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There are a few ways to find Pale Tongues in Dark Souls 3. From easiest to hardest, the methods are:
Finding Pale Tongues in the overworld
Farming for Pale Tongues in Farron Keep (offline method)
Invading other players as a member of Rosaria’s Fingers (online method)
We’ll detail exactly how to pull off each of these methods down below, as well as how to use your Pale Tongues once you have them.
Finding Pale Tongues in The Overworld
There are 3 Pale Tongues scattered throughout Dark Souls 3 as overworld items.
The first is in a secret area in the Undead Settlement.
Tongue #1: Undead Settlement
Once you’ve cleared the Undead Settlement for the first time, you’ll find the Road of Sacrifices Bonfire at its end. Warp here to get started on finding the Pale Tongue.
The Road of Sacrifices Bonfire
From the Bonfire, backtrack into the large stone building behind you and take the elevator back up towards the Undead Settlement.
Once you’re at the top of the elevator shaft, send the elevator back down, but roll off before it takes you down with it.
The secret elevator descending into the room
Wait for a moment and a secret elevator will descend from above, opening up a new area of the building.
Step onto the secret elevator and look towards the Undead Settlement. Point your camera down as the elevator rises to find a secret walkway midway up this new elevator shaft.
The secret walkway in the elevator shaft
Now that you’ve spotted it, ride the elevator back down and roll off onto the walkway during the ride.
Once you’re safely on the secret platform, turn to your right and step out of the window here to enter the area with the Pale Tongue.
Overlooking the area inhabited by the Fire Demon
Also in this large area is a Fire Demon patrolling the main courtyard. Needless to say, you’ll have to deal with this mini-boss before you can loot the Pale Tongue.
If you haven’t entered the Profaned Capital yet, you may meet Siegward of Catarina here, a friendly NPC that will be a massive help in taking out the Demon.
Resting with Siegward after defeating the Fire Demon
If you don’t have Siegward there to help you, play it safe and be patient when fighting the Demon.
Feel free to overlevel slightly and come back later, too.
Once the Demon has gone down, turn your attention to the corpses hanging from the building at the back of the arena.
Corpses hanging from the large building behind the fires
Two of these corpses hold items, and both can be cut down with a swing of a weapon.
Climb onto the roof of the shack in front of the building and cut down the left-most corpse, then pick up the Pale Tongue from it once it’s fallen to the ground.
Claiming the Pale Tongue from the fallen corpse
Tongues #2+3: The Cathedral of The Deep
The Cathedral of The Deep holds two Pale Tongues within it, with the first being on the main path through the Cathedral.
Explore the Cathedral naturally and you’ll find yourself in its enormous main hall.
The main hall in the Cathedral of The Deep
Take a quick look around the hall and spot the Two Chained Giants on either end of the room.
You will have encountered the first already, running away from it as it tried to squash you.
The encounter with the Giant earlier in the level
The other kneels in some sludge at the other end of the hall, guarding an array of items that lay around it.
The Pale Tongue is the item closest to the stairs. Once you’ve spotted it, plan the fastest route to it before setting off into the sludge.
The kneeling Giant that guards the Pale Tongue
Once you’ve entered the sludge, the Giant will wake before trying to squash you as you slowly inch away from it.
The trip through the sludge is dangerous. But with carefully timed dodges and close observation of the Giant, you can easily make it to the Pale Tongue unscathed.
Picking up the Pale Tongue from behind the Giant
The second Pale Tongue in the Cathedral of The Deep is found in a secret area close to the rafters.
Warp to the Cleansing Chapel Bonfire to get started, then head through the left shortcut door.
The Cleansing Chapel Bonfire and the shortcut door in the back-left of the room
Turn left at the first door in this passage to find an elevator that takes you to a previously inaccessible tower.
Take out the enemy at the top of the elevator ride, then step through the large archway nearby and onto the small balcony.
The archway in the tower room
Follow the balcony around to the left, then take the ladder up to the next floor. Take out the Deacon up here, then walk over to the large hole in the corner of the room.
Step up onto the rubble and look over the edge to see a large ramp leading towards the main cathedral building.
The ramp, viewed from the top floor of the tower
Step or roll off of the ledge and onto the ramp, then walk up the ramp until it meets the cathedral building.
Once you reach solid ground, turn right and follow the pathway until you reach its end.
You’ll find a corpse laid here holding an item – interact with it to pick up the final overworld Pale Tongue.
The corpse that holds the Pale Tongue
Farming in Farron Keep (offline method)
Once you’ve picked up the 3 Pale Tongues in the overworld, you’ll need to get farming for more.
If you prefer to stay away from PvP play, the fastest way to fill your remaining Pale Tongue quota is by farming Darkwraiths in Farron Keep.
A Darkwraith guarding itself
Pale Tongues have a common drop rate compared to other Covenant items, sitting at a 5% chance to drop from each Darkwraith killed.
This is very generous compared to the drop rates endured by Blades of the Darkmoon, but it’s still going to be slow, so you’ll want to boost your item discovery rate before you get started.
Check out our farming build guide to learn how to maximize your item discovery rate, and speed up the Pale Tongue grind in the process.
The completed farming build
Once you’ve boosted your item discovery rate to a comfortable level, warp to the Farron Keep Perimeter Bonfire to get started with the Farm.
The Farron Keep Perimeter Bonfire
Walk forward from the Bonfire towards the Abyss Watchers boss arena, slowing down before you step out from the ruins.
Stand on the edge of the ruins and pan your camera around to the left to see two Darkwraiths walking up the path.
Watching the Darkwraiths walk towards the Ghrus up the hill
From here, you can choose between two methods of completing this farm.
The safe strategy is to watch the Darkwraiths walk past until they meet the crowd of Ghru enemies up ahead.
Once the enemies start fighting amongst themselves, you can swoop in, backstab the Darkwraiths and end the fight with relative ease.
The Darkwraiths and Ghrus fighting amongst themselves
If you want to speed up the farm, you can instead confront the Darkwraiths immediately, fighting them two-on-one in a dangerous fight.
Only take the second option if you’re confident that you can beat the Darkwraiths every time – you won’t save any time by taking this route and dying.
Invading Other Worlds as a Rosaria’s Covenant Member
Note: If you’re playing on PC, this method doesn’t work as of May 11th 2022, as FromSoftware haven’t yet reactivated the servers following the hacking issues in February.
If you’re fortunate enough to be playing Dark Souls 3 on consoles, invading other players’ worlds is by far the most fun way to pick up some Pale Tongues.
Arriving in the world of an unsuspecting host
Before you can start farming Pale Tongues online, you’ll need two things.
The first is the Rosaria’s Fingers Pledge, an item which gives you membership to the Rosaria’s Fingers Covenant.
The Rosaria’s Finger Pledge
The second is the Red Eye Orb, an item used to perform the invasion itself.
You can find the Red Eye Orb by killing a staff-wielding Man-Grub right outside Rosaria’s Bedchamber.
The Red Eye Orb’s item description
Once you have both items, head to a popular PvP location such as the High Wall of Lothric or the area right after the Pontiff Sulyvahn boss fight.
Equip the Rosaria’s Finger Pledge in your Covenant slot, and then use the Red Eye Orb to begin searching for another player to invade.
Invading another world with the Red Eye Orb
Once you find a match, you’ll be transported into another player’s world with all of your gear and ½ of your total Estus Flasks.
The final step to receiving your Pale Tongue is killing the host of this world or a blue phantom that they summon.
Unfortunately, allied white or gold phantoms won’t drop Pale Tongues. It must be the host or a blue phantom.
How To Use Pale Tongues
A Pale Tongue’s item description
Pale Tongues are a Covenant rank item, working as a currency within the Rosaria’s Fingers Covenant.
The only NPC that accepts Pale Tongues as currency is Rosaria herself, so you’ll first need to find her in the Cathedral of the Deep.
Rosaria’s Bedchamber
Once you do, talk to her until you’re given the option to join the Covenant, then accept her offer.
From now on you can kneel before Rosaria to offer her Pale Tongues.
Kneeling before Rosaria
Offering 10 in total will grant you the Obscuring Ring as a reward, while offering 30 will give you the Man-Grub’s Staff.
Jack is a writer from the UK that spends too much time Nuzlocking the Pokémon series. After a crushing defeat, he relaxes by rewatching Attack On Titan in the hope that it'll make the final season come out sooner - It never does.
