Elden Ring has several NPCs that can only be summoned when certain steps are taken. Players going through their first few playthroughs of Elden Ring may miss these important steps and not have the chance to summon a certain NPC. Other NPCs can only be summoned when specific choices are made that will drastically alter the game’s storyl

NPC summons is a common feature of Soulsborne games. Many times, these NPCs can be encountered in certain locations and will only move when the player has progressed to a new area. Other times, these NPCs will tell the player they are looking for something or someone, and the player can assist the NPCs. Moving these NPCs along and helping them may be essential to their questline, which many players may want to complete. There is also a chance that players can accidentally kill an Elden Ring N

The Dark Souls , Bloodborne (and more) __ fan art kickstarter was fully funded in just one hour. The Irish small press, Tune & Fairweather, partnered with the kickstarter to create the physical deluxe-edition, large-format art book, Soul Arts . Tune & Fairweather previously published the acclaimed Dark Souls book You Died , a companion book to the Dark Souls video game. The final product of Soul Arts contains 256 pages of full-color illustrations, a foreword, and detailed descriptions of the game concepts and art. Within the Soul Arts book, the passion, adoration, and innovation of FromSoftware fans is on full disp

When creating an Elden Ring character , players can choose from a set of default physical templates. One of these templates is called Numen, a race of people described as " supposed descendants of denizens of another world. Long-lived but seldom born ." The shaggy hair and sharp brow of this character template bears a strong resemblance to modern day reconstructions of Neanderthals, an ancient subspecies of archaic human from the Stone Age. Rather than being brutish primitives, however, the Numen of Elden Ring seem to occupy the same role as elves do in other fantasy RPGs - that is, humanoids of low fertility, long lifespans, and deep wells of wisdom and knowle

Queen Marika the Eternal, founder and destroyer of the Golden Order, shattered the Elden Ring using a "s tone hammer made in the lands of the Numen, outside the Lands Between. " __ The armor set of the Black Knife Assassins, cutthroats who murdered Godwyn the Golden and catalyzed the Shattering, describes the assassins as " all women, and rumored to be Numen who had close ties with Marika herself. " Aside from hinting at Marika's active role in the murder of her own son, these weapon/armor descriptions imply that Marika herself was one of the Numen, and first came to the Lands Between from the country (or world) where the Numen dwelled. There are no clues in the story or endings of **Elden Ring ** __ about what the Lands of the Numen look like or what culture the Numen possess. If Queen Marika and her Black Knife cohorts are typical of their people, though, the Numen seem to be very ambitious and willing to catastrophically meddle in the affairs of both humans and g

The Dung Eater is a terrifying Elden Ring NPC . He can first be encountered in the Roundtable Hold, and then later in the Subterranean Shunning-Ground. If players complete their quest, the Dung Eater will reward them with the Mending Rune of the Fell Curse. This rune can be used to unlock one of the game’s five endi

Originally released in 2009, then later remastered for the Playstation 5 in 2020, Demon’s Souls was the first Souls game ever released. Demon's Souls ' Boletaria, before the colorless fog, was an entirely different land than the five worlds to explore in the game. By defeating bosses, various Archstones become available which allow the return to the Nexus. Originally, FromSoftware __ had planned on having a total of six chief Archstones, but had to scrap the final one due to time restraints. The sixth Archstone appears in Demon’s Souls as a broken artifact that cannot be used. In Soul Arts, a section is dedicated to art that imagines what the world of the Northern Limit and sixth Archstone could look like-from different territories, creatures, and battles, and what their backstories might ent

After defeating Godfrey, the First Elden Lord in his persona of Hoarah Loux, Elden Ring players will receive a Remembrance with the following description: " When Godfrey, first Elden Lord was robbed of his grace, becoming Tarnished, he took with him his kinfolk and left the Lands Between. After the Long March of the Tarnished came to an end, Godfrey divested himself of kingship, becoming a simple warrior once mor

The rich, detailed world-building of Elden Ring guide Ring stems from two creative sources. The mythology, prehistory, and semi-divine champions of Elden Ring were designed by George R.R. Martin, author of the dark fantasy novel series A Song of Ice And Fire . Hidetaka Miyazaki and other convention-beaking Elden Ring developers then took Martin's base setting and used it to create the beautifully ruined Lands Between setting players encounter at the start of a playthrough: a once-prosperous kingdom torn apart by a civil war fought between the Demigod children of Queen Marika, haunted by strange monsters and alien beings, with secretive conspiracies searching for the power and methods needed to create a new