Dark Souls: Where to Find All Embers

Embers are special items in Dark Souls you give to blacksmiths. These allow you to upgrade your weapons or transform them into another weapon type. Needless to say, they’re highly important as they increase your damage output.

Large Ember

The Large Ember is most likely to be the first of the embers you’ll come across in Dark Souls. You’ll find the Large Ember in the Depths; in a chest, behind the first Butcher you encounter in the level.

The Large Ember lets your Standard weapons go from +5 to +6, then all the way up to +10. It can also turn +10 Standard weapons into Raw weapons, all the way up to +5 Raw.

You give this ember to Andre of Astora.

Very Large Ember

The Very Large Ember is located in New Londo Ruins. You’ll only be able to access it after you lower the water level. Once you reach the lower levels of New Londo, you’ll eventually find yourself in a room filled with Darkwraith Knights and a Mass of Souls. There’s a room here that has a spiral staircase that leads up—follow it.

Once you reach the top, continue forward then make the first right. Keep going down this path and you’ll find another staircase at the end. Once you reach the top, make a left and you’ll find a chest. Open it to receive the Very Large Ember.

Give this ember to Andre of Astora. With it, he’ll be able to upgrade your Standard weapons from +10 to +15—the maximum level for Standard weapons.

Divine Ember

The Divine Ember is in Darkroot Garden. You’ll find it at the top of the tower at the end of the bridge where you fight the Moonlight Butterfly. You’ll need to defeat the boss before you can ascend this tower. The ember is held by a stone blacksmith.

Give this ember to Andre of Astora. With this, you’ll be able to ascend +5 Standard weapons to Divine weapons, all the way up to +5.

Large Divine Ember

You’ll find the Large Divine Ember in the Tomb of the Giants. After reaching the first bonfire of this level, head to the ladder and make your way up. Make a right and keep heading forward until you find a hole in the ground. This leads you into a coffin that’s filled with giant skeletons.

At the end of this room, you’ll find a stone blacksmith. Loot it to receive the Large Divine Ember.

Give this ember to Andre. With this ember, you’ll upgrade Divine weapons from +5 to +10, the maximum level for this weapon type.

Dark Ember

The Dark Ember is in the Painted World of Ariamis. You’ll need to have the Annex Key to access the area, which you’ll find in the underground sewers section of the level, behind an illusory wall.

The Annex Key opens up the door found on the right of where the Phalanx is in the main courtyard. Open this door, head up, and once you’re back out, keep heading forward and you’ll be in an open yard with a stone blacksmith at the end. Loot it to receive the ember.

Give the Dark Ember to Andre. With it, he can modify +5 Divine weapons into Occult weapons, all the way up to +5, the maximum level for this weapon type.

Large Magic Ember

The Large Magic Ember is located in The Duke’s Archives. It’s in the area where you first encounter Seath the Scaleless when you’re unable to damage the boss in any way.

You can return to this room after you finally defeat Seath. The ember is inside a chest.

Give this ember to Rickert, the blacksmith in New Londo Ruins. With it, he’ll be able to ascend +5 Magic weapons to +10, the maximum level for Magic weapons.

Enchanted Ember

The Enchanted Ember is in Darkroot Garden—which makes this location one of three areas to have two embers in Dark Souls. From Alvina’s tower, get to the other tower and make your way down. When you get to the ground, make a right and keep heading forward until you find a puddled area with big mushroom enemies around. There’s a chest in the middle of the puddle. Open it to retrieve the Enchanted Ember.

Warning

Beware the mushroom enemies! They may be cute, but they hit harder than you expect…

Give this ember to Rickert. With it, you’ll be able to ascend +5 Magic weapons into Enchanted weapons, all the way up to +5, the maximum level for Enchanted weapons.

Crystal Ember

The Crystal Ember is in the Duke’s Archives—another location that holds multiple embers in Dark Souls. You’ll find it in a chest behind a bookshelf in the room that leads down to the Crystal Caves. The aforementioned bookshelf is to the left of the staircase that leads to the outer garden.

Give the Crystal Ember to the Giant Blacksmith in Anor Londo. With it, he can ascend +10 Standard weapons to Crystal weapons, all the way up to the maximum level of +5.

Large Flame Ember

The Large Flame Ember is in the Demon Ruins. After the massive staircase that leads to the fog gate in the Demon Ruins, immediately make a left after you descend the staircase.

Go all the way to the end of this path, past the Taurus Demons and Rockworms, until you find a chest. Open the chest to retrieve the Large Flame Ember.

Give the Large Flame Ember to Blacksmith Vamos at the Catacombs. With it, he’ll ascend +5 Fire weapons to +10, this weapon type’s maximum level.

Chaos Flame Ember

The Chaos Flame Ember is also in the Demon Ruins. After defeating Ceaseless Discharge, go down to the newly accessible area where lava used to be. Past all the Taurus Demons, you’ll find a corpse in the middle of a lava puddle.

Get to this corpse and loot it to receive the ember.

You’ll need to have high Fire resistance to get to this corpse. The Orange Charred Ring, which is dropped by the Centipede Demon, allows you to traverse lava without receiving much damage.

Give this ember to Blacksmith Vamos. He’ll be able to ascend +5 Fire weapons to Chaos weapons, all the way up to its maximum level of +5.

The weapon variety in Dark Souls is huge. The ability to ascend weapons and transform them into other weapon types gives you even more options to deal with the enemies in the game. That said, retrieve these embers and you’ll be able to overcome the game’s toughest bosses and levels like Ornstein and Smough or the entirety of the Tomb of the Giants.