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Scholar is a Nightfarer in Nightreign. Scholar is a new Nightfarer exclusive to the DLC, Forsaken Hollows. As a class, Scholar leans into support and utility, built around using consumables, buffing allies, and debuffing enemies rather than dealing damage directly. Like all Nightfarers, Scholar is a predetermined class that fulfills its own archetype within the game. Choosing a Nightfarer, or Class, is arguably the most important decision players make at the start of the game, since it shapes how they'll play and approach the rest of their run.

 

An academic who walks the Lands Between, and a member of the School of Hierodas who seeks knowledge through travel. He contracted a disease that causes abnormally rapid aging.

Boasts impressive arcane levels but other attributes suffer. Has the potential to gain incredible battlefield advantages through observation.

 

ER Nightreign Scholar Table of Contents

1. ER Nightreign Scholar Class Features
2. Nightreign Scholar Starting Equipment & Vessel
3. Scholar Video Guide and Builds for Elden Ring Nightreign
4. Nightreign Scholar Attributes
5. ER Nightreign Scholar Character Progression Table
6. All Scholar Items & Equipment in Elden Ring Nightreign
7. Bagcraft Effects on Consumables
8. Scholar Best Relics Guide for Nightreign
9. Notes, Tips, and Other Trivia for Scholar in Nightreign
10. Nightreign Scholar Remembrance Quest Walkthrough

 

Unlocking the Scholar in Elden Ring Nightreign

To unlock the Scholar, along with the Undertaker, players first need to defeat Gladius Beast of Night (Tricephalos), also known as Tricephalos. Once that beast has been taken down, the next step is to return to the Roundtable Hold and speak with the Iron Menial, who passes along a message from the Small Jar Bazaar.

 

Key Features of Scholar in Elden Ring Nightreign

The Scholar is one of two new Nightfarers introduced through the Elden Ring: Nightreign expansion, and his addition fills a strategic gap that had been noticeably missing from the base roster. While most Nightfarers tend to lean toward either raw damage output or frontline durability, Scholar instead carves out a niche around battlefield control, debuffs, and team utility, making him particularly valuable when playing in a coordinated group.

Combat Style & Core Stats

 terms of combat style, Scholar's primary weapon is confirmed to be Thrusting Swords, a fitting match for his precise, technical approach to fighting. These weapons naturally lend themselves to pokes, counters, and careful spacing rather than overwhelming force, which pairs well with his apparent reliance on Arcane as his highest stat.

Much like the Executor, Scholar appears to get a lot of value out of status effects, though he goes about applying them in his own way. As an example, combining his Arcane scaling with a weapon like the Antspur Rapier, which applies Scarlet Rot, could allow for efficient status infliction across several enemies at once, especially when paired with his unique skill set.

His movement also stands out as more refined compared to most other Nightfarers, featuring smooth sidesteps, backstep feints, and flowing chains of motion that let him control spacing while still keeping up the pressure on enemies.

• Weapon Preferences: Thrusting Swords
• Scholar Key Attribute is Arcane.
• S Scaling in Arcane.
• B Scaling in HP, FP, and Stamina.
• The weakest attribute is D Scaling in Strength.
• C Scaling in Dexterity, Intelligence, and Faith.

Unique Relic Effects for the Scholar:

• [Scholar] Prevents slowing of Character Skill progress
• [Scholar] Allies targeted by Character Skill gain boosted attack
• [Scholar] Earn runes for each additional specimen acquired with Character Skill
• [Scholar] Continuous damage inflicted on targets threaded by Ultimate Art

Bagcraft Passive Ability

• Store additional resources. Level up the power or effect of items by using them.
• Consumable stacks are increased.
• Consumables can be leveled up twice during a match.
• Best to start the Scholar with Relics that grant items at the start of an expedition to level up the item as quickly as possible.
• You will now see a stack count display for the damage negation reduction that appears when hitting enemies with level 3 Dart-type items with the Bagcraft ability.

How to level up items as the Scholar in Elden Ring Nightreign:

• Consumables can be leveled up twice during a match.
• Item-handling level up [2]: Improves the effectiveness.
• Item-handling level up [3]: Adds a secondary effect to the item.
• The Scholar can level up items by repeatedly using the item.

Leveling up doesn't focus on individual items but instead on the item category. For example, if a player frequently uses a throwable pot, all throwable pots will benefit from the effect.

Analyze Character Skill

Scholar's core ability revolves around battlefield awareness and debuff application. Study your enemies or assist your allies.

• Can be used on enemies to apply debuffs. It can also be used on self and allies to apply buffs.
• Best used when enemies are not targeting the Scholar. When used, Scholar becomes vulnerable since he lowers his weapon while using the skill.
• When used, a big circle will appear, and targets within the circle will be analyzed. Targeting an enemy or ally will trigger a red gauge that will start to fill.
• The longer you analyze, the more buffs or debuffs you can stack.
• The speed of analyzing an enemy will depend on the distance between you and the target. The smaller the gap, the quicker you can analyze, and the further you are, the slower the analysis is.
• Upon completing the analysis, you can press the designated button to apply the debuff on the enemy or the buff to your allies.
• Best used on multiple targets, both enemies and allies.

Debuff Effects

• Level 1 Debuff: Decreases attack.
• Level 3 Debuff: Take extra damage on the next hit received.

Buff Effects

• Level 1 Buff: Increased Stamina
• Level 3 Buff: Conjure a shield that releases a shockwave when hit.

Communion Ultimate Art

Scholar's Ultimate Art, Communion. Taboo Knowledge: Damage is shared by linked enemies and can heal threaded allies.

• An AoE effect that links all nearby enemies and allies.
• If a single targeted enemy takes damage, then all linked enemies will take 20% of the damage to the target.
• For allies, any healing effects are shared between linked team members.
• Great ultimate used against groups of enemies or multiple bosses you encounter.
• Using Communinon can also increase the survivability rate of the team.
• The Scholar becomes invulnerable to attacks while casting Communion.

 

Starting Equipment of Scholar in Elden Ring Nightreign

This class starts with the following equipment:

• Scholar's Thrusting Sword

Starting Vessel for the Scholar:

• Starting Vessel Scholar's Urn

 

Builds & Video Guides of Scholar in Elden Ring Nightreign

 

Attributes of Scholar in Elden Ring Nightreign

 

Character Progression of Scholar in Elden Ring Nightreign

 

All Scholar Items & Equipment in Elden Ring Nightreign

 

All Unique & Universal Vessels for the Scholar in ER Nightreign

 

 

 

All Unique Relics for the Scholar in ER Nightreign

 

 

All Garbs (Skins) for the Scholar in ER Nightreign

 

 

 

Scholar Bagcraft Effects on Consumable Items in Nightreign

 

Scholar Best Relics Guide for Nightreign

The Cleansing Tear, a red relic, is one of the Scholar's unique relics that directly utilizes his kit. It can be obtained Its first effect, which is specific to the Scholar, deals continuous damage to enemies that are affected by his Ultimate Art Communion. This can be helpful for multi-enemy bosses since damage taken by enemies linked by Communion is shared between all enemies. Its second effect increases affinity damage negation so it helps with the Scholar's survivability with his HP stat being mediocre. The last effect of this relic helps fill up his Ultimate Art gauge, which allows for the Scholar to activate Communion more often to deal with enemies and bosses faster, while also help with healing allies from flasks or consumables.

Note "My Dear Successor" is a yellow relic that is another unique relic to the Scholar. It can be obtained by completing the Scholar's remembrance questline. This relic has two Scholar-specific effects that help boost his kit, and it particularly shines when running expeditions with a group. The first effect boosts allies' attack when they are targeted by his skill Analyze, and with a short cooldown, it's recommended to always use the skill anytime it is available. Its second effect becomes much more useful in times when the Scholar is being attacked, as it prevents the gauge of Analyze from going down when its progress is interrupted. The third effect also helps with letting the Scholar use his skill more often by reducing its cooldown. This lets you apply debuffs to enemies more and keeping the damage negation on and improving survivability on you and your allies.

The Night of the Fathom is a red relic that makes great use of the Scholar's Bagcraft ability. Its first effect increases the Maximum HP which helps with the Scholar's mediocre Health stat and helps keep him on the field longer to use his items. Its second and third effect may be what makes this relic a must on the Scholar. The second effect lets the use of a flask also heal allies. The third effect states that "Items confer effect to nearby allies". With the Scholar's Bagcraft ability, the added effects from level 2 and level 3 of the upgraded items and consumables can be shared among allies. This works well with items that heal or provide buffs.

The Night of the Wise is a yellow relic that can make use of the Scholar's high Arcane. It lets the Scholar get Poison on his starting armament, which, with his high arcane, can be the status buildup on enemies will be much faster. Night of the Wise also increases Maximum FP and when Poison and Rot are in the vicinity, increases Attack Power. While going within melee for the Scholar isn't typically recommended, the buff can still be helpful in a pinch when needing to deal with enemies that come just a little too close.

The Scholar is a tactical, item-focused Nightfarer class introduced in The Forsaken Hollows. Instead of relying on conventional weapon scaling or spellcasting tradition, the Scholar revolves around Bagcraft, a unique passive that gradually enhances Consumables simply by using them. This allows the Scholar to turn otherwise ordinary tools—stones, perfumes, pots, knives, greases, food items, boluses—into some of the strongest utility and damage sources in the game.

The class uses Analyze as its defining active skill, applying progressive debuffs and generating powerful ally-wide buffs as scan levels increase. In group content, the Scholar multiplies team efficiency; in solo play, it becomes a self-sufficient sustain/debuff hybrid that dominates extended encounters.

The Scholar’s Ultimate Art further defines its identity by linking enemies and allies through spectral threads, distributing damage, healing, and revival synergy across connected targets.

This class is best played by players who enjoy strategic planning, control-centric combat, status management, and leveraging Consumables as core damage tools.

Ripple Blade and Ripple Crescent Halberd which both have S Arcane scaling, and are ideal weapons for the Scholar. His starting weapon, Scholar's Thrusting Sword, scales mainly with Dexterity and isn't a very useful weapon, and should be changed as soon as possible. So, until you find a better weapon, you can rely on Items and Status Effects to deal damage.

Passives on Weapons that take effect while you are walking or Dormant Powers, are incredibly effective for the Scholar, especially while are in the Analyze-stance. While you are using Items, most of the time you will be walking, especially with an item like the Wraith Calling Bell. This will allow you to trigger a lot of effects while doing things that you will already be doing just by playing the Scholar.

Relics, on the other hand, are more related to the type of gameplay and specially if you are running solo or in a group. Some abilities are useful when used with a group and don't make much of a difference when doing solo runs, while others are imperative while playing solo, but do not make a difference in groups.  

  

Best Relics with Fixed Effects for Scholar in Elden Ring Nightreign

The Grand Luminous Scene can be purchased from the Small Jar Bazaar at the Roundtable Hold for 1,000 . This relic has a fixed effect, which will provide the following:

• [Scholar] Improved Endurance and Dexterity, Reduced Intelligence and Arcane
• Endurance +3
• Dexterity +3

This relic gives the Scholar more Endurance and Dexterity which boosts his survivability, while taking a hit to his Intelligence and Arcane. With the Scholar having the highest Arcane value in the game currently, it will not affect his gameplay too much. These effects particularly help with the Scholar's damage with his weapon when players want to run him more outside of using items and consumables.

The Grand Burning Scene can be purchased from the Small Jar bazaar at the Roundtable Hold for 1,000 . This relic has a fixed effect, which will provide the following:

• [Scholar] Prevents Slowing of Character Skill Progress
• Intelligence +2
• Arcane +2

The Grand Burning Scene is a red relic that can be used to substitute Note "My Dear Successor" for players who have not yet completed his remembrance quest and acquired the character relic. This relic boosts the Scholar's Intelligence and Arcane. The boost to Arcane can help players who want to focus on applying status effects to enemies. The Grand Burning Scene also has the Scholar-specific effect that helps with keeping the gauge of Analyze filled longer whenever the progress to fill it up is interrupted. This specific effect slows down the rate at which the gauge slowly empties whenever his Analyze skill is paused.

 

Elden Ring Nightreign Scholar Notes & Tips

• Voice Actor: Alistair Petrie
• Despite sharing an S rank in ARC, Scholar has almost double that of executor's ARC, at a whopping 50.
• ARC increases a player's DPS by scaling the buildup of status effects on enemies. Bleed in particular can proc up to four times at once, while frost must wait for the debuff to wear off before the frost burst can be applied again. Plays well with bleed, poison, frost, or a combination of those status effects.
• Make sure to buy items from the Merchant as needed. For example, a caster Scholar will most likely need to purchase starlight shards.
• Including a relic to start with Wraith Calling Bell can define a whole genre of Scholar builds.
• Dormant Powers from forts and great churches have a 65% chance to contain an uncommon class weapon. Dormant powers from encampments and ruins have a 35% chance to contain an uncommon class weapon. Dormant powers from swamps and forges have a ??? chance to drop ???. Scholar's class weapons consist of thrusting swords.

 

Nightreign Scholar Remembrance Quest Walkthrough

How to Unlock and Start Remembrance Quests in Nightreign

In Nightreign, players can randomly find journal entries related to the corresponding Nightfarer that they are using in an Expedition, which are key components to starting Remembrance Quests. These quests provide a backstory to the eight Nightfarers in the game, with players starting a Remembrance through the Roundtable Hold. When completed, these Remembrances will give rewards to players, such as Relics and Garbs (Skins).

When players are stuck in a part of a Remembrance Quest, or if a journal entry is missing, they may start an Expedition with the Nightfarer that they want to progress the quest. Then, defeat the Nightlord and the players will be able to do the next step of the quest. For more information about Remembrance Quests, players may visit this page.

 

Scholar Remembrance: Vassal's Journal

Part 1, Scholar Remembrance Objectives:

• Unlock the Scholar
• Run Expeditions to collect memory fragments.
• Interact with the Journal on the table
• Start an Expedition
• Search for the underground chamber
• Acquire Vassal's Journal
• Talk to the Undertaker
• Talk to the Iron Menial
• Interact with Vassal's Journal on the chapel desk
• Talk to the Undertaker

Chapter 1 for the Scholar Remembrance is immediately available when you unlock the Scholar. To unlock the Scholar, you need to have The Forsaken Hollows DLC. Using any character, you then need to defeat Gladius Beast of Night (Tricephalos) to unlock the Scholar and Undertaker. Once you've defeated the beast, return to the Roundtable Hold and speak to the Iron Menial, who provides you with a message from the Small Jar Bazaar. You can then unlock Chapter 2 and acquire memory fragments by running more Expeditions until you get enough memory fragments to start your Remembrance.

As the Scholar, head to the "Journal" area of the Roundtable Hold and "Begin Remembrance" to start the questline. After you load into the remembrance, you will find yourself before a desk. Walk up to it and interact with the piece of paper on the desk, and you will learn about an underground chamber below the marsh. You will then need to start an expedition for one of the new expeditions added with the Forsaken Hollow DLC. It's important to note that you need to run this expedition without a Shifting Earth Event.

 

After you drop into the map, you will find a new marker for your personal objective, flagged by a banner icon. Make your way to the location, which will be a castle. Once you arrive, go enter the building and go through the hole in the wall to your left before the obstruction at the end of the ruined castle. Drop down to the ledge on your left to start your descent to the underground chamber. You will then see a path up on the wall to your right that will be lit with some lamps. Go through and drop down the hole in the floor. You can then enter the room with an open door, on the desk highlighted by a glow will be Vassal's Journal.

 
 

After you obtain the journal, you can then finish the expedition and go back to the Roundtable Hold. You will see a prompt that will alert you of a loud sound coming from the chapel. Make your way to the chapel and speak to the Undertaker off to the right by the back of the room. Exhaust the dialogue with her and afterward, you will find the Iron Menial outside, talk to them and exhaust the dialogue with them. After the conversation ends, go back to the desk where you first examined the piece of paper where you learned of the underground chamber and interact with Vassal's Journal on the desk.

  

 

After you finish reading through the journal, go back to the Undertaker again and exhaust the dialogue with her, and you will be able to complete this section of the Scholar's remembrance and receive the Scholar's Chalice. You can then progress to unlock more chapters in his journal to unlock the next section of his remembrance questline.

 

 

Scholar Remembrance: The Great Hollow

Part 2, Scholar Remembrance Objectives:

• Run Expeditions to collect memory fragments
• Talk to the Small Jar Bazaar
• Defeat Godskin Apostle
• Interact with the Crystallized Knight

For the second part of the Scholar's remembrance questline, you need to run Expeditions or defeat Nightlords as the Scholar to collect memory fragments so you can start the remembrance quest in Chapter 5. Once you have collected the memory fragments, go talk to the Small Jar Bazaar at the Roundtable Hold and ask him to show you the Great Hollow.

  

You will then be transported into a castle-like structure that is the same one you encounter in the Undertaker's remembrance questline. Defeat the enemies you encounter while you make your way to the top. It is recommended that you defeat the enemies as you go so that you don't have to deal with them later on. When you reach the top after the second set of stairs, jump onto the rock-crystal platform suspended in the middle of the room by the chains and jump onto the beams. Once you get onto the beams, there will be a hole in the wall nearby.

 

Go through the hole and approach the door at the end of the corridor. It will be locked at the moment, and you will see a prompt where the Scholar will say that he needs to examine the source of the noise from the other side. Go back out to the beams, go straight past the hanging rock platform and on a platform below, you will need to defeat the Marauder. It is a boss fight with a Godskin Apostle accompanied by two knights. The larger HP bar is linked to all three enemies and it's recommended you use the Scholar's Ultimate Art Communion to bring down their HP faster as you deal damage to them.

 

Once you defeat the Marauder boss fight, you will see a notification that tells you that the location objective can be examined. Go back up to the hanging rock platform to the locked room in the hole in the wall. Once you enter the room and there will be a few items you can interact with for additional lore. You then need to walk up to the crystal formation at the corner of the room and interact with the knight encased inside. Once you do there will be a small bit of dialogue. When it ends, you will be transported back to the Journal area of the Roundtable Hold and you will have completed this section of the Scholar's remembrance. You will also receive the Cleansing Tear, one of the Scholar's unique Relics.

 

Scholar Remembrance: The Dreglord

Part 3, Scholar Remembrance Objectives

• Talk to the Undertaker
• Check dresser mirror
• Continue analysis in chapel
• Defeat the Dreglord in Limveld
• Talk to the Undertaker

To do the final part of the Scholar's remembrance questline, you need to unlock Chapter 8, which you can do by completing a run and defeating the Balancers expedition. Once you have unlocked Chapter 8, you can go back to the Journal at the Roundtable Hold and "Begin Remembrance". Once you begin, you will have your first objective which is to talk to the Undertaker. You will be able to find her by going back towards the Chapel past the Small Jar Bazaar. Speak to her and exhaust all dialogue and she will give you the Returned Leather Monocle Case.

 

After speaking to the Undertaker, you then need to go to the dresser where you change Garbs. Interact with the dresser and a dialogue line will pop up with the Scholar saying, "Now I know what to check. There is much to be done." Go back to the chapel and interact with the glowing item on the desk to your right. You then need to select "Oneself". A short dialogue line will play and you will receive the next personal objective.

Once the dialogue ends, you then need to run the Dreglord Expedition and defeat the Traitorous Straghess. Keep in mind that the expedition for the Dreglord can only be unlocked after you defeat the Balancers. After you defeat the Nightlord, you will receive the Headband of the Golden Ones. You will then return to the Roundtable Hold and from there, you need to go back and speak to the Undertaker once again to give her a copy of your research. Once you give the Undertaker the research, you then need to go to the desk inside the chapel and interact with it one last time and you will receive the Remembrance Skin for the Scholar. You can then end the remembrance nearby. Once you return to the Journal Area of the Roundtable Hold, you will receive the Scholar's unique Relic, Note "My Dear Successor" and you will have officially completed the Scholar's Remembrance questline

 

 

 

Elden Ring Nightreign Scholar Journal

 

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