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Hidden treasure of the Eternal City of Nokron
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Fingerslayer Blade is a Key Item in Elden Ring. The Fingerslayer Blade is required to progress Ranni's questline. Key Items in Elden Ring include a wide variety of items found in specific locations or are given by a related NPCs which are used to unlock areas, quests, and to further progress the game's story.
The hidden treasure of the Eternal City of Nokron; a blade said to have been born of a corpse.
This blood-drenched fetish is proof of the high treason committed by the Eternal City and symbolizes its downfall.
Cannot be wielded by those without a fate, but is said to be able to harm the Greater Will and its vassals.
Where to find Fingerslayer Blade in Elden Ring
- Found in a chest under the massive skeleton statue in Night's Sacred Ground. [Map Link] Video Location
Elden Ring Fingerslayer Blade Use
Fingerslayer Blade is used to progress in Ranni's questline. This is the 'Hidden treasure of Nokron' she asks you to find. After giving this item to her, she gives you the Carian Inverted Statue as a reward.
Elden Ring Fingerslayer Blade Notes & Tips
- The chest cannot be opened unless you have talked to Ranni and entered her service.
- Handing this item to Ranni results in the end of Seluvis's questline. Be sure to obtain the Magic Scorpion Charm from Seluvis before handing this item to Ranni, otherwise the talisman would become unobtainable.
- This item bears similarities to two weapons in Elden Ring:
- It's shape is similar to that of the Black Knife, being that of a curved dagger. The cross guard of the Fingerslayer Blade lines up with two of the three spikes of the Black Knife, but it is missing the Black Knife's additional spike. As the Black Knife Assassins are scions of the eternal cities, one of which this weapon is a treasure of, the assumption can be made the Black Knife daggers were fashioned after this blade. The Black Knives were also used by the Assassins to kill a member of the Golden Lineage, and thus a vassal of the Greater Will, so this design choice might have been intentional by the Assassins as either a symbolic gesture, or the Black Knife actually inherited its demigod-slaying power from this item at least in part, somehow.
- It shares its double helix blade with the Sacred Relic Sword, which, similarly to this item's description, was fashioned from a corpse. The description of the Sacred Relic Sword states it is considered to be an omen of the end of era and a beginning that might bring ruin or prosperity. Similarly, this item brought about the doom of the society inhabiting the eternal cities, as it caused the greater will to banish them underground, which made way for the Age of the Golden Order.
AnonymousAt 16 strength, 50 faith, and 80+ arcane, you can put blood flame and two or three shot Elden Beast with it. Also makes a great sleep weapon for invasions.
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wasted my time, so u don't have to.
no, u cannot kill three finger with this.
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Why does it look similar to rune of death, another thing that can harm a god?
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I mean... pretty much every blade is a "fingerslayer". Fingers typically don't hold up too well when a blade is applied to them.
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People seem to think that this is a dagger but it is a curved greatsword
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People seem to think this is a dagger, but it is in fact a curved greatsword. Don's believe me? Look closely at the grip. This is a curved version of the sacred relic sword, with destined death rather than holy.
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Honestly the nox got a pretty good deal here if you think about it. The nox were planning on killing the Greater Will and its whole family and in response it just chucked them underground lol.
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Voice: You are not fated to open this chest!
Me: Who said that. I'll open any chest I like. I'll be Elden Lord soon you know. Bloody cheek.
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Don’t know if it should be in this page but should note somewhere that this is almost certainly a reference to Berserk. Specifically to Guts’s goal/fate to kill the god hand.
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Absolute cowardice to lock the chest unless we're "fated to open" it.
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Now I find out that giving this to Ranni ends the questline to make Dung Eater a puppet? Selivus is just a puppet himself now.
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So, this is similar as Sacred Relic Sword, made out of a dead god.
Perhaps Nox killed the Placidusax's god and slayed the Five Fingers into two and three respectively?
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Pretty sure the answer is no, and its just a big missed opportunity, but are we sure there is no special interaction with your own fingers or with the three fingers if you keep the finger slayer in yoyr inventory?
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I messed up Ranni’s quest. I got this blade but no Ranni to give it to in exchange for the inverted statue. Is there a workaround?
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After looking carefully at its design, I noticed that it kinda looks like an old, bent, crumbling version of the Sacred Relic Sword. I mean, it was made from a corpse of some unknown figure, and the Sacred Relic Sword was made from Radagon’s corpse, so there might be some kind of connection between the two since both were created from the corpses of supposedly powerful entities.
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If Ranni required this blade to kill her Two Fingers, what killed the various Two Fingers atop the Divine Towers?
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"...but is said to be able to harm the Greater Will and its vassals."
So perhaps this might be what Ranni used to slay her Two Fingers underneath the Cathedral of Manus Celes.
Also could this mean that Ranni's goal in the Age of Stars ending might be to go into space and slay the Greater Will itself?
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This is the counterpart of the sacred relic sword, if that sword has Radagon in the Inner Order gesture, this blade has a pose similar to the stakes of Marika.
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Most likely created from the body of an Empyrean, like the Sacred Relic Sword. Are there any known links between the Godslayers/Dusk-Eyed Queen and the Eternal Cities? It could be her body. We don't really know of any other Empyreans.
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thought this was a weapon i could use and searched maniacally in my inventory just to find out it's a key item
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This looks to be the wound given to Godwyn the Golden, seen from the flesh-side (not the skin-side).
What this illuminates is why Ranni orchestrated his assassination - to create this weapon.
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Anybody else notice the similarities in the blade to the “sacred relic sword”? The swords description also reads “Sword wrought from the remains of a god who should have lived life eternal”. What I’ve concluded is that killing really important things in this universe gives you a twisty blade.
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So if we somehow gain a "fate" could (can) this become a weapon?
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It said it's born of a corpse and proof of high treason... And it looks like the wound on the back of Godwyn...
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If you notice, it's got some similarity to the blade wielded by the elden beast and the godslayer greatsword as well. All three seem to be somewhat made of bone and have voids along the surface of the blade.
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Missed this and accidentally went and killed the gargoyles... Oops, now I gotta backtrack
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I would dearly love to know for sure, when this was forged relative to https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Black+Knife, https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Godslayer's+Greatsword, https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Inseparable+Sword, or https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Blade+of+Calling. Currently, I think the Noxtellan Numen women who would become the Black Knives described this artifact to Ranni, which allowed her to create the Black Knives for them, which explains how she knew about it and asks you to retrieve it. From there I think the https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Blade+of+Calling was Marika's knockoff of the Black Knife design. https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Death's+Poker and https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Helphen's+Steeple are clearly even older, but which one predates the other? There's so much we don't know by design, since the Golden Order controls so much of the information that is available.
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I'm curious if this blade was forged from Ranni's body, which is why her remains are hidden away. The only other corpse that makes sense would be if it were forged from Godwyn's remains, but I think that's manifested elsewhere.
Both seem plausible given the design overlap to the Sacred Relic Sword that the Elden Beast forges from Radagon/Marika's body.
What's also interesting about this is that the Sacred Relic Sword is made of intertwined Silver & Gold, exactly the same way D's armor is, where it's heavily implied that his "Twin" younger brother is actually a Mimic of him, and they share the same soul.
The reason that's notable is that it's upon entering Nokron that Fia grants you the Weathered Dagger which was once made of intertwined Silver & gold, but is now worn down and marred by a black gash — and it's the item that kills D and separates him from his Mimic brother, who you give the armor to.
There's a lot of symbolism around the split facets of the demigods when the Cursemark of Death is fractured in two, but Godwyn's Death and D being a hunter of Those Who Live in Death to feed Malekith the Death Root seems to be all linked into the elements of Godwyn, as a parallel to what Ranni is doing.
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We still can make poison weapons even after giving it to Ranni, right?
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Before being sent to retrieve it, the chest containing it cannot be opened, and you only get a message saying "you are not destined to open this."
SPOILER ALERT: For those who were confused as to what was the purpose of the Fingerslayer Blade. At the end cutscene for Ranni's questline
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Distinctively similar to the sword crafted from the elden beast remembarence
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the "finger"s she killed I noticed has, three fingers. Three digits, albiet twisted and mangled, are protruding from the victim she's killed. So I'm wondering if she killed and agent of the frenzied flame.. or if maybe they just reused the three finger's model to make this corpse. I'm confused as it doesn't make much sense visually.
She has no reason to kill a three fingers other than y'know chaos being bad for her, and generally everything else- but beyond that its not whats binding her to her "purpose" as an empyrean to the two fingers. If you had found at two fingered corpse down there, it would make sense.. but we dead just find a three fingered corpse..
So I'm just wondering what exactly we're looking at here.
The item behind the Swordstone Key door is the Mimic Tear Ashes. It's not as good as before the 1.03 patch, but still worth trying out!
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what if ranni has already departed on her journey and you havent given her thw blade
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Is there any chance this could be connected to the gloam eyed queen? Could this be her body? (She was an empyrean, and this looks like Radagon/Marikas fate after the final boss fight) It would make an interesting theory… but I might be reaching
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we know Ranni uses this to kill the two fingers after giving it to her and completing her quest, has anyone instead tried taking it with them to the three fingers below the capital and seeing if there's a special interaction there? just curious
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It really should mention Seluvis on here, seeing as how if you turn this blade in immediately, you permenantly lose out on a 15% damage magic talisman.
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FYI, when you pick this up it is shown under the "key items" section of your inventory and is not under "melee armaments". Don't be like me and freak out when you can't find the fancy looking dagger you just picked up.
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This is similar to the sword made of Radagon's body: the Sacred Relic Sword.
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Did Ranni kill the greater will with this? We see the Frenzied Flame take refuge within the Three Fingers deep underground. What if the greater will was hiding within the two fingers she killed as well?
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Kek I thought this was a weapon. I wandered around Nokron for a solid two or three more hours beating my dead against the Gargoyles from time to time because I thought the treasure would be better hidden.
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This is actually the same type of weapon as the Sacred relic sword. Both feature the same design motif and even some details are the exact same like the intertwining spines
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For anyone struggling;
1. If she isn't in the tower after you get the item, repent using a celestial dew at the church of vows (interact with the statue in the water)
2. You cannot open the chest until you progress through Ranni's quest. This means completing Seluvis' quests, talking to Sellen and killing Radahn.
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If you loot the chest before the quest, you're locked out of the quest til your New Game+ run. RIP
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The chest says i'm not destined to open it... :( SAD SMILEY!!
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I can't find her in her tower after getting this, anyone know where tf to find her?
To respond to some comments:
Yes this is a dagger. No, it's not "cowardice" to block the player from opening the chest. Even if it was a usable item and not a key item, the character wouldn't even know what to do with it without Ranni (unless you want to kill the Two Fingers from the start, IDK). It says it only harms the Greater Will and its vassals, so that also excludes the Three Fingers. And yes the Black Knife is based off of this/ is the next evolution of it. They both have the same center, and they both have god/demigod killing powers besides the Black flame.
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