How to get the Erudition Gesture in Elden Ring

Co-op with friends is one of the best ways to play FromSoftware games like Elden Ring. Traversing challenging dungeons and conquering mind-wrecking boss fights together is great fun, and emotes like the Erudition Gesture only make things better.

One thing that adds even more to this experience is the different emotes players can use and find scattered around the realm. These emotes are called “gestures,” and often require you to venture off the beaten path as they’re usually hidden in secret places or sometimes even locked behind questlines for the player to complete.

Some of the most popular gestures in the game include “Fancy Spin,” “Spread Out,” “The Ring,” and “What do you want?” There’s one, however, that many players want to use but continue to have trouble finding. Here’s how you can find and equip the Erudition Gesture in Elden Ring.

How to get the Erudition Gesture

The Erudition Gesture in Elden Ring is a timelapse emote where the player poses standing up with their arms inward and then salutes to the sky in a V pattern. This emote is locked behind a small but enjoyable questline with the NPC Thops. 

Thops is a sorcerer who can be found at the Church of Irith, which is among the first locations you’ll come across when entering Liurnia of the Lakes. When we meet the character, he’s in a little predicament. He’s looking to get back into the Raya Lucaria Academy, but to do so, he needs a Glintstone Key.

This might get you thinking about the Glintstone Key you used to enter the Academy, but that isn’t the case. This is a separate version of the key that is instead found within the bowels of the Academy.

Finding the Glintstone Key

The Debate Parlor Site of Grace inside the Raya Lucaria Academy is a great point to start your quest for the Glintstone Key. If you’re traveling to this location for the first time, be careful, as a boss fight will be waiting for you in the debate parlor.

From the Debate Parlor Site of Grace, walk outside to the open area with the large staircase and continue to the left (shown in the pictures below).

Go up the stairs with the sorcerers and jump over the railing to another platform. From here, jump over the next railing to get onto the rooftops of the Academy and continue forward.

Climb up the ladder to be greeted by a sorcerer and a few winged enemies. You can defeat them or run past them; it doesn’t matter which. In any case, keep running along the right side of the tower to get to the next rooftop. Continue jumping down to sections of the roof and head toward the slanted, rounded rooftop.

Where there would normally be windows, there are open archways on the left side of this slant-roofed building. Jump inside and carefully walk along the catwalk beams that stretch across the ceiling of the open room. Looking down, players should see chandeliers, one of which has a corpse with an item. This is the extra Glintstone Key players need to give Thops. Drop down, grab the key, and return to Thops.

Giving the key to Thops will trigger a short dialogue. He will thank the player for the key and eventually give the player the Erudition emote, which you can then add to your collection.