The world of Elden Ring is full of people and creatures whose destiny is out of their hands. The world has become a playground for the gods and higher powers, creating miserable lives for the people in the Lands Between. With each other ending, your character steps in to help make decisions for the people to try and save them, but even those endings have a new higher power controlling the world. In the Age of The Stars ending, players help Ranni break the structure of the world and ascend to godhood with you at her s

Thorn or "Aberrant" Sorcery is one of the odder schools of magic in Elden Ring . The two spells of this spare school - Briars of Sin and Briars of Punishment - are classified as Sorceries (i.e. D &D _ wizard-style magic) and must be cast with a sorcerer's Glintstone Staff. At the same time, these two spells (and the Staff of the Guilty item that boosts Thorn Sorceries in _Elden Ring ) have a minimum Faith requirement and no Intelligence requirement at all. In previous versions of Elden Ring maps Ring , players had to invest heavily into multiple spell-casting stats (Faith, and Intelligence or Arcane) and dual-wield staves in order to maximize the damage caused by the lacerating bloody thorns of this magic school. Patch 1.07 reduced the FP cost and increased the casting speed/blood loss build-up of the Briars of Sin and Briars of Punishment spells, making it easier for players to create a viable Thorn Sorcerer character build at low lev

Before new players even learn about the existence of the Blind Swordsman, they can acquire information about the origins of this mysterious hero when they pick up the Blue Cloth Set, the signature outfit of Elden Ring 's Warrior starting class . Its item description is as foll

Elden Ring has a total of 6 known endings. Four of these endings revolve around you becoming the Elden Lord, and the other two have much more significant impacts on the world. Some of the more complex endings to the game heavily rely on you to dive in and understand the lore and follow specific side que

The return of death suggests a lot about the mist in the Duskborn ending. The Rune of the Death-Prince has a dramatic effect on the appearance of the Erdtree in Fia's deathly ending to Elden Ring . The Erdtree becomes pallid and barren and emanates the mysterious mist. In this way, it seems that the Death-Rune causes the Erdtree to die. This is a huge deal, as the Erdtree absorbs the souls of those touched by Grace, allowing them to live eternally. Thus, if the Erdtree dies, so too do the souls that live in it. This then suggests that the mist that emanates from the Erdtree is actually the dead souls that were once a part of the living Erdt

Poisoned by lust for power and crippled by the seductive serpent's whisper, Lord Rykard permitted the Immortal Great Serpent to consume his body, allowing him to take on the form of Rykard, Lord of Blasph

Rykard's true fall from grace, outside his growing disdain for the ideals imposed on him by The Greater Will, started when he chose Mt. Gelmir as the location to begin his new era in the Lands Between. Blessed with the gift of sorcery from his mother, Rennala, Rykard discovered ancient hexes and powerful dark magic within the depths of the mountain. Thus, decided to construct his entire kingdom from the base of Mt. Gel

Legends speak of a master of the sword garbed in blue, and his curved blade that was patterned after flowing water. Strong attack unleashes a series of strikes akin to a dance, offering a glimpse into the leg

What’s more, the mist being souls explains the few areas in the game where mist exists before the Duskborn ending: the Mistwood and the forest of the Altus Plateau. The Altus Plateau’s woods are directly above where Godwyn is buried, so it would make sense that his curse mark would have infected the area's roots and killed the souls they contained. As for the Mistwood, this is the first area in the game where players have access to the ancient world buried beneath the Lands Between. This ancient world was rejected by Elden Ring 's Golden Order , so it would only make sense that their souls were rejected from the Erdtree and thus smothered the Mistwood in

When you first reach the highly-imposing castle etched into the side of Mt. Gelmir, the landscape is filled with both elegance and despair as the once might of Volcano Manor is mirrored in both its towering visage and scarred with flame and destruction etched along its edges. And deep within the depths beyond lava and fire resides the source of pure evil -- Lord of Volcano Manor, son of the Champion of the Erdtree Radagon and Queen Rennala of the Academy of Raya Luc

With the Erdtree Avatar variant, you could attempt mounted combat , but this only offers an advantage if you have a lot of room to move around. With a more cramped battlefield and due to the tracking on several of the Avatars' staff attacks, Torrent will be more of a hindrance than a he