Steps outside the chapel
Gravesite Plain · Castle Ensis chapel
Starting Site of Grace: Castle Ensis Checkpoint
- At the top is a closed gate with Miquella's Cross beside it. Activate Castle Ensis Checkpoint grace before attempting the detour.
- With the closed gate ahead, follow the wall to the right to the soldier crouching at the ledge. Drop to the ledge below, then into the hole leading to the flooded cave. Three dogs attack inside.
- Leave the cave and turn left toward the waterfall. Jump across the rock platforms, continue through the river arch and climb the ladder beside the falling water.
- Enter the room at the top, watching for an ambush on the left. Cross to the gate mechanism and turn it to open the shortcut back to Checkpoint grace.
- Climb the stairs and cross the guarded bridge. Continue past the dog ambush and spellcasting nobles to the stairs leading up toward the chapel.
- Moonrithyll, Carian Knight guards the chapel entrance. Defeat him or move past him carefully; the shield stairs and chapel altar are separate pickups here.
- Defeat Moonrithyll outside the chapel for the guaranteed sword reward. This is the hostile knight carrying the enormous sword, not Rellana in the later arena.
- The shield chest down the western stairs and the talisman on the chapel altar are separate pickups. They do not need to be collected to receive the sword.