How this fight happens. Decisions during his questline can turn him hostile, and he blocks the way into Bramis Castle towards the end of the game.
Lore
Harkyn's Umbral Parasite
An Umbral parasite once carried by Harkyn.
Hidden lore — revealed in game at high Inferno or Radiance
Harkyn had lived longer than any man was meant to and in that time committed acts of both great good and appalling evil, and although the latter typically retained greater clarity and significance, time and the fickle nature of memory would bury some of his worst crimes deep within his mind, forgotten.
When the fate of humanity was placed on Harkyn's shoulders at Keystone Monastery, the convict rose to the occasion, wiping out the Rhogar invaders and preventing the vengeful Adyr's return, only to be rewarded with years of being reviled and hunted by those he had saved.
The game reveals this in play at high Radiance or Inferno.
Harkyn had lived longer than any man was meant to and in that time committed acts of both great good and appalling evil, and although the latter typically retained greater clarity and significance, time and the fickle nature of memory would bury some of his worst crimes deep within his mind, forgotten.
The game reveals this in play at high Radiance or Inferno.
Quoted from the item as the game writes it. Datamined
Stigma visions
Stigma — Book
Andreas(alarmed yelp)
HarkynYou'll have to do better than that if you want this lamp, coward!
AndreasKeep your distance! I warn you!
Lords of the Fallen ships no bestiary, so there is no entry to quote. What it has instead is the stigma visions — authored scenes you find in the world — and this is one of them, reproduced as the game writes it. Datamined
Damage absorption
| Damage type | Absorbs | Defence | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical | 38.3% | 375 | |
| Fire | 43.2% | 460 | Toughest |
| Holy | 43.2% | 460 | Toughest |
| Wither | 43.2% | 460 | Toughest |
| Magic | 24.9% | 200 | Weakest |
Magic is spell damage. No weapon deals it — every spell does, whichever school it belongs to — so that row is how well casting works against this enemy, and the other four are what your weapon does.
Lowest absorption is where your damage goes furthest — magic here. The Defence column is the game's own stored value, on the same scale as an armour piece's absorption. The percentage is derived from it as K/(K+defence) with K = 604, a constant solved from three mitigations measured in game rather than read out of a table — so treat it as accurate to a few tenths, not exact.
How to hurt it
- If you swing
- Nothing stated
- If you cast
- Magic 24.9% absorbed
- Resists
- Fire, holy and wither 43.2% absorbed
Both lines matter whichever way you play. The game gives you two hands for melee and a third slot for casting or a throwable, so most fights use both — and a cast has a wind-up that a crowd at close range will not wait through. Take the number for whatever is in your hand at the time.
Its absorption is even across the four schools a weapon can deal — 38.3% to 43.2%, a spread of 4.9 points. There is no school worth switching weapons for, so bring whatever you already hit hardest with.
No physical weakness or resistance is tagged on this one either — it takes slash, blunt and pierce the same way, so the school above is the whole answer.
What does not work
- Soulflay
These change the approach rather than the numbers. Immunity to Soulflay in particular means the Umbral opener you would normally lead with does nothing here.
Least effective: fire, holy and wither 43.2% absorbed
Not a wall — it can be killed with any of these. At 43.2% absorbed you are giving up 18 percentage points against magic, which is the difference between a fight and a long fight.
Where you find The Iron Wayfarer
Placed in Bramis Castle, and nowhere else in the game.
In order of how much of each region they cover. Datamined
Status resistance
| Status | Resistance | |
|---|---|---|
| Bleed | 900 | Procs soonest |
| Poison | 900 | Procs soonest |
| Frostbite | 900 | Procs soonest |
| Smite | 1100 | |
| Burn | 900 | Procs soonest |
| Ignite | 1100 | |
| Wither | 200 | Applies on hit |
These are buildup thresholds, not percentages, so they read the opposite way to absorption — a lower number procs sooner. They are comparable between enemies but not against any other figure on the site. The proc itself is a damage event that scales off your own attributes, which is why two players see different numbers from the same status.
Wither sits outside that comparison. It applies on the hit rather than building toward a threshold, so its figure is not measuring the same thing as the other six and is left out of "procs soonest" — otherwise it would win on most enemies in the game and the tag would stop telling you anything.
Similar enemies
Also in Bramis Castle
Same faction
Its loot row carries no faction code at all, which is true of most bosses and of anything the game never sorted into one. Nothing is inferred from a missing one.
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