Medium Shields in Elden Ring: Nightreign are shields that offer a balance between solid defense and parry window, providing players with reliable protection. Their versatility makes them great for many builds, though they lack the specialized traits of larger or smaller shields.
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Albinauric Shield
Medium Shield • Lvl Required 1
Weapon Skill: Parry
Use this skill in time with a foe's melee attack to deflect it and break that foe's stance. This provides an opening to perform a critical hit.
Tall oval shield made of metal carried by young Albinaurics. The ornamentation represents the primordial drop of dew from which they are said to have been created. Boasts exceptional magic damage negation. The Albinaurics' most formidable foes were sorcerers, after all.

Banished Knight's Shield
Medium Shield • Lvl Required 1
A tall medium-sized metal shield. Given to knights who, whether by misfortune or misdeed, were forced to abandon their homes. Most of these knights were sent to the fringes, where they were forced to start anew with only despair for company.

Beast Crest Heater Shield
Medium Shield • Lvl Required 1
Weapon Skill: Parry
Use this skill in time with a foe's melee attack to deflect it and break that foe's stance. This provides an opening to perform a critical hit.
A medium-sized metal shield. Easier to handle than a kite shield. Features a beast as its crest, serving to remind warriors not to succumb to the arousal of battle. Fight with passion, but become not its prisoner.

Beastman's Jar-shield
Medium Shield • Lvl Required 1
Shield fashioned from a tall broken jar carried by the beastmen of Farum Azula. There is a particular knack to wielding it. The beastmen have always fired earthenware jars for the express purpose of making shields. Such are their ways, strange though they are.

Black Leather Shield
Medium Shield • Lvl Required 1
Roundshield covered in black leather. On the larger side for a medium-sized shield. From the north, this shield depicts the polar star in rivets of gold. The inside is lined with fur, protecting the carrier from frost.

Blue Crest Heater Shield
Medium Shield • Lvl Required 1
Weapon Skill: Parry
Use this skill in time with a foe's melee attack to deflect it and break that foe's stance. This provides an opening to perform a critical hit.
A medium-sized metal shield. Easier to handle than a kite shield. The crest represents a forest and river.

Blue-gold Kite Shield
Medium Shield • Lvl Required 1
Weapon Skill: Parry
Use this skill in time with a foe's melee attack to deflect it and break that foe's stance. This provides an opening to perform a critical hit.
A standard medium-sized shield. Highly reputed for its solid build and reliability. The design represents the Erdtree foreground against a blue sky.

Brass Shield
Medium Shield • Lvl Required 1
On the larger side for medium-sized shield, the face has been covered in brass. Commonly employed in the Shattering.

Candletree Wooden Shield
Medium Shield • Lvl Required 1
Weapon Skill: Parry
Use this skill in time with a foe's melee attack to deflect it and break that foe's stance. This provides an opening to perform a critical hit.
A tall, medium-sized wooden shield. Light for its size, and easy to handle. Thought to represent a surreptitious prophecy of cardinal sin, the lit candle-tree design was forbidden.

Carian Knight's Shield
Medium Shield • Lvl Required 1
A teardrop-shaped, medium-sized shield embedded with blue glintstones. Carried by knights who served the Carian royal family. Excels when facing magic or holy attacks. Just who were these knights preparing to fight?

Eclipse Crest Heater Shield
Medium Shield • Lvl Required 1
A medium-sized metal shield. Easier to handle than a kite shield. The sun in eclipse is said to be the symbol of the Wandering Mausoleum where the soulless demigods slumber.

Flame Crest Wooden Shield
Medium Shield • Lvl Required 1
Weapon Skill: Parry
Use this skill in time with a foe's melee attack to deflect it and break that foe's stance. This provides an opening to perform a critical hit.
A tall, medium-sized wooden shield. Light for its size, and easy to handle. Carried by soldiers of the village that is afflicted by frenzy. The yellow flame is the symbol of the affliction, serving as a warning to those who might approach the village.