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Vestiges in Lords of the Fallen

Vestiges act as special checkpoints in Lords of the Fallen. Players will find them throughout the game, and they serve plenty of purposes. They allow players to rest, level up, create a multiplayer match, and even warp to another previously activated Vestige. 

Note that resting at a vestige will respawn all normal enemies.

Lords of the Fallen Vestige Seedlings

Similar to Vestiges, Vestige Seedlings act as temporary checkpoints for you to rest at, level up and warp to other Vestiges. The main difference these have to Vestiges is that you can create these checkpoints at certain areas yourself and that only one may be up at any time.

To create a Vestige Seedling, you must first have at least one Vestige Seed in your inventory, after which you'll have to find an Umbral Flowerbed. Your Umbral Lamp vibrates and emits a special color when close to an Umbral flowerbed. When positioned on an Umbral Flowerbed, select your Umbral Lamp by pressing down on the d-pad, raise it with L2/LT, and hold  Δ/Y to grow a Vestige Seedling. You only have a limited number of Vestige Seeds at your disposal, so be mindful about which Umbral Flowerbeds will be the most useful to you in your run.

Dying in Lords of the Fallen

Lords of the Fallen also introduces an interesting death mechanic relating to the Axiom and Umbral. When dying while in the Axiom, players are granted a 'second life', respawning to full health and creating a small explosion around them. Dying this way fittingly transports them into the Umbral. If you die in the Umbral though, whether or not you've used your 'second life' or willingly entered the Umbral using your lamp, you'll respawn back at your last visited Vestige or Vestige Seedling in the Axiom and will drop all your Vigor at your place of death.

The Axiom & Umbral in Lords of the Fallen

Lords of the Fallen features a 'dimension-hopping' mechanic between the realm of the living, known as Axiom, and the realm of the dead, referred to as the Umbral. Getting to the Umbral is easy enough, simply spend a charge of your Umbral Lamp and you'll find yourself in the same spot you were when in the Axiom, but this time within the Umbral. Exiting the Umbral and getting back to the Axiom is another story, however. To do so, you'll have to return to a Vestige or Vestige Seedling and rest at it, or find Emergence Effigies within the Umbral that take you back without resetting enemies.

While in the Umbral, you will slowly accumulate a status called Umbral Dread. You can gauge how much Umbral Dread you've accumulated by looking at the thin white ring around the blinking eye on the right of your screen, just underneath your Vigor count. Having high Dread causes you to experience deadly hallucinations, some of which will come into existence. Despite this drawback, you'll also have an increasing Vigor multiplier as you accumulate Dread, giving you ideal conditions to farm for more Vigor should you run low on it, or lose them upon death. Do be careful of maxing out your Umbral Dread, however, as at maximum Dread a powerful reaper-like enemy called the Scarlet Shadow will appear to hunt you down. At lower levels, players will struggle to hold their own against it, but later on, defeating it may grant the player handsome rewards.