Forge of the Giants is an important story location found in the final region in Elden Ring, Mountaintops of the Giants, located in the far north. The Mountaintops is a relatively straightforward snowy area with a few dungeons and one major story boss needed to progress the story. This page will contain walkthrough focused guide information on how to reach Mountaintops of the Giants, how to navigate between the various Sites of Grace, and defeat the area boss at the end.
Sections in this Page
- How to Get to Mountaintops of the Giants
- Mountaintops of the Giants Walkthrough
- Fire Giant Boss Fight
- Forge of the Giants
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How to Get to Mountaintops of the Giants
After defeating the boss of Leyndell, Royal Capital the the magic barrier blocking the bridge on the eastern edge of the city will dissipate, allowing you to cross over to the elevator on the other side.
Take the elevator down and you will find yourself in the Forbidden Lands. Activate and rest at the Site of Grace just outside the elevator, then hop on Torrent and start riding down the foggy path ahead of you.
As you can see from the map above, the path here is incredibly thin and straight forward. The only obstacle in your way are a number of Vulgar Militia members waiting to ambush you as well as a bunch of poison traps. Just ride forward, ignore the enemies, and be careful not to fall off the ledge.
Just before you reach the end of the path you should ride right past a Golden Seed tree, so be sure you keep an eye out and grab it along the way.
At the end of the path is the Grand Lift of Rold, guarded by yet another gargoyle: the Black Blade Kindred. This fight is highly similar to the gargoyle we battled on the Ramparts of the capital. The Gargoyle's moveset is made of a bunch of devastating long range attacks, but thankfully they are fairly slow and obvious as well. The general game plan should be to keep your shield up, dodge the ones you can, and only punish the big, obvious combo finishing attacks.
The Gargoyle's combos can be a little deceptive and his range is much longer than you will expect, so don't assume you can just roll away and drink a Flask between his attacks. The Gargoyle's lanky body can make him hard to hit sometimes, so I would recommend using some jumping heavy attacks instead of grounded attacks whenever possible. These also deal a lot of topple damage, which could result in a massive punish.
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Be careful and patient and you will eventually wear him down. Your reward for winning is the Gargoyle's Black Blades and the Gargoyle's Black Axe, as well as access to the Grand Lift of Rold. Walk up to the lift and use the medallion to activate the elevator up to the Mountaintops of the Giants.
Mountaintops of the Giants Walkthrough
Step off the elevator and head down the mountain trail in front of you where you will immediately encounter the area map. Grab it, then go forward where you can find the Zamor Ruins Site of Grace.
With the map revealed you can see that this is a relatively small and straightforward area. We need to get to the Forge in the bottom right corner of the map. We are going to follow the path laid out in the image above.
Start going up the hill to the left of the Zamor Ruins near the Site of Grace. Go around the edge of the clifftop and you will come across a long stone bridge, guarded by some perfumers.
Once you are across the bridge go up the mountain ahead of you and between the cliffsides where you will find the frozen lake. Go northeast, keeping an eye out for the Golden Seed tree on the right as you run up the river.
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Grab the Site of Grace on the edge of the frozen lake, then cross the lake where you will find the First Church of Marika with another Site of Grace inside.
Run along the cliff's edge until you reach a chain bridge, near the Guardian's Garrison castle. Grab the Giant's Gravepost Site of Grace on the other side of the chain bridge.
From here you just need to go up the hill and past some dangerous enemies (including a giant hand) to reach the Foot of the Forge Site of Grace.
Go around the corner and you should see another chain bridge leading to the one last mountaintop, where you will encounter...
Fire Giant Boss Fight
This massive boss arena comes along with a fittingly massive foe, the fearsome Fire Giant. This battle is a bit simple and gimmicky, but the Giant's powerful attacks can make it a bit challenging as well. Our boss guide should help you get through it quicker.
This battle features two phases, both of quick require you to focus on a weak spot on the Giant's body. When the battle begins you will want to stay on foot, holding up your shield until the Giant does his snow shoveling attack. Once the snow has dispersed jump onto Torrent and ride up to his feet.
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The Giant's first weak spot is his left ankle, which you will notice is wrapped up in some primitive bandages. Strike the bandage a few times to cause it to break, stunning the Giant momentarily and exposing the wound underneath. Continue striking the ankle, always staying slightly behind the foot to avoid the Giant's frontward facing slam attacks. You will also need to look out for his fire spells and foot stomps. If he casts the slow moving fire orb you will want to run up to it to trigger it to explode, then get out of the radius before the explosion happens. If the ground begins to catch on fire you need to make sure you are NOT standing on top of any of the burning spots, as they will soon explode causing damage.
Avoid all of these attacks and keep hitting the ankle until the giant reaches about half health, at which point phase two will begin. The Giant will tear off his foot and the eye on his chest will open, revealing his second weak spot.
In this phase of the fight you will want to stay on Torrent the entire time, constantly weaving in and out of his melee range and striking him one or two times per pass. The attack we are looking for is his body slam, which will momentarily cause him to lay on his side allowing you to strike his eye directly.
While you wait for that attack there are a number of other attacks you need to avoid:
- If he leans back he is preparing to spit fiery rocks from the mouth on his chest. These will pepper the ground around him, but are relatively easy to see coming and avoid on Torrent. Try and get behind him and strike his legs.
- If you get too far away he will begin firing homing fireballs that deal massive damage. For this reason you will want to stay behind him and close to him as much as possible.
- Never get underneath the giant or else he may do his body roll and crush you underneath. This also applies to being to the side of him. Stay behind his legs as much as you can.
- If he leans forward in a sort of plank position he is going to spew fire onto the ground. Just get away as fast as possible to avoid getting caught in the area of effect.
In general, stay behind and close to the Giant as often as possible. Don't get greedy with your hits and keep an eye out for the body slam to get maximum damage on his eye. Just be careful not to stay close to the eye for too long or you will give him the opportunity to execute his powerful fire breath attack. Keep up the hit and runs for long enough and you will bring the Fire Giant down and claim his reward: the Remembrance of the Fire Giant.
Forge of the Giants
With the Fire Giant defeated you can proceed to the top of Flame Peak and ride onto the large chain that connects the peak to the Forge of the Giants in the distance. Once you are on the forge you need to ride around to the other side where you can activate the Forge of the Giants Site of Grace.
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Here you can opt to speak to Melina and choose to "commit the cardinal sin" and she puts it. Saying yes to her seems to be the point of no return for some of the sidequests and content in the game, so be sure you have done everything you want to do before progressing past this point.
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