Where is Cornifer in Queen's Gardens?
Central Queen's Gardens. Use the secret passage from mid Fog Canyon, go left, then drop to the bottom of the next room and head right.
Missed him? Every Cornifer location and what Iselda charges instead.
The Queen's Gardens are beautiful and deeply irritating to traverse. Spinning thorn wheels patrol the corridors, acid pools fill the lower routes, and the Mantis Traitors hit far harder than the mantises in the Fungal Wastes. You can enter from Fog Canyon in the north, from the Deepnest side in the south, or from the far west of Greenpath.
Cornifer is in the central part of the gardens. Come through the secret passage from the middle of Fog Canyon, continue left, then drop to the bottom of the next room and go right. The map is 150 Geo from Cornifer, 200 from Iselda, tying with Fog Canyon as the most expensive. The gardens loop back on themselves constantly, so unlike Fog Canyon, this one is worth paying for on your first visit.
Traitor Lord is the boss, in an arena in the east. He is a huge mantis with a long dash and a slam, and the fight is a pure spacing test with very little room to heal. Beating him opens the path to the White Lady, who gives you the Queen's Fragment, one of the two halves of the Kingsoul. That makes this area mandatory for the true ending and for 112 percent.
Also here: the Love Key, which opens the Tower of Love in the City of Tears and the Collector fight with its three grubs. Marmu is a Warrior Dream in the north. There are two grubs, a Whispering Root, the Queen's Gardens Stag Station in the west, and a hot spring near the White Lady. Isma's Tear makes the whole area much easier, because most of the awkward lower routes are acid.
If you are doing a completion run, do the Queen's Gardens after the Royal Waterways and after you have the Monarch Wings. The thorn corridors near the Traitor's Grave are brutal without a double jump, and the acid shortcuts turn a maze into a straight line.
Places inside Queen's Gardens
- White Lady's chamber
- Traitor's Grave
- Queen's Gardens Stag Station
- Hot spring
- Marmu's alcove
Tips
- Come with Isma's Tear and Monarch Wings. The acid routes and thorn corridors are much shorter with both.
- Traitor Lord has almost no safe healing windows. Bring Quick Slash or Shape of Unn.
- The White Lady gives the Queen's Fragment, half of the Kingsoul.
- Pick up the Love Key here. It opens the Tower of Love and the Collector in the City of Tears.
- This map ties with Fog Canyon as the most expensive at 150 Geo from Cornifer.
- The hot spring near the White Lady is a free full heal before the Traitor Lord run.
All 16 locations in Queen's Gardens
Benches (3)
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Near the Fungal Wastes entrance
A Toll Machine locks this bench until you pay it. It saves a long walk back from the Traitor Lord.
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Queen's Gardens Stag Station
Shares the platform room with the stag, in the middle of the Gardens.
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In front of the Pale King statue
On the west side of the Gardens in front of a statue of the Pale King, close to the overgrown route down into Deepnest.
Stag Stations (1)
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Central Queen's Gardens
Sits with its bench in the middle of the Gardens. The Last Stag has barely ever been here.
Cornifer (1)
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North Queen's Gardens
In the upper Gardens not far from the entrance out of the Fungal Wastes. His map costs 150 Geo and Iselda asks 200.
Grubs (3)
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Central Queen's Gardens, near the Stag Station
Sits in the open close to the Gardens Stag Station. No ability is needed.
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North Queen's Gardens, below the Greenpath border
Climb with the Mantis Claw, super dash with the Crystal Heart and finish with the Monarch Wings or a nail-bounce.
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West Queen's Gardens
Wall-jump up with the Mantis Claw to reach the jar.
Whispering Roots (1)
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North-east Queen's Gardens
Among the vines in the north-east of the Gardens.
Relics (1)
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North-west of the Stag Station
Up and left from the Gardens Stag Station, past the thorn vines.
Charms (1)
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White Lady's root chamber, north west Queen's Gardens
Slowly builds Soul while you stand still and is the key to the true ending. The White Lady here gives the first White Fragment; the second is taken from the Pale King's body at the end of the White Palace, and the two halves then merge automatically.
Keys and Items (1)
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South-east Queen's Gardens
On a large Husk Dandy corpse above the path back to the Fungal Wastes, guarded by a pair of Mantis Traitors. Isma's Tear is needed to retrieve it. The key unlocks the Tower of Love.
Bosses (1)
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Traitors' hall, upper Queen's Gardens
A huge Mantis traitor with enormous reach and a heavy jumping slam. Shade Cloak through his sweeps, attack from behind after the slam, and Sharp Shadow makes the fight much faster. His arena sits beyond a Shade Gate.
Warrior Dreams (1)
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Sealed alcove west of the Stag Station, Queen's Gardens
A curled up ball that bounces around the room and picks up speed. Pogo on top of her to stay safe and control her bounce, and never stand under a rebound.
NPCs and Shops (1)
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Root chamber past the Traitor Lord, north west Queen's Gardens
The Pale King's queen, rooted in place beyond the Traitor Lord. She gives you the White Fragment of the Kingsoul and reacts to the Dream Nail, the Pale King's fate and the Grimmchild.
Secrets and Lore (1)
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Vine covered cave above the Queen's Gardens Stag Station
The grave of the Traitor Lord's daughter, where you deliver the Grey Mourner's Delicate Flower. The flower wilts if you take any damage, dash into anything or rest on a bench, so route through the Gardens carefully.
