Rotting Cavern

Route through Rotting Cavern

1. Land at the bottom of the giant tree hollow and activate the Decaying Great Tree monument. The rock wall to its left is a hidden wall with Orbewa Egg 45, and the slope up to the front right ends at a torch with Grilled Fish and a Meal Ticket.
2. Follow the slope down past the stone building and air-dash into the cave opposite. Its left fork ends at a chest, and the hidden wall behind the chest has Broiled Meat (permanent Attack) and a Meal Ticket.
3. Go down to the rotten lake and wade on through the water. Smaller fish may come first; the Gigantic Serf (1,800 Life, 250 ATK, no known weakness) leaps out, and after the kill the Jigeki Key middle piece is in its mouth. The water builds Magic Rot, which wears off by itself; a Panacea from Umbada clears it.
4. Follow the lake onward to the Rotting Cavern Wing Altar. The hidden wall in the foundation below the altar has Baked Lobster and a Meal Ticket.
5. The central sewer has the Depraved Mass of Charred Flesh floating in it. In the right tunnel, use the turquoise turtle switch and open the hidden wall on the right for the Rotting Eye; on the centre-island ruins above, throw a weapon at the small bell to open Jejano the Forgotten's door.
6. Activate the Temple Entrance monument in front of the temple gate. Go through the temple to the cave mouth and air-dash left to the platform opposite for the Kintsugi Zweihander, then jump to the stone bridge on the right and follow it to the Crumbling Fortress monument.
7. From the Crumbling Fortress take the left fork; the wall right of the round iron door hides Roasted Poultry (permanent Life). Further on, the big circular pool of red blood starts the ritual gauntlet: Blood Angel Berserker, Sentinel, Warden, Templar and the Ritual Blood Chromobula. Win it for the Blood Angel Josami Key.
8. Use the key on the chest right of the iron gate to Verdant Hollow for the Josami Greatsword. The orange seal left of the Crumbling Fortress monument holds the Common Data Module.
9. From the Crumbling Fortress take the right fork, climb the slope, turn left and air-dash over the path you came along to the platform behind the stone wall (Orbewa Egg 48, Silver Skull 59). To leave, use the teleporter on the small hill in the red water at the far end of the swamp, or the iron gate to Verdant Hollow.

Come back later for

• Blood Angel Josami Key: the big red door in the Forgotten Dungeon (Blood Angel Lords Yuumed and Woyeki) and the Josami Mechanical Mace in Siraatsu Castle.
• Jigeki's Lens on the Mask of Second Sight shows ward symbols at the rotten springs: smash them all and the water clears, and Sipeha statue 6 appears under the waterfall of the snake temple near the teleporter. Destroy the poison statue too, then enter the cave by the sewer exit near the Temple Entrance monument for Wodaso's Guidance.
• Four Dark Triangular Slates open the shrine-like building on the path from the Wing Altar: the Huge Rotting Bat and the Velvet vault (Jade Key Stone) are behind it.
• Flying Mushroom Fossil: Silver Skull 61 on top of the big stone archway near the double gates.

Bosses

Weapons found here

Enemies in Rotting Cavern

Stats from the in-game Bestiary. Weak to = takes extra damage from that type.

Connected areas

Obmuer Templegiant tree hollow

Verdant Hollow & Temple PuwemaVerdant Hollow side