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Large Catacombs housing an ancient hero of Mt. Gelmir. |
Gelmir Hero's Grave is a Location in Elden Ring. The Gelmir Hero's Grave is found in Mt. Gelmir, high above the center of the region. Players can get to the entrance of these catacombs by heading northwest from the Bridge of Iniquity site of grace, climbing up the rope ladder to the First Mt. Gelmir Campsite site of grace and heading around west. Alternatively, you can reach the catacombs by walking along the long jagged rock extending from the north of Hermit Village over the chasm (use the Primeval Sorcerer Azur Site of Grace).
Unlike most Catacombs and Hero's Graves, the doors leading to the Boss chamber in this dungeon do not require opening with a lever, they open manually.
Gelmir Hero's Grave Map
The Gelmir Hero's Grave is found in Mt. Gelmir, high above the center of the region. [Elden Ring Map Link]
All NPCs and Merchants in Gelmir Hero's Grave
- There are no NPCs or merchants in this location.
All Items in Elden Ring's Gelmir Hero's Grave
Unique, Ashes and Keys
Elden Ring Gelmir Hero's Grave Creatures, Enemies, and Bosses
Regular Creatures and Enemies
Field Bosses and Bosses
- Red Wolf of the Champion (moveset similar to Red Wolf of Radagon)
Gelmir Hero's Grave Walkthrough
- Equip an Ash of War: Quickstep or Ash of War: Bloodhound's Step on your weapon to be able to move quickly through lava. Several claw items, such as the Bloodhound Claws also have this weapon art.
- With the right timing, Ash of War: Raptor of the Mists can be used to evade the chariots
Once you enter and descend to the main area you will notice one main slope, be careful when lingering on the center slope since this is the chariot's main route. Anticipate the skeletons posted as the save crevices on the sides too that will pop out as you pass. Wait for the chariot to pass you before you advance to the next section until you dip into the last hollow section on the left.
Here you can clear the area and make your way to the tunnel with the second chariot. A Stonesword key can be obtained up the ramp to the right in the tunnel with the second chariot, but you can also keep going down the same chariot route by excessively rolling over the lava, or using Quickstep or Bloodhound's Step. Before progressing down the path with the second chariot, double back to the path of the first chariot, go down the slope with the lava, and make the turn to the left on the lava and there will be a room with a chest to obtain Ringed Finger. Travel back to the opposite side and under the last archway with a Grave Glovewort [7] and (careful!) a hole to drop down onto a ledge which will put you close to the boss.
Jump down to the section below and pick up a Grave Glovewort [7]. Head east a bit to a short ladder downward to pick up a Beast Blood x3. Climb back up the ladder. Now stand on the ledge facing the lava and wait for the chariot to arrive. At the location where it turns, you can hop on it and ride the chariot back. A running start will help. Hop off at the end straight ahead before it turns around. Run into the alcove in front of you with a Lesser Cemetery Shade and skeleton at the end of this slope. There is a chance to gain a Mantis Blade after clearing the Shade. Pick up the Grave Glovewort [7] in the alcove.
If you head south up the next ramp and into the first alcove on the right, it opens into several rooms which lead back to the first area to the left of the first chariot. Instead, there are gaps on either side at the base of this ramp that you can drop down. Drop down the left one onto a ledge which will lead to a remains with Smoldering Butterfly x6 and another secret opening. Turn west into the short arch-topped corridor and before going through all the way, make a right/north into a taller and easily missed corridor. This opens up into a room with a grave violet and 2 exits to the north. Here will be a Lesser Bloodhound Knight who will drop the Bloodhound Knight Set. This is also where you can loot the Gelmir Knight Set off of a corpse. Elden Ring Map here.
When you turn around, there will be a ladder directly behind on the south wall. This leads to a ledge with many pots to break to get to a remains with Root Resin x5. There is are two windows to jump out through and find yourself on a set of wooden beams. Stand at the intersection of the wooden beams. This will put you directly above the chariot as it turns. When the chariot arrives it will momentarily pause before it makes its turn then proceeds back down the slope. Use that pause to hop on the chariot and ride it down the first slope. Keep your eyes to the right side. Unless you can reach the ledge on the right, you will need to hop off and roll on some lava to make your way to the ladder point that is also to the right. This will take you to the last fog gate where you can fight the boss, Red Wolf of the Champion. Defeating this boss will reward you with Bloodhound Knight Floh Ashes. Loot the remaining chest in the boss chamber to obtain Deathroot.
Gelmir Hero's Grave Gallery
Just get the armour and get out. Floh is a decent summon but isn't worth the ballache of yet another BS chariot dungeon.
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Sure, this is a frustrating dungeon, but the loot makes it worth it. Two full armor sets, the ringed finger, and a bunch of gloveworts.
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You can RIDE that thing? I fatrolled through that lava like my boy Sigward in his prime. God damnit...
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I love the exploration aspect of this game the most. Challenging dungeons like this one is great fun. However, dying frequently sucks big time. If you are a PC player, you can "save" the game at any position and don't need to restart from the grace site after you fail. I know, this trick is a cheat but it made the game much more enyoyable for me.
1) Open Windows File Explorer. Go to View tab and click to "Options".
2) "Options" window also have a "View" tab. Go there, and be sure that "Show hidden files" button is active.
3) In Windows File Explorer, go to following location:
This PC > Local Disk (C:) > Users > (Directory with your windows username) > AppData > Roaming > Elden Ring > (Some long-ass number directory)
4) Under this number directory, you will find 2 files with names ER0000.sl2 and ER0000.sl2.bak.
When you exit the game (after clearing half of the dungeon safely, for example), your position is saved in these hidden files. Copy both files to your desktop to save your last safe location in game.
5) If you die unexpectedly (yeah, sometimes it happens), just press Alt+F4 button to prematurely exit out of the game to desktop.
6) Copy the 2 desktop-saved files back to the longass-named directory. (Confirm the overwrite)
7) Restart the game normally. You'll see that you will be at your last saved position in the middle of a dungeon! Whenever you cleared more of the dungeon, in a safe spot, exit the game properly and copy the abovementioned 2 files to your desktop (to make them ready for the next unexpected fail).
Have fun!
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"Anticipate the skeletons posted as the save crevices on the sides too that will pop out as you pass."
I beg your pardon? xD
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WARNING: THE MANTIS BLADE IS A ONE OFF DROP N' SPAWN
Note: If you hear the death of that mantis, once dropping from the crossed wooden raftings (with the chariot below), know that is now your one and ONLY oppurtunity to get it. Otherwise, it never spawns again after death nor reload, and the object does not remain after death nor reload either. Sucks ik
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Utterly weird start to this article. Why mention the Bridge of Iniquity site of grace, only to then direct you to a different site of grace? The Bridge of Iniquity shouldn't be mentioned at all, it's just confusing.
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all the notes "return" "not worth it". As if i do dungeons only for loot. 100% on first run no madder whats the reward its for fun :D
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All that pain and suffering just to fight ANOTHER Red Wolf. Yaaaaaaaay.
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Don't be a dummy like me and assume you can't open the boss door without a lever, then spend an hour looking for it only to find you could've just opened the door yourself the entire time.
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Cons: I couldn't kill the chariot.
Pros: I BECAME the chariot.
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I don't mind the hero grave dungeons that much. But this one suck rancid donkey ar$e
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Idk why everyone hate it, I found it super fun, especially the final twist.
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Something I wish I knew before doing this Hero Grave is that, if you just want the loot, you can avoid all the annoying stuff like the cementery shade ambush.
Go straight on the main road and use a dagger with quick step for that section with with no stone road and nagivage the lava. Pick the finger weapon going left and on the righr side you can drop into a hole and land right in front of the boss door to pick the spirit ashes and deathroot.
If you want the bloodhound and gelmir knight armors, just drop at the right corner of the section with no lava on the main road, navigate the beams, enter the window and kill the bloodhound knight. If you killed the boss beforehand just teleport back or use a grace mimic if you haven't.
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Suggestion. If you want to do this dungeon, just spend your runes before. In general its good for any dungeon, but this one in particular, cause not dying is almost impossible.
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a fun dungeon but the damn chariot that u cannot kill is very annoying.
They sure had to put that stupid Shade there there didn't they
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Be careful when getting the stonesword key. There isn't enough space to escape past the chariot to get back down. You will need to warp back to the site of grace or use that mist trick.
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New FromSoft player (only played Sekiro prior to this) and I've gotta say, the chariots can respectfully, go f themselves. Once you watch their patterns, it's not so difficult, but with the side paths with lava and the holes and everything else, it's easy to slip up and lose your runes. Cool designs for a dungeon, but the chariot makes these ones incredibly annoying.
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I head straight down first (with a brief sidetrip for all the pages), then jump on the chariot at the bottom.
Equip a bow, hit lock on, one arrow to aggro the revealed shade, then let the chariot do the rest!
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So do we know who the hero was? He had two big doggies as pets, so he must have been nice.
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This dungeon is a superior waste of time as far as i’m concerned. It’s just dumb and the loot isn’t really that good anyway.
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Ironically, the boss was so much easier than all those friggin' chariots.
The mere fact that you can get a big fat finger in this dungeon speaks volumes.
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sick chariot ride, 2 dope armor sets, unique weapons, honestly a 10/10 chad dungeon
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Charriot dungeons is just so gross, from soft doing their best to annoy their players
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If you're just here for the deathroot or the ashes, you can practically skip this dungeon. Run down after the first chariot, dealing with the skeletons. When you get to the ramp with the gaps on either side, duck into the left alcove. When the coast is clear, jump down onto the rafter below. From there, jump into the chariot and jump back off at the ladder on the right at the bottom. Fight the boss, get your reward, boom! You're done.
Ledge in this guide isnt big enough to drop on. You just slide right off every time.
- Anonymous
5/10 dungeon
rewards are great, fun place to invade, horrible place to explore
- Anonymous
It does not say it here but just grab bloodhund step and keep going straght (ofc hiding from chariot from time to time) then turn right and drop down and u have boss fight. u skip 90 % of this dumb dugeon and u are done in like 3 mins inc boss fight. Dont waiste time here it gives u nothing but bad memories.
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An absolutely unforgiving dungeon. It is just not worth it. Leave it, if you aren't entitled to beat it
- Anonymous
Found a way to skip a good chunk of it: In the room with the first chariot, you can drop down through the holes in the floor. It's a bit tricky, but if you get it right, you land on the rafters right above where the second chariot stops. From there, you can drop down onto it and hitch a ride through the last stretch of lava, and from there it's only one more empty room in front of the boss room.
I don't have a reliable setup for the first drop, but the alcove right past it is empty and there's a decent amount of time between chariot passes, so it's relatively easy to take a look first beforehand.
- Anonymous
This dungeon isn't as terrible as many commenters here allude to, imho. The chariot here is very lenient with how long it takes to get from one end of the ramp to the other and it really isn't too bad to avoid here. Plus with how much nerfing FromSoft did to lava here, it really isn't too hard to circumvent a lot of the nonsense here. Plus it just looks REALLY cool compared to a lot of the other cookie cut catacomb dungeons we played so far -- about my only personal grip is the Red Radagon Wolf as a boss here -- I hated this enemy/boss in all the times it has appeared.
Other than that this is a fair dungeon if you know what you're doing.
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Doing an RL1 run and accidentally locked myself out of any other option (til I git gud enough I guess) but this one to get a ghost glovewort 7… so many times I’ve died trying to get to it and I think the avoiding or dealing with the Pages is more of a struggle than evading the chariots to get to the damn room.
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Haha. So many complaints. If you just adjust and do what the guide suggests, bh step, and especially raptors of the mists, all of these dungeons are a breeze!
Don’t forget a shackle (margit’s/mohg’s) as their massive aoe can activate the “flamethrower platforms”
#easygame
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This dungeon is such dogshit on so many levels. Another reused boss, lava that slows you down, another damn Chariot, **** for rewards... One of the worst in the game by a mile.
- Anonymous
This dungeon sucks ass. I lost 160k runes because I got trapped in the corner by the chariot where you get the stonesword key. Huge design flaw
- Anonymous
This is a really poor walkthrough, there are so many things just confusing or outright wrong.
For example, after you get the Ringed Finger the directions take you near the boss room. The walkthrough then tells you to wait for the chariot and jump on the back. This is wrong. Jumping on the chariot is to get you to where you already are, and you jump on it from a completely different location.
Very poor guide.
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Someone please tell me why the beast eye didnt quiver upon entering the grave.?
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I was able to fast travel in this Hero's Grave (via map when no enemies were around)- which was pretty great as there is one item that leaves you trapped in a corner by a chariot with no way out.
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Does anyone know if you can just grab the deathroot and die if you don't care about the boss drop enough?
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There is no lever, you can just open the doors. I spent way too long looking for it.
- Anonymous
While riding the chariot isn’t obvious while playing it is in fact showcased in the game’s launch trailer.
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Wow just discovered the drop chute to the boss down where the ringed finger is, I can’t believe you could just skip the whole thing lmao
That lesser bloodhound knight drops the full set. While that's noted on the obtainable items portion of the page, it is not noted on the walkthrough.
- Anonymous
I've been here today and these directions are confusing at best. What I thought was the natural route led me to the bloodhound and gelmir knight sets, and the ladder to get on the beams to drop onto the chariot for a ride down the lava incline. After reading this though I have no idea where the chest with ringed finger is or how to get on what according to this page is the second chariot.
- Anonymous
You can ride the second chariot. It doesn't do anything. But you can.
- Anonymous
Anybody find the beatle emitting the noise at the grace site? You first hear it about 3/4 way down when u first take the lift and continue to hear it till u come up to the grace site
- Anonymous
And the best part is jumping into the alcoves to hide from the chariots and fighting the camera, er I mean skeletons you can't see. Everything else is pure bliss (for a sadistic developer).
- Anonymous
This whole dungeon style, this one in particular, just gives off way more of a Legends of Zelda vibe than a Soulsborne one. Not really interested in the only threats in a dungeon being the environment :/
- Anonymous
Does anyone know what's the weird ring hanging below the cross beams?
The worst part about this place is how ridiculously long the elevator is.
- Anonymous
I remember people not liking the chalice dungeons in Bloodborne, it was sort of split between players who really hated them, and players who really hated them but did them for the platinum or to farm the high tier gems for the weapon slots. But apart from needing to do them to get the platinum trophy and one or two of the most powerful 3rd tier caryll runes there was nothing that was exclusive to the chalice dungeons, but from what I've seen so far these Hero's grave dungeons are far worse than even the hateful cursed and defiled chalice dungeon because some of the coolest armour sets, the dragon incantation seal and some powerful weapons are only obtainable by beating a Hero's grave dungeon. It's like pulling teeth with no anaesthesia, dying over and over, I really hate the chariots as well.
- Anonymous
I can't get on the wooden beam. I'm going to lose my ****ing mind in this place
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Lava surfing using Ashes or fire damage negation talismans best way to complete this horrible dungeon.
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This dungeon killed me more times than Astel and Radahn combined
FS brings a whole new level to the phrase "tedious waste of time"
- Anonymous
actual worst dungeon I have had the pleasure of completing in this game
- Anonymous
I do not know why but the lava does not slow down my tank/strength build and I cannot piece together why. For reference
Class:Vagabond
RL-150
Vigor-60
END-40
STR-80
DEX-14
All other stats are at base value.
Gear:
Armor-Banished Knight Helmet (unaltered),Scaled Armor (altered),Iron Gauntlets,Veteran Leggings
Weapons-Golem's Haldberd,Misbegotten Shortbow,Mausoleum Greatshield
Talismans:Great Jar's Talisman,Erdtree's Favour+2,Dragon Greatshield Talisman,Pearldrake Talisman+2
The reason I am giving a detailed breakdown of the character is because I cannot single out what causes me to move unhindered in lava. I do not know if it is because of my high % damage absorptions,my heavy armor,if I caused it by bumping a stat like STR high enough,if a secondary derivative stat i.e. Robustness causes it or it is just a side effect of reaching a high enough RL.
Anyone else had a similar experience?
- Anonymous
Unless I’m missing something you don’t actually need to ride the chariot you run through the lava and then kill the boss warp to site of grace and get behind it
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The scarab you hear at the grace btw is a troll, it's a crimson tear scarab on the outside but very close to the spawn point, in the canyon next to the altus skelly boatman. You can see it from outside the entrance. Killing it then coming back to the grave makes it respawn.
- Anonymous
Much much much easier to drop from the first bridge you pass. Drop onto the X beams below, if having trouble jump into a corner. Hit blood hound knight from above. Done
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One of the most tedious, poorly made dungeons in the game. Highly recommend you skip unless you absolutely need something out of here.
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Once you find the finger weapon, go the other way thru lava. There is a grave wort plant to pick and a drop that leads straight to the boss, enabling you to skip all the rest of the chariot madness, however choosing to skip most of the chariot madness will prevent you from earning a lot of treasure and armor.
- Anonymous
Riding the chariot is a horrible design choice. From the first second you encounter this you are being taught that you will die even If you just slightly touch it. And then you are expected to jump on top of it? Fromsoft really crapped the bed with this one.
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Who decided bringing back the worst part of Bloodborne was a good idea
And why are they still breathing
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HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT I HAVE TO JUMP ON TOP OF THE CHARIOT?!?!
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once you pass the first chariot and turn left into the room with the page's and the fire totem, there is another path with a chariot that can be ridden. to the left is a path to the bloodhound knight and to the right is a dead end. has anyone found a legitimate way out of the dead end other than taking damage?
- Anonymous
I ravened the mist out of those chariots enabling me to trivialize most of the path
- Anonymous
The guide fails to mention the bandit/assassin/rogue enemies that stab you as you come thtough a doorway (I'm looking for their name), always a lot of bloodstains around these guys.
But to everyone else, you can drop down onto a board in the first opening & then again onto the chariot, you can go to the boss in like 40 seconds. Its a little risky, but I always go spend my runes on levels or arrows before this crap. I barely use ash of wars, so quickstep & bloodhound step are out of the question, almost made it through the lava, but its not possible without those skills.
- Anonymous
Really bad idea to summon co operators here because they can run forward and change the path of the chariot and make your life hell
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Just wondering, there is no way to destroy the chariots like destroying the one in Fringefolk Hero's Grave, is there?
- Anonymous
there's a shrine right after the site of grace that plays a sound when doing the "erudition" gesture; I tried testing the following glintstone crowns but none of them worked:
karolos
twinsage
witch
haima
hierodas
there may be ones I haven't tested but I don't have them. can anyone else test it?
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For anyone confused where this is, go west up until the pumpkin guy, then head south past the wolves
In short, if you’re at and/or past the Mountaintops of the Giants, and don’t want the armor set, this cave is useless
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