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The second of Elden Ring 's Full Moons is Ranni's Dark Moon. In her Legendary sorcery's description, Ranni discovered this moon alongside her mother Rennala at a young age. Different from Rennala's charming Full Moon, it is said that Ranni found in her Dark Moon something " cold, dark, and veiled in occult myster

When NieR:Automata developer PlatinumGames released the action RPG Babylon's Fall in March 2022, the expectations were high, because of the standards that Automata had set for the studio and for gamers. Instead, the game received a largely negative reception when it came out, and has had an abysmally low player ba

Initially believed to be an Easter egg, the texture for the Dark Souls chests was removed from most of the Elden Ring chests that had it. This means the textures were most likely placeholders that were missed before the game's rele

Glintstone sorceries are more prevalent in Elden Ring namely because there are more stars than there are moons. Indeed, some of these sorceries find their source in the very first stars in the Elden Ring universe. Such sorceries are known as Primeval Sorceries. They hold some controversy among magic-users, however, as both former Raya Lucaria grand masters and Primeval sorcerers Lusat and Azur were banished from the Academy for use of the Primeval Curr

One of the central inclusions in both Elden Ring _ and Bethesda's seminal 2011 release The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim _ is the now-ubiquitous open-world map. As massive, highly detailed video games, both of these iconic releases place a heavy emphasis on things like scale, side activities, and traversal, with FromSoftware and Bethesda introducing innovation to the open-world formula in several ways. Connections have been drawn between Skyrim and Elden Ring locations like Blackreach , but there are many other ways in which the two games differ when it comes to their iconic m

Again, Skyrim represents a huge step forward when it comes to exploration. The game offers a number of sights and touchstones that can be discovered organically, while also featuring many secrets and lore-rich areas that are connected to its many quests. By the time most players finish with Skyrim , the in-game map will be littered with fast-travel markers tied to cities, ruins, monuments, and much m

The map of Skyrim is undoubtedly vast and variable, but Elden Ring 's the Lands Between has it beat. Players won't know exactly how big Elden Ring Bosses Ring 's map is at first, which makes its diversity even more astonishing. Whereas Skyrim offers visual diversity between its most important settlements, Elden Ring 's many locations have differences that are far more than surface-deep. For example, Noskella, Eternal City has almost nothing in common with Leyndell, as the former is a subterranean, dark, menacing landscape while the former is a regal and pristine metropolis. These opposing styles are evidenced through each city's unique art style, but also through their environment design, with Leyndell being far more open and sprawling and Noskella is more linear, with a greater focus on verticality and complex, Gothic architecture that highlights its incomprehensible nature. This difference is also present in the enemy types of each location (shining knights in Leyndell, giant bugs in Noskel

Although, there are a few chests that still have the Dark Souls texture even after patch 1.03. Either these ones were missed, or these chests were indeed intended to be Easter eggs. Either way, it was removed from most che

The sorceries of **Elden Ring ** 's magic system are vast and varied. There are many schools of thought when it comes to Intelligence-based wizardry in the Lands Between, with some finding power in the moon while others find it in the stars. Consequently, there are long histories and traditions surrounding the different sorceries that explain where they come from and how they funct

Volcano Manor is full of dark secrets , but this illusory wall is more fun than it is dark. This wall took many more hits to break than other breakable objects in the game. The reason seems to be that the developers didn't intend for it to be breaka

At the start of Elden Ring, the Lands Between are scarred by war and haunted by the faded remains of imperial glory. Before the Night of the Black Knives, the shattering of the Elden Ring , and the civil war between rival Demigods, an imperial monarchy-slash-religious creed called the Golden Order united the myriad cultures of the Lands Between under its auspices. The Erdtree and dragon-worshiping nobles of Leyndell, the stone-masked sorcerers of Raya Lucaria and Selia, the oppressed demi-humans and Misbegotten underclasses – each of these species and cultures had a place and role within the Golden Order, and show up in Elden Ring proper as both wandering enemies and stout all

The expanse of Elden Ring's world means there are plenty of places to stumble upon, or NPCs players might accidentally kill . In this case, players found some branches that allowed them to get over the wall to Selia, getting behind the town, which were then removed in patch 1.03. Interestingly, there are still skips that work for getting into Selia in manners similar to the branches. It might have been more efficient for the developers to add an invisible wall to block all versions of the skip, but they chose not to do