Stormveil Castle steals runes?

[Lenox]

After dying to the Banished Knight at the Rampart Tower Site of Grace in Stormveil Castle, when I went to pick up my runes, the amount had gone from roughly 9,900 to 6,300.

Is this a bug or working as intended?

I did another test by dying on purpose to the Banished Knight:
- Starting Runes = 7,317
- Runes on pickup after death = 5,122
= 30% loss

Then I went upstairs to fight one of the soldiers in Exile armor with spears:
- Starting Runes = 5,122
- Runes on pickup after death = 3,586
= 30% loss

[Lenox]

No one else having this issue?

[Total Overkill]

Several other topics with the exact same issue.
They are being stolen by the gate merchant

[Troskowitz]

Noticed it in Caelid as well.

[Chainsky]

Spoiler free: It is working as intended. Someone or Something is stealing your runes.

[Lenox]

Originally posted by Total Overkill:

Several other topics with the exact same issue.
They are being stolen by the gate merchant

Hmm. OK. I must have been too tired last night to notice. I don’t recall it happening until today.

[Senjo de Akuma]

It's that npc at the gate telling you to take the side path in that prick steals your runes.

[Kujan]

Originally posted by Senjo de Akuma:

It's that npc at the gate telling you to take the side path in that prick steals your runes.

also dont kill him he sells 1 Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone after a npc quest

[Silliertomcat48]

Ahhh I thought something way going on in Stormveil castle.
I just met Godfrey?Godrik? and realised I need to leave and come back anyway. Wayyy underpowered for this area.

[Yal]

Originally posted by Silliertomcat48:

Ahhh I thought something way going on in Stormveil castle.
I just met Godfrey?Godrik? and realised I need to leave and come back anyway. Wayyy underpowered for this area.

IMO Godrick is a lot easier than Margit once you figure out the timing to jump over his shockwave attacks (his laugh in the first phase is a good audio cue), then just stick close to him and he will have major issues actually hitting you (his only defense against you being right up under his nose is the shockwaves). Margit has a lot of options for dealing with you at all ranges AND uses magic attacks that can't be blocked with the shields you've got access to at that point.

[Silliertomcat48]

@Yal
Thanks for the tips, I'll definitely use them when i go back to fight him, but currently I need to level up more and maybe upgrade my sword again.

[Clail]

Gate Keeper is taking them. You can actually spot him stalking you at certain points throughout the Castle.

[Zogtar]

Originally posted by Kujan:

Originally posted by Senjo de Akuma:

It's that npc at the gate telling you to take the side path in that prick steals your runes.

also dont kill him he sells 1 Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone after a npc quest

I started killing him after a few runs, lol. At this point I'm just tired of his ♥♥♥♥.

[Amins]

Originally posted by Clail:

Gate Keeper is taking them. You can actually spot him stalking you at certain points throughout the Castle.

Is there more than one spot? I've only seen him picking at a corpse next to lift. And then I suppose you hear him snickering when he locks you with the Banished Knight.

[Silliertomcat48]

You know I kinda respect the creepy little bastards hustle. Every other tarnished has failed to kill Godrik so why would we be any different from his pov? Dude wants runes.

Also to be fair he also does kindly just have the gates opened for you despite it literally being his job NOT to let you in the castle. Straight up commits treason to scavenge runes off our foolhardy corpses.

[Ted]

Old necro of a thread but it's so cool to see someone discovering this little thing From added to the game. I love how they do this kind of thing that has people scratching their heads and wondering wtf is going on lol