Elden Ring Leyndell, Ashen Capital Walkthrough

Welcome to the Elden Ring Walkthrough for the Leyndell, Ashen Capital region! After defeating Maliketh in Crumbling Faram Azula, you are automatically transported to this location. This is the Royal Capital from before but covered in ash from the burning of the Erdtree. All prior items inside the main city area are now lost, so if you missed anything prior you will need to pick it up in a new playthrough or get it from another player. Your only real objective now is returning to the Erdtree to enter inside and face the final boss of the game.

For all other regions refer to Elden Ring Walkthrough.

Leyndell, Ashen Capital

Progression Order:

Leyndell, Capital of Ash
Sir Gideon Ofnir, the All-Knowing
Erdtree Sanctuary
Queen’s Bedchamber
Godfrey, First Elden Lord [2] & Hoarah Loux, Warrior
Elden Throne
Radagon of the Golden Order & Elden Beast
Fractured Marika

Leyndell, Capital of Ash

After defeating Maliketh in Crumbling Faram Azula, you are automatically transported back to Leyndell, which is now covered in ash from the burning of the Erdtree. You will be placed right beside a new site of grace in the center of the area.

The lower city area is basically all destroyed or covered in ash, so most items in it are lost, and there aren’t any more enemies here. Though you are still able to get to the Underground area using a large manhole that is now open in the middle of the main road leading to the new closed gate.

Your main goal now is to continue back to the Erdtree, to go inside now that the thorns are burned. The only way in now is heading to the southwest, then taking the lift up to the Erdtree sanctuary.

At the top head into the sanctuary, where your first boss leading to the ending will be waiting.

Sir Gideon Ofnir, the All-Knowing

Reward: 150,000 Runes, Scepter of the All-Knowing (Weapon), All-Knowing Armor Set (Helm, Armor, Gauntlets, Greaves)

This boss is very easy when using the Meteorite Staff + Rock Sling spell (both found in Caelid in the big red lake around Street of Sages Ruins). Gideon is a magic user, but with Rock Sling you have much further range than his spells. This means you can stand far away from him, far enough where his spells dissolve before hitting you, and just spam Rock Sling spell at him repeatedly. Also summon some Ashen Remains (Mimic Tear is best, but any other will do too). While the Ashes distract him you can spam your spell. He will heal himself when his health declines but just keep spamming the same spell from a distance and you’ll be safe.

Once Gideon is defeated you can interact with the site of grace in the middle of the room.

Erdtree Sanctuary

To continue out of the sanctuary, take the same route as before going up the tree root leading from the east window to the upper floor.

Follow the path to the Bedchamber, where you can also pick up the incantation Erdtree Heal.

Queen’s Bedchamber

Head up the stairs to the gold fog door, blocking your way to the next boss. If you had completed her questline, you can summon Nepheli Loux from a gold summon sign just to the right of the door.

Godfrey, First Elden Lord [2] & Hoarah Loux, Warrior

Reward: 300,000 Runes, Remembrance of Hoarah Loux

Godfrey, First Elden Lord & Hoarah Loux, Warrior are one and the same boss. Godfrey transforms into Hoarah at half health. The first phase is very easy, it’s the same Godfrey boss you fought earlier in the Royal Capital, except that he is now in human form and no longer in ghost form. His attacks are the same though and the same strategy applies as in the earlier fight – can simply dodge back and spam him with spells. The Meteorite Staff + Rock Sling spell are great here again, repeated hits will stun him. Summon some Ashen Remains to distract him. In his 2nd phase he is more aggressive and he uses quick melee hits and wrestling throws. He deals a lot of damage, about 1000 damage with a throw even when wearing heavy armor. Having 60+ Vigor is highly recommended to not die in 1 hit. He also does some AoE attacks on the ground, you can tell when he makes the ground glow, then continually dodge backwards out of the danger zone. In his 2nd phase you really want to have some leveled-up Ashen Remains (Mimic Tear is best) to distract him. Then spam him with the Rock Sling spell, 4-5 hits will stun him, it has very long range, deals massive damage, and homes in on him. With this you can take down his health very quickly. If your Ashes die, run away from him, let him miss an attack, then use a quick spell, repeat. Run around in front of him to lure him into an attack but quickly run/dodge away to evade, especially his throws deal brutal damage and should be avoided. As a melee char you can use basically the same strategy, 1st phase is easy, then in 2nd phase have your Ashen Remains still alive, deal some damage from behind while he focuses on your Ashes, then run/dodge from his attacks and land 1-2 quick hits and repeat. The 2nd phase can be a bit annoying but luckily he doesn’t have too crazy much health.

After Hoarah Loux is defeated, you can interact with the site of grace in the middle of the room.

Elden Throne

From the site of grace, head up the stairs into the center of the Erdtree. Touch the golden light at the end to proceed inside to face the final boss.

Radagon of the Golden Order & Elden Beast

Reward: 500,000 Runes, Elden Remembrance

This is the endboss, consisting of two phases. For his first healthbar he will be Radagon of the Golden Order. After depleting his health he gets a 2nd full health bar and turns into Elden Beast. Normally, this is one of the hardest fights in the game, but you can cheese it with a magic build (if you play a melee build, respec at Renalla in Raya Lucaria Grand Library). It’s highly recommended to have fully upgraded some Ashes (ideally Mimic Tear), have 14 flasks (found 30 Golden Seeds), and reached Flask Level 12 (found all Sacred Tears). Being at least Level 100-120 is recommended.
Now for the method: Equip the legendary Spell “Comet Azur” (requires 60 Intelligence, from Mt. Gelmir: Primeval Sorcerer Azur, talk to Sorcerer to get it). Also equip to your Flask of Wondrous Physick the “Cerulean Hidden Tear” (from Mt. Gelmir: Minor Erdtree) – it gives you infinite FP for 10 sec. Also use the Meteorite Staff and have the “Rock Sling” Spell equipped (both found in Caelid in the big red lake around Street of Sages Ruins).
When entering the boss area, IMMEDIATELY move to the left of the boss before his animation finishes and stand as close to him as possible (touching him). But don’t attack yet. This will freeze the boss in place, see the video where to stand. Now consume your flask to get infinite FP and use the Comet Azur Spell to kill Radagon in one single move. He will just stand there and doesn’t do anything. DON’T summon your Ashen Remains yet. This takes care of the first boss phase without actually fighting the boss, easy peasy!
Now to the 2nd Phase – he turns into Elden Beast. At the start cast some Ashen Remains, fully leveled up Mimic Tear is best. This will help distract the boss, but it’s not absolutely mandatory, you can also do it without any Ashes. The trick here is to spam “Rock Sling” spell using the Meteorite Staff from far away. This spell has a very long range, homes in on the boss, and always hits. Just stay far away and you’ll never ever have to deal with melee attacks. This way you only need to worry about ranged attacks. The only tricky one is when he shoots 4 yellow sword waves at you, which you must dodge with perfect timing. Everything else can be evaded by simply running sideways. When he flies up and makes a yellow ring on the floor immediately run out of the ring to avoid the explosion. It takes a little bit of practice to learn his ranged attacks but once you know them you can easily dodge them and just keep spamming Rock Sling at him repeatedly from far away, making this phase quite easy. You should bring plenty of FP Flasks, and having Mind Level 30+ helps a lot to have more FP and last longer. If your Mind level is too low or if you don’t bring enough FP Flasks you’ll run out. At Mind Level 30+ having 6-7 FP Flasks should suffice, leaving you with 6-5 Health Flasks for this phase. See the video for a demonstration.

Fractured Marika

Once you have defeated Elden Beast, you will automatically be transported back to the arena where you fought Radagon. You can interact with the site of grace nearby which will allow you to leave the area and come back later.

WARNING: IF YOU WANT ALL ENDINGS IN ONE PLAYTHROUGH YOU SHOULD NOW BACK UP YOUR SAVE GAME BEFORE INTERACTING WITH THE STATUE IN THE MIDDLE! INTERACTING WITH IT WILL LOCK YOU OUT OF OTHER ENDINGS BUT IF YOU BACK UP THE SAVE IT CAN BE RESTORED REDO OTHER ENDINGS. SEE ENDING GUIDE.

When you are ready to initiate the ending, interact with the broken body of Marika (statue) in the center of the area for the Elden Lord or Lord of Frenzied Flame Ending, or interact with the blue mark on the floor in front of it if you completed all steps for Age of the Stars Ending.