In The Fellowship Of The Ring , the first installment of The Lord Of The Rings , Saruman the White, recently defected to Sauron's side, tries to corrupt Gandalf by preaching about how Sauron's Ring can grant them the " power to order all things as we will, for that good which only the Wise can see [...] all the things that we have so far striven in vain to accomplish, hindered rather than helped by our weak or idle friends. " __ In this quote, Saruman unwittingly describes the once-noble intentions of the once-noble Sauron (to make the lands of Middle-earth a better , more orderly place), and illustrates through mimicry how Sauron firmly believed he was the only one smart enough to solve the problems of the world. This prideful conceit - along with the intoxicating lure of power - corrupts Sauron and Saruman, dooms major characters such as Isildur, Boromir, and Denethor, and threatens to consume even noble characters like Frodo, Gandalf, and Galadriel when they come into contact with the One Ring. In The Lord Of The Rings , the greatest act of heroism is not to take up power, but to give it up when it is right to do

These days, it's hard to write a fantasy story or design a fantasy RPG not influenced by (or a reaction against) The Lord of the Rings and its legendarium. When J.R.R. Tolkien, a philologist and academic by trade, published the three volumes of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy in the late 1940s, he upped the ante for fantasy world-building by creating a world with unique creation myth, a history filled with ages of heroic tragedies (inspired by epic poems such as the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf or the Finnish Kalevala ), __ and even constructed new languages and writing systems for the species and cultures of his Middle-earth setting. The general premise of Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings - a world haunted by the ruins of previous ages, populated by humans, elves, dwarves, and halflings who fight a war of resistance against a totalitarian dark lord - inspired the character creation rules of Dungeons & Dragons _ , which then went on to inspire a host of epic fantasy novels and computer RPGs like _The Elder Scrolls (another famous franchise Elden Ring developers likely wanted to distinguish their game fr

Seluvis, as it transpires, is an expert in the cruel art of puppetry magic, using special potions to force human beings into a kind of eternal slumber or paralysis, then using their bodies as a catalyst to generate unique Spirit Ashes he obsesses over in dialogue with truly creepy, predatory undertones. A player who goes along with the plans goes down a very dark path indeed, tricking NPCs like the Dung Eater or Nepheli Loux into drinking Seluvis' potion , which binds them to fates worse than death. Thankfully, Preceptor Seluvis can easily be tricked by players and bites the dust part way into the Ranni quest line. This leads him to a truly poetic fate: rebelled against and torn apart by the very puppets he used and abu

Thoroughly exploring The Lands Between is already a massive time commitment, and doing it thrice so that everyone in the party can have all the loot becomes tedious. There's an argument to be made that limiting the scope of co-op sessions is a stylistic choice, meant to represent serendipitous help offered by another Tarnished, but FromSoftware already offers the opportunity to use multiplayer passwords so that Summon Signs are only viewable by certain players. Elden Ring 's co-op could be easily improved by simply click eldenringworld.com embracing a more traditional version of cooperative gameplay, where progression is shared and sessions aren't cut short by the completion of an object

If left to his own devices, Boc will eventually depart in search of Queen Rennala at Raya Lucaria Academy, who can change people's appearances with her golden egg of Rebirth. On his own, the kind, gentle Boc will perish, and if the player gifts Boc with one of the Larval Tear items needed for players to reallocate attribute points, he will successfully reach Rennala and become reborn, but winds up losing everything he used to be in the process. The true happy ending for Boc in **Elden Ring ** requires an obscure item called the Prattling Pate "You're beautiful," found in the Mr. Gelmir region where Volcano Manor, home of the Tarnished hunters , resides; use this item in front of Boc, and he will hear his own mother's voice refer to him as beautiful, giving the gentle Demi-Human the validation needed to love himself for who he

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To escape the prison she'd forged around herself, Marika resorted to dark schemes of destruction. She stripped Grace from her consort Lord Godfrey and sent him into exiled with the other Tarnished. She persuaded Lunar Princess Ranni to steal a fragment of Destined Death from Maliketh the Black Blade, then imbued that stolen power into a series of Black Knives she gifted to Numen assassins from her old homeland. These Black Knife Assassins were dispatched to murder Marika's own eldest son, Godwyn the Golden, along with several more of her Demigod children in the Lands Between. Finally, Queen Marika the Eternal shattered the Elden Ring , instigated the war known as the Shattering, and set in motion a conspiracy to have one of the Tarnished slay the god she drew her own power from. For this act of treachery, she was imprisoned in the Erdtree, crucified by the Elden Beast, and reduced to a literal hollow shell of hers