❋ DLC · LOCATIONBelurat, the Tower Settlement
Hornsent capital, funeral pyre for itself
Belurat, the Tower Settlement
"The majority of divine beasts were gored and hung upon Messmer's spears, then burned in his flame. Those who witnessed the deed likened it to a funeral pyre for the tower itself."
From Divine Beast Tornado incantation
Belurat is the great spiral tower at the heart of the Realm of Shadow, capital of the Hornsent before Marika's reign, axis of the divine-beast cult, and the first stop the Tarnished makes in the Land of Shadow. The tower's well, whose iron grating the Well Depths Key opens, descends past every layer of the city into the catacombs from which the Hornsent first ascended ; its second-floor storeroom, opened by the Storeroom Key, holds the relics no Hornsent left behind because none of them lived to leave. The tower's name, in the language no living Hornsent speaks, is also the name of a cosmic axis : a tower that is also a god.
The Dancing Lion that crowns the climb is the last remaining sculpted-keeper performance, a great divine-beast spirit-puppet operated by two Hornsent priests who would not abandon the dance even after the burning. Below them, in the storehouse and the great hall, are the divine beasts Messmer's spears caught and the bodies they could not separate from his fire. The Divine Beast Tornado description's line, 'those who witnessed the deed likened it to a funeral pyre for the tower itself', is precisely what Belurat became. The Tarnished walks through that pyre.
Storeroom KeyA key with a spiral engraving. Opens the door to the storeroom on the second floor of Belurat, the tower settlement.
Well Depths KeyA crude, corroded key. Opens the iron grating at the bottom of the well in Belurat, the tower settlement.
Divine Beast TornadoThe majority of divine beasts were gored and hung upon Messmer's spears, then burned in his flame. Those who witnessed the deed likened it to a funeral pyre for the tower itself.
