Elden Ring Points of Interest

Armor

In Elden Ring you can find many pieces of Armor divided into categories such as Helms, Chest Armor, Gauntlets, and Leg Armor. They grant protections, resistances, and various bonus effects against damage and status effects.

Ashes of War

Ashes of War in Elden Ring are special items which allow you to change the skills and affinities of your equipment (Weapons & Shields). Not all weapon skills are compatible with every type of equipment and glintstone staffs, sacred seals, and unique weapons cannot be customized with Ashes of War.

Bell Bearings

Bell Bearings in Elden Ring are special key items that can be turned in to specific NPCs (Twin Maiden Husks at Roundtable Hold) to unlock new purchasable items.

Braziers

Braziers are special items you come across while exploring the game world available in the Elden Ring, which need to be lit in order to solve a puzzle and, for example, open a passage to a previously inaccessible area, etc.

Catacombs

Catacombs are one of the dungeon types available in Elden Ring. In each of the dungeons of this type, the main boss is located in a room behind a large and heavy door locked by some contraption.

Caves

Caves are one of the location types available in Elden Ring.

Celestial Dew

Celestial Dew allows you to carry out an Absolution at the Church of Vows, reversing all antagonizations.

Churches

Churches are one of the location types available in Elden Ring. In a lot of churches you can find Sacred Tears, special items that will allow you to improve the potency of your sacred flasks (Crismon and Cerulean). The dragon altars / shrines, which you can find in the Church of Dragon Communion or Cathedral of Dragon Communion, will allow you to use the Dragon Hearts that you will get during your travels.

Containers

Containers required for crafting cracked pot / ritual pot / perfume items.

Cookbooks

Cookbooks in Elden Ring are items that provide knowledge on how to make certain items, such as ammunition or consumables.

Crafting Materials

Crystal Tears

Crystal Tears can be mixed at sites of grace to create various custom effects inside the Flask of Wondrous Physick.

Deathroots

You can collect a total of 9 Deathroots. The deathroots you acquired can be exchanged for various items at Gurranq Beast Clergyman's.

Dragon Hearts

Dragon Hearts can be traded at the Church of Dragon Communion or Cathedral of Dragon Communion for dragon-based incantations.

Enemies

Significant opponents who will stand in your way while exploring the game world available in Elden Ring.

Evergaols

Evergaols are large stone circles indented into the ground, always surrounded by "stone ball enemies" that explode if you don't kill them fast enough. When you interact with a glowing spot in the center of the Evergaol, you will be brought to another dimension and after a while you'll be able to fight a boss trapped inside.

Forts

Forts are one of the location types available in Elden Ring.

Gateways

Gateways are one of the location types available in Elden Ring.

Gestures

Gestures in Elden Ring are basically emotes. They are a useful tool to express yourself to other players. Up to six of them can be bound to a shortcut menu. Certain gestures must be used in certain places to unlock secret passages, etc.

Golden Seeds

Golden Seeds are special items that allow you to increase the number of charges of your sacred flasks (Flasks of Crimson Tears / Flasks of Cerulean Tears). With a few exceptions, you'll find seeds near small golden erdtrees.

Grand Lifts

The Grand Lifts, and there are two of them in total, allow you to enter new lands as long as you have acquired the necessary items to operate them.

Heroes' Graves

Heroes' Graves are one type of dungeons that can be explored in Elden Ring. There are five available in total. As in the other dungeons, you will eventually find a boss room at the end of each hero's grave. Explore each of the graves thoroughly as they have many well hidden rooms where you can find more valuable items.

Incantations

Incantations are a type of magic in Elden Ring. Incantation spells are often dependent on the faith, and are cast using a sacred seal or similar catalyst.

Info / Lore Items

Key Items

Larval Tears

Larval Tears are special key items in Elden Ring. They are a material needed by Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon to grant rebirth meaning that Larval Tears are used to Respec your character.

Legendary Materials

Locations

Different kinds of named locations that we can visit while exploring the game world available in Elden Ring.

Map Fragments

Map Fragments are needed to uncover new regions on your map of the open game world available in the Elden Ring.

Mausoleums

Memory Stones

Memory Stones increase the number of your memory slots, allowing you to memorize more spells - sorceries and incantations.

Merchants

Merchants are various NPCs that you may meet during your journey through the game world of Elden Ring. You will be able to buy certain items from them and also sell them goods and resources that you no longer need. The currency you will use for trading are runes.

Minor Erdtrees

Miquella's Crosses

Miquella's Crosses are central to the narrative progression and there are a total of 13 of them. The vast majority of them can be found right next to one of the sites of grace. Each one of Miquella's Crosses is a source of one of the Scadutree Fragments.

NPCs

Other NPCs who are not merchants.

Other

Paintings

Paintings are one of the secrets you will encounter in Elden Ring. Each painting that you find depicts some place located somewhere in the game world. When you manage to find the place depicted in the painting, you will meet a ghost there. When you get close to it, it will disappear, but it will leave behind an item as a reward for solving the puzzle.

Various Places

All sorts of places that you will mostly end up in after using any of the portals or where there are passages to other regions, etc.

Portals

Various types of objects, etc., which, after interacting with them, will relocate you into a new, mostly reachable only in this way, region of the game world.

Prayerbooks

Prayerbooks contain new incantations. To be able to learn / buy these incantations you have to deliver the books to a learned cleric, for example to Brother Corhyn or Miriel, Pastor of Vows.

Regions

The main regions that we visit while exploring the game world available in Elden Ring.

Remembrances

Remembrances in Elden Ring are the consumable items that grant various powers. Remembrance can either be traded for a substantial amount of runes or handed to Finger Reader Enia in Roundtable Hold to unlock its powers: weapons, sorceries, incantations, etc.

Revered Spirit Ashes

Revered Spirit Ash can be found across the realm of shadow. Consume this Ash at sites of grace to bolster your Revered Spirit Ash Blessing.

Riddle Elements

Various types of items, objects, etc., the finding of which is needed to solve the puzzles available in the game.

Rises

Rises are one of the location types available in Elden Ring.

River Wells

River Wells are places where there are elevators that connect the outdoor world and the underground.

Ruins

Ruins are one of the types of locations that you can visit in Elden Ring. A common feature of these places is that they always have a cellar that we should get to. Be aware that sometimes the entrance to the cellar will be hidden, for example disguised with an illusion, or you will need a Stonesword Key to remove the seal that prevents access.

Sacred Tears

Sacred Tears are special items that will allow you to improve the potency of your sacred flasks. You can use them to increase the amount of HP/FP replenished by your flasks. You will come across them during your travels while visiting different Churches.

Scadutree Fragments

Scadutree Fragments can be found across the realm of shadow. Consume these at sites of grace to bolster your Scadutree Blessing.

Secret Passages

Shacks

Shacks are one of the location types available in Elden Ring.

Shadow Realm Runes

Shadow Realm Runes are consumable items found in the Realm of Shadow. They can be consumed to add runes to your current total, which can then be used to level up or purchase items.

Shields

Sites of Grace

Sites of Grace are save / respawn points in Elden Ring. They also serve as fast travel points. In order to use a site of grace, you must first reach it and activate it.

Sorceries

Sorceries are a type of magic in Elden Ring. Sorcery spells are often dependent on the intelligence and they are cast using a staff or similar catalyst.

Spirit Ashes

Spirit Ashes in Elden Ring are spirit companions that can aid you in combat. You must be near a rebirth monument to summon spirits from ashes. When you are close to one of these monuments and able to summon a spirit, a monument icon will appear on the left side of your screen.

Spiritsprings

Jump while on horseback near a spiritspring to ride its current high into the air. You won't take damage from jumping into a spiritspring while on horseback, even from a great height.

Starlight Shards

Starlight Shards are consumable items that can be used to gradually recover FP but they can also be used to buy two spirit ashes: Jarwight Puppet and Finger Maiden Therolina Puppet from Preceptor Seluvis.

Stonesword Keys

The Stonesword Keys are special key items in Elden Ring. These keys can be used to break the imp statue seals in order to access the secret areas hidden behind them. These keys are single-use items.

Talismans

Talismans in Elden Ring are accessories which can be equipped to acquire a variety of offensive, defense, or utility effects. You can increase the number of Talisman Equip Slots by obtaining Talisman Pouches.

Tools

Tools in Elden Ring are special items that, when used, will cause a certain effect. Some of them are single-use / consumable, but a large part of them are reusable tools.

Towers

Towers are one of the location types available in Elden Ring.

Tunnels

Tunnels are one of the location types available in Elden Ring.

Vertical Passages

Ladders and elevators by which you can move vertically. Occasionally, in order to use a particular elevator or ladder, you will need to approach it for the first time from the correct side and unblock / unlock it.

Walking Mausoleums

Walking Mausoleums look like giant stone "turtles" moving on giant stone legs. In order for the mausoleum to become accessible, you must destroy enough white/gray skull-like deposits located on the legs or along the mausoleum's main platform. To get to the latter, you must find a way to jump onto the mausoleum.

Weapons

In Elden Ring you can find many different types of weapons with which you will be able to eliminate enemies that stand in your way. There will be some particularly powerful legendary weapons among them.

Whetstone Knives

Whetstone Knife and Whetblades in Elden Ring are unique items that unlock the option of adding Ashes of War as well as different affinities to weapons and shields. There is one 'basic' whetstone knife and five whetblades available in the game. They can be used to change a weapon's affinity when adjusting their Ash of War at a Site of Grace.