Lists Game
Dark Souls II
tracking their Dark Souls II achievements.
Click here to track your progress.

Gnawing Covenant achievement in DS2

Gnawing Covenant

Discover the covenant of rodents

Gnawing Covenant0
Hide ads

How to unlock the Gnawing Covenant achievement

  • Silent FanaticSilent Fanatic
    13 Mar 2014 13 Mar 2014 13 Mar 2014
    This Achievement is for joining the Rat King's covenant. This can be found by entering the giant well in the middle of Majula. You'll need to purchase the Silvercat Ring off of the cat in Majula, which reduces the damage inflicted by falling. Equip the ring, then drop down the wooden planks until you see a stone landing jutting out partway down (do not go all the way, that's too far).

    You'll find a bonfire once you reach the landing. Follow the path from there until you reach another bonfire, followed shortly by a boss fight against an infinite amount of rats. The trick here is to kill the one unique rat, which will cause the rest to run away. He'll drop his soul as usual, along with a rat tail.

    The rat king himself is in the room just after the boss fight. Speak to him a couple of times with a rat tail in your possession, and he'll offer to let you join his covenant, earning you the Crest of the Rat ring. This works in a similar fashion to the Bell Keepers. You equip the ring, and anytime another player enters the rat king's domain, they'll be summoned to your world as a grey invader. Kill them to reap the rewards. For starters, the enemies in the area will no longer aggro on you while you wear the ring. Additionally, you'll earn a Pharros' Lockstone for each enemy you defeat.

    Oh, and try to make sure you don't make a jackass out of yourself by hitting the rat king when you first see him. Oops.

    Guide not helping? View 1 more guide for this achievement.

    Showing both comments. Leave a comment.
    Early BlossomGreat guide and LOL @ Oops.. I can only imagine laugh
    Posted by Early Blossom on 15 Mar 14 at 00:29
    Calex dEUSYou can also join this in the Doors of Pharros area but it is a significantly more difficult boos fight and the route is too, also you will get summoned to invade and the environment is very hostile towards anyone not expecting to have to do a pvp encounter.
    Posted by Calex dEUS on 20 Mar 14 at 09:14
  • Have you got any tips or tricks to unlock this achievement?
    Add a guide to share them with the community.

    Add a guide
  • joshpwnjoshpwn
    15 Mar 2014 15 Mar 2014
    Silent Fanatic's guide is great and I recommend following that.

    Just in case people got confused (like i did), I just wanted to add that you need to keep killing rats until a health bar shows like any other boss battle and a rat with what looks to a be a mohawk on his/her back appears. Thats the Royal Rat boss, also he can poison you so be careful.

    Good Luck! wave
Do you have a question about this achievement? Please post it in the Dark Souls II Forum