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I have to kill myself for #3 turtle to spawn lol

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It would take a lifetime to figure out this puzzle on your own, why make puzzles that you're forced to look up the solution online? It defeats the purpose and it makes it boring af. So many times has this game made things more difficult, confusing or complicated for no good reason. Why is every location a maze and every object hidden before platforms and puzzles, it makes the game so tedious.

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I hit the first and second turtles and got a note that the portal opened- just after resting at a grace until night and then examining the puzzle. Only conclusion I can come to is that prior to resting at the grace, I had unknowingly propelled myself through the flying turtle, and it still counter toward solving the puzzle.

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Ah the best part of any puzzle, when it arbitrarily stops working without warning. Such an epic & memorable puzzle, more puzzles please, this ARPG needs more awesome fun puzzles like this epic puzzle. Good puzzle in the game for this of and please puzzle when and you Zulu some

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if the turtles dont spawn, pass time at the altar south site of grace until nightfall, then touch/ read the puzzle infront of the rise again, then walk, not teleport ( grace) to the turtle spawn points.

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i thought the three beasts were the dragon, red wolf and bear that you can find the area

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I play the game without looking up stuff online, so I spent ages trying to figure out this puzzle. Eventually I got so frustrated, I did look it up on the internet. Turned out my quest was just hella bugged and the turtles never showed up haha. They did show up after reloading the area and reading the puzzle again. For some reason, I just had to kill turtle #1 and #2. I never had to look for the #3 turtle at the spirit spring haha. Very bugged quest.

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I wasn't seeing some of the turtles until I realized the clue was in the name Moonlight. Waiting till evening then heading to the locations revealed the turtles.

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I am fairly confident that I killed #1 and #3, tried dozens of times spawning #2 without success - until I recognized that #1 has respawned after interaction with the book statue.
Maybe it is a good advice to check all locations when running into the bug of this quest.

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I am fairly confident that I killed #1 and #3, tried dozens of times spawning #2 without success - until I recognized that #1 has respawned after interaction with the book statue.
Maybe it is a good advice to check all locations when running into the bug of this quest.

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If they ain't showing up; kill yourself, and read the book at the imp statue, and then go to the location of the turtle without teleporting.

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Black key crossbow and a lordsworn's bolt makes quick turtle soup of the one by the evergaol.

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Just port to South Altar, then talk to the Statue again to let the turtle's spawn. Continue without teleporting to the locations of the turtle's. Worked for me this way.

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Lol this quest is hella bugged

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Testu's rise says to seek three wise beasts, which are three turtles. This building says "seek three GREAT wise beasts", and there are three (smaller) dragons right down the road from there... and uhh yeah long story short I guess I killed three dragons just for fun

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I just got the first 2 and it unlocked

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Yeah bro 2 and 3 arnt showing up wtf

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Taveled back to the grace at the rise threw myself off the cliff nearby picked up my runes and clicked on the imp statue again and that got it to spawn xD
Hope it helps

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Alright so just like some people one of the turtle won't spawn, my missing one was the flying one and the far cliff one, I restarted my PS5, go check the flying mf, not there, I head to the far cliff one over east, it's there, kill it and the seal is broken, my guess is one of the turtle died, I've notice things dies randomly in the background on this hill, and the turtles can be the victim too.

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Third turtle is slightly south east of the Evergaol. It's flying directly over a jump stream that allows for high jumps

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i never noticed it the first time, but i wondered back then "what is the hint for these locations?" i never noticed the large amounts of turtles.
then there is the bugged issue of teleporting despawns them, so you have to read the statue and *not* teleport.

but of course you would want to teleport, because this area is too big XD.

this whole problem would have been non-existent if the turtles were placed more normally like the other puzzles.
as none of those are too far away to think you need to teleport elsewhere to find them quicker.

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Yeah, I never would've figured this out without looking it up. I thought the imp rise was stupid but this really takes the cake...

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i only had to kill 2 turtles

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what

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it took me about 5 attempts of speaking to the statue and reloading to get the 2nd one to spawn, but at least, for some reason it was enough to unlock the tower. 3rd one nether spawned or got killed. This **** is bugged af

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I didn't see either the second or third turtle anywhere. Nice. I don't care enough to try and make the game work like it should lol

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Even though it isn't said on here, don't die either, as it will respawn any turtles you haven't killed.

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I spoke to the statue again, the one that tells you to seek three wise beasts, and that got it to spawn the bugged turtle.

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3rd turtle won't show up even after trying to fast travel, bugged af

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3rd turtle is bugged af, even after fast travel it won't show up and I did just through the spring

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The turtles still randomly fail to spawn (1.07). Quitting and loading back in did the trick

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Getting the second turtle, I went from the rock above it to the rock below it, which killed me somehow.

Gotta love how 3 foot falls can kill you in the Lands Between.

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for some reason, i only had to kill 1 turtle, the one west of the rise. i fast traveled here from the haligtree town, killed the one turtle, and immediately got the dark moon.

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Wiki guys please mark the 3ed turtles location and show some image that could help people see the spot it’s in. Your advice to jump where it is does not work well when we cant see the location and you give no reference to the spot we are jumping at.

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turtle wont ****ing spawn

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what a horribly designed and programmed rise

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I ran into trouble here. 2nd and 3rd location did not work.
Since the region is called "Moonlight Altar" I decided to try the proposed solution to **do it at night**.
--> Go to a Site of Grace and wait until night --> All turtles are visible
Fast travel may change your time of day... but did not end or bug my quest. After one more wait until nighttime I was able to continue.

v1.07

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Ah. No wonder I couldn't find the other two.

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Hey, i`ve played on Patch 1.07 and Fast Travel was totaly ok.

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To confirm, DO NOT fast-travel when finding turtle, it will RESET the progress.
All in all, this is one of the most ANNOYING seal (=A=)

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Just wanted to report a bug not listed on this page; I only killed 2/3 turtles (the first two, not the one floating in the air) and the seal was broken. Weird.

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to be so far is ridiculous

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Can confirm, you very specifically have to wait till night, and then touch the imp statue, and not fast travel to any of the tortises. Fast traveling must reset it, exept it doesn't. Really finicky.

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This is a bug, correct? The normal scenario is that all 3 show up without any fuss. I've tried everything and two and three aren't there even if I attack the area.

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Can't see 2 out of 3 turtles. Love this game.

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can't wait for the DLC search quest where player must search for three Nascent Butterflies across the whole lower half of the ****ing map

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I got in after only two turtles, the closest one and the one south of the ruins

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I don't know if they changed the gazebos, but I just visited and only got 2x smithing stone 7 and 1x smithing stone 8

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I went through the horror of not seeing turtle 2 and 3 spawned after running back and forth twice for both of them. and jumping around from the spirit spring like a clown.
no clue what unbugged after that so noting it all down

interacted with the book
Rested at site of grace
changed time to night
interacted with the book again
travelled to turtle 2, didnt stop for anything
saw it, shot it, seal opened

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"Players can reach Chelona's Rise by traveling south from the Ringleader's Evergaol."

Players can also go around the other way, from the Cathedral of Manus Celes south to the Lunar Estate Ruins, and then west to the Rise. The road/path is clearer and easier to follow, and you avoid the Crystalians and the Lesser Red Wolf (until/unless you have to seek that third turtle) and instead have to deal with some normal wolves and crystal snails. It could be a much easier trip, depending on your build.

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if the 2 turtles not near the tower arent appearing try walking up to the magic seal to 'discover' that location on the map. After doing that both appeared for me. Accessing the area by normal means (defeating astel and finishing Ranni's questline)

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God, the further I get into this game, the worse it gets in terms of the bugs and unfinished areas. Instead of Elden Ring it should be Beta Ring at this point.

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After kiiling turtle 1 and 2, if the spirit pool turtle doesn't spawn for you, go back to the book, reread it the go back to eastern turtle (2). It may have respawned and will count as turtle 3.

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'it may take some tries, but it you hit the right place where the turtle should be' how the **** should i know where it should be, if i cannot ****ing see it.

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Wait I thought there was two turtles because it said the seal broke before I killed the third one

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Chelona is turtle in Greek, it fit the puzzle.

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Designers of those "puzzles" should sit on those rises.

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the Devs can shove this and heretic's rise right up their own rises, this is bullcrap, take me 15 minutes to get to unwise beast 2 AND THEN DIE OF FALL DAMAGE AFTER NOT FALLING THAT FAR. WHAT THE HECK FROMSOFT!? I JUST WANT YOUR STUPID ACHIEVEMENT FOR GODS SAKE!

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If you zip to this area (or any other form of skip) then the 3rd turtle (the one up and to the East) will not spawn until Astel is dead and the seal broken.

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I killed 1 and 2 but 3 didn’t spawn

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The seal opened with only two turtles, I'm certain I never jumped for the flying one. Must be some rare glitch.

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In the words of Todd "It's a feature!"

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this is called Altar South in my version of the game

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this made me rage and whack all the turtles around the area. devs obviously wanted to waste our time finding these things. for those who has the patience and found these i commend u but elden ring is ur life

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Got it 1st try. 1 and 2 waking, 3rd with fast travel. Run up the stone ramp and loretta's bow tracks the turle. No need for the spiritjump

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Wait until night and then interact with the statue DO NOT FAST TRAVEL and you should be good I did this and it for some reason unlocked after only killing the first and second turtles I think the devs screwed up because they made each one so far it bugs itself especially with the fast travel

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found the 1st one nearby no problem. the second one was being buggy and didn't want to spawn. did what someone said on here, to rest til night, touch the statue and the door, then ride over to the far east part where it spawns, and it was there.
and then i never even touched the third one in the air at the spirit spring. i had used it once earlier, but didn't see anything.
the tower opened after i killed the 2nd one at the far east cliffs.
so yea, buggy af.

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I never killed the flying one but the seal opened anyways

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Why the **** do they not spawn in

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I killed 1st one at cliff side and instantly get notification about broken seal. Didn't had to search for two remaining ones.

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if you read the sign that says "seek three wise beasts" it seems to make them spawn\

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I killed 1 and 3 and then 2 did not spawn, went back to reactivate, none are there, i have died and fast traveled. aefghijrsujkbdfghnsbhjefgrabhuegr

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Nothing like a buggy game and a **** puzzle to ruin my night

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Okay, I hate crabs, lobsters, dogs, snakes, and now I hate turtles

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I struggled with the turtle in the first location that's hanging off the cliff. I'm an Astrologer that primarily uses sorceries and didn't have a bow or crossbow at this time. And the turtle is un-targetable, and I kept missing with various sorceries. I even tried the telescope trick.

Luckily, I was able to hit the turtle on my first try with a kukri! Other throwing consumable items might work. Good luck.

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Doggo can be cheesed on the tiny tucked in and down cliff space behind and to the right of the middle gazebo. He will fall down 2-3 times and reset, but lose HP and eventually die.

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Dont worry about death resetting the turtle quest.
Just avoid fast traveling.

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Has anyone had any luck getting them to spawn if you already got one before you fast travelled? I can't get it to work and I'm worried it's punishment for killing too many of the normal turtles in frustration.

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This is actually the worst ****ing puzzle in the whole game, lost so much time running back and forth from the tower to the turtles because they didn't spawn

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This is buggy enough to be a Bethesda quest.

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buggy ass tower

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I only killed the one near the rise, and the one south of the ruins.
Nani the ****, but hey easy

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1.04 I killed the first tortoise, and teleported to the Moon Altar site and the 2nd and 3rd didn't appear, I think this is the mistake. Web need to locate the 3 tortoises in one través, without resting in a site of Grace ir fast-travelling.

Go to the Moon Altar site, ride to the Rise and read the Imp Book. Then, kill the first tortoise, go riding to the 2nd, and ride again to the 3rd.
Then the barrier will open. I did this and worked...

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This game is so ****ing buggy, unbelievable.

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for the second the only workaround is to rest until night (interacting with the imp statue book and door for good) then it will appear

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Turtle 3 is the most peaceful creature in this game. Floating, moisturized, unbothered.

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the second turtle spawned after i read the imb book while at night. then the seal was broken

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had to look at the barrier to make blue turt 2 spawn, but i didn't have to get 3 so i'm guessing i ran into it accidentally while spirit springing around blindly?

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use Adula's Moonglade on the rocks and he's easy to kill lol

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It looks like the turtle are only invisible but still here, I only had to kill the first two. I think I killed the floating one accidentally when I use the spriit spring earlier

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Chelona is the greek word for turtle....

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I encountered Glinstone Dragon Adula while searching for the turtles and died. When I went back to the turtles I had previously killed they weren’t at their spots so I went to the one I hadn’t killed and killed it. The seal then opened. It looks like dying doesn’t reset your progress.

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I killed the first turtle then the 2nd turtle, the 3rd never spawned but after fast traveling to the altar and activating the lectern the 2nd turtle spawned again, killed it and the seal unlocked .

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Chelona D's

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It opened after the first two turtles, for me.

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bro I waited so long to beat all 3 dragons bc I thought those were the 3 wise beasts and it was ghost turtles? I never even saw one of them :O

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Just a small correction, they are tortoise, which is an animal known for living a long time, hence wise beasts. Turtles have flippers or webbed feet.

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This page saved me hours of time finding those turtles. Whoever wrote this, you da real MVP

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Fromsoftware puzzles are like, here's a haystack, find the needle. Requires intelligence.

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Still bugged for me. RIP

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