Chapter Summaries

Millicent gave the player Radahn's Statue before the heroes gathered at Redmane Castle and joined the battle against Radahn. The fight continued into a second phase, where Radahn became Rufus and reflected the damage dealt to him, leaving the player nearly defeated.

• Millicent gave the player Radahn's Statue, whose description hinted at a man willing to become a stepping stone.
• At Redmane Castle, Yhorm said his master wanted a legendary weapon capable of slaying Gods, though he did not know much about it.
• Freya told the heroes the story of Radahn's vengeance and urged them to join the Red Lion's cause before sending them to the Weeping Dunes.
• Radahn attacked the player and the summoned heroes with arrows, greatswords, and Gravity True Magic as they steadily reduced his health.
• When his health fell to a third, Radahn became a shooting star and crashed into the dunes, beginning the second phase as "Reciprocal Vengeance" Rufus.
• Rufus covered the arena in crystals and reflected damage back at the player, whose health fell as their Flask of Crimson Tears ran dry.

After Radahn’s defeat, he revealed that the true form of the God of Vengeance lay in Wailing Gorge, then crystallized while urging the heroes to kill the god and become king. The player spoke with the surviving heroes about Radahn and his past, then joined the Blood Dynasty after Midas offered a private gift.

• Jerren, Millicent, Ogha, and Midas joined the battle, and Midas healed the heroes until Radahn’s health neared zero.
• Radahn revealed Wailing Gorge and the God of Vengeance’s true form, then became a crystal statue as the battle ended.
• Blaidd and Yhorm thanked the player and discussed what they would do next.
• Millicent, Jerren, and Ogha argued over Radahn’s worship and whether Ogha’s loyalty had pushed the general toward ruin.
• Eleonora reacted strangely when the player asked about Yura, while Midas described her as someone driven mad by blood.
• The player accepted Midas’s offer to join the Blood Dynasty and received a Pureblood Knight’s Medallion.

The player returned to the Impassable Greatbridge to claim a reward, where Horace questioned him about his god and left behind a prayerbook. After the Mimic Chest reappeared and revealed that it was Lilith, the player traveled toward Wailing Gorge and met Hecate, who asked him to save a crying deity and gained his promise to fight for her.

• The player found the bridgehead empty, then met Horace, who asked him to choose a god; after the player selected [???], Horace left him the Great Rune Prayerbook.
• The player refreshed the area, and the Mimic Chest returned; it praised him for defeating Radahn, gave him Ashes of War: Blood Tax, and identified itself as Lilith.
• The player teleported to Bloodcrystal Plains Outpost, where Duchess appeared and asked him to save a deity and a man crying underground.
• Duchess identified herself as Hecate, said an abandoned child was crying to her, and asked the player to fight for her.
• The player agreed to fight for Hecate.

The player survived the deadly descent into the Great Hollow and explored the underground Worshippers' Woods, where he reunited with Blaidd and Sellen. After Sellen asked him to gather research materials, he climbed the crystal into Nokron and began fighting its Silver Tears.

• The player repeatedly died while platforming down the fog-shrouded Great Hollow, then reached solid ground and entered the Worshippers' Woods.
• Ancestral Followers ambushed the player with arrows and attacks, forcing him to flee through the underground forest on Torrent.
• The player reached the Siofra River Bank, where Blaidd discussed the corrupted Eternal City of Nokron and the weapon Ranni needed.
• Sellen told the player that Nokron had been corrupted and its Nox inhabitants evacuated, then asked him to collect Tears for her research.
• The player climbed the enormous red crystal into Nokron and fought crowds of Silver Tears while struggling with their low material drop rate and a massive falling-ball trap.

The player found Asimi, a Silver Tear who offered her power in exchange for being spared, and absorbed her. Melina then hinted that Hecate was controlling the Duchess before accidentally revealing a possible connection between Hecate and Hötter.

• Sellen told the player that a defective Mimic Tear could grant the power to become a lord and directed them to the Artist's Shack in Limgrave.
• After searching the wrong locations, the player found the Artist's Shack and met Asimi, an intelligent Silver Tear who begged to be spared.
• The player spared Asimi and absorbed her, acquiring the Larval Tear Asimi.
• Melina appeared and remarked that Asimi was an incomplete Mimic Tear before vanishing.
• Melina returned and said the Duchess seemed controlled, then let slip the names Hötter and Hecate before teleporting away.
• The player reasoned that Hötter might be Hecate and that Hecate could be acting through the Duchess.

The player used the Pureblood Knight's Medallion to reach the Blood Dynasty and found Midas praying beside a gravestone. After Midas directed him toward the Blood Lord, the player fought through the dynasty's blood-soaked path and defeated White Mask Varre.

• The player used the Pureblood Knight's Medallion and arrived in an underground region beneath a starry night sky.
• The player found Midas at a gravestone, where she spoke of suffering, life, and loneliness before directing him toward the king.
• The player continued along the path and fought explosive dried corpses that inflicted heavy bleed damage.
• The player defeated White Mask Varre, who attacked with a bouquet and inflicted bleed with his strikes.
• The player obtained a Bloodstained Slate containing a poem about regret, a disguised perfect world, and a broken promise.

Horace decided to let Hötter choose for herself whether to use the Third Magic when she was older. Meanwhile, Miquella fled to the Moonlight Altar, where he secretly altered Ranni’s Shadow Beast as the Two Fingers chose her as an Empyrean.

• Horace examined the Third Magic and decided to wait until Hötter was old enough to choose whether to use it.
• Miquella ran from Leyndell to the Moonlight Altar to hide from Messmer, while Trina questioned his escape and his strange behavior.
• Miquella spotted Ranni speaking with the Two Fingers and realized they were choosing her as an Empyrean before the moon could claim her.
• Miquella used his charm and sleep mist to guide the Two Fingers into shaping Ranni’s Shadow Beast into a goofy half-human, half-wolf being.
• Trina woke without realizing Miquella had interfered, and the mist over the highland dispersed.

Ranni accepted the Shadow Beast the Two Fingers created and named him Blaidd, while Godwyn secretly stole Destined Death from Maliketh at Crumbling Farum Azula. The Dragon Lord watched Godwyn leave with the Rune of Death and did not stop him.

• The Two Fingers created a Shadow Beast that resembled a husky, and Ranni named him Blaidd before taking him home.
• Horace received Godwyn's letter about restoring death and warned Radagon to watch over him and keep him alive.
• Godwyn sneaked past the sleeping Maliketh at Crumbling Farum Azula and removed the talisman containing Destined Death.
• Maliketh stirred briefly but fell back asleep, and Godwyn left with the Rune of Death as the Dragon Lord watched without intervening.

Godwyn persuaded Placidusax to help create chaos before the Thousand-Year Contest by promising the dragons could win and choose their age. In Leyndell, Radagon sent Godwyn to handle the Flying Dragons, unknowingly giving him a chance to advance his scheme.

• Placidusax refused at first to risk the dwindling dragons, but Godwyn offered them victory and the freedom to return to a chosen age.
• Placidusax agreed to provide limited help, and Godwyn suggested that rebellious Flying Dragons might stage an uprising.
• Radagon received a council report about Flying Dragons harassing caravans while Lansseax was away, and Horace refused to handle the problem.
• Radagon seized on Godwyn’s arrival and ordered him to deal with the dragons; Godwyn agreed and left with a red talisman against his chest.

Godwyn wandered through Leyndell while Fortissax attacked Flying Dragons, knowingly deepening the conflict between the dragon groups to further his plan. He reflected on his ideals for restoring death and pursuing greater equality, then climbed toward the Elden Throne, remembering Goldmask’s argument that he could only lay a foundation for future generations.

• Godwyn strolled through Leyndell as guards, attendants, and nobles greeted him.
• Fortissax drove the Flying Dragons away from the outskirts, and their defeat gave other dragons another reason to resent the Ancient Dragons.
• Godwyn accepted that his actions would intensify the conflict and believed destruction was necessary to create a gentler world.
• Godwyn reflected that restoring death alone could not resolve the unequal distribution of land, resources, power, and dignity, so he intended to go further.
• Godwyn passed his mother's former bedchamber without encountering the Black Knives and climbed toward the Elden Throne.
• Godwyn recalled Goldmask urging him to lay the foundation for equality and trust those who came after him.

Godwyn launched a coup in Leyndell, declaring the Golden Dynasty over while his knights attacked the nobles and the Black Knights contained the city guard. As Godwyn entered the Erdtree, Radagon chose to rush to Leyndell, leaving the Erdtree crisis unresolved.

• Godwyn announced the end of the Golden Dynasty, and his knights stormed the nobles’ manors and killed the nobles they found.
• Godwyn’s double declared that he had inherited the throne as Leyndell’s residents fled and the knights left the nobles’ wounded bodies unable to die.
• The Black Knights surrounded the Leyndell Knights, who chose to remain neutral rather than fight Godwyn or their colleagues.
• Radagon learned of the coup and prepared to confront Godwyn, but sensed that Godwyn’s true body had entered the Erdtree.
• Radagon chose to rush to Leyndell, leaving Godwyn to proceed toward the Elden Ring.

A player watched a video analyzing Thops as a petty-bourgeois reformer who sought limited opportunities for the Graven Stones within the Academy. The video argued that although Thops did not overturn the system, he united the Graven Stones and established a precedent for future change.

• The player quit the game and clicked a Bilibili video analyzing Thops and his role in the Lands Between.
• The uploader described Thops as a petty-bourgeois intellectual excluded from the Academy despite his talent and research.
• The video argued that Thops's request for a classroom within the Academy's existing system made him a reformer rather than a revolutionary.
• The uploader explained that Thops had limited options because he lacked the power and resources to overthrow the Academy.
• The video credited Thops with uniting the scattered Graven Stones through a jointly signed letter and making them recognize themselves as a collective.
• The uploader said Thops's Classroom set a precedent that could help later generations continue the struggle for change.

The uploader weighed the promise and risks of Thops’s reforms, arguing that his modest efforts could prepare the way for future change even as the Academy might absorb him. The video then speculated that Thops’s Force Field could spark a true-magic industrial revolution, leaving the player to wonder what Thops had unleashed.

• The uploader said Thops’s Classroom gave the Graven Stones a place to belong but could also stabilize the Academy’s old system.
• The uploader argued that Thops’s reforms were a necessary compromise that could build strength for future revolution, though they might turn him from a rebel into an administrator absorbed by the Academy.
• The uploader said Thops’s wish for knowledge to surpass talent was modest but could give later generations a starting point for further progress.
• After the video appeared to end, the uploader discussed how Thops’s Force Field might enable mass-produced true-magic weapons and transform warfare and civilian technology.
• The player opened his inventory, looked at Thops’s Ideology Runes, and thought Thops might have opened Pandora’s Box.

The player fought Ansbach, learned that he wanted to grant Lord Mohg a peaceful death, and entered Mohg’s hall with Ansbach and Eleonora. Mohg survived their assault and entered his second phase, confronting the player about Miquella’s Dreamscape and Trina.

• The player bought a Clean Tablet from a merchant in a cavern and learned that it was a popular poem among the Blood Dynasty’s White Masks.
• Ansbach invaded the player, then introduced himself as a Pureblood Knight and asked the player to help bring Lord Mohg peaceful rest.
• The player agreed, received Mohg’s Tablet and Ansbach’s Scythe, and summoned Ansbach and Eleonora before entering Mohg’s hall.
• Mohg fought the player and the two summoned knights, healing himself with blood as they damaged him.
• Mohg used Nihil to drain the nearby fighters’ health and restore his own, then spread black wings and questioned the player about Miquella’s Dreamscape and Trina.

The player defeated Mohg, whose final moments revealed his despair over Miquella and his longing for his mother, then killed the blood-crazed Eleonora. After hearing Ansbach’s account and receiving a keepsake from Midas, the player left the scattered remains of the Blood Dynasty behind.

• Mohg wounded himself throughout his second phase until he knelt and dug out his heart, and the player ended his life and obtained his Remembrance and heart.
• Ansbach mourned Mohg beside his corpse as the player lit a site of Grace, then Eleonora invaded and the player killed her.
• After resetting the area, the player heard Ansbach condemn Miquella for charming Mohg and vow to avenge his lord.
• Midas gave the player the Copper Maiden and said she would finish her work before saying goodbye as the Blood Dynasty fell apart.

The player followed a guide to find Midas, gave her Mohg’s unsent letter, and helped her leave the underground grave. After placing the copper maiden at Mohg’s tomb, the player obtained Mohg’s Ideal Runes and found an unexpected NPC waiting at the cave entrance.

• The player used a guide to reach Midas in the hidden chamber beneath the Blood Dynasty and learned that Mohg was her father.
• The player found The Letter Never Given in a secret chamber and gave it to Midas, who agreed to go outside after sharing another embrace with the Tarnished.
• Midas disappeared, leaving a completed inscription beside Mohg’s grave.
• The player placed the copper maiden before the gravestone, changing its inscription, and obtained Mohg’s Ideal Runes from the blood pool.
• The player headed for the cave entrance and found an unexpected NPC waiting there.

The player sided with Melina against Shabriri, then heard warnings from Melina and Hecate about the Frenzied Flame before returning to the Roundtable Hold. There, D warned the player about Miquella, and the player surprised him by asking about Trina.

• Shabriri tried to tempt the player with Chaos, but the player accepted Melina’s golden summon and helped her defeat him.
• Melina warned the player to stay away from the Frenzied Flame and not deny life, while Hecate urged them not to become a mad Lord.
• The player decided to visit the Roundtable Hold after finishing the Blood Dynasty and found Sir Gideon Ofnir’s seat empty.
• D told the player that Miquella was a dangerous Empyrean and advised them to stay away from him.
• The player asked D about Trina, leaving him visibly taken aback.

The player explored Roundtable Hold, met Enia and the exhausted Two Fingers, and questioned Sir Gideon Ofnir about Ideology Runes, Trina, and the Demigods. Gideon discussed Godwyn and Mohg, and the chapter ended as the player prepared to ask about Mohg's death.

• The player left D, entered the newly opened chamber, and received Enia's message from the reluctant Two Fingers along with the “Daze” gesture.
• The player met Sir Gideon Ofnir, who explained that Ideology Runes condensed Inner Law under the New Rule.
• The player asked about Trina, and Gideon said she should leave a token for someone willing to become her lord.
• Gideon criticized the Demigods for failing to pursue the Elden Ring, then condemned Godwyn and lamented Mohg's fall.
• The player noticed a new dialogue option about Mohg's death.

The player questioned Sir Gideon Ofnir about the demigods, then followed Sellen’s clue to the Carian Study Hall. There, after defeating Miriam and navigating the Fingercreepers, the player encountered Daphne, whose mechanical body fell apart on landing, leaving her to surrender.

• Sir Gideon Ofnir criticized several demigods but refused to discuss Miquella, deepening the player’s suspicions about him.
• The player left Roundtable Hold, found Sellen’s message, and rode Torrent to the Carian Study Hall.
• The player defeated Miriam, the True Magic Professor, and obtained Magic Downpour.
• The player fled the Fingercreepers, fought magic soldiers, and obtained the Cerulean Seed Talisman.
• Daphne appeared as a boss, but her enormous mechanical body shattered when she landed, and she surrendered.

The player followed Daphne’s request to find spare parts at Blood Moon Manor, but the route through the valley proved to be a brutal gauntlet of monsters and soldiers. After dying repeatedly, the player learned that Ranni’s questline offered a teleport that bypassed the blockade.

• Daphne asked the player to retrieve spare parts from Seluvis at Blood Moon Manor, and the player agreed to trade.
• The player struggled down the valley as armored and mechanically modified Shrimp Lords repeatedly shot them off Torrent.
• The player reached a formation of shield-bearing Inquisitor Knights, with Black Knife-like healers behind them and wolf-riding Albinauric archers roaming the valley.
• The player tried to sneak through the poison pools using a veil and Assassin’s Approach, but sorcerers and knights with magic cannons killed them.
• The player searched for a way through Blood Moon Manor valley and found a guide explaining that Ranni’s questline provided a teleport past the blockade.