Confessor’s Keepsake is an Ability Tarstone you get by beating Tishina’s Confessor in Prisoners’ Domain, and it lets you spend 60 Resolve to charge your Sidearm for a single high-damage shot.
If you want a burst button for your Sidearm, this is the Tarstone to chase. Confessor’s Keepsake sits behind a miniboss on the way to the Executioner’s Pulpit beacon, and once it is slotted you can trade Resolve for a devastating charged shot that scales all the way up to 350% damage. Here is exactly where it drops, how to grab it, and how to get the most out of it.
- Mortal Shell 2 Confessor’s Keepsake details
- Where to find Confessor’s Keepsake in Mortal Shell 2
- How to get Confessor’s Keepsake in Mortal Shell 2
- Beating Tishina’s Confessor
- Confessor’s Keepsake effects and level scaling
- Best uses for the charged shot
- What opens after the Confessor fight
- Frequently Asked Questions
Mortal Shell 2 Confessor’s Keepsake details
| Detail | Answer |
|---|---|
| Type | Ability Tarstone |
| Area | Prisoners’ Domain (Fainweald) |
| Source | Defeat Tishina’s Confessor |
| Resolve cost | 60 per charged shot |
| Max scaling | 350% damage at Lv. 4 |
| Role | Sidearm burst / punish tool |
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Where to find Confessor’s Keepsake in Mortal Shell 2
Confessor’s Keepsake is a guaranteed drop from Tishina’s Confessor, the last miniboss inside the Prisoners’ Domain gate in Fainweald. You will run into it on the approach to the Executioner’s Pulpit beacon, so it is not tucked off in some optional side corridor — it sits on the critical path deeper into the region.
The cleanest waypoint is the Slumwater Drain beacon. From there you push through to the far end of the drain, where a lift carries you up to the arena. If you are working off beacons instead, both Slumwater Drain and Executioner’s Pulpit bracket the fight, so either one gets you close.
How to get Confessor’s Keepsake in Mortal Shell 2
Enter Prisoners’ Domain
Head through the Northwest gate in Fainweald to drop into the Prisoners’ Domain zone.
Make for Slumwater Drain
Work toward the Slumwater Drain beacon and push through to the end of the drain, where a lift is waiting.
Ride the lift up
The lift delivers you straight into Tishina’s Confessor’s arena, just short of the Executioner’s Pulpit beacon.
Take the optional wall shortcut
Back near the giant statue there is a path to the right with a marked wall — break it with a normal attack to skip much of the run.
Defeat Tishina’s Confessor
Defeat Tishina’s Confessor | BluBlu Gaming/YouTubeClear the scythe-wielding miniboss to end the encounter.
Collect the Tarstone
Grab the Confessor’s Keepsake from the reward, along with a large Gloom payout.
Beating Tishina’s Confessor
Tishina’s Confessor is a scythe-wielding miniboss, and most of its swings are parryable once you learn the rhythm — the patterns just take a few attempts to read. If parrying is not clicking, you can fall back on trading a hit and then creating space; that slower, spacing-first approach is perfectly valid here.
Your best damage window is a knockdown: stagger it to the ground and fire your Sidearm to pile on extra damage before it recovers. The kill also pays out a chunk of Gloom — current guides list roughly 5,664 Gloom, up from an older launch figure of 2,832, so treat the higher number as the one to plan around.
Confessor’s Keepsake effects and level scaling
| Level | Effect |
|---|---|
| Lv. 1 | Consume 60 Resolve to charge your Sidearm for a powerful shot |
| Lv. 2 | Charged shot deals 200% damage |
| Lv. 3 | Charged shot deals 300% damage |
| Lv. 4 | Charged shot deals 350% damage |
Slotted onto a compatible Sidearm, Confessor’s Keepsake spends Resolve to charge a single, extremely powerful shot. The base cost stays at 60 Resolve at every level, and what improves as you rank it up is the multiplier on that charged shot.
Key Like every Tarstone, this one can be leveled up to four times. To unlock enhancement you first need the Etching Needle, then hand it to Franz at Marrow Keep — after that, keeping the Tarstone equipped and racking up kills feeds it the EXP it needs to climb toward each next level. The August 20 Balance Patch 1 adjusted the game’s overall Tarstone economy, but it does not list any change to Confessor’s Keepsake’s own damage multipliers.
Best uses for the charged shot
This is a burst tool, not a spammable one. At 60 Resolve a pop, the charged shot is money against openings you create yourself — a staggered enemy, a downed miniboss, or any punish window where one big hit does more than a string of chip damage. Save it for those moments rather than firing it on cooldown.
It fits best on shotgun-style Sidearms, where the front-loaded burst turns a knockdown into a huge damage swing, especially once it is upgraded toward the 350% ceiling. The catch is Resolve management: if you are already leaning on Resolve for other actions, plan your charged shots around when you can actually afford them, because a mistimed 60-Resolve dump in a long fight stings.
Hold the charged shot for knockdowns and punish windows — at 60 Resolve each, it earns its cost far more against a downed enemy than as a poke.
What opens after the Confessor fight
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Confessor’s Keepsake missable?
No. It is a guaranteed reward from Tishina’s Confessor, and that miniboss sits on the main route through Prisoners’ Domain rather than behind an optional detour, so you will pick it up simply by progressing the region.
Which Sidearms can use Confessor’s Keepsake?
It works with the Forgotten Crossbow, Naylshotte, Cursed Child, and Ballistazooka. Slot it on any other Sidearm and the charged-shot effect will not trigger.
Is Confessor’s Keepsake worth upgrading?
Yes, if you lean on Sidearm burst. Ranking it up more than doubles the charged shot’s damage on the way to 350%, and because it gains EXP from kills while equipped, it strengthens passively as you play once you have unlocked Tarstone enhancement.
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