Elden Ring has many NPC questlines in the Lands Between. These side stories are interesting, but figuring out how to complete them can be tricky. Some characters, like Blaidd, disappear at some point, making them hard to find later. Seluvis is one of those where your choices have consequences that aren’t easy to guess at first.
Quite early in Seluvis’ story, he’ll give you a potion and ask you to give it to Nepheli Loux. You get to choose whether to do it or not. Surprisingly, there’s a third option that many don’t know about. I’ll walk you through each choice, explain what to do, and share my opinion on the best one.
How to Follow Seluvis’ Quest Without Harming Nepheli and Kenneth?
If you choose to follow Seluvis, keep going with Nepheli’s story until she’s in the Roundtable Hold. Give her the potion, rest at a Site of Grace, and she’ll end up at Seluvis’ lab.
Find the lab in the ruins north of Seluvis’ Rise. Hit the illusionary floor in the middle to reveal a passage, then go down. Inside, there’s another illusionary wall at the end of the main room. You’ll need to get into this lab to get the puppets Seluvis offers later in the quest.
Choosing this path won’t give you many benefits. When Nepheli becomes Seluvis’ puppet, you can buy her ashes from him, and she can help you in battles. However, her ashes aren’t that great, and it’s not worth it.
Plus, you’ll miss out on the quests of both Nepheli and Kenneth Haight, meaning you won’t get a free Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone. You’ll need these stones to upgrade your weapons fully, and they’re hard to get. Fortunately, there’s a better way to keep going with Seluvis’ story.
How to Use Seluvis’ Potion to Get Dung Eater’s Ashes?
If you don’t want to lie to Seluvis but continue his story, you can give the potion to someone else – The Loathsome Dung Eater. To do this, you have to go through his story until you find him in the Sewers under Leyndell.
He’ll be tied to a chair, asking for Seedbed Curses. Instead of giving him what he wants, you can decide to use Seluvis’ potion on him. Just like with Nepheli, Dung Eater will head to Seluvis and become his puppet.
If you go with this choice, you can buy Dung Eater’s ashes from Seluvis. This lets you summon his powerful spirit to help you. After giving the potion to Dung Eater, talk to Seluvis more until he sees you as his accomplice. Then, ask him for a puppet, and he’ll ask for 5 Starlight Shards. Give him those shards, and you’ll have your own Dung Eater puppet.
Choosing Dung Eater’s summon is a smart move because it has a lot of health, good armor, and can deal decent damage while causing enemies to bleed. It’s especially great if you’re using a bleed build with Seppuku or Rivers of Blood.
However, there’s a bit of a tradeoff. Picking this option means you won’t be able to follow Dung Eater’s questline for a specific ending. But that’s the only thing you miss out on. If you’re not aiming for that particular ending, using Seluvis’ potion for the spirit summon is a fantastic choice because it’s just too good to ignore.
How to Avoid Seluvis’ Questionable Experiments?
If you don’t want to help Seluvis with his questionable experiments, you can go to Sir Gideon Ofnir at the Roundtable. Let him know you’re assisting the wizard and show him Seluvis’ potion. Sir Gideon will offer to take it and get rid of it.
If you agree, he’ll take the potion and advise you to lie to Seluvis. According to Sir Gideon, Seluvis’ big ego will prevent him from suspecting anything. You can then go back to Seluvis and say you gave the potion to Nepheli, and the wizard won’t know about your trick. After this, you can carry on with Seluvis’ quest as usual.
Choosing this morally upright path is good, but it doesn’t bring you any real benefits. While you won’t miss out on any questlines, you also won’t gain any exciting new items. That’s why I recommend giving the potion to Dung Eater during your playthrough.
He’s not the nicest creature, so you don’t have to feel bad about it, and you’ll get a strong summon without closing the door on Nepheli’s questline and its rewards. Unless you’re aiming for Dung Eater’s ending specifically, I’d say this option is the best by a long shot.
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