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Where to Find All Katanas in Elden Ring: Base Game and DLC Locations

A location checklist for all eight base-game Elden Ring katanas, plus the two added in Shadow of the Erdtree, with pickups, boss rewards and quest routes separated by scope.
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There are eight katanas in Elden Ring’s base game and two more in Shadow of the Erdtree. The base-game weapons come from a mix of pickups, boss drops, NPC questlines and a Remembrance exchange; the expansion adds Star-Lined Sword and Sword of Night. The routes below keep the base game and DLC separate so you can find the weapon you need without mixing their requirements.

Base-game katana locations

The eight base-game katana locations and acquisition methods below are documented in SegmentNext’s 2024 location guide; an earlier Attack of the Fanboy guide also covers the base-game list and routes, while warning that it may be outdated.

Katana Region How to get it Acquisition type
Uchigatana Limgrave Loot the corpse in Deathtouched Catacombs. Find the hall and pull the lever to open access to the area. Samurai characters also begin with this weapon. Starting equipment or catacombs pickup
Nagakiba Limgrave / NPC quest route Follow Bloody Finger Hunter Yura’s route. The guide describes an item near Murkwater Cave / Seaside Ruins, or obtaining the weapon after progressing his questline at the Second Church of Marika. NPC-related acquisition
Serpentbone Blade Volcano Manor Complete the second Volcano Manor letter/task to receive it. Quest reward
Meteoric Ore Blade Caelid Open the chest in an underground room at Caelid Waypoint Ruins; access is in the northwest part of the ruins. Chest pickup
Moonveil Caelid Defeat the Magma Wyrm in Gael Tunnel. Boss drop
Rivers of Blood Mountaintops of the Giants Defeat Bloody Finger Okina, who invades near the Church of Repose. Invader drop
Dragonscale Blade Lake of Rot Defeat the Dragonkin Soldier in the Lake of Rot. This is a specific encounter; other Dragonkin Soldier fights are not the same location. Boss drop
Hand of Malenia Roundtable Hold / late-game boss Defeat Malenia, then exchange the Remembrance of the Rot Goddess with Enia at Roundtable Hold. Remembrance exchange

Early and mid-game pickups

The Uchigatana is the earliest straightforward option in this list: Samurai characters start with it, while other characters can loot it in Deathtouched Catacombs. Meteoric Ore Blade is another pickup, found in a chest rather than earned from an enemy.

Boss and invader rewards

Moonveil, Rivers of Blood and Dragonscale Blade are obtained from specific encounters: the Magma Wyrm in Gael Tunnel, Okina near the Church of Repose, and the Dragonkin Soldier in the Lake of Rot, respectively. Hand of Malenia requires defeating Malenia and exchanging her Remembrance, rather than looting the weapon directly from her.

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Nagakiba and Serpentbone Blade are not simple map pickups. Nagakiba is tied to Bloody Finger Hunter Yura, and the cited guide gives alternative-looking acquisition points along his route. Quest progress or Yura’s death may change when or where it can be collected; the guide does not settle every possible quest state. Serpentbone Blade is the reward for completing the second Volcano Manor letter/task.

Shadow of the Erdtree katana locations

Shadow of the Erdtree adds two katanas to the base-game eight: Star-Lined Sword and Sword of Night. These expansion entries appear in a 2025 Steam Community guide by FIRUIN, which lists ten katanas total; Steam indicates that guide was removed from the community, so its route details should be treated as community-guide information rather than official documentation. The guide’s DLC katana entries identify the weapons and describe a Sword of Night route.

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How many katanas are in Elden Ring?

Count the scope you own: the base game has eight katanas, according to SegmentNext’s 2024 guide; including the two Shadow of the Erdtree entries brings the total to ten, as listed in the 2025 Steam Community guide. The expansion weapons are not part of the base-game checklist above.

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Sources and scope

The base-game locations are based on secondary location guides, including SegmentNext (2024) and Attack of the Fanboy (2022). The expansion list and Sword of Night route come from a 2025 Steam Community guide. No official FromSoftware catalog was identified for a canonical katana list, so the expansion details here are attributed to that community guide rather than presented as an official inventory.

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