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Fragrant Branch of Yore
Restore the life of things turned to stone.

Fragrant Branch of Yore is a type of Consumable in Dark Souls 2 (DKS2). Fragrant Branch, a tree branch emitting a faint sweet aroma. Use it to restore life to petrified entities, but prolonged inhalation may lead to coughing and nausea. Consumable Items grant various effects such as restorative properties for recovering HP, removing certain negative status effects, applying temporary buffs and debuffs, as well as activating various actions and effects.

A Fragrant tree branch with a faint sweet smell. Restore the life of things turned to stone. Extended inhalation of the branch's scent can lead to coughing and nausea.

Dark Souls 2 Fragrant Branch of Yore Usage

• Unpetrify the player or NPCs.

Scholar of the First Sin

• Things Betwixt: Dissolve a statue in front of the final door - now guards an Estus Flask Shard.
• Majula: Dissolve Rosabeth of Melfia at the entrance to the Shaded Woods for access to Pyromancies and the ability to upgrade the Pyromancy Flames.  This is required to progress into the Shaded Woods.
• Heide's Tower of Flame: Dissolve a statue in the flooded corridors after the Dragonrider fight and before the No Man's Wharf bonfire to gain access to an Estus Flask Shard.
• Lost Bastille: Entrance to the Ruin Sentinels boss fight - leads to the Servants' Quarters bonfire and Belfry Luna (past a Pharros' Contraption)
• Lost Bastille: Dissolve the petrified Straid of Olaphis to have access to his spells, armors, and boss soul items, as well as the Straid's Cell bonfire.
• Black Gulch: Dissolve a statue blocking the last bonfire (second) as well as a summon sign for Lucatiel of Mirrah.
• Shaded Ruins: Near Manscorpion Tark, behind a tunnel leading from the sand pit - dissolving spawns the body of Vengarl. Killing it unlocks the Head of Vengarl as a summonable NPC.
• Shaded Ruins: Straight after Vengarl, there is another one. Dissolve it to create a shortcut back to the bridge and find a chest containing Sublime Bone Dust. (this only opens the shortcut, the chest can be reached from the bridge)
• Shaded Ruins: Dissolve a statue of a lion in front of a metal chest, containing the RepairSorcery, 3 Bleeding Serums, and 3 Human Effigies.
• Shaded Ruins: Dissolve a lion statue above Darkdiver Grandahl, you'll get the Lion Mage Set and another branch.
• Shaded Ruins: Dissolve the statue near the tree bridge at the Shaded Ruins Bonfire and you'll get the Fang Key.
• Shaded Ruins: Dissolve the statue at the back of the Shaded Ruins area where the golden lion roams, and when you kill the enemy he drops the Warlock Mask
• Shrine of Amana: Dissolve the statues blocking the entrance to the Milfanito shrine (where you can pray to regain humanity)

Post King's Ring

• Aldia's Keep: Dissolve the Cyclops for the Dragon Acolyte Mask.
• Aldia's Keep: Dissolve the left-hand statue in front of the large caged basilisk for 2 x bonfire ascetics
• Aldia's Keep: Dissolve the right-hand statue in front of the large caged basilisk for a 2 x Wilted Dusk Herb and 2 x Elizabeth Mushroom.
• Dragon Aerie: Dissolve the statue on the rope bridge blocking the entrance to the Dragon Aerie.

Regular Version

• Needed to unpetrify Straid of Olaphis
• Needed to unpetrify Rosabeth of Melfia
• Unpetrify the Ogre in Aldia's keep under the dragon skeleton to get a "Dragon Acolyte Mask"
• Unpetrify 3 enemies in the 3rd area of the Shaded Woods
  • Past Manscorpion Tark to get the Black Knight Halberd (Not needed, can jump to this area from near the bonfire.)
  • In a broken building towards the boss, for a "Lion Mage" armor set and an extra branch (not needed but VERY hard to get without the branch)
  • Near the bonfire, drops the Fang Key

Fragrant Branch of Yore Location in DKS2

Scholar of the First Sin

• Merchant Hag Melentia: Only one (12,000)
• No-man's Wharf: In a chest in the house with poisoned jars. Found to the right up the stairs from the bridge that leads to the Flexile Sentry.
• Lost Bastille: Near the tower where Lucatiel of Mirrah is, in a chest with a Covetous Silver Serpent Ring and a Human Effigy
• Sinners' Rise: In a chest after defeating The Lost Sinner
• The Gutter: on a corpse hanging from a plank
• Black Gulch: At the start, jumping down from The Gutter
• Harvest Valley: Found in a cave in the first poison pit
• Iron Keep: Magerold of Lanafir - Only one (7,500)
• Shaded Woods: Another in the room as loot on a corpse when you rescue Weaponsmith Ornifex
• Shaded Ruins: In the chest containing the Lion Mage Set
• Shaded Woods: Talk to Manscorpion Tark with the Ring of Whispers equipped (bought from Sweet Shalquoir in Majula) after you've defeated the area boss.
• Brightstone Cove Tseldora: A branch is still dropped by the Duke Tseldora in the Lord's Private Chamber after the fight with The Duke's Dear Freja
• Undead Crypt: After lighting the statue brazier, two Insolent Spirits will appear in the room with the Leydia Witches after the lone Imperious Knight. One of them drops a branch.
• Undead Crypt: One in an iron chest, just before Velstadt, on the left of the stairs

Post King's Ring

• Forest of the Fallen Giants: Near the Memory of Jeigh behind the King's Gate, the body hanging off the ledge now contains 2 x Twinkling Titanite and a branch
• Aldia's Keep: The last cage (closest to the Guardian Dragon boss) hanging from the ceiling has a Mimic that drops a branch
• Dragon Shrine: after dropping down to the ledge after obtaining the Petrified Egg and defeating Dragonfang Villard, it is in a chest along with the Crystal Magic Weapon Sorcery

Regular Version

• Harvest Valley: One in the first poison fog area after The Poison Pool bonfire, inside the cave guarded by the Banedigger. Once inside you'll see the item on a body hanging over a ledge, watch out for skeletons.
• Harvest Valley: After progressing past The Mines bonfire you'll see a room full of poison fog-filled pits and an item on a ledge. Enter the tunnel nearest to this ledge, and be ready to fight or run as you make an immediate right. In the quarry area with 4 sickle-wielding enemies, you'll see several boarded-up tunnels, the one you want is second from the right on the top level. Make a right turn inside the tunnel and you'll find yourself back out on the original ledge with the branch.
• The Gutter (Before the Bonfire at Black Gulch)
• Shaded Woods: Talk to Manscorpion Tark with the Ring of Whispers equipped (bought from Sweet Shalquoir in Majula) after you've defeated the area boss.
• Shaded Woods: One in the chest containing the Lion Mage Set (Using a branch on the lion warrior outside will allow access,)
• Brightstone Cove Tseldora (Dropped by the Hollow Duke of Tseldora in the Lord's Private Chamber after defeating Duke's Dear Freja.)
• Sinners' Rise: Right next to the Primal Bonfire (in a chest after defeating Lost Sinner)
• Iron Keep: Magerold of Lanafir's Shop (Cost 7500)

Dark Souls 2 Fragrant Branch of Yore Notes and Tips

• Upon entering a new NG cycle, even if branches are present in your inventory, they cannot be used to unpetrify NPCs and enemies until the respective branches are picked up again in the current playthrough.

• In Scholar of the First Sin, there are 17 branches and 17 statues to be dissolved per NG cycle.

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