Queen's Domain: All Flesh Faces Locations & Removal Guide

What Flesh Faces Are

After you defeat the Necronomicon, the Tower of Knowledge's boss, it drops the Acid Vial. The game does not ask you anything — it automatically coats your basic throwing daggers with acid. From that point on, acid daggers are the only throw in the game that destroys the moaning flesh faces embedded in the flesh growths around the tower. Players call the growths "face pimples," and each patch of flesh holds one or more faces.

Two properties matter when hunting them:

• Faces moan when you are close. Listen while you walk — audio is the fastest way to find a patch you have not cleared.
• A patch only melts when all of its faces are dead. Killing one face in a three-face patch does nothing visible until the last one pops.

The flesh is not optional scenery. The Necronomicon's boss room is sealed by flesh when the fight ends, and you leave it by throwing acid daggers at the faces inside it. The flesh next to Budaen's cage blocks the passage out of the tower toward Deimpo Mausoleum, and the tower's basement flesh gates the red treasure vault and the drop into the Forgotten Dungeon. If you are following the main progression route in our walkthrough, the game expects this cleanup to happen right after the boss.

How to Get the Acid Vial (Prerequisite)

You cannot remove any flesh face before beating the Necronomicon. The fight takes place in the Forbidden Archives, behind the golden doors the Forbidden Archives Key opens — that key is given by the dying knight Budaen, caged in the room where the library books are shelved. The Necronomicon is a flesh-bound book that hangs out of reach and fires status effects; fight it from range with daggers, piercing daggers, or the Occult Knife, and stay away when it transforms into its goat-headed Necrotic Baphomet form. Beating it unlocks the Hell Transcribed achievement and hands you the Acid Vial.

For the full sequence of switches, the numbered gargoyle puzzle (light only gargoyles III and VII), and the book order puzzle, see our puzzles guide.

Flesh Face Locations Checklist

The game does not track how many faces you have killed, and as of November 2026 no guide we found publishes a verified total count of individual faces. What is documented — and what the Sparkling Clean achievement actually requires — is clearing every flesh patch in the Tower of Knowledge. Here are the patches players have mapped:

Tips that keep the cleanup short:

• Missing one face? Switch to the Occult Knife. It homes in on faces that are still alive, even though it cannot kill them — throw it and watch where it flies.
• Stock up before the basement. Keep acid daggers slotted around the tower until every face is gone; they have no other use, so there is no reason to save them.
• The basement is worth it. The Blood vault behind the basement flesh holds the Rusted Greatsword and Spirit Oil, and the Forgotten Dungeon below is a full optional area — though players who went there immediately after the tower found it far harder than the main route.

What You Get for Clearing Everything

• Sparkling Clean — the achievement for cleaning the Tower of Knowledge.
• Progression: the Budaen flesh wall is the only way to Deimpo Mausoleum on foot, where the Mask of Second Sight, Puwema's Lens, and the fourth Wind Gem wait.
• Optional loot: the basement flesh hides the Blood-tier vault (Blood Key Stone required) and the entrance to the Forgotten Dungeon.

The flesh faces do not respawn once a patch is melted, so this is a one-time cleanup — nothing in New Game Plus or the endings requires returning to them. For how the tower fits into the wider collectible hunt, see the collectibles overview, and for the tower's other secrets (the Storm Gem, the god book in Rare Artifact Storage), see the puzzles guide.