Blaidd the Half-Wolf Questline and Location

Blaidd the Half-Wolf is an NPC in Elden Ring initially found in the Mistwood Ruins. Read on to learn more about Blaidd's location, a full questline guide, lore and more!

Blaidd the Half-Wolf Character Profile

Blaidd the Half-Wolf
Description	A large, half-wolf warrior who enlists the Tarnished's help to defeat a traitor knight.
Initial Location	Limgrave Can be found in the Mistwood Ruins landmark.
Items Dropped	・2000 Runes (NG) ・Blaidd's Armor x1 ・Blaidd's Gauntlets x1 ・Blaidd's Greaves x1 ・Royal Greatsword x1

Where to Find Blaidd the Half-Wolf

Limgrave

Map Location
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Blaidd the Half-Wolf can be found in the Mistwood Ruins. In order to get him to appear, players must use the Finger Snap Gesture once they hear the howling at the ruins.

Speak to Merchant Kale for the Gesture

Merchant Kale will give you the Finger Snap gesture if you return to the Church of Elleh after your first visit to the Mistwood Ruins and hear Blaidd howling. Choose the option About the howling in Mistwood to get him to give you the required gesture.

How to Find Blaidd Video Guide

Blaidd the Half-Wolf Questline

How to Complete Blaidd's Questline

Blaidd is a notable NPC whose questline is tied to Ranni the Witch. Follow and complete his questline to get Blaidd's armor set and the Royal Greatsword.

Questline Objectives
1	Find Blaidd in the Mistwood Ruins
2	Defeat Bloodhound Knight Darriwil
3	Speak to Blaidd Outside the Evergaol
4	Go to Caria Manor and Serve Ranni
5	Help Blaidd Find Nokron
6	Defeat Starscourge Radahn
7	Find Blaidd's Message in Mistwood (Optional)
8	Free Blaidd from the Evergaol (Optional)
9	Complete Ranni's Questline
10	Confront Blaidd at Ranni's Rise

Find Blaidd in the Mistwood Ruins

Once players reach the Mistwood Ruins, simply use the Finger Snap gesture and Blaidd will hop over one of the walls. Speak to him and he will ask for your help to hunt down a traitor named Darriwil.

Defeat Bloodhound Knight Darriwil

To progress Blaidd's questline, head over to the Forlorn Hound Evergaol and prepare for a boss fight. Choose the option to enter the evergaol and fight the Bloodhound Knight Darriwil.

During the fight, players can summon Blaidd via the gold summon sign. Doing so prompts additional dialogue as he enters the Evergaol. Defeat Darriwil to progress Blaidd's quest.

How to Beat Bloodhound Knight Darriwil

Speak to Blaidd Outside the Evergaol

Once Darriwil is beaten, you can speak to Blaidd right next to the entrance of the Evergaol. He will reward you with a Somber Smithing Stone [2] for your troubles. Additionally, he will clue you in to talking to a large smith when you go to Liurnia of the Lakes.

Go to Caria Manor and Serve Ranni

To unlock the rest of Blaidd's questline, players will first need to join the cause of Ranni the Witch in Liurnia. To do this, you will need to reach the Three Sisters area behind Caria Manor. Speak to Ranni at Ranni's Rise to enter into her service.

Ranni the Witch (Renna) Questline and Location

Steps to Complete
Meet Iji on the Road to the Manor (Optional)
Go to Caria Manor and Find the Boss Room
Defeat Royal Knight Loretta
Pledge Service to Ranni
Speak to Blaidd before Returning to Ranni

Meet Iji on the Road to the Manor

While optional, telling Iji the Blacksmith that you know Blaidd will allow you to purchase the Carian Filigreed Crest from him. Consider stopping by and speaking to him as he is the earliest merchant that sells Somber Smithing Stones to the player.

Go to Caria Manor and Find the Boss Room

World View	Map Location

Caria Manor is a large, walled-off area in the northwest end of Liurnia. Players will need to explore it in order to find the boss room that leads to the Three Sisters area and to Ranni the Witch.

Caria Manor Location and What to Do

Defeat Royal Knight Loretta

Royal Knight Loretta is a boss that guards the way to the Three Sisters. Defeat her to unlock the rest of Caria Manor for exploration. Invest in Vigor if you do not have enough, as most of her attacks during the second phase can one-shot glass cannon builds.

How to Beat Royal Knight Loretta

Pledge Service to Ranni

With Loretta defeated, enter the Three Sisters area and ascend Ranni's Rise. Speak to Ranni the Witch at the top and pledge your service to her cause.

Note: After you vow to serve Ranni, fast travel will be temporarily locked. To unlock it again, speak to Ranni's servants in the lower levels of the tower.

Speak to Blaidd before Returning to Ranni

World View	Map Location

Speak to Blaidd's apparition inside Ranni's Rise to figure out where he is and what his mission was. Complete the conversations with Iji and Seluvis, before returning to Ranni to unlock fast travel again.

Help Blaidd Find Nokron

Map Location
World View

Blaidd's mission is to find Nokron and retrieve the Fingerslaying Blade from its depths. Meet him at the Siofra River and help him find the entrance to Nokron, the Eternal City.

Steps to Complete
Go to the Siofra River Well
Speak to Blaidd at the Siofra River
Ask Seluvis and Sellen for Help
Tell Blaidd How to Find Nokron

Go to the Siofra River Well

For players who have not gone to the Siofra River, this underground area can be accessed by using the Siofra River Well elevator in Limgrave. Head over there and explore the underground area until you find Blaidd.

Siofra River Interactive Map and Region Guide

Speak to Blaidd at the Siofra River

Once you find Blaidd, speak to him about Nokron. He will ask you to look for a way into the city while also suggesting that Seluvis may know a thing or two about finding the path to Nokron. Exhaust his dialogue before proceeding.

Ask Seluvis and Sellen for Help

To ask help from Seluvis, head back to the Three Sisters area. Go to Seluvis' Rise and speak to the preceptor about Nokron. He will give you a letter of introduction and tell you to ask Sellen about the entrance.

With the letter in hand, go ahead and meet Sorceress Sellen at the Waypoint Ruins in Limgrave. Show her the letter and she will tell you that you need to defeat Starscourge Radahn to get to the Eternal City.

Tell Blaidd How to Find Nokron

Return to Blaidd's location at the Siofra River. Tell him about what Sellen shared and what you have to do to open Nokron's entrance. Afterwards, exhaust his dialogue until he tells you to meet him during the Festival of Comabt in Caelid.

Defeat Starscourge Radahn

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After speaking to Sellen, head over to Redmane Castle in Caelid. Blaidd will be here alongside Alexander and a host of other champions.

Speak to Blaidd and listen to Castellan Jerren's speech before beginning. Once ready, defeat Starscourge Radahn to unlock Ranni's destiny. Approach Blaidd after the battle (he will be next to the site of grace) and exhaust his dialogue to progress his quest.

How to Beat Starscourge Radahn

Find Blaidd's Message in Mistwood

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Once you do get to the entrance of Nokron in Limgrave, Blaidd will be nowhere in sight. To find out where he went, players can opt return to where you first met him in the Mistwood Ruins. Read his message about weeding out a traitor among Ranni's servants.

Note: Seluvis and Pidia will die during this point of the questline. Return to their locations to loot their Bell Bearings, Seluvis' Armor Set, and Pidia's puppet called Dolores.

Free Blaidd from the Evergaol

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To find the still-missing Blaidd, return to the Forlorn Hound Evergaol (where you fought Darriwil) and free him from his imprisonment. He will tell you that it was Iji who trapped him after he breaks free.

Note: Like the previous step, freeing Blaidd is entirely optional as he will break free on his own after you finish Ranni's questline. You can also speak to Iji after this for additional dialogue regarding Blaidd.

Complete Ranni's Questline

To get to the end of Blaidd's questline, players will need to finish Ranni's until the point when you meet her at the Cathedral of Manus Celes. Prepare accordingly as this is one of the longest NPC questlines in the game.

Note: At one point of Ranni's quest, you will fight a Baleful Shadow that has Blaidd's model and moveset. Use this encounter to study the reach of his attacks to prepare for the Blaidd mini-boss, later on.

How to Complete Ranni's Questline

Confront Blaidd at Ranni's Rise

Map Location
World View

After completing Ranni's questline, head back to Ranni's Rise in Liurnia. Waiting at the tower entrance will be Blaidd, who repelled a Black Knife attack to protect the now vanished Ranni.

He will be hostile. Defeat him in order to complete his questline. Blaidd will drop the Royal Greatsword, Blaidd's Armor, Blaidd's Gauntlets, and Blaidd's Greaves upon death.

Lore and Trivia

Lore

• Blaidd the Half-Wolf is a servant of Lady Ranni (the witch that was earlier known as Renna). His quest, after pursuing and ending the traitor knight Darriwil, is to uncover the path leading to the Eternal City of Nokron.
• According to the Carian royal family blacksmith, Iji, Blaidd the Half-Wolf is Lady Ranni's stepbrother. Queen Rennala, Ranni's mother, approved of him and they had been playmates since childhood.
• Later on, players will find out that Blaidd is actually a servant of the Two Fingers, given to Ranni to safeguard the fledgling Empyrean. Due to his origins, Iji doubted Blaidd, initially regarding the Half-Wolf's devotion to Ranni as artificial at best.
• In the end, however, Blaidd proved that he was in fact fiercely loyal to his half-sister and genuine in his desire to protect her. Despite Ranni's forced severance from the Greater Will, Blaidd remained sane enough to defend the now vanished Ranni from the ire of the Golden Order.

Trivia

• If you kill Blaidd at the Mistwood Ruins, Iji will no longer spawn beside the Road to the Manor site of grace in Liurnia. Additionally, you will be locked out of Ranni's questline. The only way to remedy this is by seeking absolution at the Church of Vows.
• After you defeat Blaidd at the end of his quest, a helmet called the Black Wolf Mask can be found on the wall behind Seluvis' tower. This will complete the Blaidd armor set.
• Return to Iji after killing Blaidd for additional dialogue. The old blacksmith will express his remorse and regret for having doubted Blaidd's loyalty to Ranni.

Blaidd the Half-Wolf Quotes

"Kale send you, did he? Ever the bloody busybody. Hmm. Maybe to him, you don't seem so strange. The name's Blaidd. I'm looking for a man who goes by Darriwil."

"Darriwil, rotting in a cell is no true justice. No...This is where it ends for you."

"Oh yes, I should say. If you venture north to Raya Lucaria, and come across a venerable blacksmith who's a little on the large side...Tell him I sent you. And he'll be sure to treat you right."

"Ah, good to see you. Apologies mate, bute I don't have much to report. I can see bloody Nokron, right above me, but I'm absolutely stumped. I've tried all the gateways, to no avail... Perhaps it's time to ask Seluvis? I recall that spiteful little rat acting like he knew something..."

"Ah, there you are. Took your sweet time. The players are all made up, and waiting for the curtain... Let's give them a show to remember, eh. Just don't go dying on me. For Ranni's sake, too. Once more into the fray together, eh. Heh, this might even be fun."

"What a sick way to fight, eh. The glory of the clash is shared, by Radahn and you. And hah! Did you see that, afterwards? A falling star, right before our eyes! I can't fathom how Radahn was holding back something of that scale. He was a living legend, if ever I saw one. And, the path has now been cleared. To Nokron, where Ranni's fate will be decided."

"Oh, it's you... It's me, Blaidd. Old Iji trapped me here. Told me I'd bring nought but bale to Lady Ranni. But there's no chance that could happen. I'm part of her being. Her very shadow... I thought old Iji knew as much... Honestly, I don't know what's going on anymore... "

"No. I'm part of her very being! I could never betray her! No matter what might happen... Ranni... She needs me..."

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