Here’s how to reach the Roundtable Hold hub in Elden Ring
Looking to enter the Roundtable Hold in Elden Ring?If you’ve played any previous Soulslikes, then there are a few key tropes that you might recognise inElden Ring, masquerading under an unfamiliar name. Instead of Bonfires, we getSites Of Grace. Instead of Souls, we getRunes. And instead of the Firelink Shrine hub area, we get the Roundtable Hold.
The Roundtable Hold is seemingly on a separate plane of existence from the rest of The Lands Between, and the only way to go there is to first be invited. In this quick guide, we’ll walk you throughhow to get to the Roundtable Hold in Elden Ring- as well as how to find the area that the Roundtable Hold was based on, deep inLeyndell!
How to get to the Roundtable Hold in Elden Ring
In order to reach the Roundtable Hold in Elden Ring,you must be invited by Melina. After first appearing to you at the Gatefront Site Of Grace (or another nearby Grace) to give youTorrent, Melina will visit you later on at a different Site Of Grace once certain conditions are met.
Melina will invite you to the Roundtable Hold ifeitherof the following conditions are met:
The moment you achieve one or the other of these conditions, Melina will appear to you and invite you to the Roundtable Hold. Note that you don’t need to beat Margit in order to fulfil the second criterion; you only need to face him once, and then rest at any Limgrave Site Of Grace.
If you want to reach the Roundtable Hold as quickly as possible, you need to either beeline straight to Margit at the entrance toStormveil Castle; or you need to make your way to the Lake-Facing Cliffs Site Of Grace at the start ofLiurniaor the Smoldering Church Site Of Grace in Caelid. Here are all three paths marked on the map for your benefit:
Once you have been invited by Melina to the Roundtable Hold and been transported there for the first time, you can return to the Roundtable Hold anytime you like. To do this, open your map and move your cursor to the very bottom-left corner of the map, where a Site Of Grace icon will be shown over the time of a large circular icon representing the Roundtable Hold. You can also find the Roundtable Hold at the start of the Sites Of Grace list, accessible by pressingYon your controller while in the map.
The Roundtable Hold acts as your hub in Elden Ring, and is an area that you will likely return to many times over the course of your playthrough. The Roundtable Hold is home to several important NPCs, includingFia, Sir Gideon, D, Brother Corhyn, Diallos, and later Rogier, Nepheli, Roderika, and the Dung Eater. It’s also an area where you can purchase items from the Twin Maiden Husks, upgrade your equipment andSpirit Ashesby speaking to Smithing Master Hewg and Roderika; and gain Remembrance weapons and items after defeating key bosses and bringing their Remembrances back to Enia.
One interesting secret of Elden Ring is that the Roundtable Hold, despite its extra-planar nature, is based upon a physical area deep in Leyndell, the Royal Capital. This area is called the Fortified Manor, which is located here on the map:
To get to the Fortified Manor, follow these steps:
As you’ll soon discover, the entirety of the Fortified Manor is a copy of the Roundtable Hold - or rather, the Roundtable Hold is a copy of the Fortified Manor.Insideyou’ll find the Sanctified Whetblade, alongside all sorts of other loot where you would normally expect to find the NPCs of the Roundtable Hold.
That brings our guide on reaching the Roundtable Hold to an end, but we have plenty more to offer when it comes to finding your way around the Lands Between. Why not check out our guides on how to get toAltus Plateau,Volcano Manor,Crumbling Farum Azula, or theConsecrated Snowfield? Alternatively, you can prepare for the new regions ahead with our guides on thebest weaponsandbest buildsin Elden Ring right now.
