Blades of Fire: Forger’s Anvil Locations Doyen Graves

Doyen Graves – Overview Map

There are 12 Forger’s Anvils at the Doyen Graves in Blades of Fire numbered in the order of appearance.

1 – Doyen Graves South Entrance

After crossing the Crimson Fort in the south, one can take the first glimpse of the Doyen Graves from the Doyen Graves Vantage at the Crimson Fort territory. As soon as you approach the Doyen Graves gates, a cutscene will start, meeting a ghost, Melcart Akda, and afterwards fighting three Phantom Gladiators. You can then interact with the Doyen Graves South Entrance Anvil.

2 – Caves of the Damned

Melcart will guide Aran to a statue, and he can interact with it, receiving a Stamina gem. From the statue, there are two ways to advance. You can then squeeze through a crack in the rocky wall and reach the southwestern building, from where you can descend to the first crypt. Here, Melcart will remember a button to push that opens the gate to the next area.

Follow the path down to the northeast, where a group of undead is circling a rock. Cross over the nearby bridge to find a crypt with big skulls to the left and right and a Templar of The Sacred Steel at its end. There is only one path from here. It goes up to the Caves of the Damned Anvil that is right next to a gate and a lever.

3 – Embalmer’s Dorms

With the key, you can now make your way to the Embalmer’s Dorms. The anvil is inside the building. You will pass a pilgrim’s statue, and Melcart will remember a button that needs to be pushed.

4 – Well of the Skeletons

Head north from the Embalmer’s Dorms, you can now lower the drawbridge from earlier and open up easier access. Use the key on top of this tower to open up a new area.

Cross the wooden bridge into another tower, where a group of undead attacks. Go to the very top of this tower and cross over to the big, central tower of the Doyen Graves. Climb up a rope before going inside, and take the ladder up to reach an elevator going down, straight to the Well of the Skeletons anvil.

5 – Funereal Bridge

Exit the Well of the Skeletons, where Melcart remembers something about the weird-looking gravestones outside. The first one he mentions will start a fight, the second one will be the right one, opening a passage towards the north through a crack in the rocky wall.

Fight your way through the undead in the crypt that follows and take the only exit, at the top of a tower where undead are circling around a massive hole. Outside, make your way uphill to find the Funereal Bridge anvil.

6 – Gazebo of Solitude

At the Funereal Bridge, you can cross below the bridge to reach the Gazebo of Solitude to the north. The water underneath the bridge is shallow and won’t drown Aran.

7 – Cursed Bridge

To reach the Cursed Bridge Anvil, you first have to find the Phantom Key, so you can open that ghostly lock on that large mausoleum east of the Gazebo of Solitude. Melcart will tell Aran that the key is near, leading to visiting a smaller mausoleum just south, where you can pick up the key. Unlock the large mausoleum and defeat the Sentenza inside, so you can exit the mausoleum to the other side, discovering the Cursed Bridge and its anvil.

8 – Three Towers

From the Cursed Bridge Anvil, make your way west, where you discover a lifeless automation near a closed gate. Here you will receive the quest to find the 3 Pieces of the Golem’s Heart.

Open the gate and go west to find the Three Towers Anvil.

9 – Hell’s Bell

Enter and ascend the tower from the Three Towers anvil and cross over to the northern tower, where Aran meets Rohan the Jester, missing his mask.

Return to the Three Towers Anvil, and instead of ascending, you have to go down. Climb the wooden platform and look below – you’ll notice a chest and a path leading to the bottom entrance of the tower. Carefully drop down and make your way inside through the lower entrance.

At the entrance, head down and take a right, followed by another right to locate the Hell’s Bell Anvil.

10 – Flooded Tower

In the Hell’s Bell Anvil crypt, look for a flooded, round chamber. You can open the gate with a lever. Inside, near the altar, is a climbing rope. Use it to climb up and get outside.

Head to the entrance of the western tower as shown in the screenshots below. Enter the tower and go down to the waterlevel.

One of the passages down here leads to a ladder. Climb it to find the Flooded Tower Anvil.

11 – The Valley of Mausoleums

To reach the Valley of Mausoleums anvil, you first have to find Rohan the Jester’s mask. From the Flooded Tower anvil, return to the area with the flooded pool and cross it. Aran won’t drown. Here, Melcart will recall the existence of a water drainage system and activate it. As the water recedes, three open sarcophagi will be revealed in the pool’s former location, unleashing a relentless stream of Putrids.

Defeat the Putrids quickly to clear the area. Once it’s safe, help Adso seal the coffins. His spell will take some time, so stay alert until he finishes. Make sure all three Sarcophagi are fully sealed. Afterward, Melcart Akda will remember that his assistant’s corpse is near the only non-glowing sarcophagus, which contains the Skeletal Key.

To unlock the Skeleton Gates, start in the coffins room and head back to the Flooded Tower Anvil. Once you’re at the Flooded Tower Anvil, use the Skeletal Key there to open the Skeleton Gate and continue through the new passage.

Climb the tower and follow the single passage to a crypt where you’ll face a Sentenza. Defeat it to earn the mask as your reward.

Go back to Rohan the Jester and give him the mask. Defeat the undead, then wait for Melcart to locate the northern exit, where the Valley of Mausoleums anvil can be accessed.

12 – Daurel’s Mausoleum

The last anvil at the Doyen Graves, the Daurel’s Mausoleum anvil is just west of the Valley of Mausoleums. Here, Melcart will give Aran one of the pieces of the Golem’s Heart.