This might lead to final unsolved secret..

[Stone]

SO. at the bottom of Bestial sanctuary THERE has to be a way out . This is the only place I would have to fast travel to get out from. And that doesn't make sense. And the bottom area looks like an elevator.. BUT how would it be activate.. If everyone goes there and tries.. It might be futile but I think this is the last secret.... whats your thoughts?

[nfinite.recursion]

I was down there a few days ago and the stupid bats wouldn't lose aggro so I couldn't warp out. I tried hiding behind pillars and sniping the few i could see with a bow but there must have been at least 1 left that I couldn't see. Decided to just jump off the cliff because a message indicated that the Elden Ring was down there. It wasn't. Oh well. I got by Dragoncrest Talisman which was a must for my RL30 build. Would've been nice if there was a teleporter near the sacrificed beastmen where you find the Cinquedea.

[John]

I believe there are a few areas you can only fast travel out of, not many but clearly a bit of an oversight.

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

I was down there a few days ago and the stupid bats wouldn't lose aggro so I couldn't warp out. I tried hiding behind pillars and sniping the few i could see with a bow but there must have been at least 1 left that I couldn't see. Decided to just jump off the cliff because a message indicated that the Elden Ring was down there. It wasn't. Oh well. I got by Dragoncrest Talisman which was a must for my RL30 build. Would've been nice if there was a teleporter near the sacrificed beastmen where you find the Cinquedea.

Quit game, go back in, enemies have reset to their starting positions and lose their aggro. It's a bit of a lame thing to do but sometimes the game doesn't work with you so you gotta improvise.

[Mr. World]

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

I was down there a few days ago and the stupid bats wouldn't lose aggro so I couldn't warp out. I tried hiding behind pillars and sniping the few i could see with a bow but there must have been at least 1 left that I couldn't see. Decided to just jump off the cliff because a message indicated that the Elden Ring was down there. It wasn't. Oh well. I got by Dragoncrest Talisman which was a must for my RL30 build. Would've been nice if there was a teleporter near the sacrificed beastmen where you find the Cinquedea.

Happens every time. I see it as a situation for maybe the only use of sacrificial twig.

[Lord Bob]

Originally posted by John:

I believe there are a few areas you can only fast travel out of, not many but clearly a bit of an oversight.

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

I was down there a few days ago and the stupid bats wouldn't lose aggro so I couldn't warp out. I tried hiding behind pillars and sniping the few i could see with a bow but there must have been at least 1 left that I couldn't see. Decided to just jump off the cliff because a message indicated that the Elden Ring was down there. It wasn't. Oh well. I got by Dragoncrest Talisman which was a must for my RL30 build. Would've been nice if there was a teleporter near the sacrificed beastmen where you find the Cinquedea.

Quit game, go back in, enemies have reset to their starting positions and lose their aggro. It's a bit of a lame thing to do but sometimes the game doesn't work with you so you gotta improvise.

This is such a simple trick that I forget way too often.

[Sean Maxhell]

Originally posted by Stone:

SO. at the bottom of Bestial sanctuary THERE has to be a way out . This is the only place I would have to fast travel to get out from. And that doesn't make sense. And the bottom area looks like an elevator.. BUT how would it be activate.. If everyone goes there and tries.. It might be futile but I think this is the last secret.... whats your thoughts?

I always thought there was something missing in that area too.

[Spacesuit Spiff]

The Sanctum looks like it was modelled to be a dungeon at one point. It's huge, and there's no dungeon or story boss in Dragonbarrow. Maybe the DLC does something with it (plausible because of those theories about where the DLC fits into the map).

[LuckyCheshire]

Originally posted by Spacesuit Spiff:

The Sanctum looks like it was modelled to be a dungeon at one point. It's huge, and there's no dungeon or story boss in Dragonbarrow. Maybe the DLC does something with it (plausible because of those theories about where the DLC fits into the map).

What theories? We've been told specifically that it's an area disconnected from the Lands Between, accessed from Miquella's arm in Mohg's boss arena.

[Intellect Inside]

It's not the only area you need to fast travel out of. Jarburg has no way out but fast travel. The ledge where you acquire the Rain of Arrows ash of war has no way out but fast travel. If you go for the Blessed Dew talisman early game, you must fast travel out as the elevator doesn't work yet. The Radahn fight arena can only be left by fast travel. The Isolated Divine Tower can only be reached by warp and left by fast travel. You can't walk back out of the inverted Liurnia Divine Tower after a certain point. Divine Tower of Limgrave also is reached only by warp and left by fast travel. The special areas reached via the Four Belfries area must be left by fast travel. And of course you can't just walk into or out of Farum Azula.

Am I forgetting any?

[Yal]

Originally posted by Intellect Inside:

It's not the only area you need to fast travel out of. Jarburg has no way out but fast travel. The ledge where you acquire the Rain of Arrows ash of war has no way out but fast travel. If you go for the Blessed Dew talisman early game, you must fast travel out as the elevator doesn't work yet. The Radahn fight arena can only be left by fast travel. The Isolated Divine Tower can only be reached by warp and left by fast travel. You can't walk back out of the inverted Liurnia Divine Tower after a certain point. Divine Tower of Limgrave also is reached only by warp and left by fast travel. The special areas reached via the Four Belfries area must be left by fast travel. And of course you can't just walk into or out of Farum Azula.

Am I forgetting any?

Yeah, the entire Haligtree / Elphael region is only accessible by warp gate and must be fast traveled out of. Also the Mohg Dynasty Mausoleum and Rykard's audience chamber. And the final boss' arena ("Stone Platform") has no way out after you kill it, it's fast travel or NG+ if you don't wanna sit there forever.

[Kevin Ryan]

That whole cliffside is likely where Farum Azula originally was before it found itself in the skies.

It feels disconnected because it IS disconnected. Look at the architecture of the area as well as the Sanctum itself.

It's all Farum Azula. We see it's ruins everywhere throughout Limgrave too. It was originally on the ground before [insert theory here] occurred and now it floats in the sky.

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Being forced to fast travel out of there isn't a design oversight. There's like, a dozen places that can only be exited by fast travel.

[Intellect Inside]

Yeah, the entire Haligtree / Elphael region is only accessible by warp gate and must be fast traveled out of. Also the Mohg Dynasty Mausoleum and Rykard's audience chamber. And the final boss' arena ("Stone Platform") has no way out after you kill it, it's fast travel or NG+ if you don't wanna sit there forever.

Thanks, I knew I was forgetting somethings.

[Sean Maxhell]

I have always suspected that in the place where you retrieve the five-goddess you had to perform some gesture and then be teleported to a secret area, like in DS3 with the archdragon's peak.