Wrap up various quest lines

Now is an ideal time to wrap up as many quest lines as you can prior to entering the final two areas of the game. The first order of business is to increase your devotion to a creed to the maximum possible, i.e. 7 devotion. Visit the Leader NPC to find out which materials you need to hand in to receive all your rewards. Then farm for those materials. If you are in the creed The Three, you might need to farm for Whisperman's Ashes at Dome of the Forgotten, Heartseeker Nerves at Sunken Keep, Lepris' Ear at Mire of Stench, and so on. During each farming session, equip the Brightcoral Ring and the Kismet Stone to boost your item find rate.

51. Farm for Whisperman's Ashes at Dome of the Forgotten, Salt and Sanctuary

52. Farm Heartseeker Nerves at Sunken Keep, Salt and Sanctuary

53. Farm Lepris' Ear at Mire of Stench, Salt and Sanctuary

54. Take oath with other Creeds, Salt and Sanctuary

Next, take oath with other creeds and purchase their unique items such as rings, armour pieces, spells, prayers, and incantations. The sanctuaries of various creeds have treasures nearby. Ensure you collect those treasures. For 100% achievement, you should take oath with each of the following creeds if you have not already done so:

• Devara's Light
• Keepers of Fire and Sky
• Order of the Betrayer
• The House of Splendor
• The Iron Ones
• The Stone Roots
• The Three

After taking oath with other creeds, visit The Candlelit Lady and pay her to absolve all your character's sin and cleanse your corruption. Sin accumulates when you belong to one creed and take oath with another creed. Corruption accumulates each time you consume the Blood Vial from the Order of the Betrayer. Once your sin has been forgiven, you can safely take oath with your favourite creed.

55. Take an oath with the Order of the Betrayer, Salt and Sanctuary

To take oath with the Order of the Betrayer, first visit the sanctuary of a creed different from the creed to which your character currently belongs. Use a Stained Page to desecrate the sanctuary and let the hostile NPC(s) kill your character. The process can take a while if your character is over-levelled. Remove all your rings and armour pieces to speed up the process as much as possible. When your character dies, it would revive on the beach of the Shivering Shore and the Bloody Writ would be deposited in your inventory. If you have been following the quest line of the Black Sands Sorcerer, you should be able to meet the NPC on the beach. Exhaust his dialogue and you would be gifted the Charred Tome. The NPC's quest line ends here. Rest at the sanctuary of Shivering Shore, then teleport to the sanctuary of Siam Lake. From the sanctuary, proceed right until you encounter a Cave Keeper. Defeat the enemy and/or continue right to find a cliff between two pots. Drop down onto a platform, then drop down again onto a different platform. In total, you need to drop down nine times. The drop off point is the edge where you see a water stream falling. The ninth, and final, platform on which you land is a breakable platform. Immediately run or roll to your right toward the nearby shiny. This is Drowned Locket x 3. Exhaust the dialogue of the nearby NPC and give the NPC the Bloody Writ. Next, exhaust their dialogue and answer "Yes" to their question. You should receive the Bone Key. To the far left beyond the breakable platform is a treasure chest that contains the Drowned Tome. Head right and use the Bone Key to unlock the door to The Blackest Vault, where you should be able to rest at the sanctuary of the Order of the Betrayer. Visit The Candlelit Lady to cleanse your sin and corruption.

Notable loots:

• Gray Pearl x 3. One is found in a narrow passage. Can only be reached by interacting with the obelisk above and to the right of the sanctuary of the Order of the Betrayer. Proceeding along the passage should take you to Pitchwoods. The second Gray Pearl is found after you use the Shadowflip Brand and the Hardlight Brand to bounce off the walls of a tunnel to reach an entrance that leads to Pitchwoods, above the sanctuary of Keepers of Fire and Sky. The third Gray Pearl is along the left passage out of the area above the sanctuary.
• Frozen Reliquary x 3. On a platform underneath the sanctuary of Keepers of Fire and Sky. Requires some tricky platforming to reach this platform.
• Stone Guide. On the platform to the left of the sanctuary of Keepers of Fire and Sky.
• Charred Tome. Above the sanctuary of Keepers of Fire and Sky.
• Crate of Salt. In the area above the sanctuary of Keepers of Fire and Sky. You also find a Gray Pearl here.

56. Take an oath with the Keepers of Fire and Sky, Salt and Sanctuary

The process you must undergo to take oath with the Keepers of Fire and Sky can be rather taxing. You must perform some rather tricky platforming to ascend a steep tower. The summit of the tower is the sanctuary of Keepers of Fire and Sky. Unequip all your armour pieces and weapons to have as low equip load as possible, ideally zero equip load. At zero equip load, your character would have the fastest movement speed and the longest jump distance, all of which would help to navigate your way up the numerous appearing/disappearing platforms. Rest at the sanctuary of Keepers of Fire and Sky and take oath. Use the Shadowflip Brand and the Hardlight Brand to bounce off the walls of a tunnel and reach the area above the sanctuary. You now have the option to head right or proceed left. Proceed right to collect various treasures including Charred Tome, Crate of Salt, and Amber Idol. Following the passage would eventually lead you to a steep ladder. Climb the ladder to reach the sanctuary of The Far Beach. However, proceed left and you would be able to collect treasures such as Gray Pearl and Shroud Charm. The left path would take you to the area above the Spindlebeast x 3 at Pitchwoods. Again, visit The Candlelit Lady to cleanse your sin and corruption.