Recaps

The player traveled through a hidden passage and stone coffin to reach Blood Moon Manor, where Seluvis gave them the Magic Scorpion Charm and Daphne’s parts. After Daphne rebuilt herself and challenged the player, she defeated them with summoned spirits and Triple Rings of Light.

• The player followed Ranni’s instructions through the old town hall’s hidden maze, defeated a Crystalian, and used a stone coffin to travel to Blood Moon Manor.
• The player met Seluvis, told him they had defeated the Mechanical Shrimp, and received the Magic Scorpion Charm and Doll’s parts.
• The player returned to Carian Study Hall and gave Daphne the parts, allowing her to rebuild herself as a silver-haired doll.
• Daphne began a battle by summoning spirit warriors, and the player dubbed her Little Snail.
• Daphne’s spirits and Triple Rings of Light killed the player, and she taunted them after winning.

The player defeated Daphne and received the Caria Inverted Statue, then inverted the Carian Study Hall and fought through it to reach the Liurnia Divine Tower. At the tower’s summit, they found a chained amber crystal containing a humanoid figure and selected an option to comprehend “Restraint” with kindling.

• The player defeated Daphne, obtained the Caria Inverted Statue, and convinced her they were Sellen’s apprentice, so she agreed to accompany them.
• The player placed the statue at the Carian Study Hall entrance, inverted the building, defeated Magic Professor Miriam, and obtained the Lucidity sorcery.
• Daphne told the player she missed Sellen and asked them to encourage Sellen to spend more time with her as they descended toward the tower.
• The player reached the Liurnia Divine Tower, defeated the Godskin Duo, and continued to its summit.
• The player found Daphne beside a chained amber crystal containing a humanoid figure and selected the option to comprehend “Restraint” with kindling.

The Tarnished explored Wailing Gorge, where signs of a blood-soaked ancient tragedy led them to battle Asmodeus with Radahn’s encouragement. As Asmodeus crystallized after his defeat, Godfrey, First Elden Lord, burst through the gorge wall.

• The Tarnished entered Wailing Gorge and found desperate bandits, ruined camps, and writings about abandonment and revenge.
• The Tarnished met Radahn, who urged them to follow King Godfrey’s footsteps and slay the evil god.
• The Tarnished reached a blood pool where corpses rose and Asmodeus appeared as the boss.
• The Tarnished fought Asmodeus with Engvall’s help, defeating him after a long battle.
• Asmodeus began to wither and crystallize, and Godfrey smashed through the gorge wall.

Godfrey defeated Asmodeus in a brutal cutscene, and Radahn met the Tarnished through several stages of growth before asking them to spread word about a god-killing sword in Caelid’s Divine Tower. The Tarnished then encountered a blue-haired figure in a blank world, who sent them away after her translation function unexpectedly began working again.

• Godfrey cleaved Asmodeus apart and left only a patch of blood behind.
• Radahn praised Godfrey, gave the Tarnished the Long-range Hard Arrow Talisman, and invited them to spar in the future.
• The Tarnished met Radahn again as he lamented Caelid’s spreading curse and continued onward through another fog gate.
• A much larger Radahn asked whether the Tarnished regretted their choices, then revealed that a demonic god-killing sword was in Caelid’s Divine Tower and urged them to help the campaign succeed.
• The Tarnished reached a blank white space and met a blue-haired figure who complained about her bad luck and failed translation function.
• The figure told the Tarnished to leave, then was startled when her translation function suddenly worked again.

The player reunited with Sellen at the Liurnia Divine Tower and learned how Ranni, Sellen, and Radahn were connected to the sealed stars. After agreeing to help Sellen revive the Primeval Current, the player traveled to the Divine Tower of Caelid and was immediately killed by a crossbow-wielding attendant.

• The player revealed Sellen from her statue and asked about her goal, the golden amber, and her arrival at the Carian Study Hall.
• Sellen explained that she and Ranni had used a doll to deceive fate, but Radahn’s interference with the stars had made him part of the seal.
• After hearing the player’s account of Radahn, Sellen asked for help defeating him and reviving the Primeval Current, and the player agreed.
• Daphne resented Sellen and scolded the player for accepting her request.
• The player crossed Caelid and carefully climbed the exterior of the Divine Tower, then was killed by a crossbow-wielding attendant after reaching a site of grace.

The player obtained the Eshma Sword from the Caelid Divine Tower, then joined Sellen and traveled with her toward the canyon by the Siofra River. Sellen explained that the canyon had been formed by the resentment of a defeated god, while the Red Lions were already heading inside.

• The player missed a hidden-looking door at the top of the Caelid Divine Tower, fought through the tower, and found an empty chest before checking a guide.
• The player returned to the tower summit, opened the overlooked door, and obtained the Eshma Sword, a godslaying blade forged by Asmodeus.
• The player found Sellen and Daphne together on the rooftop of the Liurnia Divine Tower, then agreed to depart with Sellen.
• The player and Sellen traveled to the bank of the Siofra River, where Sellen marked a route toward the canyon and said the Red Lions had likely gone inside.
• As the player rode toward the canyon, Sellen explained that a war between two gods had torn Caelid apart and that the defeated god's resentment had forced the underground rock open using blood-colored crystals.

The player uncovered a hidden passage from the Eternal City into the Canyon and fought through Redmane forces, where Jerren died asking them to release Radahn. Millicent mourned Jerren, while Ogha explained the Red Lions’ divided loyalties and urged the player onward.

• Sellen theorized that Radahn believed Ymir’s ideas about the stars and had transformed himself to become one with the god in the Canyon.
• The player shattered the enormous red crystal in the Eternal City, found a Blue Seal Mark, and used it to enter the Canyon.
• Redmane Knights and soldiers attacked the player with Lion’s Claw, flame pots, and gravity arrows, but the player fought through and acquired Ash of War [Lion's Claw].
• The player found Millicent supporting the dying Jerren, who asked them to release General Radahn before passing away.
• The player acquired Ash of War [Brave Lion's Claw], and Millicent asked to be left alone as she mourned Jerren.
• Ogha said the Red Lions were divided over Jerren’s claim about the general and promised to offer up the Lion’s Flame when the time came.

The player summoned Millicent, Ogha, and Sellen to fight Asmodeus, whose body now bore Radahn’s face, and defeated it with the Eshma Sword. After Lilith’s Bloodflame flooded the canyon, Ogha answered with the Redmane Army’s Lion’s Flame, then explained that he knew the Formless Mother of Truth and would not treat her gently.

• The player summoned Millicent, Ogha, and Sellen before entering the fog gate and confronting Asmodeus, whose seven faces had been replaced by Radahn’s sleeping face.
• The player used the Eshma Sword’s Wailing Vengeance skill and healing to overcome Asmodeus’s huge health pool and damage reflection while Millicent, Ogha, and Sellen joined the fight.
• After the player delivered a grounded execution, Radahn thanked the warriors, and the player received the Ideology Runes of the God of Vengeance and the Vow of Vengeance.
• Lilith’s voice returned as Bloodflame flooded the canyon, but Ogha fired a gravity-enhanced arrow that brought down the Redmane Army’s Lion’s Flame and extinguished the blood and fire.
• Ogha told the player that the Lion’s Flame came from a thousand years of kindling and admitted that he knew the Formless Mother of Truth and would not be gentle with her.

Ogha peacefully passed on after blessing the player, and Millicent decided to seek her birth family after the conflict in Caelid ended. The player collected Radahn’s runes and discovered that Sellen had disappeared and Daphne had left behind a soul crystal, then asked Iji about Ranni and learned of her past disappearance and refusal to inherit the Carian throne.

• Ogha said farewell to the player, dissolved into golden light, and left behind his Spirit Ashes.
• Millicent told the player she planned to search for her origins and directed them to collect a reward from Radahn.
• The player collected Radahn’s Ideology Runes from his crystal statue in the Weeping Dunes.
• At the Liurnia Divine Tower, the player found Daphne weakened and received her Doll Soul Crystal after she asked them to stop Sellen and bring her back.
• The player found the giant Ranni doll unresponsive and asked Iji about Ranni’s past.
• Iji explained that Ranni had once taken on state affairs before disappearing shortly before her inauguration, and that she had no desire to become Queen.

The player explored Caria Manor, defeated Royal Knight Loretta, and found the legendary Sword of Night and Flame. After being killed repeatedly by a teleporting red-eyed doll knight, the player used weapon skills to stagger and defeat it.

• The player rode west along Liurnia's northern shore and fought through Caria Manor's soldiers, sorcerers, and traps.
• The player defeated Royal Knight Loretta in the inner fortress.
• The player found a hidden room beneath a rampart and opened a chest containing the Sword of Night and Flame.
• A red-eyed dual-sword doll knight ambushed the player in a hall and killed the player three times with teleporting attacks and Lightning Spin Slash.
• The player used Giant Hunt and Brave Lion's Claw to stagger and defeat the red-eyed doll knight.

The player defeated Twin Moon Knight Rellana and found Rykard guarding the Three Sisters Sorcerer's Tower, where he revealed that Ranni was inside. After Rykard gave the player Miquella's Master Key, the player climbed Ranni's tower and reached her room.

• The player fought Twin Moon Knight Rellana through repeated attempts until she vanished at half health, leaving behind her Remembrance and Blue Glintstone.
• The player entered the Three Sisters Sorcerer's Tower and found Rykard waiting outside the first tower.
• Rykard told the player that Ranni was in the western tower and handed over Miquella's Master Key as payment for taking over his guard duty.
• The player rode west to Ranni's True Magic Sorcerer's Tower and climbed to its top floor, where Ranni sat in a custom-made chair.

The player woke Ranni, learned that she had been acting through a doll, and was scolded for failing to retrieve the book she had requested. The player followed a walkthrough to a hidden passage, defeated a Paladin in No-Light Cave, and obtained the Godskin Prayerbook for Ranni.

• The player woke Ranni, who revealed her true body and admitted that she had been acting through a doll.
• Ranni demanded the book she had requested, then ordered the player to leave and finish the task after learning they had not found it.
• The player teleported to Blood Moon Manor and followed a walkthrough to a hidden room and passage.
• The player opened a trapped chest, was transported to No-Light Cave, and defeated the Paladin guarding another chest.
• The player obtained the Godskin Prayerbook and left the cave, deciding not to pursue the Godslayer's Greatsword.

The player gave Ranni the Godskin Prayerbook and received a Royal Family Scroll, then learned sorcery from Miriel at the Church of Vows. After opening a chest there and taking the Dark Moon Ring, the player returned to find Ranni gone and realized the ring had skipped major parts of Ranni’s and Sellen’s questlines.

• The player gave Ranni the Godskin Prayerbook, but she dismissed its contents and rewarded the player with a Royal Family Scroll.
• Unable to find Sellen, the player traveled to the Church of Vows and asked Miriel to teach them sorcery.
• The player handed Miriel the Royal Family Scroll and learned sorcery from him.
• The player opened a chest with Miquella’s Master Key and obtained the Dark Moon Ring.
• The player returned to Ranni’s tower, found her gone, and learned from a guide that obtaining the ring had skipped much of Ranni’s and Sellen’s questlines.

The player used the Scented Token to enter Trina’s Dreamscape, where Alexander led them to the weak Saint Trina. After Trina’s touch sent the player back to the respawn point, they returned and found Thiollier mourning before her and speaking bleakly about life, death, Heaven, and Hell.

• The player found the Scented Token and checked a walkthrough before starting Trina’s hidden questline.
• The player used the token and followed Alexander through the purple mist to Trina’s resting place.
• Trina reached toward the player, and the screen went black before they awoke at the respawn point.
• The player used the token again and found Thiollier kneeling beside Trina and a fresh corpse.
• Thiollier questioned whether the Tarnished would go to Heaven or Hell, then said that living itself was Hell and urged Trina to find her lord.

The player chose Trina and entered a hidden passage where Thiollier urged them to stop Miquella’s obsession with linking the world through love. As the player crossed a dangerous path of shifting piano-key steps toward a golden threat, Trina revealed Miquella’s plan to create an enormous mind from everyone’s dreams.

• Thiollier pleaded with the player to choose Trina, then invaded and fought them before asking them to become king for her sake.
• Trina thanked the player for choosing her and directed them to a concealed passage, where Thiollier gave them his concoction.
• The player descended through a dark passage of shifting black and white steps while dodging dolls controlled by unseen strings.
• Trina explained that Miquella wanted to connect everyone’s dreams through unified love and warned that the resulting entity would be dangerous.
• A gigantic golden arm struck the piano-key steps, and Trina insisted that Miquella must not construct the Adam of the Mind.

The player crossed the unstable piano-key path and met Miquella, who sent him to Farum Azula for a trial. There, Trina, Melina, and Hecate spoke to him through the Site of Grace, each urging him toward the coming choice in different ways.

• The player crossed the shifting piano keys while Trina explained Miquella’s plan to remake reality, then reached the golden fog gate.
• In a white void, Miquella appeared, thanked the player and Trina, and invited the player to face a trial before attaining eternity.
• Miquella teleported the player to Farum Azula, where the player found a Withered Lotus Heart and activated a Site of Grace.
• Trina admitted she had failed to stop Miquella and asked the player to unleash the storm against him.
• Melina urged the player to visit the Chapel of Anticipation and warned him not to pursue perfection or eternity.
• Hecate told the player that Miquella and Trina were both one god and two people, and warned him not to become fixated on victory or defeat.

Miquella revealed that he had impersonated Godwyn to keep Horace occupied while Godwyn acted as a contestant in the Thousand-Year Contest. Horace accepted that the brothers had found a loophole in his rules, but warned Miquella that Radagon might not be the only examiner.

• Horace restrained the figure approaching the Elden Ring, but discovered that he was Miquella disguised as Godwyn.
• Miquella told Horace that the real Godwyn was outside and claimed their plan was already complete.
• Miquella pointed out that Horace’s rules never specified when the Thousand-Year Contest had to begin, so it had already started.
• Horace realized Godwyn could claim the Elden Ring by defeating Radagon and acknowledged that the brothers had exploited a loophole.
• Horace released Miquella and accepted their victory for the round, then warned that Radagon might not be the only examiner.

Radagon fought through Leyndell’s attackers to confront Godwyn, who used a decoy and an ambush to defeat him. Radagon declared that Godwyn passed the test before transforming into the Elden Beast, leaving Godwyn facing an unexpected new opponent.

• Radagon battled the Death Rite Birds with a golden warhammer while trying to reach Godwyn.
• Godwyn approached Radagon and attacked with a Red Dragonbolt, but the two waited until Godwyn staged a fall.
• Radagon struck Godwyn’s apparent body three times, only to discover it was a sludge-and-bone decoy.
• Godwyn and the Death Rite Birds ambushed Radagon with a lightning-wreathed axe and Spiritflame spears.
• Radagon said Godwyn had passed the test, then grabbed his ankle and erupted into golden flames that killed the Death Rite Birds.
• Radagon emerged as the Elden Beast, and Godwyn rose with his battle-axe to face it.

Horace explained that Godwyn had to face the Elden Beast after bypassing Radagon’s test, while Miquella watched with plans of his own. In Leyndell, Godwyn fought the Elden Beast with lightning and sorcery, but his attacks barely hurt it and the battle continued to devastate the city.

• Horace revived Radagon and explained that Godwyn had to overcome the Elden Beast, the accumulated weight of the Golden Order, to prove himself worthy.
• Miquella listened to Horace and Radagon, then reflected on how the changing circumstances could help him find the king he wanted.
• Godwyn charged the Elden Beast alone as it attacked him with golden meteors and sweeping sword waves.
• Godwyn used Fortissax’s Dragonbolt to strike the Elden Beast, then retreated to Leyndell’s city wall as his battle-axe broke.
• Godwyn unleashed Founding Rain of Stars, Ruinous Stars, and Comet Azur, but the Elden Beast barely reacted and the attacks destroyed more of Leyndell.
• Radagon watched the destruction and despaired over the ruined city and the damage to his buildings.

Godwyn gambled that Horace would keep him suspended between life and death, letting him merge with the Elden Beast and inscribe a new rule into the Golden Order. He succeeded in giving all life in the Lands Between a finite lifespan, ending the chapter with every living being destined to lose their power and die.

• Godwyn realized he could not defeat the Elden Beast and prepared to call for Miquella, but Destined Death spread across Leyndell before he could speak.
• Godwyn killed himself in front of the Elden Beast, betting that Horace would use the Great Runes to keep him from fully dying.
• Golden chains held Godwyn between life and death, and he staggered toward the Elden Beast to reach the Golden Order itself.
• Godwyn merged with the Elden Beast and began inscribing his state into the Law, but Hötter woke him before he sank into true death.
• Godwyn added a rule that drained power from every living being from birth until they ran out of Runes and died.

Godwyn’s gamble left Leyndell devastated and failed to bring about the return of death as he had intended. As the survivors counted their losses, Horace sent the exhausted Radagon away on an extended vacation.

• Godwyn fell from the golden light, realized his plan had only partly succeeded, and fled as he regained his strength.
• Horace declared that a thousand years later, all wars would begin at the established starting point.
• Death demanded an explanation from Horace because Godwyn had betrayed it, but Horace ignored it.
• Radagon mourned the destruction of Leyndell and listed the problems facing its survivors while Horace listened.
• Horace offered Radagon an extended vacation, opened a rift to a peaceful haven, and watched him step through.

Horace sealed the Erdtree behind a barrier and questioned the Elden Beast about Godwyn before hearing Miquella’s proposal for a dream-based screening process to choose a worthy lord. As Miquella called on Horace to help him, Horace suddenly restrained him in golden chains.

• Horace surrounded the Erdtree with golden chains and a teleportation trap that would send intruders to a graveyard.
• Horace learned that the Elden Beast did not know where Godwyn had gone and concluded that Godwyn had run off.
• Miquella challenged Horace to consider how future examiners might misuse their authority over the Thousand-Year Contest.
• Miquella proposed using dreams and the subconscious to test candidates and select a lord who would not submit to the gods.
• Horace wrapped Miquella in golden chains before he could finish calling for the storm to descend.

Horace uncovered Miquella’s attempts to charm him and manipulate the Dreamscape’s predictions, then bound Miquella from acting in reality for a millennium. Miquella continued plotting in the Dreamscape as Horace cast aside the Crown and sent a rebellious hero onward.

• Horace resisted Miquella’s charm with his Great Rune, exposed his Dreamscape projections, and warned him against seeking Hötter’s power.
• Horace forbade Miquella from acting in reality until the next millennium but left Trina free to go where she wished.
• Miquella used the Dreamscape to plan a king-making prophecy, involving Rykard’s construction of the Chapel of Anticipation and a storm gathering around Huhu.
• Miquella’s ritual failed when Trina left, but he believed fate had begun to turn and hoped she would bring the king to him.
• Horace cast aside the Crown and urged a rebellious hero to follow the light.

The player entered Greyoll's Dragonbarrow, killed Greyoll and the young dragons, then fought through an ambush by an Ancient Dragon and the silent Crucible Knight. After defeating both, the player received an incantation from the knight but only Runes from the dragon, and continued onward.

• The player entered Greyoll's Dragonbarrow, killed the young dragons, and brought down Greyoll with repeated attacks and bleed damage, gaining five Dragon Hearts and Runes.
• The player encountered a silent Crucible Knight in a corridor, then was ambushed by an Ancient Dragon and killed by the knight's follow-up attack.
• The player returned, spotted the bare wall that signaled the dragon's ambush, dodged its charge, and parried the Crucible Knight's attacks until the knight died and dropped Crucible Aspects: Tail.
• The player used the Inquisitor Knight cannon to bombard the Ancient Dragon from a safe position until it died, receiving only Runes.
• The player complained about the dragon's meager reward and continued onward.

The player encountered Jergal, a mysterious old man who questioned the Tarnished’s reasons for killing and their vision of the world. After the Tarnished strangled him and watched him disintegrate, they found him again in another courtyard, where he revealed more about himself and cursed the king’s eldest son.

• The player met Jergal beneath a dead tree, and he asked why the Tarnished killed so mercilessly.
• The player first answered that they wanted to kill, then chose that they did not know, prompting Jergal to call the Tarnished a puppet and offer the option to let actions speak for themselves.
• The Tarnished seized Jergal by the throat, and Jergal disintegrated into ashes as the courtyard fell silent.
• The player fought through Beastmen and encountered Jergal again in a second courtyard, where he said the Tarnished could not truly kill him.
• Jergal asked what the world should be like, praised the player’s answer of not knowing, and began explaining what Jergal was before angrily cursing the king’s eldest son.