Elden Ring

by FromSoftware

A collaboration between FromSoftware and George R.R. Martin, Elden Ring is an open-world action RPG set in the Lands Between. After the Ring is shattered, you — a Tarnished — must collect shards from demigod children of Queen Marika and become Elden Lord.

90 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Malenia, Blade of Miquella — Undefeated swordswoman and Empyrean cursed with the scarlet rot — she traded her body piece by piece to contain the plague within her, yet became its
• Starscourge Radahn — The mightiest demigod general, who learned gravitational sorcery not for war but to keep riding his beloved horse — then used it to hold back the star
• Morgott, the Omen King — The last king of Leyndell — an Omen born cursed, shunned by the Golden Order he spent his entire life defending. He loved a kingdom that would never l
• Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon — Once the most powerful sorcerer-queen in the Lands Between, now a broken mother cradling an amber egg in a flooded library, endlessly rebirthing her c
• Godrick the Grafted — The weakest scion of the golden lineage, who butchered countless warriors and stitched their limbs onto his own body in a pathetic, grotesque bid for
• Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy — A demigod who fed himself to the God-Devouring Serpent so they could consume the gods together — his human face still surfaces from the snake's throat
• Mohg, Lord of Blood — An Omen prince who embraced his cursed blood, built a dynasty in the darkness beneath the earth, and kidnapped his own half-brother Miquella to crown
• Radagon / Queen Marika — Two beings sharing one body — Marika the golden goddess who shattered the Elden Ring in despair, and Radagon the red-haired warrior who tried desperat
• Miquella the Kind — An eternally childlike Empyrean whose gentle demeanor masks the most dangerous mind in the Lands Between — he can compel devotion from anyone, and his
• Ranni the Witch — An Empyrean who murdered her own body to escape the Greater Will's plan for her, orchestrated the theft of the Rune of Death, and now inhabits a porce
• Blaidd the Half-Wolf — Ranni's shadow — a wolf-headed knight forged by the Greater Will to serve and surveil her, whose love for his mistress overrides his programmed purpos
• Melina — A bodiless maiden who offers her guidance in exchange for passage to the Erdtree — her one sealed eye hides a purpose she will not speak, and the ashe
• Alexander, Iron Fist — A living warrior jar stuffed with the compacted remains of fallen champions — boisterous, honor-obsessed, and determined to become the mightiest jar w
• Fia, Deathbed Companion — A serene woman who embraces the living to steal their warmth and channels it into the dead — seeking to restore the Rune of Death and birth a Lord of
• Godfrey, First Elden Lord — The first Tarnished and the first Elden Lord — a conqueror who suppressed his berserker nature behind a lion spirit, was exiled by his own wife when p
• Patches — The eternal coward and con artist of the FromSoft universe — bald, scheming, and perpetually one kick away from sending you off a cliff before groveli
• Millicent — A red-haired, one-armed warrior searching for her origin — born from Malenia's scarlet rot as a 'bud,' she retraces the Blade of Miquella's steps to d
• Nepheli Loux — A fierce warrior woman carrying Godfrey's bloodline, wielding twin hand axes and fighting for the downtrodden — she eventually claims the throne of St
• Goldmask — An emaciated, motionless prophet who communicates only through finger movements — standing for ages on bridges and hilltops, working out the mathemati
• Smithing Master Hewg — A Misbegotten smith chained to his anvil at the Roundtable Hold, compelled by a divine command to forge a weapon capable of killing a god — his memory
• Sir Gideon Ofnir, the All-Knowing — The Roundtable Hold's spymaster and scholar, who investigated every demigod and every path to the Elden Ring — only to conclude that no Tarnished shou
• Rogier — A kind sorcerer-knight slowly dying from deathroot corruption after investigating the Night of the Black Knives — he spends his final days helping the
• Hyetta — A blind maiden who eats eyes to see, consuming Shabriri Grapes along her pilgrimage until she becomes the vessel of the Frenzied Flame — the Three Fin
• Sellen — A brilliant primeval sorcerer expelled from Raya Lucaria for studying the stars too closely — her quest to understand the cosmos ends in horrific tran
• Tanith — The elegant, manipulative leader of Volcano Manor who directs its assassination network — devotedly serving Rykard's cause and, after his death, eatin
• Boc the Seamster — A timid demi-human seamster desperate to be beautiful — he alters garments with gentle skill and calls you 'Master,' seeking validation in a world tha
• Gurranq, Beast Clergyman — A massive beast in Caelid who devours deathroot to contain the spread of death — actually Maliketh before his transformation, struggling against the c
• Margit, the Fell Omen — The Tarnished's first true wall — a disguised Morgott who bars the path to Stormveil Castle, testing whether the graceless warriors returning to the L
• Maliketh, the Black Blade — Marika's shadow and the keeper of Destined Death — a beast clergyman who sealed death itself within his black blade, only to watch it stolen and used
• Fire Giant — The last of his kind — a titan chained to the Mountaintops of the Giants to tend the Forge of the Giants forever, sole survivor of a genocide committe
• Dragonlord Placidusax — A two-headed dragon who served as Elden Lord in an age before the Erdtree — now waiting in the ruins of Farum Azula, frozen in time, for a god who wil
• Lichdragon Fortissax — A noble dragon who descended into Godwyn's deathbed to fight the death blight consuming him — and failed, becoming infected herself, now a lichdragon
• Godwyn the Golden — The first demigod to die — murdered in soul by the Black Knives on the Night that shattered everything, his body refused to follow, and from his undyi
• The Greater Will — The absent Outer God that sent the Elden Beast to the Lands Between and established the Golden Order — communicating through Two Fingers, demanding ob
• The Frenzied Flame — An Outer God of primordial chaos that speaks through Three Fingers deep beneath the capital — it wants to melt all life, all separation, all individua
• Messmer the Impaler — Marika's hidden son — a red-haired warrior with serpent's fire sent to purge the Land of Shadow, whose atrocities were buried by history and whose loy
• Needle Knight Leda — A silver-haired knight who followed Miquella into the Land of Shadow with absolute devotion — whether that devotion is freely given or compelled by Mi
• Bayle the Dread — An ancient, monstrous dragon of terrible power who tore the leg from Placidusax's consort and terrorizes the Land of Shadow — a primal force of destru
• Midra, Lord of Frenzied Flame — A scholar who studied the Frenzied Flame too deeply and was consumed by it — an enormous, burning eye erupts from his skull as he becomes the lord of
• Romina, Saint of the Bud — A butterfly-winged warrior who guards the path to Miquella in the Land of Shadow — connected to the scarlet rot through beauty rather than horror, she
• D, Hunter of the Dead — A gold-masked knight who hunts Those Who Live in Death alongside his twin brother — devoted to the Golden Order's decree that death should be final, p
• Rya — A polite young woman who recruits for Volcano Manor — unaware that she is actually Zorayas, a serpent-born creature, and that the organization she ser
• Diallos Hoslow — A nobleman desperate to prove himself a worthy warrior, failing at every turn — he ends his journey in Jarburg, dying to protect the gentle jar-folk h
• Seluvis — A Carian sorcerer who secretly transforms people into mindless puppets for his collection — cruel, arrogant, and operating his own agenda within Ranni
• The Formless Mother — An Outer God of blood and open wounds who reached through the bars of Mohg's prison to grant him power — the patron deity of hemorrhage, feeding on th

Locations

• Limgrave — Golden fields stretching beneath the Erdtree's radiance, where crumbling ruins and ancient churches dot a landscape that was once the heart of a kingd
• Liurnia of the Lakes — A vast shallow lake blanketed in spectral mist, with the Academy of Raya Lucaria perched on an island at its center. The full moon hangs low over Cari
• Caelid — Scarlet rot wasteland where the sky bleeds crimson and the land itself is dying. The battlefield where Radahn and Malenia tore each other apart, and w
• Altus Plateau — Highland farmland and windmill villages leading to the royal capital. Golden and beautiful on the surface, crawling with soldiers and grotesque enemie
• Mt. Gelmir — Volcanic region of lava flows and sulfurous fumes, home to the Volcano Manor and the blasphemous serpent cult of Praetor Rykard.
• Mountaintops of the Giants — Frozen, windswept peaks where the last remnants of the Fire Giants dwell. Ancient ruins stand half-buried in snow, and the Flame of the Fell God still
• Leyndell, Royal Capital — The golden city built among the Erdtree's roots. Seat of the Golden Order's power, defended by golden-armored knights and the remnants of divine autho
• Crumbling Farum Azula — Floating ruins suspended above a perpetual storm where time itself has broken. The ancient seat of dragonkind, where Dragonlord Placidusax waits in th
• Stormveil Castle — Massive cliff-side fortress battered by eternal winds, seat of Godrick the Grafted. Every surface bears evidence of his obsession — limbs stitched to
• Academy of Raya Lucaria — Sorcery academy sealed on an island in Liurnia's lake, accessible only with a Glintstone Key. Its scholars turned inward long ago, pursuing knowledge
• Redmane Castle — Southern Caelid fortress where the Radahn Festival is held — a celebration disguised as a mercy killing, where warriors gather to grant Starscourge Ra
• Volcano Manor — A mansion of dark elegance built inside Mt. Gelmir, hosting a society of assassins who hunt Tarnished for sport. Beneath its refined parlors, Praetor
• Miquella's Haligtree — A replacement Erdtree grown by Miquella for those rejected by the Golden Order — the Omen, the Albinaurics, the afflicted. The rot has corrupted it fr
• Mohgwyn Palace — Underground blood-drenched cathedral where Mohg, Lord of Blood, has built his Dynasty of the coming age. The palace reeks of ritual sacrifice, its arc
• Erdtree Sanctuary — The interior of the Erdtree itself — the Elden Throne where Radagon and the Elden Beast wait. The final confrontation at the heart of all things.
• Roundtable Hold — Gathering place for Tarnished champions, existing in a space apart from the Lands Between. A warm hearth, a smithing table, merchants and warriors res
• Siofra River — A vast underground region illuminated by a false starlit sky. Ancestral followers guard ruins older than the Erdtree, and the river flows through cave
• Ainsel River — Underground waterways teeming with giant ants and claustrophobic tunnels. Ranni's questline threads through here, leading toward the Lake of Rot and N
• Deeproot Depths — The rotting roots of the Erdtree reaching deep underground, where Godwyn the Golden's death-blighted body has fused with the tree itself. Death blight
• Nokron, Eternal City — Underground city revealed when Radahn's defeat releases the stars and a meteor smashes open the earth above Limgrave. Home to Mimic Tears and ancestra
• Church of Elleh — Crumbling church in western Limgrave, the first safe haven for newly arrived Tarnished. Merchant Kale waits here with his donkey, offering supplies an
• Ranni's Rise — A solitary tower in northwest Liurnia, shrouded in mist. Where Ranni the Witch dwells in her doll body and recruits the Tarnished for the grandest con
• The Erdtree — Colossal golden tree dominating the Lands Between, visible from every corner of the world. Vessel of the Elden Ring, source of the Erdtree's Grace, an
• Divine Towers — Massive towers scattered across the Lands Between, each connected to a demigod's Great Rune. Only by ascending these towers can a Tarnished activate t
• Land of Shadow — A hidden land concealed behind the Erdtree where Marika buried her sins. The sun is perpetually eclipsed, and Messmer the Impaler rules from his fortr
• Shadow Keep — Messmer's towering fortress in the Land of Shadow. The Specimen Storehouse within holds the horrors of Marika's purge — preserved bodies, failed exper
• Scaduview — Open field region of the Land of Shadow. Jagged cliffs beneath an eclipsed sky, ancient cathedral ruins, and the remnants of the Hornsent civilization
• Castle Sol — Frozen fortress in the Mountaintops of the Giants, guarding the path to the Consecrated Snowfield and, beyond it, the Haligtree. Commander Niall and h
• Nokstella, Eternal City — The second underground Eternal City, filled with Silver Tears that mimic living forms and illuminated by false stars. Quieter than Nokron, more melanc
• Jarburg — A peaceful settlement of living jars nestled in the cliffs of the Altus Plateau. The jars tend flowers and live simply, unaware that their bodies are

Items

• The Elden Ring — The source of the Erdtree's power and the governing force of all natural law in the Lands Between. Shattered by Queen Marika into Great Runes distribu
• Great Runes — Shards of the Elden Ring, each held by a demigod and granting a specific aspect of divine power. Must be activated at a Divine Tower to unlock their b
• Rivers of Blood — A katana that weeps crimson with each swing, its blade channeling the hemorrhagic arts of the Lord of Blood. Okina's weapon, and the most feared armam
• Moonveil — A katana forged with Carian sorcery, channeling moonlight through its sheath into devastating magic slashes. The marriage of swordsmanship and sorcery
• Blasphemous Blade — A greatsword wreathed in blasphemous flame, born from Rykard's remembrance. It heals its wielder with every kill — the God-Devouring Serpent's hunger
• Hand of Malenia — Malenia's signature katana — her prosthetic blade replacing the arm the rot consumed. Its Waterfowl Dance is the most devastating weapon art in the La
• Starscourge Greatsword — Paired colossal swords wielding gravity magic, the weapons of Starscourge Radahn. He learned gravity sorcery so his horse could carry him, and used it
• Grafted Blade Greatsword — A colossal sword made from dozens of weapons melted and grafted together. Godrick's philosophy in weapon form — if you cannot be great, graft greatnes
• Flask of Wondrous Physick — A customizable flask mixed from Crystal Tears found at Minor Erdtrees throughout the Lands Between. Each combination produces a unique effect — the Er
• Remembrances — Crystallized memories of defeated demigods, manifesting as luminous spheres. Can be traded at the Roundtable Hold for the demigod's signature weapon o
• Spirit Ashes — Summoning items that call forth the spirits of defeated warriors and creatures to fight alongside the Tarnished. The Mimic Tear — a spirit that copies
• Reduvia — A curved dagger that flings arcs of blood with each skill use. Favored by Bloody Finger assassins who serve Mohg's dynasty, its edge never dulls becau
• Golden Order Seal — Sacred seal for casting incantations of the Golden Order — the Erdtree's faith made manifest. Scales with both faith and intelligence, reflecting the
• Miquella's Needle — An unalloyed gold needle crafted by Miquella to suppress the influence of Outer Gods. The only known method of resisting the Frenzied Flame once it ha
• Scarlet Aeonia — The incantation of Malenia's ultimate bloom — she flowers into the Goddess of Rot incarnate, creating a massive explosion of scarlet corruption. Used

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