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Vamos

Description

A skeletal blacksmith residing in the Catacombs. Specialized in fire enchantments.

Location

The Catacombs
At the end of the spiral staircase near the fourth Necromancer (who's guarding a switch), look below. You'll see an item glow, a Green Titanite Shard, on a corpse below. Drop down to it (don't roll, as you may overshoot and slip further down below and the fall damage might kill you). From the corpse, drop down to the broken wooden plank below, then enter the hole. After the cutscene, you can access Vamos' room from the Skeleton Wheel area.
In the Remastered version, a new bonfire has been added to the area, but it isn't recommended to rest at it early into the game, as it'll make the walk back to Firelink Shrine considerably more difficult.

Use

  • Can reinforce weapons using the appropriate Titanite.
  • Can ascend +5 Normal weapons to Fire weapons using Green Titanite shard.
  • Can ascend +5 Fire weapons to +6 Fire weapons if given a Large Flame Ember, found in the Demon Ruins, between the bonfire and Demon Firesage boss room.
  • Can ascend +5 Fire weapons to Chaos weapons if given a Chaos Flame Ember, found in the Demon Ruins, on the lava, guarded by many Taurus Demons.
  • Can repair any1 damaged equipment for souls. Cost depends on the equipment's soul-cost-per-durability ratio and the amount of durability repaired.
  • Opens another shortcut to the Skeleton Wheel area after his cutscene.

Sells

Item Soul Cost Description
Consumables
Homeward Bone 500 Sold by several other merchants. Sold cheaper by Hawkeye Gough2
Upgrade Materials
Titanite Shard 800 Cheapest price, along with several other merchants
Bonfire Items
Weapon Smithbox x1 2,000 Cheapest price, along with other merchants. Not available for purchase if already in your inventory
Armor Smithbox x1 2,000 Cheapest price, along with other merchants. Not available for purchase if already in your inventory
Repairbox x1 2,000 Cheapest price, along with other merchants. Not available for purchase if already in your inventory
Ammo
Wooden Arrow 3 Sold by other merchants. Cheapest arrows in the game
Standard Arrow 10 Sold by several other merchants. Only wooden arrows are cheaper
Large Arrow 50 Sold by several other merchants. More damage, but shorter range
Wood Bolt 10 Sold by several other merchants. Cheapest bolts in the game
Standard Bolt 30 Sold by several other merchants. Only wood bolts are cheaper
Heavy Bolt 100 Sold by several other merchants. More damage, but shorter range

Stats

Playthrough HP Souls
New Game 945 1,000
NG+ 1,916 4,000
NG+6 2,395 5,000

Drops

  • Hammer of Vamos
  • Royal Helm

Notes

  • If you answer "No" when he asks for any ember, he will keep asking the player the next time you start a conversation with him.
  • Be careful fighting the Bonewheel Skeletons in the area outside, they can come inside Vamos' room and kill him.
  • Like all other Skeletons, he receives bonus damage from Divine weapons.
  • This NPC has unused dialogue lines.

Dialogue

All dialogue text is © From Software Inc.

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  • First encounter
    • … Be gone with you!
      … You'll spoil my focus.
  • Greeting
    • … What's that, then? Need some smithing?
      Then produce me some wares!
  • If the player has the Large Flame ember
    • … Hmph? Why, is that…
      … An ember from New Londo…
      … And a fine ember it be…
      What do you say? Why not leave it with me?
      I'll give you a flame to feast your eyes upon.
      • Yes
        • Yes, yes, very well! We'll get these old bones to work!
          Keh heh heh!
      • No
        • Hmm, hmm, yes, yes, I see…
          Well, do not hesitate if you should change your mind…
  • If the player has the Chaos ember
    • … Hmph? What, that's…
      … an ember unlike any that I have seen…
      … a very curious pattern…
      … Could it be the flame of the legendary witch?
      … I know! Suppose you left that ember with me?
      Old Vamos would never let you down, no, not ever!
      • Yes
        • Keh heh heh heh heh!
          Yes, splendid, splendid indeed!
          … My, oh, my! You precious little thing…
      • No
        • Hmm, hmm… Fine, then…
          I doubt you'd even…bah, forget it…
          These bones won't fail me anytime soon.
          I'll come across another, eventually… Keh heh heh heh heh!
  • If the player has any other ember
    • … Hmph? Why, you have…
      … and ember, do you?
      Ahh, forget about it. I don't deal with that kind.
      What has gone wrong with embers these days?
  • Talk
    • … Hmph! I'm here to smith, not to chit chat.
    • … I've told you, I'm here for the trade, not for the talk!
    • Enough with your presence. It disturbs me.
    • Well, you are a persistent one, are you not?
      But I'm afraid I'm a mere blacksmith, it's just me and my trade.
      I would be of no help to a righteous warrior such as yourself.
    • If that'll be all, then be gone with you!
      … You'll spoil my focus.
  • If the player has killed the Gaping Dragon
    • I've told you, I have nothing to discuss…
      If I have anything to offer, it's my smithing, and nothing more.
      I'd be of more help with that ember from New Londo, of course…
      It's a shame the whole place was flooded…
  • If the player has killed the Gaping Dragon and Quelaag
    • I've told you, I have nothing to discuss…
      If I have anything to offer, it's my smithing, and nothing more.
      Ahh, unless I had the flame of that legendary witch…
      But that would require a visit to Lost Izalith. Impossible…
  • When leaving abruptly and returning
    • Now where've you gone?
      … You've got rotten manners.
      If it be smithing you need, the produce your wares.
  • When leaving without doing anything.
    • Well, what was that about?
      Don't be coming around here without a good reason!
  • When attacked without made hostile
    • Bah!
    • You rotten scoundrel!
  • When attacked and made hostile
    • Trying to cause trouble, are you?
      I am Vamos the blacksmith, and I'm no bag of bones!
  • When killed
    • Curses…

Video Vamos' dialogues

Voiced by: Daniel Flynn

Footnotes 1. Excluding weapons in Crystal upgrade path, Crystal Straight Sword, Crystal Greatsword, and Crystal Shield. 2. Additional Content only.
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