'Gatekeeper Gostoc's bell bearing, found upon his perished flesh. Offer to the Twin Maiden Husks at the Roundtable Hold to gain access to new items.' Gostoc is the gatekeeper at Stormveil's lower entrance, a hunched, deferential figure who greets the Tarnished with a smile and a warning. He routes them through corridors he claims are safer, where they are routinely ambushed by knights and traps. When the Tarnished slays each ambusher, Gostoc materialises, picks the dead clean, and offers the Tarnished a small reward drawn from what he stole. His smile never changes through the negotiation.

'A tall, medium-sized wooden shield. Light for its size, and easy to handle. Adorned with a long-forgotten crest of Stormveil, ancient in design.' Stormveil is older than Godrick. Its crest predates the Grafted Lord by ages, the castle was a Storm Hawk seat, then the Banished Knights', then a feudal fragment shored up by a feeble demigod stitching limbs onto his own. Gostoc serves whoever holds the gate, it is the gate, not the gatekeeper, that outlasts each master. When the Tarnished slays Godrick, Gostoc bursts into the throne room to stamp on his former lord's severed head, then sets up shop as a merchant in the conquered castle. If Nepheli Loux's story runs its course he ends at her side in Stormveil, still picking corpses clean, freedom, he finds, wasn't worth much.