Elden Ring Video Compares Melina's Weapon with the Black Knife

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FromSoftware games are known for having incredibly deep stories and character connections which can be completely missed by the player. The company’s latest game, Elden Ring, is no exception to this as very little about the game’s intricate plot will ever be overtly explained to the player. Instead, Elden Ring’s story has to be collected piece by piece through character dialogue, item descriptions, and things as subtle as an NPC’s choice of weapon.

The Elden Ring player community adores this aspect of the game, as there are YouTube channels, subreddits, and countless internet forums dedicated to pooling theories and piecing together the game's lore.But Elden Ring’s ambiguous nature can sometimes leave certain characters in an unclear position in the game's lore.

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One of the most mysterious characters inElden Ring is Melina, who the player will enter into an alliance with at the beginning of the game, which allows the player to both level up and use the horse mount, Torrent. Beyond this, not much is known about Melina or her motivations, although there has been a lot of speculation about Melina’s true identity in the lore of Elden Ring. A Reddit user named Razhork has shared a comparison clip which shows a very subtle design choice about Melina’s weapon, the Blade of Calling, which ties Melina to the game’s Black Knife Assassins.

Many players have likely never seen Melina’s Blade of Calling because she only wields it if the player summons her to assist with the Morgott the Omen King boss fight. Razhork’s Reddit post reveals, however, that the blade is functionally identical to the Black Knife wielded by the Black Knife Assassins who, in the game's lore, killed Godwyn the Golden in the