From these Talisman descriptions and the prior descriptions of the Flowing Curved Sword and Blue Cloth set, players can infer the following story - an account of the Blind Swordsman's life and deeds that is speculative, yet plausible in the context of Elden Ring tips Ring 's vast, often hidden lo

The lore surrounding Miquella and Mogh, Lord of Blood is particularly strange. Mogh was obsessed with Miquella and stole him from the Haligtree in the hopes of raising him to godhood and becoming his consort. That said, Miquella was cursed with eternal childhood, making that paradigm doubly dubi

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

In truth, Volcano Manor exists as a bit of a pseudo-covenant, in lieu of the regular ones we miss, as there are no real consequences for allying yourself with them. The "recusants" worship Rykard and as their name suggests, are spurned on by an innate sense of heretical vengeance against the erdt

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

Midway through the battle against him, he offers a display of his abilities, launching himself into the stratosphere and returning as a destructive comet. Of course, while Radahn seems sturdy enough to survive that, the same couldn't be said of his poor mo

Many FromSoftware fans have compared the Ornstein and Smough boss fight to the Godskin Duo boss fight in Elden Ring , which similarly features a lanky and round pair of enemies fighting together. The character archetype of Smough, however, seems to be more closely emulated by the Fire Prelate enemy, who dresses in bulky armor designed to mimic a rotund human body. Killing the Fire Prelate in Fort Laeiid nets players a massive, Smough-style hammer called the Prelate's Inferno Crozier, while a Scarab Beetle found in Elden Ring 's boss-heavy Mountaintops of the Giants area drops the Prelate's Charge Ash of War, which lets players mimic Smough's signature ramming att

Considering just how fleshed out Ranni's quest line is compared to others, one could question whether or not it truly would count as a side quest. However, with all the content available, this turns out to be an easy contender for the best side quest in the g

After his triumphant victory, but before the main backstory events of Elden Ring , the Blind Swordsman somehow crossed paths with the young Malenia, a Demigod of the Elden Ring __ born decaying, an Empyrean with the potential to bloom into a virulent Goddess of Rot itself. The Blind Swordsman might have been tempted to slay this ailing Demigod before she could become the new incarnation of his old foe. Instead, he became Malenia's mentor, teaching her his flowing, dance-like style of swordplay. In time, Malenia would make this style of sword-fighting her own, crafting the infamous Waterfowl Dance technique that has rendered so many **Elden Ring ** players apoplectic with r

In the Network Test files, there is an unused animation where the bats (also known as the Chanting Winged Dame) in the game would stand up and sing a seemingly tragic lament in a nearly dead language called Ainu. However, the bats' songs would later be changed to be sung in Latin in the final release of Elden Ring --- the Ainu song seemingly as only a placehol

The name "The Lands Between" likely refers to the setting being between life and death as when you die, you simply return to the erdtree. The shattering of the Elden Ring represents the first death of a deity. Essentially, the purpose of Fia, The Prince of Death, and the Cursemark of Death is to allow death to happen normally. If such a thing was allowed to happen, there would likely be much fewer lingering souls and undead creatures shambling about, cursing their existe

Most new Elden Ring players are acutely aware of the frustration brought on by the bullying Tree Sentinel, a patrolling mini-boss encountered right at the game's outset. An almost unsurmountable challenge early on, players are expected to return to defeat him after leveling up, though a stalwart few have taken him down with no armor and a flimsy c

Abstractly, one could call them a league of traitorous snakes who make it their goal to kill their kind. As you could expect, Patches is a member of this organization, even offering a quest of his own as you begin completing quests h

Thanks to Souls Youtuber Zullie the Witch, we know why this fight feels so familiar. In the game's code, Zullie found that assets from an unused Farron Wolf Dark Souls III boss were pulled into Elden Ring and re-appropriated in the form of the Red Wolf's curved sword attacks, which feel like a loving callback to The Great Grey Wolf