# Sanctum Knight

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### Description

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*The sanctum knights renounced their own  
flesh to eternally guard the Sanctum  
from Sir Yorgh and his Drakeblood Knights.*<sup>1</sup>

*These guardian knights were sentenced to eternal  
stewardship of the Sanctum in a clandestine ritual  
carried out in the great depths, but today the  
sanctum receives nary a visitor.*<sup>2</sup>

### Location

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**Dragon's Sanctum**  
<table><tr><th>Bonfire Intensity</th><th>HP</th><th>Souls</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>1,100</td><td>1,200</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>1,300</td><td>2,400</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>2,500</td><td>4,800</td></tr></table>

### Attacks

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- Multiple curved sword slashes.
- Double curved sword strong attack.
- Jumping attack.
- Can switch to dual crossbows and fire either a volley of regular bolts or a volley of Dark bolts.

### Resistances

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- Body Form 
    - Very high Fire, Magic and Dark resistance
    - High Lightning resistance
    - Poise cannot be broken
- Ghost Form 
    - Extremely high Fire, Magic and Dark resistance
    - Very high Lightning resistance
    - Immune to physical

### Drops

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- Sanctum Knight Helm (rare)
- Sanctum Knight Armor (rare)
- Sanctum Knight Gauntlets (very rare)
- Sanctum Knight Leggings (very rare)
- Sanctum Crossbow (rare)
- Sanctum Repeating Crossbow (rare)
- Repair Powder

### Notes

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- If their armor isn't destroyed, they will be in ghost form and be immune to physical damage and highly resistant to elemental damage.
- Once their armor is destroyed, they will be permanently in non-ghost form.
- They cannot be backstabbed while in ghost form.
- They cannot cancel their chain attacks, making them extremely easy to backstab.
- 4 of the 9 Sanctum Knights found in Dragon Sanctum don't actually use crossbows, even though they appear to have ammo.

Footnotes 1. Sanctum Knight Set description. 2. Sanctum Crossbow description. </div>