Should you Imbibe Nectar in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree?

Should you imbibe Nectar in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? During your Shadow Of The Erdtree adventure into the Stone Coffin Fissure, you'll come across a lamenting Thiollier who is desperately trying to contact his patron, St. Trina. If you advance towards St. Trina you will get the option to either "Imbibe Nectar" or "Leave". You are warned that if you imbibe Nectar, it will surely kill you. So, should you throw caution to the wind and do it anyway?

In this guide, we'll explain whether or not you should imbibe the Nectar in Elden Ring as part of the questline involving Thiollier and St. Trina. We'll walk you through the consequences for either action, and what it means for everyone involved, so you can make the right decision for your Elden Ring DLC playthrough.

NOTE: heavy quest spoilers lie beyond this point! If you're wondering how to get to this point in the story, check out our guide to the Thiollier questline in Shadow Of The Erdtree.

Should you imbibe Nectar in Shadow Of The Erdtree?

Yes, you should imbibe Nectar in Elden Ring. If you do so, it will result in the following:

• Progression of Thiollier and St. Trina's questlines.
• You will only die temporarily with your Runes left nearby for retrieval.
• Imbing St. Trina's Nectar multiple times will result in hearing hidden dialogue from her.
• You will receive rewards upon the conclusion of the quests including St. Trina's Smile and Thiollier's Hidden Needle.

After imbibing Nectar in the Garden Of Deep Purple in Shadow Of The Erdtree, you'll receive the "YOU DIED" text, and then you'll respawn at the nearby Site Of Grace, with your lost runes available to pick up in front of you.

Nothing happens if you only imbibe the Nectar once, twice, or three times. But if you imbibe the Nectar four times in a row, then St. Trina will begin to speak to you while you're "dead", imparting information about Miquella - the key character of the Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC.

If you imbibe Nectar four times, St. Trina will say:

"Make Miquella stop... Don't turn the poor thing into a god..."

If you imbibe Nectar five times, St. Trina will say:

"Godhood would be Miquella's prison. A caged divinity... is beyond saving."

If you imbibe Nectar six times, St. Trina will say:

"You must kill Miquella... Grant him forgiveness."

After the sixth time, there's no more new dialogue. However, from the fourth imbibition onwards, you can speak to Thiollier in the Garden Of Deep Purple and attempt to pass on St. Trina's words. Thiollier will react with anger, thinking that you're lying to him. And if you press the matter by attempting to pass on St. Trina's words again, then the next time you reload this area Thiollier will invade you and attempt to fight you.

Defeating Thiollier will give you St. Trina's Smile, a talisman which increases your attack power when sleep is in the vicinity. You can then reload the area and speak to Thiollier once more. He still won't believe you but he'll be less adamant than before. This will lock Thiollier in as an optional summon for both the Cleansing Chamber Anteroom fight against Leda and her allies as well as the fight against Promised Consort Radahn. You may also recieve Ansbach as a summon option depending on your choices during Leda's questline.

After these fights, if you summoned Thiollier you can loot Thiollier's Hidden Needle (a Fist weapon that scales with Strength, Dexterity and Intelligence) and Thiollier's Set from the boss arena. You can also return to St. Trina to obtain the final reward of her quest: St. Trina's Blossom, a flower you can place in your Helmet slot to increase your max FP.

What happens if you don't imbibe the Nectar?

If you choose not to imbibe St. Trina's Nectar, nothing good happens. In fact, nothing happens at all. You are free to leave Thiollier and St. Trina as they are in the Garden Of Deep Purple, and their questlines will not progress.

You are free to return and imbibe the Nectar later on if you change your mind. However, once you reach the penultimate fight of the main story (just beyond the Cleansing Chamber Anteroom Site Of Grace), Thiollier will disappear from the map, locking you out of his quest ending. You can still imbibe the Nectar to receive St. Trina's dialogue, but you will be unable to pass on your words to Thiollier, and therefore will be unable to receive the St. Trina's Smile Talisman or Thiollier as a summon for the penultimate and final boss fights. If you're wondering what the best order to complete quests is in Shadow Of The Erdtree, we have a handy quests hub here.

So to summarise: you should imbibe St. Trina's Nectar six times in a row to fully complete the questlines of both Thiollier and St. Trina herself. Each time you imbibe the Nectar it will kill your character, but this is necessary for the quest's advancement.

That wraps up this guide on whether you should imbibe St. Trina's Nectar in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree. If you've yet to reach this point below the Stone Coffin Fissure, then you'll need to defeat a fairly challenging boss. To make sure you're prepared, consult our guide on the various Scadutree Fragment locations in the Land Of Shadow, as well as our guides on the best weapons, best builds, best spells, and best armor sets in Elden Ring.