Some Elden Ring Fans Think They've Spotted Ranni's Great Rune on the Moon

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As is the case with all of FromSoftware’s Soulsborne games, the lore ofElden Ring is deep, complex, and deliberately vague. There’s a lot about the game’s events that fans have yet to piece together, and much of the unparsed lore deals with Ranni the Witch, one of the game’s most central figures. Ranni struck out from her Empyrean siblings, orchestrating a plot to steal the rune of death, thereby setting the plot of Elden Ring in motion. However, unlike Godrick, Radhan, Margott, and Malenia, she is without a great rune, though some investigative players feel as if they’ve finally put together why that is. Please note that this article will have MAJOR SPOILERS for Elden Ring.

Those who’ve followed Ranni’s questline through to completion will know that she is very closely associated with the moon and outer spheres far beyond The Lands Between. Her ending brings about a new age of stars and seems to suggest that the moon itself is some kind of elder being. However, her ties to the moon maybe even deeper; as suggested by one established Elden Ring YouTuber, it could be that Ranni somehow hid her great rune there.

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While Ranni appearing on the moon may seem like a stretch, she had a hand in killing an ostensibly immortal being and destroyed her physical form in the process, living on in the body of a doll. With that in mind, it’s hard to delineate which theories might be too out-there to make sense, and, as was the case with the torrent of fake Elden Ring lore fans invented in the years between the game’s announcement and its release, the game’s community can cook up some pretty outlandish ideas.

This theory was covered by prominent soulsborne YouTuber VaatiVidya whose