Location from Elden Ring by FromSoftware
Underground waterways teeming with giant ants and claustrophobic tunnels. Ranni's questline threads through here, leading toward the Lake of Rot and Nokstella beyond.
Underground waterways teeming with giant ants and claustrophobic tunnels. Ranni's questline threads through here, leading toward the Lake of Rot and Nokstella beyond. Where Siofra is grand and open, Ainsel is constricted and hostile. The river here runs through tunnels carved by water and time, infested with ants the size of horses that build hive structures from the corpses of previous explorers. Claymen shamble through the shallows. The architecture is functional rather than beautiful — aqueducts, drainage systems, infrastructure for a civilization that needed to manage vast underground water flows. Ranni's quest brings the Tarnished here carrying a miniature doll of the witch herself, and in the depths of Ainsel, the doll speaks — revealing fragments of Ranni's true plan. The path leads eventually to the Lake of Rot, a vast underground reservoir of scarlet corruption, and beyond it to Nokstella, the second Eternal City.
Also known as: Ainsel, Ainsel River Main, Ainsel River Well