Chapter Summaries

The Tarnished heard the Two Fingers’ guidance and learned he needed another Great Rune to enter Leyndell, while Enia’s words deepened his suspicions about the demigods and the world’s history. He told Fia that he would investigate the Lands Between’s hidden dangers as he gathered the power he needed.

• Rogier asked the Tarnished to search Liurnia for an imprint left by the Black Knives, and the Tarnished agreed to watch for clues.
• The Tarnished entered the chamber of Enia and the Two Fingers, who instructed him to obtain another Great Rune and become Elden Lord.
• Enia explained that Rune Arcs could activate the Tarnished’s Great Rune and offered to turn his Golden Remembrance into power, but he declined.
• The Tarnished questioned Enia’s claim that only Godrick descended from Marika’s descendants and wondered whether Marika had borne children after his banishment.
• The Tarnished visited Fia and discussed the Shattering, his need for another Great Rune, and his plan to uncover the Lands Between’s hidden dangers.

Godwyn named his frail sons Godrick and Godfroy and entrusted them with governance in Leyndell and Stormveil Castle, hoping they would find their own paths. As both brothers became consumed by insecurity and false praise, Godrick’s staged victories ended when Kristoff defeated him and warned him against delusion, but Godrick ordered Kristoff seized.

• Godwyn named his frail newborn son Godrick and later welcomed an even weaker son, Godfroy, treating both brothers with equal affection.
• Godwyn assigned Godfroy to govern Stormveil Castle and Godrick to handle affairs in Leyndell, where both initially proved capable.
• Godfroy discovered that his wounds could resonate with and fuse animal body parts, while Godrick began believing he could regain the strength of the Golden Lineage.
• Godrick’s soldiers and nobles indulged him with staged arena victories, until Kristoff challenged him and defeated him with a spear strike.
• Kristoff explained that the others had been pretending to lose and urged Godrick to face his true self, but Godrick ordered the soldiers to seize him.

Godrick failed to seize Leyndell, challenged Radahn, and was badly wounded after provoking Malenia. He reached Stormveil after Godfroy had been captured, took control of the castle, and embraced grafting, setting him on a path toward even greater cruelty.

• After Godwyn's murder and Marika's shattering of the Elden Ring, Godrick secretly took part of Godwyn's corpse and attacked Leyndell, but his ambush failed and he fled in disguise.
• Godrick challenged Radahn as the Allied Army retreated, but Radahn dismissed him and continued toward Caelid.
• Godrick obstructed Malenia and her Cleanrot Knights, insulted her, and was wounded; he begged for mercy until Malenia ordered him away.
• Kristoff defeated and captured Godfroy for the Grace King after confronting him over grafting and his atrocities.
• Godrick reached Stormveil, became its acting lord, and succeeded Godfroy after the castle's people learned of Godfroy's crimes.
• While searching Godfroy's belongings, Godrick discovered grafting and embraced it as a means to regain the Golden Lineage's power.

The Tarnished gave Fia an ancient Deathbed Maidens’ spellbook and discussed the history of deathbirds and their ghostflame. After returning the Chrysalids’ Memento to Roderika, he brought her to the Roundtable Hold, where she began looking for a way to use her gift for communicating with spirits.

• Fia gave the Tarnished a spellbook of Deathbed Maidens’ death sorceries and explained that its magic could help him grow stronger.
• The Tarnished and Fia discussed the Deathbirds, the Twinbird, ghostflame, and how their form of death differed from the Rune of Death.
• The Crucible Knights sensed that Godrick had died and resolved to seek out their scattered brethren, trusting the Crucible to guide them.
• The Tarnished gave Little Red Riding Hood the Chrysalids’ Memento, and she heard her companions’ spirits affirming their faith in her.
• Little Red Riding Hood introduced herself as Roderika and used the Tarnished’s Memory of Grace to travel with him to the Roundtable Hold.
• Roderika gave the Tarnished a Golden Seed, which flew into his Crystal Tear Flask.

The Tarnished reunited with Boc, received a scarlet cloak, and encountered a suspiciously changed Kale, whose frenzied flame made Melina wary. After consulting Sellen about Liurnia, the Tarnished learned about its dangers, a glintstone dragon, and a hidden graveyard before setting out with a map.

• Boc gave the Tarnished a scarlet cloak, which delighted him, and Kale arrived at the Church of Elleh with an unsettling aura.
• The Tarnished bought Liurnia information, arrows, and Fire Pots from Kale, then left with Melina and Boc.
• Melina warned the Tarnished that Kale carried frenzied flame capable of burning everything around them.
• The Tarnished returned Boc to the Stranded Graveyard and asked Sellen about traveling to Liurnia.
• Sellen warned about the conflict between the Academy and the Carian Royal Family, described the Glintstone Dragon Smarag, and suggested the dragon could provide material for a sorcery catalyst.
• Sellen gave the Tarnished a rough map to a secret graveyard in Liurnia where someone might be hiding.

The Tarnished entered Liurnia, investigated a maddening festering eyeball, and rescued Diallos and Rennia from spectral enemies and a Royal Revenant. He encouraged Diallos to find his own path, then continued exploring Liurnia on Torrent.

• The Tarnished crushed a festering eyeball in Stormveil Castle, enduring the howls and whispers it released before entering Liurnia.
• The Tarnished noticed that Liurnia’s stars were frozen and set out to find Smarag, the Glintstone Dragon.
• The Tarnished saved Diallos and Rennia by wiping out the Bell Ringers and killing a Royal Revenant.
• The Tarnished urged Diallos to stop comparing himself to his brother and recognize the different path he could take.
• Rennia promised to stay with Diallos and help him find his own “blood,” and the pair agreed not to separate again.
• The Tarnished left Diallos and Rennia and rode Torrent through Liurnia.

The Tarnished fought a group of Albinaurics near Liurnia's ruins, then met a girl who asked him to retrieve her necklace from a thug. After bargaining with the thug over prawns and learning why he had taken the necklace, the Tarnished prepared to return it to the girl.

• The Tarnished and Melina encountered and fought a patrol of Albinaurics, and Melina warned that their blood could suppress Crystal Tears of Golden Grace.
• The Tarnished rode Torrent across Liurnia Lake while searching for Smarag and agreed to retrieve a girl's necklace from a nearby thug.
• The Tarnished found the thug cooking prawns in a shack and pressured him into handing over the necklace.
• The Tarnished bought prawns from the thug and learned that the girl had eaten without paying, so the thug had taken her necklace as payment.
• The thug told the Tarnished to return to the girl and invited him to come back for more prawns.

The Tarnished received Rya’s invitation to Volcano Manor, reached the sealed Raya Lucaria Academy, and learned from a Finger Reader that he had a connection to Miquella. While preparing a Flask of Wondrous Physick and searching for a way into the Academy, he encountered and killed a Mohgwyn Dynasty agent.

• The Tarnished returned Rya’s necklace, received her invitation to Volcano Manor, and learned that the Ruin-Strewn Precipice led toward the Altus Plateau.
• The Tarnished used a portal to reach Raya Lucaria Academy, found its entrance sealed, and took a map from a dead sorcerer nearby.
• A Finger Reader told the Tarnished he had a connection to Lord Miquella and foretold that he would take something from a pot, angering Gideon.
• The Tarnished activated a Site of Grace, studied a map of northern Liurnia, and mixed Opaline Bubbletear and Crimsonburst Crystal Tear in his Flask of Wondrous Physick.
• The Tarnished found a Mohgwyn Dynasty agent near a church surrounded by blood-red growths and froze him with a single slash after refusing to join the dynasty.

The Tarnished killed Smараg while the dragon slept in Trina’s purple mist, then met Rico, who asked him to collect mist for Dreambrew. After returning to Stormveil Castle to transform his sword, the Tarnished awakened its glintstone power and fired a Glintstone Torrent.

• A Teardrop Scarab extracted a blood-red secret from the frozen remains of the Blood Noble, and the Tarnished let it keep the treasure.
• The Tarnished followed Trina’s soothing purple mist to the sleeping Smараg, killed the dragon, and took its Dragon Heart.
• Rico introduced himself as a follower of Trina, asked the Tarnished to take him to the Haligtree someday, and gave him a crystal orb to collect mist for Dreambrew.
• The Tarnished found a dead sorcerer holding a key, then returned to Stormveil Castle to soak his Curved Sword in Smараg’s blood and let it transform.
• Gideon ordered Ensha to keep searching for an object and suspected the Tarnished was a Returner, while Rogier considered learning holy incantations to investigate Those Who Live in Death.
• The Tarnished tested the transformed Curved Sword and unleashed a powerful Glintstone Torrent into the sky.

The Tarnished reshaped their Curved Sword with glintstone energy, met Thops, and learned more about Raya Lucaria and the rumors surrounding Sellen. After entering the Academy, the Tarnished witnessed Yura fight a Ravenmount Bloody Finger, who wondered whether the Tarnished could become an asura.

• The Tarnished completed the sword’s nurturing, transforming its blade into a crescent, then met Thops outside a church and paid him to teach sorcery.
• Thops taught the Tarnished several spells, including Starlight, and explained that Raya Lucaria had sealed itself and required a Glintstone Key for entry.
• The Tarnished questioned Thops about Sellen, heard that the Academy accused her of harming sorcerers in pursuit of the primeval current, and learned Thops believed she was a reformist.
• The Tarnished offered Thops a Glintstone Key, but Thops urged them to keep it and find another key inside the Academy, where a Great Rune was said to be held.
• The Tarnished used the key to enter Raya Lucaria and encountered Yura battling a Ravenmount fighter, who defeated Yura and challenged whether the Tarnished could become an asura.