Sellia Hideaway - Elden Ring Guide - IGN (2024)

Sellia Hideaway is one of the Minor Dungeons found in the Caelid Region in Elden Ring. It is an optional dungeon that is home to a few treasure items and a miniboss Foe. This page contains information on the location, walkthrough, and guide to traverse this dungeon, locate all of its treasure, and tips to defeat the enemies within.

How to Get to Sellia Hideaway

In eastern Caelid, you'll want to head north of the Church of the Plague. Passing up the ridge, you'll spot a set of tombstones with a sorcerer amongst them.

Behind the largest of the tombstones, head to the cliff and strike it to reveal it to be an illusory wall. Continue through the tunnel beyond and you'll happen upon a Site of Grace.

Sellia Hideaway Walkthrough

Just to the right of the Site of Grace is a Crystal Cave Moss plant. Down the tunnel is a new cave with a Crystal Miner sat down to the right, with a Budding Cave Moss plant to the left. As you follow the tunnel curving round to the right, there will be two Budding Cave Moss plants ahead of you as well as a corpse holding a Golden Rune (3).

To the southwest, just before the dead-end alcove with the corpse, is a passageway. Moving through it, there will be another Crystal Miner and a Crystal Cave Moss plant.

Backtrack to the alcove with the corpse, and roll through the central cluster of smaller crystals at the back and strike the rock to reveal another illusory wall. Behind it is a Crystal Miner, and at the end of that tunnel is another illusory wall.

You'll now find yourself in a cave with giant crystals, and as you pass along the right-hand side ridge, a Crystal Miner will ambush you from an alcove on the right. Walk across the large crystal and jump down to the left and face the Crystal Miner up on the ridge, then loot the Golden Rune (5) off the corpse. Jump back over the crystals to the entrance of the room, get back on the large crystal and instead now jump to the right and face a Crystal Miner Sorcerer. Perform a running jump to the left to face three Crystal Snails. Loop around the northeast ledge and you'll find two Crystal Miners around a fire. Defeat them and loot the Glowstone from the corpse nearby.

Perform a running jump across the gap, head down the path and loop around to kill the Snails lower down on the Crystals. Dropping all the way down from these lower Crystals, head to the southwest corner, up the ramp of crystals, and jump over the top to face a Crystal Miner and a Scion-like creature.

The three corpses in this space hold Stimulating Boluses, a Golden Rune (5), and the Lost Ashes of War. To the northwest you can jump up and exit this area, collecting the Silver Firefly clusters as you go. Near the top of this tunnel is another corpse with a Somber Smithing Stone (4).

Head all the way back to the highest northwest corner and follow the tunnel into a large cave jam-packed with crystals. There is a Crystal Snail just below you, and after dealing with it head to the back corner in the northwest to collect the Preserving Boluses off the corpse. Just to the left of the corpse is another illusory wall, behind which is a chest that contains the Crystal Spear.

Heading all the way down the slope to the bottom of this cave, there's a corpse with a Crystal Dart x2. Now make your way back up to the top of the room, and to the northeast, there will be a crystal you can walk along, then jump from crystal to crystal till you reach a hidden cave to the southwest.

Once there, drop down onto the platform below, then into the well-lit cave beneath that. There will be a Twinsage Sorcerer and two Glintstone soldiers with swords and shields. Beating them, prioritizing the Sorcerer if you can, there is a chest with the Crystalian Ashes inside.

To the southwest is a tunnel leading down to a drop-off with a Crystal Miner - dropping from which allows you to turn left and head towards the mist wall in the distance. Be careful, however, as 4 Crystal Snails will drop from the ceiling as you progress through this room.

Boss Fight - Putrid Crystalians

If you're playing a melee build, you'll want to ensure you have equipped a blunt weapon (Strike) to ensure the fight isn't any harder than it needs to be, and that your damage output is as good as possible. These bosses take very little damage from most sources - except for blunt striking attacks!

Like the Crystalian in Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel, and the Crystalian duo in Academy Crystal Cave, this fight brings all three variants of the Crystalians together. One Crystalian wields a spear, one wields a spellcasting staff, and the third wields a ringblade.

The uniqueness of these Crystalians is their "Putrid" namesake. All attacks from these Crystalians inflict scarlet rot should they hit you. This can very quickly end an attempt if you get caught in a flurry of attacks, particularly if all three Crystalians swarm you with no distractions available. As such, it's heavily recommended to utilize Spirit Ashes to draw one or more of the Crystalians away from you, allowing breathing room, time to heal, or the ability to focus on one Crystalian without needing your head to be on a swivel.

Crystalian - Ringblade

The Crystalian with the ring blade can extend its arms out to the side and begin spinning furiously, acting as a spinning top darting around the arena. So long as you keep your distance, it's uncommon for this move to target you so directly that it will definitely hit you. A few dodge-rolls or seconds of sprinting in the opposite direction to the boss will give you the space that you need.

Another combo attack is a three-move combo, where the Crystalian will swipe its larger disc slowly from side to side, then winding up to launch the disc along the floor in your direction. The swipes are slow enough that you can gain space before they make contact, and if you dodge-roll diagonally towards the Crystalian as it winds up for the disc roll you can guarantee you won't get hit, as the disc spins wildly enough trying to stay locked on to you that you can easily get behind the boss and perform a critical strike.

Crystalian - Spear

The Crystalian with the spear can prove to be the most aggressive and proactive with their attacks, but using a Spirit Ash like the Mimic Tear can consistently draw its attention off of you and subsequently let you defeat the other two Crystalians (who work more at range).

It will jab repeatedly at you, moving across the room in your direction, and can perform sweeps and a jumping slam with the spear. Whilst they deal a lot of damage, they are slowly executed animations so shouldn't prove too difficult to dodge if you stay vigilant. After it has performed one of these attack animations, it should be similarly easy for you to get behind it and perform a backstab critical strike.

Crystalian - Staff

When it comes to the spellcasting Crystalian, you can again loop around the back of it and critical strike it. Most of its attacks are negligible if you are up close and personal, but do your best to stay away from the front of the enemy. The most devastating attack it has is telegraphed very heavily but can one-shot you if you're not careful. It is particularly difficult if you aren't able to divert its attention whilst dealing with the spear Crystalian. The attack in question is signaled when the Crystalian pulls back its staff to one side as it begins glowing and building with blue energy, before firing out a continuous stream of crystal shards. The closer you are, the harder these are to avoid

Upon defeating the Putrid Crystalians, you'll earn the Crystal Torrent spell.