The Duchess‘ Remembrance quest in Elden Ring Nightreign is where you’ll find some essential lore about what’s going on in Roundtable Hold and who some of the Nightfarers are. It’s one of Nightreign‘s longest and most involved quest chains, and completing it requires you to defeat at least half of all the main bosses. However, if you want more of Nightreign‘s story and some excellent relics for the Duchess, it’s worth the time.

Our in-progress Elden Ring Nightreign guide gives you a Duchess Remembrance quest walkthrough with everything from how to start the Duchess’ Remembrance and where to find the Wylder to the best strategy for defeating the Revenant when she challenges you to a duel.

How to start Duchess’ Remembrance in Elden Ring Nightreign

The first part of unlocking the Duchess’ Remembrance is, of course, being able to play as the Duchess. Our guide for how to unlock the Duchess gets into it in more detail, but the gist of it is that you need to make a bit of progress against the Nightlords and obtain a key item.

The first two chapters of the Duchess’ journal are available automatically once she becomes playable, but the first Remembrance quest only unlocks after you obtain memory fragments.

Duchess Remembrance Chapter 3: Armament Maintenance Materials

The Raider wants a word, so chat with him to learn about his concerns regarding the Wylder’s health. Speak with the Wylder, then talk to the Raider again. He wants you to gather some armament maintenance materials to keep everyone’s equipment in proper fighting shape.

Start an expedition while you’re reliving the Duchess’ memory. The specific boss choice doesn’t matter, and the objective remains active whether the map is undergoing a Shifting Earth change or not. The objective location also seems to be in the same place regardless, unlike with the Recluse’s Remembrance. Ideally, you want to tackle this challenge at the start of day one or day two, in case the circle ends up closing it off.

Head to the objective marker in the map’s southwestern corner once you’re at least level three or four, as you’ll be fighting three Guardians of thew Dew enemies. These club-wielding foes have slow attacks, but they also spread poison dust in the area. You have time to rush in and attack before poison builds up, so don’t worry too much about avoiding it.

The challenge goes more smoothly if you’re in a party of three, but if you’re playing solo, make sure to play defensively.

Pick one of the three targets, get a full dagger chain attack in (if you can safely do it), then retreat and wait for an opening to do it again. The Duchess’ unique Burning Scene relic that you can purchase from the Small Jar Bazaar is a useful one to equip if you have it, as it activates her skill’s damage reprise whenever you complete a full dagger chain.

Collect the Golden Dew after you defeat the guardians, and complete the expedition. Speak to the Wylder once you’re back in Roundtable Hold to receive Faded Iron Coins, and then chat with the Raider, Revenant, and Iron Menial in that order to finish the quest.

The Golden Dew key item becomes an equippable topaz relic for the Duchess, one that improves the Duchess’ skill power and boosts power for any attacks with added affinity. That applies to weapons with elemental affinities such as fire or poison, but also to the Duchess’ magic dagger when you activate its skill.

Duchess Remembrance Chapter 5: Find the Wylder

Chapter 5 unlocks after you defeat any Nightlord or complete several expeditions. Nightreign counts any Nightlord defeats that you pulled off, even if they happen before you complete Chapter 3.

The quest starts in the Hold’s waiting room again, but there’s no one around this time and only a set of footprints for company. Your objective is to find the Wylder, the only Nightfarer who isn’t showing up on the map. You can follow the footprints to the dining room and examine a table to get another clue or just head to the location immediately.

The Wylder is resting against a wall near where the Executor paints, and he’s got a plate of food nearby. Eat his lunch, then speak to the Wylder, and tell the Iron Menial about your new discovery to end this quest. Chapter 5’s reward is the Duchess’ Chalice, a new reliquary with a blue slot, a yellow slot, and a free slot.

Duchess Remembrance Chapter 6: Weathervane’s Words and the Revenant

Chapter 6 should be available immediately after you complete the Chapter 5 quest, and this one has two parts. Speak with the Raider in the Hold’s dining room again to learn about his apprentice, a young lad named Weathervane, and to express the Duchess’ doubts about what to do next. These conversations unlock a new objective for your next expedition, which you can knock out now or after dealing with the Revenant.

The objective is to find Weathervane’s message in Limveld, and the location is, in our experience, always on a cliff in the map’s northeastern segment. You’ll have to defeat three Fallen Mercenaries, large, agile enemies with greatswords. It’s a steeper challenge compared to the Guardians of the Dew fight, as the Fallen Mercenaries can stagger or knock you back with a single attack.

If you’re playing alone, make this a night two objective. That’ll give you enough time to reach level five or higher and have a better chance of surviving the battle. Collect Weathervane’s message after you defeat the Fallen Mercenaries, and complete the expedition.

How to beat the Duchess vs Revenant boss fight

The quest’s second part involves speaking to the Revenant. She challenges you to a duel, and like with the battle that unlocks the Revenant, she brings her friends along. You can just ignore Helen, Frederick, and Sebastian in favor of attacking the Revenant immediately, but the battle is much more difficult that way. It takes place in a small, enclosed area, which makes dodging attacks from four characters almost impossible, and if Sebastian the skeleton uses his ghostflame beam, you’re finished.

The easier option is to take out Revenant’s summons first. Start with Helen the swordswoman, since she’s faster, and then defeat Frederick the Pumpkin Head before moving on to Sebastian. The skeleton can’t turn around quickly, so if you attack from behind, you should be able to defeat him before he can do anything about it. Make sure to activate the Duchess’ magic dagger skill for extra damage, too.

In the best-case scenario, Revenant will stay far enough away from you that she won’t cast Triple Rings of Light, which gives you freedom to defeat her summons without interference. If you attack her at any point or get too close to her, though, she’ll start casting Incantations. Her Triple Rings of Light spell is tricky to dodge in close quarters and deals heavy damage, so this isn’t a situation you want to deal with.

Once her summons are gone, re-activate magic dagger if necessary, and start attacking the Revenant. She’ll use Triple Discs of Light, Death Lightning, and her standard claw attack. The best moment to launch an attack of your own is when revenant begins to cast a spell, as she’s vulnerable and won’t dodge away. If you defeated her summons first, Duchess’ ultimat art should be charged and ready for use. Cast it, get behind Revenant, and start attacking. There’s a high chance Duchess will land critical hits with each blow, but even if not, you’ll manage to take a chunk out of Revenant’s health bar anyway.

Once the battle ends, you get the Crown Medal relic. This one activates Duchess’ skill for free when she lands a dagger chain attack and increases all dagger power. The skill activation perk won’t stack with the Burning Scene relic, but having extra dagger power is always a good thing for the Duchess. Replace Burning Scene with this.

The Duchess’ final Remembrance quest unlocks after you defeat four Nightlords following the completion of Chapter 6. These all have to be different Nightlords as well, so you can’t just bully Tricephalos four times.

We’re still working on this portion of her Remembrance quest and will update soon with more information.

For more Elden Ring Nightreign guides, here’s a list of all classes, the best class to pick first, how to unlock the Duchess and Revenant, and the best early Duchess build.

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