Image Credit: Bethesda
Forgot password
Enter the email address you used when you joined and we'll send you instructions to reset your password.
If you used Apple or Google to create your account, this process will create a password for your existing account.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Reset password instructions sent. If you have an account with us, you will receive an email within a few minutes.
Something went wrong. Try again or contact support if the problem persists.
Image via FromSoftware

How to get the Erudition Gesture in Elden Ring

Need more gestures for your jolly co-operation? Come check this one out.

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.

Recommended Videos

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. 

A character spreads their arms high and wide in front of a statue in the same pose.
Erudition Gesture | Screengrab via FromSoftware

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

A character stands in front of a doorway in a ruined hall.
Enter the doorway. Screenshot by Dot Esports

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.


Dot Esports is supported by our audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn a small affiliate commission. Learn more about our Affiliate Policy
More Stories To Read
Author
Author
Image of Anmol David
Anmol David
Anmol is a Freelance Gaming writer at Dot Esports, specializing in FPS titles like Call of Duty and Apex Legends as well as evergreen content for indie games, open world titles and soulslikes. With more than three years in the industry, the journalism graduate has bylines at Sportskeeda, Dexerto, and CharlieIntel. You can contact Anmol on Twitter (@anmol_osborn) for more.