Sellen's Quest Ending Is Elden Ring's Happiest (Until It's The Worst)

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Elden Ring players can encounter the exiled witch Sellen fairly early on in their adventure, hidden in her lab in Waypoint Ruins Cellar in Eastern Limgrave, but her lengthy questline offers the sorceress a rare happy ending in the game, before yanking it away unexpectedly. Sellen is the first NPC the player can encounter that is capable of teaching sorceries and accepting the various sorcery scrolls the Tarnished can find scattered across the land. Magic has proven to be extremely powerful even before the recent buff introduced in patch 1.03, with Intelligence scaling weapons such as the Moonveil Katana being in high demand, leading to players killingElden Ring's bosses with one spell.

Much of Sellen's questline is unlocked further into the game, once the player has traversed the Altus Plateau and learned the powerful Azur's Comet spell. Players must then assist Sellen in finding another lost master, before helping her transfer her essence into a new body. Meanwhile, the castellan from Redmane Castle in Caelid will arrive and tell the player he is hunting Sellen, claiming her to be a dangerous apostate known as the «Graven Witch». Eventually, this questline will culminate in the grounds of Raya Lucaria. Immediately outside the Grand Library, the player will find two summoning signs and must decide to side with Jerran or Sellen in Elden Ring.

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Should the player choose to stick with their mistress and defeat the witch hunter, Sellen will claim she has disposed of the queen and taken full control of the academy. She makes some grand promises that the academy will stand behind the player as Elden Lord, once they fulfill their own quest, and will return