How do I get to the Giants Grave Post?

Giant-Conquering Hero's Grave is one of the Minor Dungeons found in the Mountaintops of the Giants 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.

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How to Get to Giant-Conquering Hero's Grave

To the left of the Giant's Mountaintop Catacombs icon on the map in Mountaintop of the Giants, you'll actually need to travel southwest from Giants' Gravepost Site of Grace, along the lower western slope, passing multiple Spider Hands as you go. Jump across a small gap to reach the structure in the distance.

After lifting the door, ride the lift down and you'll find a Site of Grace.

Giant-Conquering Hero's Grave

Beyond the Site of Grace, you'll see an Imp Seal in the back right corner of the room. Using a Stonesword Key to open the seal, head down the steps and loot the Flame, Protect Me Incantation from the corpse to the left.

Then return to the Site of Grace and head down the stairs to the south and face off against a patrolling Fire Monk. Whilst you can head down the steps to the east, first strike the wall in the southwest corner to reveal an illusory wall. In one of the window archways on the left of the corridor beyond, you'll find a Golden Rune (11). Now you can head down the stairs to the east and grab the Grave Violet plant on the right.

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As you turn the corner down the last flight of stairs, you'll be in a large room where you can see a Burial Watchdog in the distance, shrouded in darkness. Like Sainted Hero's Grave, you'll need to lure these shadowy enemies into the circle of light on the opposite end of the room to make them vulnerable. As you sprint past the Watchdog, shadowy Fanged Imps will also drop from the walls on both sides.

After luring them all into the light and defeating them (likely clearing the Fanged Imps first), return to the left of the steps you descended entering the room to find a Grave Glovewort (7) plant. Now head down the steps beneath the circle of light platform, where two additional Fanged Imps will drop from the ceiling which will need to be lured back up to make them vulnerable.

At the far end of this lower room is a Grave Glovewort (9). Now head back up to the circle of light and turn left through the corridor to be confronted with a fire trap.

If you turn left there is a dead end with a Grave Violet plant. Timing your sprint, run to an alcove on the right halfway down the fire trap corridor to face another Fire Monk. Then sprint to the fire trap and strike it to lower and disable it.

Heading up the stairs to the south, you'll want to look out for a Fire Monk who will be patrolling one level above you, so it will likely drop down from above behind you as you emerge out into the room proper. Heading up the stairs from where the Monk descended, you'll find some Freezing Grease and another Imp Seal.

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Opening the Imp Seal with a Stonesword Key, you'll see a corpse and a Grave Glovewort (8) plant in the distance. As you pass the hole in the floor from the fire trap having been lowered, two shadowy Fanged Imps will drop from the ceiling behind you. To deal with them, you'll need to backtrack and drop down the hole onto the top of the fire trap and strike it, causing it to rise and subsequently allow the light circle on the floor to complete and enabling the defeating of the Imps. You'll want to head closer to the corpse on the far end to draw out a third Fanged Imp wielding a two-handed sword. The corpse holds the Cranial Vessel Candlestand.

Now head back and continue south to arrive at a lift. Riding the lift down, you'll arrive in a room with a destroyed staircase to the right, and a wooden gate with a lever to the left. Pulling the lever, the gate will lift and you'll see a shadowy Troll in the distance. Behind the Troll is the locked boss doors.

To make the Troll vulnerable, step on the lift pressure plate and jump off before it rises. When the lift finishes rising, you'll see a statue casting the circle of light onto the floor in front of the lift. You can then aggro the Troll and lure it into the light to be able to kill it.

Before heading through the boss doors, jump down off either side of the walkway to find a large Fire Monk. After defeating it, grab the Great Grave Glovewort to the east, then grab the Giant's Seal to the south.

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In the southwest corner of the room, head through the corridor and descend the ladder to find two shadowy Burial Watchdogs, one straight ahead and one around the corner to the right.

Sprint to the end of that right turn area, behind the stone column in the center to grab a Grave Glovewort (9). Then sprint past the Burial Watchdog to the west, grab the Grave Glovewort (8) plant, and then climb the ladder in the alcove on the right.

At the top of the ladder, you'll see two Grave Glovewort (8) plants to the left, and to the right you can drop down from broken stairs and continue on to the boss doors. Just to the left of the boss doors is a Ghost Glovewort (9).

Boss Fight - Ancient Hero of Zamor

An identical fight to the Ancient Hero you will encounter in the Sainted Hero's Grave, the Ancient Hero of Zamor relies on acrobatic blade attacks, fast jumps and dodges, and Frostbite-imbued attacks during the second phase.

Because of the agility, ranged/magic attacks are mostly ineffective. Other than melee attacks, the Hero of Zamor will summon a blue light in its hand that telegraphs a small spherical explosion around itself that inflicts the Frostbite status effect.

During the first phase of the fight, you'll want to be particularly aggressive, as the second phase inversely requires heavily defensive play. The Ancient Hero will kneel and imbue its sword with Frostbite when it reaches 50% health, making its attacks more potent across the board in the second phase.

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A particularly deadly one is a variant of the Frostbite burst from the first phase, where the Ancient Hero will create a huge blizzard in a large radius around itself, from which it will spring out into a lunge attack. Again, playing defensively is key here so time your strikes carefully at the end of the Ancient Hero's combos. Because your attacks will be more dispersed, anything that can apply damaging status effects is recommended to help whittle down the Hero's health even without you attacking.

Upon defeating the Ancient Hero of Zamor, you'll earn the Zamor Curved Sword, the Zamor Mask, the Zamor Armor, the Zamor Bracelets, and the Zamor Legwraps.