Elden Ring Story Choices You'll Regret Later
[Warning: This article contains spoilers for Elden Ring.]
There are multiple endings players can unlock for both the main story and side quests within an Elden Ring playthrough. Some of these endings are optimistic in tone, some bleak, with some ambiguous and open to interpretation. Players who are trying out Elden Ring for the first time should be particularly cautious about the following story choices, which are both bleak in outcome and easy to unlock by accident.
Often, it seems that to be an NPC in a FromSoftware-developed dark fantasy RPG is to be doomed to a grisly fate. Solaire, the jolly NPC knight who aids players throughout Dark Souls, is fated to fall into despair and death as he searches for his own «personal sun,» while half the NPCs in Bloodborne go insane or become bosses themselves. There are (sometimes) ways to keep friendly NPCs in Elden Ring from suffering horrible ends, but the open-world gameplay of this RPG makes it hard to locate the paths leading to the more desirable endings.
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Most of the ending scenarios for Elden Ring have a hopeful air, though there's debate among players about whether the Age Of The Stars, the Age Of Order, or the Age Of The Duskborn ending will bring about the best possible future for the Lands Between. The cruel Blessing of Despair ending can only be reached if Elden Ring players interact with and enable the defiling deeds of the blatantly ominous and aptly named Elden Ring NPC, the Dung Eater. One ending in particular, however, can accidentally be unlocked by players who haven't paid close enough attention to the game's lore, and locks out all other possible endings unless the player goes on to challenge two of
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