Elden Ring: All Larval Tear Locations (with screenshots)

Elden Ring: All Larval Tear Locations (with screenshots)

This guide lists all 18 larval tear locations and tips to obtain them. The larval tear is an item that you can give to Rennala to respec your character stats, after defeating her in Raya Lucaria Academy.

We will provide you with a short description, a relevant screenshot and a link to a map location to make your trip as smooth as possible.

LARVAL TEAR LORE DESCRIPTION:

Core of a creature of mimicry known as a silver tear. As much as a substance as it is a living organism.
Material required by the amber egg cradled by Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon, to birth people anew.
Being born anew allows the reallocation of attributes boosted by leveling up.

Larval tear locations: 6 drop from disguised ambushers

There are 6 larval tears that drop from mobs that watched too many ninja movies when they were young. They are roaming around disguised as someone else and after you kill them they will reveal their true form.

After you see through their trickery and defeat them in their true form can you claim your prize so be ready for a fight tarnished.

1. Lesser Rune Bear

Where: Map Location

Lesser Rune Bear Larval Tear

This beast will take the form of a simple wandering noble zombie. Find him east of Agheel Lake South site of grace and kill him.

2. Troll

Where: Map Location

Troll Larval Tear Location

Disguised as a Wandering noble zombie in Caelid. He is squating by the stone coffins on the cliff south of the Caelid Highway South site of grace.

3. Grafted Scion

Where: Map Location

Grafted Scion Larval Tear Locations

Disguised as a Giant Crayfish this one is patrolling around, while 3 of his “brothers” are sleeping. Reach him by riding northwest from Boilprawn Shack site of grace.

4. Lion Guardian

Where: Map Location

Lion Guardian Larval Tear Locations

Disguised as an wandering noble zombie in Altus Plateau, found cowering in a corner in the unnamed ruins on the clifftops, most easily reached by going north from the Ramparthside Path  site of grace.

5. Wormface

Where: Map Location

Wormface larval tear location (1)

Disguised as a flaming putrid zombie, east of the Road of Inquiry site of grace. The enemy is by the first fire in the ruined camp.

6. Lesser Rune Bear

Where: Map Location
Larval Tear Locations

Another Bear taking the form of a wandering noble zombie. Find him east of Inner Consecrated Snowfield site of grace.

Larval tear locations: 4 drop from silver spheres

There are 4 larval tears that drop when you kill the Silver Spheres or as I like to call them rolly pollies of death.  We will also include 2 larval tears that drop from a mimic tear boss, because mimic tears are silver and silver spheres are silver, so this makes some logical sense to me (don’t ask me why).

7. First Silver Sphere

Where: Map Location

First SIlver Sphere Elden Ring

Found at the middle of the church with 2 nox priestesses around it in Night’s Sacred Ground. Reached by jumping the rooftops from Siofra River Bank site of grace.

8. Second Silver Sphere

Where: Map Location

Second SIlver Sphere Elden Ring

Found on the bridge in Nokstella, Eternal City.  Reached by climbing the stairs up from Nokstella Eternal City site of grace.

9. Third Silver Sphere

Where: Map Location

Third Silver Sphere Elden Ring

Dropped by a Silver Sphere after the bridge and up the stairs, in the temple right after reaching the top, in Nokstella, Eternal City. Silver Sphere is hanging on the ceiling.

Make sure you kill it after it drops to the ground otherwise you won’t be able to collect the tear. Reached by climbing the stairs up from Nokstella Eternal City site of grace.

10. Fourth Silver Sphere

Where: Map Location

Fourth SIlver Sphere Elden Ring

Dropped by a Silver Sphere hanging on the ceiling in the northeast temple, after the bridge in Nokstella, Eternal City. Silver Sphere is hanging on the ceiling.

Make sure you kill it after it drops to the ground otherwise you won’t be able to collect the tear. Reached by climbing the stairs up from Nokstella Eternal City site of grace.

11 & 12. Mimic Tear larval tear locations

Where: Map Location

Mimic tear larval tear locations

After defeating the boss he will drop two Larval Tears.
Closest site of grace before it is defeated is Nokron, Eternal City.

Other larval tear locations: graveyards, merchants, and corpses

You don’t have to worry about fighting anyone to get your drops. These last 6 Larval Tears are found on corpses and in graveyards.

13. Albinauric Graveyard

Where: Map Location
13. Albinauric Graveyard Larval Tear Locations

Found in the graveyard at the Village of the Albinaurics.  Best reached by riding Torrent from Scenic Isle assuming you don’t already have a Village of the Albinaurics site of grace.

If you do that one is the closest.

14. Caria Manor Graveyard

Where: Map Location

Caria Manor Graveyard Larval Tear Locations

Found in the graveyard east of Caria Manor. The item is found by touching a ghost sitting on a chair.

You have to pick up the Resurrection Painting first before you can see the ghost, found in the shack here (Map Location). The ghost disappears as soon as you touch it and drops the Tear and a Juvenile Scholar Set.

Closest site of grace is Behind Caria Manor.

15. Pidia the Merchant

Where: Map Location

Pidia Merchant with larval tear

Pidia, Carian Servant can be found by going west from Ranni Rise site of grace and dropping down the cliffs on to some battlements. He sells the Tear for 3000 runes.

16. Siofra River Merchant

Where: Map Location

Siofra River Merchant Elden Ring

Another Tear is sold by a Nomadic Merchant in Siofra River for the same price. He plays his loot in a hidden area that is only accessible by climbing up and around the nearby wooden scaffolding. Closest site of Grace is Worshipers Woods.

17. Corpse

Where: Map Location

Corpse in Nokron with Larval Tear

Found on a corpse inside the Temple southeast of the Nokron, Eternal City site of grace.

18. Corpse

Where: Map LocationCorpse 2 in Nokron with Larval Tear Locations

Second corpse is not far from the first. You can find it in the middle of a gazebo, south east of Nokron, Eternal City site of grace.

This concludes our guide of all larval tear locations. We hope these little unorthodox methods helped you collect all larval tears, or only specific ones you were after without needing to go into any fights over them. Have fun in your new Elden Ring adventures, Tarnished.

Our Favorite Mount & Blade: Bannerlord 2 Mods

Our Favorite Mount & Blade: Bannerlord 2 Mods

After hundreds of hours spent galloping through Calradia, we’ve tested dozens of Bannerlord 2 mods, sifting through the endless possibilities to bring you a curated list of the very best.

Our journey wasn’t just about quantity; it was a quest for quality, seeking out mods for Bannerlord 2 that not only enhance gameplay but also provide a more immersive experience with Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.

This article isn’t an exhaustive directory but a showcase of our favourite Bannerlord 2 mods to refresh your experience with the game. Whether you’re a veteran warlord or a newcomer to the fray, you’ll surely find an interesting mod to try out.

Armor & weapon Bannerlord 2 mods

Here we will focus mostly on lore friendly mods that fit into the Bannerlord universe. For more armor mods, check out our total conversion mod list. Among other changes, it includes many fantasy armor options, such as Game of Thrones.  Here are the 5 armor and weapon mods for Bannerlord 2 that we liked most.

1.  Open Source Armory  

Download link: Nexus mods

Open Source Armory Bannerlord 2 mod

This mod has an absolutely massive armour and weapon list. It’s designed to fit seamlessly into the existing aesthetic of the vanilla game. The items are fully lore friendly. 

The mod author took inspiration from real-life historical armors and weapons. Any gaps in the historical record are filled with low-fantasy concepts. Essentially they match the same style as the vanilla items.

Now here comes the list of items that you will get. (I hope you are ready for this):

  • 883 new custom helmets: 151 Aserai, 165 Battanian, 194 Imperial, 115 Khuzait, 101 Sturgian & 157 Vlandian.
  • 288 new custom capes: 54 Aserai, 66 Battanian, 81 Imperial, 34 Khuzait, 27 Sturgian & 26 Vlandian.
  • 296 new custom body armors: 72 Aserai, 39 Battanian, 72 Imperial, 38 Khuzait, 23 Sturgian & 52 Vlandian.
  • 70 new custom leg armors: 12 Aserai, 31 Battanian, 11 Imperial, 7 Khuzait, 2 Sturgian & 7 Vlandian.
  • 50 new custom arm armour: 4 Aserai, 18 Battanian, 9 Imperial, 3 Khuzait, 7 Sturgian & 9 Vlandian.
  • 63 new custom shields: 13 Aserai, 7 Battanian, 20 Imperial, 9 Khuzait, 8 Sturgian & 6 Vlandian.
  • 105 new custom weapons and weapon parts.
  • 61 new custom horse armors: 15 Aserai, 22 Imperial, 12 Khuzait & 12 Vlandian.
  • 10 new custom camel armors.

Oh yeah! This Bannerlord 2 mod is always almost the first thing we install on our playthroughs.

2. Swadian Armoury

Download link: Nexus mods

Swadian Armory Bannerlord 2 mod

This mod isn’t superlore accurate. It features late medieval full plate armour. But we still think it fits well enough into the game (especially if you’re playing Vlandia). Plus the armors in this mod look absolutely amazing.

Here is a short list of some of the armour pieces:

  • 3 bascinet helmet with visor variations
  • 3 full plate helmet variations
  • 2 Italio Norman helmet variations
  • 4 fluted helmet with facemask variations
  • 5 great helm variations
  • 3 winged great helm variations
  • 3 Vlandian helm with visor variations
  • 2 Swadian plated shoulders variations
  • 5 coat of plate armour variations
  • 9 Swadian plate armour variations
  • 5 mail with surcoat variations
  • 4 second great helm variations
  • chainmail shoulders
  • 2 plate boots variations
  • 2 full helm variations
  • 4 sugarloaf helm variations
  • 3 other plate armour chest variations
  • 3 other plate armour boots variations
  • 3 other plate armour gloves variations
  • houndskull bascinet helmet
  • bascinet with a faceplate helmet
  • 3 different plate armour variations
  • 3 plate boots variations
  • 3 gauntlets variations
  • 2 hound skull helmet variations
  • 2 armet variations
  • 7 coat of plates mixed with plate armour variations

3. Vaegir Armoury

Download link: Nexus mods

Vaegir Armour Bannerlord 2 mod

This mod is a lot shorter than the ones before but it adds some really cool variations of armors for our Slavic/Nordic Sturgia enjoyers.

4. Bandit armors

Download link: Nexus mods

Bandit Armors Bannerlord 2 mods

This armor is based on Battania culture and fist really well (plus you finally get your horned helmet). The armor has been rigged appropriately to minimize clipping. It ensures proper cloth physics. Additionally, it supports banner colors. It has proper LODs, ensuring that it will not adversely affect performance.

There are 2 sets in it: 

  • Viking Raider Armor
  • Wilding Hunter Armor

5. Medieval armor

Download link: Nexus mods

Medieval armors Bannerlord 2 mods

Speaking of smaller armour mods this one gives you a nice set of late milanese plate armour. If you are not a fan of complex Bannerlord 2 mods, or you just want to add more plate armour to your existing list, this might be the one for you. 

Currently this mod contains:

  • Armet Helmet
  • Milanese Plate Armour
  • Poleaxe Weapon
  • Sallet Helmet
  • Milanese Gauntlets
  • Painted Sallet Helmet
  • Milanese Greaves
  • Fauchard Weapon
  • Axes

Gameplay and Quality of Life (QoL) Bannerlord 2 mods

In this section we will focus on mods that will improve your gameplay and give you some new features. We will also touch on the systems that are already in the game with some quality of life edits.

6. Detailed character creation

Download link: Nexus mods

Detailed character creation Bannerlord 2 mods

This amazing Bannerlord 2 mod will give you detailed character customization options. You can adjust weight, build, and age. You can even modify NPC appearances. It is amazing for those people who want more options in what is a bit of a lacklustre character creator.

7. Realistic battle mod

Download link: Nexus mods

Realistic Battle Bannerlord 2mods

By implementing this Bannerlord 2 mod, combat becomes more realistic as the armor values are determined by experimental data. Armored units become more resistant to damage, depending on the weapon used against them, and each weapon type has a different effect on armour.

All units become more defensive, with shielded units using their shields as intended. Projectiles now cause damage based on their kinetic energy, which is determined through simulations based on real-life experimental data. Horse charge damage is now based on physics, and couched lancing is scientifically accurate

Battles last significantly longer due to these changes. Additionally, AI armies use more tactics, and spears are buffed in melee when compared to vanilla. There is an extensive list of changes on the front page of the mod that you can check out yourself, but from personal experience this mod never leaves out load order as it makes battles a lot more interesting.

8. Dismemberment plus

Download link: Nexus mods

Dismemberment plus mods

When this mod is installed in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord it adds complete dismemberment and decapitation to combat

If the player has the necessary skill, they can remove specific body parts from their enemies. These include the head, arm, hand, leg, and foot. They can use weapons such as axes, swords, or glaives. 

This mod is not for the faith of heart!

9. Improved Garrisons

Download link: Nexus mods

Improved garissons mod

The Improved Garrisons mod for Mount & Blade Bannerlord enhances the management of castles and settlements. Upon installation, an Improved Garrison will be available in each of the player’s fiefs. 

It offers advanced features like recruitment, garrison training, and guard parties. They are equipped with custom AI to defend the player’s properties. 

The mod has been designed with compatibility and convenience in mind. It aims to deliver a balanced experience for players in their Bannerlord playthrough. There is a more extensive list of features that you can check on the mod authors page.

10. Serve as a soldier

Download link: Nexus mods

Serve as a soldier Bannerlord mod

Do you like battling in this game but are not too crazy about managing your own army and deciding what to do next on the big map? Well this mod might be for you as it will let you join an already existing Warband and serve in it like a common soldier. Your lord will direct you where to go and when to fight.

Here are the main features included in this Bannerlord 2 mod:

  • Random events.
  • Your own persona retinue. 
  • 2 additional combat skills when you join up.
  • Faster healing rates.
  • Option to command some of the troops when you reach rank 6.
  • Option to lure out bandits while serving.
  • Option to ride out with cavalry to attack the enemies caravans and villages.
  • Option to participate in tournaments in the towns.

Total conversion Bannerlord 2 mods

These mods completely overhaul the world of Bannerlord 2. Some even transform it into a few of our favorite fantasy franchises. These mods will cover everything from making a whole new map, world building, and creating new armors and weapons. They’ll also add new characters and much more.

11. Game of Thrones

Download link: Nexus mods

Game of Thrones total conversion mod

If you ever wanted to transform your game into the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos from Game of Thrones we have you covered. This Bannerlord 2 mod will add hundreds of characters and over twenty kingdoms. 

The mod includes the Free Folk, who live north of the wall, and the Dothraki of the Great Grass Sea. You can also play as the Starks, Lannisters, and nearly every other faction.


Here are some of the mod’s main features:

  • Custom map of Westeros and a large part of Essos.
  • 20 new kingdoms added and existing kingdoms converted.
  • 21 new cultures.
  • Lots of new basic, noble and House troop trees.
  • Hundreds of custom NPCs from Game of Thrones.
  • Hundreds of new armors and weapons
  • Hordes of wights roaming north of the wall and a one v. one encounter with the Night King
  • All native clans converted and over 100 new ones added
  • Hundreds of towns, castles and villages added
  • Giants, Robber Knights, Skagosi, Kingswood Outlaws and 34 custom wanderers
  • 10 custom mercenary clans with custom leaders
  • Unique weapons wielded by lords

12. Warhammer – Old realms

Download links: Core Module, Armory, Environment

Warhammer he old realms mod

The aim of the Old Realms mod is to completely transform Bannerlord into Warhammer Fantasy. The project is in its early stages and the mod developers are gradually adding new and improved factions to the game. 

The current Steam Release version of TOR offers two playable factions. These include the Vampire Counts and several Empire states. It also includes added Vampire visuals for players. 

In addition to this, players can enjoy major features like combat magic. It allows them to summon the undead or cast fireballs. They can also place battle cannons. Both these features are available to both players and AI. They are set within a custom-made campaign map.

13. Eagle Rising – Roman Empire

Download link: Nexus mods

Eagle Rising Bannerlord 2 mods

Did you ever wish you could join your troops in Rome Total War? Or do you just love a period of the Roman Empire? This mod will take a step into the past and overhaul it to look like it is still in the age of antiquity.

Here are the features you can expect from this Bannerlord 2 mod:

 Factions:

  1. Rome (Empire)
  2. Dacia
  3. Scythia / Sarmatia
  4. Celts
  5. Carthage

The mod will also feature a new armoury system (including Faction Armor), special bodyguards that you can unlock, new settlement infrastructure and much more

These are just some of the amazing mods that you can find on nexus or steam workshop. We hope some of them hit the spot for you and made you reinstall the game and have a lot more hours of fun.

Conclusion

We’ve handpicked these Bannerlord 2 mods after a lot of testing, just for you. They’re the best of the bunch, making your game cooler and more fun. Hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Happy modding and see you in Calradia!