THE LORE OF ELDEN RING

 

Before the Game Starts:

The Greater Will was an outer god who appointed Marika as queen of the Land Between. His order/law was Golden Order. Elden beast was a vessel who hold the land on behalf of him. The Elden Ring was made of runes of great power which represents the Golden Order. The fundamental keys of this order was Law of Causality and Regression. And Erdtree was the huge tree that player can see in the game from any open place overground.

The life in the land between had started very before the Elden Ring, Elden Beast or the Erdtree or the Greater Will came here. There was even another great tree here before Erdtree. The Erdtree is a parasite which took over the great tree existed before. And thanks to Golden Order, who were related to primodial great tree eg. the Omen, the Misbegotten, the Crucible knights were imprisoned and enslaved. In the beginning everything was against the Erdtree, but after countless victories in war, It became embodiment of Order.

Erdtree

 The greater will requireed royal agent in land between. Two fingers works as agent for him but as they can't speak, finger reader crones interprets their words.  

Above one is the family tree of queen Marika. Godfrey was her first consort and first Elden lord, during the Age of Erdtree. Their Children were Godwyn and Godrick. Also, twin brother Morgott and Mohg were their children and part of golden lineage too but they are curse inflicted. Margit was cloned version of Morgott. Though they had never been loved, Mohg still vowed to protect Miquella and Morgott became protector of Erdtree.

Radagon

There was war going on against Golden Order and another person named Radagon had been involved in the conflict but is settled by marriage between Queen Rennala of the Carian royal family and Radagon. They had children named Radahn, Rykard and Ranni. After the war hue of Godfrey’s eye was faded and he is exiled. Then Marika was left without consort and Radagon marries her leaving Rennala. Rennala mentally broke down after betrayal from Radagon and Civil war breaks down in Lirunia among Carian Royal Family and Academy of Raya Lucaria. Radagon and Marika had children, Malenia and Miquella. Though Miquella was cursed with eternal childhood and Malenia was cursed with rot. Later comes the most incredible part, during brother Corhyn quest, a statue in Lyndell reveals that Marika is Radagon.

Empyrean: Direct born from "single" God. Not even child of God and non-God is Empyrean. Example: Miquella, Malenia (because Radagon and Marika both parents are same entity), Marika, Ranni (reason unknown)

Malenia

Demigod: At least one of the parents is God. Example: Godrick, Radahn, Rykard. Malenia and Miquella are both Demigod and Empyrean. Apparently, demigod is a subset of empyrean.

Conditions to be the ruler of the Land Between:

1. Being Empyrean

2. Having Consort

3. Having Shadow

Note that, Elden lord is not ruler of the Land between. They are not to usurp the empyrean ruler, merely to help him/her.

Each Empyrean has shadow

Marika -> Maliketh

Miquella -> Mogh

Ranni -> Blaidd

Malenia -> Unknown

Maliketh is half-brother and shadow (protector) of Marika. Marika forced rune of death on Maliketh and used him to keep the death away from her land. Maliketh then imbued the death rune with his black blade.

Maliketh

Lunar Princess Ranni is the daughter of Radagon and Rennala wtih two siblings, Radahn and Rykard which we already know from family tree now. The Two Fingers chose her as a potential successor and granted her a shadow by the name of Blaidd, who was raised as her foster brother. Ranni grew up playing with Blaidd and Iji, a giant blacksmith who served the Carian royals. Renna is a alias for Ranni. 

Ranni

While the Two Fingers had chosen her, Ranni did not wish to be a puppet for the Greater Will and resented her empyrean fate. In order to escape her fate, Ranni plotted to slay her own empyrean flesh while sparing her soul. In order to do so, she stole a fragment of the Rune of Death from Maliketh. She imbued the power of the rune into the blades of her assassins, all of whom were Numen women close to Queen Marika herself. The assassins fell upon the royal capital in what would come to be known as the Night of Black Knives.

In order to assure only her body was slain, Ranni simultaneously used had the assassins kill her step-brother Godwyn, killing him in spirit, while she killed herself in body. This marked the step-siblings as the first demigod casualties since Marika had ushered in the Age of the Erdtree. Ranni transfered her spirit into a doll said to be carved in the image of her former master, the Snow Witch. Maliketh from then bound his black blade within his own flesh so that none can ever steal the Death Rune.

Godwyn Corpse

Hearing the death news of Godwyn, Marika in rage shattered the elden ring and it's fragment scattered all over the land between. All the demigods tried to gather the shards and war arises, specially the iconic battle between Malenia and Radahn. Shattering is the greatest war the Lands Between has ever seen but the problem is it ended in stalemate and only following could become shardbearers :

Godrick
Rennala
Radahn
Rykard
Morgott
Mogh
Malenia

Battle between Malenia and Radahn

Age before the shattering was called Age of Erdtree. It blessed many but refused to bless many too who are called tarnished and not worthy of blessing in the eyes of Greater Will. Though he blessed many tarnished after war of shattering in hope for keeping Golden order.

Rykard

Rykard was the only demigod who raised voice about the Greater Will's discriminating manner and charged for blasphemy. The believers of golden order did crusade against Rykards and soldiers of Volcano Manor were tired of this. Everyone disagreed with him and aligned with golden order, therefore to match and stand against all, Rykard met the Great Serpent who promised him great power as long as Rykard was willing to be eaten by him. 

In Game Story:

Melina who stands against the discrimination of golden order becomes the maiden of the protagonist provided that the protagonist will lead her to the Erdtree. The protagonist is a tarnished with aim to be Elden Lord and mend the shattered Elden Ring who initially must beat at least two of the shardbearers Godrick, Rennala, Rykard and Radahn. Then he/she heads to Altus Plateau and beats golden shadow of Godfrey and Morgott. After that he/she tries to enter the Erdtree is but denied by it. Being rejected, the protagonist reaches to Forge of the Giants after defeating Fire Giant where  Melina sacrifices her to burn the Erdtree which is the First Cardinal Sin. Then the protagonist must beat Godskin Duo, Maliketh, Sir Gideon Ofnir, Godfrey himself, Radagon and Elden beast to come to ending.

 

NPC Lore:

Varre: He is insulting towards tarnished initially though helpful with basic informations. As the quest progresses, the tarnished defeats him eventually.

Bloody Finger Hunter Yura: Yura is a aging warrior from the Land of Reeds and a hunter of Bloody Fingers. Yura was once a hunter of dragons, and has intimate knowledge of Dragon Communion. Yura kept a woman, presumably Eleonora, in the deepest reaches of his heart. At some point, he came to the Lands Between and began hunting Bloody Fingers, servants of the Lord of Blood, with the aim of eventually killing Eleonora.

When the protagonist is ambushed by Bloody Finger Nerijus, Yura intervenes and helps. Yura then makes his way to the Academy of Raya Lucaria, where he is invaded by Ravenmount assassin and the player helps him. After the fight, warns the player to avoid Eleonora, describing her as the deadliest of all Bloody Fingers.

Yura manages to track her down to the Second Church of Marika in the Altus Plateau, where he engages her in combat. Yura manages to slice off one of her fingers, but receives a mortal wound. As the Tarnished champion who had aided him stumbles upon the scene, Yura begs Eleonora to no longer yield to the cessblood, before dying. After his death, his body is possessed by Shabiri, who claims that Yura gave him his body.

Boc the Seamster: Someone transformed him into a tree and the protagonist breaks the spell. Later at Coastal Cave, the protagonist retrieves Boc's mother's sewing kit to him. After that, he can alter armor design. He is submissive in nature. For good ending, "You are beautiful" prattling plate must be used. If he is given Larval Tear, he can be reborn at Rennala's but be dead eventually.

Sorcerer Selen: She is a Glintstone sorcerer who was exiled from Raya Lucaria Academy. The protagonist accept to study under her teaching and she tasks him/her with finding sorcerer Lusat, who is needed to restore primeval current of Glintstone sorcery (which is forbidden). Later she reveals that, the protagonist only talks with her projection, her real body is shackled at Witchbane Ruins. Going there he/she retrieves Sellen's Primal Glintstone. Coming back here later, the protagonist finds witch hunter Jerren has killed her. However, protagonist fills the Primal Glintstone in a new body of her so she remains alive.

Outside Raya Lucaria Academy, player can side with either Sellen or Jerren, either one will be alive. If the protagonist sides with Sellen, she will dream to be monarch of the Raya Lucaria Academy kicking out Rennala but eventually she will undergo unexpected transformation due to weight of knowledge of Glintstone sorcery.

Thops: He is a Glintsone sorcerer of the Academy of Raya Lucaria too who was removed from the academy when it went into lockdown and is looking for a Glintstone Key (basically second key) to regain entry. When the protagonist provides him the key, he disappears from the Church of Irith and moves into the academy, where he is found dead sitting in front of a table near the academy's graveyard.

Edgar and Irina: Edgar is warden of castle Monroe where the servants have rebelled. Irina is her daughter whose eyesight is weak from birth and escaped from castle Monroe. She wants her father to leave the castle and sends him a letter through the player. However, Leonine Misbegotten kills Irina. The Protagonist kills Misbegotten afterwards and Edgar is seen lamenting over her daughters corpse.

Smithing Master Hewg: Hewg is interesting since he is actually a prisoner in the Roundtable Hold who cannot leave. He was put there by Marika herself to smith weapons, particularly with the goal to make one powerful enough to kill a god. Fans believe he is a Misbegotton, a race of people who have been oppressed into servitude. Despite being a prisoner, Hewg is not rebellious and is dedicated to making weapons, and cares little for freedom even when his chains are undone.

Roderika: In her first encounter with protagonist at the Stormhill Shack, she laments over how all her companion were forcefully grafted in Stormveil Castle. Eventually she becomes a spirit tuner with guide of Smithing Master Hewg.

Iron Fist Alexander: He is a large Living Jar who set out from his home one day in search of adventure, seeking to become a mighty warrior. He also becomes available as an NPC Summon co-operater where he can fight alongside players. He challenges the protagonist to a warrior's duel at Crumbling Farum Azula and his journey ends if the the player defeats him.

Latenna the Albinauric: She requests and guides the protagonist to find the left half of the Haligtree Medallion at Castle Sol. After doing so she rewards the protagonist with Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone because she could reach her home Apostate Derelict. However, Royal Remain will invade whenever you go to Roundtable Hold after you obtain any half of the medallion. 

Ensha: Ensha is another untalkative character. He works for Ser Gideon as a bodyguard and becomes hostile after the player obtains half of the Haligtree Secret Medallion. Players believe him becoming hostile is actually under Gideon's orders, which makes sense considering Gideon's eventual betrayal in the game and how he was behind the slaughter in the Village of the Albinaurics (likely looking for the medallion). Many fans also theorized that Ensha is actually a soulless body of armor, and that is why he cannot speak.

Finger Reader Enia: While Finger Readers can be found all about the Lands Between, Enia is different because she is the only one that still has her Two Fingers to interpret from. Of all in Roundtable Hold, she seems to be the most ancient. She mentions hundreds of years are nothing to her, and she also has the ability to turn Remembrances from certain bosses into items. Unlike many characters, she is actually open to the idea of cardinal sin and considers that the Two Fingers and the Greater Will may not always know truly what is right. The Two Fingers in the Roundtable Hold cannot speak directly to the player and must be translated by Enia. They are special, as they are the only living two fingers the players find in the game. All other Two Fingers found are dead, which has caused many Finger Readers outside the Roundtable Hold to go insane.

Dung Eater: He requires 5 seedbed curses. Seedbed curse is grown on a corpse killed and defiled by a Dung Eater. After giving the seedbed curses, the protagonist will receive "Mending Rune of the Fell Curse". If the elden ring is mended with this rune, the Land between will be overtaken by loathsome curse and all future generations will suffer it.

Blackguard Big Boggart: He is a petty criminal who sells Boiled Prawn and Boiled Crab. He snatched Rya's necklace. Protagonist returns it to her by buying the necklace from Boggart. However, He eventually becomes friendly and gives info about Dung Eater. Eventually, he becomes victim of Dung Eater but protagonist can save him by proceeding Seluvis quest.

Tanith: She is the head of Volcano Manor. She asks the protagonist to assassinate Old Knight Istvan, Rileigh The Idle, Juno Hoslow . After protagonist defeating Rykard, she is seen feasting on Rykard's corpse.

Diallos Hoslow and Jar Biarn: He is a heir to of House Hoslow and the younger brother of Juno Hoslow, a mighty warrior who lives up to the bloody legacy of the house. From a young age, Diallos is all talk and no trousers, with an inability to commit to action. As a result, Juno inherited the Hoslow legacy without resistance. Juno loves his brother dearly and Diallos, in turn, admires his brother too. Diallos aspires to be like his older brother, knowing that pursuing the bloody legacy of their house will break his brother's heart.

Diallos had a servant by the name of Lanya and the two were companions since childhood. At some point, the two sets out on a journey in the Lands Between, but Diallos loses track of the fickle Lanya, and the two became separated. Diallos eventually manages to track Lanya down to Liurnia of the Lakes with the help of the protagonist, where he found her dead.

Diallos deduces that the recusants of the Volcano Manor are behind her death and swears vengeance upon them. He tracks them down to their hideout on Mt. Gelmir, but when the proprietor of the manor, Lady Tanith, offers him a place among them, flattering him by telling him he has the stuff of champions, Diallos abandons his vengeance and decides to join the manor as a recusant. But dirtying his hands, soon comes to realize his folly. Having achieved nothing, he declares himself a complete fool, just as his brother had said, for abandoning the path of revenge and sullying the name of his house.

Diallos leaves the Volcano Manor and travels to Jarburg, a settlement for Living Jars. He becomes Jarburg's new "Potentate" and devotes himself to caring for the jars. Jar Bairn is a small living jar there and nephew of Iron Fist Alexander. Diallos is at peace and feeling for the first time in his life that he was on the straight and narrow.

When Jarburg is invaded by jar-poachers, Diallos takes up arms to defend. He is mortally wounded in the battle, but manages to drive off the poachers and save most of the jars. Diallos dies at peace, having finally proven his worth. After his death, an upset Jar Bairn set out on his journey as a warrior Jar, upon the path of champions.

Rya: She is adoptive daughter of Tanith. But in reality, she is a serpent creature named Zorayas. She becomes upset when she comes to know she was born not of a grace, but of a hideous ritual. Later she can be

1. fed Tonic of Forgetfulness after which she will sleep

2. euthanized

3. spared after which she departs leaving a letter for the protagonist

Bernahl: He is a recusant (A knight loyal to Volcano Manor). He gives the protagonist a letter which is a written request from the Volcano Manor to Bernahl to kill two wanted tarnished. Then the protagonist and Bernahl together invade and beat them. Bernahl later can be summoned before Godskin duo fight and protagonist can be invaded by him before Maliketh fight.

Patches: He is a treacherous irritating merchant. He was requested by the Volcano Manor to hunt Great Horned Tragoth whom eventually the protagonist defeats. At shaded castle, Patches give the protagonist Dancer's Castanets to convey it to Tanith. Presumably, expansion on this story is coming in the next update on the game after 1.04.1

Sorcerer Rogier: Rogier presents himself and seems pretty friendly and talks in a polite way. He is on the search for knowledge in Stormveil Castle and was friends with D, Hunter of the Dead. Upon defeating Godrick, he is seen at the Roundtable Hold balcony and appears to have an infection spreading on his legs. He says his curiosity about the "corpse" in the basement of Stormveil Castle is responsible for his current state - a bloodstain in the arena reveals that the Ulcerated Tree Spirit infected him with death blight. At Roundtable hold, Rogier begins an investigation into the events surrounding the Night of Black Knives, which had led to the death of Godwyn, aided by the the protagonist. Fia subtly aids the pair in their investigation, pointing them towards the Black Knifeprint, and grants her services to the player, taking his/her warmth and vigor in exchange for her blessings.. He proposes to him/her to enter Ranni's service when protagonist shows him Black Knifeprint. His condition later worsens and eventually dies after the protagonist starts serving Ranni.

Kenneth Haight: He claims to be the next ruler of Limgrave and bears obnoxious elitism. He asks for player's help to clean and clear out Fort Haight that's being overrun by different enemies. Later, he asks help again which is overrun again by demi-humans. However, eventually he proclaims Nepheli as the ruler of Limgrave and at Fort Haight he raises the protagonist to the glory of knighthood even though he/she is tarnished.

Nepheli Loux: She is adoptive daughter of Sir Gideon Ofnir. However, they are very different in terms of motivations and personality. An example of their differences is that Nepheli was at Stormveil Castle under Gideon's orders. She hated Godrick for his cruelty, as she saw it all first-hand, while Gideon just wanted Godrick dead for his Great Rune and remained at Roundtable Hold.

In the Village of the Albinaurics, Nepheli mentions that as a little girl, she witnessed terrible injustice like what happened in the village. Whatever happened in her infancy had a major effect on her, enough so to betray her own foster father when she finds out he is the one behind what happened to the Village of the Albinaurics.

Many believe that Nepheli's biological father is Godfrey, and this has mostly been accepted as fact because of all the evidence. Her last name is shared with his warrior name, Hoarah Loux, she can be summoned to his fight, and the relationship may have some reason as to why Kenneth chooses Nepheli to replace Godrick the Grafted as ruler of Limgrave. Strangely enough, this would make Godwyn, Mohg, and Morgott her half-brothers.

The Storm King was the previous lord of Stormveil Castle and very little is known about him except that he was defeated by Godfrey. Some fans think the Storm King was a hawk, and that seems likely due to their presence around Stormveil Castle. Nepheli seems to harbor a deep connection with this old version of Stormveil due to her mentions of wind, storms, and hawks. It seems likely that she was raised with hawks, especially since she mentions having a "first hawk." As a warrior, she likely used hawks to scout areas and send messages to Gideon. The ashes of hawks mention of a time when "Stormveil's winds still raged like no other." Under the Greater Will, these storms stopped. As the new ruler of Stormveil, Nepheli seems to have a goal to return it to how it once was before the Storm King was defeated by Godfrey.

Preceptor Seluvis: He is a pompous sorcerer in service to Ranni. He provides the protagonist a potion make Nepheli drink it which will kill her and make her into puppet. The player has 3 options, giving it to Dung eater to get him as summon but it will terminate his questline, giving it to Nepheli to get her puppet summon but it will terminate her quest or giving it to Sir Gideon who will take the potion and dispose it safely.

Later he reveals that, he seeks to create a potion that will turn even a demigod into a puppet, named Amber Draught. To make it, he asks the player to acquire an Amber Starlight which can found at the Altus Plateau. After preparing, he will hand the protagonist the Amber Draught and ask him/her to administer it to Ranni.

Upon doing so, she will wake up, seemingly unaffected by the potion and is both saddened and outraged by the player's actions. The protagonist can absolve him/herself with a Celestial Dew at the Church of Vows and continue Ranni's questline without consequence. In Ranni's questline, after giving the Fingerslayer Blade to Ranni, Seluvis can then be found at Seluvis's Rise, dead. Thus ending his questline.

Blaidd: He was created by Ranni's own Two Fingers as a vassal to Lunar Princess Ranni and to be incapable of treachery towards her. However, the Two Fingers also created a failsafe within Blaidd that was unknown to him; for if should Ranni ever deny the destiny set out for her by the Greater Will and rebel against it, the loyal shadow would slowly descend into madness, which would inevitably pose a threat to Ranni herself.

Blaidd informs the protagonist that he's trying to find Bloodhound Knight named named Darriwil and to let him know if he/she find him. During fight with Darriwil, the player can summon Blaidd to assist in the fight.

After starting Ranni's questline, the player meets Blaidd at Siofra River. Blaidd will ask the protagonist to speak to Preceptor Seluvis, who in turn directs him/her to Sorceress Sellen. After speaking to Sellen, the protagonist learns that Radahn needs to be defeated to enter Nokron City where Fingerslayer Blade is located. The the protagonist joins the festival at Redmane Castle to beat Radahn where Blaidd can be summoned too.

After defeating Radahn, Blaidd was intercepted by the old smith Iji who is in Ranni's service and told the half-wolf that he would bring nothing but ruin Ranni if he stayed by her side and so trapped him in the same Evergaol he and the protagonist had fought Darriwil in before. However, the player came across the Evergaol again by chance and frees him. The half-wolf then informs them he is going to see Ranni and make sure she is safe.

The half-wolf then return's to Ranni's tower, where he finds a large number of Black Knife assassins waiting, most likely in an attempt to kill her. Blaidd then proceeds to slaughter them all in a mad rage. The Tarnished then returns to the tower themselves, to find a maddened Blaidd kneeling among the assassin's corpses, professing aloud how he could never betray Ranni, no matter what happens as he is part of her very being. However, due to his madness he no longer recognises the Tarnished and attacks them. The Tarnished regretfully slays him out of mercy, ending Blaidd's torment.

Ranni: The protagonist makes his/her way into the Carian Manor and comes face to face with Ranni. Ranni accepts the protagonist into her service, and offers him/her to find a way into Nokron, the Eternal City, hoping to claim its treasure; Fingerslayer Blade with which she can kill the Two Fingers who has chosen her. After Fingerslayer Blade is retrieved, Ranni departs to Nokstella, the Eternal City. The player finds her there, now as a small doll. Ranni compels him/her to rid her of the Shadows sent by the Two Fingers to kill her. With the last Shadow defeated, Ranni rewards him/her with the key to a chest containing a ring bestowed to her future consort, and is able to achieve her goal, slaying the Two Fingers.

If the protagonist finds the ring and gives it to Ranni, she will take the champion as her new consort, and reveals the full extent of her plan; to succeed Queen Marika as god and to usher in her "Age of the Dark Moon", removing her new order and godhood far from the Lands Between and journeying out into the stars.

Goldmask and Brother Corhyn: The scholar known only as Goldmask was a Tarnished who awakened from the slumber of death and travelled to the Lands Between following the shattering of the Elden Ring. Goldmask is a loyal pursuer of Golden Order fundamentalism, a strain of thought that was as much scholarship as it was faith.

In response to the spread of Deathroot and the rise of Those Who Live in Death, Golden Order fundamentalists begins hunting the undead, in an attempt to destroy anything that contradicted the tenets of the Golden Order. In time, the hunters falls to fanaticism, to Goldmask's dismay. He laments believing they simply wants an absolute evil to contend with, regardless of the consequences. Goldmask once had many disciples, but in time they all left him.

In an attempt to search the truth of the Golden Order, Goldmask travels to the Altus Plateau where he stands silently beholding the Erdtree. He is pursued by a cleric named Corhyn, who wishes to become Goldmask's disciple. Corhyn starts documenting the mute Goldmask's philosophical pursuit by interpreting the minute movements of his fingers. Goldmask moves closer to the Erdtree, his reflections and movements becoming more intense, until he is stumped by a mystery. The Golden Order was founded on the principle that Queen Marika the Eternal is the one true god, but in his reflections, the name of her second consort Radagon also appeared. The protagonist informs Goldmask of the hidden truth; that Marika and Radagon are in fact one and the same.

Goldmask eventually moves to the forbidden Mountaintops of the Giants, where he continues his reflections. At this point, Goldmask begins to suspect the holism of the Golden Order. As the protagonist sets the Erdtree aflame and commit cardinal sin, Goldmask finally comes to a revelation; the current imperfection of the Golden Order is caused by the fickleness of the gods, who in fact are no better than men. In his dying moments, Goldmask produces a new mending rune, which attempts to perfect the Golden Order. This causes Corhyn to denounce Goldmask as a overly proud heretic, but the protagonist may use Goldmask's rune to mend the shattered Elden Ring, enacting Goldmask's "perfected" order.

D, Hunter of the Dead and Gurranq, Beast Clergyman: Darien, more commonly known as D, Hunter of the Dead is an undead hunter and a servant of Gurranq, the Beast Clergyman. Darien has a twin brother by the name of Devin, who is also called D. While Darien and Devin has different minds and bodies, they share a single soul, and are reviled as cursed beings. The twins found sanctuary in the Golden Order, the only institution to accept them. He became a proponent of Golden Order fundamentalism and a hunter of Those Who Live in Death, seeking to stamp out defilement and preserve the perfection of the Golden Order. Darien became a servant of Gurranq, an alter ego of Maliketh, the Black Blade. Driven by an insatiable hunger, Gurranq bid his servant to weed out Deathroot, a plant which caused the emergence of Those Who Live in Death, so that he might feed it to him.

Darien also befriended the spellblade Rogier, who shares his interest in Those Who Live in Death. Following the traces of death, Darien comes upon Summonwater Village, where a Tibia Mariner had set up shop. In the outskirts of the village, he encounters the protagonist and warns him/her to stay away from the village. After the player defeats the Mariner and weeds out the Deathroot, Darien offers him/her a deal; to take his place as Gurranq's servant and feeding Gurranq deathroots, in exchange for Gurranq sharing with them the strength of beasts.

With other matters to attend to, Darien relocates to Roundtable Hold. After the protagonist takes him up on his offer, he declares them brothers-in-arms and teaches him/her the fundamentalist techniques wielded by the hunters of the dead. Another resident of Roundtable Hold and associate of the Tarnished champion is Fia, a deathbed companion and servant of the Prince of Death. Fia gives the protagonist a dagger, asking him to find its rightful owner. After he/she shows Darien the dagger, he offers to return it to its owner.

Shortly thereafter, Darien is murdered by Fia as they serve opposing philosophy. The player may retrieve Darien's armor and find his twin which will result in Devin avenging his brother murdering Fia at the end of her questline.

Fia: Fia was a Tarnished who awoke from the sleep of death and travelled to the Lands Between. Fia was once a Deathbed Companion. She would receive the warmth and vigor from a number of champions, and then lay with the remains of an exalted noble, to grant him another chance of life. This was the sole purpose of Fia's existence, and was considered a sacred act in her home.

However, before Fia could bear the noble into new life, she was awakened by the guidance of grace, and chased from her birthplace, travelling to the Lands Between. Here, she meets a chivalrous knight by the name of Lionel the Lionhearted. Upon meeting the exiled Fia, Lionel declares himself to be her father, and became her loyal companion.

Despite her exile, Fia still wishes to be a Deathbed Companion. In the Lands Between, the death of Godwyn the Golden, the first demigod to die, had led to the emergence of Those Who Live in Death; undead whose spirits did not return to the Erdtree upon death. Those Who Live in Death are hunted by fanatics of the Golden Order, but Fia becomes sympathetic to them. She wishes to be a mother to Those Who Live in Death and became their guardian. She and her followers believe that Godwyn will one day rise as the Prince of Death, and save Those Who Live in Death from persecution.

After killing D, she asks the player to deliver a warning to the Roundtable Hold not to disturb the death of Godwyn, warning that he will inevitably rise. Then Fia travells to the very roots of the Erdtree, where Godwyn's mutated corpse lay dormant.

When the protagonist follows Rogier's investigation to its conclusion, he/she may enter into the service of Lunar Princess Ranni, Godwyn's step-sister and the person responsible for his death. As a reward for his/her serivce, Ranni will grant the player the other half of the cursemark, imbued into her own discarded body (First half is on Godwyn's corpse). Having both halves, Fia lies with Godwyn, and conceive a new rune - "Mending Rune of Death-Prince" (which is attainable after killing Lichdragon Fortissax entering Fia's deathbed dream) and falls into a deep slumber. Beforehand, Fia requests the protagonist to become their Elden Lord and mend the Elden Ring with her rune, thus ending the persecution of Those Who Live in Death.

Hyetta: Hyetta is a blind Finger Maiden. She asks the protagonist for a Shabriri Grape (which are actually human eyes) to "feel the distant light" and do her duty as a Finger Maiden. Later she asks for Vyke's Fingerprint Grape. Her final encounter is at the Frenzied Flame Proscription, beneath the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds. Following her instructions to accept the Three Fingers will lead the protagonist into the Frenzied Flame ending. If the protagonist chooses this path, she will be the maiden of him/her when Melina leaves him/her due to this choice.

Gowry and Milicent: Gowry is an elderly sage dwelling in the blighted Caelid Wilds. After the epic battle between Radahn and Malenia in the war of shattering which results in scarlet rot in Caelid, Gowry has dedicated himself to Malenia and the Order of Rot as he hopes she will usher in. He nurtures several young women and sends them to her in the hopes that they will flower and rise as scarlet valkyries when Malenia will ascend to godhood. Each of these daughters fails to bloom however. Finding a fifth child, Millicent, Gowry has great hopes for her, believing she is the finest of the flowers.

But Millicent soon become consumed by the Scarlet Rot and loses her arm due to it, and is housed in a church, where she is worshipped by the Pests. Gowry seeks the aid of the protagonist, sending him/her to journey deep into the Swamp of Aeonia and to retrieve a needle of unalloyed gold and give it to Milicent, which can nullify the effects of the Scarlet Rot.

Gowry avoids Millicent when she comes to visit his shack, later telling the protagonist that she has no need of him anymore, and must embark on her fated journey. After protagonist helping her, she is able to move again and gifts the player the Prosthesis-Wearer Heirloom. Later the protagonist provides her prosthetic hand to complement her rotten arm and she begins her journey to Miquella's Haligtree.

As Millicent travels to the Haligtree, where the comatose Malenia awaits, she draws ever closer to her "sisters", who made the same journey as her. Gowry bids the player to aid the sisters in murdering Millicent, believing that a betrayal by someone she trusts so dearly will cause her to blossom into a flower, which will be reborn as a scarlet valkyrie when Malenia ascends to godhood.

Should the protagonist kill Millicent, they will return to Gowry's shack to find him seemingly dead. Should he/she instead aids Millicent against her sisters, she will prevail, but will remove the golden needle, willfully allowing herself to succumb to the Scarlet Rot. The Tarnished champion then find Gowry lamenting Millicent's decision, questioning whether she and Malenia detests him and the other children of rot so utterly.

Shabriri: At Zamor ruins, Yura is found again but possessed by Shabriri who tells where to find Three fingers for Lord of Frenzied Flame ending.

Alberich: He was an aloof yet disturbed heretical sorcerer said to have been driven mad by jeering tongues during his service to the Roundtable Hold long ago.

Endings:

There are total 6 endings. The player will become the Elden Lord except in the "Lord of Frenzied Flame" ending and the "Age of Stars" ending.

AGE OF FRACTURE ENDING: This ending is obtained by choosing "Mend the Elden Ring" after defeating Elden Beast. This is the default ending of the game, where the Tarnished protagonist chooses to mend the Elden Ring as it is and begin the new age as Elden Lord.

AGE OF THE DUSKBORN ENDING: This ending is obtained by choosing "Use Mending Rune of the Death-Prince" after defeating Elden Beast. Here the Tarnished chooses to use this Mending Rune of the Death-Prince to begin a new age of Duskborn as Elden Lord - where the Lands Between are engulfed in a harrowing fog and the principle of life within Death is embedded into Order, ridding the world of immortality and allowing the natural cycle of life and death to occur for all people and creatures alike.

AGE OF ORDER ENDING: This ending is obtained by choosing "Use Mending Rune of Perfect Order". Here the Tarnished protagonist restores order to the Lands Between by putting an end to all the conflict caused by forces "emboldened by the flames of ambition”. The Age of Order thus envisions a new age of stability, where there is no more conflict brought upon by the "fickleness of the gods no better than men".

BLESSING OF DESPAIR ENDING: Here, the protagonist chooses to use the Mending Rune of the Fell Curse and begin the new age as Elden Lord - the difference being, now, the Lands Between has now been overtaken by a reviled curse. It is the same curse brought from Dung Eater's defilement, causing defiled souls to be unable to return to the Erdtree. With the fell curse embedded in the Elden Ring, all present and future generations will be afflicted with this loathsome curse.

LORD OF THE FRENZIED FLAME ENDING: After the final boss, protagonist touches Fractured Marika and choose to "Become the Lord of Frenzied Flame" to get the Lord of the Frenzied Flame Ending. Melina will leave the player's service if he choose this ending and seek vengeance. This ending sees whole world is burning along with the mistakes of the Greater Will - all existing sin, torment, fracture, and curse - to unite everything and everyone, which is the philosophy of Frenzied Flame.

AGE OF THE STARS ENDING: After defeating the final boss, protagonist uses Ranni's summon sign to initiate the Age of the Stars Ending. In this ending instead of mending the Elden Ring, the Tarnished summons Ranni the Witch in front of Marika's remains. Ranni supplants Marika as Goddess and takes The Tarnished as her Elden Lord. She brings an end to The Golden Order, establishing an Order of her own (not named but likely similar to the Order of the Dark Moon). In doing so she also removes the influence of The Greater Will from The Lands Between. She leaves The Lands Between together with The Tarnished and takes her Order with her, on a journey meant to last a thousand years. As a result of her absence, The Lands Between is left without a lord for the first time in an age.

My Favorite Endgame Build:

Longsword, Zweilhandler, Commamder's, Talisman pouch, Perfume Bottle + Bloodboil. 

Stat scaling - 30 25 25 35 23 7 8 30 

Talismans: Milicent, Lord, Rotten, Dagger 

Golden Seeds + Sacred Tear