Did Ranni shatter the Elden Ring?

2 Ranni Orchestrated The Night Of The Black Knives
During the Night, the fallen Ranni and Godwyn get the Cursemark of Death imprinted upon them. It was partially out of despair and sadness caused by the death of her kin that Marika shattered the Elden Ring, making Ranni one of the main culprits behind the Shattering.
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Who shattered the Elden Ring?

The first event was the breaking of the Elden Ring itself. The Ring was broken by Queen Marika the Eternal after the death of her son Godwyn. By destroying the Elden Ring, which acted as a connection to both the Greater Will and the Golden Order, the Greater Will's influence on the Lands Between was greatly diminished.
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What did Ranni do Elden Ring?

Ranni the Witch is said to be the heroine of Elden Ring. However, she plotted the Night of the Black Knives to kill Godwyn.
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Why did they break the Elden Ring?

Marika was in such a stalemate and shattered the Elden Ring as a last resort to end the Golden Order. Looking a little deeper, Marika shattered the Elden Ring in order to extract the Mending Rune of the Death-Prince from Marika herself.
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How did Marika shatter the Elden Ring?

Night of Black Knives

Queen Marika is said to have been driven to the brink by this event, and some time later she shattered the Elden Ring using her hammer.
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Does the Tarnished become a god?

A Tarnished cannot become a Lord. Not even you. A man cannot kill a god…
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Is Radagon actually Marika?

All of this is well known and communicated to players early on, but what is less well known is the fact that Radagon and Marika are one and the same. When the player finds Marika at the end of the game, she transforms into Radagon, and later becomes Marika again.
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Did Radagon try to fix the Elden Ring?

Radagon, on the other hand, remained loyal to the Golden Order, and attempted to repair the Elden Ring with the same hammer used to shatter it. As punishment, Marika was imprisoned inside the Erdtree. While Radagon had opposed Marika's treachery, he would share Marika's sentence, as the two were bound in a single body.
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Who tried to mend the Elden Ring?

One might assume that Radagon married Renalla as a way to quell the rising power of the sorcerers and practitioners of powerful moon magic. All we know for sure is that the Marika side of the being decided to shatter the Elden Ring, while the Radagon side simultaneously tried to repair it to no avail.
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Is Miquella still alive?

In the Roundtable Hold, Sir Gideon Ofnir claims that Miquella is still alive but trapped in a deep slumber, which is further explored in content cut from the final version of the game, which states that Miquella is St. Trina, God of Slumber.
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Is Ranni good or evil?

The Fingers and Ranni are in direct opposition, but neither one is “good” or “evil”; the former seeks to maintain the status quo (quite like keeping the Flame alight in Dark Souls' ending), while the latter wants something brand new for everyone who's suffering as a result of said status quo.
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Is Ranni the most powerful demigod?

Still, if Ranni was always the intangible, one-shotting demigod she is in Elden Ring, then she may very well be more powerful than Radahn and Malenia combined. In that instance, she's more than worthy of being considered the strongest demigod in the game.
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Who killed Ranni the Witch?

In what would become known as the Night of Black Knives, the Numen assassins murdered Godwyn the Golden, killing him in spirit, while Ranni killed herself in body, transferring her spirit into a doll said to be carved in the image of her former master, the Snow Witch.
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What hurts the Elden beast?

Best Strategy: Pillar Attacks, Black Flame, and Anti-Holy

Because of the Elden Beast's size, these focused areas all hit at once and stack, taking out chunks of its HP bar. In general, the Black Flame is powerful against the Elden Beast because the lingering damage is percentage-based.
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Who is the villain in Elden Ring?

Radagon is a major antagonist of the 2022 video game, Elden Ring. He is the male half of Marika and the protector of the Elden Ring. He was later separated from her in order to invade Liurnia before meeting Rennala and marrying her.
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Does the Tarnished marry Marika?

Marika was married to the first Elden Lord, Godfrey, but when he became Tarnished and subsequently exiled from the Lands Between, she took a new husband — Radagon. She married herself.
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What is the bad ending in Elden Ring?

The Lord of Frenzied Flame is considered the bad ending of Elden Ring, as it sees you become a destructive dictator, consuming the world in the flame of chaos. To unlock it, you'll need to follow Hyetta's quest all the way to the Three Fingers and become their champion.
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Is there a 7th ending in Elden Ring?

Update 4/1/2022: As some predicted, it turns out that this supposed secret 7th ending in Elden Ring is actually just an April Fools' Day prank. Original story follows. Like previous FromSoftware games, there are multiple endings that Elden Ring players can get based on the actions they take throughout the game.
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What is the hardest ending to get Elden Ring?

The Frenzied Flame ending is probably the strangest one that Elden Ring has to offer. It's also the most difficult to trigger. Your maiden, Melina, will actually abandon you if you pursue the Frenzied Flame ending, just to give you an idea of how far off the beaten path you'll have to go.
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Why was Radahn Nerfed Elden Ring?

Elden Ring boss Radahn was accidentally nerfed in a patch, but now he's back to full strength. FromSoftware's previous patch for the game added new features like NPC icons and quests, as well as balance changes. But nerfing the infamous boss Starscourge Radahn was unintentional.
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Why did Marika betray the Greater Will?

She was an empyrean, bound to a god, and just as Ranni destroyed her flesh to escape this fate, Marika could have been looking to escape this fate. Thus, Marika could have been looking for her own free will all along, setting into motion a series of events that would eventually lead to this.
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What is radagons secret?

The clue left outside the Statue of Radagon hints at this word - Regression - and simply casting the spell in front of the Statue reveals its secret. Unlike most Incantations, Law of Regression is based on Int rather than Faith as it is a Golden Order Incantation.
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Why is Radahn on a horse?

As Redditor HuevosSplash explains on a Radahn meme, "This big ridiculous red monster riding a small frail horse all because he couldn't fathom leaving it behind as he grew bigger from power, so he learned gravity magic to keep his beloved horse around." Other Redditors also mentioned that Radahn appears to actually ...
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Is godrick the son of Marika?

Godrick the Golden, more commonly known as Godrick the Grafted, was a scion of the Golden Lineage, tracing his descent from Queen Marika the Eternal and the first Elden Lord, Godfrey.
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Is Radagon Ranni's father?

Lunar Princess Ranni is the daughter of Radagon, a champion of the Golden Order, and Queen Rennala, head of both the Carian Royal Family and the Academy of Raya Lucaria. She had two siblings, Radahn and Rykard.
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