Elden Ring: Lord of the Frenzied Flame Ending Explained

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Once players have managed to grind through Elden Ring's typically punishing gameplay, challenging demigods, and gathering Great Runes in their quest to restore the Ring, they are confronted with a few choices. They may finish the task they were given at the start of the game, reuniting the Elden Ring and becoming the Elden Lord themselves. They may also choose to usurp Queen Marika and let Ranni the Witch take her place, ushering in an Age of Stars and destroying the old, corrupting power structure. Gamers may take another route, deciding that the system is broken and everything needs to be burned to the ground so that something else can take place.

Becoming the Lord of Frenzied Flame and choosing to embrace the power of the Three Fingers is probably the most unique of the six endings on offer at the end of Elden Ring. While most of them see the player take up the mantle of Elden Lord and maintain the status quo to some extent, choosing instead to become the Lord of Frenzied Flame brings about a massive change to the Lands Between, and essentially destroys everything in the hope that something better might eventually be born from the ashes. It's a typical FromSoftware ending; on the surface, it appears quite bleak, dark, and a little violent, but there's some hopeful optimism in the mix as well.

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While some endings, like the Age of Fracture or the Age of Order, don't really require the player to go out of their way too much to achieve them, the Lord of Frenzied Flame needs some quite specific circumstances to come about. If gamers wish to pursue this ending, there are a few things they'll need to bear in mind. Rejecting the Elden Lord title and putting faith in the Three Fingers