'A record of crafting techniques taught by the capital's ancient dragon cult. Details techniques that harness lightning, the weapon of the ancient dragons. Acquire the knowledge to craft the following: - Dragonwound Grease.' The Ancient Dragon Cult is one of the canon's most paradoxical orders: a faith devoted to the lightning-magic of the Ancient Dragons, yet kept openly within the royal capital of Leyndell, the Erdtree's most central seat. It is no heresy. The Gravel Stone Seal states it without flinching: the worship of the ancient dragons does not conflict with belief in the Erdtree, for the seal and lightning itself are alike imbued with gold. Its apostles pass down the techniques of lightning, 'the weapon of the ancient dragons', and its prayerbooks preserve the incantations of red lightning that the dragons once wielded.

'A record of crafting techniques taught by the capital's ancient dragon cult.' Why a dragon-worshipping order sits at the heart of the Erdtree's capital is answered by a single friendship. Long ago, Godwyn the Golden defeated the ancient dragon Fortissax, and befriended his fallen foe; that event, the cult's own incantations say, gave rise to the ancient dragon cult in the capital. This is the knights' faith that arose after the War of the Ancient Dragons: not a tolerated fringe but a lineage born of Godwyn's victory and the bond that followed it. Its incantations, Lightning Spear and Honed Bolt and Electrify Armament, are not seized from any tower but transmitted the way a faith passes down its rites: a Dragon Cult Prayerbook, given to a learned cleric, opens them to the devout.