Elden Ring Caria Manor Walkthrough

Welcome to the Elden Ring Walkthrough for the Caria Manor region! Caria Manor is located at the north end of Liurnia Lake, behind the Academy. Going to Caria Manor is required to start the main steps leading to the Age of Stars ending of the game, so coming here relatively early can be helpful to start working on the ending early and pick up some useful items.

For all other regions refer to Elden Ring Walkthrough.

Caria Manor

Progression Order:

Northern Luirnia Lake Shore
Road to the Manor
Main Caria Manor Gate
Manor Lower Level
Manor Upper Level
Royal Knight Loretta
Royal Moongazing Grounds
Ranni’s Rise

Northern Liurnia Lake Shore

Head north of Raya Lucaria on the lakebed to make your way to Caria Manor. If you stop at the island on the map immediately north you can find the Sorcerer’s Isle site of grace, and it will be pointing you directly towards the path leading to the Manor.

Follow directly where the guidance is pointing you and you can find the Northern Liurnia Lake Shore site of grace.

Head immediately to the north and you can find the map stele for this area, awarding you the Map: Liurnia, West, and revealing the entire west side of Liurnia and where on the map you are heading.

Forward on the path you can find the Kingsrealm Ruins. There are some disappearing Noble enemies inside you can watch out for on your way through. Once you reach the back it appears there is a wall blocking the path, but its a fake wall and you can swing at it to drop it.

Just on the other side of the wall, you can find the next site of grace.

Road to the Manor

Go speak to Iji nearby, who introduces himself as a blacksmith. He can improve your weapons, and also sells an unlimited number of Somber Smithing Stone [1] & [2]. If you speak with him, he will also tell you about the dangers of going near the manner due to magical defenses, but you are going to ignore that advice.

Get on Torrent and start moving towards the manor and you will immediately see what the danger is; a number of glintstone bolts that rain down from the sky over and over.

An easy way to get by them and get to the manor is to immediately start running to towards the cliff to the left of the manor. When you reach the wall, you can follow it east towards the castle, and the bolts will normally be blocked by the cliff above or just land behind you as you progress. When you get close to the gate you will be kicked off Torrent, and will just need to run along the wall, moving left and right to avoid the bolts.

Once the reach the gate, the magic stops, and you will find the next site of grace.

Main Caria Manor Gate

The first area of the manor is a large courtyard, and you need to get to a nearby building to use it to reach the paths above. There is a path leading through the area that you enter on and will lead you around the outside of the courtyard, or you can just cut to the left through the tree area.

As you progress, make sure to watch out for all the Hand enemies crawling around. They will sometimes drop off the walls or appear out of the ground to try and grab you.

When you reach the northwest corner of the courtyard there are a set of stairs leading into a building.

Head inside to find the next site of grace.

Manor Lower Level

Now to continue you will be progressing across some stone bridges between the pillars in the courtyard. There are two paths you can take from the first pillar, going left or straight. Going straight is where you progress, but you should follow the left path first to grab a weapon.

As you progress along the path ghostly soldiers will appear to attack you. You can fight them if you want as you go, but be aware that a large number will eventually appear at once, so they’re generally easier to just run by.

Follow the left path, watching off the left side. There will be some buildings just below you. Walk onto the final bridge, then jump down to the large square building below.

Then drop down to the lower level to the north where you can find a ladder leading into the building.

Inside this building, you can find a chest, and inside this chest, you can find the Sword of Night and Flame. This is one of the legendary armaments and one of the best weapons in the game. Its unique weapon art allows you to basically shoot a magic laser from the sword.

You can go out the nearby door to get back to the courtyard, or just fast travel back to the Manor Lower Level site of grace. Then continue out onto the walkways again and go straight past the first pillar. Watch as you run across the long bridge, as soldiers will continually spawn as your progress, along with there being traps that appear when you go near the daggers sticking out of the ground.

Once you reach the end proceed into the next building, then take the elevator up to the next site of grace.

Manor Upper Level

This is the final area before reaching the area boss. Head outside and you will need to watch out for some large wolves that wander around the area along with some more Hand enemies. Head to the left off the stairs immediately to grab the nearby Golden Seed from the tree.

Follow the stone path up the stairs. Just ahead you should see a Troll, along with some Glintstone Scholars.

You can go in this front way to try and fight them head-on, or go to the left where you can spot a ladder nearby that leads up to the upper level.

Follow the steps up to the left, watching out for the couple of weak Noble enemies. You will end up on a platform just above the Troll and Scholars. You can try sneaking around to the left (though you will likely need to rush the boss room because of some more enemies on the stairs) or you can shoot at all the enemies from above with ranged weapons, as they can’t get up here.

Whether you deal with the Troll or not, you will need to proceed up the next set of stairs. Midway up the stairs, there be an enemy waiting on either side.

Deal with the enemy or run past them, then head through the gate ahead to enter the boss room.

Royal Knight Loretta

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Reward: Loretta’s Greatbow Sorcery, Ash of War: Loretta’ s Slash, 8000 Runes

Loretta is riding a horse and uses a long polearm as well as spells. They can either charge at you for a melee attack or use homing swords or a greatbow magic spell.

Keeping your distance as a spell user is a good tactic, or rolling through their melee attacks and then getting damage in during the openings. Loretta will sometimes summon a set of magic swords around themself, but don’t start trying to dodge them immediately. The swords have a delay after the spell is cast before they actually launch at you, so react to the start of their movement and not the spell casting itself.

After Loretta is defeated, you can interact with the site of grace immediately in the middle of the shallow pool.

Royal Moongazing Grounds

Head to the north where there is an open door that leads to the Three Sisters area.

There are three Rises (towers) in this area, shown on the map with the octagonal shapes at the ends of the paths. You want the make your way towards tower 2 (the middle one).

There is a dragon that walks up and down the path leading to the tower. You can fight it if you wish, or just sneak by to reach the tower. If you try fighting the dragon you won’t actually be able to kill it, it will disappear at about half health, so you’re likely better just ignoring it and going straight to the tower.

Head inside the tower and go to the third room to find the site of grace.

Ranni’s Rise

This large tower structure is Ranni’s Rise. If you remember from earlier in the game, you probably encountered Renna at Church of Elleh, where she gives the bell that allows you to summon spirit Ashes. You should continue up the stairs and elevator and speak with her at the top.

She’ll introduce her name fully, being called Ranni. She asks why you’re here, then asks if you want to serve her. This is the start of the questline leading to the Age of Stars story ending, so accept whatever she suggests of you. Speak to her once more, then she will ask you to speak with the other characters who work with her. Go back downstairs and you will need to meet with the apparitions of the three characters.

After they have been spoken to, go back up the tower and speak with Ranni once more. She asks you to go to Siofra River Well, where you will be meeting up with Blaidd. Once you finished speaking with her you are able to leave the area.

Continue with the next area Weeping Peninsula.