If you obtain the frenzied flame before burning the Erdtree, Melina will appear in a cutscene after the ending: ua-cam.com/video/dg0qu8MF8Es/v-deo.html
@@EmperorProtects2025 ok so as i and many interpret it, Ranni's ending is technically the most philanthropic one since it cleanses the world of any higher being influence and gives them the right to freedom and choice. The age of blessed curse is the most evil one since you're basically cursing people and torturing them because of what you've done The age of order is the most "peaceful" one since the justice system is now more absolute, so imagine a court that can reveal any lie and pass guilty to only the truly guilty. The frenzied flame is the destroyer ending since you basically become a sun god that brings chaos and destruction to all life.
If you become Lord of Frenzied Flame before Melina's sacrifice at the Forge of The Giants by burning the Erdtree yourself, you will get an additional chilling cutscene!!
Well basically you do free him after killing Elden Beast. Though what happens next might depend on ending: -If you restore Marika his curse may be reapplied even if he succeeded since the whole point was Marika's own want to free herself -Lord of Frenzied flame kills him most likely, he will burn away with the roundttable as Marika won't be there to hold it together. -Age of Starts might be the best ending for Hewgh, you'll fulfill both his and Marika's goals and will have the autonomy to set him free.
There's a more heartwarming version to Ranni's ending where her last dalogue is 'Let us go together. My dear consort eternal', which implies deeper affections for you.
if you talk to ranni at the grace on top of her tower after completing her quest chain she'll call you dear consort in the ending instead of fair consort which makes it more intimate
I just clicked on Ranni’s ending without even looking around first. I thought I made a bad decision but it turns out I accidentally picked one of the best endings. Plus we’re no longer maidenless
Quick breakdown on the endings: Age of Stars: Ranni succeeds Marika as an Empyrean, completely dismantling the Golden Order as she becomes the heart of her new Order, and with the Tarnished who have brought all she envisioned to reality, leaving the world to govern itself as they travel to the stars on the path into the unknown, shrouded by uncertainties, fear, and doubt. The Lands Between for the first time will not be ruled by the outer gods, but by its own inhabitants Age of Frenzy: Convinced by the word of the 3 fingers, the Tarnished would become the vessel for the all-consuming Frenzied Flame, burning everything in the world until all becomes one. There would be no great restart as many believe, for there will NOTHING left to restart. Blessings of Despair: With the reviled curse born from the tormented flesh of the Dung Eater, the Lands Between will be forever more cursed by what the mad tarnished call blessing. The curse that damns their souls and all of their children for all eternity. Perhaps now the Golden Order will know what it's like to be the Omens they so loathed, shunned, hunted and killed. (to put it bluntly, this ending is a giant middle finger to the Golden Order) Age of Order: Some would say Goldmask is a mad man and a heretic for his audacity to say the Golden Order is flawed, yet the labor of his work has brought the Order to heights unseen since the Golden Age before the Shattering, maybe even greater. Yet what was the flaw that held back the Golden Order? Goldmask has found it in the fickle nature of the gods themselves, and now with their meddling removed we will see a new Golden Age. But who's to say we are not as fickle as the gods? And who's to say the cruelty and discriminations once displayed by the Golden order will not disappear in this new age? Age of Duskborn: Some would believe we would bring Death back into the Lands Between and restore a natural order, they are mistaken. Death was once held by the Black Blade of Marika, Maliketh. And upon his defeat, the Rune of Death was unbound, shrouding the Lands Between in Death's dark fate as Enia put it. The Age of Duskborn, is life AFTER death becoming one with the natural order of the Lands Between. No more will the Golden Order hunt down those they once called abominations, and those who have died may be reborn once more as Those who live in Death with Godwyn now reborn as their lord Age of Fracture: Congratulations, you did fuck-all to repair the Lands. Did you honestly think just fixing the Elden Ring is going to solve everyone's problem?
Simple Terms Age of Stars: Fate is no more, mortals decide for themselves what comes next Lord of Frenzied Flame: The world burns, and nothing will rise from the ashes Age of Despair: Everyone will know the curse, and thus if everyone is cursed, no one is cursed Age of Order: Goldmask identified the root of the Golden Order’s failures, and decided, similar to Ranni, if we are to be ruled by flawed and fickle beings, at least let us be ruled by beings that accept their flaws and fickle behaviours Age of Duskborn: Life after death, it is not a sin, nor straying from the natural order, for it has become the natural order Age of Fracture: Nothing really changed, the only difference now is a new person sits on the throne
Just ended the game with Ranni's ending . I have to say , i didn't know there were multiple endings but i'm glad i had the ending with Ranni. Maidenless no more suckers.
So shocked at how many simps there are but I guess if you're taunted about being maidenless long enough, it'll get to you huh. Yeah but I dunno if I'm okay with plunging the world into darkness, fear and doubt, which is exactly what Ranni said will happen and a 1000 years of it. The age of the moon is a fancy way to say that it's going to be night forever, in a world where you own grandmother probably wants to kill you. Hard pass thanks. Well whatever makes you happy I suppose.
@@darthvictus1680 she literally says that the world will embark on a voyage through the stars filled with loneliness and darkness. bro look at those creepy undead hands of hers as she reaches for your hands, you seriously think she's going to help humanity? She was responsible for plunging the world into the darkness that has been caused and obviously she did so for power, which she gets if you side with her. Even I sided with her because the alternatives are lackluster.
@@rezarfar She does say there’s a set amount of time to it, which is kinda odd. combined with other things shes said it leaves me to believe it’s more of venturing into the darkness, into the loneliness and conquering it and coming out of it anew
Ranni definitely the most interesting of the endings. Mainly for the implications behind it. She’s literally shattering and rebuilding the laws of the world. It’s like waking up tomorrow and learning you can now cast magic and water slowly turns into ice if left outside of the fridge too long. Everything we know is being rewritten.
How will we know it will be for the better? Ranni has shown multiple times she is willing to go to extreme meassures to get what she wants, what if she and her Consort end up as Tyrants or make the world a chaotic mess? It is by far the Ending that leaves the most questions, questions that wont be answered. In any case It is a great questline, but too many people miss the plotpoint that Ranni is Evil and what she is doing is Tyranical. Like, she is doing a 'Thanos', Erasing everything to make something new the way she wants it. We cant even know if it will solve anything or make it worse.
@@bluntlyhonest6803 thats why its so interesting, sure we could just fix "death" and get the grey ending, but ranni straight up rewriting the world order. Like the reason we respawn in elden ring is BECAUSE death is broken. She's literally rewriting the world order into something new. Never said she was good or bad, but certainly the most interesting. Heck, in her new world Good and Bad might not exist as we know it.
@@pokemon202668 Really interresting way of looking at it, but then again, we have seen what 'order' has done for the world, new or old order, what will it matter? It is just a car with a new coat of paint. That is how i see it anyway. Let Chaos take the world i say.
@@bluntlyhonest6803 that's basically what ranni is doing. She's cutting us free of the influence of the two fingers and their "Golden Order" which is basically the rules that govern the world. Same way in our world we have things such as the laws of physics, or gravity. Ranni more or less has no real end goal aside from freedom from the outer gods as i understood it. Hence the finger cutting blade.
I think a really cool detail is that in the Age Of Despair ending, you can _hear_ the anguish in the narrators voice as the world succumbs to the curse
@@belonn6121 nah he deserves it. He fucked the puppets. And then they killed him. Even Ranni knew he was a piece of shit and doesn't even ask you to tell him that she loves him
I love the frenzied flame ending. I feel like it sets up Dark Souls 1. Everything was burned to ashes. The only things that survived were the dragons with skins of stone. The great trees were burned and all that was left was ashes and mist. For the fire still burned deep down. With the undying funding the remnants of the burned away Souls.
If that is the case I am quite intrigued, since Patches is in it (he is still a donkey hole) which supports it, I wonder if Elden Ring is a main point of a timeline which leads to different endings as some sort of different dimension or future that leads to the other Souls like games or something.
trust me, i really wanna do the ranni one… but to see my god of a tarnished sitting on that throne, wearing a mix of armours of gathered from vanquished foes.
Bro i just finished the game a couple of hours ago (Ik kinda late to the party) and got Ranni's ending first unknowingly, and damn Im upset that I dont even get to see my character sit on the realy hard worked for throne D: Felt like a slap in the face in a way. Sorry if there are some words that I wrote incorrectly, english is not my native language.
This was the ending i got, got chills It felt like my character was going insane because of all the deaths he witnessed, and becoming the lord of madness made sense to finish off my character's story arc
Kind of a shame that 4 of them are literally the same besides how the Erdtree looks and how the age is called. Age of Stars feels like the most satisfying in my opinion.
@@bestwar_ Um… I‘ve played every From Software game multiple times and Bloodborne, Sekiro and Dark Souls 3 all had more distinct endings. Just because something „has always been this way“ doesn’t make it good. From Software is great in a lot of ways but they definitely have some room to improve in certain aspects.
@@bestwar_ who shit in your mouth while you slept? I’ve played every game and yeah the cookie cutter endings could have something additional to make them different.
I got age of the dusk born the first time and I personally love that ending. Bringing the cycle of life and death back to the world is awesome and it helped that I was sitting on the throne in my black knight cavalry armour, I looked badass.
@@pratiksengupta5336 How so? The despair one and FF one are definitely the bad endings. The normal ending essentially starts the cycle over again with reviving Marika and becoming her consort. The Erdtree is restored as well as in the Goldmask ending, implying that the Greater Will still calls the shots through the Erdtree and Elden Ring. Creepy af perfectionism and eternal shit are not natural and Marika wouldn't have smashed the ring without good reason. She coulda realized her wrongs and thought that was the only way to fight the Greater Will and have someone finish the fight. The Duskborn is the middle-ground, imo. Not as good as Ranni's but not bad either.
The age of duskborn has the most peaceful ending music. I love the violin sound as the screen fades to black and the narrator seems to sound the most calm in this ending as well.
Thank goodness for UA-cam. Imaging replaying this game 5 more times just to hear the same exact “our seed will look back” but with just a different filter and ending words 4 out of the 6 times?
I did the frenzied flame ending. But mine was different than this. In my ending Melina walked into the burned erdtree, found the elden ring on the ground, and swore to track me down and deliver me "Destined death"
i would guess you got the frenzied flame scar before burning the erdtree, in other words melina didnt sacrifice herself so she is still alive in the end to hunt you down
I really love the subtle shifts of the music for the 'Elden Lord' ending variations: Fracture: Triumphant-sounding violins, as you have finally accomplished your goal. Duskborn: Mournful symphonies, akin to what you would hear in a funeral. Blesssing of Despair: Horrific wails and drones, letting the world know of the terror to come. Perfect Order: Only ending to actually use acoustic guitars, and this brings an element of hope and finality that the other endings don't.
I do love how the last four endings how the narrator tells us on how he feels about each one. For the age of the Cursed the narrator feels rage but great fear of the age that befalls the land of sin, while in the Order he feels more happier and at peace, than duskborn it was more sad but still accepting, while fracture makes the guy feel that the hard work you went through wasn’t enough and feels that the cycle will once again repeat itself. The only reason why you don’t hear him in the other two ends is well. With Ranni she’s the one narrating and tell us what is happening for her ending and for Frenzy ending….Everything is burnt and been sent to madness almost like the sins of the once fable lord of cinders have return but with a vicious vengeance and without control of it’s flame and madness
I would say the reason we don't get a narrator in Ranni's ending is that we accompany her to her order in the stars, leaving the Lands Between. Ranni's order is an order separate from the Lands between, allowing the people to live a life no longer defined or ordained by others. While in frenzied flame, there is no one left to narrate, except for Melina, which this compilation leaves out, stupidly.
@@alexsolesbee6214 i honestly was q bit saddened when i saw my head change, but it didnt stay that way. I remember when i first started playing, i thought the Beast dude wouls eventually give me items to turn me into a werewolf, similar to the dragon stones. Man was i disappointed. Even more so knowing the 2 factions are essential useless. Both rewarding the same thing
if you do the flame ending and inherit the frenzied flame before Melina burns the tree she will leave you and you burn the tree instead, in the frenzied flame ending Melina will then show up and say she will hunt you down
There's a morality alignment to each ending. Age of Fracture: True Neutral Age of Order: Lawful Good Age of the Duskborn: Chaotic Good Blessing of Despair: Neutral Evil Age of the Stars: Chaotic Neutral Lord of Frenzied Flame: Chaotic Evil
I'd argue that Age of the Order is Lawful Evil, since the Golden Order dictates right and wrong. And what used to be considered Divine (the Crucible) is now blasphemy under the Golden Order
@@diomed96not true. Goldmask is against the human-gods because they are fallible. So he was to change the order from coming from humans to coming from itself(the order), becoming the natural law of the world devoid of any influence. With the ending there will be no more gods, but a normal world. This is my interpretation of the finale.
The Dark Souls 3 ending where you just… let the flame die shook me the most. It’s a willing surrender to the inevitable. The flame didn’t have enough kindling left to start a new cycle. Already you could see rot and decay taking the world because the flame of life was too weak. There’s a faint promise that out of the darkness a new flame will come but you have no way of knowing that for sure. So you submit to the end, embrace the utter darkness, and cling to hope rather than hang on bitterly to a last little flicker of tortured life because you're terrified that once it dies all will be gone forever... It’s a lovely metaphor for accepting death and finality I guess…. But it rattled me
It makes sense that the 4 endings, age of fracture, age of order, age of duskborn and the age of curse are all very similar. In all of them you're mending the Eldenring and bringing about a new age based on what rune was used to mend the Eldenring, nothing changes in these endings because nothing will change, the greater will is still in control and the cycle will continue with a new age brought about eventually. That doesn't mean that it isn't extremely disappointing that the world doesn't change colour to reflect your ending afterwards however, the constant fire particles are annoying.
@@yungwrld9923 just questlines and their respective mending rune for example for the ending of blessing of despair you have to do the dung eaters questline and get his mending rune not the rune arc item thats gives you some buff or shiiet
@@yungwrld9923 at the end of certain NPC's questlines you get a mending rune tied to a specific ending, using that at the end of the game after the final boss will give you a different ending based off of which mending rune is used.
You know, its just occurred to me that in all of the endings we choose, the elden ring is still damaged and or corrupted. Malenia's Decay great rune, the one supposed to be most sacred is infected. Miquella's Abundance we can't even get. Rykard's is kinda malformed from being eaten. Mohg's has been rededicated to the Great Mother. Radahn's is on fire? Either way, it's hot. The only Great Runes that aren't corrupted are Godrick's, Rennala's, and Morgott's Great Runes.
Ranni was definitely my favorite NPC in terms of the coolest quest line and bad ass weapons, I click on her sigil on accident at the end but I’m glad it was the happiest ending I could’ve wished for
Just so people know, we came to the conclusion that there's a last one that we haven't found yet, we are not 100% sure, but if there's one it's related to Nepheli Loux and her questline that, as far as we're aware, no one has completed yet...
@@KirukaSempai Not yet, after the end of his quest you get an item that we still do not know how to use, the item dissapears in NG+ so it has to be something important for a quest
While I love the different visuals of the tree, having dusk, despair, order, and fracture all basically be the same is a little disappointing. I love Ranni ending but the chaos ending with our character doing that little movement while the tree burns, and the land being completely fucked in the ending makes it my favorite. Generally prefer to have armor on for it, makes the madness sun head look better. Used the crucible knight armor in mine and he looked fly as fuck as the tree burned.
The chaos ending also has an extra cutscene where melina vows to find and kill you. This only happens if you got branded by the 3 fingers before melina sets the tree ablaze. You will actually set it ablaze yourself like a badass and melina will survive because of this.
@@codafett people are scared to say something about elden ring is bad, but this game has like 10% unfinished shit in it including alexanders, nephalis and harlows questline being halfway put into the game including these half assed endings
@user-tp5yp2bv6z the elden ring is a physical manifestation of the golden order and the lands between aren’t supposed to have a single world order for this long. the world was in complete chaos already before the shattering. Marika and the order made it to where people couldn’t die. what Ranni did was sever the outer gods’ connection to the lands between, leaving the fate of the people to themselves. if anything, it’s freedom. the world never needed the elden ring and if you recall, anyone not blessed by the golden order was SOL. Her ending is much better for humanity
Really wish these endings would imply events that happened later based on things you have and haven't done. Showing your effect on the world after you've carved your way through it.
@@TheTabaK23 The basic one is Elden Lord without using any Runes of Mending. The other 5(6) are non-basic endings which require optional content, including the Age of Stars with Ranni.
Apparently Ranni's ending was very poorly translated. In English it sounds like she's trying to plunge the world into despair, but according to the original Japanese script, she says something along the lines of: "Fear, doubt, and loneliness. I wish to keep those far away."
I got Ranni's ending and that is what I got from it. I went "uh oh. She wasn't so nice at the end. 🤣 I screwed everyone over." Nice to know it was not the intent.
Reminds me of the Independent Ending in New Vegas. It ends with Yes Man saying he's going to reprogram himself to be "More assertive", implying he intends to betray you and steal your power. However, an interview with the Devs later confirmed that wasn't the intention, rather Yes Man is saying he will listen to only you, and not anyone who happens to walk by.
The official translators have since responded to this with the fact that; when they translate there are multiple reviews of the text between them and Miyazaki to align the dialogue with what most resembles his intent, this goes with the tone of the voice acting as well. Meaning, the people who worked with the team did not mess-up the translation, that's just fans taking raw japanese dialogue and doing their own translation without consulting the actual writers of the story.
I still love the frenzied flame ending the most, when i first got the ending i just thought of how cool it looked with the erdtree being destroyed and the fire pouring into the sky
Death was never installed to begin with that’s why people were reborn through the erdtree and why the gods were not able to be killed without, the black knives taking it from Maliketh.
@@batman-hv9wp No, Marika removed destined death upon becoming elden lord. The Elden ring existed long before the golden order came into existence, and destined death was a rune within the elden ring
Endings likely explained: Age of Stars: Best ending. You help Ranni become a full Godess replacing Marika and she uses her power to free the world from the shackles of the fingers and their overlords wich used souls to feed the Erdtree. Now the souls are all free and return to the stars where they belong and turn into ascendent beings. You become Rannis husband/wife and join her as the Elden Lord/Consort Eternal under a new order under wich all the fingers die. It is unclear wether the people that are still alive also ascendent past the mortal world or if they are allowed to live their lives to end as humans but since everyone we have seen was suffering its probably for the better if they do. Age of Frenzied Flame: Worst ending. Everybody dies and the world burns. Blessing of Despair: Second worst ending. You unleash a zombie apocalypse plague over the world but you live to rule it. Altho it appears to be worse then frenzied flame, the curse spreads upon direct contanct, wich means that someone who would be able to avoid it, like spiritual beings, could possibly find a way to make things right again at some point, as slim as the chances may be. Age of Golden Order: Neutral/bad Ending. You fix what caused the shattering by removing the free will from the gods/demigods by adding the rune of perfect order as replacement for the rune of death to the elden ring. The golden order is restored and the fingers and the greater will have absolute control over the world forever with you as the elden lord under brainwashed Marikas rule. Age of Duskborn: Neutral/good ending. You add back the rune of death into the elden ring wich ends the age of the gods/demigods and the undead by removing their immortality. The world is now ruled by mortals, for now. Age of Fracture: Default neutral/bad ending. You restore the elden ring to how it was before Marika shattered it but the rune of death is still missing, wich revives Marika as the ruler again. You become Eldenlord, wich under the golden order means that you serve her as her husband. While you restore the golden order you didnt fix what lead to its shattering wich means its only a matter of time before history repeats itself. The fingers are putting in all their efforts in preventing this from happening and slowly gain control again.
Age of despair is worse than frenzied flame, atleast everyone just burns and dies instantly in frenzied flame, age of despair is just eternal sadism land
I wish they explored anything about Ranni’s ending. I think it’s the most genuinely positive of all, no more cycles of stupidity and insanity, just hastening towards the unknown; writing the rules as you go. That’s awesome; but any hint as to the direction would have been appreciated.
same and although i'll always complain that we dont and wish that we get an insight into what happens after, it will never properly happen. It's like how most movies end and we only get a scene telling us or showig hints of the future. Sucks tho. Its partly why i like proper RPGs so much but they are hard to come by. ER might be my new fave game along side stuff like morrowind but i'll stillalways crave for more. Imagine a dlc where we are the elden lord and can rebuild the lands between and go on dates with whoever our maiden is in the ending we had. Would be sick. But hey, that's partly why i started writing - so i can do that with my own stories inspired by all the medi i consume.
Dude, you're amazing, you're one of the first channels that posts all those quests and endings! Great job, I wouldn've found even half of those quests on my own.
I've seen another channel post the 6 endings 3 days ago. Yeah the community is even hunting for Age of Absolute ending right now. To think that we once thought there were only 3/4 ending found a few days ago.
@Lу$ёя6!c the story is good but personally it's a little confusing and could be told a little more clearly (this is my first souls game so my opinion has less weight)
Thanks for uploading this. I just beat the game and got Rani's Ending. After watching this I'm glad I did that one since it was one of the best visually. Frenzy Flame is a close second. It kind of sucks that the other 4 endings are the same other than the state of the Erd Tree/sky and the last line.
The frustrating thing about the endings is they really show how few characters we make any kind of serious story connection with, and how even fewer make it to the end of the game. By the end of it I was far more invested in people like Hewg and how he stayed with us at the roundtable until he could barely do his blacksmithing, but he wanted to smith a sword that could kill a god, and he’s just not mentioned at all in any part of the ending. Or the complexity of the situation with Roderika and how she cares for Hewg and wants to honor his dedication to us but seems to harbour more than a little resentment to us for putting Hewg in this situation. Melina is just gone and never mentioned again despite being the person who really put us on this journey to begin with. And everyone who we picked up along the way is just dead and never mentioned in the ending. The final boss fights are not with people who have a rich history of losing or struggling against, but 3 people who we’ve never really interacted with at all. The final cut scenes themselves really only tell us what happens in the immediate moments after we make our choice and don’t really show how our choice impacts the world and if characters view it positively or negatively. The game just kinda… ends. It’s a really good game, with a super interesting lore, certain mid-game boss fights feel far more rewarding and lore interesting than the actual ending. It’s just kinda sad. Easily can put in over 100 hours exploring the world and when you’re ready to wrap it up you just kinda get a cakewalk boss fight and a cutscene that doesn’t expand much of the story.
Pretty much sums all souls games lol. None of the final bosses ever gave me trouble compared to optional bosses within the game(nameless king prime example)
That's how it was in all souls games I think, you get to choose multiple endings, but you don't know how they will end, because that is yet to happen. Hewg and Roderika aren't related to the Elden Lord so I don't know why would they be mentioned.
@@natedogmarik2554 Eh, I would argue Sekiro avoided the final boss problem that is described here, by making the final boss a character that you interact constantly during the game instead of some vague guy that you read in the lore about.
Cakewalk boss fight? The final boss was one of the hardest fights for me. It's not as bullshit as Melania, but it's certainly difficult. I agree with you on the story stuff, though.
If y'all remember correctly, Hoarah Loux (Godfrey), Goldmask, Fia, Dung Eater, and Gideon were all mentioned in the opening cutscene. Three of these people give you mending runes to get different endings. Where is Gideon's ending? And why doesn't Nepheli give you a mending rune for her ending, seeing as she is the last living descendent of Godfrey.
I see this as their world philosophy not being strong enough. Fish, Eater and Goldmask all had their very strong views on how the world should be, and they dedicated their lives committing to making their vision real. That's what IMO takes to produce a mending rune. Ranni herself too has a strong philosophy and intention of reshaping the world, but in her ending you are being a side character to her, so she mends the Elden Ring. In age of fracture your player character applies non other than his own world view and intention into mending the Ring. So for other characters - eh. Gideon is given up after learning the truth, that's what his armor says after you receive it after, well, fighting him, where he says that "no one can repair the Ring and kill a god". Not even him. So, his philosophy and will is weak. Nepheli already came from the lineage of Elden Lord, but she's more descendant of Hoarah Loux than Godfrey, meaning she's more exiled tarnished than contender to the lineage (unlike Godrick) and she's... Ok with that? She happily takes crown of stormveil from Kenneth, and says that she will turn the winds in right way, meaning she's ok with being a queen of stormveil, and that's it. The only other characters that IMO are capable of having a mending rune, od even mending Elden Ring themselves is Rykard, Morgott and Miquella. Rykard because of all blasphemy staff, devour the gods, yadda yadda. Guy is committed towards changing the definition of what's right and what's wrong, and very much wants to end golden order. Morgott has the dedication and will towards making things right, but the Tree rejected him, just as everyone. He is not going to burn it because he dedicated his whole life towards it; loves it without it loving him back. So he has no means to claim the Elden throne. Also he's an omen, which is against the golden order. Which he loves. So, yeah. And Miquella is the most powerful Empyrean, they have the ability to become Elden lord just by heritage, AND everyone and their mom loves Miquella. But, they're fucked up by Mogh, and before that they fucked up their relationship with order because GO couldn't help Malenia, so Miquella said "ok fuck you then"
with abt 2 sentences you made me appreciate rykard as a character a *lot* more (and everything else made me actually understand the lore) but now I wish we could actually see more of him and what he wanted to accomplish happening in dlc, but all I can do is hope for him to be more involved in dlc
Gideon says before fighting him that none (either you or him) will take the throne, and that no man can kill a god. His research most likely led him to believe the mission was simply impossible, which is why he gives up and tries to stop you. I enjoy the irony of the "All-Knowing" being proven wrong by the player, as we do in fact slay a god and become Elden Lord by the end of it all. It makes Gideon's character more intereesting, IMO.
I chose Frenzied Flame ending for two reasons. One is that I thought if Melina burned the tree, might as well light everything on fire. And second is because I really didn't want to go through that garbage catacombs and fall to my death several times again.
I don't know if you need to get down there the first time, but I remember missing the shield and trying to get it. One of the times I fell straight in the middle of a rubble of bricks and survived. I thought it was some sort of bug (since I had my menu open at the time, trying to see if the Dark Souls 1 falling glitch work with the Cat Ring) and survived, then I tried it without the ring, without menu and I survive too. I came to the conclusion you can just jump straight to the middle (if you don't get about getting the heaviest shield in the game)
You got waifu Ranni, you are no more maidenless, every soul is free and that Moon looks beautiful in the cutscene! What else you need, for a perfect 1st playthrough ending.
@@kiiturii you can always start a journey 2, but yeah, I was also expecting a beautiful moon and stars in the sky, in the post credit world, but it has that ugly burning erd tree which makes it even worse.
I also believe that there is something going on with Nepheli Loux that could be part of another ending, but until people find out what gets her to move after giving her the Stormking's ashes we won't know for sure.
So as far as endings go, its pretty much a wrap, what has been data mined in the game files, 100% indicates these are the endings and there are no secret endings or alternates from these at the moment.
@@DDDHunter Literally nothing has been found in datamining for the age of absolution in the current game files. It might be dlc, or cut content, but at the moment its not in the game, if it ever was or is planned to be.
I would have left the Fractured Age the same, but expanded upon the others. Specifically duskborn. I would have had Godwyn’s corpse start moving and crawl up from Erdtree Roots and then have a panning shot of the Lands Between with tons of Deathroot and deathroot trees blooming around the many areas you explore
The devs were inexcusably lazy with these endings. I had the exact same idea as you for the duckborn ending. We should have seen how these endings changed the whole lands between, not just one shot of Lyndell and the characters we met along the way should have reacted to our choices.
I love how the early reports said “4 endings,” and then that crept up to 5, and now 6. When I heard there were only 4, I was a bit disappointed that a game 3 time the size of ds3 would only have the same amount of options for the ending. Good to see the number growing steadily
There are different variations on endings as well, depending on what you've done. I got a variation of the chaos ending where that maiden girl opens her eye and says she's gonna hunt me down. There's also 4 other variations I saw mentioned depending on who's runes you got (optional bosses and NPCs included)
@T.A The Elden Lord endings are separate endings even if they all award the same achievement. Each Rune of Mending changes the Lands Between drastically in the lore and thus are clearly different.
@T.A No the fracture ending is different to the other Elden Lord endings. They all see you become Elden Lord, but the world is changed depending on the ending chosen. Fractured is the status quo, everything is as it is but you now rule. Duskborn imparts a new version of death into the world, life within death and clouds the world in fog. You rule a world where the concept of death is forever changed. Order sees the world return to what it was before Marika shattered the Elden Ring. This ending is the closest to the Fractured ending. Despair covers the world in the Dung Eater's curse, everyone suffers horribly under your new terrible rule. These endings have clear differences and while they all see you sit on the throne, the world you rule is going to be radically different depending on your choice.
@T.A You are wrong. There are 4 Elden Lord endings. The Fracture ending is only 1 Elden Lord ending and the others are different with different outcomes, names, text and cinematics. You and not "they" (whoever "they" are) is the one considering 4 endings as the same despite them patently not being the same. The fact that Fromsoft decided to have 1 achievement for 4 endings does not make those endings the same. It's a bloody moronic argument to make.
In the end, Elden Ring seems to have been an inversion of the story and concepts in Dark Souls. The 'best' endings of both DS3 and Elden Ring have you bringing merciful death to the world. However, while the world of Dark Souls was in a state of slow entropic decay, the world of Elden Ring is held in a state of perpetual order after the shattering. Without your intervention, true death will never reach anyone and the broken world will persist eternally in a calm, unchanging misery. Ranni's ending casts out the gods and their order, allowing death to bring change and, in time, perhaps allowing mortals to once again chart their own course. If you're wondering how this compares to Fia's ending, I believe hers is simply a darker state of order wherein the dead of bygone eras emerge to rule eternal. The dead and death itself were forced into the shadows by the arrival of the outer gods and their order, so now they call the shots and the fate of the living is called into question. The Lord of Chaos ending is comparatively simple: If you aren't stopped, all that divides and distinguishes will be burned away until there is only fire and chaos everlasting. If the issue of eternal order is a nail, this ending is a sledgehammer that atomizes the nail and sets the atoms on fire.
I actually got an extra cutscene in the frenzy flame ending, with Melina with both eyes opened grabbing a ring from the dust and telling She Wold go After the lord of Chaos That also makes me think it's the actual ending
It might be the canon ending to make a way for another game where your character is Melina fighting your way to fight your character in elden ring or something
@@omagkabacan2109 don't think we will ever use a set character in a from game, but Melina quest to kill the lord of Chaos Is an open final that can be a very good premise for another Adventure in the elden ring universe. In dark souls saga thousands of years pass inbetween the games, so something similar can happen in elden ring
It’s the most simple ending but for me the age of fracture still holds a lot of weight,my goal was to become Elden Lord by any means so I actually enjoyed just seeing me on the throne in the end lol
I find it interesting, that despite Fia's being the ending associated with Godwyn, we can see the same sky as in Godwyn's dream and a darker Erdtree akin to the root his corpse is growing onto in the Blessing of Despair ending, which is the Dung Eater's ending. No idea if that holds any kind of importance, just found that interesting. (Edited for clarification)
@@TheSm1thers A few clarifications: 1) Godwyn's/Fia's ending is Age of the Duskborn. Blessing of Despair is the Dung Eater's. 2) The Dung Eater's curse is the Seedbed curse, which if I'm not mistaken is his own thing. 3) Even if Blessing of Despair let the deathroot take over, I still find it interesting that the ending showing the world as seen in the dream of a god, isn't the one directly linked to said god.
If you even count this as the seventh ending, when you exhaust all of ranni's dialogues, it shows to ranni that you wanted to spend more time with her, do that to all places known with Danny's dialogues, and ranni's ending will change a bit, from being fair, to her dear
I did The Fia quest so I could get her mending rune. When Fia told me to become the Elden Lord of death, I thought the ending was gonna more similar to the Dark Lord ending in the other games where it shows everyone bowing to you. All the snakes in the 1st game, all the hollows in the 3rd game. But to find out all my hard work in this game just for a 20 second copy paste, color swapped scenes for all Elden lords. Was the literal most disappointing ending I've experienced in a game. This is a classic example of how a bad ending can ruin a good story.
@@jionmionskwisgaar1476 because it kind of makes sense since in 4 of them you’re just repairing the elden ring and becoming elden lord while ranni and the frenzied flame reject the golden order and do their own things
you can still choose the chaos route to save melina, then undo the frenzied ending with the unalloyed needle. however, hyetta will get burned alive instead :(
You can use the unalloyed needle in where Dragonlord placidurax is after burning the tree with it, it will remove the three fingers corruption from you. That's the only way to save melina and not get the chaos ending from what I know
Wish there was a ending about mohg lord of blood … helping him in questline instead of fighting him and than he call you when you got the throne you call me ! For our dynasty… for our age of blood
Apparently there is, age of blood is mentioned in the game files but nobody has found how to complete it yet. My theory is that it is either scrapped content or extremely hidden
The saddest part of elden ring: finding out you have to let Melina go or else she’s gonna hate you forever. But I guess it’s always better to end on a high note 🥹
I think how the developers intented is: become the lord of flame, sacrifice yourself instead of Melina, beat Malenia and Placidusax, use the needle, probably choose Ranni. You save Melina and don't destroy the world. This way you mimic the journey of one tarnished that embraced the flame because he had fallen in love with his maiden, but didn't find the needle so he was consumed.
@@jorgehuertas3995 true. I would have done this but i dditn want to lose melina early as i fought she'd sacrifice herself after not straight away for some stupid reason
@@bengunn9670I would argue it’s supposed to be a sorta secret escape from the bad end, except absolutely no one remarks on it and Melina never comes back so it just feels like a loophole
@@Miranox2 you can get it after 3. Plus a certain ending or 2 have been hidden in previous games because f*** you, achievements won't show you everything bish.
There is a needle you get finishing Millicent quest line that talks about the effects of the frenzy flame and being immune to its effects. I think that may be another ending
If you go towards the frenzy ending because it locks you out of the others you can use the needle to reverse this effect once and go back towards one of the other endings
@@MrZombieHazard I've heard that there's a theory about this too. Reversing the frenzied flame is a very messy and convoluted process for it to do "nothing else" than just unlocking the rest of the endings if you regret inheriting the flame.
I really like the Dung Eater Ending, it's the core principal as the Frenzied Flame one, you do not believe that the Lands Between deserve something good, but instead of destroying everything you decide to punish it with a vile Curse that inflicts every single being, which is arguably worse.
Interesting. But who are we punishing? The victims? The Outher Gods are the ones to blame. I believe that life in Lands Between deserves second chance. Dung Eater/Frenzied Flame are basically Hitler's Endings. Driven by resentment. It's nice to "punish" when you're above others. That's why I think we will get the 7th ending from DLC, the Miquella's Ending. There will be some sort of fight against outher gods and in the result the Haligtree/Miquella/Player will become the Only God of Lands Between.
The frenzied flame ending can be kinda justified as not evil if you think that life is inherently a negative thing Dung Eater on the other end is just nothing but evil
@@David232x I don't think like this, but it's definitely possible to do so. I think that eradicating life is still far better than making the world into basically hell with eternal suffering.
@@belonn6121 I thought Ranni's ending is the most suitable ending for that guy's description. Emptiness. In other endings we have some "things" at least. Burning, suffering, order, rain etc. But in Ranni's ending, she says 1000 years of voyage, I get it like nothing is going to exist anymore. If I got it wrong, can you explain?
@@laprodience3002 apparently there is a difference between Japanese and English versions for rannis ending. That what some say at least. But yeah for me ranni was eternal darkness and cold, bc that's what the English game portrayed
I have a very strong suspicion that Melena's option to turn her away as your maiden is SPECIFICALLY for NG+ runs. That way, you could potentially beat the game without needing to level up if you've grinded enough in the previous run. This might be the key to a hidden 7th ending.
I don't know how possible this may be, someone's gonna have to check: I did this in NG+, I absolutely blasted through Godrick, Rennala, Radahn, the entirety of Ranni's questline (trying to speed to that ending), and got to Altus plateau. Problem I had was, with Rodrick(?) being the only Great Rune I have yet to get, it told me I "Needed more great runes" to pass. But I had yet to even talk to Melina, or go to Roundtable at all (unable to level up), and I am like 90% sure you cannot progress to Leyndell *normally* (maybe a skip or another questline I haven't done takes you there) without talking to melina, taking her accord, and going to Roundtable with her It felt kinda dumb and lame, but I was simply too lazy to go all the way to kill snakey boy just to test out this scenario I really wanted to see if it was possible to beat or prog the game without doing so, and even then, I fear not being able to get to the giant snow mountains bc Melina is the way you access said lift up there :/
@@decadian But again, sadly, AFAIK without Melina's help you still wouldn't be able to "finish" the game by not being able to go to the snow mountain zone so it would only get you a bit further Which imo is kind of a genuine shame, but alas
Ranni's ending is the only ending which acknowledges that there is no going back-arguably the Age of Order ending manages *to* go back, and fix what happened, but we can't be certain it succeeded and the capital is still Ash even in it. Instead, Ranni sees a terrifying, awe inspiring, perilous, and lonely journey into the future-and is willing to meet it with you. It's the truest ending, because we can never fix the past. We can only go forward, into the perilous unknown. (and which does not simply destroy the world in some way or another instead of dealing with the problem)
@@MrCharles7994 brother i just completed the game got the Ranni ending but I didnt understand shit it was so hard to understand why is it like that? (New to the souls games) Can anybody explain the story summery for me like telling a idiot 😂 plz
@@arda7881 The TL:DR version: You choose to side with Ranni, who is empowered by a different force than the rest of the Gods/Demigods, destroying that force and allowing the world to finally progress past it's roots. To explain in depth.... Basically, there are these outer Gods which gain power from the stars-the Greater Will and the Dark Moon are the important ones here. These outer Gods empower Demigods as "Empyreans" to act as their instruments, working via the "two fingers", alien beings that commune their will. Most Empyreans and Fingers are associated with the Greater Will, which is the dominant power in this world, but the Frenzied Flame and Goddess of Rot also exists in the background, irrelevant to this ending. Basically: the Dark Moon is a force that is different from the Greater Will. The Greater will represents order, and dominates the world through the Erdtree and its Vassal, Marika. They did this through the Elden Ring-the order of the world, minus the Rune of Death, which was entrusted to Marika's brother. The Dark Moon, as much as we know, represents a journey into the unknown and terrifying future, but one which *can* be completed. Marika was the God of the Greater will, an Empyrean who was raised to true Godhood at the Erdtree. She represents the order of the world. Her husband, the Elden Lord, is the master of the age, and to be Elden Lord is to be husband to Marika. Her children by various lords are the demigods. There are three lineages. The first is the lineage of Godfrey, who was Marika's first husband. He was a mighty warrior who fell out of favor due to defeating all his foes. Morgott, Mohg, and Godric the Grafted are all part of this lineage-the traditional descent, so to speak, is this one. The greatest of these was Godwyn, who is dead at the time of the game. Godfrey is eventually "tarnished", sent away to conquer other lands, because he's no longer needed. You are a tarnished like Godfrey-a naturally immortal warrior. The second was Radagon Via Rennala. Rennala was a legendary sorceress and master of Moon magic, and her academy was conquered peacefully by the vassals of the Greater Will when she married Radagon. Her children are Rykard, Radahn, and Ranni. We care most about Ranni. The third was Radagon and Marika; Radagon married Marika, and proceeded to become Elden Lord. His previous children were "adopted" into demigodhood. These include Miquella and Malenia, whom are cursed, but could have been the greatest of the lineages. Now, this seems straightforward, however there are cracks here. First off, Rennala was abandoned by Radagon and went a wee bit mad, hence why she's making "sweetlings" and trying to rebirth her children. Ranni hated this, and this is where her motivation to tear down the shackles of fate comes from. Second, Marika and Radagon *are the same fucking person* . I.E. Radagon is an alter ego of Marika, split from the original, to go wander the world as a man. Literally, Marika split her masculine half off to get laid because she didn't like her role in the order. Hence why Rennala's children are actually Demigods-and why the children of Radagon and Marika are all cursed but have been particularly holy, *both* their parents are *the same God* . So Ranni, learning that there are alternative forces to the Greater Will such as the Dark Moon, steals the cursemark of death from Marika's brother with Marika's help, and kills both her body and Godwyn's soul. Marika, because, during, and leading up to this, has given the fuck up on everything. Her children are cursed, evil, messed up and killing each other, so who can blame her. Also, she abandoned her lovely moon wife to fuck herself out of duty. *She* shatters the elden ring, and boom, bang, the world breaks. Radagon, her husband alter-ego, decides to keep the Elden ring intact. Yes, they are still the same person, think of it as a cry for help suicide attempt-it's irrational by design. This fucks up death, the world, and everyone. Undead are common, death doesen't quite work, and everyone loses their shit. The remaining demigods try to reunite the elden ring, but the effect of Malenia and Radahn fighting unleashes scarlet rot, and definitively ends any possibility of the demigods succeeding. Radahn in his madness locks away the stars, taking Ranni out of the fight and screwing her plans. Miquella, the last, best hope, is kidnapped and raped by his incestuous uncle Mohg before he can fix his sister. The world. Is. Fucked. Enter the tarnished. You're someone who is supposed to be immortal, one of Godfrey's ilk who was meant to be a warrior to go and conquer the world. You eventually find Ranni, who gives you your horse. You locate the body her puppet is possessing, and defeat Radahn. You give her a blade imbued with death, letting her kill the two fingers which was supposed to control a Shepard her. You defeat Blaidd, her consort who was there to kill her if she stepped out of line, and you marry Ranni. You are rejected by the Erdtree, but force your way in anyway. Finally, you defeat Marika and the Elden God at the heart of the Erdtree and stand posed to become Elden Lord, but you devote the victory to Ranni instead. She banishes her Father/Mother, and destroys the Erdtree completely. Souls now, instead of going to the Erdtree to be reborn, and sheparded into the vast unknown of the Moonlight, a new order different and unknown, terrifying and cold...But with a wife who cares for you, as her consort, to meet this future with you.
I thankfully got Ranni's ending... it just seemed the most peaceful and cathartic ending. I mean... i really hoped she was being "poetic" when talking about that path of fear, loneliness and darkness... but I loved it.
I saw somewhere that her dialogue is actually a mistranslation from the original Japanese version. What is actually implied to happen is that you and Ranni leave the world to take the Golden Order far out of the reach of anyone, leaving those you leave behind to start again and be free without the gods interfering. Fear, doubt, and loneliness I guess refers to them having to do things on their own without anyone to guide them, but also not control them.
Yea fr 100hrs of pain to get 20s cutscenes (i got age of order) pretty underwhelming, maybe the DLC will expand on them but I hold no hope. Also, I wanted some end game playing as Elden Lord, goddamn.
Well from what ive read that would make sense. The erdtree is more powerful here because the rune of death has been replaced with the rune of perfect order, meaning souls will be funneled to it once more. Not only that but the greater will would have re-asserted its control over the world, which may have some implications for the tree.
I did Ranni's and the basic ending, and my goal was to do all of them but after seeing the others I'd rather not. I don't really like the evil ones tbh.
Flame of Frenzy also has a secret part that only happens if you are the one who light the Erdtree instead of Melina and it makes it the coolest ending in my opinion
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i absolutely love the detail on the narrator in frenzy flame, he's not even there, it's is dead silent, as it is the end of the world in blessing of despair, the narrator sounds like he's in despair and on the verge of crying, as he has a slight pause as he speaks in age of duskborn, the narrator sounds mournful, as it is the age of death in age of order, the narrator sounds proud and happy, as it is a good age and in age of fracture, the narrator sounds neutral
@@rubydaberry8563 hey man I went through the effort of helping her throughout her journey and she literally gifted me an epic sword in return, it would be rude not to go for her
If you obtain the frenzied flame before burning the Erdtree, Melina will appear in a cutscene after the ending: ua-cam.com/video/dg0qu8MF8Es/v-deo.html
If you use the needle to remove frenzy at the secret dragon boss from Melinia? its give the 7th ending?
Persownage If you didn’t sacrifice Melina, it just gives a variation of the frenzy flame with extra dialogue(and a very interesting reveal).
I don't really care for the lore or anything to do with it. but I'm confused wich one of these is supposed to be the good ending?
@@EmperorProtects2025 ok so as i and many interpret it, Ranni's ending is technically the most philanthropic one since it cleanses the world of any higher being influence and gives them the right to freedom and choice.
The age of blessed curse is the most evil one since you're basically cursing people and torturing them because of what you've done
The age of order is the most "peaceful" one since the justice system is now more absolute, so imagine a court that can reveal any lie and pass guilty to only the truly guilty.
The frenzied flame is the destroyer ending since you basically become a sun god that brings chaos and destruction to all life.
If u obtain frenzy flame and didn't cure yourself you cant summon ranni at the ending anymore?
The true ending in Ranni’s ending is figuring out which hand you grab
Probably the one with the ring
just finished the game with this ending and I legit had the same question but a bit different..
" Do I get to kiss both hands ? "
@@tristandelhaye519 meow? Meow meow!
of course, all of them
Well, you've got two hands so you can grab both. Just looks a bit weird probably.
Gave me chills doing all the endings and then doing the frenzied flame one, and realize there's no dialogue, nobody left to tell the story...
The fire tells the story.
The screams of the fire.
If you become Lord of Frenzied Flame before Melina's sacrifice at the Forge of The Giants by burning the Erdtree yourself, you will get an additional chilling cutscene!!
May chaos take the world.
@@smileandnodd MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!!!
The fallen leaves did not tell a story there
The blacksmith deserve an ending where he earns he's freedom and chase butterflies to craft
Technically at the end he is freed from the chains, but decides to stay anyways at the throne.
Well basically you do free him after killing Elden Beast.
Though what happens next might depend on ending:
-If you restore Marika his curse may be reapplied even if he succeeded since the whole point was Marika's own want to free herself
-Lord of Frenzied flame kills him most likely, he will burn away with the roundttable as Marika won't be there to hold it together.
-Age of Starts might be the best ending for Hewgh, you'll fulfill both his and Marika's goals and will have the autonomy to set him free.
Yes, but it's all the same
Hopefully in that ending he doesn't assume I'm dead every time I'm not within earshot of him lol
Beautiful 😢
There's a more heartwarming version to Ranni's ending where her last dalogue is 'Let us go together. My dear consort eternal', which implies deeper affections for you.
I got that ending, it was a nice one
I got this one. Enjoyed it and fitting since I used dark moon sorcery and the dark moon greatsword to defeat melania, radogan and the beast
@Alex I just got this ending, didnt look up anything for it.
@Lee that’s completely the wrong take. 🤡
@Alex I got this accidentally to be fair which added greatly to the enjoyment.
I like how he’s dressed for the occasion in each ending.
Truly immersive
9:50 is the most intimidating one in my opinion. You really look the part of a final boss for the next challenger to the throne.
Would've been funny to just be naked with all the endings.
But it's cooler to fit in with the story.
as one should
Ranni’s Ending:
Dressed as her brother.
Definitely dressed for the occasions
if you talk to ranni at the grace on top of her tower after completing her quest chain she'll call you dear consort in the ending instead of fair consort which makes it more intimate
so we finally got some maiden XD
I got it. the last line that I got become "let us go... my dear consort, eternal"
@@maymainssharedonebraincell6022 not just a maiden, a wife.
Lover acquired
Mating Press Ranni.
I just clicked on Ranni’s ending without even looking around first. I thought I made a bad decision but it turns out I accidentally picked one of the best endings. Plus we’re no longer maidenless
Same LMAO
Sad I didn’t know you can summon her smh I guess I didn’t see that
same i didnt mean to
same
It's literally the best ending. I chose it because Ranni is the first major NPC you meet.
Quick breakdown on the endings:
Age of Stars: Ranni succeeds Marika as an Empyrean, completely dismantling the Golden Order as she becomes the heart of her new Order, and with the Tarnished who have brought all she envisioned to reality, leaving the world to govern itself as they travel to the stars on the path into the unknown, shrouded by uncertainties, fear, and doubt. The Lands Between for the first time will not be ruled by the outer gods, but by its own inhabitants
Age of Frenzy: Convinced by the word of the 3 fingers, the Tarnished would become the vessel for the all-consuming Frenzied Flame, burning everything in the world until all becomes one. There would be no great restart as many believe, for there will NOTHING left to restart.
Blessings of Despair: With the reviled curse born from the tormented flesh of the Dung Eater, the Lands Between will be forever more cursed by what the mad tarnished call blessing. The curse that damns their souls and all of their children for all eternity. Perhaps now the Golden Order will know what it's like to be the Omens they so loathed, shunned, hunted and killed.
(to put it bluntly, this ending is a giant middle finger to the Golden Order)
Age of Order: Some would say Goldmask is a mad man and a heretic for his audacity to say the Golden Order is flawed, yet the labor of his work has brought the Order to heights unseen since the Golden Age before the Shattering, maybe even greater. Yet what was the flaw that held back the Golden Order? Goldmask has found it in the fickle nature of the gods themselves, and now with their meddling removed we will see a new Golden Age. But who's to say we are not as fickle as the gods? And who's to say the cruelty and discriminations once displayed by the Golden order will not disappear in this new age?
Age of Duskborn: Some would believe we would bring Death back into the Lands Between and restore a natural order, they are mistaken. Death was once held by the Black Blade of Marika, Maliketh. And upon his defeat, the Rune of Death was unbound, shrouding the Lands Between in Death's dark fate as Enia put it. The Age of Duskborn, is life AFTER death becoming one with the natural order of the Lands Between. No more will the Golden Order hunt down those they once called abominations, and those who have died may be reborn once more as Those who live in Death with Godwyn now reborn as their lord
Age of Fracture: Congratulations, you did fuck-all to repair the Lands. Did you honestly think just fixing the Elden Ring is going to solve everyone's problem?
Simple Terms
Age of Stars: Fate is no more, mortals decide for themselves what comes next
Lord of Frenzied Flame: The world burns, and nothing will rise from the ashes
Age of Despair: Everyone will know the curse, and thus if everyone is cursed, no one is cursed
Age of Order: Goldmask identified the root of the Golden Order’s failures, and decided, similar to Ranni, if we are to be ruled by flawed and fickle beings, at least let us be ruled by beings that accept their flaws and fickle behaviours
Age of Duskborn: Life after death, it is not a sin, nor straying from the natural order, for it has become the natural order
Age of Fracture: Nothing really changed, the only difference now is a new person sits on the throne
Nice analysis(idk what else to call it)
My job isn’t to fix everyone’s problems my job is to become Elden Lord
thank you ssssooo much
@@logeyperogi1805 Age of Fracture: Oh, I wouldn't say "freed". More like "under new management".
man if only there was an alexander ending where he becomes elden lord
I was thinking maybe he becomes a golden pot and both you and Alexander are made lord. Two besties ruling over
But there is one god pot already
@@dantur9053 he could become an even bigger pot. the erdpot
@@k--music praise the Erdpot!
The Age of The Pot Lord?
Just ended the game with Ranni's ending . I have to say , i didn't know there were multiple endings but i'm glad i had the ending with Ranni. Maidenless no more suckers.
So shocked at how many simps there are but I guess if you're taunted about being maidenless long enough, it'll get to you huh.
Yeah but I dunno if I'm okay with plunging the world into darkness, fear and doubt, which is exactly what Ranni said will happen and a 1000 years of it.
The age of the moon is a fancy way to say that it's going to be night forever, in a world where you own grandmother probably wants to kill you. Hard pass thanks.
Well whatever makes you happy I suppose.
I dont know if thats what it is I read somewhere that she means she will guide those who are under said things to a better future, could be wrong tho
@@darthvictus1680 she literally says that the world will embark on a voyage through the stars filled with loneliness and darkness.
bro look at those creepy undead hands of hers as she reaches for your hands, you seriously think she's going to help humanity?
She was responsible for plunging the world into the darkness that has been caused and obviously she did so for power, which she gets if you side with her.
Even I sided with her because the alternatives are lackluster.
You didn’t know there were multiple endings? Must be your first souls game lol.
@@rezarfar She does say there’s a set amount of time to it, which is kinda odd. combined with other things shes said it leaves me to believe it’s more of venturing into the darkness, into the loneliness and conquering it and coming out of it anew
Ranni definitely the most interesting of the endings. Mainly for the implications behind it. She’s literally shattering and rebuilding the laws of the world. It’s like waking up tomorrow and learning you can now cast magic and water slowly turns into ice if left outside of the fridge too long. Everything we know is being rewritten.
How will we know it will be for the better? Ranni has shown multiple times she is willing to go to extreme meassures to get what she wants, what if she and her Consort end up as Tyrants or make the world a chaotic mess? It is by far the Ending that leaves the most questions, questions that wont be answered.
In any case It is a great questline, but too many people miss the plotpoint that Ranni is Evil and what she is doing is Tyranical. Like, she is doing a 'Thanos', Erasing everything to make something new the way she wants it. We cant even know if it will solve anything or make it worse.
@@bluntlyhonest6803 thats why its so interesting, sure we could just fix "death" and get the grey ending, but ranni straight up rewriting the world order. Like the reason we respawn in elden ring is BECAUSE death is broken. She's literally rewriting the world order into something new. Never said she was good or bad, but certainly the most interesting. Heck, in her new world Good and Bad might not exist as we know it.
@@pokemon202668 Really interresting way of looking at it, but then again, we have seen what 'order' has done for the world, new or old order, what will it matter? It is just a car with a new coat of paint. That is how i see it anyway.
Let Chaos take the world i say.
@@bluntlyhonest6803 that's basically what ranni is doing. She's cutting us free of the influence of the two fingers and their "Golden Order" which is basically the rules that govern the world. Same way in our world we have things such as the laws of physics, or gravity. Ranni more or less has no real end goal aside from freedom from the outer gods as i understood it. Hence the finger cutting blade.
@@pokemon202668 That just begs the question, why do all this, just to take up the role of the gods? Ranni is a Hypocrite in my eyes.
I think a really cool detail is that in the Age Of Despair ending, you can _hear_ the anguish in the narrators voice as the world succumbs to the curse
I liked the eeriness it had
I love how the sky looks exactly the same as godwyns dream sky in fortisax fight
The saddest part about Ranni's questline is that you never get to deliver her message to Blaidd and Iji.
Poor Seluvis
@@belonn6121 nah he deserves it. He fucked the puppets. And then they killed him. Even Ranni knew he was a piece of shit and doesn't even ask you to tell him that she loves him
@@jstar3382 hold up, he did what?
@@hughmongoose9854 He turns people into dolls via potion, it then is implied by dialogue from Ranni that he is "having his way with them"...
@@Draqson oh no, I gave his potion to that woman...
I love the frenzied flame ending. I feel like it sets up Dark Souls 1. Everything was burned to ashes. The only things that survived were the dragons with skins of stone. The great trees were burned and all that was left was ashes and mist. For the fire still burned deep down. With the undying funding the remnants of the burned away Souls.
That’s an interesting interpretation, just like I’ve heard Ranni’s ending called Bloodborne-esque
imagine the cutscene ends and you hear an old woman saying “in the Age of Ancients”
This is brilliant
If that is the case I am quite intrigued, since Patches is in it (he is still a donkey hole) which supports it, I wonder if Elden Ring is a main point of a timeline which leads to different endings as some sort of different dimension or future that leads to the other Souls like games or something.
because it is
I wanna do Ranni’s ending so bad but I genuinely feel the need to see my character sitting on a throne.
trust me, i really wanna do the ranni one… but to see my god of a tarnished sitting on that throne, wearing a mix of armours of gathered from vanquished foes.
Lmao 🤣 that’s a great idea
@@jackbrown1018 maybe the Demi gods armors
@@alexandergwg1 I always wear my friends' armors. Blaidd, Rogier, Yura etc.
Bro i just finished the game a couple of hours ago (Ik kinda late to the party) and got Ranni's ending first unknowingly, and damn Im upset that I dont even get to see my character sit on the realy hard worked for throne D:
Felt like a slap in the face in a way.
Sorry if there are some words that I wrote incorrectly, english is not my native language.
Didn't expect for such a long game to have such short endings... Yet Still I am now the Elden Lord O' I am now the Elden Lord .
me too :D
All fromsoft games are like this.
The endings are about as fleshed out as the story itself.
@@0utrunner237 Big "Mass Effect 3" energy for sure.
@@Those_Weirdos I think Mass Effect 3 has a much better ending.
God. The Lord of frenzied flame ending was a blast to watch for the first time.
Was their meant to be a pun in their?
@@dominickroberts4653 No😅
would you say it was a…frenzied blast…?
This was the ending i got, got chills
It felt like my character was going insane because of all the deaths he witnessed, and becoming the lord of madness made sense to finish off my character's story arc
Gow better tho
Kind of a shame that 4 of them are literally the same besides how the Erdtree looks and how the age is called. Age of Stars feels like the most satisfying in my opinion.
You and 29 ppl are not use to from software ending + need to have everything explained + are eternal mad ppl
@@bestwar_ Um… I‘ve played every From Software game multiple times and Bloodborne, Sekiro and Dark Souls 3 all had more distinct endings. Just because something „has always been this way“ doesn’t make it good. From Software is great in a lot of ways but they definitely have some room to improve in certain aspects.
Multiple endings always suck
@@bestwar_ who shit in your mouth while you slept? I’ve played every game and yeah the cookie cutter endings could have something additional to make them different.
@@bestwar_ Learn critical thinking, don't let your emotions blind you to certain flaws.
Man, I really appreciate the effort you put into this. Showing the scars left by the fingers, dressing up as dungeater for his ending, brilliant
I got age of the dusk born the first time and I personally love that ending. Bringing the cycle of life and death back to the world is awesome and it helped that I was sitting on the throne in my black knight cavalry armour, I looked badass.
That is the bad ending tho
@@pratiksengupta5336 How so? The despair one and FF one are definitely the bad endings. The normal ending essentially starts the cycle over again with reviving Marika and becoming her consort. The Erdtree is restored as well as in the Goldmask ending, implying that the Greater Will still calls the shots through the Erdtree and Elden Ring. Creepy af perfectionism and eternal shit are not natural and Marika wouldn't have smashed the ring without good reason. She coulda realized her wrongs and thought that was the only way to fight the Greater Will and have someone finish the fight. The Duskborn is the middle-ground, imo. Not as good as Ranni's but not bad either.
@@Sean-jt1hd ranni’s ending still confuses me but it was still very interesting. Duskborn is my fave, even though it doesnt get a dedicated cutscene
The age of duskborn has the most peaceful ending music. I love the violin sound as the screen fades to black and the narrator seems to sound the most calm in this ending as well.
Nah, Age of the Stars is my favorite
For frenzied flame ending, if you become lord of frenzied flame before melina sacrifice, you will get additional cutscene
And boy is she pissed, lol.
Thank goodness for UA-cam. Imaging replaying this game 5 more times just to hear the same exact “our seed will look back” but with just a different filter and ending words 4 out of the 6 times?
Fr, makes me glad I save scummed the endings
Makes me glad I got ranni ending
Imagine haha, hahahaha. Hahah :(
@@atumnalataecachorra2313 😂
I'm just doing it for the achievement
I did the frenzied flame ending. But mine was different than this. In my ending Melina walked into the burned erdtree, found the elden ring on the ground, and swore to track me down and deliver me "Destined death"
That Ring wasn't the Elden Ring, that was Torrent's spirit whistle.
That’s kinky, what a dirty girl…
It's Torrent's whistle. By choosing the frenzied flame route, you betrayed Torrent. It is a bad ending.
i would guess you got the frenzied flame scar before burning the erdtree, in other words melina didnt sacrifice herself so she is still alive in the end to hunt you down
@@diegoh7506 ah that makes sense!
I really love the subtle shifts of the music for the 'Elden Lord' ending variations:
Fracture: Triumphant-sounding violins, as you have finally accomplished your goal.
Duskborn: Mournful symphonies, akin to what you would hear in a funeral.
Blesssing of Despair: Horrific wails and drones, letting the world know of the terror to come.
Perfect Order: Only ending to actually use acoustic guitars, and this brings an element of hope and finality that the other endings don't.
I do love how the last four endings how the narrator tells us on how he feels about each one. For the age of the Cursed the narrator feels rage but great fear of the age that befalls the land of sin, while in the Order he feels more happier and at peace, than duskborn it was more sad but still accepting, while fracture makes the guy feel that the hard work you went through wasn’t enough and feels that the cycle will once again repeat itself.
The only reason why you don’t hear him in the other two ends is well. With Ranni she’s the one narrating and tell us what is happening for her ending and for Frenzy ending….Everything is burnt and been sent to madness almost like the sins of the once fable lord of cinders have return but with a vicious vengeance and without control of it’s flame and madness
I would say the reason we don't get a narrator in Ranni's ending is that we accompany her to her order in the stars, leaving the Lands Between. Ranni's order is an order separate from the Lands between, allowing the people to live a life no longer defined or ordained by others.
While in frenzied flame, there is no one left to narrate, except for Melina, which this compilation leaves out, stupidly.
@@signspace13 the person that made this video might not know about the frenzied flame ending where Melina is still alive
@@TheAniconic Which is the stupid part, if your gonna make an all endings compilation, you should look it up.
@@signspace13 they probably didn't know until after it was made, it's still a fairly new game
@@askewopal And yet they still made this?
A cool concept they could of followed up on is having the endings actually change the world and add some new things based off the ending
That would be hell for a completionist lmao
Or at least get a different item for each age. The frenzied flame ending you should absolutely be able to ng+ with your head looking like that
@@Big_Chico true. Lol. But its more content, so id be happy
@@alexsolesbee6214 i honestly was q bit saddened when i saw my head change, but it didnt stay that way.
I remember when i first started playing, i thought the Beast dude wouls eventually give me items to turn me into a werewolf, similar to the dragon stones. Man was i disappointed.
Even more so knowing the 2 factions are essential useless. Both rewarding the same thing
@@Big_Chico Or joy, if you think of it positively.
if you do the flame ending and inherit the frenzied flame before Melina burns the tree she will leave you and you burn the tree instead, in the frenzied flame ending Melina will then show up and say she will hunt you down
How is that little girl going to hunt an elden lord
@@HeresVasilias her left eye was open and glowing, i assume she has more powers than she told us
@@Tamipriest Did you summon her to fight a boss before, she's garbage I'm not buying her bluff.
@@Aratrok1 Her eye wasn't opened so she's probably hiding something
@@Aratrok1 Melina is the Gloam-Eyed Queen, Empyrean leader of the Godskin Apostles and the original owner of Destined Death.
There's a morality alignment to each ending.
Age of Fracture: True Neutral
Age of Order: Lawful Good
Age of the Duskborn: Chaotic Good
Blessing of Despair: Neutral Evil
Age of the Stars: Chaotic Neutral
Lord of Frenzied Flame: Chaotic Evil
I'd argue that Age of the Order is Lawful Evil, since the Golden Order dictates right and wrong. And what used to be considered Divine (the Crucible) is now blasphemy under the Golden Order
@@diomed96age of order is all the problems of the previous order fixed by goldmask, how is it evil if it intends to fix the wrongs?
@@stefankostovski80 Ok, I haven't personally done the goldmask ending, but if that's case then it sounds fine to me too
@@diomed96not true. Goldmask is against the human-gods because they are fallible. So he was to change the order from coming from humans to coming from itself(the order), becoming the natural law of the world devoid of any influence. With the ending there will be no more gods, but a normal world. This is my interpretation of the finale.
I’d call the age of order LN but that’s just me.
The Dark Souls 3 ending where you just… let the flame die shook me the most. It’s a willing surrender to the inevitable. The flame didn’t have enough kindling left to start a new cycle. Already you could see rot and decay taking the world because the flame of life was too weak. There’s a faint promise that out of the darkness a new flame will come but you have no way of knowing that for sure.
So you submit to the end, embrace the utter darkness, and cling to hope rather than hang on bitterly to a last little flicker of tortured life because you're terrified that once it dies all will be gone forever...
It’s a lovely metaphor for accepting death and finality I guess…. But it rattled me
At least you have your Firekeeper to keep you company. "Ashen one, Hearest thou my voice still?"
@@Mattitude420 I like the kinky ending with some rough fun the best :)
@@mahmud7645 explain
@@chriswentz5197 you step on fireladies head
if you play the dlc then you know the fate of the world is to continue the cycle of burning until everything is ash at the end of the world.
It makes sense that the 4 endings, age of fracture, age of order, age of duskborn and the age of curse are all very similar.
In all of them you're mending the Eldenring and bringing about a new age based on what rune was used to mend the Eldenring, nothing changes in these endings because nothing will change, the greater will is still in control and the cycle will continue with a new age brought about eventually.
That doesn't mean that it isn't extremely disappointing that the world doesn't change colour to reflect your ending afterwards however, the constant fire particles are annoying.
You know what's more annoying? Getting attacked and killed by a group of dogs later when u go out to see how ur country is doing.
@@lefan2100 you killed all authorative figures on your way to become elden lord there is no country left lmao
wait so do endings change depending on what great rune you have equipped? and the way you do things?
@@yungwrld9923 just questlines and their respective mending rune for example for the ending of blessing of despair you have to do the dung eaters questline and get his mending rune not the rune arc item thats gives you some buff or shiiet
@@yungwrld9923 at the end of certain NPC's questlines you get a mending rune tied to a specific ending, using that at the end of the game after the final boss will give you a different ending based off of which mending rune is used.
You know, its just occurred to me that in all of the endings we choose, the elden ring is still damaged and or corrupted. Malenia's Decay great rune, the one supposed to be most sacred is infected. Miquella's Abundance we can't even get. Rykard's is kinda malformed from being eaten. Mohg's has been rededicated to the Great Mother. Radahn's is on fire? Either way, it's hot. The only Great Runes that aren't corrupted are Godrick's, Rennala's, and Morgott's Great Runes.
Radahn's Great Rune burns endlessly to keep the Scarlet Rot at bay, from what I've heard.
Rhadanns burning rune might just be his endless burning rage
It's actually the flame of ambition
@@BBoy4040 shouldn’t have killed morgott
Rennala doesn't have a great rune
Ranni was definitely my favorite NPC in terms of the coolest quest line and bad ass weapons, I click on her sigil on accident at the end but I’m glad it was the happiest ending I could’ve wished for
And it has nothing to do with her being cute, right?
@@Alexor715 found the dolly botherer!
@@Alexor715 she’s the cutest :)
This.... I will never simp for her.
@user-tp5yp2bv6z said like someone who is maidenless lol
Just so people know, we came to the conclusion that there's a last one that we haven't found yet, we are not 100% sure, but if there's one it's related to Nepheli Loux and her questline that, as far as we're aware, no one has completed yet...
I've literally only completed 2 of the 3 endings for the platinum trophy but then found this,
@Bob Duckington Has anyone tried to die to him? Or maybe use some kind of gesture?
It better be an ending with Alexander
Edit: fuck
@@russian_knight apparently no? His quest seems to end only one way. Ты реально руцкий?
@@KirukaSempai Not yet, after the end of his quest you get an item that we still do not know how to use, the item dissapears in NG+ so it has to be something important for a quest
“The fallen leaves tell a story...” such an evocative, simple, and beautiful sentence.
While I love the different visuals of the tree, having dusk, despair, order, and fracture all basically be the same is a little disappointing. I love Ranni ending but the chaos ending with our character doing that little movement while the tree burns, and the land being completely fucked in the ending makes it my favorite. Generally prefer to have armor on for it, makes the madness sun head look better. Used the crucible knight armor in mine and he looked fly as fuck as the tree burned.
Everythign about the frenzied flame ending gives me big Dagoth Ur vibes, but then again so does goldmask xD
The chaos ending also has an extra cutscene where melina vows to find and kill you. This only happens if you got branded by the 3 fingers before melina sets the tree ablaze. You will actually set it ablaze yourself like a badass and melina will survive because of this.
@@Squeeble00 Frenzied flame helmet should be a thing.
What do you mean a little? Its very disappointing.
@@codafett people are scared to say something about elden ring is bad, but this game has like 10% unfinished shit in it including alexanders, nephalis and harlows questline being halfway put into the game including these half assed endings
I love rannis ending, it gives me goose bumps. The world freed from war turned into eternal stars. Pain has ended. A new world created.
No I doubt that the still remaining followers of the Golden Order will let everything go over peacefully, there will be a coming war.
@@hatefulgaming1800 uhm how will they be having a war, when they are turned into stars. Immortals. But unable to fight?
@@jinxarcade1257 Where does the ending state that people are turned into stars?
Look like any cult leader maniac or evil cult said to their follower then kill them all.
@user-tp5yp2bv6z the elden ring is a physical manifestation of the golden order and the lands between aren’t supposed to have a single world order for this long. the world was in complete chaos already before the shattering. Marika and the order made it to where people couldn’t die. what Ranni did was sever the outer gods’ connection to the lands between, leaving the fate of the people to themselves. if anything, it’s freedom. the world never needed the elden ring and if you recall, anyone not blessed by the golden order was SOL. Her ending is much better for humanity
Really wish these endings would imply events that happened later based on things you have and haven't done. Showing your effect on the world after you've carved your way through it.
Keep in mind there could be sequels
@@shadow45677 Do you think Ranni’s will be canon? Or jus the basic one?
@@TheTabaK23 The basic one is Elden Lord without using any Runes of Mending. The other 5(6) are non-basic endings which require optional content, including the Age of Stars with Ranni.
@@TheTabaK23 maybe the events of the sequel will be based on the ending we choose in this game. like the telltale games.
I KNOW THAT WOULD BE SO COOL AND EVERY NEXT PLAY THROUGH WAS DIFFERENT
Apparently Ranni's ending was very poorly translated. In English it sounds like she's trying to plunge the world into despair, but according to the original Japanese script, she says something along the lines of:
"Fear, doubt, and loneliness. I wish to keep those far away."
You are right about the them translating it wrong
I got Ranni's ending and that is what I got from it. I went "uh oh. She wasn't so nice at the end. 🤣 I screwed everyone over."
Nice to know it was not the intent.
Reminds me of the Independent Ending in New Vegas. It ends with Yes Man saying he's going to reprogram himself to be "More assertive", implying he intends to betray you and steal your power.
However, an interview with the Devs later confirmed that wasn't the intention, rather Yes Man is saying he will listen to only you, and not anyone who happens to walk by.
her whole thing is essentially creating the veil
The official translators have since responded to this with the fact that; when they translate there are multiple reviews of the text between them and Miyazaki to align the dialogue with what most resembles his intent, this goes with the tone of the voice acting as well.
Meaning, the people who worked with the team did not mess-up the translation, that's just fans taking raw japanese dialogue and doing their own translation without consulting the actual writers of the story.
I still love the frenzied flame ending the most, when i first got the ending i just thought of how cool it looked with the erdtree being destroyed and the fire pouring into the sky
Yeah no one will be born again, so cool right?
@@harakiribanzai2483 It is, destroying that sick and disgusting world
@@noams3428 “sick” is a strong word
@@harakiribanzai2483 GET OUT OF MY HEAD
@@noams3428 based
Pretty weird how there isn't an ending where you re-install death, the great rune is still in farum azula ready to be picked up
The duskborn ending reinstalls death.
@@thatssomegoodpie Im pretty sure it does not, considering the lady wants to protect actual zombies. You install godwyn's deathblight.
Death was never installed to begin with that’s why people were reborn through the erdtree and why the gods were not able to be killed without, the black knives taking it from Maliketh.
@@batman-hv9wp No, Marika removed destined death upon becoming elden lord. The Elden ring existed long before the golden order came into existence, and destined death was a rune within the elden ring
@@thatssomegoodpie nope
Blessing of Despair: Summer
Age of Order: Spring
Age of Duskborn: Winter
Age of Fracture: Autumn
Age of Chaos: Arizona
Age of Stars : Fuck y’all
The fuck kinda summers are you having bro
@@MinniMaster =))
@@MinniMaster i laughed so hard when i read this idk why 😂
The 'Blessings of Despair' ending gave me chills!
you can hear the narrator's contempt for the accursed Tarnished thar doomed all of the world
The Narrator is horrified that the world become so much bleaker than before, because the Tarnished trusts The Loathsome Dung Eater.
Endings likely explained:
Age of Stars: Best ending. You help Ranni become a full Godess replacing Marika and she uses her power to free the world from the shackles of the fingers and their overlords wich used souls to feed the Erdtree. Now the souls are all free and return to the stars where they belong and turn into ascendent beings. You become Rannis husband/wife and join her as the Elden Lord/Consort Eternal under a new order under wich all the fingers die. It is unclear wether the people that are still alive also ascendent past the mortal world or if they are allowed to live their lives to end as humans but since everyone we have seen was suffering its probably for the better if they do.
Age of Frenzied Flame: Worst ending. Everybody dies and the world burns.
Blessing of Despair: Second worst ending. You unleash a zombie apocalypse plague over the world but you live to rule it. Altho it appears to be worse then frenzied flame, the curse spreads upon direct contanct, wich means that someone who would be able to avoid it, like spiritual beings, could possibly find a way to make things right again at some point, as slim as the chances may be.
Age of Golden Order: Neutral/bad Ending. You fix what caused the shattering by removing the free will from the gods/demigods by adding the rune of perfect order as replacement for the rune of death to the elden ring. The golden order is restored and the fingers and the greater will have absolute control over the world forever with you as the elden lord under brainwashed Marikas rule.
Age of Duskborn: Neutral/good ending. You add back the rune of death into the elden ring wich ends the age of the gods/demigods and the undead by removing their immortality. The world is now ruled by mortals, for now.
Age of Fracture: Default neutral/bad ending. You restore the elden ring to how it was before Marika shattered it but the rune of death is still missing, wich revives Marika as the ruler again. You become Eldenlord, wich under the golden order means that you serve her as her husband. While you restore the golden order you didnt fix what lead to its shattering wich means its only a matter of time before history repeats itself. The fingers are putting in all their efforts in preventing this from happening and slowly gain control again.
But the first is sad ending for blaid haha
but marika isn't bad, she shattered elden ring to avoid, but her other self radagon was corrupted by greater will so he trying to fix that
Marika as a wife doesn't seem that bad yah know
Despair is the asseater hemoraghes. Seedbed curse occurs because the guy is eating their ass and defiling them.
Age of despair is worse than frenzied flame, atleast everyone just burns and dies instantly in frenzied flame, age of despair is just eternal sadism land
I wish they explored anything about Ranni’s ending. I think it’s the most genuinely positive of all, no more cycles of stupidity and insanity, just hastening towards the unknown; writing the rules as you go. That’s awesome; but any hint as to the direction would have been appreciated.
same and although i'll always complain that we dont and wish that we get an insight into what happens after, it will never properly happen. It's like how most movies end and we only get a scene telling us or showig hints of the future. Sucks tho. Its partly why i like proper RPGs so much but they are hard to come by. ER might be my new fave game along side stuff like morrowind but i'll stillalways crave for more. Imagine a dlc where we are the elden lord and can rebuild the lands between and go on dates with whoever our maiden is in the ending we had. Would be sick. But hey, that's partly why i started writing - so i can do that with my own stories inspired by all the medi i consume.
Its a popular theory thatrannis ending ends in bloodborne so just play that
I mean compared to how short the other endings are Ranni’s might as well be War and Peace
Dude, you're amazing, you're one of the first channels that posts all those quests and endings! Great job, I wouldn've found even half of those quests on my own.
Thanks. :) Was only possible with a lot of research and help from other people in the community.
I've seen another channel post the 6 endings 3 days ago. Yeah the community is even hunting for Age of Absolute ending right now. To think that we once thought there were only 3/4 ending found a few days ago.
Scascatsbury?
Gingy on the other hand explains it.
@Lу$ёя6!c the story is good but personally it's a little confusing and could be told a little more clearly (this is my first souls game so my opinion has less weight)
I really like how you make your character looks relatable to the endings
Waiting on the age of jar ending
Age of Jar will be the name of the 13th Star Wars film.
@@druinofodd1762 Meesa hero in this story, Jar Jar Binks!
The age of Mason!
Thanks for uploading this. I just beat the game and got Rani's Ending. After watching this I'm glad I did that one since it was one of the best visually. Frenzy Flame is a close second.
It kind of sucks that the other 4 endings are the same other than the state of the Erd Tree/sky and the last line.
The frustrating thing about the endings is they really show how few characters we make any kind of serious story connection with, and how even fewer make it to the end of the game. By the end of it I was far more invested in people like Hewg and how he stayed with us at the roundtable until he could barely do his blacksmithing, but he wanted to smith a sword that could kill a god, and he’s just not mentioned at all in any part of the ending. Or the complexity of the situation with Roderika and how she cares for Hewg and wants to honor his dedication to us but seems to harbour more than a little resentment to us for putting Hewg in this situation. Melina is just gone and never mentioned again despite being the person who really put us on this journey to begin with. And everyone who we picked up along the way is just dead and never mentioned in the ending. The final boss fights are not with people who have a rich history of losing or struggling against, but 3 people who we’ve never really interacted with at all. The final cut scenes themselves really only tell us what happens in the immediate moments after we make our choice and don’t really show how our choice impacts the world and if characters view it positively or negatively. The game just kinda… ends. It’s a really good game, with a super interesting lore, certain mid-game boss fights feel far more rewarding and lore interesting than the actual ending. It’s just kinda sad. Easily can put in over 100 hours exploring the world and when you’re ready to wrap it up you just kinda get a cakewalk boss fight and a cutscene that doesn’t expand much of the story.
Pretty much sums all souls games lol. None of the final bosses ever gave me trouble compared to optional bosses within the game(nameless king prime example)
Welcome to the Soulsborne series, you'll get used to it
That's how it was in all souls games I think, you get to choose multiple endings, but you don't know how they will end, because that is yet to happen. Hewg and Roderika aren't related to the Elden Lord so I don't know why would they be mentioned.
@@natedogmarik2554 Eh, I would argue Sekiro avoided the final boss problem that is described here, by making the final boss a character that you interact constantly during the game instead of some vague guy that you read in the lore about.
Cakewalk boss fight? The final boss was one of the hardest fights for me. It's not as bullshit as Melania, but it's certainly difficult. I agree with you on the story stuff, though.
If y'all remember correctly, Hoarah Loux (Godfrey), Goldmask, Fia, Dung Eater, and Gideon were all mentioned in the opening cutscene. Three of these people give you mending runes to get different endings. Where is Gideon's ending? And why doesn't Nepheli give you a mending rune for her ending, seeing as she is the last living descendent of Godfrey.
I see this as their world philosophy not being strong enough. Fish, Eater and Goldmask all had their very strong views on how the world should be, and they dedicated their lives committing to making their vision real. That's what IMO takes to produce a mending rune.
Ranni herself too has a strong philosophy and intention of reshaping the world, but in her ending you are being a side character to her, so she mends the Elden Ring.
In age of fracture your player character applies non other than his own world view and intention into mending the Ring.
So for other characters - eh.
Gideon is given up after learning the truth, that's what his armor says after you receive it after, well, fighting him, where he says that "no one can repair the Ring and kill a god". Not even him. So, his philosophy and will is weak.
Nepheli already came from the lineage of Elden Lord, but she's more descendant of Hoarah Loux than Godfrey, meaning she's more exiled tarnished than contender to the lineage (unlike Godrick) and she's... Ok with that? She happily takes crown of stormveil from Kenneth, and says that she will turn the winds in right way, meaning she's ok with being a queen of stormveil, and that's it.
The only other characters that IMO are capable of having a mending rune, od even mending Elden Ring themselves is Rykard, Morgott and Miquella.
Rykard because of all blasphemy staff, devour the gods, yadda yadda. Guy is committed towards changing the definition of what's right and what's wrong, and very much wants to end golden order.
Morgott has the dedication and will towards making things right, but the Tree rejected him, just as everyone. He is not going to burn it because he dedicated his whole life towards it; loves it without it loving him back. So he has no means to claim the Elden throne. Also he's an omen, which is against the golden order. Which he loves. So, yeah.
And Miquella is the most powerful Empyrean, they have the ability to become Elden lord just by heritage, AND everyone and their mom loves Miquella. But, they're fucked up by Mogh, and before that they fucked up their relationship with order because GO couldn't help Malenia, so Miquella said "ok fuck you then"
with abt 2 sentences you made me appreciate rykard as a character a *lot* more (and everything else made me actually understand the lore) but now I wish we could actually see more of him and what he wanted to accomplish happening in dlc, but all I can do is hope for him to be more involved in dlc
Gideon says before fighting him that none (either you or him) will take the throne, and that no man can kill a god. His research most likely led him to believe the mission was simply impossible, which is why he gives up and tries to stop you.
I enjoy the irony of the "All-Knowing" being proven wrong by the player, as we do in fact slay a god and become Elden Lord by the end of it all. It makes Gideon's character more intereesting, IMO.
@@CidGuerreiro1234 why does he try and stop us?
@@cryptiik9311 he sucks
I’m not gonna lie, when I summoned Ranni I thought she’d just watch me be Elden lord, I didn’t expect there to be different endings
same
Imagine just going into the room and you see a naked man with a flaming orb as his head.
I chose Frenzied Flame ending for two reasons. One is that I thought if Melina burned the tree, might as well light everything on fire. And second is because I really didn't want to go through that garbage catacombs and fall to my death several times again.
That’s exactly the same reason why I did it, I just couldn’t bare in mind I’d have to go trough that shithole again
@@wuduse3240 There's a grace down there
@@zumanitydelights251 how do you even get the items in the tents? I thought my game was glitched lol.
Melina is a part of Ranni by using the frenzied flame you killed her...
I don't know if you need to get down there the first time, but I remember missing the shield and trying to get it. One of the times I fell straight in the middle of a rubble of bricks and survived. I thought it was some sort of bug (since I had my menu open at the time, trying to see if the Dark Souls 1 falling glitch work with the Cat Ring) and survived, then I tried it without the ring, without menu and I survive too. I came to the conclusion you can just jump straight to the middle (if you don't get about getting the heaviest shield in the game)
You got waifu Ranni, you are no more maidenless, every soul is free and that Moon looks beautiful in the cutscene!
What else you need, for a perfect 1st playthrough ending.
what I need is to actually get that ending and not go back to a depressing state of the world as soon as the credits are over...
@@kiiturii you can always start a journey 2, but yeah, I was also expecting a beautiful moon and stars in the sky, in the post credit world, but it has that ugly burning erd tree which makes it even worse.
@@Kiryu_chan0 and to add insult to injury the particle effects make my game lag even more than before lol
Nah screw ranni, burn the whole world and kill everyone. There aint no way that world is getting fixed.
I actually got this ending on my first playthrough and didnt even know it was possible lol. I'm so glad I did.
I also believe that there is something going on with Nepheli Loux that could be part of another ending, but until people find out what gets her to move after giving her the Stormking's ashes we won't know for sure.
Pretty sure they added more of her quest line after this new patch, it's probably available now
@@evnbd i was just gonna say that. they added more dialogue now/probably extended her quest line. hopefully this offers a new ending
So as far as endings go, its pretty much a wrap, what has been data mined in the game files, 100% indicates these are the endings and there are no secret endings or alternates from these at the moment.
@@trask9100 No, there is one more, the age of absolution. No one has found out how to achieve it yet
@@DDDHunter Literally nothing has been found in datamining for the age of absolution in the current game files. It might be dlc, or cut content, but at the moment its not in the game, if it ever was or is planned to be.
I would have left the Fractured Age the same, but expanded upon the others. Specifically duskborn. I would have had Godwyn’s corpse start moving and crawl up from Erdtree Roots and then have a panning shot of the Lands Between with tons of Deathroot and deathroot trees blooming around the many areas you explore
The devs were inexcusably lazy with these endings. I had the exact same idea as you for the duckborn ending. We should have seen how these endings changed the whole lands between, not just one shot of Lyndell and the characters we met along the way should have reacted to our choices.
@@7F0X7first soulslike?
@@sebb3301 Ya.... first and last
So you wanted an ending that meant something...
Wrong game, buddy.
@@7F0X7 Honestly I was more dissapointd that there were't any Rot ending.
I love how the early reports said “4 endings,” and then that crept up to 5, and now 6. When I heard there were only 4, I was a bit disappointed that a game 3 time the size of ds3 would only have the same amount of options for the ending.
Good to see the number growing steadily
There are different variations on endings as well, depending on what you've done. I got a variation of the chaos ending where that maiden girl opens her eye and says she's gonna hunt me down.
There's also 4 other variations I saw mentioned depending on who's runes you got (optional bosses and NPCs included)
@T.A The Elden Lord endings are separate endings even if they all award the same achievement. Each Rune of Mending changes the Lands Between drastically in the lore and thus are clearly different.
@T.A No the fracture ending is different to the other Elden Lord endings.
They all see you become Elden Lord, but the world is changed depending on the ending chosen.
Fractured is the status quo, everything is as it is but you now rule.
Duskborn imparts a new version of death into the world, life within death and clouds the world in fog. You rule a world where the concept of death is forever changed.
Order sees the world return to what it was before Marika shattered the Elden Ring. This ending is the closest to the Fractured ending.
Despair covers the world in the Dung Eater's curse, everyone suffers horribly under your new terrible rule.
These endings have clear differences and while they all see you sit on the throne, the world you rule is going to be radically different depending on your choice.
@T.A You are wrong. There are 4 Elden Lord endings. The Fracture ending is only 1 Elden Lord ending and the others are different with different outcomes, names, text and cinematics.
You and not "they" (whoever "they" are) is the one considering 4 endings as the same despite them patently not being the same.
The fact that Fromsoft decided to have 1 achievement for 4 endings does not make those endings the same. It's a bloody moronic argument to make.
Keep digging boys will find em all one day
In the end, Elden Ring seems to have been an inversion of the story and concepts in Dark Souls. The 'best' endings of both DS3 and Elden Ring have you bringing merciful death to the world. However, while the world of Dark Souls was in a state of slow entropic decay, the world of Elden Ring is held in a state of perpetual order after the shattering. Without your intervention, true death will never reach anyone and the broken world will persist eternally in a calm, unchanging misery.
Ranni's ending casts out the gods and their order, allowing death to bring change and, in time, perhaps allowing mortals to once again chart their own course.
If you're wondering how this compares to Fia's ending, I believe hers is simply a darker state of order wherein the dead of bygone eras emerge to rule eternal. The dead and death itself were forced into the shadows by the arrival of the outer gods and their order, so now they call the shots and the fate of the living is called into question.
The Lord of Chaos ending is comparatively simple: If you aren't stopped, all that divides and distinguishes will be burned away until there is only fire and chaos everlasting. If the issue of eternal order is a nail, this ending is a sledgehammer that atomizes the nail and sets the atoms on fire.
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I actually got an extra cutscene in the frenzy flame ending, with Melina with both eyes opened grabbing a ring from the dust and telling She Wold go After the lord of Chaos
That also makes me think it's the actual ending
@@dumbass6314 but you dont get the Melina extra cutscene if she Is burnt in the Giants flamr
@@micheleallocca9366 we already knew about this. if you get marked by the 3 fingers before she burns the erdtree there is an extra cutscene.
It might be the canon ending to make a way for another game where your character is Melina fighting your way to fight your character in elden ring or something
The ring is torrent's wistle
@@omagkabacan2109 don't think we will ever use a set character in a from game, but Melina quest to kill the lord of Chaos Is an open final that can be a very good premise for another Adventure in the elden ring universe. In dark souls saga thousands of years pass inbetween the games, so something similar can happen in elden ring
It’s the most simple ending but for me the age of fracture still holds a lot of weight,my goal was to become Elden Lord by any means so I actually enjoyed just seeing me on the throne in the end lol
Age of Stars is by far and away my favorite. I love Ranni and her quest line.
and melina to bcuz we got both haha
I'm more of a Frenzied Flame enjoyer, I like turning to the dark side.
Ranni's taking the planet for a cosmic drive, very sephiroth of her.
@@papermachevolcano she doesen't.
Dunno wjo fed you that nonsense but he sold you some bullshir.
@@kyledl6357 ok edgelord, turn it down a little.
I find it interesting, that despite Fia's being the ending associated with Godwyn, we can see the same sky as in Godwyn's dream and a darker Erdtree akin to the root his corpse is growing onto in the Blessing of Despair ending, which is the Dung Eater's ending.
No idea if that holds any kind of importance, just found that interesting.
(Edited for clarification)
Wdym despite? It's letting deathroot take over.
@@TheSm1thers A few clarifications:
1) Godwyn's/Fia's ending is Age of the Duskborn. Blessing of Despair is the Dung Eater's.
2) The Dung Eater's curse is the Seedbed curse, which if I'm not mistaken is his own thing.
3) Even if Blessing of Despair let the deathroot take over, I still find it interesting that the ending showing the world as seen in the dream of a god, isn't the one directly linked to said god.
If you even count this as the seventh ending, when you exhaust all of ranni's dialogues, it shows to ranni that you wanted to spend more time with her, do that to all places known with Danny's dialogues, and ranni's ending will change a bit, from being fair, to her dear
I did The Fia quest so I could get her mending rune. When Fia told me to become the Elden Lord of death, I thought the ending was gonna more similar to the Dark Lord ending in the other games where it shows everyone bowing to you. All the snakes in the 1st game, all the hollows in the 3rd game. But to find out all my hard work in this game just for a 20 second copy paste, color swapped scenes for all Elden lords. Was the literal most disappointing ending I've experienced in a game. This is a classic example of how a bad ending can ruin a good story.
Agreed
There's 6 endings so far but it really just feels like 3
@@jionmionskwisgaar1476 3 are more than enough
@@user-fd3vn5yq3h so why 6 then?
@@jionmionskwisgaar1476 because it kind of makes sense since in 4 of them you’re just repairing the elden ring and becoming elden lord while ranni and the frenzied flame reject the golden order and do their own things
For such a long journey I wished the endings were longer and more in depth.
That’s what i’m sayingggg
It is pretty impressive how well the credits music blends with each ending
When I chose the chaos route to save Melina and saw the ending, I was like “…I made a huge mistake” 😂
you can still choose the chaos route to save melina, then undo the frenzied ending with the unalloyed needle. however, hyetta will get burned alive instead :(
You can use the unalloyed needle in where Dragonlord placidurax is after burning the tree with it, it will remove the three fingers corruption from you.
That's the only way to save melina and not get the chaos ending from what I know
@@Hirotoro4692she does? That’s interesting I haven’t done that quest line yet
@@gasalpha879 you mean Miquellas needle?
Wish there was a ending about mohg lord of blood … helping him in questline instead of fighting him and than he call you when you got the throne you call me ! For our dynasty… for our age of blood
Apparently there is, age of blood is mentioned in the game files but nobody has found how to complete it yet. My theory is that it is either scrapped content or extremely hidden
@Bob Duckington you missed something then
@Bob Duckington the egg is miquella body
@@jacksonambrozio6912 yeah i think they knows
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The saddest part of elden ring: finding out you have to let Melina go or else she’s gonna hate you forever.
But I guess it’s always better to end on a high note 🥹
I think how the developers intented is: become the lord of flame, sacrifice yourself instead of Melina, beat Malenia and Placidusax, use the needle, probably choose Ranni. You save Melina and don't destroy the world.
This way you mimic the journey of one tarnished that embraced the flame because he had fallen in love with his maiden, but didn't find the needle so he was consumed.
@@jorgehuertas3995 true. I would have done this but i dditn want to lose melina early as i fought she'd sacrifice herself after not straight away for some stupid reason
@@jorgehuertas3995I think it's more of a loophole dictated by need to offer a way to alter ending rather than actually intended narrative.
@@bengunn9670I would argue it’s supposed to be a sorta secret escape from the bad end, except absolutely no one remarks on it and Melina never comes back so it just feels like a loophole
Great video! I really like how you have appropriate outfits on for each ending
I'm sure there's probably an ending that will be hidden for a long time that's locked behind 100% completion
Some people already have 100% completion.
There is..it's called the 'Age of Loneliness'. Cuz youve murdered every enemy and boss and everyone dies in every questline
@@Miranox2 you can get it after 3. Plus a certain ending or 2 have been hidden in previous games because f*** you, achievements won't show you everything bish.
Give me an ending where the Tarnished and Melina are happy because this shit sucks
@@okaytyler2774 default ending bruv, or age of order. Those are the neutral/lawful good endings
There is a needle you get finishing Millicent quest line that talks about the effects of the frenzy flame and being immune to its effects. I think that may be another ending
If you go towards the frenzy ending because it locks you out of the others you can use the needle to reverse this effect once and go back towards one of the other endings
@@MrZombieHazard I see, thanks I had not made it to that ending yet to test it
Yeah you can take that needle to the Dragon boss room in Farum Azula and get rid of the Frenzied Flame
@@MrZombieHazard I've heard that there's a theory about this too. Reversing the frenzied flame is a very messy and convoluted process for it to do "nothing else" than just unlocking the rest of the endings if you regret inheriting the flame.
@@MrZombieHazard yep thats exactly what i did, killed the final boss then did the millicent quest and used the needle so i could get the ranni ending
Ranni's ending and Frenzied Flame are the only 2 unique endings. The other 4 are just Mass Effect 3 all over again.
I really like the Dung Eater Ending, it's the core principal as the Frenzied Flame one, you do not believe that the Lands Between deserve something good, but instead of destroying everything you decide to punish it with a vile Curse that inflicts every single being, which is arguably worse.
Interesting.
But who are we punishing? The victims? The Outher Gods are the ones to blame.
I believe that life in Lands Between deserves second chance.
Dung Eater/Frenzied Flame are basically Hitler's Endings. Driven by resentment. It's nice to "punish" when you're above others.
That's why I think we will get the 7th ending from DLC, the Miquella's Ending. There will be some sort of fight against outher gods and in the result the Haligtree/Miquella/Player will become the Only God of Lands Between.
The frenzied flame ending can be kinda justified as not evil if you think that life is inherently a negative thing
Dung Eater on the other end is just nothing but evil
@@nilnurium231 Life is inherently a negative thing? What do you mean by that? Everyone was in a bad place but come on... it will be better.
@@David232x I don't think like this, but it's definitely possible to do so.
I think that eradicating life is still far better than making the world into basically hell with eternal suffering.
@@nilnurium231 "Age" of despair
"Age" of erdtree
"Age" of dragons
nothing is eternal
Living in Bloodborne is better than not living
The narrator perfectly captures all the emotion when he narrates it's brilliant.
All ending give a strong feeling of emptiness and sadness lol. So cool
Except Ranni :)
@@belonn6121 I thought Ranni's ending is the most suitable ending for that guy's description. Emptiness. In other endings we have some "things" at least. Burning, suffering, order, rain etc. But in Ranni's ending, she says 1000 years of voyage, I get it like nothing is going to exist anymore. If I got it wrong, can you explain?
@@laprodience3002 apparently there is a difference between Japanese and English versions for rannis ending. That what some say at least. But yeah for me ranni was eternal darkness and cold, bc that's what the English game portrayed
Makes me wish that Solaire was in this game even more I feel like his take on what to do in this situation would be exciting
@@EllaKarhu praise the sun!
Ranni's Ending is like Leto's Golden path in Dune, love it.
I have a very strong suspicion that Melena's option to turn her away as your maiden is SPECIFICALLY for NG+ runs. That way, you could potentially beat the game without needing to level up if you've grinded enough in the previous run. This might be the key to a hidden 7th ending.
Okay well I’ll do that after I hit level 600
@@NexusKirin How do you levelup fast?
I don't know how possible this may be, someone's gonna have to check:
I did this in NG+, I absolutely blasted through Godrick, Rennala, Radahn, the entirety of Ranni's questline (trying to speed to that ending), and got to Altus plateau. Problem I had was, with Rodrick(?) being the only Great Rune I have yet to get, it told me I "Needed more great runes" to pass.
But I had yet to even talk to Melina, or go to Roundtable at all (unable to level up), and I am like 90% sure you cannot progress to Leyndell *normally* (maybe a skip or another questline I haven't done takes you there) without talking to melina, taking her accord, and going to Roundtable with her
It felt kinda dumb and lame, but I was simply too lazy to go all the way to kill snakey boy just to test out this scenario
I really wanted to see if it was possible to beat or prog the game without doing so, and even then, I fear not being able to get to the giant snow mountains bc Melina is the way you access said lift up there :/
@@aeo-gard There's another way to get into Leyndell, through Fia's questline. That's the only legit way I know, bar glitching in
@@decadian But again, sadly, AFAIK without Melina's help you still wouldn't be able to "finish" the game by not being able to go to the snow mountain zone so it would only get you a bit further
Which imo is kind of a genuine shame, but alas
I got the Ranni ending on my first playthrough as Wretch. Definitely feels like the best ending imho
Ranni's ending is the only ending which acknowledges that there is no going back-arguably the Age of Order ending manages *to* go back, and fix what happened, but we can't be certain it succeeded and the capital is still Ash even in it. Instead, Ranni sees a terrifying, awe inspiring, perilous, and lonely journey into the future-and is willing to meet it with you.
It's the truest ending, because we can never fix the past. We can only go forward, into the perilous unknown.
(and which does not simply destroy the world in some way or another instead of dealing with the problem)
@@MrCharles7994 brother i just completed the game got the Ranni ending but I didnt understand shit it was so hard to understand why is it like that? (New to the souls games) Can anybody explain the story summery for me like telling a idiot 😂 plz
The Armored Core world line ending
@@arda7881 The TL:DR version: You choose to side with Ranni, who is empowered by a different force than the rest of the Gods/Demigods, destroying that force and allowing the world to finally progress past it's roots.
To explain in depth....
Basically, there are these outer Gods which gain power from the stars-the Greater Will and the Dark Moon are the important ones here. These outer Gods empower Demigods as "Empyreans" to act as their instruments, working via the "two fingers", alien beings that commune their will. Most Empyreans and Fingers are associated with the Greater Will, which is the dominant power in this world, but the Frenzied Flame and Goddess of Rot also exists in the background, irrelevant to this ending.
Basically: the Dark Moon is a force that is different from the Greater Will. The Greater will represents order, and dominates the world through the Erdtree and its Vassal, Marika. They did this through the Elden Ring-the order of the world, minus the Rune of Death, which was entrusted to Marika's brother. The Dark Moon, as much as we know, represents a journey into the unknown and terrifying future, but one which *can* be completed.
Marika was the God of the Greater will, an Empyrean who was raised to true Godhood at the Erdtree. She represents the order of the world. Her husband, the Elden Lord, is the master of the age, and to be Elden Lord is to be husband to Marika. Her children by various lords are the demigods.
There are three lineages. The first is the lineage of Godfrey, who was Marika's first husband. He was a mighty warrior who fell out of favor due to defeating all his foes. Morgott, Mohg, and Godric the Grafted are all part of this lineage-the traditional descent, so to speak, is this one. The greatest of these was Godwyn, who is dead at the time of the game. Godfrey is eventually "tarnished", sent away to conquer other lands, because he's no longer needed. You are a tarnished like Godfrey-a naturally immortal warrior.
The second was Radagon Via Rennala. Rennala was a legendary sorceress and master of Moon magic, and her academy was conquered peacefully by the vassals of the Greater Will when she married Radagon. Her children are Rykard, Radahn, and Ranni. We care most about Ranni.
The third was Radagon and Marika; Radagon married Marika, and proceeded to become Elden Lord. His previous children were "adopted" into demigodhood. These include Miquella and Malenia, whom are cursed, but could have been the greatest of the lineages.
Now, this seems straightforward, however there are cracks here.
First off, Rennala was abandoned by Radagon and went a wee bit mad, hence why she's making "sweetlings" and trying to rebirth her children. Ranni hated this, and this is where her motivation to tear down the shackles of fate comes from.
Second, Marika and Radagon *are the same fucking person* . I.E. Radagon is an alter ego of Marika, split from the original, to go wander the world as a man. Literally, Marika split her masculine half off to get laid because she didn't like her role in the order. Hence why Rennala's children are actually Demigods-and why the children of Radagon and Marika are all cursed but have been particularly holy, *both* their parents are *the same God* .
So Ranni, learning that there are alternative forces to the Greater Will such as the Dark Moon, steals the cursemark of death from Marika's brother with Marika's help, and kills both her body and Godwyn's soul. Marika, because, during, and leading up to this, has given the fuck up on everything. Her children are cursed, evil, messed up and killing each other, so who can blame her. Also, she abandoned her lovely moon wife to fuck herself out of duty.
*She* shatters the elden ring, and boom, bang, the world breaks. Radagon, her husband alter-ego, decides to keep the Elden ring intact. Yes, they are still the same person, think of it as a cry for help suicide attempt-it's irrational by design. This fucks up death, the world, and everyone. Undead are common, death doesen't quite work, and everyone loses their shit.
The remaining demigods try to reunite the elden ring, but the effect of Malenia and Radahn fighting unleashes scarlet rot, and definitively ends any possibility of the demigods succeeding. Radahn in his madness locks away the stars, taking Ranni out of the fight and screwing her plans. Miquella, the last, best hope, is kidnapped and raped by his incestuous uncle Mohg before he can fix his sister. The world. Is. Fucked.
Enter the tarnished. You're someone who is supposed to be immortal, one of Godfrey's ilk who was meant to be a warrior to go and conquer the world. You eventually find Ranni, who gives you your horse. You locate the body her puppet is possessing, and defeat Radahn. You give her a blade imbued with death, letting her kill the two fingers which was supposed to control a Shepard her. You defeat Blaidd, her consort who was there to kill her if she stepped out of line, and you marry Ranni. You are rejected by the Erdtree, but force your way in anyway.
Finally, you defeat Marika and the Elden God at the heart of the Erdtree and stand posed to become Elden Lord, but you devote the victory to Ranni instead. She banishes her Father/Mother, and destroys the Erdtree completely. Souls now, instead of going to the Erdtree to be reborn, and sheparded into the vast unknown of the Moonlight, a new order different and unknown, terrifying and cold...But with a wife who cares for you, as her consort, to meet this future with you.
Same
I thankfully got Ranni's ending... it just seemed the most peaceful and cathartic ending. I mean... i really hoped she was being "poetic" when talking about that path of fear, loneliness and darkness... but I loved it.
I saw somewhere that her dialogue is actually a mistranslation from the original Japanese version. What is actually implied to happen is that you and Ranni leave the world to take the Golden Order far out of the reach of anyone, leaving those you leave behind to start again and be free without the gods interfering. Fear, doubt, and loneliness I guess refers to them having to do things on their own without anyone to guide them, but also not control them.
Man for such an epic game these endings are surprisingly under-whelming.
Ok
The Journey is the Destination.
Yea fr 100hrs of pain to get 20s cutscenes (i got age of order) pretty underwhelming, maybe the DLC will expand on them but I hold no hope. Also, I wanted some end game playing as Elden Lord, goddamn.
Yeah Fromsoft endings are never great, but these were kind of mediocre
Huh?? This is not a narrative oriented game tho?
Patches ending is long overdue. "Our seed will look back and recall, The Age of Wheelin' Dealin' and Kickin' off cliffs."
What's interesting to me, is how much brighter the Erdtree is in the Goldmask ending.
Well from what ive read that would make sense. The erdtree is more powerful here because the rune of death has been replaced with the rune of perfect order, meaning souls will be funneled to it once more. Not only that but the greater will would have re-asserted its control over the world, which may have some implications for the tree.
I did Ranni's and the basic ending, and my goal was to do all of them but after seeing the others I'd rather not. I don't really like the evil ones tbh.
Flame of Frenzy Ending is cool looking ngl.
I was wanna do every ending but bruh all of them are the same but change the edtree color
Flame of Frenzy also has a secret part that only happens if you are the one who light the Erdtree instead of Melina and it makes it the coolest ending in my opinion
What makes you think Ranni isnt evil?
Age of order is the best
Blessing of Despair, Age of Order, Age of Duskborn: Can I copy your homework?
Age of Fracture: Yeah, just change it a bit so it's not obvious.
The souls endings have never been too grand but going practically full Mass Effect on our asses was unexpected.
Lord of the Frenzied Flame ending is my favourite because it's so reminiscent of the first Dark Souls ending.
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i absolutely love the detail on the narrator
in frenzy flame, he's not even there, it's is dead silent, as it is the end of the world
in blessing of despair, the narrator sounds like he's in despair and on the verge of crying, as he has a slight pause as he speaks
in age of duskborn, the narrator sounds mournful, as it is the age of death
in age of order, the narrator sounds proud and happy, as it is a good age
and in age of fracture, the narrator sounds neutral
Game could have just said "GOD FELLED. YOU ARE ELDEN LORD." and ran the credits and it would still be the same as these lackluster endings.
I'm waiting for the 'Age of Maidens' ending tbh. Where we become Elden Lord and have a Harem with all the maidens we met throughout the game!
Man when I heard about all the different endings I kinda thought there'd be a little more to em than that
I love how for the normal ending you just have the godskin outfit
All these endings are just so underwhelming for an otherwise amazing game.
Yup I agree.
i started the frenzied flame path, tamed it with the needle, and then did Ranni's ending. Fire Lord and Ice Lady. Duality, baby.
Perfect ending. You use the frenzy flame to burn the erdtree then use miquela’s needle to tame it then do the gold mask order ending.
I do not play Elden ring but I have just been sucked into it’s lore and I am Loving it.
Same
The extra work for the cutscenes for ranni shows that she’s the true ending
and the frenzied flame?
@@techorix my guess? The bad ending?
@@rubydaberry8563 hey man I went through the effort of helping her throughout her journey and she literally gifted me an epic sword in return, it would be rude not to go for her