'Legendary ashen remains. Use to summon the spirit of Kristoff, the Ancient Dragon Knight. Spirit of Kristoff, an honorable knight of Leyndell who was also a devout worshipper of the ancient dragons. His skills strike down foes with thunderbolts, the dragons' weapon of choice.' Kristoff is the canon's quiet contradiction made into a single named knight: a Leyndell-sworn warrior of the Erdtree's central capital who worshipped the Ancient Dragons, the very dragons defeated when they assaulted Leyndell, an assault broken by Godwyn the Golden, whose friendship with Fortissax afterwards founded the capital's own dragon cult. In that Leyndell, a knight could carry the Erdtree's colours and pray with thunder in his hands, and Kristoff did both honourably.

'After the First Defense of Leyndell, Kristoff earned the hero's honor of Erdtree Burial for the feat of capturing Godefroy the Grafted.' That is the whole of his recorded life: one defense, one capture, one burial with honours. His legendary ashes rest in the Sainted Hero's Grave beneath Altus, where the Tarnished can claim them; summoned, Kristoff fights exactly as the description promises, thunderbolts, the dragons' weapon of choice, thrown by a knight the Golden Order chose to bury beneath its own tree. An Erdtree Burial for a dragon-worshipper: the Order honouring a man whose prayers went elsewhere.