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The Entrance to Castle Ensis

As you enter the Castle Ensis area, you will encounter a bridge. Underneath the left side of the bridge that you are on is a path to a room that has big barrells along with a body that you can loot. Get the Spelldrake Talisman +3 from the body, then head back to bridge.

Once you cross the bridge, there is a body on the left side of the bridge that contains x3 Black Pyrefly . Across the bridge, you will encounter a Troll Knight guarding the area. Be ready for combat, as this can be a tough enemy to defeat. After killing the Troll Knight, you will see an entrance to a room on the right. Once you enter it, you will encounter a Lazuli Sorcerer. Once you have dealt with the enemy, there will be a body on the immediate left corner of the room containing a Shadow Realm Rune [4]. Behind the building of the room is a ramp with a body on it that has x1 Somber Smithing Stone [3] when picked up.

 

Once you have cleared the building, follow the path opposite of the building leading to a stairway heading deeper into the castle. On the western side by the cliff before the walls, you can loot a dead body that has x1 Somber Smithing Stone [1]. Then, in the middle of the stairs, you can climb up a cliff with a dead body that has x1 Broken Rune on it. Keep following the stairs going up, and you will encounter an Exile Soldier along with a Rotten Stray to your right, and another of the same set of enemies on the left side. Head up the stairs that the Exile Soldier and Rotten Stray were guarding on the left side, and you'll find yourself in an area with a ladder. Climb up the ladder to find a chest containing the Milady [See Elden Ring Map], a light greatsword.

 

Loot Detour

Find your way back down the ladder and the stairs to a small cavern directly facing the stairs. Keep following the cavern, and you will find a body containing an item that you cannot reach yet. Once you exit the small cavern, you will see a body in front of you that contains x2 Flight Pinion. Follow the first ramp heading up, and you will see two Messmer Foot Soldiers gathering around a bonfire and a Lesser Black Knight nearby, so be prepared to engage them in combat. After dealing with the enemies, if you look down by the cliff before the bonfire area, you can drop safely into an area below. You will find remains resting right on the ledge containing x10 Bolt. Behind the remains will be the cavern that you went through earlier, and you will get to loot the body you saw earlier, containing x3 Glintslab Firefly.

Find the Castle Ensis Checkpoint Site of Grace

Backtrack your way to the ramps. On the first level of the ramps, you'll find a room to the left that has a chest containing the Loyal Knight's Cookbook [See Elden Ring Map]. Head back outside, then go up the second ramp. In the middle of the second ramp, you'll find a pathway leading to a body with an item. A Rotten Stray is hiding around the corner, so be careful as you approach to loot the body. After dealing with the Rotten Stray, loot the body to receive a Silver-Pickled Fowl Foot. Go back to the ramp and keep following it. At the top of the ramp, you will find a closed gate. Look over to the left of the gate, and you will pick up x1 Castle Cross Message. You will also find a cross, and 1x Scadutree Fragment. Near the Scadutree Fragment drop, you will find the Castle Ensis Checkpoint Site of Grace [See Elden Ring Map].

Finding A Way Inside

On the right side of the locked gate, there will be an Exile Soldier looking towards an area below. Dispose of the soldier, then jump down the area. You'll find a body immediately after the first jump which contains x3 Knot Resin. You'll notice a hole leading to a cavern in the ground. You can jump safely below, and you will deal with three Rotten Strays immediately after dropping down. You can loot a body for x10 Arrow beside where you dropped. Follow the path of the cavern. You will find yourself on a cliffside path. The path to your right leads to the rooftop of the structure that you looted near the Troll Knight. Be careful as you're traversing the path, as there is a small gap that you need to jump right before the rooftop. As you get to the rooftop, you will find an eagle in front of a body on the other end. Loot the body to find x1 Starlight Shards.

Head back to the junction of the cliffside path, then follow the left path leading to a waterfall. Jump on the rocks of the waterfall to get on top of it. You will see two turtles on the left side, and an archway leading to an area with a ladder on the left side leading to a room and a cavern behind a waterfall. There is a dead body on the left side before the cavern entrance which contains x3 Drawstring Royal Magic Grease. At the end of the cavern, you will find a dead body which you can loot for x4 Knot Resin. Head back outside the cavern, then climb up the ladder. As you enter the room, you'll encounter two soldiers. Deal with the enemies, then head to the doorway on the far-left corner of the room.

The area outside will be the locked gate you encountered earlier, which you can open by pushing the lever inside the room directly across from where you came from. Head up the stairs, and you end up in a bridge with four soldiers. The fourth soldier uses a heavy crossbow if you are not in melee-range, so be cautious of that. On the left side of the other end of the bridge, you can loot a body to receive x3 String. Follow the path leading south right after the bridge. Be careful here, as a there is a Rotten Stray hiding in the bushes on the right just as the path gets tighter. You will end up on a cliffside path.

Follow the path on the right, and you will face two Noble Sorcerers right before a staircase. There will also be a dead body on the left that you can loot for x2 Glintslab Firefly. You can easily deal with the first Noble Sorcerer as you can attack it easily. However, to deal with the second Noble Sorcerer, you can follow a path on the right of the stairs that leads to a ladder that you can climb to get on top of a fort. At the top of the fort, you will face a Page. You can pick up x1 Somber Smithing Stone [6] on a dead body just beside the Page. After dealing with the Page, you can then go to the cliff where the second Noble Sorcerer by jumping off of an opening of the fort. You can also access the area by jumping on the cliff from where the ladder is located.

Dealing with Moonrithyll, Carian Knight

After dealing with the enemies before the staircase, you can then proceed by going up the stairs. You will then end up right outside of a structure being guarded by an NPC Invader, Moonrithyll, Carian Knight. Moonrithyll uses attacks similar to the moveset of the greatsword. He can use jumping attacks, thrusts, and wide attacks when fighting. You can easily dispose of Moonrithyll by staggering him, which can be easy if you're using a build that deals a lot of Poise damage. After defeating Moonrithyll, he will drop Moonrithyll's Knight Sword, a colossal sword.

In the first room, you will find two rooms connecting to it. The room on the west side is just another way inside the structure. The room on the south side is a chapel with a Spirit NPC praying to Queen Marika. On the podium of the chapel, you can pick up the talisman Rellana's Cameo.

After clearing the chapel, head to the hallway near the entrance of the chapel, in which you'll encounter a Lazuli Sorcerer. You can obtain x1 Shadow Realm Rune [2] from a dead body in the hallway. Across the dead body, there is a room that another Lazuli Sorcerer is hiding in. You can deal with it now so you will not be overwhelmed with enemies as you progress through the hallway. You will encounter another Lazuli Sorcerer right around the corner of the hallway just after the dead body. If you did not clear the previous room, the enemy will come out right as you fight the other Lazuli Sorcerer in the hallway.

Finding More Loot

After killing the Lazuli Sorcerers, continue following the hallway, which leads to an area outside. There will be a dead body ahead which you can loot for x1 Glintslab Firefly. A Noble Sorcerer will be attacking you on top of a structure. If you have ranged attacks, you can easily dispose of this enemy. At the landing of the stairs, there will be a gate on the south side that you can open. On the left immediate of the gate you opened, there will be an area below that you can jump down to. You can pick up x3 Dewgem from a dead body sitting by the cliff. You will find a ladder beside the dead body that you can climb to get on the rooftop of the structure that the Noble Sorcerer was attacking you from. You can dispose of the Page along with the Noble Sorcerer here in this area. On the western side of the rooftop, you can pick up x1 Somber Smithing Stone [2] off of a dead body. There is an area that you can jump down to, before the dead body on the west to find a corpse containing the Glintblade Trio sorcery. Jump down, then enter the room to your right. You can open a chest containing the Wolf Crest Shield [See Elden Ring Map]. Head up the ladder to return to the entrance of the building.

Backtrack your way to the gate that you opened, traverse the path. You will encounter an Exile Soldier that you can get a jump on as it is facing the other way. Continue following the path, and head down the stairs to fight three Exile Soldiers along with two Rotten Strays. The other path, which is the one above the stairs leading down, also has an Exile Soldier that you can easily deal with. After dealing with the enemies, you can loot two dead bodies, one containing x1 Somber Smithing Stone [6] and x1 Somber Smithing Stone [5].

Continue following the path until you find a staircase on the side of a tower, in which you will encounter an Exile Soldier as you turn on the corner of the stairs. Once you arrive at the top of the stairs, you can find a chest in the room to your left containing the Imbued Sword Key. Across the bridge, you will encounter a Lesser Black Knight guarding the passage to a lift. After defeating the knight, ride the lift to go up the structure. After using the lift, you can follow the path on your right to discover the Castle-Lord's Chamber Site of Grace [See Elden Ring Map]. On the eastern side of the room, you can head to the balcony outside to loot a dead body containing a Somber Smithing Stone [4]. You can find an area that you can drop down to if you look by the railings of the balcony. You will find a tower near a graveyard, and on top of it, you can obtain Ash of War: Wing Stance inside a chest. Travel back to the Castle-Lord's Chamber Site of Grace. You can follow the stairs up to the west of the Site of Grace which leads to an entrance that can only be entered by going through the fog. This is a boss fight, so make sure to do the necessary preparations that you need.

Fighting Rellana, Twin Moon Knight and finishing up

The boss that you will be fighting in this area is Rellana, Twin Moon Knight. She uses dual light greatswords that she can enchant with magic and fire. Her melee attacks consist of sweeping and slashing movement, which you should be patient in dealing with. She also uses a spell similar to the Glintblade Phalanx to attack you from afar. For an in-depth guide for defeating Rellana, you can go to this page for more information.

After you have defeated Rellana, Twin Moon Knight, you will receive the Remembrance of the Twin Moon Knight and you will unlock the Ensis Moongazing Grounds Site of Grace [See Elden Ring Map]. You can exchange the Remembrance of the Twin Moon Knight with Enia at the Roundtable Hold to receive Rellana's Twinblade and the sorcery Rellana's Twin Moons.