What happened to Elden Ring? The Game’s Story, Part 2: Liurnia Of The Lakes
With the death of Godrick, grafted in the Elden Ring, you’ve defeated your first demigod and acquired a great rune – an important step on the road to becoming Lord of Elden. This solidifies your position in the roundtable and opens up more ground for you. Next, we’ll head north to Liurnia in the Lake District, the land beyond Stormveil Castle and home to the Academy of Raya Lucaria, where wizards learn occult arts different from those taught by followers of the Golden Order.
In Liurnia, you can learn more about the demigods of Radagon and Rennala, as well as a major part of the history of Lands Between, and pursue one of the game’s endings. It also opens the way to the east, allowing you to reach Lyndell, the capital of Oldtree, and Mount Germere. Here’s everything that happens when you get the second Great Rune in Liurnia, and what you need to know about the wizard who controls it. certainly, You’ll find spoilers in this post As we try to explain Liurnia’s story.
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meet two fingers
Entering the Round Table with Godric’s Great Rune will make you a full member, opening the conference room door behind the main Round Table room to you. There, you meet two fingers and discover that the name is not a metaphor. Two fingers are actually two giant fingers, literally (almost) half the size of a giant hand in the Little Throne Room. Next to the finger, you meet Enia, a cleric of the Golden Order known as the Finger Reader. Her job is to decipher the movements of the five fingers and communicate their wisdom to others, and she can use their powers to turn the memories you’ve gained from your archenemy into special weapons.
Meeting Two Fingers gives you some hints about what’s going on behind the scenes between the lands. The towering fingers serve a greater will and seem to be responsible in some way for the guidance of grace. However, people wondered what was going on with the fingers. For one, they look oddly rotten (adventure to the Holy Tower to strengthen your Great Rune and you’ll find more fingers – not only rotten, but dead). On the other hand, what makes their wisdom worth following? Finally, how do you know that two fingers tell you the truth about what the Great Will wants? How do you know the truth about what a finger reader is telling you what your finger wants?
The two fingers are actually two giant fingers that will tower high above you, and their movements — and wisdom — are explained to you by Enia.
With all this bouncing around in your head, you can go back to Sir Gideon Ofnir and he’ll give you more information about the demigod you’re hunting. Gideon also wants to be Lord of Elden, and he’s been working toward that goal, gathering as much information as he can about what’s going on in Lands Between. He’ll tell you intel about the location of several large runes and their wielders, but if you tell him, he wants to learn a lot from you.
Using two fingers and Gideon, you may need to jot down the potential agenda of the people you interact with in the roundtable. Not everyone shares all their information with you, and you shouldn’t expect everyone to tell you the truth. Be careful because other people have agendas that you may not be aware of.
Gideon will point you to potential targets, and if you follow the terrain, your next stop is Liurnia of the Lakes, north of Limgrave.
Wizarding Country
Liurnia is a vast swamp, not a lake, and the war has seen its towns sink into the water and dirt below. In addition to the smashing war, the country also suffered from the severe effects of the civil war. Lyurnia has two political forces that have been at odds with each other, and it turns out that there are two main players, a demigod and a knife bearer, hiding in their respective fortifications, but for very different reasons.
In the center of Lournia is Laia Lucalia, a magical academy, while in the north is the home of the Kalia royal family of Kalia Manor. Although they were once allied, they were two separate powers: the Kariyas were the traditional Lurnian royal family, while the last royal of the Kariya royal family, Renara, was a powerful sorcerer who was a Chief of Yalukaria. But a lot has happened since then.
The wizards studied at the Rhea Lucaria Academy, also led by the Queen of Carrian, Renara – until the wizards lost faith in her.
From a historical perspective, Liurnia is your first introduction to Radagon and some of the events that led to the Golden Order taking over an entire continent, and the politics that ripped it apart during and after the smash. As early as when Malika was chosen by the Great Will to become a god, there were several countries between heaven and earth, with different ethnic groups. Lyurnia is home to sorcerers who value wisdom over faith and draw power from the universe to create their magic, with their own monarch in the royal family of Caria. Reinara was a powerful wizard and champion in her youth, and her extraordinary abilities led the Academy to call her a master in addition to the queen. Under her leadership, Lurnia resisted the Golden Order, which prompted Marika to send her own champion, Radagon, to lead the army. Nonetheless, the Carrians and their sorcerer-savvy knights stopped the Golden Order’s army, albeit in far smaller numbers.
In the end, the deadlock was broken, not by force, but by marriage. Radagon and Rennala fell in love, so when the two got married, Liurnia joined the Golden Order. This would put the country and its wizards under Marika’s control, and it has been mentioned that witchcraft is allowed under the Golden Order despite the wizard’s aversion to faith. Radagon and Rennala would go on to have three very important children: Rykard, Radahn and Ranni.
However, you find that the state Liurnia is in is very different from the height of her power. After Marika and her army had won all their wars, Godfrey, the first Lord of Eldon, was stripped of his grace and sent out of the middle ground—he, his future descendants, and what he took with him Warriors will be defiled. Afterwards, for some reason, Radagon left Renara, returned to Ryndell, married Marika, and became the second Lord Eldon. The context of this decision is murky, especially since Radagon and Rennala seem to be very much in love. As they parted, Lagan left Renara with a giant rune, an egg made of Erdtre amber, the great rune of the unborn. Using the runes, people can be “reborn” through Renara’s power, although the process doesn’t seem to be special, well, well – children “reborn” through Renara’s power are fragile and short-lived. More on this.
Radagon’s departure was enough to break Rennala’s heart and her mind. She shut herself in Raya Lucaria, and the Academy soon realized that she was no longer fit to lead. Sometime after Radagon’s departure, perhaps during Shattering, Rennala was imprisoned in the Academy’s Great Library, while Raya Lucaria and her Order of Cuckoos began to attack Caria Manor. They never managed to capture the manor itself, but with Rennala broken and locked, Raya Lucaria effectively took control of Liurnia at this point, as it is now.
The Fall of the Carrians
If you meet her in the tower behind Carriah Manor, the strange snow witch Rena will actually reveal herself to be Reinara and Ragan’s daughter, Lanny.
If you go to Kalia Manor, you will find that it is heavily protected by vicious magical spells. Even close to the manor, a rain of magic will fall on you, which can easily crush any troops marching north from Laia Lukaria. Step inside and you’ll find Kalia Manor largely abandoned – it’s largely guarded by magical creatures, such as crawling hand spiders, and the souls of its former soldiers. Unlike Stormveil Castle on Limgrave or Castle Morne on the Weeping Peninsula, Caria Manor has no lord to look after. In fact, almost no one is alive there.
You discover that guarding the castle is another magical projection, a karya knight named Loretta. If you fight and defeat the projection, many of Carriah Manor’s magical protections are lifted, including magical attacks on the field outside it. Outside the estate, on the protected land behind it, you can find Ranni, Rennala’s daughter – Ranni seems to magically inhabit a doll’s body, at least in a sense. You’ll find she has a few more loyalists to the Karian royal family: Iji, an articulate troll blacksmith; Blaidd, a half-wolf protector known as “Shadow” who was raised as Lanny’s adoptive brother Growing up; Seluvis, a wizard who wears gear to show his loyalty to Rennala and Radagon.
Despite her being a demigod – when Radagon married Marika, all of his children with Rennala were elevated to demigod status – according to Sir Gideon Ofnir, Ranni had apparently “abandoned her great rune”. Therefore, she is not a Shardbearer and you cannot fight her. Instead, you can choose to help her. Laney, as she will eventually explain, is a celestial being, one chosen by two fingers, with the potential to be elevated to a god. If you invest with her, you can help her achieve this goal, advancing her interests with a small group of her loyalists. There’s a lot more to Lanny’s story that’s worth mentioning, but suffice it to say that, like the other demigods, Lanny is on his way to power. She needs help, though, mainly because she spends most of her time trapped in the tower behind Kalia Manor, as Lurnia is a dangerous place for the Kalia royal family to wander around.
The plight of people with albinism
For the warlocks of Raya Lucaria, control over Liurnia was mostly about mining Glintstone (a type of rock used for witchcraft), dressing like Burger King, and learning more powerful spells; guess what they meant by strengthening themselves against demigods Any potential conquest of ‘s doesn’t seem difficult.
With the village of Albinauric completely destroyed, you can find Albus, an Albinauric who asks you for help.
Throughout Liurnia, you can also find Albinaurics – artificial beings created by humans – especially ones that appear to be created by wizards. The first generation of Albinaurics looked like humans; you’ll usually find them crawling on the ground, because eventually, their defects cause their legs to be weak. The second generation of Albinaurics are those weird frogmen you find in the suburbs of Raya Lucaria. In both cases, Albinaurics were used as servants and slaves by Raya Lucaria (to some extent, Carian royalty), who were seen as impure and unnatural, untouched by the grace of the Erdtree. However, they are mature, sentient beings.
You will find this if you venture to the village of Albinaurics in southern Liurnia. Although the Albinaurics are created beings, some have gained some semblance of freedom from their oppressors, probably because of the chaos of Shattering and the political turmoil that followed. The Albinaurics have their own town, but if you venture here, you’ll find them either dead or mad. They’ve been attacked recently, and if you look for information about the village and some of the characters you’ve found there from the nearby finger reader granny, you’ll find Gideon Ofnir sent his loyal thug, Ensha, to attack the village. (Ensha is the man in the Round Table who wears what looks like rotten flesh as armor.) Explore the town and you’ll find some of Gideon’s remaining troops, including the Omen Killer, a professional warrior dedicated to hunting down the Omen.
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