Every Legacy Dungeon In Elden Ring, Ranked

FromSoftware may have gotten international fame from the Souls series, but they've been at it much longer than that, and one of their talents has always been great level design, from the interconnectedness of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dark Souls, the tight streets of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Bloodborne, and now the sprawling open-world of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Elden Ring.

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Major aspects of most regions are legacy dungeons, capstones that house demigods blocking your path, and a place they call home. In some regards, they're a callback to the tighter level design of previous games, while others highlight everything different about Elden Ring. They're all a joy, but some leave a more lasting impression.

Updated September 12th, 2024 by Hilton Webster: While it may have been a long time coming, the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion to Elden Ring was a welcome addition to the game, adding more to an already-packed adventure. The Realm of Shadow comes with some extra Legacy Dungeons of its own, so let's see how they stack up compared to the base game's ones.

9 Castle Ensis 🐟

While it may be on the smaller side, more on the scale of the Carian Manor than Stormveil, Castle Ensis deserves a mention for the importance it has within Shadow of the Erdtree. Filled with members of the Carian nobility, Castle Ensis became Rellana's base of operations, and the only thing stopping you from entering Scadutree Altus.

It takes from the Carian Manor in many ways, though strips away the mysticism and envelops it in the fog of war instead. Fortifications and barricades are haphazardously placed, soldiers line the walls, and old towers are supplemented with hastily built barracks. It is, in many ways, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a reflection of Rellana. Abandoning her regal roots to foꦺllo🎃w her unrequited love into Deathless Death.

8 🐷 Volcano Manor

The Volcano Manor is incredibly unique as a legacy dungeon. Unlike basically every other dungeon in the game, it's attached heavily to its own questline, the Recusants of Volcano Manor. As such, it's a place you'll continually revisit (should you so choose to assist them in their aims) rather than running through all at once. Though as the map betrays, there is much more to the manor than first meets the eye.

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Hidden behind the walls are the depths of Mt Gelmir, lava flow and magma wyrms, elastic (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:and frankly adorable) serpents, and Godskin. It is a torture chamber, a place for inquisition. There is a ruined town nestled here too for its cold-blooded denizens. In fact, it even lets you reach the Lord of Blasphemy himself should you choose to forego the quest of the Recusants. By no means is it a weak legacy dungeon, it just doesn't have the same tightness as others, though in that same regard is truly unique.

7 🌳 Raya Lucaria

In many of the regions, the legacy dungeons can lie off in the far reaches. Volcano Manor a♓nd Leyndell to the far east and west of the Altus Plateau respectively, the Haligtree to the far north of the world, and so on. But Raya Lucaria is one 🧜of the first sights when you enter the wondrous Liurnia, towering above all else, situated right at the centre to admonish all that lies below. It is awe-inspiring, a tantalizing crystal dangling above you.

Instead is a place that feels cut off from the rest of the world. Studious scholars line the halls, books in hand. The floors gleam with an otherwordly sheen. A mystical miasma hangs about it all. It feels like a world of its own, self-sufficient and tightly guarded. Secret passages dot the area, and there are death📖traps galore. It feels almost like a classic Souls dungeon, a more tight experiencꦦe with absurd visual splendour.

6 ✤ Crumbling Farum Azula💯

Much of Elden Ring attempts to be clear to you. You know its history in broad strokes, you know the major players, and you know what must be done to fix the world, whatsoever you decide "fixing" means. But you also hear of the ancient dragons that💟 once ruled the world, but only ever see their weak descendants. There ar♏e also the Beastmen, seldom seen, but seemingly not from the Lands Between. And then you light the Forge of the Giants.

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You awake in Farum Azula. Perhaps you saw it once before, transported by the Four Belfries. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:But now, you stand at its center. A crumbling land suspended in tornadoes, a land that 𝔉exists bey꧑ond notions of time. Here is the home of the loyal Beastmen, and the final resting place of the ancient dragons. Farum Azula, even in ruins, is breathtaking. Rays of light glimmering between pillars, warriors of all ages convene to plunder and test themselves, and the whole place is built on haphazardous layers of itself. You can feel the aeons of history permeating from it unendingly, and it feels truly distinct from anything else in the game.

5 Miquella's Haligtree

The Haligtree is something oft-mentioned throughout the game, though little informaꦐtion is ever given on it🔜. It should be the home of the demigods Miquella and Malenia, though it is hidden from all but the Albinaurics, a people taking refuge there. But of course, you can find your way to this holy land, by benevolence or by blood. And unlike the Erdtree that towers high over the Lands Between, the Haligtree is in a much more desperate state.

Corrupted by rot all the way through, you begin on the far outreachs of the Haligtree's branches, deeply knotted and treacherous on every step. You then descend into the quickly-built Haligtree town housing the Misbegotten. Then comes the true beauty, when you travel along the layered wall of Elphael that wraps around the Haligtree, finally working your way into the roots themselves. It has such beauty amidst the rot and such variety that no other dungeon can boast. It's even entirely optional, and houses 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:one of the game's most infamous fights. The E🍌rdtree preaches grace, but the Haligtree actually practices it.

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4 🌞 Belurat, Tower Settlement And Enir-Ilim

While the Realm of Shadow, much like the base game, can be explored at your own pace, it gently guides you to explore Belurat first. This Legacy Dungeon is the home of the Hornsent, previous rulers of this section of The Lands Between. Now, it stands as a decaying city left covered in ashes from Messmer's crusade. In many ways it bears resemblance to Leyndell, with twisting alleys and spiralling towers, enough to make you think one inspired the other.

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Yet Belurat is also the beginning of the tower that the Hornsent built to ascend to the heavens. Enir-Ilim, secluded in shadow by Messmer, houses the Divine Gateway. Unlike Belurat below, Enir-Ilim still latches to its aspects of divinity. Everything ascends, building higher and higher, each tower growing past the next. It is awe-inspiring, and a fitting end to Elden Ring's arduous adventure.

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3 🐠 The Shadow Keep 𝓀

The Realm of Shadow is a testament to Marika's sin. We do not know, explicitly, what that sin is, though we can posit. She was tortured by the Hornsent and gained a form of divine retribution against them in ascending to godhood herself. In punishing this old home of hers, she secreted it away and built the Shadow Keep to stand watch over it, enacting eternal punishment upon her previous oppressors.

And while its origins may be cruel, the Shadow Keep stands tall as one of Elden Ring's greatest Legacy Dungeons in its entirety. It is a central point of the Realm of Shadow, meaning you can enter it from multiple different locations. It has no central end point either, meaning you can explore it non-linearly. It feels like a Dark Souls location condensed into Elden Ring, harkening back to the likes of both Anor Londo and New Londo in one.

2 ﷺ Stormveil Castle 🦩

From the moment you step foot in Limgrave, you are greeted by an unmistakable sight. Many of them, actually. The Erdtree towering over all, the church over yonder, the Tree Sentinel patrolling, and the beaches further on. But what grace wishes you to see is the towering Stormveil Castle, enwreathed in storms and home of the demigod Godrick. It is a decrepit old fortress now, a place with a wondrous legacy left to ruin, much 168澳洲幸运5开奖网: like Godrick himself.

Stormveil surmises much of what Elden Ring excels at. It is a castle, of course, and those are far from an uncommon sight in FromSoftware's titles. But unlike the guided paths of Lothric or the self-contained Boletaria, Stormveil feels like a full castle. The initial wall to keep you out, the small city and church contained within the keep. Patrolling knights and secret passages. Little ledges that require deft jumps to reach. It feels like a place for the select few, but also like something that could've never worked in a previous Soulsborne game. The freedom of movement and routes make Stormveil feel like a fully planned and mapped area.

1 Leyndell, Royal Capital ♑ ဣ

Long throughout the game is Leyndell hyped up to you. The Royal Capital of the Golden Lineage, and proud ho𝔍me of the Erdtree. It is a benevolent place of grace, its double walls never truly breached, and now with the self-professed Omen King Morgott presiding over it all. With such hopes held behind it, surely🐼 Leyndell cannot possibly match its description, and yet somehow it achieves it with ease.

Oft-forgotten in games is the incredible power of music and visuals. A cutscene isn't needed to evoke emotion, but a carefully guided camera and timely music. Upon finally ascending the steps of Leyndell, you emerge to see the great dragon Forttisax impaled and calcified, the music of the envoys' horns matching the area's theme, and many Page's throughout joining in with their own instruments. It fulfills the promise of density that was expected from the Ringed City, and truly feels like a city with layers and even a sewer system seamlessly attached beneath. All while the leaves of the Erdtree fall upon you, hastening you forward. It is a masterpiece of an area.