Elden Ring Fia questline walkthrough: How to use the Carian Inverted Statue

Turns out that Fia needs a bit more than just to hold you. You’ll need to get the Carian Inverted Statue and Mending Rune of the Death Prince for her, too.

Update: We’ve streamlined the information on this page and added an overview of all of the quest steps for Fia’s questline, so you can quickly see what you may have missed or may need to do next.

It’s safe to say that near every NPC has some form of quest for you to embark on in Elden Ring , and remember that woman who insisted on holding you at the start of your game? Well, her name is Fia and she has one too, and it’s tied to one of the ways you can conclude your adventure.

It’s also where you get to use another item which might be burning a hole in your pocket, the Carian Inverted Statue , and how you’ll get your hands on the Mending Rune of the Death Prince .

With that being said, here’s your spoiler warning for Fia’s questline in Elden Ring and how to complete it.

• Elden Ring Fia’s quest overview
• How to start Fia’s quest in Elden Ring
• How to get Fia’s Weathered Dagger, and what to do with it
• Where to use the Carian Inverted Statue in Elden Ring
• What to do with Twinned Armor and D’s Brother in Elden Ring
• Where to find and beat Fia’s Champions in Elden Ring
• How to get and use the Mending Rune of the Death Prince in Elden Ring

Elden Ring Fia’s quest overview

• Let Fia hold you after you have received two Great Runes to retrieved the Weather Dagger.
• Give the Weathered Dagger to D, Hunter of the Dead, and rest at the Site of Grace in Roundtable Hold.
• Enter the room past Hewg, the Blacksmith in the Hold. You should find Fia standing over D’s corpse.
• Advance Ranni’s quest until you are given the Carian Inverted Statue.
• Use the Carian Inverted Statue to invert the Divine Tower of Liurnia, then retrieve the Cursemark of Death from the top.
• Travel to Nokron, give D’s brother the Twinned Armor, and defeat the Valiant Gargoyles.
• Hop in the coffin at the back of the Valiant Gargoyles’ arena to be teleported to Deeproot Depths.
• Fight Fia’s Champions in the arena by the Across the Roots Site of Grace.
• Speak to Fia, give her the Cursemark of Death, and let her hold you to receive the Radiant Baldachin’s Blessing.
• Rest at the nearby Grace and speak to Fia again. Enter her deathbed dream.
• Defeat Lichdragon Fortissax.
• Retrieve the Mending Rune of the Death Prince from Fia’s body, which marks the end of the quest and allows you to unlock an alternate ending for Elden Ring.
• You can rest once more to retrieve Fia’s armor, as well as the Twinned Armor set and Inseperable Greatsword from D’s brother.

How to start Fia’s quest in Elden Ring

You’ll first encounter Fia in the Roundtable Hold , where she requests to hold you. This brief hug can offer you more than you bargained for , by giving you Baldachin’s Blessing . Baldachin’s Blessing is a consumable item that temporarily boosts your poise and damage negation, but will permanently debuff your HP until used.

You can obviously turn down Fia’s request to hold you, but her quest usually begins after having let her hold you at least once.

Alternatively, you can ignore Fia until you have burnt the Erdtree. After this point, she will move from the Roundtable Hold to underground region, Deeproot Depths, where you can complete the second half of her quest.

How to get Fia’s Weathered Dagger, and what to do with it

After having let Fia hold you for a short while in Elden Ring, the next direction for her quest isn’t so obvious.

To kill two birds with one stone, you can optionally to head to Summonwater Village in northern Limgrave and meet D, Hunter of the Dead. The village is just west of the Summonwater Village Outskirts Site of Grace. You’ll also have to defeat the Tibia Mariner boss here and collect their drop, Deathroot , which comes in handy for D’s quest .

After this, D will relocate to Roundtable Hold.

Once that is done, you can continue with Fia’s quest, but make sure you’ve started Ranni’s quest and Blaidd’s quest prior to this, if you’re hoping to do those.

After defeating Radahn, return to Roundtable Hold, let Fia hold you, and she will give you a Weathered Dagger . Remember to consume the Baldachin’s Blessing afterwards.

The Weathered Dagger must be reunited with its original owner, which just so happens to be D. Speak with D in the centre of Roundtable Hold and give him the Weathered Dagger. While you’re at it, make sure to speak to Sorcerer Rogier in the Hold too, then speak with Fia afterwards to receive the Knifeprint Clue.

Go about whatever else you need to do in Elden Ring, and when you return to Roundtable Hold (or rest), D will have been murdered. His corpse can be found in the room past Blacksmith Hewg, with Fia standing over him.

You’ll be able to loot D’s corpse for Twinned Armor and a Bell Bearing. Speak with Fia, where she’ll tell you a brief amount more about her as the Deathbed Companion, and then she’ll vanish.

Where to use the Carian Inverted Statue in Elden Ring

Next, and again, not so obvious, you’ll need to grab the Cursemark of Death item to give to Fia in Elden Ring.

To get the Cursemark of Death, head to the Divine Tower of Liurnia and use the Carian Inverted Statue at the altar in the Carian Study Hall .

This statue turns the Carian Study Hall into a unique upside-down dungeon that eventually leads to the Tower.

If you do not yet have the Carian Inverted Statue in your possession, you want to advance Ranni’s quest up until you give her the Fingerslayer Blade (found in Nokron). She will give you the Carian Inverted Statue as a reward.

At the top of the Divine Tower, there will be a corpse. Loot it for the Cursemark of Death item. Now, we need to make our way to Deeproot Depths with it.

What to do with Twinned Armor and D’s Brother in Elden Ring

Now, you’ll want to head down to the Siofra Aqueduct underground , north of Nokron, in Elden Ring. Venture into the building here and keep right, and you’ll find D’s brother sat on a balcony (below the D, Hunter of the Dead icon above), just before the mist that leads to the boss in the area.

Interact with him, and you’ll have the choice to hand over the Twinned Armor, and if you do, he will try to kill Fia. He’ll also give you the Inner Order gesture.

You can get the armor back after a short while, so don’t worry about losing it forever. Also, if you choose not to give the armor to D’s brother, he’ll show up later on after the end of Fia’s quest.

Where to find and beat Fia’s Champions in Elden Ring

Next in Fia’s quest, you’ll need to find Fia to actually give her the Cursemark of Death, and defeat Fia’s Champions in the process. This all happens in Deeproot Depths .

To get here, you can continue on from where D’s brother is and face the boss beyond the mist. You’ll have to face two Valiant Gargoyles, and you can summon D, Hunter of the Dead to help (even though he’s dead).

Beat the bosses, being cautious of their various spinning attacks and large AoE poison spread. Once defeated, head deep into the boss arena, grab the Site of Grace, and then you can hop in the coffin by the waterfall ahead of you to trigger a small cutscene and be teleported to Deeproot Depths.

Grab the Deeproot Depths Site of Grace and then parkour your way up the tree branches to the right to get to more land. There is another Site of Grace you can grab here by the Finger Reader Crone, just ahead.

Now, continue around the top of the waterfall to your right, grab the Deeproot Depths map fragment, and travel up the tree branches here until you find a small tunnel.

The tree root that starts your ascent to the tunnel begins at the top of the waterfall, near the headless knight and with a fire breathing enemy on it. You want to try to clear out the fire-breathing enemies blocking your path and get near the building in the distance circled in the above image.

From where I was above, I went right and continued along the branch until I passed the building. Then, a broken branch was to the left of me to jump on. I jumped onto it and continued along this branch.

It’ll bring you straight to a platform to hop down onto, with a Site of Grace. The tunnel is just beyond here.

Run through the small tunnel into a huge arena, and towards the huge statue of Godwyn. Fia’s Champions will appear one by one. I won’t spoil who all of them are, but there’s three of them, and the third one has help too, so you may want to wait before summoning your Spirit Ashes.

Once you’ve been able to clear them out, you’ll get Fia’s Mist and can collect the Across the Roots Site of Grace. Fia will also now have appeared beside the teleport in the arena.

How to get and use the Mending Rune of the Death Prince in Elden Ring

Interact with Fia, and after a short speech, she will present you with a choice. You can say she’s right, or you can say you want to be held. Let her hold you, and she will give you another Baldachin’s Blessing.

While Fia is holding you, choose to ‘Talk in secret’ until she is finished telling you about hallowbrands, and you can then give her the Cursemark of Death that you collected earlier. In return, she gives you the Radiant Baldachin’s Blessing.

Rest at the bonfire and speak with her again. Fia will now say goodbye. Rest at the bonfire once more, and Fia will now appear to be asleep.

Interact with Fia now, and you will trigger the ‘Deathbed Dream’. In this ‘Deathbed Dream’, you’ll be facing a legendary dragon in the same arena as Fia’s Champions, Lichdragon Fortissax.

Once felled, you’ll get the Remembrance of the Lichdragon. Fia will still seem to be asleep once you return, but you can loot her body for the Mending Rune of the Death-Prince.

Rest at the bonfire and return to Fia’s place of rest. D’s brother will be here in D’s gear. As you might expect from Elden Ring by now, he’ll have also killed Fia. You can now loot Fia’s armor.

Rest, and D’s brother will be gone, but he’ll have left the Twinned Armor and Inseparable Greatsword behind him.

This marks the end of Fia’s quest! Keep ahold of the Mending Rune of the Death-Prince, however, as you’ll need this for the Age of Duskborn ending . At the end of the game, use the Mending Rune to see that scenario play out.

For more help with taking on The Lands Between and seeing everything there is to do, check out our comprehensive Elden Ring guide .

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