Celestial Portal and A Moment, Fractured in Risk of Rain 2: how to get there, step by step

// what it is

What it is.

Celestial Portal and A Moment, Fractured

A Moment, Fractured is a place off the planet reached through the Celestial Portal. The Obelisk is there: if you destroy yourself in it (obliterating), the run ends for everyone, counts as an ending and gives Lunar Coins. The first time it unlocks the Mercenary. 45.7% of Steam players have done it.

// what you need

What you need.

Having looped: passing stage 5 and returning to stage 1 (the looping route).
Reaching the third stage after the loop (stage 8) and finishing its teleporter.
For A Moment, Whole: someone in the group carrying Beads of Fealty (a lunar item).

// step by step

Step by step.

Loop: on stage 5 align the Primordial Teleporter with the planet or leave through a portal. You return to stage 1.

Play to the third stage after the loop (stage 8) and finish the teleporter: the Celestial Portal appears next to it. It then returns every 3rd stage (11, 14...).

Go in: you reach A Moment, Fractured, a floating island with no enemies. Climb to the Obelisk.

Decide: use the Obelisk twice to obliterate yourself and end the run (5 Lunar Coins and, the first time, the Mercenary), or carry on through the portal at the back to the next stage.

With Beads of Fealty: if someone carries them, the Obelisk does not end the run: it sends you to A Moment, Whole, where the Twisted Scavenger waits. Its sack drops 10 more Lunar Coins.

// what you get

What you get.

5 Lunar Coins for obliterating (15 in total if you go to A Moment, Whole and beat the Twisted Scavenger).
The Mercenary, the first time: the «True Respite» challenge.
Ending a run you no longer want to continue, counted as an ending: useful for challenges that ask you to finish runs.

// watch out

Watch out.

In co-op, obliterating ends the run for everyone: warn first.
If you only want the coins, you do not need to reach stage 8 strong: there are no enemies in A Moment, Fractured.
Beads of Fealty do nothing in combat: if you carry them without wanting A Moment, Whole, a Cleansing Pool trades them for a Pearl.

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// faq

FAQ.

When does the Celestial Portal appear?

When you finish the teleporter of the third stage after the first loop (stage 8), and then every 3rd stage. It never appears before looping.

What happens when you obliterate?

The run ends for everyone, counts as an ending, you gain 5 Lunar Coins and the first time you unlock the Mercenary. With Beads of Fealty, you go to A Moment, Whole instead of ending.

What is in A Moment, Whole?

A Twisted Scavenger, one of four lunar scavengers with fixed items. When you beat it, its sack drops 10 more Lunar Coins and the run ends.

// more routes

The other routes.

Bulwark's Ambry and the artifacts

The moon: the way to Mithrix

The Planetarium and the Void Locus

Eclipse, the fourth difficulty

All routes

Sources: the Risk of Rain 2 wiki (riskofrain2.wiki.gg: Bazaar Between Time, Newt Altar, Void Fields, Gilded Coast, A Moment, Fractured, Commencement, Void Locus, The Planetarium, Lunar Coins, Artifacts and Module:Environments/Data, read on 31 October 2026, the same pages used by this site's shrine, boss, Mithrix and glossary guides), the game's English text and public Steam stats as of 31 October 2026. The plain-words text is ours. Icons: Risk of Rain 2 (Hopoo Games / Gearbox).