How do Elden Ring Nightreign Relics work? After each expedition, you're rewarded with Relics, special items that enhance your abilities. While you're likely to use any old Relic when you first begin the game, there are some powerful ones you should look out for that can completely transform the way you approach combat.
Elden Ring Nightreign bosses on your expeditions.
How Relics work in Elden Ring Nightreign
Elden Ring Nightreign Relics are the basis for your build, but you won't have any when you first start playing the game. You can acquire Relics by going on expeditions – even on failed runs, you will likely end up with a Relic as a reward for your efforts. Relics are a permanent fixture of your build, so you don't need to worry about them disappearing after going on an expedition.
The further you progress on your expeditions, the higher quality your rewards will be. The quality of Relics is broken down into three tiers: Delicate, Polished, and Grand. The quality reflects how many effects the Relic has, so Delicate has one effect, Polished has two, and Grand has three.
All the Elden Ring Nightreign classes can equip Relics, though the type of Relic you can equip depends on who you're playing as. Relics are broken down into colors: Red, Yellow, Blue, and Green.
Relics can be equipped and sold by performing Relic Rites at the Roundtable. Selling Relics grants you Murk, and as revealed in the Elden Ring Nightreign overview trailer, you can use this currency to purchase items that allow you to change the Relic types each class can use. For example, Wylder's Goblet enables a new Relic Rite, making it possible to equip a different combination of Relic types.
Here are the Relic types you can equip as each class:
- Duchess: Green, Green, Green
- Guardian: Red, Red, Yellow
- Recluse: Green, Green, Red
- Wylder: Red, Red, Blue
The best Elden Ring Nightreign Relics
Here are the best Elden Ring Nightreign Relics we've seen so far:
| Relic Name | Relic Type | Relic Effect |
| Grand Drizzly Scene | Blue | Holy Attack Power Up +2 Fire Damage Negation Up Critical hits earn Runes |
| Grand Tranquil Scene | Green | Improved Guard Counters Improved Critical Hits Stamina recovers with each successful attack |
| Grand Luminous Scene | Yellow | Arcane +2 Lightning Damage Negation Up Crystal Darts in possession at start of expedition |
| Grand Burning Scene | Red | Poise +1 [Wylder] Art activation spreads fire in area Taking attacks improves attack power |
| Polished Luminous Scene | Yellow | Character Skill Cooldown Reduction +3 Holy Damage Negation Up |
| Polished Tranquil Scene | Green | Intelligence +3 Poison Resistance Up |
| Polished Burning Scene | Red | Strength +2 Physical Attack Up +2 |
| Polished Burning Scene | Red | Faith +1 Faith +3 |
| Polished Drizzly Scene | Blue | Attacks inflict Poison +2 Arts gauge charged from successful guarding |
| Delicate Burning Scene | Red | Holy Damage Negation Up |
| Delicate Burning Scene | Red | Arcane +3 |
| Delicate Tranquil Scene | Green | [Wylder] Art Activation spreads fire in area |
That's everything we know about Elden Ring Nightreign Relics so far, but stay tuned as we'll have much more information closer to the game's launch. To learn more about the Elden Ring Nightreign skins guide highlighting the costumes available for each class.