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Subscribe to the world's #1 PC gaming mag Try a single issue or save on a subscription Issues delivered straight to your door or device From£35.99View PC Gaming Show Computex 2025 TES4: Oblivion Elden Ring: Nightreign Recommended reading 12 Elden Ring Nightreign tips to get a head start hunting Nightlords Elden Ring Nightreign best relics and relic rites explained PSA: Every weapon you carry grants you its passive buff in Elden Ring Nightreign Elden Ring Nightreign Tricephalos boss guide: How to beat Gladius Elden Ring Nightreign's story is told in part through playable memories, so FromSoftware really is delivering lore through whacking things Elden Ring Nightreign guide: all our advice for surviving the night in one place How to get legendary weapons in Elden Ring Nightreign Elden Ring: Nightreign You get a unique relic for beating Elden Ring Nightreign's 'supposed to lose' tutorial boss, but don't worry: There's a buried menu option to fight him again Ted Litchfield 1 June 2025 The relic's better early game and nothing to write home about, but it's still neat. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: From Software) How to replay Elden Ring Nightreign's tutorial How to beat Margit in Elden Ring Nightreign's tutorial Fell Omen Fetish stats and use In grand FromSoftware tradition, Elden Ring Nightreign begins with a fight you're supposed to lose. As is also tradition, it's perfectly possible to gut it out and beat him anyway if you're enough of a toxic Souls tryhard cool guy. Nightreign's tutorial fight even furnishes you with a one-of-a-kind relic for your troubles. It's nothing to write home about on its own, but could be handy before you're able to build up your collection. And before you feel like you missed out, there's an option to replay the tutorial that's buried in a menu in perfectly obtuse Nightreign fashion. How to replay Elden Ring Nightreign's tutorial Image 1 of 2 (Image credit: FromSoftware) (Image credit: FromSoftware) You can run back Nightreign's tutorial at any time from the Visual Codex in the Roundtable Hold. That's the book on the desk just to the north of the jar merchant in the western hall of the fort. You can also just pull it up and warp there by pressing the select button. Here's the step-by-step: You may like 12 Elden Ring Nightreign tips to get a head start hunting Nightlords Elden Ring Nightreign best relics and relic rites explained PSA: Every weapon you carry grants you its passive buff in Elden Ring Nightreign Hit Select, go to Visual Codex, select Guide. You want the first option under the first heading, and it should be what is highlighted first by default: Basic Rules: Play Tutorial. Just press the X button (Square on a PlayStation pad) to start. How to beat Margit in Elden Ring Nightreign's tutorial You'll always be a low-level Wylder for this fight, but I was surprised at how many tools FromSoft gives you. I just blew through the tutorial my first time, but if you kill all the enemies and open both chests on the fairly linear path, you'll be able to hit level six, have a pretty decent build, and two guaranteed uses of Wylder's ultimate. Here's a breakdown of all the tips and notes I have: The best weapons in the tutorial (they're guaranteed drops) are the Cold Katar and Rogier's Rapier. The rapier does good damage and automatically summons Glintblades (those floating magic daggers that auto-target enemies) every few seconds. Use the katar to inflict Frostbite on Margit, then swap to the rapier. The NPC Duchess you fight with actually does good damage, in addition to serving as a tank. You should be close to ulting at the start of the fight, and you get a guaranteed extra use as part of the tutorial partway through the battle. Ult Margit once right at the start, but save the second use to revive Duchess if she goes down. You can revive once before the tutorial ends, and your souls are outside the boss room⁠—you can run back to the grace and level back up before fighting again. Margit will have the amount of HP you left him with, but Duchess will not be there to help you anymore. Fell Omen Fetish stats and use Your reward for all that is… fine. Honestly, the Fell Omen Fetish is more interesting than genuinely useful, but it's a pretty good option until you unlock some of the really strong relics by beating Nightlords and Remembrances. It gives you: Damage bonus after switching weapons. Improved throwing knife damage [utterly useless]. Image 1 of 4 (Image credit: FromSoftware) (Image credit: FromSoftware) (Image credit: FromSoftware) (Image credit: FromSoftware) The only one of those that really stands out to me for potential buildcrafting is the weapon swap damage bonus: It's pretty quick and easy to swap the weapon in one of your hands for a quick boost every few seconds. I'm also curious if Executor's character skill where he pulls out the deflect katana counts as a swap for the relic's purposes⁠—that would make it quite good on him, since he's always switching between the cursed blade and his normal weapons. Really though, I just like this as another sneaky surprise from Nightreign. It's a nice encapsulation of the entire experience of being Nightreigned, in fact: Obtuse frustration, followed by a delightful surprise that just puts a smile on your face. The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsBy submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. FromSoftware Ted Litchfield Social Links Navigation Associate Editor Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister's copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer. He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent, but has also covered esports, modding, and rare game collecting. When he's not playing or writing about games, you can find Ted lifting weights on his back porch. 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