Gate Town Bridge Site of Grace in Elden Ring is the location you come across in Liurnia of the Lakes. This spot plays a crucial role in Hyetta, the blind maiden’s questline in the ruins of Academy Gate Town, where you will have a third encounter with Hyetta. You’ll also encounter a haunting spirit and get an in-depth glimpse into the fallout from Raya Lucaria’s isolationist policies.
In this guide, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know about Elden Ring’s Gate Town Bridge including where to find it, what you’ll encounter there, and how to progress through Hyetta’s quest by finding the third Shabriri Grape.
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Elden Ring Gate Town Bridge Site of Grace Location
Gate Town Bridge Site of Grace can be found on a crumbling bridge that once connected eastern and western Liurnia. It’s just north of the Purified Ruins, not far from Stormveil Castle exit into the lake region. Getting there is easy once you’ve unlocked nearby graces like Liurnia Highway North. Simply follow the rocky path eastward through the marshy terrain.
Be prepared to wade through some enemies along the way, including one large spectral brute. You can sneak by if you’d rather not waste your flasks on transient spirits. Keep moving to come across the broken bridge, and right there is the Gate Town Bridge Site of Grace. Rest and activate it because Hyetta won’t appear otherwise.
Not far from the Grace, you might hear the echo of a weary voice mumbling into the void; that’s the Gate Town Bridge Spirit, a ghost NPC. He faces westward, staring longingly at the distant silhouette of Raya Lucaria Academy, muttering about being locked out, barred from “donning the crown of stone.”
It’s a one-line soliloquy, but it sticks with you. This NPC was a former noble or student who’s been exiled, another victim of the fallout from the Academy’s descent into secrecy and elitism. Though he can’t be interacted with or fought beyond this short dialogue.
Geographically, the Gate Town Bridge is a link between Liurna’s eastern road and the path to Academy Gate Town, the half sunken ruins under the Academy. As you head west from here, you’ll pass through the flooded rooftops and walls of what was once a town of scholars and mages. Story-wise, this bridge was part of the academic infrastructure that connected the townsfolk and students to the Academy of Raya Lucaria. Now it’s broken, and the castaways and broken dreams that haunt the area, like the spirit and blind Hyetta.
Where to Find the Third Shabriri Grape
Once arrive at Gate Town Bridge during Hyetta’s questline, you’ll find her standing just north of the grace. Look for her near a cliffside, not far from the Site of Grace. During this third meeting with her, she again asks you to find a Shabriri Grape. This third grape is the most complicated to retrieve, and where it is depends on how you handled Irina’s questline in the Weeping Peninsula.
If you let Edgar (Irina’s father) live by sparing him at the end of the Castle Morne, next head to the Revenger’s Shack in western Liurnia and interact with the corpses or rest at the nearby Site of Grace. This triggers an invasion by Edgar the Revenger, and once you defeat him, he’ll drop Shabriri Grape, and +8 Banished Knight’s Halberd—not a bad weapon. If you killed Edgar earlier, his corpse will be found at the Bridge of Sacrifice, near the entrance to the Weeping Peninsula – loot his body to pick up the Shabriri Grape.
Return to Hyetta with the grape in hand, talk to her until she repeats herself. Then rest at the Site of Grace and speak to her again. Be sure to completely exhaust her dialogue at each location to properly move the needle of her quest. After this interaction, she’ll move on to Bellum Church but before she leaves, she’ll have a very unsettling reaction after realizing what the “grapes” actually are. (Hint: They aren’t fruit, they’re eyes. Human ones. Told you this questline gets weird.)
