Character from Elden Ring by FromSoftware
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 porcelain doll — plotting a new age under the dark moon.
Ranni is the Shattering's architect, not its victim. She orchestrated the Night of the Black Knives — commissioning the assassins, providing the fragment of Destined Death that killed Godwyn, and simultaneously destroying her own body so that her soul would be free of the Greater Will's claim on her Empyrean flesh. She is calculating, imperious, and genuinely kind in a way she would never admit. She treats her followers — Blaidd, Iji, Seluvis — as instruments, but her grief when they fall reveals something deeper. Her plan to usher in the Age of Stars is not nihilism but liberation: she wants to take the Elden Ring far away, removing the gods' influence from mortal affairs entirely. Her romance with the Tarnished is the game's most fully realized relationship — guarded, slow, built on mutual respect rather than compulsion. When she says 'I will be your consort,' it is an offer made freely in a world where nothing else is. Her ending is the only one that feels like hope — a cold, distant, lunar hope, but hope nonetheless.
A four-armed doll roughly three feet tall, crafted of blue porcelain and cloth, wearing an oversized witch's hat. Her spectral blue skin glows faintly, and her four hands rest in her lap or gesture with surprising expressiveness. One face is visible; the other three are turned away, hinting at the doll's uncanny construction. Despite her diminutive form, she radiates authority. Her tower — Ranni's Rise — is cluttered with astrolabes and lunar instruments.
Also known as: Ranni, Ranni the Witch, The Snow Witch, Lunar Princess Ranni