All of the NPCs have their own questlines in Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree DLC. Anyone you meet will have hidden side quests for you. Just like the main game there are no waypoints or objectives. The game wants you to figure out the steps by yourself.
As a rule of thumb: you always need to exhaust all dialogues with every NPC. Some will give you hints what to do, and some will give you items related to their side quest. A few quests have multiple outcomes depending on who you side with or what items you give to an NPC.
Missable Warning: The Point of No Return is when burning the Sealing Tree at Church of the Bud (unmissable story event). This is after the Romina main boss. After this all NPCs will disappear and their questlines will fail, except Ymir/Jolán and Igon/Priestess which are the only ones that remain doable post-story. Do all questlines before burning the Sealing Tree. Keep a backup save if possible. The questline for Hornsent Grandam has to be initiated before defeating Messmer boss in the Shadow Keep.
The two most important questlines are St. Trina & Thiollier and Sir Ansbach. If you do their quests you can summon them to aid you against the final story boss, which makes it much easier. Without them you’d be solo against the endboss which is extremely difficult.
All NPC Side Questlines
- St. Trina & Thiollier
- Sir Ansbach & Finger Knight Leda & Freyja
- Ymir & Jolán
- Igon & Dragon Communion Priestess
- Dryleaf Dane
- Hornsent Grandam
For other guides check out Elden Ring Wiki.
I accendatelly a bug sitting at a grave whic do not respawn – is a specific NPC quest now broken? 🙁
Huh???
Thank you for this!
I don’t see fire knight queeligin or Moore though. Is fire knight just 2 invasions then meeting at shadow keep?
And for Moore I’m not quite sure
Thanks as always powerpyx
The point of no return is also just progessing to a certain point in the map. Shadow Keep i think it’s called. I accidentally walked there, and then something happened to make all the NPC’s leave. No warning whatsoever. I’ve only beat 1 main boss.
Some of them move to different locations as you advance the story, but they don’t disappear completely.
The list is missing Moore and Hornsent questlines
Used all your side quests guide for the dlc, helped a lot. Thank you so much!