During their playthrough of Elden Ring , players will come across many NPC and enemies who demonstrate a fanatical devotion to Miquella, an Empyrean with the potential to become a god like Marika. Malenia's Cleanrot Knights, who wield spears and scythes imbued with Miquella's Golden Order Magic, fight fiercely for the Empyrean's cause despite knowing proximity to Malenia will cause their flesh to rot away. After Miquella's kidnapping by Mohg, the foot soldiers who guard the Elden Ring 's parasitic, slowly-rotting Haligtree settlement turn their bodies into magical bombs in the hopes that the " ...the flash of our deaths [will] guide Miquella's retur

Elden Ring has a total of 6 known endings. Four of these endings revolve around you becoming the Elden Ring patch notes 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

From this weapon description, a picture forms of a valiant sword master who carried a weapon modeled after flowing water, who has a martial arts style modeled after flowing water and even wore garments symbolizing flowing water. To learn more about Elden Ring 's most mysterious hero, however, one must seek out three Talisman items found in different parts of the Lands Betw

Later patches reduced damage for these two special attacks, causing the Sword of Night and Flame to become the niche weapon most frequently used by Faith/Intelligence hybrid spell-casting character builds. Patch 1.07 increased the attack power of the Night-and-Flame stance once more while also adding damage detection to the sword part of the weapon and letting players aim the blasts of Glintstone Sorcery (pioneered by Raya Lucaria's founders) and Giantsflame both up and d

This underrated Elden Ring weapon seems to be a direct shout-out to Pinwheel, an eerie (but easy to defeat) boss found in the skeleton-infested Catacombs area of Dark Souls . Like the Family Heads flail, Pinwheel has three masked heads modeled after a family unit and fights by summoning projectiles of f

The Dragonscale Blade, dropped by the Dragonkin Soldier in the Lake of Rot, was the popular in Elden Ring 's Network Test as the only available Katana-type weapon, but proved to be less popular in the main game. The 1.07 patch improved the damage and duration of this weapon's Ice Lightning buffing skill while shortening its recovery time, theoretically making the Dragonscale Blade more useful in Elden Ring PvP combat and capable of standing on even ground with its cousin weapon, the Dragon Halb

Another ending with the tarnished becoming Elden Lord, except this time with a curse. After completing the Dung Eater's side quests , you obtain the Mending Rune of The Fell Omen. If you mend this rune with the Elden Ring, you dispel a curse upon all people and future generations across the Lands Betw

The Helphen's Steeple Greatsword, dropped by a Tibia Mariner enemy in Elden Ring 's Mountaintops of the Giants area , is a dark, barbed long-sword designed to be wielded by spell-sword character builds in Elden Ring . The Ruinous Ghostflame skill of this weapon envelopes the blade in a shroud of ghostly flame that deals extra damage and inflicts the Frostbite status effect. The 1.07 patch increased the damage, duration, and poise attrition granted by this skill while also shortening its recovery time, making the sinister-looking Helphen's Steeple a much more viable weapon for Elden Ring players who want to cosplay cursed sword-wielding fictional characters like Elric of Melniboné, wielder of Stormbringer, or Arthas Menethil from Warcraft, wielder of Frostmou

Developers of FromSoftware's Elden Ring are faced with a quandary when designing weapons and spells for RPGs like the studio's latest and previous works, such as Dark Souls and Bloodborne . They can't (or rather, shouldn't) make a single weapon good at everything in the game, or else players would simply use that weapon to the exclusion of others. Thus, FromSoftware developers need to carefully design weapons so they have a fun balance of strengths and weaknes

FromSoftware's newest game **Elden Ring , ** a dark fantasy action RPG with challenging combat and open-world exploration, takes place in a separate universe from the games of the Dark Souls trilogy. That said, not a few weapons and combat skills in Elden Ring draw direct inspiration from the armaments wielded by major characters in Dark Souls, Dark Souls 2 , and Dark Souls 3 . Some of these weapons were likely ported into Elden Ring as a shout-out to long-time fans of FromSoftware games, while other weapons, skills, and magical effects seem to be attempted to improve on poorly executed Dark Souls weapon conce

This curse keeps a soul from returning to the Erdtree upon death, and those who bear the curse are looked down upon by society. By cursing all people and future generations, you effectively cut out the Erdtree from the cycle of the world. By having all people bear the curse, you also end the stigmatism towards those who are already cursed. This ending is the most different Elden Lord ending as you change the world permanently by cursing all and cutting off all future souls from the Erdt