Elden Ring data miner reveals that at one point in development, Rennala was capable of summoning Blaidd

sportskeeda.com:

Over the past couple of weeks, data miners have revealed quite a bit about some features cut from Elden Ring, including areas on the map and other NPC interactions.

One such recent revelation that Zullie the Witch revealed was that there was a point during the RPGs development when Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon, was able to summon Blaidd as one of their aids during her fight with the Tarnished.

In the latest video, Zullie points out that in the official game, there were a few leftover enemies in the map’s load list that imply that there were other summon choices considered for Rennala. She was perhaps capable of calling more than the four spirits that players encounter, one of which, according to Zullie’s findings, was Ranni, the Witch’s shadow, Blaidd.

The speculation comes from an audio file that the data miner excavated from the game files, which contains the following lines:

During the second stage of her boss encounter, the Tarnished will need to face off against Rennala and her summons. Currently, where the game stands, she is only capable of summoning four enemies: a pack of wolves, a bloodhound knight, a troll, and a dragon.

In the data mined files, Zullie discovered leftover enemy files for the area, including a Black Knife Assassin, a Crucible Knight, and a Bell-Bearing Hunter. Unfortunately, while it’s plausible that these enemies were once considered a summon for Rennala, Zullie suggested that they were possibly just meant to be placed somewhere else as normal encounters in the Academy of Raya Lucaria.

However, the data miner confirms that Elden Ring’s Rennala once had the ability to summon Blaidd to the fight:

The Queen of the Full Moon refers to Blaidd as her child, which is interesting from a lore perspective.