Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen — Every Lost Rites Armour Piece and Ephemeral Key Weapon

In Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen, 35 armour pieces share a description saying the Lost Rites have fortified them, and each reduces damage from the enemies found in the trials. A separate group of nine weapons lies in sealed chests at one proving ground, which can be opened only with Ephemeral Keys. The list below names every piece, its eligible vocations, and the proving ground for pieces in placed chests.

Quick answer: There are 35 Lost Rites armour pieces and nine Ephemeral Key weapons, plus a Fighter shield. The weapons come from the Seafloor Sepulcher’s sealed chests, and one Ephemeral Key opens one sealed chest.

The Proving Ground Compass points you toward forgotten proving grounds across Vermund and Battahl. The tables show which trials have chests containing specific armour pieces. Any remaining pieces come from a trial’s reward hoard when you complete it, or from its most powerful enemies.

Head armour (13 pieces)

Several of these helmets and circlets are restricted to magick-leaning vocations. A placed chest means the piece is sitting in that trial’s treasure, ready to grab.

Head piece	Weight	Wearable by	Placed chest
Azurequill Circlet	0.48 kg	Mage, Sorcerer, Mystic Spearhand, Magick Archer, Trickster	Mired Conduit
Band of Dunscaith	2.45 kg	Every vocation	Interminable Corridor
Canopy of Plenty	0.6 kg	Every vocation	Embersand Mine
Crown of Blades	2.36 kg	Every vocation	Wyrmsblood Arena
Crown of the Mad Sovran	3.05 kg	Every vocation	Sunken Spire
Geirolul’s Helm	1.85 kg	Every vocation	Precipitous Catacombs
Glasrew Galea	0.55 kg	Mage, Sorcerer, Mystic Spearhand, Magick Archer, Trickster	Precipitous Catacombs
Glory Laurel	1.33 kg	Every vocation	—
Horns of Moloch	2.6 kg	Every vocation	Molten Gauntlet
Mystic Eye	0.6 kg	Every vocation	Daemons’ Corral
Ophidian Diadem	2.2 kg	Every vocation	Interminable Corridor
Thorns of Agony	1.12 kg	Every vocation	Molten Gauntlet
Wyrmhorne Helm	2.1 kg	Every vocation	Seafloor Sepulcher

Body armour (10 pieces)

Body pieces split cleanly along vocation lines, with the heaviest plate reserved for Fighter, Warrior and Mystic Spearhand. Only two of the ten are in placed chests.

Body piece	Weight	Wearable by	Placed chest
Allegoric Plate	6.33 kg	Fighter, Warrior, Mystic Spearhand	—
Catamount Jacket	3.9 kg	Archer, Thief, Mystic Spearhand, Magick Archer	Precipitous Catacombs
Circumventor’s Burthen	3.11 kg	Mage, Sorcerer, Trickster	—
Dragonscoil Harness	4.45 kg	Mage, Sorcerer, Trickster	—
Eldritch Threnody	2.32 kg	Mage, Sorcerer, Trickster	—
Kibisis Coat	4.46 kg	Fighter, Warrior, Mystic Spearhand	—
Lex Talionis	4.61 kg	Archer, Thief, Magick Archer	—
Plate of the Mad Sovran	6.59 kg	Fighter, Warrior, Mystic Spearhand	Mired Conduit
Triumpher’s Guerdon	5.48 kg	Fighter, Warrior, Mystic Spearhand	—
Wyrmscale Cuirass	5.63 kg	Fighter, Archer, Thief, Warrior, Mystic Spearhand, Magick Archer	—

Leg armour (12 pieces)

Leg pieces round out the set, with five held in placed chests and the rest coming from trial rewards or the trials’ strongest foes.

Leg piece	Weight	Wearable by	Placed chest
Archaic Boots	2.14 kg	Every vocation	Precipitous Catacombs
Fleetstride Cuisses	2.36 kg	Fighter, Archer, Thief, Warrior, Mystic Spearhand, Magick Archer	—
Greaves of the Mad Sovran	3.0 kg	Fighter, Warrior, Mystic Spearhand	Molten Gauntlet
Insidiator’s Boots	2.88 kg	Every vocation	—
Meteoric Cuisses	2.81 kg	Fighter, Archer, Thief, Warrior, Mystic Spearhand, Magick Archer	—
Padarn’s Wrap	1.6 kg	Every vocation	Embersand Mine
Pyrolytic Cloth	1.9 kg	Mage, Sorcerer, Trickster	—
Reaper’s Tread	3.55 kg	Fighter, Warrior, Mystic Spearhand	—
Sanctified Boots	2.12 kg	Mage, Sorcerer, Mystic Spearhand, Magick Archer, Trickster	—
Staunch Sabatons	2.21 kg	Fighter, Archer, Thief, Warrior, Mystic Spearhand, Magick Archer	Sunken Spire
Steelsilk Sabatons	2.35 kg	Archer, Mage, Thief, Sorcerer, Mystic Spearhand, Magick Archer	—
Wildskirl Breeches	2.65 kg	Archer, Mage, Thief, Sorcerer, Mystic Spearhand, Magick Archer, Trickster	Wyrmsblood Arena

Ephemeral Key weapons (9, plus a shield)

Each chest requires one Ephemeral Key to open; the first holds the Fighter sword and shield together. When an evil eye is killed, the weapon absorbs its magicks, changing both its power and its special skill.

Each of the nine weapons has four special skill slots and sells for 40,000 G. The shield, Celestial Crux, carries two special skill slots.

Weapon	Vocation	Weight	Skill slots
Seraphic Spar	Fighter	6.23 kg	4
Celestial Crux (shield)	Fighter	5.48 kg	2
Skygill	Archer	5.76 kg	4
Peregrine Totem	Mage	5.65 kg	4
Talons of the Magpie	Thief	4.71 kg	4
Blade of Aldose	Warrior	10.95 kg	4
Selenic Cane	Sorcerer	6.59 kg	4
Oscine	Mystic Spearhand	5.9 kg	4
Parhelion	Magick Archer	5.04 kg	4
Beckoning Delight	Trickster	4.75 kg	4

Clearing Wyrmsblood Arena for Crown of Blades and Wildskirl Breeches

Two of the placed pieces above, Crown of Blades and Wildskirl Breeches, sit inside Wyrmsblood Arena. The trial gates your loadout at the entrance, so set up before you go in.

Travel to Wyrmsblood Forest on the Battahl side of the map and go into Sal’Battahl Cavern. Follow the tunnel and climb the wooden ladder to the round door at the cave’s southern end.

Wyrmsblood Arena marker and conditions — The Wyrmsblood Arena marker and its entry condition, which you can read from the map before you set off. Shown at 00:13 in lilfarmboi’s video. Image: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

To pass the round door bearing runes, meet its entry requirement: equip the Arisen with no more than two weapon skills. Open the skills menu and unequip skills until only two remain; otherwise, the seal stays closed.

Two weapon skills door rule — The sealed arena door only opens once the Arisen has no more than two weapon skills equipped. Shown at 03:29 in lilfarmboi’s video. Image: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

Step into the first round hall and a portcullis drops behind you, shutting your pawns outside. Break the wooden beam on a cell door and fight what comes out alone; your pawns are back with you after that fight.

Work through the three halls one barred cell at a time; the seal on the way forward dissolves when a hall’s last creature is dead. Wildskirl Breeches is in the chest in front of the seated warrior statue in the room past the first seal, and Crown of Blades is in a side room off the third hall. A pale stone chest stands between two statues with crossed spears at the end.

Final chest between spear statues — The final chest between the crossed-spear statues marks the end of the arena and hands over an Offering Flame. Shown at 33:25 in lilfarmboi’s video. Image: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.

That chest gives an Offering Flame.

Lost Rites trials, entry conditions and chest counts

Each trial has its own entry rule and its own number of chests to clear. Use this as a planning table before you set out, since several trials change your party or vocation requirements.

Trial	No.	Entry condition	Chests
Devilkin Hollow	1	No conditions	1
Daemons’ Corral	2	No conditions	7
Sunken Spire	3	No conditions	11
Interminable Corridor	4	All party members Very Light	15
Wyrmsblood Arena	5	Only two weapon skills set	6
Precipitous Catacombs	6	Arisen must be archer or magick archer	11
Mired Conduit	7	Complete four or more Lost Rites trials	13
Embersand Mine	8	No grimoires or enchanted weapons; no fire, ice, lightning or holy archmagick skills	7
Shrouded Warren	9	Only the Arisen’s main pawn may join	9
Molten Gauntlet	10	No conditions	9
Seafloor Sepulcher	11	No conditions (sealed chests need Ephemeral Keys)	16
Final Proving Ground	12	Must have cleared Molten Gauntlet and Seafloor Sepulcher	14

The Seafloor Sepulcher has 16 chests in total and nine sealed chests. The sealed ones are the only source of the Ephemeral Key weapons, and its inscription warns that a brittle key wins you a single treasure, so plan which weapon you want before you use a key.