I always thought I had the naked black keep run down to an art, Left left right(towards the light) then the rest are just lefts get the key, turn around and keep going back left, grab the recipe jump over into the water exit dungeon.
I wouldnt really call my style speedrun I just like to go fast though on official
And that area is the most confusing area to go through. Can’t imagine just how many times I got momentarily lost in the Black Keep. But I usually go with visual cues for myself and generally have a good idea of where I’m at when I’m in there.
The speedruns I watched skipped the black keep. I’ve seen them go straight for legendaries, as soon as possible, especially the big crocs.
I think stone daggers are OP because of this! 
99% of it is just going left, so once you learn the single right turn its pretty easy, used to get lost a ton myself until I worked that out
Those are Any% Civilized runs you’re talking about there. The croc fight takes about 15 minutes to do and I’m trying to either make it easier or try to get rid of it all together to no success. The alternative to this would be called New Game Plus. A run where you can play through the content with whatever armor, weapon, thralls, mounts, and pets to help you through this. It’s more dev intended than the New Game speedruns.
Looks like a couple folks were intent on running this topic into the ground with unconstructive commentary. Cleaned up some posts.
Thank you. I did get a world record run in Any% Custom category and I’ll post it as soon as I put it up on YouTube and speedrun.com.
Heck yeah, I’d love to see that. Any% speedruns are some of my favorite performances to watch honestly 
Here’s my latest world record!
This has definitely sparked my interest since I am a fan of watching speedruns (though usually NES). Hopefully this gets some more hype and interest.
I hope so too. Trying to build this community the best that I can.
This month, aside from practicing my run, I’ll be running the dungeons. If there’s any dungeon you guys want to see done fast, let me know.
The sunken city would probably give you the most time variance between runs due to all the swimming and the end mobs.
Finishing fast one dungeon is a very general view of it. If you try to finish dungeons with the same settings you use on your speed run I personally wouldn’t bother to watch it, I see no challenge in it. But finishing dungeons at least decadent difficulty solo, this would intrigue me. This is a really skilled challenge, for any dungeon in exile lands.
Oh, it won’t be custom. It will be on civilized. Completely on civilized. I should have made that clear in my prior post. 
The difficulty doesn’t entirely matter except if the runner wants to make the boss more harder or not. I can do decadent if most people would prefer.
I’ll be getting my laptop charger tomorrow. Planning on speedrunning the dungeons once and for all. I’ll do it on decadent with a decent amount of armor, weapons, thralls, and appropriated skill points. It’ll be fun!
Are there any specific miscelaneous categories you want to see done in the game? These won’t be the main categories obviously. I already put up Stock but I am still trying to figure out how to not have the difficulty attached to it. I was thinking maybe a Conan% speedrun where you go from start to all the way to Conan. I was also thinking about an All Emotes run where you have to find all the emote trainers around the map. If there’s anymore you want to see, then let it be heard. I want full versatility when speedrunning the game.
All obelisks would be an obvious one
Discover all named locations could be interesting as it would depend heavily on path and horse/on foot combination
I got All Obelisks and All Named Locations. I think All Named Locations could be extremely long as there’s a lot of out of the way places people don’t normally go to. This will include all camps, caves, dungeons, and other notable locations.