How to Get To The Church Of Inhibition And Avoid Madness

Church of Inhibition in Elden Ring is a location that you need to visit to grab some important items, but on your way towards the church, you will need to hide from the Tower of Madness! The Lands Between is home to many hostile creatures and deadly spells, but as a Tarnished, you should be able to overcome all the difficulties to become the Elden Lord. The Madness spell, however, is quite a difficult one to avoid, as it has a pretty severe effect on your character.

Church of Inhibition is a location on the map that holds three valuable items of Finger Maiden including Fillet, Robe, and Shoes. Here, we will tell you how to approach the Church of Inhibition and avoid being killed by the Tower of Madness.

Updated by Mehrdad Khayyat on April 26, 2024: Added a new easier method to avoid Madness along with a video.

How To Get To Church Of Inhibition

The image above showcases the location of the Church of Inhibition in Elden Ring. To make your way into the Church of Inhibition, you should pass through the Frenzied Flame Village. Things get more difficult when you know that there is an invader at the entrance of the church as well as a Madness tower near Frenzied Falme Village.

Hopefully, you can run past the invader, but escaping from the Madness would be difficult unless you use all your Flasks. That said, there is indeed a way to get rid of Madness.

How to Avoid Madness

There are two ways that you can get rid of the madness flame on top of a tower near Frenzied Flame Village. You should either craft several Clarifying Boluses and consume one every time that your madness bar increases to neutralize the effect temporarily, or you should head to the top of the tower to kill the NPCs that flame the madness.

Crafting Clarifying Boluses is not an option for those who don’t have the related cookbook for it, so, we are going straight to the second method, which is destroying the madness flame.

Spawn in the Grand Lift of Dectus Site of Grace and head southeast as shown in the video above. Upon getting closer to the Madness tower, you must ride faster to reach its foot as soon as possible. You will be affected by Madness during this phase, but you can wait at the foot of the tower until the effect fades away.

Your main job is to get on top of the tower and kill all the guards, but this might be difficult as they could hit you back, while your Madness affection will increase significantly faster.

As shown in the video above, there is a stone bridge that helps you reach the foot of the tower. If you equip your bow and stand on the edge of this bridge-like cliff, you can shoot at two of the guards on top of the tower. Hitting them just once is enough to lure them to drop down and look for you.

Now, wait a little bit until all the Madness affection is gone, and run towards the tower to climb up from the ladder. Keep in mind that there are three mad mice next to the ladder along with the two guards. You can lure them to come outside of the tower’s base and then run for the ladder if you feel unsafe. Once you get up the ladder, stay there and wait for the guards to come up as well. Then you can slay both of those guards quite easily. But still, there are four guards at the top.

If you pay attention to the Madness flame, you will realize that it has a brief cooldown. You need to engage with the final ladder when the flame is about to go off for the cooldown. Once you are on the top. Kill the lonely guard first, and then focus on the remaining three sitting next to each other. Slay them as soon as possible and make sure not to turn your back to any of those mad guards, as they can apply finisher on you that can get you killed instantly.

Once all guards are dead, the Madness flame will go off. Hopefully, this is a one-off battle, and those guards will not revive after resting at a Site of Grace.

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