Chelona's Rise

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A tower overlooking the southwestern-most tip of Liurnia of the lakes.

Chelona's Rise is a Location in Elden Ring. The Chelona's Rise is found at the Moonlight Altar plateau, high above in the southwest of 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 Chelona's Rise by traveling south from the Ringleader's Evergaol.

 

Chelona's Rise Map

Chelona's Rise's is situated on the southwestern-most tip of the Moonlight Altar sub-region in Liurnia. [Elden Ring Map Link].

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All NPCs and Merchants in Chelona's Rise

  • There are no NPCs or Merchants at this location

 

All Items in Elden Ring's Chelona's Rise

Gather & Farm Items

 

Upgrade Materials

On the pathway from Ringleader's Evergaol

 

Equipment and Magic

 

Unique, Ashes and Keys

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Elden Ring Chelona's Rise Creatures, Enemies, and Bosses

Regular Creatures and Enemies

Field Bosses and Bosses

  • There are no Bosses at this location

 

Chelona's Rise Walkthrough

Along the long stretch of land between Ringleader's Evergaol and Chelona's Rise, you will find a path laden with crystals and several non-boss variants of Crystalians guarding the area. Past this pathway is a large open field with three gazebos by the cliffs. There is a Lesser Red Wolf of Radagon to be fought here which drops runes currency elden ring wiki guide 18 4518 Runes upon death and does not respawn. Check each gazebo to find a total of 6 Smithing Stone (7) and 3 Smithing Stone (8). Chelona's Rise is found further south from the gazebos.

Chelona's Rise, like most field towers is sealed by a barrier upon initial visit. There is an Imp Statue by the entrance holding a glowing book, asking you to "seek three great wise beasts". The Great Wise Beasts in question are Giant Ghostly Turtles that you will need to search for and attack. Unlike most towers, the locations for these are spread very far apart on this entire plateau. 

Important: Do NOT fast travel or rest at a site of grace while looking for the turtles or the turtles you have not destroyed will despawn until you examine the statue again.

 

First Location

The first turtle can be found directly west of the tower, hanging by the cliff face.
Use a ranged attack or a melee skill with AoE to hit it. [Map Link]

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Second Location

The second turtle is found far to the east, south of Lunar Estate Ruins.
Head towards the edge of the plateau and look down to see the turtle sitting on a lower cliff. [Map Link]
Occasionally this turtle does not spawn and can potentially be skipped.

NOTE: To ensure the turtle spawns, make sure to start at the Altar South Site of Grace then move east. Fast traveling to other Sites of Grace in the area can cause the turtle to not spawn.

NOTE 2: If you can't see the turtle at the cliff, try to throw a AoE spell or item (even an arrow should work) where it should be. Then head to the third turtle.

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Third Location

The final turtle is found southeast of Ringleader's Evergaol, flying high above. There is a Spiritspring nearby that you can jump from with Torrent, flying through the turtle while in the air. It's very obvious to see under the spiritspring, if you don't see the turtle, try going to Altar South, interacting with the imp statue book, then running to the Spiritspring. [Map Link]

NOTE: If you can't see the turtle midair, try jumping at the Spiritspring anyway. It may take some tries, but if you hit the right place where the turtle should be a message will show up saying that the tower is now open.

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Once all three turtles are killed, you will be notified that the seal has unlocked. Make your way up the tower to find a chest with the Ranni's Dark Moon spell.

 

Elden Ring Chelona's Rise Gallery and Notes

If you do use a site of grace to reach one of the turtles faster, it will not appear. However, you can make them visible again. To solve the Elden Ring Chelona's Rise turtles not spawning bug:

Go back to the tower and read the book again, then return to the location of the turtle without hopping across sites of grace. 

 

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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.

      • 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.

        • Anonymous

          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

          • Anonymous

            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.

            • Anonymous

              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.

              • Anonymous

                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.

                • Anonymous

                  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.

                  • Anonymous

                    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.

                    • Anonymous

                      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.

                      • Anonymous

                        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.

                        • Anonymous

                          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

                          • Anonymous

                            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

                            • Anonymous

                              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.

                              • Anonymous

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

                                • Anonymous

                                  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.

                                  • Anonymous

                                    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...

                                    • Anonymous

                                      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

                                      • Anonymous

                                        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

                                        • Anonymous

                                          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.

                                          • Anonymous

                                            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.

                                            • Anonymous

                                              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.

                                              • Anonymous

                                                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.

                                                • Anonymous

                                                  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

                                                  • Anonymous

                                                    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.

                                                    • Anonymous

                                                      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.

                                                      • Anonymous

                                                        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.

                                                        • Anonymous

                                                          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

                                                          • Anonymous

                                                            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

                                                            • Anonymous

                                                              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

                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                "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.

                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                  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)

                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                    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.

                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                      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.

                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                        '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.

                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                          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!

                                                                          • Anonymous

                                                                            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.

                                                                            • Anonymous

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

                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                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

                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                  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

                                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                                    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

                                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                                      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.

                                                                                      • Anonymous

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

                                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                                          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

                                                                                          • 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.

                                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                                              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.

                                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                                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.

                                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                                  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

                                                                                                  • Anonymous

                                                                                                    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...

                                                                                                    • Anonymous

                                                                                                      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

                                                                                                      • Anonymous

                                                                                                        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?

                                                                                                        • Anonymous

                                                                                                          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

                                                                                                          • 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.

                                                                                                            • Anonymous

                                                                                                              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 .

                                                                                                              • Anonymous

                                                                                                                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

                                                                                                                • Anonymous

                                                                                                                  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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