This guide shows the complete walkthrough of Rya Questline in Elden Ring.
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Step 1: Rya Starting Location
Step 2: Find Rya’s Necklace
Step 3: Meet Rya in Altus Plateau
Step 4: Meet Rya in Volcano Manor
Step 5: Complete two Volcano Manor Requests
Step 6: Explore Volcano Manor Secret Area
Step 7: Go Back to Rya
Step 8: Get Serpent’s Amnion
Step 9: Give Serpent Amnion to Rya
Step 10: Check on Rya & Report to Tanith
Step 11: Go to Rya’s New Secret Location
Ending 1: Give Potion To Rya
Ending 2: Kill Rya
Ending 3: Don’t Give Potion To Rya (Best Ending)
Step 1: Rya Starting Location
You will find Rya in Liurnia at the location marked in the pictures below. She will tell you that some thug ran away with her necklace. She will request you to bring back her necklace.
Step 2: Find Rya’s Necklace
From Rya’s location, travel northwest until you reach an abandoned shack. The abandoned home is near the Boilprawn Shack Site of Grace as shown in the pictures below.
In front of the house, you will see a man boiling some prawns. Ask the man to give you the necklace. You can buy the necklace from him for 1000 ruins. You can also get the ruin by defeating him.
Once how have Rya’s Necklace, go back and give it to her. She will reward you with Volcano Manor Invitation.
Step 3: Meet Rya in Altus Plateau
Tale the Grand Lift of Dectus and go to Altus Plateau. Rya will be waiting for you at the entrance of Altus Plateau, just outside the Grand Lift of Dectus, as shown in the picture below. Talk to Rya and she will teleport you to Volcano Manor
Step 4: Meet Rya in Volcano Manor
Once you are in the Manor, talk to Tanith to get Drawing Room Key. Go to the hallway on the left side of the queen and open the door on the left side to enter the drawing-room. You can talk to Rya here again for some extra dialogues. Click here for the complete guide of Volcano Manor.
Step 5: Complete two Volcano Manor Requests
Collect letter kept on Drawing room table to get volcano manor requests. After each request, you will get some dialogues. After two requests, talk to Rya in her room (The room in front of the Dining Room). You will see that she has transformed into a Serpent. Talk to Tanith for some extra dialogues. Click here for the complete guide of Volcano Manor.
Step 6: Explore Volcano Manor Secret Area
Do some extra requests in the Volcano Manor. Then talk to Rya in her room and she will tell you that a serpent entered the room next to hers and disappeared. She will request you to investigate the room. Talk to Tanith about Rya’s troubles for some extra dialogue.
Now go to the hallway and enter the first room on the right side. Make sure you have a Swordstone key as you will be needing it. On the right corner of this room, there is an illusionary wall. Hit the wall to make it disappear.
As you proceed inside, you will find two paths as shown below.
Path 1: On this path, you will find a few items.
Path 2: This is the main path. Walk down the stairs and continue ahead.
As you continue ahead, you will reach the Prison Town Church Site of Grace as shown below.
Step 7: Go Back to Rya
After discovering the Prison Town Church Site of Grace, Open the door to go outside. Then return back to Rya and tell her about the dark side of the Volcano Manor. If the chat option does not appear, then go to her after the next Site of Grace.
Step 8: Get Serpent’s Amnion
Make your way back to the Prison Town Church Site of Grace. Open the church door, then turn right and continue ahead in the path. Soon you will reach a location with three paths as shown below.
Path 1 & 2: On these paths, you will find a few items
Path 3: This is the main path. Proceed ahead.
The door of the building ahead will be closed. Jump on the roof on the left side and proceed ahead as shown in the picture below.
Enter the building and go downstairs and eventually, you will reach the Guest Hall Site of Grace.
Open the door and exit the building. Then jump down on the dark ground between the lava and make your way to the stairs on the right side as shown below.
The stairs will lead you to an area with lots of hanging cages. Enter the elevator here and take it to the top.
After coming out of the elevator, climb up the stairs to enter the Temple of Eiglay. You will have to fight Godskin Noble miniboss here. After that, pick up the Serpent’s Amnion from the altar. Serpent’s Amnion is a key item for Rya.
Step 9: Give Serpent Amnion to Rya
Now go back to Rya and give her Serpent’s Amnion that you collected before from the secret area.
Step 10: Check on Rya & Report to Tanith
Reload the area and check on Rya. You will see that she is missing from the manor. Talk to Tanith about Rya’s absence and she will give you a Tonic of Forgetfulness and request you to have Rya drink this potion.
Step 11: Go to Rya’s New Secret Location
Go back to the Temple of Eiglay, where you found Serpent’s Amnion. Go through the door in the corner of this room as shown below.
Enter the building ahead and take the elevator going up. As the elevator is crossing an open door, jump inside the room as shown below. If you don’t jump here then the elevator will take you to the top.
Jump out through the window in this room. Then proceed ahead and climb the window to enter the building in front as shown below.
Here you will find Rya. Talk to her and she will request you to kill her. After that, you will get the option to give her the potion or not.
Ending 1 – Give Potion To Rya
Give the potion to Rya and then talk to Tanith, who will be sad and say that she will never be a good mother. Now complete the Volcano Manor questline and defeat the boss. Now go and Talk to Rya in the Drawing Room. She would have forgotten everything and will be surprised that everyone in the Manor is gone. Reload the area and go back to Rya’s location in the Dining Room, only to find her gone. You will find Daedicar’s Woe talisman at her location.
Ending 2 – Kill Rya
Accept Rya’s request and kill her. You will get Daedicar’s Woe talisman from her corpse. Now go and talk to Tanith and tell her that Rya is dead. She will thank you for your forthrightness.
Ending 3 – Don’t Give Potion To Rya (Best Ending)
Don’t give the potion to Rya. Then complete the Volcano Manor questline and defeat the boss. After that, go and talk to Rya in the secret room near the Temple of Eiglay. She will again ask you to kill her. If you don’t do it, then she will tell you that you were always kind and uncompromising. You will find Daedicar’s Woe talisman at her location.
Go back to the Temple of Eiglay. You will find Daedicar’s Woe talisman and Zoraya’s Letter in a corner. This will be a farewell letter left by Rya. The letter says that she has set out on a journey to carry on Mother’s work and be a proud daughter of Tanith. This letter hints that we might meet Rya again in a future DLC.
