Caelid is a Location and Region in Elden Ring. The Caelid region is located east of Limgrave. It's mainly defined by its red, corrupt environment and a great amount of undead roaming the open fields.
Caelid, known as the locale of the last battle between General Radahn and Malenia, Blade of Miquella, is a vast land consummately marred by scarlet rot.
Caelid Map & Map Fragments
- Map (Caelid): Found on a monolith along Caelid Highway in the south. [Map Link]
- Map (Dragonbarrow): Found on a monolith along the road in the north, directly east from the Dragonbarrow West Site of Grace. [Map Link]
Elden Ring Caelid Sites of Grace & Sub-Locations
Sites of Grace
Main Caelid
- Caelem Ruins [Map Link]
- Caelid Catacombs [Map Link]
- Caelid Highway South [Map Link]
- Cathedral of Dragon Communion [Map Link]
- Chair-Crypt of Sellia [Map Link]
- Chamber Outside the Plaza [Map Link]
- Church of the Plague [Map Link]
- Deep Siofra Well [Map Link]
- Fort Gael North [Map Link]
- Gael Tunnel [Map Link]
- Gaol Cave [Map Link]
- Impassable Greatbridge [Map Link]
- Minor Erdtree Catacombs [Map Link]
- Rear Gael Tunnel Entrance [Map Link]
- Redmane Castle Plaza [Map Link]
- Rotview Balcony [Map Link]
- Sellia Backstreets [Map Link]
- Sellia Crystal Tunnel [Map Link]
- Sellia Under-Stair [Map Link]
- Smoldering Church [Map Link]
- Smoldering Wall [Map Link]
- Southern Aeonia Swamp Bank [Map Link]
- Starscourge Radahn [Map Link]
- War-Dead Catacombs [Map Link]
Swamp of Aeonia
- Aeonia Swamp Shore [Map Link]
- Astray From Caelid Highway North [Map Link]
- Heart of Aeonia [Map Link]
- Inner Aeonia [Map Link]
Greyoll's Dragonbarrow
- Abandoned Cave [Map Link]
- Bestial Sanctum [Map Link]
- Divine Tower of Caelid: Basement [Map Link]
- Divine Tower of Caelid: Center [Map Link]
- Dragonbarrow Cave [Map Link]
- Dragonbarrow Fork [Map Link]
- Dragonbarrow West [Map Link]
- Farum Greatbridge [Map Link]
- Fort Faroth [Map Link]
- Isolated Merchant's Shack [Map Link]
- Lenne's Rise [Map Link]
- Sellia Hideaway [Map Link]
Sub-Locations
All NPCs and Merchants in Caelid
- Alexander - Found around Redmane Castle
- Blaidd - Found in Redmane Castle before the Festival
- Nomadic Merchant Caelid Highway North - Merchant of general goods. [Map Link]
- Nomadic Merchant Caelid South - Merchant of general goods. [Map Link]
- Gowry - Found inside his shack. [Map Link]
- Gurranq, Beast Clergyman - Found in the Bestial Sanctum [Map Link]
- Master Lusat - Found in Sellia Hideaway. Requires progressing Sellen's quest to reach. [Map Link]
- Millicent - Found in the Church of the Plague. [Map Link]
- The Great-Jar - Found at the coliseum in northwesternern Caelid. [Map Link]
- Witch-Hunter Jerren - Castle Crier. Speak to him to initiate the festival or continue the Sorceress Sellen questline
All Items in Elden Ring's Caelid Zone
Gather & Farm Items
- Aeonian Butterfly
- Arteria Leaf
- Beast Blood
- Cracked Crystal
- Crab Eggs
- Cracked Crystal
- Dragon Heart
- Dragonwound Grease
- Faded Erdleaf Flower
- Fire Grease
- Glass Shard
- Glintstone Firefly
- Glowstone
- Golden Rune [2]
- Golden Rune [3]
- Golden Rune [4]
- Golden Rune [5]
- Golden Rune [6]
- Golden Rune (12)
- Grave Violet
- Gravity Stone Fan
- Gravity Stone Chunk
- Great Dragonfly Head
- Large Glintstone Scrap
- Miquella's Lily
- Mushroom
- Numen's Rune
- Old Fang
- Perfume Bottle
- Poisonbloom
- Preserving Boluses
- Rainbow Stone
- Root Resin
- Rot Grease
- Rune Arc
- Ruin Fragment
- Sacramental Bud
- Smoldering Butterfly
- Silver Firefly
- Tarnished Golden Sunflower
- Toxic Mushroom
- Trina's Lily
- Turtle Neck Meat
Upgrade Materials
- Golden Seed
- Grave Glovewort (3)
- Grave Glovewort [4]
- Grave Glovewort (5)
- Sacred Tear
- Smithing Stone [4]
- Smithing Stone [5]
- Smithing Stone [6]
- Smithing Stone (7)
- Somber Smithing Stone (2)
- Somber Smithing Stone (4)
- Somber Smithing Stone (5)
- Somber Smithing Stone (6)
Equipment and Magic
- Consumables
- Weapons
- Cross-Naginata
- Flamberge
- Gargoyle's Blackblade
- Gargoyle's Black Halberd
- Godslayer's Greatsword
- Greatbow
- Katar
- Lusat's Glintstone Staff
- Meteoric Ore Blade
- Meteorite Staff
- Moonveil
- Nox Flowing Sword
- Regalia Of Eochaid
- Ruins Greatsword
- Sword of St. Trina
- Partisan
- Serpent Bow
- Staff of Loss
- Venomous Fang
- Wakizashi
- Armor
- Banished Knight Set
- Blackflame Monk Set
- Cerulean Tear Scarab
- Champion Set
- Cleanrot Set
- Golden Scarab
- Godskin Apostle Set
- Greathelm
- Imp Head (Wolf)
- Lusat's Set
- Marionette Soldier Birdhelm
- Marionette Soldier Set
- Perfumer Traveler's Set
- Pumpkin Helm
- Radahn Foot Soldier Set
- Radahn Soldier Set
- Redmane Knight Set
- Shields
- Talismans
- Incantations
- Sorceries
Unique, Ashes and Keys
- Multiplayer Items
- Spirit Ashes
- Crystal Tears
- Key Items
- Ashes of War
- Cookbooks
- Gestures
- Polite Bow Gesture
Elden Ring Caelid Creatures, Enemies and Bosses
Regular Creatures and Enemies
- Abnormal Stone Cluster
- Anastasia, Tarnished-Eater
- Avionette Soldier
- Blackflame Monk
- Cleanrot Knight
- Commoner
- Crab
- Flame Chariot
- Giant Bat
- Giant Dog
- Giant Dragonfly
- Giant Land Octopus
- Giant Miranda Sprout
- Giant Rat
- Glintstone Miner
- Glintstone Sorcerer
- Guardian
- Imp
- Land Octopus
- Land Squirt
- Lazuli Sorcerer
- Lion Guardian
- Marionette Soldier
- Miner
- Miranda Sprout
- Monstrous Crow
- Noble Sorcerer
- Lesser Kindred of Rot (Pests)
- Putrid Corpse
- Redmane Knight
- Radahn Soldier
- Raya Lucaria Knight
- Rotten Stray
- School of Graven Mages
- Servant of Rot
- Skeletal Slime
- Skeleton
- Soldier
- Twinsage Sorcerer
- Vulgar Militiamen
Field Bosses and Bosses
- Battlemage Hugues
- Beastman of Farum Azula Duo
- Bell Bearing Hunter
- Black Blade Kindred
- Cemetery Shade
- Commander O'Neil
- Cleanrot Knight Duo
- Death Rite Bird
- Decaying Ekzykes
- Elder Dragon Greyoll
- Erdtree Burial Watchdog Duo
- Fallingstar Beast
- Flying Dragon Greyll
- Frenzied Duelist
- Godskin Apostle
- Lion Misbegotten Warrior & Crucible Knight
- Mad Pumpkin Head Duo
- Magma Wyrm
- Night's Cavalry
- Nox Swordstress & Nox Priest
- Putrid Avatar
- Putrid Crystalian Trio
- Putrid Tree Spirit
- Starscourge Radahn
Caelid Lore
Elden Ring Caelid Maps and Notes
The name "Caelid" may be derived the Welsh language, as "cae" translates to "field" and "lid" translates as "inflamed" (lit. "Inflamed Field"). If the name is derived from Welsh, one would expect the name to be pronounced as /'kai̯ˌlɪd/ ("KAI-lid", rhymes with "Eyelid"), though most every character in the game pronounces the name as /'kɛi̯ˌlɪd/ ("KAY-lid", The first syllable rhyming with, "play").
Anonymousthe Great Recycled Boss Rush of Caelid Highway is genuinely my favourite part of the game

AnonymousSeriously awesome region. "Nuclear wasteland" isn't exactly a new concept, but this is a really cool, unique spin on it.

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AnonymousMissing Crystal Spear weapon (technically in Dragonbarrow but it's missing from that page too), also the Golden Scarab talisman is miscategorized as armour

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AnonymousGreatsword is not listed here for some reason. Its one of the most iconic weapons and fextra forgot it lol

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AnonymousYou can see all of the divine towers but West Altus, the bestial sanctum, the forge of the giants, Stormveil, and even the academy off in the distance through the birdseye telescope here. God, I love this game, and I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of playing it.

AnonymousFromslop and game designer Henry Mitsubishi do it again with their new hit game Old Ringy now featuring brand new poison bog, NOW WITH EVEN MORE POISON, GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT, MORE BOGS!!! WOOO YEAH BOGS!!!

AnonymousGuts Greatsword, Flame Grant Me Strength, Clawmark Seal + Bestial Vitality, Lion's Claw, Dragoncrest Greatshield, Radagon's Soreseal, Bull-Goat Talisman, Opaline Hardtear and Greenburst Crystal Tear. Caelid literally has all the best stuff for strength builds. Makes me think it's intentional, especially since it's associated with the Redmanes.

AnonymousThis place needed a legacy dungeon or at least another minor place of interest. Selia is just a boring slog, redmane castle is tremendously underwhelming especially since you can just skip the whole bridge gauntlet leading up to it. Really, the bestial sanctum should have been expanded significantly. The platforming section is cool but ultimately it's just for 2 items that you likely dont even need

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AnonymousI'd say caelid is on the same level of progression as liurnia. Like, u can do both at the same time. Do u agree?

AnonymousI love caelid but not for the reason you think, it's not the atmosphere, the lore, or the scarlet rot bs
I love caelid because of BIG GIGANTIC RUNES BABY!! GOLDEN SCARAB AND THESE BOSSES
Nights cav? Ez 60k
Greyll? Ez 120k
Greyoll? Ez 78k
Putrid avatar? Ez 140k
BBK? Ez 120k
Godskin? Ez 120k
Bell bearing hunter? Ez 78k
Rot dragon? Ez 60k
Thank you for listening to my ted talk
AnonymousI think the list misses the weapon the death bird near sellia drops.

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AnonymousIf you are struggling with this zone, get a fire weapon. Pretty much every rot related enemy is weak to fire damage, some massively so.

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AnonymousI don't care what anyone says I love Caelid, it's a great balance of loot & difficulty, I prefer it to Liurnia which can feel like a slog because although it's huge everything worth doing is spread out & there's too many scrub dungeons with useless loot unless you're playing full mage (obviously, it's a theme but coulda mixed it up a bit better).
Caelid has way better risk/reward imo & it's more fun plus Radahn is one of the best bosses since they fixed his hitboxes
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AnonymousIt is funny how you are in a green and beautiful area like West Limgrave and then give one more step to find yourself inside the hell of Caelid, the red desert infested with leprosy and randomly modified creatures where any water source was used by Mylenia to wash her rotten privates before returning to doable Miquella. Even doable Millicent is diseased, it's a pity it might not have any condom in the Lands Between... at least I've already got flame cleanse me and bestial vitality.

AnonymousI did all Caelid + Dragonbarrow then I started exploring Altus Plateau. My friends... how can be a region so beautiful? That place makes me happy no matter how much I die, that is breath taking. I was about to enter Mt. Gelmir but I stopped when I remembered what I saw when I was teleported to there by doable Rya. Let me appreciate beautiful thing a bit more. When I be ready to see suffering, pain, torture, injustice, misery, betrayal, neglect, liars, genocide, blasphemy, heresy and many "you died" on the screen then I enter that cursed place. The other disgusting place to visit is the Leyndell sewers. I wanna live in Dominula but without those crazy celebrants, I'd like to dance with them and they to be nice and pretty.

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AnonymousI wonder what it looked like before malenia nutted all over it

AnonymousCangaço but with spacial aids everywhere. It was missing a Lampião boss fight.

AnonymousCangaço but with spacial aids everywhere. It was missing a Lampião boss fight.

AnonymousI call that area Cleide but I didn't find an area to call it Dalva yet.

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AnonymousWhy is there just "Skeleton" listed under bosses? That can't be correct. Clicking on it literally only brings you to the regular enemy page.

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AnonymousThere's a somber smithing stone 8 after killing a scarab near the Divine Tower and a somber smithing stone 9 at the base of the tower. There's another somber smithing stone 9 near the bridge with the dragon Beastial Sanctum after killing another scarab

AnonymousDunno if it's just me but looking at the rot swamp from the map it looks like the silhouette of a butterfly

Anonymouslove how this is the first thing that pops up when you search Ohio

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Anonymouscaelid means inflamed field but a similar ancieny latin word "Calida" means "Hot"
I don't know if these languages are connected or not, very similar word.
AnonymousRight after the start, the first chest I opened sent me here, I didn't even know yet how to teleport back lol.

Anonymousit’s actually Chernobyl as it has dangerous substances as well as mutated crows, bears, dogs, crayfish, and even the ****ing dragonflies.

AnonymousThis is according to biology, genetics, geology, and lore, Chernobyl!

AnonymousDoes anything coming out of the deep siofra well counts as Caelid? I think it should as I don't see anything from that route listed here.
The spiked palisade shield and the gravel stones on the way to the coliseum, the great-jar arsenal given by the big pot at the coliseum when you finish his challenge, there's also another route with a runebear guarding a stonesword key. All those things are technically Caelid even though you come out of the Deep siofra well elevator.
Oh and another thing missing is the larvar tear dropped by the troll disguised as a noble wanderer in the coffins south of the "caelid highway south" grace.
AnonymousShouldn't the erdtree avatars be listed as putrid avatars instead?

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AnonymousDeath Bird in eastern Caelid is missing from the list of bosses/field-bosses.

AnonymousThe first time i see caelid and the creatures, i know its the demon ruin of elden ring

Anonymousthe list is missing: Ash of war : Sky shot, which is near the merchant, you have to kill the bug to get it, thank you for the work you put.

Anonymoussome highlights: t-rex dogs, gank squad boss in the swamp, and stunlock crows D:

AnonymousThe map is missing the locations of all the caves, please fix this! Trying to double check I've done everything on my character

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AnonymousDoing a 'co-op helper' run rn. What level is most popular for caelid and redmane? Is it lvl 60 with a +10 normal weapon?

AnonymousIn DS2 there's a deity named "Calib" which so happens to be the god of disease.

AnonymousReminds me of the crimson biome from terraria for some reason

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AnonymousAm I the only who think that Caelid is the only place in the entire game which feel more comfortable whe it's raing or at night?

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AnonymousLiterally half of the locations are missing from the map image...

AnonymousWho can forget such legendary tales as Der Vogel, Der Backpfeifengesicht and the most terrifying of all: Das Kinderschredder

AnonymousFor such a hellish place, there sure are a lot of graces everywhere. Pretty much if you go around the corner you will find another grace

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AnonymousYou ever notice that 'noticeable' retains the 'e' from 'notice,' but 'notable' doesn't? Crazy.

AnonymousThe deathrite bird to the south of selia isn’t on the boss list

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AnonymousWhy the hell is 'Skeleton' listed as a Boss in this area...?

AnonymousI want to eat the rot in caelid so bad mmmm it probably smells like it tastes too tasty tasty

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AnonymousOdd that it's so close to Caelum, which is roughly tranlated Latin for Heaven. (It is far from heavenly)

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AnonymousAbandoned Cave site of grace is listed under Caelid not Dragonbarrow for me

Anonymousso should i go to caelid first or altus plateau? im confused

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AnonymousAnyone know the best way to kill the sleeping sorcerer giant halberd golem southeast of Rennes Rise (east of the Minor Erdtree which is south of Rennes Rise)
i can barely dent him with lvl 150 character. using an axe with all sorts of bonking bonus and antimagic incants still have me being nearly oneshot by his spells.
tonnes of health. huge alpha damage, and very hard to dodge spells that will easily oneshot you. also have to fight him on a tiny precipice.
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AnonymousWhy is the 'Giant Crow' enemy listed under "Equipment and Magic"?? lol

List of "Regular Creatures and Enemies" is missing a link for the Giant (Monstrous) Crow that is found all over the place in Caelid. The entry IS in the Wiki database, just not linked here.

AnonymousThe map for this wiki is missing the Caelid Catacombs next to the Dragon Communion Cathedral

AnonymousFromSoftware have had reports of poor working conditions for years now and it appears that the staff decided to pour that frustration into Elden Ring by creating Caelid, job well done I say.

AnonymousAh, Caelid, welcome to Romania.
Joking aside, I love this place. The monsters here killed me so many times just by looking towards me that I am not even bothered by it happening again. I find Caelid fascinating, I hope the creators of this area are proud of themselves, I know I am proud of them.
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AnonymousAfter going through it thoroughly, I actually like this area. The entire zone seems like a combination of Nurgle's Garden and the Crimson from Terraria. It's like someone took the bubonic plague, gave it a splash of red and pink, and applied it on top of a (previously) beautiful, green meadow. Everything is so delightfully horrifying and the tone is so different from the rest of the game that it makes me genuinely like this place, after conquering it, of course. Also the lore is much more interesting and dramatic compared to most of the bland crap I've seen in other parts of the game.

Anonymousthe wiki says the name comes from Welsh, but I'm pretty sure if comes from Latin "Caelem" for paradise.
Caelid looks pretty close, and Caelem Ruins is a location in the game.
Considering it's near the greenish Liurnia, it makes sense the area that was here was pretty aswell.
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Anonymousdeath rite bird needs to be added to the boss list. it's directly east-southeast from the Southern Aeonia Swamp Bank site of grace, across the road.

AnonymousJust want to agree 100% with the comment about the giant crows and dogs sucking. They really do. I try to kill one of those birds every now and again when I'm in caelid, and if you can stay near their legs and hit them with charged R2s, you will do a lot of damage and you will stagger them. The problem is actually managing to stick close to their legs in the first place. The attack with their beaks sort of sideways is fun as well, the tracking that attack has is a nightmare.

Anonymousmap is missing caelid catacombs (and other things like Sellia evergaol)... due to this missed it in my original playthrough, found it casually in ng+ xd

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AnonymousThe smouldering wall kinda looks like the Hadrian's wall in Britain

AnonymousHow to be funny 101
Step 1: Go to the wiki page of Caelid
Step 2: Comment any U.S state
Step 3: Enjoy being Charlie Chaplin incarnated
AnonymousAll the scarlet rot areas are themed off of real places!
Caelid- Detroit
Dragonbarrow- Brazil
Haligtree- Ohio
Elphael- Chicago
Lake of Rot- Twitter


literally crimson from terraria
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