Illusory Walls in Dark Souls 3 are hidden walls within the game. They will need to be hit with an attack, or rolled into to be revealed. This needs to be done by the host of the world. Spirits, both friend and foe, have no effect on illusory walls.
Illusory Walls List
| Location | Bonfire | Description |
Firelink Shrine |
Firelink Shrine | From the bonfire, head to the right side of the building via the upper stairwell and enter the castle turret with the spiral staircase. If you have not yet unlocked this gate, the key is sold by the Shrine Handmaiden. From the bridge, drop onto the roof of the Shrine and drop to the lower level of the roof. Follow around to the front and you will find a stairwell leading back into the building. Walk along the beams and exhaust the dialogue from an unseen NPC and continue to the back of the room. Strike the wall and jump down into the newly revealed room to find a chest containing the Covetous Silver Serpent Ring. |
Farron Keep |
Old Wolf of Farron | From the bonfire, leave back toward the swamp and turn left. Ascend the stairs and attack the wall on the left side, which appears to be a filled in arch, adjacent to Crystal Lizard spawn. Behind it is the Dreamchaser's Ashes. |
Catacombs of Carthus |
Catacombs of Carthus | From the bonfire head down the same path as the boulder, then take a left in the room with the rats. Between the candle-lit staircase and the exit at the end of the room is an illusory wall with another staircase that also leads to the same area as the staircase next to it. |
Catacombs of Carthus |
Abyss Watchers (Farron Keep bonfire) | From the Abyss Watchers bonfire head into the Catacombs, pass the bridge into the next room, go upstairs where the archer is and find a ladder up here that goes all the way down a long drop. Follow this area until you come into a room with a red eye skeleton/assassin type enemy. There is a filled archway/illusory wall in this room, it leads to pyromancy tome. If you are having trouble locating the wall in this room, look for a broken wall that shows a skeleton archer standing on top of a platform, start hitting the left side (your right) of this wall. |
Smouldering Lake |
Old King's Antechamber | In the same room with the Bonfire. It is the only wall not covered in roots. Unveiling the illusion will give you access to a rather long tunnel system which leads to the above area of the room where some big pyromancer demons and an Undead Bone Shard are below. This is an alternative way that gets you to the Estus Shard around here. |
Smouldering Lake |
Old King's Antechamber | From the Bonfire, descend the stairs ahead, follow straight into a room with some dead demons and enemies. Continue further and in the next tunnel, and as soon as you hit a wall in front of you, unveil an illusion to the left. It provides area-exclusive access to a Black Knight with an axe equipped. |
Smouldering Lake |
Old King's Antechamber | From the bottom area where some big pyromancer demons are, the is a tunnel system that eventually leads you to a small hole in the ground. Ignore that direction and go right instead. Rats are coming your way, and you will enter a room which one is somewhat grassy. Keep walking straight towards the wall, and unveil its illusion. This provides you access to the opposite side of a huge gap, and to Quelana Pyromancy Tome, in front of a since long dead giant spider. Plus an exclusive access to a lava pit of this area, which yields two Weapons, including a White Hair Talisman. |
Smouldering Lake |
Old King's Antechamber | From the bonfire, head down stairs and into the hallway with the pyromancers. Head down the tunnel on the lower right with rats, and proceed until you find the giant rat guarding a nest of smaller rats. Strike the wall on the left to unveil the illusion, and access a safe wooden Treasure Chest that yields Large Titanite Shard (3x). |
Smouldering Lake |
Old King's Antechamber | Behind the wooden Treasure Chest there at, that yields Large Titanite Shard (3x), is another illusion to be unveiled as well - cameo! Behind it, you can fall down to reach Izalith Staff, and an alternative way to access the lair of many cursing basilisks who dwell there at. |
Irithyll of the Boreal Valley |
Church of Yorshka | From the bonfire, head back the way you came to it, down the stairs and around to the right. Either kill the Pontiff Knight patrol or wait for them to walk along. Follow the path down and up the stair ahead to a platform with a crystal lizard. The railing on the furthest right is an illusion, leading down some stairs and back toward the Central Irithyll fire. Drop down on the left and there will be an Evangelist that drops the spell Dorhy's Gnawing. Opening the nearby gate leads to just before the first set of Pontiff Knights in the zone. |
Irithyll of the Boreal Valley |
Church of Yorshka | From the bonfire, head back the way you came to it, down the stairs to the main street and take a left turn. Follow the street until it ends, and to the right of the Lightning Gem treasure is a huge stone wall. Hit it to find the Magic Clutch Ring on a corpse behind it. |
Irithyll of the Boreal Valley |
Church of Yorshka | From the bonfire, head out through the side exit, then take a left through the tunnel and the dark room beyond, until you arrive at an area next to the lake. Under the stairs you just descended are several arched alcoves. The rightmost alcove has an illusory wall at the back, which hides a small area with a Crystal Lizard who drops a Twinkling Titanite. |
Irithyll of the Boreal Valley |
Pontiff Sulyvahn | From the bonfire, proceed straight through the door, left up the stairs and right through the valley of dead giants and into door at far end. Immediately on left is wall that can be struck to reveal a ladder. Descend the ladder, defeat the enemies to reach Archdeacon McDonnell and join the Aldritch Faithful. |
Irithyll of the Boreal Valley |
Anor Londo | When the spiral staircase is low, descend it and enter the original whereabouts of the Blade of the Darkmoon Covenant. Inside, unveil the illusory wall behind the Gwyn statue on the opposite side. Provides exclusive access to the expected hallway, which yields a valuable item at its end. |
Lothric Castle |
Lothric Castle | From the bonfire, go straight through the door leading to the Dragon Barracks bonfire, head left, right, then up the stairs. To your right there should be a door that leads to the base of a tower. There will be a Twin Axe wielding Winged Knight in there ready to drop down on you. After beating him, climb on up the ladder and on the wall near the entrance, to the left of the barrels, there's an illusory wall. |
Lothric Castle |
Oceiros | From the bonfire, continue forward until you reach the room with the two chests. It is behind the second chest. This leads to the Untended Graves |
Untended Graves |
Champion Gundyr | Inside the unlit Firelink Shrine, there are two illusory walls that lead to where Irina of Carim is supposed to be (one when you go from Cornyx's location, one from the bonfire's location). Here you can get the Eyes of a Firekeeper. |
Grand Archives |
Grand Archives | One level above the central walkway (where the Crystal Sage relocates to), in the area with two wax priests, several thralls, and a corpse in a corner holding a Titanite Scale. To the right of this corpse is the illusory wall (indicated by metal gates on either side), which hides a Frost Knight (drops Outrider Knight Armor Set) as well as Soul Stream. |
Painted World of Ariandel |
Snowy Mountain Pass | Inside the bottom of the crypt filled with Giant Flies, past the only archway leading out of the room. This tunnel out leads to an illusory wall disguised as a dead end, which will let you open up the shortcut between the crypt and the Ariandel Chapel bonfire. |
Painted World of Ariandel |
Snowy Mountain Pass | From the crank handle in the crypt, go towards the wall left of it. One of the archways on this wall is illusory and leads to two crystal lizards, the Pyromancer's Parting Flame, and an NPC Invader. |
Dreg Heap |
The Dreg Heap | Take a right after exiting the first building with Lothric Knights. Go through the building filled with Murkmen and upon hitting the end, hit the wall to your left. It will open up a staircase that leads you to Great Soul Dregs and the Covetous Silver Serpent Ring +3. |
The Ringed City |
Shared Grave | Cross the bridge where you first fought Midir and enter the building. Hitting the wall next to the stairs (as well as the next two walls within this hidden tunnel) nets you a Hollow Cleric encounter, souls, and the Lightning Arrow miracle. |
The Ringed City |
Ringed Inner Wall | Go down the elevator and about halfway down, jump out through the doorway. Turn left into the room filled with statues, and hit the statue wielding no weapons. This grants access to a ladder leading to the Antiquated Plain Set, and the Darkeater Midir boss fight. |
AnonymousFor those criticising the term "Illusory Wall":
"The Illusionary Illusionist's Illusion was Illusory."
That sentence is both valid and sound, linguistically speaking.
Yes it's ridiculous, but English doesn't have tech support.
Deal with it.
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Can someone add Ashes of Ariandel (and Ringed city if there are any) walls?
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worked for me, but tree is behind you facing tower door,, homeward bone on roof,, keeping walking on roof to the drop down, enter to the right. narrow walkway leads to an estus shard, some bird ask for a pum a rum in the center. walk towards wall,, hit it, fake wall. go to end , drop down. chest with covetous ring on the right
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WELL!!!! VERY FIRST ILLUSORY WALL FOR THE SERPENT RING DOES NOT NEED THE 20,000 SOUL KEY!!!!! not necessary at all, i found a glitch next to the locked door. on the left is a tree. don't have to get naked, but it helps, unequip your stuff, run up towards the middle (and a tad to the right) of the trunk of the tree and jump right towards that roof. try, try again til you do it. first try took me 10 times, 2nd about 20, 3rd like 50. pure luck, unpatched, found by ~ Alexbee11
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ps. super easy to range that Master Swordsman dude for the sexy Katana hes got, the Uchigatana
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... but a dictionary could've told you that. The more you know!
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Thanksf or that info hoooooomieeeeeee tgtggggrjgreogopsgepgj
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there is another illusionary wall in smouldering lake , you have just to go in the right of the boss' wall , when you are in the ramp that lead down , watch on the right , there will be two tunnel , and you have to take the left one , and just hit the wall at the end of the tunnel ( in front of you )
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From the poo poo gate, head up and then take a pee on the lord of cinder. From that point head down then left than left again. You'll come across a big pee pee pile of poo. After demolishing that take 2 lefts 3 ups and 9 downs. Upon reaching the illusory wall, go up twice more than take 3 u-turns. Take a pee than a poo than slash the illusory wall 2 million times than do 7 more u-turns. After all that effort go kill yourself.
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There´s another ilusory wall in the untended graves, in the place where the miracles vendor should ne.
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There is another one here right near the individuals books on the floor that attack you. A few levels up
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An irithyll knight is behind this one. It's to the left, of the building, after where there are ghost books lying on the ground
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That balcony with the crystal lizard right before the two pontiff knights walking together, after the first two fire witches. Right side of thr balcony is a stairs that leads to the crying evangelist. Gives a powerful Gnaw miracle
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The dialog is actually coming from a nest on the roof. Similar to Dyna and Tillo from DS2.
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Literally everything i do does not work when it comes to illusion walls. They never open for me in this game. But anybother souls game, they work
You can also dodge roll into them, which may fix the problem many of you are having.
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For any illusory wall I come across, nothing i do will make them disappear . Ive hit them, used torches, and pressed A, and nothing works. Ive even seen a glitch through a different wall to the chamber BEHIND the illusory wall, but attacking said illusory wall yields no results.
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behind the chest in the other room, whole new location, why it's not here yet? it;s like the msot important secret cause new boss
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For the illusory walls in firelink, you can just yuse that tree glitch and just go around the awning like bit before the roof and then go through that door, you don’t need to spend 20k souls (especially if your a new player) for that ring. Your Welcome!
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