Elden Ring: How to get to Mohgwyn Palace

Looking for how to get to Mohgwyn Palace in Elden Ring? There are dozens of smaller sub-regions and hidden areas in the massive Elden Ring map, and one of the most remote and challenging areas of all is Mohgwyn Palace. Home to Mohg, Lord Of Blood, Mohgwyn Palace technically forms part of Siofra River deep underground, but it cannot be reached via Siofra River itself. It also serves as an entrance to the Shadow Realm, the world featured in Elden Ring's Shadow Of The Erdtree expansion.

There are two methods of reaching this elusive location - you can choose to get there fast by completing a sidequest, or you can reach Mohg's lair at a more appropriate time by naturally progressing through the game. In this guide, we'll delve into these two methods in detail, explaining exactly how to get to Mohgwyn Palace in Elden Ring.

How to get to Mohgwyn Palace in Elden Ring

There are two ways to get to Mohgwyn Palace in Elden Ring:

• You can progress White Mask Varré's questline.
• You can use the teleporter at the Consecrated Snowfield.

The first method gets you to Mohgwyn Palace much earlier in your playthrough, whereas the second method allows you to reach Mohgwyn Palace more organically, after you've levelled up enough to stand a chance against Mohg.

Let's go over both methods of reaching Mohgwyn Palace in more detail below.

Option 1: Progress Varré's quest (Fast method)

White Mask Varré is a character you meet at the very beginning of Elden Ring; he's just a few steps in front of you when you first step into the Lands Between. Turns out, he has an entire side quest which concludes in Mohgwyn Palace itself. The fastest method of reaching Mohgwyn Palace is to complete the following steps to progress Varré's questline:

1. Speak to Varré upon entering Limgrave for the first time.
2. After visiting the Roundtable Hold for the first time, speak to Varré again.
3. After obtaining your first Great Rune, meet Varré at Rose Church in Liurnia and acquire the Festering Bloody Finger.
4. Either invade 3 players using the Festering Bloody Finger or defeat Magnus The Beast Claw in Writheblood Ruins.
5. Speak to Varré to receive the Lord Of Blood's Favor.
6. Soak the Lord Of Blood's Favor in the blood of the maiden's corpse at the Church Of Inhibition.
7. Return to Varré to receive the reusable Bloody Finger.
8. Reload the area and speak to Varré again to get the Pureblood Knight's Medal.
9. Activate the Pureblood Knight's Medal to teleport to Mohgwyn Palace.

These steps form the majority of White Mask Varré's questline in Elden Ring. The whole point of this process is to get Varré to give you the Pureblood Knight's Medal, because using this item teleports you straight to Mohgwyn Palace. This method also means you get to fight and kill Varré by summoning him near the Mausoleum Midpoint Site Of Grace, thus completing this rather grim questline.

The obvious benefit of this method is that you can reach Mohgwyn Palace far earlier on in your playthrough. You'll likely be severely underlevelled, and the entire region will be a significant challenge. However, it's well worth getting here early, because Mohgwyn Palace holds probably the best level farm in Elden Ring - all the Albinaurics next to the Palace Approach Ledge-Road Site Of Grace.

The other key reason to get to Mohgwyn Palace early on is so you can reach Miquella's Cocoon and start the Shadow Of The Erdtree expansion as early as possible. Bear in mind, however, that the DLC is meant to be tackled in the late-game, and we recommend that you wait until you're at least levels 120-150 before starting Shadow of the Erdtree.

Option 2: Teleport from Consecrated Snowfield (Normal method)

The second way to reach Mohgwyn Palace is to first reach the Consecrated Snowfield. This area is pretty much the final area you'll discover on the main continent of The Lands Between, and getting there is quite a task in itself, because you need to find both halves of the Haligtree Medallion and use them at the Grand Lift Of Rold. For more information on locating the medallion halves, follow our guide on how to reach the Consecrated Snowfield.

Once you've unlocked the Consecrated Snowfield, you can find the teleporter to Mohgwyn Palace on the very western edge of the region, about halfway up the region map. The area is guarded by a Runebear (in fact, it's the strongest Runebear in the entire game; good luck with that). Consult the map below for the exact location of the teleporter:

Interact with this teleporter and you'll be transported to Mohgwyn Palace in "the correct way". Going from the Consecrated Snowfield to Mohgwyn Palace makes a lot of sense because the two regions are quite similar in difficulty level, so you're likely to be able to handle Mohgwyn Palace more easily by taking this method. For more details, check out our Elden Ring area order guide.

That brings this guide on getting to Mohgwyn Palace to an end. Now all that remains is reaching - and beating - the Lord Of Blood himself. Not sure if you're ready? Check out our guides on the best weapons, best builds, best armor sets, and best spells in Elden Ring. And if your main goal in reaching Mohgwyn Palace is to unlock Elden Ring's DLC, check out our guide on what to do first in Shadow of the Erdtree.