Hornsent

Hornsent
Role	Quest character
Region	Gravesite Plain, Scadu Altus, Shadow Keep, Ancient Ruins of Rauh, Enir-Ilim
Quest	Hornsent's questline
Services	NPC summon

Hornsent is a character in Elden Ring. It is one of the expansion's additions, found in the Land of Shadow.

Hornsent is a survivor of the horned people of the Realm of Shadow who joins Miquella's followers for his own reasons. He scorns the Tarnished for their ties to the Erdtree yet hands over maps to Miquella's crosses. His true goal is vengeance on Messmer the Impaler and the family of Marika. Choices in the Shadow Keep decide whether he lives to take that revenge.

Lore

Hornsent is a warrior of the horned people who hides his face behind a caterpillar mask and fights with a curved falx.

His people, the hornsent, were betrayed by Marika and burned by Messmer's armies. He holds the Erdtree as the enemy of his kin.

Hornsent wished no redemption from Miquella if it would quench his thirst for vengeance. After Messmer fell, he turned his hatred toward all of Marika's line.

Where to find Hornsent Location?

Three-Path Cross Site of Grace in the Gravesite Plain
Highroad Cross Site of Grace in Scadu Altus
Shadow Keep, as a summon and on the ramparts
Ancient Ruins of Rauh, as an invader near the Church of the Bud

Hornsent map location:

Map credit by Map Genie.

Quest

The steps below follow Hornsent's questline from start to finish.

Speak to Hornsent at the Three-Path Cross to receive a Cross Map.
Give him Scorpion Stew from the Hornsent Grandam to receive Furnace Visages, if desired.
Speak to him at the Highroad Cross to receive the New Cross Map.
Approach the Shadow Keep to break Miquella's charm, then speak to him again.
Summon him against the Golden Hippopotamus, if desired.
On the Shadow Keep ramparts, help him against Leda with the gold sign to keep him alive.
Summon him against Messmer the Impaler and speak to him afterward.
Defeat him when he invades near the Church of the Bud in the Ancient Ruins of Rauh.