Roderika is the grieving young woman you find hiding in the Stormhill Shack on the road to Stormveil Castle. Her questline is short and has no bad ending, but it matters a lot: finishing it turns her into the Roundtable Hold’s spirit tuner, the only NPC who can upgrade your Spirit Ashes. You also pick up a free Golden Seed and the Spirit Jellyfish along the way. Here is the full route, in order.
| Starts | Stormhill Shack, northwest Limgrave, on the trail to Stormveil Castle |
| Main location | Roundtable Hold, in Smithing Master Hewg’s room |
| Ends | Roderika becomes a spirit tuner and graduates after your first +4 Spirit Ash |
| Key item | Chrysalids’ Memento, Stormveil Castle (east of the Rampart Tower grace) |
| Missable | Nothing important: if you skip the shack, Hewg’s “About Roderika” option still starts the tuning step |
| Key rewards | Spirit Jellyfish Ashes, Golden Seed, Spirit Tuning, Crimson Hood, Sitting Sideways and Curtsy gestures |
Roderika questline walkthrough, step by step
- Meet her at Stormhill Shack. Ride north from the Gatefront area toward Stormveil. The shack sits beside the road in northwest Limgrave; Roderika is sitting inside. You cannot roll, jump or attack near her.
- Exhaust her dialogue. Keep talking until she repeats herself. You learn the Sitting Sideways gesture and receive the Spirit Jellyfish Ashes, a ranged poison summon that is very good this early.
- Get the Chrysalids’ Memento in Stormveil Castle. From the Rampart Tower grace, head east past the room with the Grafted Scion. You reach a courtyard where dogs are feeding on a pile of corpses; interact with the pile to take the Chrysalids’ Memento.
- Bring it back to Roderika. Hand it over at the shack and talk to her until she is done. She then leaves for the Roundtable Hold. She also moves there on her own once you rest at a Site of Grace in Liurnia of the Lakes.
- Collect the Golden Seed. In the Roundtable Hold she waits by the fireplace in the main hall. Talk to her and she gives you a Golden Seed for an extra flask charge. See our Golden Seed and Sacred Tear locations for the rest.
- Talk Hewg into teaching her. Ask Smithing Master Hewg about Roderika, tell Roderika what he said, then go back to Hewg and tell him she is willing. If she has not moved yet, rest at a Site of Grace and return.
- Use Spirit Tuning. She now sits on the floor on the left side of Hewg’s room and upgrades your Spirit Ashes for runes plus Grave Glovewort or Ghost Glovewort.
- Upgrade any Spirit Ash to +4. Talk to her again afterward: she says she is no longer an apprentice and teaches you the Curtsy gesture.
- Pick up the Crimson Hood. Return to the corpse pile in the Stormveil courtyard where you found the Memento and take the Crimson Hood to close out the quest.
How Spirit Tuning works
| Spirit Ash type | Upgrade material | Max level |
|---|---|---|
| Regular Spirit Ashes (Wolves, Jellyfish, Lone Wolf and most others) | Grave Glovewort (1-9), Great Grave Glovewort for the last level | +10 |
| Renowned Spirit Ashes (Mimic Tear, Black Knife Tiche, Banished Knight Oleg and other named spirits) | Ghost Glovewort (1-9), Great Ghost Glovewort for the last level | +10 |
Every level also costs runes, and the price rises as you go. Glovewort is the real bottleneck: our Grave and Ghost Glovewort locations list the best farming spots and Picker’s Bell Bearings, so you can buy the lower tiers from the Twin Maiden Husks. Not sure which ash to invest in? Start with our best Spirit Ashes ranking.
Rewards and missable notes
| Reward | How you get it |
|---|---|
| Spirit Jellyfish Ashes | Exhaust her dialogue at Stormhill Shack (or ask her at the Roundtable Hold if you missed it) |
| Sitting Sideways gesture | During her dialogue at the shack |
| Golden Seed | Talk to her at the Roundtable Hold |
| Spirit Tuning | Persuade Hewg to teach her |
| Curtsy gesture | Talk to her after upgrading any Spirit Ash to +4 |
| Crimson Hood | Corpse pile in the Stormveil courtyard, after she becomes a tuner |
- You cannot fail this quest. If you never met her at the shack, pick “About Roderika” in Hewg’s dialogue and the tuning step still unlocks.
- Do it early. Spirit Tuning is the only way to upgrade Spirit Ashes, so unlocking it before Liurnia makes summons like the Jellyfish and Wolves far more useful in early boss fights such as Margit and Godrick.
Related questlines: Sorcerer Rogier, whom you also meet in Stormveil Castle, and White Mask Varre, another early Limgrave quest.
FAQ
Where is Roderika?
First in the Stormhill Shack in northwest Limgrave, on the road to Stormveil Castle. Later in the Roundtable Hold: by the main-hall fireplace, then on the floor in Smithing Master Hewg’s room once she is a spirit tuner.
Where is the Chrysalids’ Memento?
In Stormveil Castle. Go east from the Rampart Tower grace past the Grafted Scion room to a courtyard where dogs feed on a pile of corpses; the Memento is on the pile.
How do I unlock Spirit Tuning?
Get Roderika to the Roundtable Hold, then ask Hewg about her, relay his words to her, and tell Hewg she is willing. She then upgrades Spirit Ashes with Grave or Ghost Glovewort.
Source: walkthrough checked against Fextralife’s Roderika page and SegmentNext’s Roderika questline guide.
Further reading: Roderika on the Fextralife Elden Ring wiki.