Elden Ring Nightreign: Full Undertaker Remembrance Walkthrough

The Undertaker is one of the standout Nightfarers introduced in Elden Ring: Nightreign, and their Remembrance questline is one of the most elaborate sequences in the DLC. It weaves together new Night Lords, a unique late-game boss encounter, and a finale that rewards you with exclusive cosmetics and lore-heavy items. This guide walks you through every step you need to take to see the Undertaker Remembrance through from the first journal page to the final cutscene.

While this article draws inspiration from existing coverage, all structure, explanations, and wording here are original and designed to give you a clean, spoiler-light roadmap. You’ll learn how to unlock the Undertaker and the Scholar, how to trigger each Remembrance chapter, and how to avoid missing key steps that can quietly break the quest.

Overview of the Undertaker Remembrance Questline

Before diving into the step-by-step walkthrough, it helps to understand what the Undertaker Remembrance actually is within Nightreign’s systems.

• Quest type: Multi-stage narrative and challenge quest tied to the Undertaker Nightfarer.
• Key components: Journal pages, Remembrance instances, Night Lord kills, a Night Aspect battle, and a final ritual.
• Main rewards: Undertaker-themed cosmetic outfit/skin, a unique relic, and additional lore items.
• Core requirement: You must be willing to play multiple expeditions as the Undertaker, especially in the later chapters.

Because the quest is broken into chapters tied to your Undertaker journal pages, you will bounce between regular expeditions, Remembrance runs, and Roundtable Hold conversations. Missing or skipping dialogue, or clearing critical fights with the wrong character, can mean you need to repeat content. The sections below keep the sequence as linear as possible.

Unlocking the Undertaker and Scholar

You cannot meaningfully start the Undertaker Remembrance until both the Undertaker and the Scholar are available as Nightfarers. The exact details of recruitment vary depending on your prior Nightreign progress, but there are broad conditions you should meet:

• Have completed core Nightreign onboarding so that the Roundtable Hold is fully accessible and Nightfarers can be swapped freely.
• Have cleared at least one Night Lord so Nightreign’s higher-tier encounters and journals are unlocked.
• Recruit the Undertaker through their initial appearance and dialogue chain in the Roundtable Hold hub.
• Recruit the Arcane Scholar (often referred to simply as the Scholar) through a similar introductory sequence.

Once both characters appear in your Nightfarer selection and their journals have at least the first entries, the Undertaker Remembrance becomes available to pursue in earnest. Think of the recruitment phase as Chapter 0 of the questline: you are setting the stage for everything that follows.

Journal Progression and Remembrance Chapters Explained

The Undertaker Remembrance is gated behind specific journal pages. Each key threshold unlocks a new Remembrance instance or pushes the story forward. The exact numbering can differ slightly depending on patch version, but a typical structure looks like this:

Whenever you unlock a new journal milestone, check the Undertaker’s journal menu. Any Remembrance instances linked to that chapter are activated from the journal interface rather than normal expedition selection, which makes them easy to overlook if you are used to choosing maps in a fixed routine.

Chapter One: First Undertaker Remembrance

The first major step in the Undertaker Remembrance begins once you have obtained enough pages to unlock the chapter attached to roughly journal page three (numbers can shift slightly depending on balance updates, but you will clearly see a new Remembrance entry in the Undertaker journal list).

How to enter the first Remembrance

1. Open the Nightfarer journal menu while at the Roundtable Hold.
2. Navigate to the Undertaker’s tab and highlight the newly unlocked chapter.
3. Confirm you are starting a Remembrance and not a standard expedition; the UI usually signals this clearly.
4. Launch into the instance, which functions like a condensed expedition, usually with bespoke rules.

Core objectives of the first Remembrance

The first Undertaker Remembrance is effectively an initiation trial for the role you’ll play in later chapters. Depending on difficulty tier and patch, you can expect tasks such as:

• Defeating one or more other Nightfarers or Night Lord-aligned enemies.
• Reaching a particular altar or ritual site with the Undertaker present.
• Triggering a story event that deepens the relationship between the Undertaker and the Scholar.

At the end of the instance, you will typically:

• Return automatically to the Roundtable Hold.
• Receive new journal text and occasionally a small item reward.
• Unlock the conditions necessary for your next journal page milestone.

From this point, the game expects you to continue fighting Night Lords and actively choosing the Undertaker for your expeditions if you want the story to keep moving.

Night Lords and Unlocking the Mid-Game Chapters

A central requirement for progressing the Undertaker Remembrance is defeating several different Night Lords. The game tracks not only how many Night Lords you have defeated, but also how many unique ones you have slain.

Why unique Night Lord kills matter

Progress toward critical Undertaker chapters and the Night Aspect boss is often tied to the number of distinct Night Lords you’ve killed. Repeating the same Night Lord fight multiple times might offer rewards, but it will not always satisfy the uniqueness requirement. Many guides emphasize that you should rotate your targets.

• Typical threshold: At least four unique Night Lords before the Night Aspect fight becomes available.
• Recommended approach:
  • Consult your Night Lord bestiary to confirm which ones you have already defeated.
  • Prioritize new Night Lords over rematches when you’re aiming to push the Undertaker Remembrance forward.

Once you have met the mid-game kill requirements and advanced your Undertaker journal, the second major Remembrance chapter opens up, which focuses much more heavily on the Scholar.

Chapter Two: Scholar-Focused Remembrance

The second major chapter of the Undertaker Remembrance revolves around tracking down and interacting with the Scholar in a special Remembrance expedition. This is typically toggled once you’ve unlocked the journal milestone around page five and cleared an additional Night Lord.

Starting the Scholar Remembrance

1. Return to the Roundtable Hold after your latest Night Lord victory.
2. Open the Undertaker journal and look for a new Remembrance chapter linked to the Scholar.
3. Start the Remembrance from the journal menu, making sure the Undertaker is selected as your active Nightfarer.

Key objectives in the Scholar chapter

While precise layouts vary by map, the Scholar chapter usually expects you to:

• Travel through a shifting earth or newly introduced area added with the Nightreign content.
• Locate an elevated or hidden section using movement options like spirit springs or platforming-like navigation.
• Reach a high balcony or internal rafters and discover the Scholar imprisoned in a crystal structure.

Once you’ve reached the Scholar, you need to interact with them to secure a vital quest item.

Obtaining the Scholar’s Primal Core

Interacting with the crystal-encased Scholar grants the Scholar’s Primal Core or an equivalent story-critical item. This is usually non-optional: without the core, the next steps of the Undertaker Remembrance will not trigger correctly.

After picking up the core, you can finish or abandon the expedition as you wish. The important thing is that you successfully acquired the item and return to the Roundtable Hold to continue the story.

Follow-up conversations and additional items

Back at the Roundtable Hold, head to the area where the Scholar normally resides and exhaust their dialogue. Typically, the Scholar rewards you with items that serve as both lore artifacts and quest triggers, such as:

• Night-hued Glass or a similar crystal-based relic.
• A bundle of papers (often called bundled paper) that expands Undertaker lore and hints at the next ritual.

Do not skip talking to the Scholar multiple times. In many versions of the quest, you need to exhaust their dialogue to fully unlock the next Undetaker journal chapter and to set the conditions for the Night Aspect fight.

Preparing for the Night Aspect Boss Fight

The climax of the Undertaker Remembrance is a confrontation with the Night Aspect, a powerful boss that represents the culmination of your Night Lord hunting. To even challenge this boss, you typically need to:

• Defeat at least four unique Night Lords.
• Complete the Scholar Remembrance and obtain the core and follow-up items.
• Advance your Undertaker journal to the chapter that mentions the Night Aspect explicitly.

Why you must play as the Undertaker

For the Undertaker Remembrance to resolve correctly, you often need to tackle the Night Aspect as the Undertaker specifically. The game checks which Nightfarer you are using at critical points:

• If you defeat the Night Aspect with a different Nightfarer, you may miss the key Undertaker-only reward or be forced to repeat the encounter.
• Some later rituals require that the entire run in which you fight the Night Aspect be completed as the Undertaker.

For safety, once you reach the journal chapter that calls for the Night Aspect, commit to using the Undertaker for that entire expedition.

Chapter Three: Beating the Night Aspect as the Undertaker

The Night Aspect encounter itself is demanding, but it is also a conventional boss fight once you are inside the arena. The Undertaker’s kit is designed to reward careful positioning and sustained pressure, so lean into that playstyle.

General combat tips

• Study attack patterns: As with other Elden Ring bosses, the Night Aspect telegraphs certain moves with long wind-ups. Focus on learning the patterns before going for aggressive punish windows.
• Stay mid-range: Many Night Aspect attacks punish being too close or too far away. The Undertaker’s mobility and reach allow you to hover at a safe mid-range where you can dodge into combos rather than backing off.
• Use your relics wisely: Items earned through the Undertaker storyline, particularly crystal- and glass-themed relics, can be layered with your usual talismans to shore up weak defenses.

Mandatory conditions for the Remembrance quest

To ensure the Undertaker Remembrance credits you with this fight:

1. Confirm that the expedition in which you face the Night Aspect is started as the Undertaker.
2. Do not switch to another Nightfarer mid-run if the game allows swapping in any form.
3. Defeat the Night Aspect and allow the post-fight sequence to play out naturally.

When you return to your hub after the fight, you should find a new key item in your inventory that is indispensable for the final ritual.

The Dismembered Finger and Final Ritual

After defeating the Night Aspect as the Undertaker, you are normally granted a macabre quest item often named the Dismembered Finger (names may vary slightly depending on localization). This object is the centerpiece of the final Undertaker ritual.

What to do with the Dismembered Finger

The last major steps typically unfold as follows:

1. Return to the Roundtable Hold after the Night Aspect fight.
2. Equip the Dismembered Finger in your pouch or quick-use slot so it is easy to access.
3. Enter the central chamber where the Undertaker’s story began—usually the large hall near the primary Roundtable gathering.
4. Drop the Dismembered Finger on the ground in the center of the room or near a specific corpse or altar, depending on the patch.
5. Wait for a unique Undertaker line or audio cue signaling that the ritual has been accepted.

If you hear a distinct comment or see text that acknowledges the offering, you’ve done it correctly. If nothing happens, reload the area and try dropping the item closer to the designated body or spot.

Triggering the ending and final rewards

Once the ritual is complete, you should be able to proceed toward the Nightreign ending trigger as usual for that expedition. When the credits roll (or when you are returned to your hub after the endgame sequence), the game grants you the Undertaker Remembrance payoff:

• A dedicated Undertaker Remembrance cosmetic outfit or skin.
• A special relic (commonly referred to as a glass necklace or night-hued glass variation), which synergizes with crystal-themed builds.
• The final Undertaker journal entries, which provide closure on the character’s arc and role in the Nightreign.

Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Because the Undertaker Remembrance spans several chapters and relies heavily on specific conditions, it’s easy to accidentally break your progress. Here are some common pitfalls and how to sidestep them.

Skipping dialogue

• Problem: Leaving the Roundtable Hold too early and failing to exhaust conversations with the Scholar or Undertaker.
• Fix: After each major quest milestone, speak to both characters multiple times until their dialogue clearly loops or runs out.

Defeating key bosses with the wrong Nightfarer

• Problem: Killing the Night Aspect or required Night Lords while not playing the Undertaker, which can prevent certain journal updates or items from appearing.
• Fix: When you plan to progress the Undertaker Remembrance, commit to the Undertaker for that entire expedition, especially for the Night Aspect fight.

Repeating the same Night Lords

• Problem: Farming the same Night Lord multiple times while expecting unique-kill counters to increase.
• Fix: Track which Night Lords you’ve defeated and focus on new ones until you’ve reached the unique-kill threshold.

Quick Reference Checklist

Use this condensed checklist to verify you’ve completed every essential step of the Undertaker Remembrance questline.

• ✔ Unlock both the Undertaker and the Scholar.
• ✔ Earn early Undertaker journal pages through expeditions.
• ✔ Start and complete the first Undertaker Remembrance.
• ✔ Defeat multiple unique Night Lords to push your journal to page 5.
• ✔ Begin the Scholar-focused Remembrance from the Undertaker journal.
• ✔ Find the Scholar in the special map and obtain the Scholar’s Primal Core.
• ✔ Return to the Roundtable Hold and exhaust the Scholar’s dialogue to receive follow-up items (e.g., night-hued glass, bundled paper).
• ✔ Continue killing unique Night Lords to unlock the Night Aspect chapter.
• ✔ Start a Night Aspect expedition as the Undertaker and defeat the boss.
• ✔ Confirm the Dismembered Finger (or equivalent item) appears in your inventory.
• ✔ Return to the Roundtable Hold and drop the item at the designated spot, listening for the Undertaker’s comment.
• ✔ Trigger the ending and receive the Undertaker Remembrance outfit and final relic.

FAQs: Undertaker Remembrance in Elden Ring Nightreign

Do I have to use the Undertaker for every step of the quest?

No, but it’s strongly recommended for any expedition that is tied to a major Undertaker journal update. You can experiment with other Nightfarers for regular content, but use the Undertaker for Remembrance runs, Night Aspect, and any expedition where you expect to push the journal forward.

Can I still complete the Remembrance if I already killed the Night Aspect with another Nightfarer?

This depends on your version and patch. In many cases, you will need to re-fight the Night Aspect as the Undertaker to receive the dismembered finger and credit toward the Undertaker Remembrance. Check your Undertaker journal; if the chapter referencing the Night Aspect is incomplete, assume you need to repeat the fight.

What happens if I lose or accidentally discard the Dismembered Finger?

Most versions of the game either prevent you from permanently destroying critical quest items or allow you to reacquire them by repeating the relevant encounter. If you think you’ve lost the item, verify your inventory categories carefully, then consider re-fighting the Night Aspect or loading an earlier save if that is an option on your platform.

Is the Undertaker Remembrance required for any main ending?

The Undertaker Remembrance primarily offers a side storyline, unique cosmetics, and extra lore. It does not typically block access to Nightreign’s main endings, but it can modify the flavor of certain sequences or provide additional context that makes the overall narrative richer.

Are the Undertaker rewards usable with other Nightfarers?

Yes. The cosmetic outfit is usually tied to your account’s appearance options, and relic-style rewards such as glass or crystal accessories can be equipped by other Nightfarers once unlocked, giving you extra build flexibility even after the quest is complete.