Dark Souls III - Key Guide

How many times, in the various chapters of Dark Souls, have you found yourself in front of a door without understanding how to open it and how many times, instead, have you found a mysterious key but not a lock to open?

To avoid these problems also in Dark Souls III we propose this practical schematic guide in which all the keys present in the game and their functions are listed.

1. Elevator cell key
   1. Where do you take it: Leonhard the Ring Finger will deliver it to you in the Altar of the Binding after obtaining a Pale Tongue and killing the Boss Forest the Cursed Forest.
   2. What opens:  it is a very important key if you want to join the pact of the fingers of Rosaria. With it, in fact, you will open a cell in the Walls of Lothric Castle in which you can take an elevator that leads to an NPC. By killing him you get a Red Eye Orb, and if you talk to Leonhard again you will learn the Applause gesture and continue the quest linked to him.
2. Tower key
   1. Where do you take it: you can buy it from the handmaid of the Altar of the Bond for 20.000 souls.
   2. What opens:  the door to the top of the Altar of the Bond, which leads to a new area of ​​the area.
3. Cell key 

1. Where to take: Lothric Castle Walls, at the bottom of the area below the Tower on the Walls Bonfire.
2. What opens: Greirat's cell of the Undead Settlement, NPC who can be sent to the Altar of Binding as a merchant and thief to be sent on a mission.

1. Key to the tomb
   1. Where to take: Just like the key to the tower, you can purchase this item from the handmaid of the Altar of the Binding, but only after the Ashes of the Gravedigger have been given to her. The price to pay for it is very low, just 1.500 souls.
   2. What opens: with it you will open the way to the Sewers of the Undead Settlement, near the Bonfire of the Crumbling Bridge. Allows you to get to Irina of Carim, NPC who can be sent to the Altar of Binding as a merchant and teacher of miracles.
2. Keys to the jailer
   1. Where to take: Coming from the Defiled Capital, you can find it in Irithyll Prison.
   2. What opens: with it you will open multiple rooms. The first cell on the right after the Irithyll Prison Bonfire, thus having access to a rusty Gold Coin; a cell in the room with the three jailers and various animated cages, here you can recover the ashes of the chief prisoner. Finally, you can enter a cell in the passage with various jailers. In it you will find Karla, a sorcerer NPC to be sent to the sanctuary and from whom to learn dark sorceries.
3. Key to the old cell
   1. Where to take: it is also located in Irithyll Prison, at the bottom of the sewer passage after the sleeping giant.
   2. What opens: the cell where Siegward of Catarina is located, it is essential to have progressed with his quest otherwise the character will not be present. However, it is not the only cell he opens. From the blue roofs in the area that goes from the Profaned Capital to the Irithyll Prison, in fact, you can see an open window, jumping inside it you get to a cell, which contains, among others, the Golden Ring of the snake.
4. Key to the fugitive
   1. Where to take: Irithyll Prison.
   2. What opens: A shortcut at the beginning of the same area, at the bottom of one of the first corridors. On the platforms beyond the passage is the Roaring Dragon Ring.

To complete Dark Souls III with less difficulty, we invite you to consult our guides on where to find the Shards of Estus and the Shards of Bone of Undead.