To begin his quest, the Tarnished must find and defeat the secret Elden Ring boss under Stormveil and then approach the massive rotting head found behind where the boss appears. Near the head is a bloodstain that reveals Rogier being killed by Blighted Death. Going back to Rogier, he explains the giant head is a "sacred relic" from the black knives plot. During the Golden Age of the Erdtree, someone stole a piece of the Rune of Death from Maliketh, the Black Blade, and murdered Godwyn the Golden. Rogier continues to explain that the murder of Godwyn was the first recorded death of a demigod in history and the catalyst for the smashing of the Elden Ring and the Shatter

There are mostly Skeletal Bandits lingering in the cave, but also Necromancer Garris and a Black Knife Assassin. There is quite a bit of valuable and interesting loot within the Sage's Cave. The Raptor Talons, Raptor’s Black Feathers, and the Skeletal Mask are a few of the coolest items to be found. Necromancer Garris also drops an armament called Family Heads, while the Black Knife Assassin drops the Concealing V

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

When FromSoftware, developer of dark fantasy video games like Dark Souls , started fashioning a setting for the open-world RPG Elden Ring ** , they took pains to keep it distinct from the premise of J.R.R. Tolkien's own The Lord Of The Rings ** ; among other details, the titular Elden Ring is not a piece of jewelry and the goal of the game is to reforge it rather than destroy it. For all the genuine differences in world-building between Elden Ring and The Lord of the Rings , these two fantasy sagas do still share common narrative threads about ambitious lords and ladies seeking domination and control, only for their good intentions to be corrupted by their pride and the power they wi

The gameplay and obtuse storytelling of Elden Ring takes the fantasy action RPG mechanics codified by Demon's Souls and Dark Souls returning bosses Souls and spices it up with a vast open world players can explore on horseback (specifically, through the frequent use of Elden Ring 's horned spectral steed named Torrent , summoned when the player character blows on a whistle ring). This open world exploration introduced new players to From Software's Soulslike series of games and attracted the attention of open-world game designers from other game studios. Some of these game designers publicly expressed a dislike for how Elden Ring broke certain rules of game design, while simultaneously wondering how Elden Ring became so successful despite breaking those ru

2022 is already a big year for gaming, with titles like Pokémon Legends: Arceus and Elden Ring releasing in the early months. Other big-name games, like God of War Ragnarok and Breath of the Wild 2 originally had 2022 release windows, promising even more highly anticipated releases. Here is every video game release date in 2022 so

In some of the critiques of Elden Ring (including its easily improvable co-op) published on social media sites, game developers asserted that Elden Ring has bad UX, short for User Experience. In the context of video games, UX/User Experience refers to a branch of video game design focused on making a game intuitive and emotionally satisfying to play. To create a good User Experience in video games, UX developers will use play-testing, player feedback, and even psychological analysis to fine-tune aspects such as the user interface, the sensory feedback players receive when they press controller buttons, and how quickly players can grasp the game's rules and go

When the Tarnished finds Ranni at Ranni’s Rise, the Tarnished says, " You must be Ranni the Witch, behind the Night of Black Knives. " As forward as that comment is, Ranni does not deny who she is or what she did. She admits to being the one who stole the Rune of Death and made the godslaying black knives. However, the cursemark Rogier wants is not there because it lies on Ranni’s body, and Elden Ring ’s Ranni doesn’t have a real body . Ranni refuses to tell the Tarnished where her body that bares that mark l