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Ranni's Rise

Ranni's Rise is a three-storey sorcerous tower in the Three Sisters, a secluded subarea behind Caria Manor in north-western Liurnia of the Lakes.

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Key takeaways

  • Ranni’s Rise is the middle tower in the Three Sisters, beyond Caria Manor in north-western Liurnia.
  • You normally reach it after defeating Royal Knight Loretta in Caria Manor, although some quest states can alter how characters behave.
  • Speaking to Ranni at the top starts the main stage of Ranni’s questline, involving Blaidd, Seluvis, Nokron and Starscourge Radahn.
  • Giving Ranni the Fingerslayer Blade from Nokron rewards the Carian Inverted Statue, which unlocks the altered route through Carian Study Hall.
  • The tower is not the same as Renna’s Rise Renna’s Rise becomes important later, when its waygate leads to Ainsel River Main.
  • After the quest’s conclusion, returning to the tower reveals important late-game consequences for Blaidd and provides additional dialogue.

About this guide

Scope: Elden Ring base game, excluding Shadow of the Erdtree and the separate surrounding locations of the Three Sisters plateau. Spoiler warning: This guide discusses Ranni’s quest, Nokron, the fate of Blaidd and Iji, the Lake of Rot, Astel and the Age of Stars ending.

Overview

Ranni’s Rise is a small but exceptionally important location in north-western Liurnia of the Lakes. It is the central tower of the Three Sisters, a high plateau reached only after passing through Caria Manor. The tower serves as Ranni the Witch’s residence, the opening hub for one of Elden Ring’s longest character quests and, briefly, the home of several major figures connected to Carian royalty, the underground cities and the Night of the Black Knives.

The name can be confusing because players often use “Ranni’s Rise” to mean the entire area behind Caria Manor. Strictly speaking, Ranni’s Rise is the tower and its immediate grounds. The broader plateau is called the Three Sisters, and it also contains Renna’s Rise and Seluvis’s Rise. Caria Manor, the road outside it and the later underground areas connected to Ranni’s quest are separate locations.

Ranni’s Rise contains little conventional loot and no shop or dungeon in the usual sense. Its importance comes from dialogue, quest progression, a key item received from Ranni and several progression changes that open routes across the Lands Between. It is also one of the game’s clearest examples of a location whose function changes as the player advances a quest.

Ranni’s Rise proper

Ranni’s Rise consists of the tall tower, its interior stairway and upper chamber, the approach immediately around the building and the nearby open ground where the dragon encounter can occur. Ranni is found at the top of the tower after the player reaches the Three Sisters.

The tower is an inhabited quest location rather than a conventional dungeon. There are no puzzle rooms, hidden catacomb branches or sizeable treasure route inside. Most of the meaningful content is attached to conversations and progression conditions.

The Three Sisters

The Three Sisters is the broader plateau behind Caria Manor. It contains three named rises:

Ranni’s Rise is the middle tower. Renna’s Rise is the eastern tower and is initially inaccessible. Seluvis’s Rise is the southern tower and is associated with Preceptor Seluvis.

The plateau also contains the approach roads, the tower grounds and the dragon encounter. It should not be treated as part of Ranni’s Rise itself when cataloguing locations.

Separate neighbouring locations

The following places are nearby or connected to Ranni’s Rise but are not subareas of it:

Ranni’s Rise is reached from the area behind Caria Manor, but the manor remains a distinct legacy-dungeon location. Likewise, Cathedral of Manus Celes is part of the later Moonlight Altar section of Ranni’s quest, not part of the Three Sisters.

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Ranni’s Rise stands on elevated ground north-west of the Academy of Raya Lucaria. Its position gives a clear view over the surrounding Liurnian landscape, although the tower itself is partly concealed by the plateau and surrounding structures until the player has crossed Caria Manor.

Ranni’s Rise is the middle tower once the player enters the plateau. Ranni is located at the top, reached by climbing the internal staircase and lift route.

Caria Manor must normally be cleared far enough to defeat Royal Knight Loretta before the plateau can be reached. Guides place Ranni’s tower at the top of the middle rise in the garden area beyond the manor.

Separate neighbouring locations

Separate neighbouring locations: The conventional route is

  1. 01
    Travel north through western Liurnia.
  2. 02
    Enter Caria Manor.
  3. 03
    Progress through the manor’s courtyards, walkways and hand-infested sections.
  4. 04
    Defeat Royal Knight Loretta.
  5. 05
    Leave the manor through the northern exit.
  6. 06
    Enter the Three Sisters plateau.
  7. 07
    Take the central route to Ranni’s Rise.

Recommended first visit

This order establishes the location as a quest hub and ensures that dialogue is not missed simply because the player leaves immediately after meeting Ranni.

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A useful first exploration order is

  1. 01
    Activate the Ranni’s Rise Site of Grace.
  2. 02
    Circle the immediate outside grounds and check the dragon’s location.
  3. 03
    Enter the tower and speak to Ranni.
  4. 04
    Exhaust Ranni’s dialogue.
  5. 05
    Descend and speak with the quest-associated figures who appear below.
  6. 06
    Return to the tower after major quest stages rather than assuming the area is finished permanently.

Ranni the Witch

Ranni is the principal resident and the reason for the tower’s name. She is found in the upper chamber, seated above the tower’s main interior space.

Speaking to her begins the central stage of her quest. She asks the player to enter her service and introduces the wider group connected to her plans. Her objectives eventually lead to:

Ranni’s quest is optional for the ordinary completion of the base game, but it is required for access to the Age of Stars ending. It also rewards the Dark Moon Greatsword at the end of the quest.

Ranni’s early visit as “Renna”

Earlier in the game, Ranni may appear at the Church of Elleh under the name Renna and provide the Spirit Calling Bell and Lone Wolf Ashes. That encounter is separate from her later appearance at Ranni’s Rise. The name change is part of the character’s presentation and should not be treated as a different NPC.

Ranni the Witch

Blaidd the Half-Wolf

Blaidd appears in Ranni’s Rise after the player accepts Ranni’s service. He is one of Ranni’s retainers and becomes the main field agent for the search for Nokron.

His immediate role is to investigate the route to Nokron. The quest then moves him to Siofra River, Redmane Castle and later locations. He is not permanently present in the tower throughout the quest, so his absence after the initial meeting is normal.

Blaidd’s story eventually returns to Ranni’s Rise. Returning after completing Ranni’s quest produces one of the location’s most significant progression changes and leads to a confrontation. This is a major spoiler and is best left until the player has completed the wider quest.

War Counsellor Iji

War Counsellor Iji is associated with Ranni’s faction but is not normally a resident standing inside Ranni’s Rise. He is found at Road to the Manor, outside the manor approach.

Iji provides additional context about Ranni, Blaidd and the political situation surrounding Caria. He also offers smithing services at his own location. Those services belong to Road to the Manor and should not be counted as facilities within Ranni’s Rise.

Iji’s dialogue can change as Ranni’s quest progresses. He is therefore worth revisiting after major milestones, especially after Radahn and after the quest’s conclusion.

Preceptor Seluvis

Seluvis is associated with Ranni’s group and appears in the Three Sisters, but his residence is Seluvis’s Rise, not Ranni’s Rise. He is a separate NPC with his own quest and potion-related objectives.

Seluvis’s Rise is a neighbouring tower and should not be merged with Ranni’s Rise in a location directory. His presence in guides to the Three Sisters often causes the two towers to be conflated.

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Ranni’s Rise has very few conventional facilities.

Site of Grace

The Ranni’s Rise Site of Grace is inside the tower. It functions as the principal checkpoint for the Three Sisters and is the most useful fast-travel point for returning to Ranni.

A second grace, Ranni’s Chamber, becomes available in the upper part of the tower after sufficient quest progression. It is positioned near Ranni’s former place and is associated with the later stages of the quest.

No shop or merchant

There is no merchant, shop, blacksmith, spell vendor, cook, crafting station or purchasable property inside Ranni’s Rise.

A building’s association with a character does not automatically mean that the character provides services there. Ranni’s tower is primarily a meeting and quest-progression space.

Tower interior

It does not contain a conventional loot table comparable to a cave, catacomb or legacy dungeon.

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Wolves

The ordinary hostile creatures recorded for Ranni’s Rise are wolves in the surrounding grounds. They are encountered outdoors rather than as part of an enclosed dungeon route.

The wolves are useful as a warning that the plateau is not entirely safe immediately after leaving Caria Manor, but they are not the main challenge of the area.

Glintstone Dragon Adula

Glintstone Dragon Adula appears in the open area near Ranni’s Rise. The fight begins as an outdoor dragon encounter. After the player reduces its health to a certain point, Adula retreats rather than dying in the first encounter.

The dragon later reappears at the Moonlight Altar, where it can be fought to completion. The Moonlight Altar encounter is a separate location and should not be listed as a second Ranni’s Rise boss.

Adula is thematically linked to Ranni and the Carian magical tradition. The encounter also teaches players that some overworld bosses are staged encounters whose first appearance is not their final battle.

Boss directory

The Ranni’s Rise location listing identifies Adula as the area’s boss encounter and notes that it retreats during the first battle.

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Carian Inverted Statue

The principal reward associated with Ranni’s Rise is the Carian Inverted Statue.

Ranni rewards the player with the Carian Inverted Statue. The statue is then used at Carian Study Hall to invert the building and access its hidden progression route.

The statue is not found as a normal pickup inside the tower. It is a quest reward received through an interaction there.

To receive it

  1. 01
    Defeat Starscourge Radahn.
  2. 02
    Enter Nokron, Eternal City through the crater opened in Limgrave.
  3. 03
    Reach Night’s Sacred Ground.
  4. 04
    Open the chest containing the Fingerslayer Blade.
  5. 05
    Return to Ranni’s Rise.
  6. 06
    Give the blade to Ranni.

Other noteworthy rewards connected to the location

These rewards are obtained elsewhere, but Ranni’s Rise is the point from which the associated quest stages begin or advance:

The broad progression from meeting Ranni to obtaining the Fingerslayer Blade, using Renna’s Rise and eventually claiming the Dark Moon Greatsword is outlined in the quest walkthroughs consulted for this guide.

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Other noteworthy rewards connected to the location

RewardWhere obtainedConnection to Ranni’s Rise
Carian Inverted StatueGiven by RanniDirect reward for delivering the Fingerslayer Blade
Miniature Ranni DollAinsel River MainReached through Renna’s Rise after Ranni’s quest advances
Discarded Palace KeyFrom Ranni during the underground questUsed at Raya Lucaria Grand Library
Dark Moon RingRaya Lucaria Grand LibraryRequired for the final Ranni encounter
Dark Moon GreatswordCathedral of Manus CelesFinal quest reward
Age of Stars endingEnd-game summon signUnlocked by completing Ranni’s quest

Stage 1: Reach the tower

Defeat Royal Knight Loretta in Caria Manor and leave through the northern exit. Cross the Three Sisters plateau and enter the middle tower.

Speak to Ranni at the top. Choose to enter her service and exhaust the available dialogue. After this, return downstairs and speak with the other figures present.

The opening conversation establishes the immediate objective: find a way into Nokron.

Stage 2: Follow the Nokron investigation

The quest’s next steps take place outside Ranni’s Rise:

The exact dialogue order can vary if the player has already encountered Blaidd, Seluvis, Sellen or Radahn. The important progression gate is Radahn’s defeat, which causes a star to fall and opens the route into Nokron.

Stage 2: Follow the Nokron investigation: steps

  1. 01
    Speak with Blaidd in Siofra River.
  2. 02
    Speak with Seluvis at Seluvis’s Rise.
  3. 03
    Receive Seluvis’s introduction for Sorceress Sellen, if following that branch.
  4. 04
    Speak with Sellen at Waypoint Ruins.
  5. 05
    Learn that Starscourge Radahn is preventing the stars from moving.
  6. 06
    Go to Redmane Castle in Caelid.
  7. 07
    Defeat Radahn.

Stage 3: Retrieve the Fingerslayer Blade

After Radahn falls, travel to the crater in eastern Limgrave. Enter Nokron and continue through the city until reaching Night’s Sacred Ground.

The Fingerslayer Blade is inside a chest in the underground city. It is not located anywhere in Ranni’s Rise.

Return to Ranni and give her the blade. The reward is the Carian Inverted Statue. This is the key action that completes the first major phase of the quest and changes the role of the surrounding Three Sisters area.

Stage 4: Use Renna’s Rise

After handing over the blade, Renna’s Rise becomes accessible. This is a separate tower from Ranni’s Rise.

A waygate inside Renna’s Rise transports the player to Ainsel River Main. The player then finds the Miniature Ranni Doll and speaks to it at a Site of Grace until it responds.

From this point, the quest continues through Nokstella, the Baleful Shadows, the Discarded Palace Key, Raya Lucaria Grand Library, the Lake of Rot and Astel.

The relationship between Ranni’s Rise and Renna’s Rise is therefore sequential rather than hierarchical. Renna’s Rise is not a subarea of Ranni’s Rise, but its access is unlocked by progress made through Ranni’s tower.

Stage 5: Complete the quest

The cathedral and Moonlight Altar are not part of Ranni’s Rise, but they complete the quest that begins there.

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Ranni’s Rise is a state-based location. Its characters and available interactions depend on what the player has already done.

The later route is

  1. 01
    Follow the Miniature Ranni Doll’s instructions.
  2. 02
    Defeat the Baleful Shadow in the underground route.
  3. 03
    Receive the Discarded Palace Key.
  4. 04
    Open the chest near Rennala in Raya Lucaria Grand Library.
  5. 05
    Obtain the Dark Moon Ring.
  6. 06
    Cross the Lake of Rot.
  7. 07
    Reach the coffin route.
  8. 08
    Defeat Astel, Naturalborn of the Void.
  9. 09
    Take the lift to Moonlight Altar.
  10. 10
    Enter Cathedral of Manus Celes.
  11. 11
    Descend through the hole in the floor.
  12. 12
    Use the Dark Moon Ring on Ranni.
  13. 13
    Collect the Dark Moon Greatsword.

Before meeting Ranni

The tower can be entered after reaching the Three Sisters, but the full party and quest dialogue are not yet active. The player should speak to Ranni rather than assuming the tower contains no content because it has little loot.

After entering Ranni’s service

Blaidd, Iji and Seluvis become relevant to the quest sequence. Their locations are distributed across Liurnia and the wider map, so not all of them remain inside Ranni’s Rise.

After delivering the Fingerslayer Blade

Ranni leaves the tower and the quest’s focus shifts to Renna’s Rise and the underground regions. The Carian Inverted Statue becomes available at this point.

After completing the quest

Returning to Ranni’s Rise produces additional late-game content involving Blaidd. Iji’s subsequent dialogue also acts as an epilogue to the storyline.

Because these scenes are tied to quest progression, it is sensible to revisit the tower after:

The exact availability of some conversations can depend on the order in which the player meets associated characters and completes their quests. If a dialogue stage does not appear, rest at the Site of Grace and speak to each available character again before moving on.

Interaction with other quests

Ranni’s quest intersects with several other character stories, especially:

The Black Knifeprint investigation involving Rogier and Fia points towards the Black Knife Catacombs and the events surrounding the Night of the Black Knives. The catacombs are in eastern Liurnia and are not part of Ranni’s Rise. They should not be included in the tower’s location directory simply because they provide related lore or quest context.

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For a first base-game playthrough, the following route keeps the area organised and reduces backtracking:

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Interaction with other quests

Interaction with other quests: steps

  1. 01
    Clear Caria Manor and defeat Royal Knight Loretta.
  2. 02
    Enter the Three Sisters and activate the Ranni’s Rise grace.
  3. 03
    Make a full circuit of the plateau, identifying Renna’s Rise and Seluvis’s Rise.
  4. 04
    Fight or bypass the first Glintstone Dragon Adula encounter.
  5. 05
    Enter Ranni’s Rise and speak to Ranni.
  6. 06
    Speak with Blaidd and the other associated characters below.
  7. 07
    Explore the rest of Liurnia and complete any desired Rogier, Fia, Seluvis or Iji dialogue.
  8. 08
    Defeat Radahn.
  9. 09
    Retrieve the Fingerslayer Blade from Nokron.
  10. 10
    Return to Ranni’s Rise and claim the Carian Inverted Statue.
  11. 11
    Move to Renna’s Rise for the next part of the quest.
  12. 12
    Return to Ranni’s Rise only after the later quest milestones and after the final battle if you want to see the location’s closing state.

End of quest

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Ranni’s Rise is a physical expression of Ranni’s break with the Greater Will and the Golden Order. It is a Carian tower occupied by a figure who has rejected the role expected of her as an Empyrean. The tower’s isolation behind Caria Manor suits Ranni’s position: she is still connected to the Carian royal house, but operates apart from the established powers of the Lands Between.

The group gathered around her also explains the location’s narrative importance:

The tower is therefore less a treasure location than a campaign headquarters. It begins as a quiet meeting place, becomes the handover point for the Fingerslayer Blade and later serves as the setting for the consequences of Ranni’s choices.

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The following entries are the named locations, characters, enemies and key items directly verified as part of Ranni’s Rise or its immediate Three Sisters context. Related places are listed separately to avoid expanding the boundary without evidence.

Named characters

Status note: Iji is associated with Ranni’s faction but is located at Road to the Manor, not inside Ranni’s Rise.

Named characters

Enemies and bosses

Items directly associated with Ranni’s Rise

Status note: The Fingerslayer Blade is found in Nokron and delivered at Ranni’s Rise. It is not a tower pickup.

Separate but directly connected locations

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Separate but directly connected locations

Is Ranni’s Rise the same as the Three Sisters?

No. Ranni’s Rise is one tower within the Three Sisters plateau. The plateau also contains Renna’s Rise and Seluvis’s Rise.

How do I get to Ranni’s Rise?

Clear Caria Manor, defeat Royal Knight Loretta and leave through the northern exit. Ranni’s Rise is the middle tower on the plateau beyond the manor.

Why is Ranni not in the tower?

Ranni leaves after the quest advances, particularly after receiving the Fingerslayer Blade. Rest at the Site of Grace and check the related towers and underground route.

Where is the Carian Inverted Statue?

Ranni gives it to you after you deliver the Fingerslayer Blade from Nokron. It is not found as a chest item in Ranni’s Rise.

Can I fight Glintstone Dragon Adula here?

You can begin the encounter near Ranni’s Rise, but Adula retreats. The final battle occurs later at Moonlight Altar.

Is there a shop or blacksmith in Ranni’s Rise?

No. Iji’s smithing services are provided at Road to the Manor, a separate location.

Does Ranni’s Rise affect the ending?

Yes. Completing Ranni’s quest unlocks the option to summon Ranni after the final boss and receive the Age of Stars ending.

Can I return after finishing the quest?

Yes. Returning to Ranni’s Rise after the later quest stages reveals important consequences for Blaidd and provides additional dialogue connected to Iji.

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