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A large church atop the southern plateau of Liurnia. Ranni awaits her lord in the depths of the church, guarded by her loyal Dragon. |
Cathedral of Manus Celes is a Location in Elden Ring. The Cathedral of Manus Celes is found at the Moonlight Altar plateau, high above in the southwest Liurnia of the Lakes. The Moonlight Altar is accessible only after making significant progress in Ranni's questline, up to the point where you defeat Astel, Naturalborn of the Void in the Grand Cloister and gain access to the lift in the Deep Ainsel Well, which leads up to the plateau. Players can reach the Cathedral of Manus Celes by heading northeast from the Moonlight Altar site of grace.
Cathedral of Manus Celes Map
The Cathedral of Manus Celes is situated in the north of the Moonlight Altar plateau, overlooking Liurnia of the Lakes. [Elden Ring Map Link]
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Cathedral of Manus Celes Walkthrough
Regardless of whether the player fought the Glintstone Dragon Adula at the Three Sisters sub-region in the north or not, it will be present at this location. It will be found guarding the fields leading up to the Cathedral of Manus Celes and can finally be killed at this location. Adula drops 3 Dragon Hearts and the Adula's Moonblade sorcery spell upon defeat, as well as 
120000 Runes.
Inside the Cathedral, you will find a total of 9 Starlight Shards scattered across the Cathedral proper. One more can be found outside in the north, by the large stone monument. There is a Site of Grace in the center of the Cathedral.
Look towards the south for a cave amongst the rubble.
Drop down into the cave and follow the linear path to find the body of Ranni sitting on the remains of the Fingers.
Approach the body and there will be a prompt for you to place the Dark Moon Ring on her finger, initiating a cutscene.
Afterwards, Ranni, now fully freed will appear before you. She will confirm that you are now her consort, and promises that you will meet again. She awards you the Dark Moon Greatsword before disappearing.
This will give the player the option of completing the "Age of the Stars" ending at the end of the game.
Elden Ring Cathedral of Manus Celes Gallery and Notes
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AnonymousIts upsetting me that a lot of comments are getting the (very simple translation) wrong. Even some wrong ones have upvotes which annoys me further.
Manus Celes literally means celestial hand. the etymology of celestial is celes - as in celeste. thats where that word comes from.
it does not mean hidden. hidden would be occultus, obcultus, or arcanus (secrets, hidden, in the dark).
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"celo" is the latin way for "to hide" (caelo is the substantive for "Sky" instead); and manus Is just "hand"
So It basically means "cathedral of the hidden/concealed hand", that makes sense since there's a severed hand in the hypogeum beneath the edifice
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Attention to those misinformed with the false rumors that this area can be reached without Ranni's questline (stop lying, idiots) : after defeating astel, naturalborn of the void, there is a CARIAN BARRIER that blocks your passage. The only way to disable the barrier is with the ring of the dark moon, wich is in the chest right behind Rennala of the full moon. That chest is locked, and you can only open that chest with the discarded palace key. And Ranni herself will ONLY give you that key after killing the baleful shadow.
Ranni's questline is MANDATORY to unlock this area. And it can be done whenever you want.
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I took a stab at the Latin grammar in Manus Celes and this is my best translation attempt:
(a/the/ ) hand (may/would/should) (hide/disguise itself/keep itself secret)
So, Cathedral of Manus Celes can have several meanings, e.g. "Cathedral of the hand who should hide" or "Cathedral of the hand who may disguise itself".
I'm no professional translator but that should be mostly correct. It's not "Sky Hand" like Grim_Reaper said. You're thinking of Manus Caeles meaning "Heavenly Hand" or "Hand of the Gods". I wish the lore youtubers would stop spreading that miss-translation. Though I understand the temptation to assume so; it would be such a good fit.
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1) Read comments around to fully appreciate what happens when FromSoft go (deservedly) mainstream.
2) Enjoy (or suffer)
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Wish someone told me this questline benefited mages. What the hell do I do with this stupid sword
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I thought you had to collect all the Starlight shards to safely go down the hole, took me 20 mins to figure out there was a ledge
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NO WAY IS THAT A MANUS REFERENCE?!?!?! (they clearly stole the name from dark souls, someone must sue them!!!!11!1)
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Talk about a nightmare to get to the cathedral. THANKS A LOT, ASTEL.
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What happens to Ranni's Two fingers if u arrive to the cathedral without advancing the questline? I never tried but in theory it should be possible right??
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doesn't this kinda look like the Tristram Cathedral entrance in Diablo 3?
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You can give the ring after you become the Elden Lord. She will say that she is pleased and that she will leave and find her order among the stars.
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The dragon can be circumvented by riding through Moonfolk ruins, once you get to the north cliff edge head east to Manus Celes.
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Gotta love the flavor of naming it Manus Celes, or “Divine Hand” in Latin
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Avoided fighting adula at three sisters. Made it to celes manus and completed rannis quest and the dragon teleported there anyway. Never hit it once.
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lmao, fort gael and cathedral manus, wheres castle kos now miyazaki
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Ok so something extremely strange happened when I was idling at Ranni's doing some paperwork with the game on (I have a problem) ran past her and she decided to follow me to the door practically I didn't think much of it cause her health bar didn't show up so i figured she was in that "you sure you wanna fight" phase every enemy has when they spot you a little too close. Bout 10 minutes into my work my TV blares and I got the great enemy felled sign on my screen and about 13k in runes and she's gone. Reloaded still gone, did I just bug my game?
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So now I gotta ask, is there any particular reason this place is named like it is?
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Can confirm that if you don't fight the dragon in the northern park of the lake area, the dragon does teleport appear directly in front of the cathedral at full HP. I was hoping I could just stroll right in to finish the quest but was unpleasantly surprised lol
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You don't need to do Ranni's quest to access this area, or Ainsel River Main. The three underground areas are connected and can reach each other by going to specific places. Nokron and Nameless eternal cities can go back and forth between them, and the same for Nameless and Nokstella. So Nokron Nameless Nokstella
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You don't need to do Ranni's quest to access this area, or Ainsel River Main. The three underground areas are connected and can reach each other by going to specific places. Nokron and Nameless eternal cities can go back and forth between them, and the same for Nameless and Nokstella. So Nokron Nameless Nokstella
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I think you can actually access this plateau without interacting with Ranni's questline. Defeating Radahn opens up Nokron, which lets you fight the gargoyles in the aqueduct there. In their boss chamber is a coffin near the waterfall, which resting in takes you to the Deeproot Basin. Once there, a bit north of the Nameless Eternal City grace is another coffin that takes you to Ainsel River Main, the same place that the waygate in Renna's Rise leads you to. From there I think you could priced through Nokstella and into the Lake of Rot and Cloister as usual, fight Aster, and take the elevator up to the lunar plateau. I'm interested if the two fingers Ranni kills are still alive if you get there without doing her quest.
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Hey guys, if you're having trouble with the AOE and don't want to cheese him, try using a shield and the war art "vow of the indomitable". It lets you become invincible for a short time. When you see him charging the AOE, use it right before he hits the ground and you won't take any damage while still remaining close to him. Good luck!
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The article is incomplete and arguably wrong. The way to reach the plateau is to use the elevator after Voidborne Astel. Unlocking that path requires following Ranni's questline.
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Accessible from underground, there's an elevator that leads to the top
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"Easily found at the southwest of the lake" Do we have trolls writing the wiki now?
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need to do certain quest, bcs you will never find this place without it
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In these underground places you'll also find somber +6 to +9.
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The places you require to do are Nokron city, deeproot Depths, Nokstella city, lake of rot and then is the final underground boss. All these places are connected if you get to Nokron you can finish it.
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I have found how to get here. First you need to kill Radahn. Then you travel to Nokron city underground. Then you need to clear all the place. When you kill the last boss you will find behind it an elevator which gets you to the top of the mountain.
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You must fully complete Ranni's questline (when in nokstella talk the small doll you picked up and kill the invader later on) and kill the secret boss in Nokstella by traveling to the scarlet rot lake, you'll see another path after leading to an elevator
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Who writes these? It’s not easy to find at all. You have to go to lake of rot, kill a very powerful boss, then take the lift up, and fight a dragon to even access it
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To get here you have to go through the Ainsel River Well found to the east of Raya Lucaria Academy. It will take you underground and eventually you will find the Deep Ainsel Well that will take you back up.
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To get to the cathedral you need to advance Ranni's questline up to the point where you defeat Astel the Naturalborn. Then travel back to the Raya Lucaria library boss arena and use the Discarded Palace key to open the chest, then fast travel back to the Astel grace. The way will be open and there will be a lift that takes you up to the cathedral area.
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You can get here by slaying Astel, Naturalborn of the Void and acquiring the Dark Moon Ring from Ranni doing her questline.
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Chelona's rise riddle:
reward: Ranni's dark moon (spell)
Credit: Chase the bro & his mighty chat
pass time to night and start the seeking of 3 great white beast
one of the great white beast is floating in air above the jump pad besides the arena of the black knight boss
another is stick on the cliff side of the riddle tower
the last one is at the bottom right corner of the area just sitting there besides a bunch of regular turtles
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" It's easily found at the southwest of the lake." Easly my ass.
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read somewhere its done by doing the quest for the moonlight greatsword with a elevator underground
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i tried to get up nothing
i assume u need teleport gate to go there
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So no one knows how to get up here? I'm guessing it's a teleport.
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my name is literally manus celes its named after me
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