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Lords of the Fallen - Human Skulls, Cell Key, Catacombs, Antanas, Monastery Citadel

If you're struggling to find the Human Skulls you need to complete a quest, take a look through our essential walkthrough for the game.

When you're back in the graveyard, you'll see it's been filled with Golems, as well as one of those Temple Guardians you've encountered before. If you make your way along the left-hand wall from the entrance, you'll eventually come to a door that's somewhat hidden by the stairs. Use the checkpoint, then take the stairs on your right. Kill the Temple Guardian, then use one of your Sealed Runes on the right-hand door. Take the axe from the chest in here.

Next, carry on down towards the bottom of the stairs. Take the corridor on your right, then go through the door on your left. Kill the creature inside, then grab the Human Skull. While you're here, make a mental note of the portal before leaving, then carry on in your original direction.

Kill the enemy waiting for you at the end of this section, then go down the left-hand corridor until you come to another pair of monsters. Finish them, grab the Grip weapon from the chest, then leave the room and carry straight on ahead. Kill the Rogue, then head towards the door that's on your left.

Before going through it, look up and you'll see a spider waiting to ambush you. Use your Gauntlet to knock it down, then finish it off if it survives the impact with the ground. Take the Living Legend armour pieces from the chest in this room.

Hunting the Human Skulls

Leave and take the stairs on your left. Kill the Rogue and the Infected creature in the next room you come too, and make sure you grab the Human Skull from the room on your right. Take a left and collect another Human Skull.

Make your way upstairs and kill the Infected over to your right. Go up the next stairs and kill the pair of enemies waiting for you. Grab the audio note from the corner of this area, then open up the chest with one of your Sealed Runes. You'll be able to loot three pieces of Cold Blood armour by doing so.

Head back towards the junction and use the stairs on your left. Take another Human Skull when you reach the top, then go into the next room and kill the Forger who's waiting for you. Make sure you collect another of those audio notes, and use the forge here if you want to do any crafting.

Leave and look for the wood plank covering a hole in the floor. Before approaching it, take the stairs on your right, kill all of the spiders, and then smash through the barricade on your right. Go all the way around the corner, then take the path on your right.

You'll eventually come to a room with another Human Skull in it. Trigger the pressure plate on the floor in the middle of this room to open up another door, then go back to the main pathway and head right. There's a door you can open when you reach the end of this corridor. Go through and take the Bloodsick weapon from the chest inside.

When you've finished looting, go back to the section with the hole in the ground. The plank will break if you step on it, so jump over and take the Human Skull when you reach the other side. There's another audio clip to collect on your right, while a Temple Guardian can be found in the next room along. The path that's on your left leads to a chest with more armour for your collection.

Right over from the entrance are some stairs leading to your right, but you'll need to be able to get quite close up to them to see. This set of stairs goes all the way around the room, and a Rogue guards each entrance. Kill the nearest one, then go to the other side and kill the second.

Walk down the hallway after climbing the stairs and finish the pair of Marauders who are wandering around. Grab the audio note when you come to it, then fight the Forger a little further on. Interact with the checkpoint, then head upstairs and fight the Rogue - this enemy's guarding a chest with some very useful items inside.

When you're done, go downstairs and look inside the cell near the checkpoint for another Human Skull. More skulls can be found by exploring the other cells, but you'll be ambushed sooner or later, so always be ready for a fight.

Exploring the prison cells

Make sure you've killed all the enemies in the area before speaking to the prisoner. You can pull all the enemies out by interacting with every lever, while the prisoner himself can be released by yanking the lever in the officer's room. Once released, kill the prisoner.

By the checkpoint you should be able to see a new corridor has opened up. Make your way through it and kill the Rogue, then the Marauder, and make sure you use the crafting forge while you have the opportunity.

When you're ready, go back to the cell area and head towards the Forger. There's a side-passage nearby that houses a chest containing a Cell Key. Open up the cell that's to the right of this passage, kill both enemies inside, then grab the nearby audio note.

Head left and go downstairs, then kill the patrolling Temple Guardian. Take the first door on your left but watch out for the spider that's hanging from the ceiling in the next room. There's a Golem in this room as well. Once both enemies are dead, pick up the next audio clip, then head towards the next room.

Look out for the wooden patch in the centre of this new area, as it will collapse under your weight. You can use one of your Sealed Runes to open the chest in here, and if you walk the hallways on the opposite side you'll be able to get another Human Skull. This will also lead you back to the room with the circular staircase.

Make your way back to where the Forger was located in the cells section. Head into the room on the far right, but his time around you need to take the right-hand stairs until you reach a checkpoint. Walk through the next door, kill the Temple Guardian, then go into the next room to get another Human Skull. Kill the spider, take the audio note, then use the lever to gain access to the next boss fight against the Champion and his rage meter.

Stuck on something else? The rest of our Lords of the Fallen walkthrough and guide can be found from the first page of this article.