Elden Ring: 10 Best Side Quests, Ranked

What’s more, the mist being souls explains the few areas in the game where mist exists before the Duskborn ending: the Mistwood and the forest of the Altus Plateau. The Altus Plateau’s woods are directly above where Godwyn is buried, so it would make sense that his curse mark would have infected the area's roots and killed the souls they contained. As for the Mistwood, this is the first area in the game where players have access to the ancient world buried beneath the Lands Between. This ancient world was rejected by Elden Ring 's Golden Order , so it would only make sense that their souls were rejected from the Erdtree and thus smothered the Mistwood in

The Age of the Duskborn is one of the more complex endings in Elden Ring . To understand it, one must first understand what happened on the Night of the Black Knives. In that event, Godwyn and Ranni were the first demigods to be slain with a curse mark. However, Godwyn and Ranni were only half-slain in Elden Ring because their killers left half of the curse mark of death on each of them. This resulted in Ranni’s body dying while her soul lived on, whereas Godwyn’s soul died and his body lived on. In the Age of the Duskborn ending, the Tarnished and Fia bring the two halves of the curse mark of death together to make the Mending Rune of the Death-Prince . This rune is then used on the Elden Ring and restores the principle of death in the Lands Betw

As we all know, lore and characters are some of the most defining parts of any From Software game. Every soul you meet has more than a few skeletons in their closet, and you are sure to find a couple more of them laying about elsewhere. Elden Ring's setting, the Lands Between, has a great number of characters with stories to tell or stories that tell of the tales of a character. They'll often take you from one end of the earth to the other just to find the missing piece of someone's puzzling p

Though this is only speculation, it provides the best explanation for what happens in the Age of the Duskborn ending. Furthermore, it clarifies important facets about the Lands Between that otherwise have no explanation yet. Even so, true confirmation for what the mist is will likely remain another **Elden Ring crafting guide Ring ** myst

Just past the Bridge of Sacrifice is a Site of Grace to the West. Across the road to the East from here is a singular chair on the cliff's edge occupied by a corpse that keeps a key with them. It overlooks the Castle in the dista

The backstory, setting, and hidden lore-filled quests of Elden Ring , crafted by fantasy author George R.R. Martin and refined by developers at FromSoftware, is a curious blend of themes from polytheistic Norse mythology and monotheistic Christianity. The Erdtree, a massive growth of golden bark and falling leaves that can be seen in every open-world area of Elden Ring , is almost certainly modeled after Yggdrasil, the Worldtree that supports the cosmos in Norse myth. Statues of the eternal goddess named Queen Marika show her hanging from an arc of light - like Christ on the cross, but also like Odin, chief god of the Aesir, who hangs himself from the branches of Yggdrasil in order to learn the knowledge of Runes. Elden Ring 's extended family of fighting Demigods - red-haired hammer-wielders like Radagon, serpentine abominations like Rykard - also correspond to famous Norse gods like Thor and monsters like Jörmungandr, magnificent, mercurial beings whose virtues and flaws are those of humanity writ la

Make your way back to the West Capital Rampart Site of Grace and face the Queen's Bedchamber. Looking in this direction will show the top of the gazebo that holds a corpse with the Stonesword Key. Climb across nearby roofs to get this

Stand at the Behind the Castle Site of Grace for Castle Morne and look towards the cliffs. There will be a small area below with roof access to parts of the castle, and on some scaffolding below is a corpse with another

From the Southwest Ridge near the Tower of Caelid is a giant tree branch that will lend a hand in reaching some outer ledges of the tower. Head to the right side over the arch, and pick the hanging corpse of its key before the hidden enemy knocks you d

The return of death suggests a lot about the mist in the Duskborn ending. The Rune of the Death-Prince has a dramatic effect on the appearance of the Erdtree in Fia's deathly ending to Elden Ring . The Erdtree becomes pallid and barren and emanates the mysterious mist. In this way, it seems that the Death-Rune causes the Erdtree to die. This is a huge deal, as the Erdtree absorbs the souls of those touched by Grace, allowing them to live eternally. Thus, if the Erdtree dies, so too do the souls that live in it. This then suggests that the mist that emanates from the Erdtree is actually the dead souls that were once a part of the living Erdt

Starting at the Dragonkin Soldier of Nokstella Site of Grace head North and then West atop the bridges and buildings of Nokstella - the Eternal City. This key will be on a corpse gazing out on the waterways below from the bridge ledge almost due North from the Nokstella Waterfall Basin Site of Gr