps from that, you'll find the area's bonfire inside a prison cell to your left. Light it up and continue forth. Follow the walkway and you'll encounter a non-hostile white knight. You can defeat him and get his Heide Spear. Be careful when fighting him since the pathway's narrow and his spear has both range and wide reach.

Take the ladder down and prepare to encounter some hounds in the courtyard. Destroy the wooden scaffolding nearby to make the corpse fall down. Loot an Alluring Skull from it. Break the wooden barricade to the right and destroy the enemy inside.

The door inside this room is locked and can only be opened if you acquired the Antiquated Key outside the room near the Towers Apart bonfire. (See above) There is a lootable corpse inside the small room; beware of the two undead inside. Get x2 Flame Butterfly.

Leave the room and continue to the next path this time. There's a narrow path beside the wall that's blocked by a wooden scaffolding. Destroy it and follow the path to reach a chest containing a Estus Flask Shard and a Large Titanite Shard.

Backtrack to the main path and you'll encounter a large gate. Open it by pulling the contraption to the right. Kill the two hounds and carefully go to the stairs. There's an enemy waiting above which will kick an explosive barrel. Just go upstairs enough to make him react then fall back to avoid the explosion. Kill off that enemy and continue forth.

Walk a bit and take out the hounds. There's also a lootable corpse in a dead-end to your right. Obtain a Gold Pine Resin from it. Lure the hound towards you then kill the scythe-wielding enemy ahead. Continue to the tower and if you have talked to Lucatiel in the bonfire leading to No-Man's Wharf, you'll find her inside the tower. Speak to her to get a free Human Effigy. Exhaust her dialogue too.

Outside the tower where Lucatiel is a broken part of the path which you can walk on and reach the ladder. Go up the ladder to find a corpse containing a Large Titanite Shard.