Unlock Undertaker in Nightreign: Guide & Builds

Undertaker enters Nightreign as a Strength-Faith bruiser who leans on fast buffs, heavy hammer pressure, and a repeatable Ultimate. She unlocks early alongside Scholar. Her strongest builds revolve around elemental scaling, cooldown control, and coordinated Ultimate chains. Scholar provides the strongest synergy by stacking debuffs and buffs that amplify her burst.

Elden Ring Nightreign: The Forsaken Hollows DLC

The Forsaken Hollows launched in early December 2025 as Nightreign’s expansion tier, adding two Nightfarers, new bosses, and the Shifting Earth event cycle. The DLC opens with Gladius, the first Nightlord, and pushes players toward the Jar Bazaar, the chapel fight with the Dreglord, and the arrival of the Balancers. Its structure ties character unlocks directly to expedition progress, and both Scholar and Undertaker sit at the center of these sequences. The Great Hollow serves as the DLC’s major arena, anchoring story quests, relic rewards, and late-chapter encounters.

How to Unlock Undertaker in Nightreign

Undertaker joins the roster after the Dreglord encounter triggered by the Small Jar Merchant’s message. The fight unfolds inside the chapel, where she and Scholar are already engaged; the player only needs to participate, not win, to unlock both characters.

• defeat Tricephalos
• speak with Iron Menial
• visit the Small Jar Bazaar
• enter the chapel
• join the Dreglord fight

Note: The unlock also enables access to the Balancers and the Great Hollow event.

Undertaker Builds

Undertaker’s kit favors high-impact hammer strings backed by Faith-based damage and buff extensions. Trance amplifies speed, attack, and negation, while Confluence lets her fire her Art whenever an ally uses theirs. Loathsome Hex delivers a fast dive strike that benefits from repeated activation when the team chains Ultimates. She performs best with relics that boost Physical, Holy, or Lightning power, plus cooldown reductions that let her maintain pressure.

Builds emphasize consistent Ultimate triggers and stat-efficient damage scaling.

Undertaker Best Relics

Undertaker gains the most value from relics that accelerate her skill cycle, increase elemental scaling, or boost hammer output. These effects strengthen her Trance uptime, expand her burst windows, and push her Ultimate loops further when allies trigger Arts.

These relics push Undertaker’s offensive ceiling and tighten her tempo during long boss encounters. They also reinforce her role as a high-output STR/FTH frontliner.

Scholar Details

Scholar arrives as a support-leaning Nightfarer with a kit built around debuffs, status layering, and team amplification. His analysis skill exposes weaknesses, pushing allies’ attack power higher during prolonged fights. Communion offers a wide utility role, granting healing or buff effects that reinforce frontline Nightfarers like Undertaker. His relic synergies reward controlled engagements and steady pressure rather than explosive openings. Scholar remains one of the DLC’s most reliable force multipliers, especially in trios where coordinated timing drives high-frequency Ultimate chains.

More About Elden Ring

Nightreign’s expanding framework continues across updates, with new regional rollout data, class unlock paths, and expedition systems documented on the Elden Ring page. Coverage includes global release schedules, Scholar unlocking routes, class comparisons, Duchess progression steps, gear customization, main boss breakdowns, Revenant acquisition, and wider previews of Nightreign’s mechanical direction.