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Corvius' Mire Walkthrough for Salt and Sacrifice

Corvius' Mire Main Walkthrough

Darkearth Lair and the Fungalmancer

Activate the Obelisk when you first spawn in and ignore the eastern area for now. Head west as far as you can while fighting off the Fenbugs and climb up the ladder at the end to reach a cave opening. Head inside to reach the Darkearth Lair sub-area.

Inside, drop down one level to the west to find a Treasure Chest. Warning: This is a fake chest which is in fact a Chikku; a monster that hides in boxes and chests to ambush unsuspecting travelers. When you approach the fake chest, it will still have the prompt to open it, but doing so will cause the Chikku to swallow you up and chew you up for huge damage. However, you can also pre-emptively attack the chest to prevent it from using this ambush move.

Fake Chikku treasure chest ambushes the Inquisitor

From this point on, you should attack every chest you come across just to be safe but we will also point out any Chikku chests throughout the walkthrough. This Chikku will drop a Small Bag of Silver and refill your Hearthen Flask upon defeat. Drop down to the lower east where you can see a Treasure Pouch but roll through as you pass the torch as there is a spike trap just before the pouch. The pouch contains a Salt Sliver and a Black Starstone. Head down to the lower west path and note the poison fungus along the path. These grow in size as you approach and pop to spray a blighted mist in the area, building up blight on contact. Once the blight status takes effect, your health rapidly drains, faster than the poison effect. These fungi are prominent in this location so be careful when traversing the various areas.  

Take a quick detour to the right under the stairs to activate the Darkearth Lair Obelisk and then head back up to the west. At the west-end of the path, you will find a distortion from which you can initiate the hunt for the first Mage of this location: Por Myec, a Fungalmancer. Before starting the hunt, you may want to head to the lower east to collect a Sunfire Toadstool up on a wooden platform where dripping water can be seen. Further to the east from here is a large space with a green mining node on the rock formation on the right. This node can yield Boug Ore and Dismin Ore as well as other common materials and they can be found all around Corvius' Mire. Jump over the rock formation and drop into the opening on the right to land on an otherwise unreachable ledge at the bottom where a Treasure Pouch containing 3x Twin Mosspyr can be found. When ready, make your way back to the Fungalmancer's initiation point.

 

 

Speak to the Mage's dying human form for some backstory and then collect your extra loot. Now, head east and grapple up to the ledge and unseal the door. This leads to the next sub-area of Corvius' Mire.

 

Foulmurk Marsh

From the entrance, drop down to the lower levels and head east while fighting off the Fenbugs and Alchemists until you reach a platform with a Treasure Pouch. Loot it to collect a Salt Sliver and Guiltless Shard. Make your way back to the west near the entrance and across the wooden platforms above to reach one where the western Foulmurk Marsh Obelisk is located. From this Obelisk you can jump across the platforms to the left to find a Talking Tree NPC which introduces itself as The Voice of the Mire.

Speak to the tree for some backstory and then jump back onto the platform to the right of it. There is a Pulley you can activate here which leads high above the Marsh. At the top, cross the platforms to the left and activate another Pulley, unlocking a shortcut back to the Darkearth Lair Obelisk. Go back down to the western Foulmurk Marsh Obelisk and drop onto the platform to its right. From here, grapple up to the east onto a large cut-off tree trunk where a Boss Fight will ensue.

 

 

 

Grab your loot and then grapple east of her arena onto a platform with another Obelisk. To the right of it is a larger platform with a corpse leaning over a Stone Circle, holding a crystal. Inspect the corpse to obtain the Luminstone Inquisitor Tool. With this tool, you will be able to activate Stone Circles such as the one in front of you to reveal hidden platforms, grappling hooks and other traversal implements, allowing you to reach greater heights and explore new areas.

Revealing hidden pathways with the Luminstone

Now that you have the Luminstone, head back to very first Obelisk in the main Corvius' Mire area to progress the main campaign.

 

The Great Tree

The Great Tree sub-area is directly above the Corvius' Mire Obelisk. To reach it, head east and climb up the wooden platforms where you can find a Stone Circle. Activate it to reveal a luminous platform that leads to the mage-sealed door to the left, which you can now open after having defeated one named mage in this area. Additionally, if you've spoken to the Kingdom Knight in Bol Gerahn, you can find him at the top of the platforms above the Stone Circle. Speak to him and he will tell you about climbing The Great Tree.

The Kingdom Knight atop the wooden platforms east of The Great Tree

Alternatively, you can also get to The Great Tree from the western side using similar wooden platforms and another Stone Circle. Both paths lead inside to the hollowed-out tree and both require having devoured one Named Mage's Heart.

Inside, you can unlock another mage-sealed door to the right which just gives another entrance from the east. Climb up the wooden platforms on the right side of the tree, wall-jumping where necessary. Watch out for the Bleeder enemies. Grapple up to the platform on the upper left and get ready to jump up on the rickety platforms above. Beware the two rotating traps above them. These rotate quickly 3 times before a short break, time your traversal during the break and make your way to the second rickety platform on the right. There is a small cavity on the right wall of the tree here where you can jump to collect a Treasure Pouch which contains a Salt Shard and 3x Goldenpyr Trio. You may need to wait for the right rickety platform to reappear. Once it does, time your jump with the rotating trap and then grapple up to the solid platform above and to the left.

Keep climbing up and defeat the Bleeders along the way. You will eventually find the Great Tree Obelisk on the right side which you can grapple to. Activate it and grapple back to the left to go further up. On the platform right above the Obelisk there is a Treasure Pouch containing a Grimgrip Cap. Above this platform is another platform with a wooden door on the right which leads to the upper east section of the main Corvius' Mire area. There is a similar door to the west up the stairs. Ignore these areas for now and continue upwards to find the Sapblood Heart Boss encounter.

 

 

 

After defeating the Sapblood Heart, continue to the large walkway above by taking the ladders to the left of the arena. Here, you will find a Stone Circle in front of a peculiar device. Activate the Stone Circle with the Luminstone and you will receive the Runestones allowing you to travel to the next major location of Dreadstone Peak by using the Mirrorgate at Pardoner's Vale. It will also grant you the partial Runeword for an Unknown Location, the remaining parts of which will be acquired later on.

The device atop the Great Tree where the Dreadstone Peak Runestone is obtained

From this point, you can continue onward with the main campaign by heading to Dreadstone Peak. However, there are still lots of things to discover in Corvius' Mire, which we will cover in the Additional Content section below.

 

 

 

 

Corvius' Mire First Visit Additional Content

The following sections pertain to optional content and activities you can do on your first visit that are not required in order to complete the game. However, they can lead to more equipment, bosses, quests and more that can greatly help you on your adventure.

 

Corvius' Mire Main Area - Nameless Fungalmancer & Oathbound Watcher NPC

With the Luminstone in hand and having defeated Por Myec early on, make your way west of the starting Obelisk in the main Corvius' Mire area. Climb up to the platform with the Stone Circle that creates a path towards The Great Tree. Activate it but instead of going to the tree, use the grappling points it creates in the upper left to reach a wooden platform there. On this platform, you will find the Mage distortion from which you can initiate the hunt for the Nameless variant of Por Myec, the Fungalmancer. He will drop all the same loot as well as a unique helm, the Sporesack Head.

Return to the Stone Circle and activate it once more but this time, continue along the grappling points to a platform in the upper right. On this platform, you will find Watcher Oman, the Oathbound Watchers representative. Speak to him here and answer "Yes" to his question to unlock the Oathbound Interventions PVP activity and have him move to Pardoner's Vale where he will also serve as a Merchant. In Pardoner's Vale, he can be found on top of a wooden tower in the upper-west of the village, near the steps leading up to the Trifaul Idol.

Luminous grappling points leading to the Nameless Fungalmancer hunt on the left and the Oathbound Watcher Oman on the right.

 

Verdant Ruins - Inquisitor Amben, Corpumancer and more

To find the Verdant Ruins sub-area, head back to where you obtained the Luminstone, in the upper east section of the Foulmurk Marsh past where you fought Marega Gredanya. Activate the Stone Circle up here and quickly cross over the luminous platforms as they will soon disappear. On the other side, there is a switch mechanism on the ground that you can pull to reveal a grappling point above the gap you just crossed, to more easily cross later on. Continue east through the doorway to get to the ruins.

Right at the entrance, pull on the switch mechanism at the edge of the ledge to reveal a grappling point up above. Drop down below and kill the Fertile Priest by the ledge and then drop further down. Take the stairs heading to the lower west and pull the lever at the end to unlock the gate which is a shortcut from the lower section of Foulmurk Marsh. Head back up the stairs and go east. Defeat the large Bog Vicar and continue on east, up the ledge. Defeat the Fertile Priest up here and attack the Treasure Chest behind him. This is a Chikku in hiding and it drops a Small Bag of Silver upon defeat. Climb up the ledge to the right and wall-jump up to the wooden platforms above, the second of which has a Treasure Pouch containing 3x Ashpyr Trio and a Salt Sliver. From here, jump over to the stairs leading up on the left and mind the rotating trap before continuing on. It rotates 3 times before taking a short break. Cross over during the break and jump through the rickety wooden ledges.

You are now on the upper ledge which the grappling point above the entrance leads to. Defeat the Bog Vicar here and climb the ladder on the left. There is a Fertile Priest up on a platform here that you can kill by doing jump attacks, and a green mining node on the left wall. Jump over the gap to the right and up the stairs to a section with more rickety wooden ledges you have to cross. Look very closely between the first two platforms as there is another rotating trap. Be very careful with your timing as getting hit by the trap can send you plummeting all the way down to certain death. On the other side is another Fertile Priest up on a platform. There is another platform adjacent to it with ladders attached that you can climb. Make your way up and jump across the platforms to the left at the top. The second platform has a Treasure Chest containing 3x Ashpyr Trio and 10x Wispleaf. Continue on west to the stairs with another rotating trap above it.

Past the trap, defeat the Fertile Priest at the base of the next set of stairs on the top right and then go to the ledge on the west with the Stone Circle. Activate it with the Luminstone to create a series of platforms and grappling points. Quickly navigate your way to the west before they disappear. On the other side is another Stone Circle so you can get back. Follow the path west and to the bottom to find a scroll room with a Treasure Pouch containing a Shimmering Bud. If you've spoken to Inquisitor Amben in Ashbourne Village and Bol Gerahn, he will also be found in this room. Exhaust his dialogue here and he will move to Dreadstone Peak for the next step in his questline.

 

Note: You can also drop down to the pit below where the luminous platforms are created by using the ladder next to the Stone Circle you start from. In this pit is an Eigndalian enemy. This is a very powerful opponent who has a lot of health and is more or less a miniboss. It is guarding a Treasure Pouch containing a Jeweled Fibula and a Mosspyr Trio, as well as a mage-sealed door on the very left that requires you to defeat 3 Named Mages to unlock. Inside is a small room with seemingly no purpose. However, return to this room after defeating Luxian Steel-Glass, the Luminimancer and you will be able to find a mage distortion from which you can initiate the hunt for his Nameless variant, who will not only drop all the same loot but a unique helm, the Light Mask, as well. Luxian Steel-Glass can be found in the Betrayal Crag sub-area. Refer to that location's section of the walkthrough below.

Make your way back to the main path and then go up the stairs in the upper right where the Fertile Priest was. Continue to the end of the path and head up the ledges, killing another Fertile Priest on one of them. Climb up the ledge on the left and defeat the Bog Vicar there, then continue on westward. There is a lever you can pull at the end which unlocks the gate, giving you another shortcut from the eastern section of the main Corvius' Mire area (the area to the right of the Obelisk that you ignored at the start). Above the lever is a Mage distortion where you can initiate the hunt for Ghor Lorhotha, a Corpumancer. 

 

 

 

Speak to the Mage's dying human form for some backstory and collect your extra loot. Refer to the Betrayal Crag section below for where to find his Nameless variant.

 

The Fetid Grotto - Elder Set, Oceye Set, Shortcuts

The Fetid Grotto is a sub-area in the lowest reaches of the Darkearth Lair inaccessible until you obtain the Luminstone. To get there, navigate your way through the Darkearth Lair, keeping towards the lower-west. You will eventually get to a section a wooden platform covering an opening in the ground. Drop down from here to reach an area with a tall ledge and a Vitae Scholar standing atop it. There is a Stone Circle at the bottom of the ledge which will create luminous platforms above, allowing you to reach the ledge and kill the scholar. Continue through the path behind it, dropping down some wooden platforms on the right to reach The Fetid Grotto.

Head west from the entrance and jump across the wooden platforms to find the Fetid Grotto Obelisk. Right above it is another platform with a Treasure Chest containing the Cone Cap, Elder's Tunic, Elder's Skirt and Elder's Gloves. From the Obelisk, drop down to the floor below and defeat the two Vitae Scholars at the bottom of the stairs. Climb up the wooden platforms behind them to loot the Treasure Pouch on the second one. It contains a Dragon's Tongue.

Continue eastwards through the very long cavern. There are 4 sets of Stone Circles along the way that you can use to create luminous grappling points to more quickly navigate the cavern. Past the fourth Stone Circle, there is a Verdant Guard lying in wait. Right above where he was sitting is a wooden platform with a Treasure Pouch. To reach it, activate the fourth Stone Circle again and quickly rush to the right to find a luminous grappling point and platform that will allow you to the pouch. It contains 3x Voidepyr Trio.

Go back down to the main cavern floor and continue east where you will find wooden platforms along the wall. Use wall-jumps to climb them and reach the lever above. Pull it unlock the gate right next to it and go through. Continue east in the next room and up the steps to find more wooden platforms along the walls and Sacred Knight enemies guarding them. Climb all the way to the top where you will find a Treasure Chest on the left. This contains 3x Goldenpyr Trio as well as the Oceye Cowl, Oceye Cloak, Oceye Sandals and the Oceye Bracers. Further to the left is another lever. Pull it to unlock the gate which leads to the lower-west section of the Verdant Ruins.

The treasure chest containing the Oceye Set, in the upper-east of The Fetid Grotto

 

Veruna's Shrine - Verdant Set, Mechanomancer and more

Veruna's Shrine is a sub-area high above in the upper-west of Corvius' Mire. To get there, climb up the Great Tree all the way up to the Obelisk and exit through the door slightly above and on the western side past a set of stairs. This leads to the western treetops area. Make your way across the wooden platforms here and watch out for an ambush by a Sacred Knight. At the end is an archway leading into the Shrine. In the first room, head down the ladder and defeat the Vitae Scholar sitting on the floor. Note the green mining node behind the ladder. Continue west into the main Veruna's Shrine area.

In the main area, jump onto the platform in the middle and defeat the two Vitae Scholars on it. Continue west where you will find a Stone Circle right by the wall. Activate it to reveal two luminous platforms along the wall and a grappling point at the top. Use wall jumps to climb the platforms and use the luminous grappling point to get to the ledge at the top. On this ledge is a wooden deck that you can climb via wall-jump. Step to the edge of this deck and note the grappling point to the top right, over the center of the room. Grapple your way to this point and two more leading to a wooden platform in the east where a Treasure Chest can be found, protected by a Verdant Guard. The chest contains the Verdant Plate, Verdant Helm, Verdant Gauntlets and Verdant Greaves, the exact same armor set worn by these guards.

Grapple from this deck to the east to find a chest with the Verdant Armor Set

Make your way back to the deck and use the grappling point to its upper left this time, leading to a small ledge on the wall. Grapple once again to the stairs in the top right but watch out for the poison spray trap in the wall above you. Time your grapple during its breaks to safely make it across. There is an archway at the top of the stairs which leads to a long hallway with a mage-sealed door at the end, requiring 2 Hearts to unlock. Ignore this for now and grapple up to the left to find the Verdant Shrine's Obelisk so you can create a checkpoint and then make your way back down to the Stone Circle you used to get up here.

Back at the bottom, descend the ladder to the right of the Stone Circle and defeat the Verdant Guard nearby. Continue east where you can descend wooden platforms to reach the bottom areas of the Shrine. There is another Stone Circle on a ledge to the left which will create a luminous platform that will allow you to reach another ledge on the right. On this ledge, you can find a Mage Distortion from which you can initiate the hunt for Anamus Kane, a Mechanomancer. Warning: Due to the difficulty and tankiness of the enemies here (particularly the Verdant Guards) as well as the sheer density of them in the bottom areas, consider clearing the path first before commencing the hunt.

Continue on below the platforms and defeat the Vitae Scholar and Verdant Guard at the bottom. Note the mining node on the right and go through the archway in the left to a small corridor patrolled by another Verdant Guard. To the left of this hallway is a narrow vertical section where you can perform alternating wall-jumps. Note that this is the only way to get back to the top. In the middle of the hallway is a wooden platform covering an opening in the floor which leads further below. Be careful when dropping down to the bottom of this opening as there is a floor spike trap here below a second wooden platform.

Roll towards the left immediately as you drop down from the opening to avoid the Spike Trap

Carefully navigate your way through the narrow path to the west to a large hallway below. There are three poison mist traps by the walls and ceilings here. Get down to the thin ledge just below the third trap and note the Verdant Guard standing right below it. There is another floor spike trap right in front of the guard so make sure to roll as you pass by. In the east of this hall, there are two Vitae Scholars and another Verdant Guard further to the east, below a set of stairs. At the very end of the hall is a lever next to a gate that leads back into the main Corvius' Mire area, right above the entrance to the Darkearth Lair.

 

 

 

Speak to the dying Mage's human form for some backstory and collect your extra loot. Head to the end of the hall to the east where you can now unlock the mage-sealed door. This leads to the upper treetops just outside the western side of The Great Tree. Power up the Pulley just before the wooden platforms to unlock a shortcut from the lower treetops. Defeat the Sacred Knight here and then jump onto the platform to the right of the Pulley to find a Treasure Chest containing a Carved Feline artifact and the Corvin Hood, Corvin Mantle, Corvin Gloves and Corvin Skirt. Make your way up to the wooden platform furthest to the upper left. From here, you can jump to the left and grapple up to a ledge on the side of the shrine building where you can initiate the hunt for the Nameless variant of Anamus Kane. This variant will drop all the same loot as well as a unique helm, the Clockwork Helm.

 

Betrayal Crag - Fated Tome, Inquisitor Selet, Luminimancer and more

Betrayal Crag is another sub-area far above in the upper-east of Corvius' Mire. To reach it, ascend The Great Tree all the way up to the Obelisk. From here, make your way to the door just above the Obelisk on the right side of the tree's interior. This leads to the eastern treetops area. Make your way across the platforms and grappling points here, fighting off Sacred Knights as you head towards the mage-sealed door at the end. This door requires 2 Named Mage hearts to unseal which should be no issue if you've followed the guide up to this point. 

Through the door is a small connecting room to the main Betrayal Crag area further east. In this room, defeat the Bogfly and note the Stone Circle underneath the wooden stairs. Activating this will create two luminous platforms and a grappling point outside in the main area, allowing you to scale the western wall which leads to this region's Fated Tome and Inquisitor Selet's location. After activating the circle, quickly head outside and climb up the two luminous platforms and then grapple to the wooden platform on the western wall.

Luminous platforms leading up to upper-west Betrayal Crag

Climb up two more platforms above to find a Treasure Pouch containing the Emerald Tome of Fates. Return this to Runereader Diedela in Pardoner's Vale to unlock another set of Fated Hunts. From here, continue west through an archway to a small room. If you've been following Inquisitor Selet's questline and have spoken to and have given him a Guiltless Shard in Bol Gerahn, you will find him crouched in this room, Spellmarked yet again. Just as in the previous two locations, he will ask for another Guiltless Shard to ease his condition. Oblige him and he will move to his next location in Dreadstone Peak.

Inquisitor Selet found in a hidden room in upper-west Betrayal Crag

 

Make your way back down to the main Betrayal Crag area and jump across the wooden platforms directly opposite the entrance you came in from while defeating the Bogflies and Sacred Knights. Jump onto the long ledge on the right where a large Abnormality enemy can be found. Defeat it and collect the Treasure Pouch by the east wall for a Salt Sliver and 3x Blazepyr Trio.

Go back to the wooden platforms and instead of following them to the lower east, drop down onto the long ledge on the lower left and follow it out west to a small room with a couple of Bogflies and a Sacred Knight. Defeat them and unlock the mage-sealed door to the left. This leads out to a cliff with another Abnormality to defeat. At the edge of the cliff is a wooden deck with two platforms. Climb up to the top platform and loot the Treasure Pouch for a Salt Shard. Look carefully at the bottom of the first platform for a grappling point an a second one right under the cliff. Drop off the edge of the cliff and grapple to the second one, following a series of more grappling points along the bottom of the cliff leading to an otherwise unreachable ledge in the eastern section of the main Corvius' Mire area. There is a Treasure Chest here that contains the Herbalist's Hood, Herbalist's Tunic, Herbalist's Gloves and Herbalist's Sandals. Activate the Pulley to the left for an easy shortcut from the main Corvius' Mire grounds. 

 

 

If you've killed Ghor Lorhothra, you can also find the Mage distortion for his Nameless variant on the wooden platform just below. This is essentially the same fight with all the same drops but he will also drop a unique helm, the Butcher's Mask.

Now, backtrack to the Betrayal Crag by using the same grappling points to get back up to the cliffs and re-enter the crag from the alternate entrance. Inside, drop down to the lower area and you will find a Mage distortion on the left, opposite the wooden stairs. From here, you can initiate the hunt for Luxian Steel-Glass, a Luminimancer. Before initiating the hunt, take a quick detour to the lower-east where you can find a lever to unlock the gate to the top of the Verdant Ruins.

 

 

 

Upon defeating the Mage, speak to his dying human form for some backstory and extra loot including a Golden Armlet. Refer to the Verdant Ruins section above for where to find his Nameless variant.

  

Trivia & Notes

• Players earn The Swamp  trophy, by learning the runes to reach Corvius' Mire.
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