Rogier’s Questline
Sorcerer Rogier is a cheerful spellblade and would-be scholar who has spent years digging into the Night of the Black Knives, the night Godwyn the Golden was murdered. You meet him inside Stormveil Castle, and later he settles in the Roundtable Hold, where something he found beneath the castle slowly eats away at him.
Helping him crack the mystery of the Black Knifeprint sends you to Ranni the Witch, and his talks also open the door to Fia‘s story. It is a short questline, and not a happy one, but he is wonderful company while it lasts.
Walkthrough
- Fight beside him (optional). Rogier’s first appearance is as a summon you can call in for the fight against Margit, the Fell Omen.
- Talk to him in Stormveil Castle (optional). Inside Stormveil Castle, he sits in the chapel past the Rampart Tower Site of Grace. Talk to him until he has nothing more to say.
- Find his bloodstain below the castle. In the lower part of Stormveil, beat the Ulcerated Tree Spirit and look at Rogier’s bloodstain nearby. If you do this before defeating Godrick the Grafted, Rogier vanishes from the castle, even if you already spoke to him there.
- Meet him in the Roundtable Hold. After Godrick falls, Rogier is waiting at the Roundtable Hold. Tell him you have beaten Godrick, then ask him about the misshapen corpse under Stormveil.
- Ask Fia about the knifeprint. Speak to Fia, Deathbed Companion, who tells you about the Black Knifeprint and gives you a clue about where to look.
- Get the Black Knifeprint. Travel to the Black Knife Catacombs in Liurnia of the Lakes and take the Black Knifeprint from the wounded Black Knife Assassin.
- Give the knifeprint to Rogier. Hand it over at the Hold. If you like, ask Fia about Rogier afterwards. Reload the area and talk to Rogier again: he has worked out who enchanted the assassins’ blades and asks you to look into Ranni.
- Visit Ranni. Go to Ranni’s Rise in the Three Sisters and talk to Ranni. She brushes you off and tells you to leave.
- Report back. Tell Rogier what happened. He asks you to go further and join her service.
- Swear yourself to Ranni. Return to Ranni’s Rise and agree to serve her.
- Say goodbye. Go back to Rogier and tell him. He admits that his condition is getting worse. Reload the area and he no longer responds. Reload once more and he has passed away, leaving his belongings behind.
Missable steps & failure conditions
- Godrick before the bloodstain. Seeing Rogier’s bloodstain beneath Stormveil before you defeat Godrick makes him disappear from the castle, so you miss his chapel conversation unless you already had it.
- Shop and talks close early. Once Rogier stops responding at the Hold, his shop is gone and every conversation you have not heard is locked away. Buy his Ashes of War and ask everything you want before you report that you have entered Ranni’s service.
- The letter. You only get Rogier’s Letter if you listened to his talk about D before he died.
Endings & consequences
- Rogier dies. Follow his story to the end and he dies at the Roundtable Hold, shortly after you tell him you have joined Ranni.
- Fia’s Champions. Rogier returns later as one of Fia’s Champions at the Prince of Death’s Throne in the Deeproot Depths.
- D’s twin. His letter tells you where to find D, Beholder of Death, the twin brother of his old friend D, Hunter of the Dead.
- Ranni and Fia. His investigation is one of the threads that leads you to Ranni, and his talks about the Night of the Black Knives start Fia’s knifeprint lead. See Ranni’s Questline.