Welcome to our ‘Elden Ring: How To Complete The Dung Eater’s Questline?’ guide. The Dung Eater is a feared entity in Elden Ring. The Dung Eater questline is introduced in the opening sequence, although it takes a while to complete. Completing the Dung Eater questline should be a top priority for those seeking all endings.
Before we go into the Dung Eater questline, be aware that there are plenty of spoilers below. These include late-game places, characters, and bosses.
Dung Eater questline
Dung Eater is one of Elden Ring’s longer NPC questlines. You must head to Miquella’s Haligtree, an optional site that demands a lot of labor to reach.
a) Atlus Plateau & Roundtable Hold
To begin the Dung Eater quest, you must first go to the Atlus Plateau, which may be reached by the Grand Lift or the lake in Liurnia of the Lakes. Atlus Plateau: The Dung Eater appears in the Roundtable Hold.
After entering the Roundtable Hold, Roderika will tell you that she can hear ghosts sobbing in fear of the Dung Eater on the opposite wing.
The Dung Eater is currently on the Roundtable Hold’s opposite wing, near Gideon, the All-Knowing. Only a Seedbed Curse will get the Dung Eater to communicate to you. So let’s speak about Seedbed Curses.
b) Seedbed Curse locations
The Dung Eater questline requires the Seedbed Curse items. The Dung Eater plot requires only five of the six to be found. Here’s where to locate them.
Lenydell Royal Capital – Blackguard’s quest.
This Seedbed Curse may be found outside Leyndell Royal Capital, in the moat. The moat runs north of the wall and south of the Minor Erdtree. Before the Dung Eater invades, finish the Blackguard’s questline. Buying Rya’s jewellery from him in Liurnia of the Lakes, buying Boiled Prawns, and chatting to him when he travels to Leyndell’s moat.
Leyndell Royal Capital – East Capital Rampart.
The Leyndell Royal Capital has this non-quest Seedbed Curse. Follow the main path along the wall to the shattered statue gargoyle opponent blocking the entryway. Take the elevator inside. Enter the huge chamber and ascend the right-hand ladder. The Seedbed Curse is on the chair’s body.
Leyndell Royal Capital – Roundtable Hold.
Located in the Roundtable Hold building in the west of the Leyndell Royal Capital. The tree branch touches the structure on the south side. Squeeze into the building. Find another person bound to the chair and your Seedbed Curse where the Dung Eater was.
Volcano Manor – Temple of Eiglay
This Seedbed Curse is in Mt Gelmir’s Volcano Manor’s Prison Town Church. In one of Volcano Manor’s side chambers, roll against the wall and look for a secret door. Traverse the lava to the Temple of Eiglay.
Take the right elevator up to the balcony. Dive down the cliffs. Keep going upward. You’ll need to jump from a cliff and continue.
Run across the lava, up the hill, and through the window. If you’re lucky, you’ll get hit by Enter a dark section just before a broad corridor.
Defeat the snake warriors to go on. Snakes protect the throne’s staircase. Instead of the throne, find an Imp Statue and a fog wall over the entryway. Then use a Stonesword Key to lower the cages. The chair will have a Seedbed Curse.
Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree – Prayer Room
Seedbed Curse in Miquella’s Haligtree, notably in Elphael, Haligtree’s Brace. You may locate it by going northeast from the Prayer Room and down three sets of stairs (there will be two crossbow soldiers above the last set). Now you’re undercover with a body hanging over the railing.
Splash down and grab a brace. A vast platform awaits you, with a Crimson Teardrop Scarab perched atop a little pagoda. Jump to this platform, then to the northwest brace.
Then walk up the brace and leap. Then follow the ledge around to the end, where a corpse is on a chair. A Putrid Avatar guards a gateway behind the body.
Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree – Prayer Room
Seedbed Curse in Miquella’s Haligtree, notably in Elphael, Haligtree’s Brace. To find it, travel northeast from the Prayer Room, out the door, and down seven flights of steps.
A big room with a Cleanrot Knight within awaits you at the top of the last flight of stairs. Rather, jump over the right railing and onto the brace. Drop from the bracing to a ledge below to encounter gloomy steps. Find another chair-bound body down the stairs.
Dung Eater in the sewer-gaol below the capital
Return to the Roundtable Hold and offer the Seedbed Curse to the Dung Eater. Sewer-Gaol Key He will instruct you to release his body “Trapped in the sewer-gaol underneath the capital.”
Go to Leyndell Royal Capital for the sewer-gaol. An open well in the city’s northwest leads to the sewers. See the map above for directions. Proceed to the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds and the Underground Roadside Site of Grace.
Exit the Site of Grace and head left towards the Omen opponents. Drop down the hole by the gate. In the lowest portion, travel northwest. Defeat the plant foes and climb up. a barred door at the top. Use the sewer-gaol key to open the door and discover the Dung Eater.
Speak with the Dung Eater and free him. You can now finish the Dung Eater quest.
Defeating the Dung Eater
Returning to the Roundtable Hold and visiting the Dung Eater’s normal quarters reveals he has departed. Instead, a message on the ground says: I’ll defile you next. Come to the moat.
The Dung Eater may now infiltrate Leyndell’s outer moat. Enter the moat to the north of the city. Wait till the Dung Eater invades. Caution: you may also trigger a crab foe. Beat the Dung Eater and return to the Roundtable Hold to talk. The Dung Eater will now ask for extra Seedbed Curses.
Completing the Dung Eater quest
The Dung Eater quest requires four more Seedbed Curses, for a total of five. Find four additional Seedbed Curses using the preceding list (there is one extra in the world). It’s evident that you must deliver the Seedbed Curses to the Dung Eater’s body.
The Mending Rune of the Fell Curse is one of the objects necessary to unlock an ending in Elden Ring.
The Dung Eater in the sewer-gaol may also unlock the Omen armour set. This set really enhances all Omen Bairn damage.
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