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Mephistopheles
Location:	The Nexus
Drops:	Gold Mask Epee Rapier Parrying Dagger Ring of the Accursed

Mephistopheles is an NPC in Demon's Souls and Demon's Souls Remake. NPCs are the various characters that are encountered by the player throughout their journey. NPCs provide information, others are quest givers, while some are categorized as Merchants and/or Blacksmiths whom you can trade with or request for certain services.

Mephistopheles is a grim woman with a deadly secret. She seeks the assistance of Yurt, the Silent Chief, and later the player if Yurt is killed. She also wishes the death of key NPCs in the Nexus; specifically, those with knowledge of the Soul Arts.

Upon completion of her requests, Mephistopheles will say that the Order of the Soul has commanded her to remove all those who know the ways of Soul Arts from Boletaria, the player included, in order to keep the ancient rite a secret.

Mephistopheles Information

She offers you rewards in turn for assassinating other NPCs:

• If an assassination target is already dead, Mephistopheles will skip to the next person on the list. You do not receive a reward.
• You have to talk to her after every assassination and be handed the next task to actually receive the individual rewards.
• When all assassinations are complete and you speak to her for your reward, she will attack you after giving you the reward
• NPCs you assassinate are gone for the rest of the game, but will respawn once you complete the game and enter another cycle (once normal conditions are met for them to move to the Nexus). If you've killed Freke and Yuria you can no longer change your equipped Magic. If you kill Urbain you can no longer change your equipped Miracles. Once they are dead, you will have the same Magic and Miracles until you finish the game and beat Phalanx in the next cycle

If you kill Mephistopheles, she will drop the following:

• Parrying Dagger
• Epee Rapier
• Gold Mask
• Ring of the Accursed

Mephistopheles Location: Where to Find Mephistopheles

The Nexus, second floor using the outer staircase (ie. not the one with the Archstones).

To unlock:

• Kill Yurt, the Silent Chief.
• Must have Pure Black Character Tendency

Note: If you still can't see her, exit the Nexus and return. If you fulfill the requirements while you're inside the Nexus, Mephistopheles will not appear until you re-enter.

Assassination Sidequest and Rewards

1. Saint Urbain, Worshipper of God and Acolyte of God - Stone of Ephemeral Eyes.
2. Sage Freke and Freke's Apprentice - Stone of Ephemeral Eyes.
3. Patches, the Hyena - Colorless Demon's Soul.
4. Biorr, of the Twin Fangs - Colorless Demon's Soul.
5. Ostrava of Boletaria - Talisman of Beasts.
6. Yuria, the Witch - Foe's Ring.

Assassination Strategies

Many of the NPCs in the Nexus can easily be killed by casting normal spells (Poison Cloud works a treat) or using your melee weapon of choice. However, a few of them merit special attention:

General

• An easy way of killing everyone on the list as quick as possible is using the Clever Rat's Ring and Morion Blade  trick. Use your fastest weapon, that deals a lot of damage and keeps them locked in a combo. Straight Swords are good for this. You will do massive amounts of damage per hit and maybe kill them before they can react, if you have enough stamina. The only exceptions would be high hp characters like Ostrava, of Boletaria and Biorr, of the Twin Fangs.
• An easy way for magic users to kill everyone is call up Homing Soul Arrow and a sword with a strong thrust. Once you thrust, the Homing Soul Arrow will target. If your magic is high enough all five shots will hit. If they survive they shouldn't need more than Phalanx Archstone quick swings.
• All of the targets are vulnerable to Death Cloud, allowing you to simply cast the spell and wait if you have the patience or are simply having problems killing them. (Note: As you accept each assassination request the target will remain friendly until you attack them, however most simply do not notice if you use Death Cloud, except Ostrava who remains friendly until under 25% health. At which point he becomes hostile)
  For ranged assassinations use a mixture of the Clever Rat's Ring, Morion Blade, and Thief's Ring with a strong bow. Shoot once and the NPCs get up. They remain standing in place since they don't recognize an attacker. A second shot should kill them. Just remember to kill Urbain's and Freke's followers first, since they'll turn hostile if you defeat their respective masters.
• Every NPC can be killed in one hit using Soulsucker.

Delevel

Use Mephistopheles as an easy way to delevel. You can be soul sucked up to 4 times during your battle with her. This is most easily achieved if you keep within melee range of her with your shield up. Once you have blocked Phalanx Archstone of her attacks and she has staggered, she will usually pull out her catalyst and cast Soulsucker

When she pulls out her wand, keep your shield on her left shoulder. She will either dodge or strafe. If she dodges walk up and place your shield on her left shoulder again. If she strafes she is going to cast soul suck. If she leads you out on the edge by the staircases, back off. Let her follow you back into the upstairs room. She may roll/dodge from the ledge all the way down to the nexus ground floor. This will certainly kill her for the game cycle.

Mephistopheles Dialogue

Mephistopheles Notes, Tips, and Trivia

• Voiced by: Hannah McBride
• Named after a demon in German folklore, who serves to collect the souls of corrupt men.