This ending is the closest in the game to a straight-up bad ending. By becoming the Lord of the Frenzied Flame, your character will burn the entire world to ashes. While this ending does seem evil at face value and is only barely justified, there is still some reasoning behind it. At the creation of the current world, the Greater Will and Chaos split, shown by the two fingers and three fingers, respectively. The goal of Chaos is to burn the world and return everything together as ash. When looking at the two fingers and three fingers combined, they would make a complete hand, meaning the Greater Will and Chaos could come toget

Most Sorcerer character builds in Elden Ring will have memorized Terra Magica, a sigil-conjuring spell that boosts damage from any spells or magic weapons used within its stationary area of effect. In fact, most players with one-shot Sorcery character builds start by casting Terra Magica, drinking a Flask of Wonderous Physick with Crystal Tears that boost magic damage and briefly eliminate FP consumption, then cast a spell like Comet Azur or Meteorite of Astel to deal continuous damage until Elden Ring 's Graced Tarnished player character runs out of FP. Fewer players make use of the niche Lucidity spell, a one-of-its kind Glintstone Sorcery that cleanses characters of the Sleep and Madness status effects. Finally, the humble Scholar's Shield spell enchants a player character's shield with a magical aura, buffing its ability to block damage to a character's health and po

The mist being dead souls explains a lot about this Elden Ring mystery . One of the biggest things it helps clarify is what the Lands Between is. Both in the Age of the Duskborn ending and in the prologue of the game, the narrator repeats the line " In our home. Across the Fog. The Lands Between ." This fog is literal, as the distant ocean is obscured in mist all around the Lands Between. Should the mist be souls, it would explain that the Lands Between is some sort of Edenic promised land related to the afterlife. The souls of the Tarnished who were banished were forced to leave, and now that they are no longer touched by Grace, their souls cannot make it back to Elden Ring 's mysterious and coveted Erdtree . They instead seem to only come close to it, obscuring the world of gods and the afterlife from the liv

Another ending with the tarnished becoming Elden Lord, except this time with a curse. After completing the Dung Eater's side quests , you obtain the Mending Rune of The Fell Omen. If you mend this rune with the Elden Ring, you dispel a curse upon all people and future generations across the Lands Betw

Defeat Commander Niall's arena and unlock the Castle Sol Rooftop Site of Grace. Look directly West from this grace, and make your way along the rooftops to the Northern building where a body will greet you with a

The Academy Crystal Cave system hides a key in its beautiful area. From the Academy Crystal Cave Site of Grace head Northwest past some Sages. To their left is a room with a cage containing a fallen

Corpses in chairs often look out at picturesque things and have keys. North along the cliffside from the Ainesl River Well is one such corpse. It is also almost due east from the Ruined Labyrinth Site of Grace for those having a hard time seeing where it's perc

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

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

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 armor Guide Ring 's Golden Order , so it would only make sense that their souls were rejected from the Erdtree and thus smothered the Mistwood in