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Elden Ring Fia quest walkthrough: how to get the Mending Rune of the Death-PrinceHere’s how to fully complete Fia’s questline in Elden Ring
Here’s how to fully complete Fia’s questline in Elden Ring
Looking for a walkthrough of Fia’s quest in Elden Ring?Fia the Deathbed Companion is namedropped in the opening cinematic ofElden Ring, and she remains an important character throughout the entire game. There is an entire long questline relating to Fia, which will take you across multiple regions and force you to face many dangerous enemies.
The reward, however, is an item which allows you to unlock an entirely new ending to the game, so it’s well worth following our walkthrough on Fia’s quest in Elden Ring to find out exactly how to complete every step of the journey.
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Elden Ring Fia quest walkthrough
Fia the Deathbed Companion is an important character in Elden Ring. Much like with the witch Ranni, completing Fia’s entire questline unlocks an entirely new ending for you to experience after defeating the final boss.
Below I’ll walk you through every single step in Fia’s quest, from your first meeting with her to your very last. Here are the steps, and I’ll break them down in more detail below.
It seems like a lot of steps, and, well, it is. This questline takes a good while to complete. But fret not: we’ll go through it all one step at a time in this walkthrough. So let’s get started!
1. (Optional) Meet D across the Saintsbridge or at the Roundtable Hold
The very first thing you should do is introduce yourself to a character who may or may not become important later on, depending on your choices. Head east across the northernmost of the two bridges across the river in Limgrave, and follow the road through the cemetary.
Just beyond the cemetary, you’ll come across D - a hunter dressed in distinctive armour. He’ll tell you about the town being infested with undead, but that’s not important to the larger Fia questline. If you don’t speak to him here, you can also find him upon your first visit to theRoundtable Hold.
2. Meet Fia in the Roundtable Hold
Now to introduce yourself to the main character of this questline: Fia, the Deathbed Companion. She has her own chambers in the Roundtable Hold, next to the Blacksmith Hewg.
Fia asks if she can hold you, to which you should agree. Whenever you hug Fia, two things happen:
The Baldachin’s Blessing uses FP when used, and temporarily boosts your poise. If you’d prefer to immediately get rid of the health debuff, go ahead and use the Baldachin’s Blessing now.
3. (Optional) Talk to Sorcerer Rogier in the Roundtable Hold
Once you’ve defeated Godrick the Grafted inStormveil Castle, Sorcerer Rogier will appear in the Roundtable Hold, on the balcony overlooking the main hall. Speak to him, and he’ll talk about various things, including his friendship with D, their joint exploration of death, and the “mark of the centipede”.
He’ll also tell you his fighting days are behind him, and give you his sword - Rogier’s Rapier +8 - a fine early-game melee weapon.
4. Talk to Fia until she asks a favour of you
Whenever you return to the Roundtable Hold, you should head to Fia’s chambers and request a hug from her, even if you already have a Baldachin’s Blessing. After a certain number of times, or possibly after certain story quest conditions are met (such as the slaying of demigods and the activating of Great Runes), Fia will ask a favour of you.
5. Give the Weathered Dagger to D
6. Reload the area and head to the new room in the Roundtable Hold
And with that, she disappears. Before you leave, you should loot D’s body. You’ll obtain his powerful Twinned Armour set, and a Bell Bearing to trade in with the Twin Maiden Husks.
7. (Optional) Take Rogier’s letter
It’s not necessary to take this letter in order to progress the questline, but it adds a little bit of extra background.
8. Complete Ranni’s questline up until you earn the Carian Inverted Statue
If you haven’t done so already, you should now take the time to work through Ranni’s questline. OurElden Ring Ranni quest walkthroughwill help immensely with this. Follow the guide up until you earn the Carian Inverted Statue. Then you can return to Fia’s questline.
9. Take the Cursemark of Death from the Divine Tower of Liurnia
With the Carian Inverted Statue in hand, you can now proceed to the Carian Study Hall on the east edge ofLiurnia. Use the Carian Inverted Statue to reach theDivine Tower of Liurnia, and when you reach the top, pick up the Cursemark of Death from the body at the centre of the tower top.
10. (Optional, Choice) Give the Twinned Armour to D’s brother in the Siofra Aqueduct
If you give D’s brother D’s Twinned Armour, then at the end of Fia’s quest, D’s brother will kill Fia.You will also obviously lose the Twinned Armour for use yourself. If you don’t give the Twinned Armour to D’s brother, then Fia will live, but D’s brother will stay locked in his deep dream.
11. Use the coffin to reach Deeproot Depths
Regardless of whether you choose to depart with your Twinned Armour when meeting D’s brother, you should then face the Valiant Gargoyle boss fight. Once you have won this fight, interact with the coffin at the far end of the arena, and you’ll be transported to a new underground area directly under the Capital,Leyndell.
Progress to the Deeproot Depths Site of Grace, and then use the large Erdtree branches that curve through the city in front of you to reach the Across the Roots Site of Grace on the high-up ledge overlooking the city.
12. Fight Fia’s Champions
13. Speak to Fia and ask to be held again
Once you’ve beaten her champions, Fia herself will appear before you. Speak to her, and choose the option “No, I want to be held”. Then continue speaking to her, and she’ll tell you more about the Hallowbrand - the mark of the half-centipede left in the demigod Godwyn when he was killed. Fia will then tell you that she is after the second such cursemark.
14. Give Fia the Cursemark of Death
Fortunately, if you’ve been following this guide, you’ll already long since have obtained the Cursemark of Death from the Divine Tower of Liurnia. Give Fia the Cursemark, and she will thank you profusely, all her previous frostiness towards you disappearing.
Fia will then tell you her plan to lay with Godwyn and bear a child with which Godwyn can live “a second, illustrious life”.
15. Reload the area and interact with Fia
16. Defeat the Lichdragon Fortissax
Your next step is, quite simply, to defeat the boss inside the Deathbed Dream. If you’re a melee character, you may find this rather challenge. For ranged combatants, the Lichdragon Fortissax is actually fairly straightforward. Once you’ve beaten it, you’ll automatically be returned from the Deathbed Dream.
17. Obtain the Mending Rune of the Death-Prince from Fia
Once you’re back, you’ll see that it appears that Fia has fallen into a coma of some sort. No doubt she is continuing her Deathbed Dream. You can loot her to obtain the Mending Rune of the Death-Prince - the key item which can influence the ending of the game.
18. (Dependent on earlier choice) Reload the area and speak to D’s brother
If you gave D’s brother the Twinned armour earlier on, then reload the area and you’ll find that he has slain Fia in her sleep, and stands gloating over her. D’s brother has taken his revenge for D’s death, and saw Fia and her occupation as Deathbed Companion as an affront to his principles of hunting death and the undead.
19. (Dependent on earlier choice) Take back the Twinned Armour
If you followed the path which results in Fia’s death at the hands of D’s brother, you can now either attack D’s brother and kill him, or simply reload the area. Either way, you’ll earn back the Twinned Armour, along with a new weapon: the Inseparable Sword.
20. (Optional, Choice) Use the Mending Rune of the Death-Prince after the final boss
Regardless of your earlier choices, if you obtained the Mending Rune of Death from Fia then you’ll have the option to use it at the very end of the game, after defeating the final boss. I won’t go into detail here, but it gives you a slightly different variant of the main ending, which is neither the best nor the worst ending on offer in Elden Ring.
