Chapter Summaries

Godwyn fought Radagon while Zhao Si broke through Leyndell’s defenses and reached the First Wall. With the gate still closed, Zhao Si prepared to scale the wall as the defenders watched.

• Godwyn pinned Radagon beneath Golden Dragonbolt and demanded that he surrender the Elden Ring and leave the Elden Lord position vacant.
• Radagon fought free enough to strike Godwyn, who released him and retaliated with a series of punches.
• Zhao Si rode through the siege bolts and Dragonbolt to the steps leading up to Leyndell’s First Wall.
• Zhao Si and the Storm King's Wings found the gate shut and too sturdy for Aureg to damage.
• Zhao Si used gravity to float up and plant his feet on the wall.

Zhao Si led the assault on Leyndell, breaching its walls and opening the way for Godwyn’s army while Godwyn kept Radagon occupied. After opening the second gate and revealing the great bridge beyond, Zhao Si pressed on toward the third wall, reflecting on his return to the city as an invader.

• Zhao Si found the first wall’s gate lever, opened the gate, and forced the doors wide enough for the Monster Horse to pass.
• Aureg and Ingweir followed Zhao Si as the first wall fell, and Godwyn’s army poured into the battle behind them.
• Zhao Si advanced through the fighting toward the second wall while Godwyn and Radagon remained locked in combat.
• Zhao Si opened the second wall’s gate, causing Moat Lake’s waters to part and a vast bridge to rise.
• Zhao Si continued his assault on the third wall and reflected on returning to Leyndell to eliminate its potential dangers.

Zhao Si led Godwyn’s forces through Leyndell, where the residents welcomed their return, then visited the former Roundtable Hold and met Gideon Ofnir. Gideon proposed an alliance and claimed he knew what Marika truly wanted, but the chapter ended before he revealed it.

• Zhao Si and his soldiers entered Leyndell, whose residents and Golden Lineage members helped them take control without resisting.
• A child recognized Zhao Si as Miquella’s Knight, and Zhao Si promised that Prince Godwyn would soon enter the city.
• Zhao Si visited the empty former Roundtable Hold and encountered Gideon Ofnir, who admitted that he had killed Rykard.
• Gideon offered to make Zhao Si Great General if he helped Gideon become king, but Zhao Si questioned his motives.
• Gideon claimed he had learned Marika’s true desire and asked Zhao Si to remove his armor, but Zhao Si refused.

Gideon explained Marika’s preparations to break the cycle of gods and lords, but Zhao Si refused to give him a Great Rune. After Gideon fled and his spies ambushed Zhao Si, Zhao Si killed them and continued on his way.

• Gideon told Zhao Si that Marika had prepared to shatter the Elden Ring and recall Godfrey’s Tarnished to weaken the Demigods and give others a chance to become lord.
• Zhao Si realized Marika had planned for Godwyn’s possible death and that Fia’s presence at Roundtable Hold was part of her preparations.
• Zhao Si thanked Gideon for the information but refused to give him his Great Rune.
• When Gideon threatened to stop him, Zhao Si seized him and crushed his helmet, but Gideon dissolved into magical light.
• Gideon’s invisible spies attacked Zhao Si with arrows and pots, but his armor blocked their attacks.
• Zhao Si used gravity to return the arrows and kill the spies, then continued toward his destination.

Zhao Si descended into Leyndell’s sewers and killed the Three Fingers, extinguishing the Frenzied Flame with the Fingerslayer Blade and Miquella’s Unalloyed Gold Needle. As he sealed the chamber and prepared to leave, a mysterious bell rang through the tomb.

• Melina sensed Zhao Si approaching the Frenzied Flame’s source beneath Leyndell, and Helena and Sikatiya reassured her that he would not embrace it.
• Zhao Si reached the hidden catacomb, resisted the lullaby that soothed him, and used the Giant’s Flame to break the Erdtree seal on the forbidden door.
• Zhao Si opened the door and found the Three Fingers waiting to embrace him and spread the Frenzied Flame.
• Zhao Si struck the Three Fingers twice with Miquella’s Unalloyed Gold Needle, weakening the Frenzied Flame, then stabbed and cut her with the Fingerslayer Blade until the flame vanished.
• Zhao Si stored the blade and needles, sealed the chamber with a Gravity Wall, and heard a mysterious bell ring from deep within the tomb.

The Godfrey Expeditionary Force returned to the Lands Between, and Godfrey joined Godwyn in confronting Radagon. Godfrey drove Radagon away from Leyndell to fight while Godwyn’s forces took control of the capital.

• Bells rang across the Lands Between as Radagon revealed that Godfrey and the exiled expeditionary force had returned.
• Godfrey arrived with the Crucible Knights, greeted Godwyn, and asked Radagon where Marika was.
• Godwyn explained the plan to keep Radagon occupied and capture him, while Godfrey confirmed that he had come to take Marika back.
• Godfrey struck Radagon away from Leyndell and ordered his men to take over the capital.
• Godfrey pursued Radagon across the Lands Between, repeatedly knocking him through the air as Leyndell’s army surrendered to Godwyn.

Zhao Si returned from the Sewers and joined Godwyn, who told him Godfrey had returned and taken Radagon into custody. Back at the palace, Zhao Si and Godwyn discussed how to reshape the Elden Ring and establish a more inclusive order for the Lands Between.

• Zhao Si emerged from the Sewers and found Leyndell celebrating Godwyn's return.
• Godwyn told Zhao Si that Godfrey had returned and was taking Radagon to Caelid under his custody.
• Zhao Si and Godwyn returned to the palace and discussed the difficulty of choosing a God to pair with Godwyn as lord.
• Zhao Si proposed that the Elden Ring include more Laws and allow multiple Gods and lords without requiring them to marry.
• Godwyn agreed that the Lands Between needed more complete rules, while worrying that the being above them might object and that the divine clan could lose status.

Zhao Si left Leyndell to join Godfrey, who was fighting Radagon without grace, while Miquella and Marika’s plans for changing the Elden Ring remained under discussion. Zhao Si followed the trail of destruction to Caelid, where he heard Godfrey’s battle with Radagon raging.

• Godwyn asked Zhao Si to support Godfrey because Maliketh was still recovering and Godfrey could not fight a god forever without grace.
• Zhao Si accepted and rode south from Leyndell, following the devastation Godfrey and Radagon had left across the Lands Between.
• Godrick returned to Leyndell as a celebrated war hero, while Melina and Helena settled in the palace and Melina sensed no stirring from the Frenzied Flame.
• Zhao Si considered Godfrey’s limits as a human warrior and imagined a hall of heroes for those who died in battle.
• Zhao Si reached Caelid and heard roars and collisions from the battlefield where Godfrey was fighting Radagon.

Zhao Si arrived while Godfrey and Radagon were battling in Caelid, but kept his distance as their blows devastated the landscape. Maliketh later joined Zhao Si on a floating platform and explained that Destined Death could temporarily seal Radagon, leaving Zhao Si prepared to take over when Godfrey tired.

• Zhao Si used Godwyn's token to explain his presence to Godfrey and Radagon, then withdrew to watch their battle from afar.
• Godfrey shook apart the ground and pressed Radagon with his axe while Radagon countered with golden hammer strikes.
• Zhao Si created a floating platform and camped there with his horse as the battle continued through the passing days.
• Maliketh arrived, told Zhao Si that his recovery was progressing, and said he would take over if Godfrey grew tired.
• Maliketh explained that a small amount of Destined Death could temporarily seal Radagon by attacking his soul, even if it could not kill Marika.

Godfrey rested while Maliketh told him Zhao Si’s story, as Zhao Si fought Radagon and challenged his devotion to the Golden Order. Their battle was interrupted when Fortissax arrived with news that Miquella’s experiment had succeeded.

• Godfrey recovered from battle with Maliketh and said he planned to leave the Lands Between with Marika once the conflict was settled.
• Maliketh told Godfrey about Zhao Si’s journey while Zhao Si fought Radagon, whose body and Warhammer were badly damaged.
• Zhao Si argued that the Golden Order’s exclusion of what it deemed wrong caused suffering and urged Radagon to question who he was beyond the Order.
• Radagon knocked Zhao Si away after Zhao Si slammed him into the ground and urged him to accept change.
• Fortissax descended and announced that Miquella’s experiment had succeeded.

Miquella’s experiment succeeded, allowing him to grow into an adult, and Radagon ended his fight with Zhao Si to return to Leyndell. There, Miquella proposed asking Rennala to amend the Order, while Trina revealed her plan to become the Elden Ring’s vessel.

• Fortissax and Zhao Si told Radagon that Miquella had succeeded in his research, and Radagon agreed to stop fighting and return to Leyndell.
• Zhao Si learned that Irina and Nepheli had grown up and killed Gideon Ofnir and his followers, giving Malenia Gideon’s Great Rune.
• Radagon reunited with Rennala and met his now-grown son Miquella, who said they needed Rennala to amend the Order and suggested visiting their eldest brother.
• Godwyn questioned Trina about her intentions, and she said she planned to become the Elden Ring’s vessel using her artificial body.

Miquella and Trina emerged as separate beings, and the group prepared to have Marika modify the Elden Ring’s Laws. The chapter ended with Marika beginning the work in the Erdtree, intending to erase Radagon’s name and include Death among the Laws.

• Miquella and Trina’s souls separated inside the Silver Cocoon, and the Haligtree nourished their growing bodies.
• Melina felt that something had left her, while Malenia brought Zhao Si to join the plan to change the Laws.
• Radagon transformed back into Marika, who reunited with Godwyn and agreed to hear Miquella’s plan.
• Marika and the others entered the Erdtree, where Godfrey greeted Marika and Maliketh and the Two Fingers waited.
• Marika raised the true Elden Ring, agreed to erase Radagon’s name, and began gathering the Laws, including Death.

Marika reshaped the Elden Ring according to Miquella’s ideas, incorporating life, death, rot, abundance, dreams, and Ranni’s cosmic Order. The transformed Ring linked its many powers into a new structure, while its future arrangements left resurrection and the Lands Between’s fate uncertain.

• Marika removed Radagon’s Grid Lines and merged Morgott’s and Mohg’s Great Runes into the Golden Order, restoring the Crucible’s life-giving aspects.
• Maliketh and Godwyn supplied deathly flames, which Marika combined with Godwyn’s Great Rune to create a ring incorporating death into Order.
• Miquella and Malenia manifested Abundance and Rot, and Marika shaped them into rings using Rykard’s and Malenia’s Great Runes, adding Zhao Si’s and Malenia’s Flowing Sword strength to Rot.
• Marika combined the Giant’s Flame with Radahn’s Great Rune and Miquella’s Abundance to create a balance between Rot’s disease and Abundance’s healing.
• Trina manifested his dream Order, which Marika formed into a ring with Radagon’s Grid Lines and Zhao Si’s Ghostflame, establishing destinations for souls and bodies after death.
• Marika used Rennala’s Amber Egg and Zhao Si’s gravity to create Ranni’s starry Order, then rearranged the Elden Ring’s rings into a tree-like structure surrounding the Golden Order.

Zhao Si and the others completed the transformed Elden Ring, restoring many Laws to the Lands Between and establishing Godwyn as Elden Lord without a marriage to Trina. After the celebrations, Marika began separating her soul, while Zhao Si and Malenia agreed to travel and Ranni asked to join them once Radagon could care for Rennala.

• The Laws reshaped the Erdtree as Marika and Miquella reviewed the new decrees, and the Two Fingers accepted Godwyn's succession without objecting.
• Trina and Miquella discussed Zhao Si's role as a safeguard for the Lands Between and the realm's shift toward a Council.
• Zhao Si and the others saw the transformed Erdtree, whose restored Grace reached the people of the Lands Between.
• Godfrey held a lavish feast in Leyndell, where Ranni attended with Rennala and the gathered companions celebrated.
• Marika began separating her soul, and Maliketh guarded her cocoon on the Erdtree's trunk.
• Zhao Si and Malenia agreed to travel, and Ranni asked them to wait until Radagon could look after Rennala so she could join them.

Melina asked Maliketh about her origins, and he revealed how Marika and the Erdtree created her as a being of life and Destined Death. The chapter left Melina understanding that she and Maliketh shared a duty to stop rulers who threatened the Lands Between, as music sounded through Leyndell.

• Melina opened her sealed eye and went to the Erdtree to seek answers about who she was.
• Maliketh recognized Melina’s gloam-colored eye and told her about finding a dying infant in the Queen of the Full Moon Eyes’ palace after seizing Destined Death.
• Maliketh recounted how Marika used the Erdtree to transform the infant into Melina, a being with Destined Death at her core and the Erdtree as her outer shell.
• Melina learned that Maliketh had sealed her eye and that Marika may have intended her to eliminate trouble in the Lands Between.
• Melina said her duty concerned any lord who meant harm to the Lands Between, and Maliketh observed that Godwyn would be a good Elden Lord.
• Divine Revelation Envoys appeared in Leyndell and sounded their pipes.

After waking to the Divine Revelation Envoys’ flutes, Zhao Si commandeered rooms in Godrick’s mansion for more sleep. Later, he sparred with Godfrey, who explained how the Golden Compass helped ships navigate the fog around the Lands Between and offered to tell Zhao Si about the world beyond it.

• Zhao Si woke beside Malenia, Helena, and Ranni as Divine Revelation Envoys played their flutes, and Malenia threw a wineglass at one.
• Zhao Si led everyone to Godrick’s mansion, where they took over rooms and slept in peace.
• Zhao Si wrestled Godfrey on the training ground until he yielded, and Godfrey praised his fighting ability.
• Zhao Si told Godfrey he wanted to go to sea, and Godfrey described the Golden Compass, which pointed toward the Erdtree and guided ships through the fog.
• Godfrey offered to show Zhao Si nautical charts and tell him about places beyond the Lands Between.

Zhao Si looked forward to a sea voyage while the Lands Between recovered and its residents returned to their work. Sellen founded the Astrology Academy of Magic, Irina reunited with Edgar at Castle Morne, and the chapter ended as the Erdtree cocoon broke open and two figures descended.

• Zhao Si yearned to travel the seas after Godfrey described seafaring and its dangers.
• Sellen proposed the Astrology Academy of Magic, appointed Thops chief Sorcery Professor, and named Klara and Klaris her founding disciples.
• Sellen planned to develop new-style magic, including Glintstone Computers and communication tools, and seek cooperation with the Golden Dynasty.
• Irina returned to Castle Morne with Nepheli and tearfully reunited with her father, Edgar.
• Maliketh heard the Erdtree cocoon crack, and two figures descended as it crumbled into silver dust.

Radagon and Marika reunited with their loved ones after leaving the throne, while several families planned to depart the Lands Between. In Caelid, Captain Nick Jones arrived aboard the Golden Ram's Horn to collect people at the request of a fallen leaf.

• Radagon and Marika parted ways, and Radagon went to find Rennala while Marika reunited with Godfrey.
• Radagon planned to take Rennala back to Caria, and Ranni told him she would sail away with Malenia and the others.
• Godfrey and Marika announced that they would leave the Lands Between, advising Godwyn to govern alongside Miquella.
• Captain Nick Jones sailed into Caelid aboard the Golden Ram's Horn after receiving a fallen-leaf message to pick people up.

Bards across the Lands Between turned Miquella’s Knight into the subject of popular narrative poems. In Leyndell, Zhao Si saw the monuments commemorating his deeds and carved his name into one before leaving with Helena to play in the water.

• A bard convinced Old Captain Nick that Miquella’s Knight was powerful and described how bards embellished his adventures and relationships with other heroes.
• The Golden Ram’s Horn’s crew celebrated at Caelid’s harbor after returning from the isolation and dangers of life at sea.
• Zhao Si and Helena inspected Leyndell’s memorial plans, which included statues of Zhao Si and Sword Monuments marking his journey.
• Zhao Si gathered Godwyn, Trina, and the others at the Roundtable Hold monument and carved the characters for his name into it.
• Zhao Si taught everyone to pronounce his name, and Helena asked where they should go; he suggested playing in the water.

Zhao Si and his companions departed the Lands Between aboard the Golden Ram's Horn, escorted to the harbor by Godwyn and a vast crowd. After bidding farewell and praying for the ship's safety, they sailed into the mist beyond the Lands Between.

• Godwyn, Godrick, and a large crowd escorted Zhao Si and his companions from Leyndell toward the harbor in Caelid.
• Godrick told Zhao Si that Alexander had defeated the Fallen Perfumers with Kristoff's help and returned to Jarburg to teach the next generation.
• Zhao Si's group boarded the Golden Ram's Horn after meeting its captain and learning about the ship's history and dangers at sea.
• Zhao Si and the others said goodbye, agreed to send messages using leaves, and boarded the ship with their horses and luggage.
• The captain and sailors prayed to statues of Marika and Trina, raised anchor, and sailed the Golden Ram's Horn toward the mist beyond the Lands Between.