Endings

The Throne at the foot of the Erdtree awaits a new Elden Lord.

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The fallen leaves tell a story. Of how a Tarnished became Elden Lord. - Narrator

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The fallen leaves tell a story. Of how a Tarnished became Elden Lord.- Narrator

This page provides an overview of the endings in Elden Ring. Players have six options to conclude the game: the Age of Fracture, Age of Order, Age of the Duskborn, Blessing of Despair, Age of the Stars, or the Lord of Frenzied Flame.

Overview

The various endings in Elden Ring are tied to choices made by the player throughout their journey, as well as optional questlines. These outcomes define the fate of the Lands Between, and the role the Tarnished assumes as Queen Marika's Elden Lord or otherwise. Each ending represents the Tarnished brandishing the Elden Ring and ushering in their new Age.

Note: Receiving the Flame of Frenzy from the Three Fingers in the Frenzied Flame Proscription will lock the player out of all endings except the Lord of Frenzied Flame ending. This restriction can be lifted by using Miquella's Needle when prompted at Dragonlord Placidusax's boss arena, however, doing so will permanently lock the player out of the Lord of Frenzied Flame ending.

Choosing an Ending

After defeating the final boss, the Tarnished will return to a room containing Marika's statue and a nearby Grace. If Ranni's questline has been completed, her summon sign will also appear near the Fractured Marika statue. At this point, the player can choose an ending by interacting with either Marika's statue or, if available, Ranni's summon sign.

If the Tarnished possesses the Frenzied Flame, Ranni's summon sign will not appear unless the Frenzied Flame has been removed using Miquella's Needle. In this scenario, the only option is to interact with Marika's statue, which automatically triggers the Lord of Frenzied Flame ending, offering no alternative choices.

Without the Frenzied Flame, interacting with Marika's statue presents the option to select one of three possible mending runes obtained during the Tarnished's journey. Choosing a rune initiates the corresponding ending: Age of Order, Age of the Duskborn, or Blessing of Despair. Alternatively, players can choose to "Mend the Elden Ring" without a rune, resulting in the Age of Fracture ending.

If Ranni's summon sign is present and selected instead of Marika's statue, the Age of the Stars ending will begin.

Regardless of the choice, the nearby Site of Grace allows the player to teleport elsewhere and return later, postponing the ending and enabling continued exploration.

To start a New Game Plus, an ending must be selected. After the end credits, players can choose "Begin Journey X" or return later to the Roundtable Hold Grace to initiate the new playthrough.

List of endings

Title	Description	Requirements
Age of Fracture	Legacy of Marika. Inherit a fractured world and be the ruler of a new Age. Mend the Elden Ring as is, brandish it, and become Elden Lord.	Attempt to mend the Elden Ring at Fractured Marika to finish the game.
Age of Order	Legacy of Goldmask. The Golden Order, perfected. Gods and demigods perturb order, and their fickleness is no better than that of men. With them out of the equation, the new Age of Order shall finally bring true Order to all.	Complete Goldmask's questline and use the Mending Rune of Perfect Order to finish the game.
Age of the Duskborn	Legacy of the Prince of Death and Fia, Deathbed Companion. Those Who Live in Death have every right to life. Forge a new Order of Death restored and rule as Elden Lord in the Age of the Duskborn, where the Dead shall live alongside the living.	Complete Fia's questline and use the Mending Rune of the Death-Prince to finish the game.
Blessing of Despair	Legacy of the Dung Eater. Curse life itself; the world's children, grandchildren, and every generation hence, will be its pustules. And yet with Order itself defiled, defilement will be defilement no more, and every curse will be a cursed blessing.	Complete the Dung Eater's questline and use the Mending Rune of the Fell Curse to finish the game.
Age of the Stars	Legacy of Ranni the Witch. Under the wisdom of the Dark Moon, the Elden Lord will take a thousand-year voyage into the chill night alongside Ranni. Even if life and souls are one with the order, it will be out of sight, emotion, faith, and touch.	Complete Ranni's questline and touch her blue summon sign near Fractured Marika to finish the game.
Lord of Frenzied Flame	Legacy of Shabriri and the Three Fingers. As the Lord of Frenzied Flame, all life shall burn. Burn all that divides and distinguishes. May chaos take the world!	Visit the Three Fingers to inherit the Frenzied Flame, then finish the game without using Miquella's Needle.

Elden Lord

The Age of Fracture, Age of Order, Age of the Duskborn, and Blessing of Despair endings all result in the Tarnished becoming Marika's new Elden Lord. Each offers a different interpretation of Marika's vision for the Golden Order, mending the Elden Ring and ushering in their new Age of choice to rule over.

Age of Fracture

In the Age of Fracture ending, the Tarnished becomes Elden Lord without adding any special Mending Runes to the Elden Ring. In doing so, they fulfill the Two Fingers' plans of using the Tarnished to restore the sense of stability not felt since the Elden Ring was shattered. The Golden Order remains in the truest state possible to what it once was and the status quo is restored.

Age of Order

The Tarnished becomes Elden Lord, fulfilling Goldmask's idea of a "Perfect" Golden Order based on his research into how it had fallen to its current state. Realizing that the Golden Order's imperfections stemmed from the fickleness of the gods, who, in fact, were no better than men, Goldmask's new transcendental ideology attempts to bring true order to the Lands Between.

Age of the Duskborn

The Tarnished becomes Elden Lord, wielding the rune born from Fia and the Prince of Death's union. Just as the Golden Order had been created by confining the Rune of Death, the Tarnished creates a new order of death restored. The principle of life in death is embedded within this order, and Those Who Live in Death are allowed to live in peace. Thus begins the Age of the Duskborn.

Blessing of Despair

The Tarnished becomes Elden Lord, bringing about an accursed world where defilement becomes the norm. All will become cursed in the Blessing of Despair ending. Thus, none can be scorned, fulfilling the Dung Eater's twisted vision.

Age of the Stars

Ranni inherits the Elden Ring

The Age of the Stars ending sees The Tarnished aid Ranni the Witch in ousting Marika and remaining at her side as Ranni's first Elden Lord.

The Tarnished helps Ranni fulfill her vision of a Lands Between without the Golden Order by allowing her to replace Marika in godhood and takes the role of her consort. Ranni ushers in a new order not of gold, but of the stars and moon of the chill night. Rather than make herself and her order objects of worship, she chooses instead to keep her order and the Lands Between at a great divide, removing the certainties of faith that had existed during Marika's rule.

The Tarnished and Ranni leave the Lands Between, embarking on a thousand-year voyage into darkness under the wisdom of the Moon.

Lord of Frenzied Flame

The Lord of Frenzied Flame ending, caused by the possession of the Frenzied Flame, overrides the possibility of any other ending. The Tarnished disregard the notion of becoming Elden Lord, becoming the Lord of Frenzied Flame instead and incinerating everything that came before.

Rather than become Elden Lord, The Tarnished becomes the Lord of Frenzied Flame, fulfilling the machinations of Shabriri, and the Three Fingers' will. The Tarnished is left almost completely alone, the Frenzied Flame rapidly consuming everything in existence.

If Melina was not sacrificed, she is seen vowing to hunt down and kill the Tarnished for not heeding her earlier warnings. For The Tarnished to separate themselves from the Frenzied Flame's influence after it being inherited, they must acquire Miquella's Needle and follow its specific conditions of use. Once the Frenzied Flame is suppressed, it can not be reclaimed in any way, preventing the Lord of Frenzied Flame ending.

Notes

• The Age of Fracture is the simplest to obtain, only requiring the player to finish the game, while all others demand completion of their respective side quests beforehand.
• The Lord of Frenzied Flame ending has an additional bonus ending cutscene if Melina was not sacrificed as a maiden. It shows her finding the burned Spectral Steed Whistle in the ashen ground and stating that she will now follow through with her vow to kill The Tarnished with Destined Death for becoming the Lord of Frenzied Flame.
  • If Melina was sacrificed and The Tarnished became the Lord of Frenzied Flame afterward, the bonus cutscene would simply not play.

Trivia

• An unused variant of the Age of Order ending was titled the Age Absolute.
• The Age of Fracture has an unused alternate introduction.
• Among the cut content surrounding Miquella the Kind, there was at one point an ending associated with him. Miquella would have offered his dew to the Tarnished and requested their share in his dream. He would have a world where "all things will flourish, whether graceful, or malign." This may imply that this version of Miquella envisioned a world where even marginalized groups, such as Albinaurics and Misbegotten, would thrive.
  • The term "malign" in the English translation does not perfectly align with the Japanese text, which is translated literally as "not-so-graceful."
• The English dialogue for the Age of the Stars ending has been debated for its interpretative differences compared to the Japanese script. Some suggest that a more literal translation may provide additional clarity and preserve the nuances of the original text, as discussed here.