How do you level up spirit summons Elden Ring?

This page includes instructions on how to level up your Spirit summons (the ghostly creatures you summon using the Summoner's Bell and Spirit Ashes.

For more information, be sure to check out our full list of Summonable Spirit Ashes, our guide on how to summon Spirits, and where to get Grave Glovewort and Ghost Glovewort.

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How to Level Up Spirit Summons

To level up your Spirit Summons, you'll need to obtain a few things, and proceed down one particular character's questline.

Meet Roderika

To level them up, you'll need to meet the right person, because you’ll need the services of a Spirit Tuner to make it all happen.

Meet Roderika at the Stormhill Shack near Stormveil Castle in Limgrave. Talk to her and you’ll obtain the Jellyfish ashes. Exhaust her dialogue and then head to Roundtable Hold.

Talk to Roderika and Blacksmith Heug

You’ll find her standing next to the fireplace in the room you arrive in, so talk to her and exhaust her dialogue again. Next, talk to Master Heug (the blacksmith in the hallway to the right) and ask him about Roderika.

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Once he tells you Roderika has a gift, go back and talk to her again and encourage her to pursue it. Return to Heug again and ask him to look after her, and that it’s what she wants.

Next time you return to Roundtable Hold, Roderika should be in a new location near Heug, sitting near some books. She’ll introduce herself as a prentice Spirit Tuner and you can start using Grave Glovewort and Ghost Glovewort to level up your spirit summons. Enjoy!

If you want to upgrade your Spirit Summons in the game, you'll first have to obtain the items necessary for the upgrade. To do this, you'll want to find either Grave Glovewort or Ghost Glovewort. Grave Glovewort has a long green stem with silver petals, while Ghost Glovewort looks similar, only it glows, making it easier to spot in the wild.

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These items are hidden in various places around the map — usually in dungeons or dropped by various bosses. That being said, you can also get them by purchasing them from various merchants located around the map or by completing different quests for NPCs. If you aren't sure where to find a merchant, now the Elden Ring map will show you the current location of all of the in-game merchants you've already found.

You'll also have to help Roderika, who can be located at Stormhill Shack. Speak with her until you've gone through all of her dialogue. She'll ask for your help obtaining Chrysalid’s Memento, which is in a pile of corpses near the Grafted Scion mini-boss in Stormveil Castle. You'll want to be sure to bring this back to her before you defeat Godrick the Grafted, or she won't be able to help you.

By helping her, she'll gift you the Jellyfish summon — one of the more powerful Spirit Summons in the game. Roderika will then move to the Roundtable Hold. After you've spoken with both her and Hewg, she'll set up a shop across from the other NPC. Here you can trade either Grave Glovewort or Ghost Glovewort to upgrade your Spirit Summons, depending on which one you're looking to upgrade.