Elden Ring: 10 Best NPCs Ranked

Miquella, twin brother of the infamously hard to beat boss Malenia, shares many motifs with Baldur, the fair-haired Norse god of light who was loved by all (and played a major role in God of War 2018 ). Within the game, players only encounter Miquella slumbering inside a mysterious cocoon atop Elden Ring 's hard-to-reach Mohgwyn Palace , his single exposed arm withered and scarred. Multiple item descriptions and a painting in the opening cinematic depict Miquella in his prime as a golden-haired, un-aging child with limitless reserves of vitality, standing in contrast to his tall, red-haired, perpetually rotting sister. Miquella is strongly associated with Golden Order Fundamentalism, a scholarly discipline of faith magic that can conjure halos of light, return the undead to their proper rest, and manipulate physical laws of Causality and Regression in order to cure harmful ailments. He is also famed for being the crafter of Unalloyed Gold, a substance that can ward off the influence of the Outer Gods like the Scarlet Rot or Dark Moon. Using his own blood as fertilizer, he even created the Elden Ring 's missed opportunity, the Haligtree , a towering rival to the Erdtree designed to be a bountiful home for outcast peoples shunned by Marika's Golden Order. All these altruistic feats, contrasted with the warmongering of his Demigod kindred, make Miquella come across as a literal messiah, a saint almost beyond repro


After his triumphant victory, but before the main backstory events of Elden Ring , the Blind Swordsman somehow crossed paths with the young Malenia, a Demigod of the Elden Ring __ born decaying, an Empyrean with the potential to bloom into a virulent Goddess of Rot itself. The Blind Swordsman might have been tempted to slay this ailing Demigod before she could become the new incarnation of his old foe. Instead, he became Malenia's mentor, teaching her his flowing, dance-like style of swordplay. In time, Malenia would make this style of sword-fighting her own, crafting the infamous Waterfowl Dance technique that has rendered so many **Elden Ring DLC Ring ** players apoplectic with r


Even her end isn't straightforward, and as it is all said and done, you will be wondering what the outcome even was. Regardless, interacting with a master sorceress in her prime is undoubtedly remarkable and will leave quite an impression on you -- even if you aren't one inclined towards mag


There's no worse feeling than engaging in a tough fight with a huge stockpile of runes only to lose them and then have that treasure trove essentially held hostage by the boss. Some choose to admit defeat and abscond to another part of the map, while others bullheadedly throw themselves at the boss until they, by some miracle, prev


Limgrave, the first area of The Lands Between that Elden Ring players are meant to explore, is rife with troubling enemies, and chief among them are the massive runebears. Found prowling through the Mistwood forest, they're best left alone, though that's sometimes easier said than d


In the Sage's Cave dungeon, found by exploring the Altus Plateau area of Elden Ring , players can encounter a mini-boss named Necromancer Garris, who fights players with a flail weapon that can summon skull-faced projectiles of Ghostflame. Defeating this boss earns players the aforementioned Family Heads flail weapon, described as having " three bludgeoning copper heads " that were made to resemble the Necromancer's wife and two child


Finally, this mist being dead souls is the theory that makes the most sense for what happens in the Age of the Duskborn cutscene. Some have speculated that the mist is essentially what is conjured in Fia’s spell "Fia’s Mist," which casts a mist filled with Death Blight. While this seems like a logical connection to the Age of the Duskborn ending, it doesn’t fit with what happens. If Fia’s Mist were to envelop the Lands Between, it would kill all Tarnished including the player. But since the Tarnished lives, it is made clear that the mist is not Fia’s Mist in Elden Ring . Instead, it must be the dead souls once contained in the Erdtree, because this better reflects the principle of death being integrated back into Or


After giving the one-armed NPC Millicent an Unalloyed Gold Needle to suppress her Scarlet Rot affliction, players can receive the Prothesis-Wearer Heirloom. This Dexterity-boosting Talisman provides players with the following piece of keystone l


The Artorias of the Abyss DLC for the first Dark Souls brings players face-to-face with Artorias the Abysswalker, a noble knight of Gwyn who fought the dark horrors of the Abyss with his faithful wolf companion Sif. By the time the Dark Souls player character encounters Artorias, he has been corrupted by the Abyss and reduced to a mindless beast, lashing out at his enemies with feral leaps and howls; the various versions of the Artorias Greatsword players can acquire in Dark Souls and Dark Souls 3 let players mimic this once-noble knight's iconic somersault sword att