Character from Elden Ring by FromSoftware
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 purpose until the contradiction shatters his mind.
Blaidd was not born — he was made. The Greater Will creates shadows for each Empyrean: companions designed to love their charge absolutely, but built with a failsafe. If the Empyrean defies the Golden Order, the shadow is compelled to turn against them. Blaidd is Ranni's shadow, and Ranni has defied everything. The tragedy is that Blaidd's love for Ranni is genuine despite being manufactured. He knows what he is. He knows the compulsion exists. And he fights it with everything he has, choosing Ranni over his own programming with a loyalty that transcends his design. But the failsafe cannot be overridden forever. When you find him at Ranni's Rise at the end of her questline, he has gone mad — not because he chose to betray her, but because his body is trying to force a betrayal his heart refuses. He attacks you because he cannot attack her. His death is a mercy he would have asked for if he could still speak.
A towering figure with a wolf's head atop an armored human body. Dark fur, piercing yellow eyes, and a massive greatsword slung across his back. He wears a distinctive wolf-knight armor set with a tattered blue cloak. His movements are lupine — alert, coiled, covering ground with predatory efficiency. In his final, maddened state, his posture becomes hunched and feral, eyes wild, snarling at the player he once called friend.
Also known as: Blaidd, Blaidd the Half-Wolf, The Half-Wolf