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Micolash, Host of the Nightmare is one of two bosses in the Nightmare of Mensis/Mergo's Loft area. Gain two Insight for finding him and two for killing him. Activates the Mergo's Loft Middle Lamp
Special Notes: Arianna will disappear from Oedon Temple, if you put her there. She will appear in the tunnel between the Tomb of Oedon Lamp and the Cathedral Ward Lamp.
Lore:
Micolash was an old student of Byrgenwerth, one of the group led by Laurence, the First Vicar, that left to form the Healing Church after finding Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos. He either discovered her with Laurence when they found her in the Chalice Dungeons or later met her through the Healing Church. While in the Healing Church, Micolash formed his own sect, the School of Mensis, that would late become more and more separated from the Church due to their disapproval of his experiments. This forced Micolash to move his experiments and school to Yahar'gul, the Unseen Village to continue his work in privacy and without interruption. Their work was very similar to that of the Byrgenwerth Scholars, aimed solely at summoning a Great One. Unfortunately, they were unsuccessful until the death of Rom, the Vacuous Spider, which removed the barrier between humans and the Lesser Amygdalas, leading to the deaths or mutations of all in Yahar'gul while their consciousnesses were moved to the Nightmare of Mensis. There, many were still transformed, although Micolash remained in his human form although now insane.
References and Dialogue:
-"Aah Kos, or some say Kosm. Do you hear our prayers? We should not abandon the Dream. No one can catch us, no one can stop us now. Ooh! A hunter is a hunter even in a dream. But, alas, not too fast! The nightmare swirls and churns unending! As you once did for the vacuous Rom. Grant us eyes, grant us eyes. Plant eyes on our brains to cleanse our beastly idiocy. The grand lake of mud, hidden now, from sight. The cosmos, of course! Let us sit about, and speak feverishly. Chatting into the wee hours..new ideas, of the higher plane! Now I'm waking up, I'll forget everything." Micolash, Host of the Nightmare
-His skeletal body can be found in Yahar'gul sitting in the chair in the middle of a lecture room. The bodies of his students will be surrounding him.
-Micolash is responsible for the summoning of Mergo's Wet Nurse and is knowledgeable of several more Great Ones: Kos, Ebrietas, Rom, and possibly the Moon Presence, as he seems aware of the Hunter's Dream.
-Like the Nightmare Frontier, the Nightmare of Mensis is linked to the Byrgenwerth Lecture Building.
-The One Reborn is a result of the experiments in Yahar'gul. The mutated people there are similar to the students of Byrgenwerth, transformed by the creation of Rom.
-Edgar, Choir Intelligencer, appears to have been in Yahar'gul at the time of the experiments, investigating Micolash, but was instead transported to the Nightmare of Mensis after the successful ritual.
-Micolash appears jealous of Rom's transcendence and only seems to want to continue his life in order to remember all that he has learned and edge ever closer to the Great Ones.
Description:
A man wearing a Mensis Cage and a tattered Byrgenwerth Student's Uniform. He is quite visibly insane and laughs maniacally during his dialogue.
Location:
From the Nightmare of Mensis Lamp, run up the hill to the left past the Silverbeasts. You will enter a building where spiders will drop down from the ceiling. Continue to the back of the room and head up the stairs to the right past the bridge and Edgar, Choir Intelligencer. You will enter another building; head down the staircase directly in front of you and keep heading down. There will be a room missing floors dead ahead, move across that room carefully and then take the elevator in the back up. Go to the right after exiting the elevator room past the Dog/Crows and up the stairs. Enter the building next to the pair of elevators and cross the bridge. A short cutscene will play as you run into the next room signalling the boss fight.
Combat:
-Weak to Fire and Bolt
Micolash's arena is a foggy labyrinth of staircases and rooms. Ethereal Walkers (puppets) will appear in almost every hallway and they can deal a significant amount of damage. The second half of the arena only becomes available when Micolash is at half health. There will be a spiral staircase guarded by Crossbow Mannequins (tinmen) leading to the second level. The second level is almost an exact replica of the first except there are several holes in the floor to drop down in.
First stage:
Micolash will appear randomly within his course in the first part of the arena. Lock on to him and chase him and he will lead you to a small room with two puppets. In this stage, he will only do two attacks: a shove (s) and the Augur of Ebrietas (h/st), which while not the heaviest hitting attack he can do it can stagger you or kill you if he does them in quick succession. He will shove his palm towards you while throwing back his head and glowing blue.
Second Stage:
Micolash will "die" at half health. At this point run up the stairs into the second half of the arena. There are a few things that he can do at this point: he can run upstairs and then down a short flight of stairs and drop down through a hole in the wall, or he can run all the way upstairs and jump into a mirror. He will run out of the mirror in the same room as he would drop down through. Pick up the Iron Door Key next to the mirror he initially went through if you plan to drop down. If you drop down then you will chase him for a short distance before an iron door will slam down. Run back up the stairs until you are at a balcony with a lamp across a chasm. Go to the right side of the balcony and there is a small staircase leading down and there will be a hole where you can drop down again and fight Micolash. He will be below and will gain one A.O.E. attack, a Call Beyond (h). He will raise his fists above his head and glow blue before crushing something in his hands that will shower glowing lights in a circle around him.
Drops:
-48,400 Blood Echoes
-Mensis Cage
Tips and Tricks:
-You can catch up to him and attack him while he is running but this will cause him to disappear and reappear at random points on his course.
-Never run up to him from the front, always dodge to the side while approaching him to avoid the Augur of Ebrietas attack.
-There are only two instances that you will be running down stairs. If you are going downstairs and it doesn't end in a room with a hole in the middle with Micolash VISIBLY in it, then you are going the wrong way. Head upstairs again.
-Lock on to him and just run after him around for the first chase. Killing the Puppets in the arena can help make the chase more tolerable without wasting Blood Vials.
-At the three points where Micolash will be waiting in a room below you, there are two that are the easiest to cheese him in. If he runs straight to the room and drops down, throw two poison knives and allow him to run it off and throw another two. Do this until he dies. If you run out, Molotovs will take out about 170 HP each time but be mindful not to fall down with the forward momentum from throwing them. Simon's Bowblade is very helpful as well but the charged R2 will not work in bow form, so just R1.
-If he jumps through the mirror, you can alternate between hitting him with projectiles in the room and running up the stairs to the original mirror and attacking it as he can take damage through it. Alternately, drop down after him and allow the door to slam down and then go upstairs and grab the Iron Door Key. Run up the stairs until you reach the balcony separated from a Lamp on the other side and go to the room on the right and shoot him from there. He will behave less erratically if shot at in this room.
-Another alternative, if you know which room he drops down in is to stay outside the room and hit him with projectiles that way.
-If you do choose to follow him from the get go, it is possible to stop the gate from slamming by doing a plunge attack. He will then fight you in that room and will be able to do a Call Beyond.
-If you choose to fight him one on one, a heavy weapon is best to stunlock him to keep him from using a Call Beyond. You can also use the Loch Shield and wear the Blindfold Cap and Church Garb for the Arcane defense.
-The best weapon to cheese this fight is Simon's Bowblade as his AI requires you to be a certain distance from him in order to continue. So you can stand back and shoot him to death with R1's as the charged R2 won't work.
-Parrying with a gun doesn't seem very effective to induce visceral attacks, but a Charged R2 behind him will.
-In Co-op, you can have someone physically block the door in order to allow the other person to give chase and attack. For the first stage block the hallway leading to the room that you would typically fight in. For the second stage block the hallway leading to the hole that he drops down through.
-You can roll through the A.O.E. blast of a Call Beyond if timed correctly.
Glitch:
-Micolash can become stuck in the back corner of the room and will fall out of the arena.1:10
-Micolash can become "stuck" in the mirrors.
-Micolash can trap you in the gated room. Link
Damage Indicator:
Slight damage (s)
Moderate Damage (m)
Heavy Damage (h)
Stun (st)
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