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[[folder:The Blind Swordsman]]
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[[caption-width-right:200:The blind swordsman and his pupil Malenia, as depicted in the Prosthetic-Wearer Heirloom.]]

A blind master of the sword from a time long before the Shattering. It's said he received a "flowing sword" from a blue fairy and used it to seal away an ancient god of Rot.

* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler:The Prosthesis-Wearer Heirloom, depicting Malenia and her mentor, appears to show him with a prosthetic right arm.]]
* BlindWeaponmaster: The Curved Sword Talisman states that he made up for his lack of sight by inventing the [[CounterAttack Guard Counter]] technique; letting his opponent attack him first, blocking their attack, and then retaliating.
* BlueIsHeroic: He's implied to have worn the Blue Cloth Set. At very least, the description of the Flowing Curved Sword indicates that he wore blue.
* CulturalChopSuey: His clothing (among other things, his blue robes and turban) and the fact that he was a nomad who wielded scimitars (going by the Warrior class) imply that he came from a Tuareg-like culture. But his dance-like fighting style and personal philosophy are both in reference to Japanese concepts, the latter specifically to Shintoism ("Just as still waters turn foul, stagnation leads to decay... Warriors must remain ever-drifting"). It's possible the latter aspects were imparted by the "fairy" who granted him his Flowing Curved Sword. He dwelled in a Western-inspired fantasy land where no one else like him is seen (except for potentially the player), and his pupil was a Nordic valkyrie.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
** According to the Blue Dancer Charm, the Blind Swordsman, with the aid of a fairy, sealed away the Rot. It only becomes apparent how truly miraculous of a feat this was when the player pieces together [[spoiler: that the Rot isn't just a disease, but an Outer God at least in the same league as ''the Greater Will''.]] To put it another way: [[HeroOfAnotherStory the Blind Swordsman long ago did what the main character is trying to do by the end of the game]].
** His [[spoiler:mentorship of Malenia]] was an indirect version. [[spoiler:Malenia was able to hold back the Outer God of Rot for nearly her entire life using the discipline he instilled. His techniques and philosophy were a direct counter to its influence.]]
* ElementalMotifs: He's often associated with flowing water. Given his opposition to the Outer God of Rot and [[spoiler: mentorship of Malenia who did her best to resist the Rot's influence]], this ties into the Shinto motif of still vs flowing water, the former giving way to stagnation and decay. One of the Rot-infected locations in the main game is called ''Stillwater'' Cave. [[spoiler:Even more fitting considering that the fairy that helped him might be in (or ''is'') the Siofra and/or Ainsel Rivers (Siofra means fairy in Irish, and Ainsel/Me Aan Sel/My Own Self is a the name of a fairy in a Northumbrian fairy tale of the same name, and the stagnant Lake of Rot is deep underground with the flowing water of the Ainsel constantly pouring into it, as if ensuring the God of Rot stays submerged). As a bonus, Ainsel meaning "my own self" also ties into how his pupil uses her own "sense of self" to keep the Rot within her suppressed.]]
* FragileSpeedster[=/=]GlassCannon: The items associated with him, such as the Blue Dancer Charm (talisman that raises attack power with low equip load), Blue Cloth Set (a light set of leather armor), and Curved Sword Talisman (buffs guard counters), indicate that his fighting style probably focused on remaining nimble and dodging or using his sword to block attacks while retaliating with great force.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Given what a problem the Scarlet Rot is even now that it's sealed away, it was probably an apocalyptic threat when it was fully active. This guy is probably the reason there even ''are'' Lands Between for the Tarnished to adventure in, and his story would make for a good Soulslike game on its own.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Maybe. He's most likely dead by the time of the game, but this could just be of old age.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: A hearse in the Consecrated Snowfield contains his sword, heavily implying that he passed away well before the start of the game.]]
* RiddleForTheAges: How exactly [[spoiler:the sealer of the outer god of Rot came into contact with Malenia, the demigod it chose to curse from birth, and why he decided to mentor her. Actually, everything about their relationship is a question mark. All that we know is that "when the young girl encountered her mentor and his flowing blade, she gained wings of unparalleled strength", and that the Prosthesis-Wearer Heirloom depicts them shaking hands. It's further implied that she holds a lot of respect for him as his Flowing Curved Sword is being transported towards the Haligtree in a heavily-guarded hearse. This is further indicated by the fact that you get the Prosthesis-Wearer Heirloom from Millicent, who was born from Malenia's bloom in Aeonia; this means Malenia must have been carrying an engraving of herself with her mentor at all times, even in battle, for Millicent to have ended up with it. But that's still not much to go on.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Its quite easy to miss all the references to his existence. But he's not only responsible for the Lake of Rot, [[spoiler: it's implied he taught [[WorldsBestWarrior Malenia]] everything she knows about swordplay. Malenia only gained her "wings of unparreleled strength" under his tutelage]].
* SurpassedTheTeacher: [[spoiler:The techniques you get from his weapons and talismans (e.g. the Flowing Curved Sword's Spinning Slash) pale in comparison to Malenia's own abilities (e.g. Waterfowl Dance). Also, multiple characters and item descriptions call Malenia undefeated, and the Prosthesis-Wearer Heirloom does show the two of them sparring, so she must have defeated him as a young girl while he never managed to do the same to her (more or less confirmed by the heirloom's description itself saying that his mentorship gave her "wings of unparalleled strength" and the Winged Sword Insignia saying "wings symbolize Malenia and her undefeated prowess"). Though Malenia is a prodigy even among the gods, so this hardly reflects badly on him.]]

[[folder:Snow Witch]]
A mysterious witch in the woods who secretly mentored a young Ranni. Ranni currently wears her Snow Witch's set, and is said to have modeled her doll body after her tutor.

* TheArchmage: Must have been good at magic to mentor Ranni, a magical prodigy herself.
* AnIcePerson: She's referred to as a 'Snow Witch', and her clothes strengthen cold-based sorceries.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: If Ranni's doll body truly reflects her, then she had four arms.
* NoNameGiven: The Snow Witch's name is never stated explicitly, but it's implied to be Renna. Her outfit is found inside Renna's Rise, and Ranni, who modeled her body's appearance off the Snow Witch, introduces herself as Renna when met at the Church of Elleh.
* RiddleForTheAges: Who this person was and how she met and mentored Ranni is never elaborated upon.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She's the reason Ranni is 'the Witch'. Furthermore, her tutelage led Ranni to view the Dark Moon as something cold and foreboding, as opposed to her mother, who was inspired and enchanted by it.

[[folder:Gloam-Eyed Queen]]
A mysterious queen who lived in a time prior to the Golden Order's establishment, she was once the ruler of the Godskin cult who held the power of Destined Death. She was defeated by Marika's shadowbound beast, Maliketh, who then sealed Death into his Black Blade, causing the Godskin to lose their power and influence over the time of Marika's rule.

* AllThereInTheManual: The Queen's existence is mentioned only by a number of items and spells related to the Godskin.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: While the Godskins are without a doubt a malevolent force, their Queen is so utterly shrouded in mystery that there's no way to tell what her initial motivation was. At best, it's a case of BlackAndGrayMorality where she was the lesser of evils. Given everything we know about the cosmology of The Lands Between, gods and their vassals tend to be rather amoral, with Marika and The Greater Will being probably the most benevolent option that we know of. Did the hunt have some hidden noble purpose that the Godskin's strayed from over time? Regardless, the few who remember the god hunt speak of it as a purely negative thing so she's not left with any mainstream support to give her side of the story.
* AmbiguouslyRelated: Considering the only beings called [[spoiler: Empyreans]] in the present are all related to Marika, alongside Marika herself, it's left open that the Queen was also related to Marika; but what that relation was is unknown. She could have been a sister, a mother, a hidden daughter, or even just a fellow Numen. The only thing that's certain is that she seems to predate not only The Shattering but almost every major conflict that occured under the rule of Lord Godfrey, Lord Radagon and Queen Marika, she is also ''not'' counted among the demigods. Adding another layer of mystery to this is the fact that [[spoiler:Melina, who herself has an ambiguous relationship with Marika, also has a 'gloam eye' that she opens in the Lord of Frenzied Flame ending, as well as seeming to have a connection to Destined Death herself. She also says that she will kill the Tarnished if they become the Lord of Chaos, "like night follows day" - in other words, like dusk or ''gloaming.'' Melina often refers to her mother who is apparently dead and had a much different goal than she does, but anything further is just speculation.]]
* CoolSword: She once wielded the Godslayer's Greatsword, a bone-white BFS with a blade ending in a spiralling flame pattern enchanted with the power to summon the Black Flame. [[spoiler:The sword design is reminiscent of the Fingerslayer Blade, said to be crafted from a corpse, as well as Sacred Relic Sword, which is made from the remains of a god.]] After her defeat, it eventually ended up in the Divine Tower of Caelid, somehow in the hands of Vargram, The Raging Wolf.
* DarknessEqualsDeath: She was also known as Dusk-Eyed Queen, and she wielded the literal essence of Death as her power.
* FaceHeelTurn: The Black Flame Ritual states [[spoiler:the Queen was ''an Empyrean'', selected by the Fingers and by extension the Greater Will, a candidate to bear the Elden Ring. She seemingly became their antithesis instead, by acquiring Destined Death through unknown circumstances and leading the Godskin cult to hunt down gods and their kins. They appeared to be targeting Erdtree champions in particular, as the Godskin Incantation Noble Presence was said to be "once a sign of the wrath of gods" and now "a trophy of god hunt", and it greatly resembles the Erdtree Incantation Wrath of Gold, said to be a sign of Erdtree's wrath]].
* GodEmperor: Despite the Godskin cult's brutality and psychopathic lifestyle, they all worship the Queen as nothing less than divine will made manifest, and being quite possibly their actual ''mother'' and continue to hunt kins of gods long after their Queen was defeated.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Very little is known for certain about her, but it ''is'' known she was the ruler of a society of SerialKiller maniacs who hunt down ''gods and their kin'' ForTheEvulz. It's safe to say she was not a benevolent queen.
* GrimReaper: One of the duties of the Gloam-Eyed Queen was to "disperse" Destined Death to those who were meant to die. This role seemed to have gone to her head, and Malekith was sent to take away this power.
* KillTheGod: The GodEmperor of a society who commits this trope for a living, as well as the one who enabled them to do so. She held Destined Death for her Apostles to harness Black Flame, capable of killing ''anything'' with a life, gods included. The big question though is who were they targetting? Queen Marika is generally considered to be the only god in The Lands Between. Some lore descriptions seem to imply that there was once a time prior to Marika's rule when the Godskin cult was highly active and indeed slew the gods -- as in, those chosen to bear the Elden Ring by the Greater Will [[spoiler:or maybe, champions of other outer gods]].
* NoNameGiven: We only know her title from the descriptions of Godskin incantations and items.
* RiddleForTheAges: Given the limited info available about the Godskin cults (and the lack of info about the times prior to Marika's rule in general), there are a ''lot'' of unanswered questions about the Gloam-Eyed Queen. Who was she? How did she obtain a power which could oppose the Erdtree and its divinity? Did she die by Maliketh's hands? What connection, if any, does she have to Melina, who [[spoiler:reveals her hidden eye is gloam-colored in the Frenzied Flame ending]]? Most importantly, [[spoiler:did she, an Empyrean, choose to defy her destiny to bear the Elden Ring? If so, why]]?
* {{Unperson}}: Following her defeat and death at the hands of Maliketh, speaking of the Queen and her Godskins appears to be a taboo. All the blackflame spells are declared heresy, the Godskins appear infrequently in areas that are already abandoned by Golden Order adherents and very few item descriptions even mention her at all. If she had anything to do with Marika, a fellow Empyrean, those details have been utterly scrubbed from history.

[[folder:The Storm Lord]]

The original ruler of Stormveil before Godfrey's conquest. His knights would become the original Banished Knights, and Oleg and Engvall may have served him.

* BlowYouAway: Presumably the inventor of the Stormcaller skills that use the winds of Stormveil.
* PosthumousCharacter: Most likely slain by Godfrey.
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[[folder:Rosus]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:A statue depicting Rosus]]

A mysterious being known as the Usher of Death, said to be a guiding hand for the dead that easily lose their way. He is usually depicted as a hunched over mummy, clad in robes and wearing a branch-like crown, with a saucer-like candlestick in his right hand.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: The statues of him depict him as ''mostly'' human, with his most nonhuman features being his excessively long neck and clawed feet. [[spoiler: It's implied that Rosus was a Deathbird (or that 'Rosus' is an invention, and the statues are just of random Deathbirds), but after the Golden Order took hold, the statues were re-carved to look vaguely humanoid. Notably, deathbirds ''also'' have long necks, a hunched posture, and clawed feet.]]
* TheFerryman: A rather peculiar take on the trope. The statues of him serve as tracking beacons to direct the dead towards the catacombs beneath the Lands Between.
* TheGhost: Rosus himself is never met, but statues of him can be found around the Lands Between and he's depicted on a ritual axe called Rosus' Axe.

[[folder:The Twin Sages]]

Co-Founders of the Twinsage Conspectus. Little is known about these twin brothers, but the sorcerers who follow in their footsteps are the elite of Raya Lucaria Academy, who study ''all'' forms of glintstone magic.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: Mastered the sorceries of multiple other conspectuses, and their glintstone crown is essentially the Olivinus and Karolos crowns combined.
* TheArchmage: Good enough that their Conspectus holds the elite sorcerers of Ray Lucaria.
* TheDividual: They are always treated as a single unit; they founded their conspectus together, they're depicted together in paintings, and the Twinsage Crown has both of their faces on it.
* TheRedMage: The Twinsage Conspectus doesn't have any unique sorceries of its own; instead, its members are permitted to study all types of sorceries. Presumably, the Twin Sages were best known for the breadth, not depth, of their knowledge.
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[[folder:Haima]]
Adjudicator of Raya Lucaria Academy, and founder of the Haima conspectus, who would go on to serve his role in conflicts around the Lands Between.
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* ConflictKiller: As Adjudicator, his job was to mediate disputes between Raya Lucaria's scholars. And if the bickering parties refused to listen to his judgement... that's where [[AppealToForce the Cannon and Gavel of Haima]] come in.
* HavingABlast: The other sorcery he invented was the Cannon of Haima, for when he needed to fight at range.
* InTheHood: The Haima Glintstone Crown modeled after him includes a notable hood, unlike other crowns that leave the glintstone at the top exposed.
* KungFuWizard: The philosophy of his Conspectus is to fight up-close so as to never forget the reality of war.
* OurFounder: He's the ultimate teacher of those Battlemages wandering around everywhere, who are scholars of the Haima conspectus.
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[[folder:Ancient God of Frenzy]]

A long-lost god mentioned in the description of the Fingerprint Stone Shield, which bears the Three Fingers' messages and was once part of its tomb, which appears to have later become the Cathedral of the Forsaken.
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* EvilCounterpart: Given that the Frenzied Flame quite likes making its servants counterpoints to the Greater Will (two fingers- three fingers, elden lord- lord of chaos, regular finger maidens- Hyetta), it's quite possible that the Frenzy God was one to Marika.
* GodIsDead: The Cathedral of the Forsaken is its tomb.
* GodOfEvil: It's quite likely it was a god on the level of Marika, the One-Eyed God, and possibly the Twinbird.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Given what we know about the Frenzied Flame in the present, even when it's largely sealed in the Frenzied Flame Proscription, this god was probably an apocalyptic threat.
* RiddleForTheAges: Its existence is only mentioned once, and all that can be inferred is that it's aligned with the Frenzied Flame and is ''not'' the Three Fingers. It may have been a previous Lord of Chaos, an equivalent to Marika, [[spoiler: or the Frenzied Flame's version of the Elden Beast]], or something entirely different.
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[[folder: The Twinbird]]

An envoy of the Outer God of Death depicted on the Twinbird Kiteshield, and the mother of those Deathbirds and Death Rite Birds hanging around.
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* EvilCounterpart: Well, dark shade of neutral counterpart to [[spoiler:the Elden Beast, being the divine direct vassal of an Outer God]].
* MonsterProgenitor: To the Deathbirds. Given that a Deathbird drops the shield depicting her, it seems that they look up to her in some way.
* RiddleForTheAges: Much like the other ancient gods, we don't know much about the Twinbird, what she was like, or what happened to her.
* UncertainDoom: The Twinbird is nowhere to be seen in the main game, but while the Ancient God of Frenzy is said to be dead and the God of Rot is sealed under the Lake of Rot, nowhere is the Twinbird's fate mentioned.
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* RedemptionDemotion: He's much stronger as a hardcoded enemy at the end of the quest than he ever is as an ally.

[[Characters/EldenRingMainCharacters Main Characters]] ([[Characters/EldenRingTheTarnished The Tarnished]] | [[Characters/EldenRingMarika Marika]]) | [[Characters/EldenRingRoundtableHold Roundtable Hold]] | '''Secondary Characters''' ([[Characters/EldenRingRenownedAshes Renowned Ashes]]) | [[Characters/EldenRingOuterGods Outer Gods]] | [[Characters/EldenRingDemigods Demigods]] ([[Characters/EldenRingGodfrey Godfrey]] | [[Characters/EldenRingMorgott Morgott]] | [[Characters/EldenRingMohg Mohg]] | [[Characters/EldenRingRadahn Radahn]] | [[Characters/EldenRingRykard Rykard]] | [[Characters/EldenRingRanniTheWitch Ranni the Witch]] | [[Characters/EldenRingMalenia Malenia]]) | [[Characters/EldenRingEnemiesAndBosses Enemies and Bosses]] ([[Characters/EldenRingDragons Dragons]] | [[Characters/EldenRingLiurniaOfTheLakes Liurnia of the Lakes]] | [[Characters/EldenRingRecurringEnemiesAndBosses Recurring Enemies and Bosses]] | [[Characters/EldenRingTarnishedInvadersAndTargets Tarnished Invaders and Targets]]) -]]]]]

-> Well... It was bound to happen some day... What a shit show...

* AbortedArc: He was originally supposed to have a questline where he searched for his people's "Great Caravan" with the Tarnished's help. [[spoiler:He would eventually find them slaughtered for accusations of worshiping the Frenzied Flame, which would cause him to cease trade with the Tarnished and [[ThenLetMeBeEvil seek to become Lord of Frenzied Flame to burn the world in revenge]], only for the Three Fingers to reject him. Should the player inherit the Frenzied Flame instead, Kalé's questline would end with him begging them to burn the world in his stead.]]

* MeaningfulName: His name means "dark" in several dialects of Romani. This doesn't seem to have much bearing since in-game he's basically a NiceGuy who sells you useful tools to help you survive, but in his originally planned quest [[spoiler:he becomes a devotee of the Frenzied Flame after seeing his people buried alive in a giant mass grave]], so it's not a total misnomer.

* SmallNameBigEgo: He calls himself "the great Kenneth Haight" and makes big claims about being the rightful ruler of Limgrave. He even talks down on Godrick, who, unlike him has an actual castle and an army. Even after you take back his fort for him, he claims that you shall be knighted and there will be a grand celebration, but when you reach him in his fort manned by unruly and weak demi-humans, he is forced to admit that he truly has no authority to knight anyone at all.

* TragicHero: Looking at Bernahl's armor description reveals he had the makings of [[spoiler:an Elden Lord - until his maiden threw herself into the fire. Given his current alignment with Volcano Manor, Bernahl may have felt betrayed by Greater Will's machinations of having to burn his own Finger Maiden, leading him to side with Rykard in order to spite the gods]].

!!Removed Characters
The following characters are currently not implemented in the game and were DummiedOut, but have had their questlines and dialogue voicelines datamined from the game's files.

[[folder:Asimi]]
A strange kind of silver tear that offers her power to the Tarnished if they ingest her. Had a quest that involved empowering her with chalices found in the Eternal Cities. She would have eventually left the Tarnished and, when she returned, become antagonistic.
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* DrunkWithPower: Her voice lines after she's fully empowered heavily imply this happened to her.
* EvilCounterpart: Sort of. Her cut dialogue implies she's DrunkWithPower, with Asimi stating that she would've been the "Sovereign Eternal" to the Tarnished as the Elden Lord.
* ItCanThink: A sapient Silver Tear. She can even talk to Melina at certain sites of grace- notably she's the only character aside from the Tarnished to interact with Melina.
* TheSymbiote: Would've been one, though it's unknown what benefits Asimi would have offered. The most common theory is that she's the origin of the Mimic Tear spirit ash, giving you the power to summon her as an exact duplicate of yourself (which is why summoning the Mimic Tear costs health, because you're suddenly and violently removing Asimi from your body), and after she returned and became hostile, she would've become the boss Mimic Tear, with her dropping the fully upgraded Mimic Tear (possibly alongside the boss mimic tear's drops of two Larval Tears and the Silver Tear Mask) as a spirit ash.
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[[folder:Guilbert]]
-->"''Good Lord! Good God of Vengeance! Till grudges soak the lands!''"
-->'''Voiced By''': Shaun Dooley

A 'Redeemer' who serves Radahn and has a thing against Crucible Knight Ordovis, and after him, Godrick. Seeks to find Malenia and avenge Radahn... which eventually gets him infected with Scarlet Rot. May have been replaced to an extent by Yura, with whom he shares a voice actor, and Jerren, who wears his Eccentric's Set in the main game.
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* BadassBoast: When invading you.
-->'''Guilbert''': Didn't I tell you before? No one escapes a Redeemer.
* {{BFS}}: Wields a flamberge, much like Jerren. The sword may have originally been associated with him, as early description of it references the Redeemers (its original skill in Brazil is translates as "Redeemer's Charge")
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Apparently, he was once helpless and had a Redeemer get revenge for him.
* {{Revenge}}: The Redeemers serve the God of Vengeance (whoever that is) and their duty is to get revenge on behalf of others in the Lands Between by invading whoever hurt them.
* RummageSaleReject: The original owner of the Eccentric's Set.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: He might have invaded you as a punishment for angering or killing [=NPC=]s.
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[[folder:Miranda]]

Miranda, Maiden of the Flower Crucible, is a lore figure mentioned only in the removed 'Miranda's Prayer' tool as being the first Miranda Blossom. It functioned similarly to the Omen Bairn, in this case allowing you to use the Miranda Blossoms' light attack.
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* LightEmUp: Associated with this through Miranda's Prayer and could presumably use it like her descendants.
* LightIsNotGood: Associated with light and Holy, but was still a man-eating plant.
* PlantPerson: The first of the Miranda Blossoms. Miranda herself seems to have been sentient, as her tool depicts her 'posed in prayer'.
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[[folder:Rico]]
A follower of St. Trina met at Stormhill Shack instead of Roderika. He would give you a quest to capture dream mist from sleeping creatures so he could brew "dreambrew".
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* LuxuriousLiquor: Described dreambrew as this, claiming it to be the god's nectar and says he knows how to make it, which would have led to asking the Tarnished to recover dream mist from any sleeping enemies they encountered out in the wild.
* MrExposition: A weirdly indirect example. The dreambrew he gives you could be used to get more information on various other characters and reveal their fears and secrets; Kale, for example, feared becoming inflicted with the Frenzied Flame. [[spoiler:When he reaches Miquella's corpse in Mohg's palace, he confirms that [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter Miquella is St. Trina]] and that their body is an empty shell while Miquella himself is in the dream world.]]
* TwentyBearAsses: To get Dreambrew, you'd have to find animals that were 'deeply asleep' (wouldn't wake up unless you attacked them) and use St. Trina's Crystal Ball to collect dream mist from them.
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[[folder:Shanehaight]]
A noble from Leyndell who wore the full Ruler's Set. Hated Omens and would have sent you on a quest to kill a quota of Omens.
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* AmbiguouslyRelated: He looks like an older version of Kenneth Haight. That and their similar names imply they might be related, but since Shanehaight was cut, we'll never know.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:When he finds out that Morgott was an Omen]]. He'd then get killed trying to flee the capital.
* EvilCounterpart: His character is similar to Kenneth Haight if Kenneth were a real JerkAss instead of just a bit pompous. He holds the Tarnished in contempt and tells them to leave Leyndell post-haste when he realizes who they are, and later asks them to kill the Omens down in the Shunning Grounds in the hopes of earning King Morgott's favor, if not an audience. While Kenneth was hesitant to ask the Tarnished for help, he's at least polite to them and espouses cooperation with beings who live outside the Golden Order's purview.
* InSpiteOfANail: The Ruler's Set is found on a corpse in a carriage in the Capital Outskirts, implying that his questline already happened, just without the Tarnished being involved.
* KarmicDeath: He would have eventually been killed by Omens when he tried fleeing Leyndell.
* UpperClassTwit: The description of the Ruler's Set says that it's worn by lords of smaller nations, and Shanehaight very much buys into the less savory aspects of the Golden Order.
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[[folder:Smoldering Church Maiden]]
A maiden with a burned, bandage-covered face you would meet at the Smoldering Church. [[spoiler: She's Bernahl's Finger Maiden, who survived throwing herself into the fire]].
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* FacialHorror: Her face is badly burned.
* JumpedAtTheCall: A somewhat disturbing example. The ultimate duty of a Finger Maiden is to serve as kindling to burn the thorns blocking the Erdtree, something this Maiden not only accepts, but has taken to so wholly that she has burnt herself with various sources of fire in the hopes that it would make her better kindling. She even tells you to burn her with a Fire Monk incantation for that purpose.
* MistakenIdentity: Mistakes you for her chosen Tarnished, [[spoiler: Bernahl]].
* [[MrExposition Ms Exposition]]: She'd tell you about the wall of fire around Caelid.
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* VerbalTic: He likes to end his sentences by taking a pause before saying his name... Shabriri.

* TheArchmage: They ''were''. Azur founded the Karolos Conspectus, the oldest in Raya Lucaria, based on his study of comets, and Lusat followed him with the Olivinus Conspectus, which studied stars. Azur seems to have been greater than Lusat, as the greatest Karolos spell, Comet, requires 52 INT and the requirement to cast his primeval sorcery, Comet Azur, is 60, while the greatest Olivinus spell requirement is 24 for Star Shower, and the requirement to cast Lusat's primeval sorcery, Stars of Ruin, is 43.
* AndIMustScream: Despite their inert state, they're just barely conscious enough to recognize that the Tarnished is nearby so that they can give them their sorceries.
* BodyHorror: The crowns they wear ended up transforming their brains and skulls into glintstone, leaving them in their immobile state.

* InvulnerableCivilians: Because of their near-inorganic state, any attacks will simply bounce right off of them.

* OldFriend: He's old friend of Iji, back from the days Jerren served the Carian royals. Emphasis on old, as Jerren says it's been "an age" since he's so much as heard Iji's name.

* BadBoss:
** He's a commander of the Redmanes but doesn't seem to feel any camaraderie towards them. If you kill your way into Redmane Castle to meet him, he will question how you got past the guards, before dismissing it and simply saying that [[TheSocialDarwinist if you could kill said guards then you must be a great warrior, which he respects.]] Reading his items reveals that he was never particularly tied to the faction, he was a nomadic mercenary who only joined the Redmanes because he befriended their commander. He leaves them after fulfilling his last oath.
** Subtly done at the festival, inasmuch as he can be considered the "boss" of the warriors there. Like all the summons, he's optional and can simply not partake in the fight. ''Unlike'' them he's unavailable as a summon for most of the fight and only becomes summonable after Radahn's second phase transition, at which time he's probably down to about one-third of his health (if not lower). In other words, he throws the few assembled warriors to near-certain death while staying behind and won't actually join the battle until Radahn is already almost dead.

* WarIsGlorious: He proclaims the Radahn Festival to be a "celebration of war" (the castle's decorations reflect this - including the strung-up corpses), exalts martial virtues, and respects battle prowess above all else. This results in a somewhat comical contrast with basically [[SceneryGorn the entire map]] [[WarIsHell of the game he's in]], particularly when the assembled crowd for his speech consists of six people, of which three of which are ghosts (including a blood-crazed psychopath) and one is a mindless puppet.

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* CastingGag: Ryan Morris, who primarily worked as a translator and voice director on previous FromSoftware titles, was apparently brought in to provide a single noise for Goldmask (see NotSoStoic below). This is a nod to Morris' earlier DescendedCreator roles as Nico of Thorulund in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' and Horace the Hushed in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls3'', characters who similarly merely produce a few grunts.

* TheArchmage: Is described by Thops as the most promising sorceress in the history of the Raya Lucaria academy, and she only got expelled for dabbling into magic the academy didn't approve of.

* RecurringElement: Like Greirat in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls3'', she has a questline with a default DownerEnding and a "happy" ending that can only be reached by voluntarily stopping 3/4 of the way through. [[spoiler:If you decline to go after the ''second'' exiled sorcerer for her, she spends the rest of the game chilling at the academy in her new body instead of unwittingly turning herself into an abomination. Similarly to how if you rescue Greirat and tell him to go pillaging twice but specifically stop him from going a third time, he won't end up dying.]]

* NotInThisForYouRevolution: He only joined the Redmanes because of his friendship with Radahn (implicitly based on his respect for his battle prowess) rather than actually caring about who won the Shattering. As a testament to this he'll happily hand Radahn's Great Rune over to literally anyone who can finish him off (even the Lord of Blood's followers are allowed to try), and abandons the remnants of the Redmanes when that's done, having nothing left tying him to the faction. If he fulfills his last oath (killing Sellen) he [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere promptly leaves the Lands Between altogether]] and disappears from the map.

* MageKiller: He's not called 'Witch Hunter' for nothing, and as a former Carian knight, he's used to going up against mages. [[spoiler:And he's the one who defeated and imprisoned Sellen in the Witchbane Ruins.]]
* OldFriend: He's old friend of Iji, back from the days Jerren served the Carian royals.

* DropTheHammer: Invented the Gavel of Haima, which summons a giant magic hammer in the caster's hand, somewhat similarly to Carian magic glintblades.

* AdaptationalHeroism: A minor and possibly unintentional bit. The description of his Mending Rune of Perfect Order describes the problem it aims to address, which in English is given as: "the current imperfection of the Golden Order, or instability of ideology, can be blamed upon the fickleness of the gods no better than men." The use of "no better than men" implies he's castigating gods in question for a moral failure and sees that as the issue. The Japanese description has the same idea but is rather more specific and contains no moral judgement (note that Fundamentalists are scientists at heart, not moral philosophers). The problem with the Golden Order that Goldmask comprehends is that Marika and Radagon were the same god, but could disagree, hence were fallible, and yet both sides could apply that fallibility to the Elden Ring itself by altering it (like removing the Rune of Death), and their human feelings were part of their fallibility. His Perfect Order would be unfeeling, immutable, and eternal. Preventing change to the Elden Ring is in fact [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/y39jpm/ranni_the_savior/isadk1r/?context=8&depth=9 all his rune is ever stated to do,]] for the explicit purpose of entrenching the Order more firmly than ever, now without what he identified as its only flaw. Considering how both stagnation (personal and metaphysical) and a loss of humanity are depicted as the ultimate sources of strife and suffering [[RecurringElement in every From Software game]] including ''Elden Ring'', his "solution" comes off as a little sinister.
-->心持つ神など不要であり 律の瑕疵であったのだ
-->''There is no need for a god with a human heart. That is the flaw of the order.''

* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:A holy warrior gloating and ranting like a madman over the mutilated corpse of a woman associated with the undying? [[VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}} Alfred]], is that you?]]