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How to open up the locked Elden Ring Rennala chest

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The locked Elden Ring Rennala breast in the Raya Lucaria Academy Chiliad Library is one of the stranger, and weirdly more frustrating things you'll discover in the early phases of Elden Ring. Only sitting to i side of Rennala after beating her, this locked chest is a total enigma - information technology won't open, there'due south no indication of what's inside information technology, and trying to interfere with it but tells you "it'due south locked".

Hardly helpful, only there is a way inside, and what's inside is definitely… interesting. We'll lay out how to open up the locked Rennala chest below, what treasure is within, and how it ties to some other sorcerous graphic symbol you heard from quite recently…

How to open the locked chest in Elden Ring

The locked Rennala chest in Elden Ring can only be opened with a special key called the Discarded Palace Key - and that's something information technology'due south going to accept you a while to go. The cardinal, the breast and the contents of said chest are all integral parts of the Elden Ring Ranni questline and secret ending, which at one point has the four-armed witch requite you the fundamental when she asks you lot to retrieve something from within the chest that she needs. Technically this means that you have to know how to beat Rennala in Elden Ring to go the contents, but bluntly information technology'south very unlikely that everyone gets to that point in Ranni'due south questline without having defeated the Carian Queen first.

To find out how to get the central specifically, head to our Ranni questline guide linked in a higher place, and progress to phases 7 and viii, where defeating the Calamitous Shadow bestows you with the Discarded Palace Key. From that point on, you lot tin can head to the locked chest and open it.

What's inside the locked Rennala chest?

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All the Elden Band endings you can unlock, including Ranni's, are listed in our guide here!

The locked Rennala chest only contains one object - the Night Moon Band. This is a quest item tied explicitly to Ranni's quest, where the player has to effectively notice Ranni's existent body (not the doll she's currently possessing) and present the Dark Moon Band to it in order to get her consort, significant that if Ranni rises to power in her catastrophe, you'll be her Elden Lord.

Sadly the Dark Moon Band doesn't accept whatsoever powers across that - it can't be used for magic or to boost your stats, or worn as a talisman. Information technology's simply a central item tied to Ranni'due south quest, and once you've presented it to her at the end of her questline, it's gone for good.

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