What happened to the Ring of Eldon?The Game’s Story, Part 9: The Eternal City, Deep Roots, and Moher
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After going to Hallegttree, there is only one shard holder left in the Ring of Eldon. The Blood King is waiting for you in a hidden place deep underground, and if you venture into that depths, you will find a huge world. These subterranean places have their own history with the Golden Order and the lands in between, and although they were destroyed long ago, they are actually very important to the events you see in the world above. Not only is the last Shardbearer hidden here, but we also learn a little bit about Lands Between’s past, and the impact on the game’s historical events (like Night of the Black Knife) since then.
The Underworld and the Eternal City you discover there have a lot to do with Ranni and her quest, where you’ll learn about the ultimate fate of Miqueella and Goldwyn the Golden. There’s a lot to learn here on this false night – there’s even a giant scarlet rotting well, the “Lake of Rot,” which may even hold the essence of an Outer God, which haunts Malenia, Laden , Kayleid responsible for the pain, and Harry Gertrey.
spoilers to followand of course, as you venture through Elden RIng, we’ll uncover the stories hidden beneath your feet.
More Elden Ring Story Explainers
- Elden Ring Story Guide: The Legends and History of the Land Between
- What happened in Elden Ring? The Story of the Game, Part 1: Limgrave
- What happened in Elden Ring? The Game’s Story, Part 2: Liurnia Of The Lakes
- What happened in Elden Ring? The Story of the Game, Part 3: Caelid
- What happened in Elden Ring?The Story of the Game, Part 4: Mount Gemire and Volcano Manor
- What will happen to Elden Ring?The Game’s Story, Part 5: Leyndell, the Royal Capital
- What happened in Elden Ring?The Game’s Story, Part 6: The Giant’s Mountaintop
- What happened in Elden Ring?The Story of the Game, Part 7: The Castle of the Sun and the Sacred Snowfields
- What happened in Elden Ring? The Story of the Game, Part 8: Miqueella’s Haligtree
- Crazy flames and the game’s bleakest ending, explained
Underground world
If you’ve done a lot of exploring in Limgrave, you might stumble across the Siofra Well and discover a huge subterranean area around the Siofra River. This is your first look at the land between the worlds, and the cities built there: Nocron, Noxstra, and a nameless city.
As with many areas of the Elden Ring, details about the subterranean land are not always clear. The open area itself is inhabited by the spirits of ancestral followers, large humanoids wearing bullhorn headbands. Unlike most of the people you’ll meet in the game, these creatures seem to be more connected to nature, the forest, and the creatures that inhabit them, especially since they’re so close to the bosses that you can live with called ancestral spirits.
Arrows fired at you by followers do magic damage as they are said to be full of critter souls and they use horns – we know this is somewhat taboo in the Golden Order thanks to omens – all of which suggest they may An even older nation before the Erdtree. The legends on their clothes speak of Erdtree buds growing out of their flesh and even “their soul”, which also gives the impression that these people’s religious beliefs are about nature. Not just one erdtree, but all erdtrees, with human and animal souls.
The ancestral spirit also appears to have come from a creature that may not be related to the Erdtree, but rather from a spirit between the lands that was a more natural version of the previous Golden Order. Legends related to ancestral spirits showing new life emerging from death sound a far cry from the Golden Order version of the world in which doomed death is locked away.
The world between continents suggests a different set of rules than the Golden Order, a way life and death worked before the Erdtree.
Connecting to these areas is the Rotten Lake, where you’ll find the ruins of the creepy centipede vermin, the Rotten Family, found in Caelid. The Rotten Lake appears to be the birthplace of Crimson Rot. The Blue Dancer Charm lore tells of a legend in which a blind swordsman sealed a god who was “decomposed”, and the map of the Lake of Decay suggests that some divine essence was sealed there. So this is likely where the Outer Gods responsible for Crimson Rot are trapped, and while exploring the area, you won’t be able to find much information about it (or do anything about it).
The cities you find underground, however, are not those created by ancestral followers who “eschewed words and metalwork.” Those were created by Knox, a group of humans who once fought against the Great Will – and failed.
Nokron, Nokstella and the Nameless Eternal City
You won’t get to the Eternal City until late in the game; in fact, the road to Nokron will only open after you defeat Radahn and release the star, causing the meteorite to fall into Limgrave and open the underground path. We know the most about the story surrounding Nokron, though its exact location in Marika’s story’s timeline or the larger history between the lands isn’t particularly clear.
The cities of Nokron and Nokstella are still home to some people, but major disasters have occurred in both places. From the armor of the Knox enemies, we learn that the Knox people somehow provoked the Great Will long ago, and for this purpose, cast two cities underground. What the Knox did, how exactly their city was buried, and how the Great Will was able to impose this punishment is not entirely clear. It is also unclear whether the cities were destroyed before or after the people of Nokron tried to fight and destroy the Great Will.
Nokron and Nokstella are largely intact underground, but cut off from the universe due to their betrayal of the Great Will.
There’s a lot going on in the Eternal City, but it’s a bit confusing and difficult to unravel. At some point in the past, the city was on the ground, and Knox seemed to be tied to the stars. These locations are an important part of Laney’s storyline, which is also about the fate of the stars and the universe. We can speculate that Knox wanted to get out of his grip on the Great Will and at some point in the past also tried to achieve the same goal as Laney, crafting the Age of the Stars to overtake Erdtree. However, the greater will stepped in and they failed.
Nokron and Nokstella are home to Silver Tears and Nox. The creatures appear to be made of living liquid metal, and Knox appears to have bred the substance to create Mimic Tears, versions capable of mimicking other creatures and changing their form.When you fight Mimic Tears in the Eternal City, they tend to become human-like and even imitate you when you encounter them. The core substance of Silver Tears is what Rennala needs to do her entire Strange Rebirth with her Great Rune, and this shapeshifting substance also seems to have some sort of connection to what the wizards of Liurnia used to create the Albinaurics, although those connections are a bit fragile.
What we do know about Silver Tears, however, is that they can become somewhat flawed humanoids, and Knox seems to want to use Mimic Tears to “build a lord”. It has been suggested that Knox may have summoned a meteor that brought the material that produces the silver tears to the land in between – an action that could have some serious consequences. It sounds a lot like the Knox would like to use their Mimic Tears to take over the role of Elden Lord, possibly as a means to circumvent or usurp the greater will’s control over the Lands Between. We can surmise that this may be what made the Great Will so angry that it took cities underground, sending them underground.
It’s a pretty tough situation for the Eternal City, as the stars are such a big part of life for them, and they’re now affected by the “false nights” of their underworld. This timeline is a bit sketchy, but it seems that the rebuke of the Great Will drove Knox to find another way to counter the Great Will. If you read through Laney’s story, you’ll find Nokren’s “hidden treasure”: a dagger called the Chopping Knife. You can probably guess what it does.
Depending on what you get from the creature, a living star named Astel is responsible for destroying the Eternal City.
However, the people of Nokron never seem to have been fully able to carry out this plan, and the creation of the Chopping Sword was itself a “treason” of the Great Will. As mentioned, it’s not entirely clear what happened, though — Knox’s attempt to create a mimetic tear lord may have coincided with the creation of the Chopping Sword, both acts that angered the Great Will, or it It may just be the blade itself that leads to the revenge of the great will. The ultimate fate of Nokron, and whether it is also an act of a greater will, is also unclear.
As you explore Nokron, your time in this place will end with a fight against a huge beast named Astel. According to what we know about Astel from Astel’s Remembrance and the gear you can make from it, the creature is actually a living star, a cosmic horror from space that has crashed into the middle ground and just like any other creature you’ve encountered before. Astel’s Remembrance says it destroyed Nokron and “takes their sky”, and the fact that you still find Astel in the city suggests that’s the last thing that happened to Nokron. The Eternal Dark spell said it was “an expression of the desperation that led to its destruction”, suggesting that the disappearance of the sky and the stars was the downfall of Nocron. Since then, we can’t help but wonder if Aster was sent to the Eternal City by a greater will, or if Aster was summoned by Knox himself, perhaps by accident, or the summoning produced the Silver Side effects of tears.
The outcome of the event is difficult to say because the information has been forgotten by history. The people on the surface seem to be trying to find and explore the Eternal City; for example, in the Siofra Aqueduct and Nokstella, you’ll find pale undead enemies named Falling Hawk Company. The ashes and equipment you find associated with these poor souls indicate that they were slaves sent underground to explore the Eternal City, but they ran out of supplies and eventually turned to burning the bodies of the dead to keep the light on as they explored. They will never get out of the Eternal City, nor do they know how long they, or their descendants, have been trapped there.
death prince
Godwin’s assassination changed everything between heaven and earth.
The path through Nokron and into the Siofra Aqueduct will take you to another part of the Lands Between underworld: Deeproot Depths. This location is well below Erdtree, where you can find many of its roots. You’ll quickly find that some of them are rotting and rotting, though they don’t suffer from scarlet rot like the Halligartries. Instead, they are black and liquid, tormented by something else: death itself.
If you get to the top of Deeproot Depths, you’ll find out what infected Erdtree. A strangely twisted body merged with roots. You’ll find that if you go through a few different side quests to get more information, it’s that this is the corpse of Golden Godwin – now deformed and strange, like some kind of terrifying horror. What remains of Godwin is the Prince of Death, the root of death and the source of those who live in death.
Godwin’s story is an odd one, and one that has had a major impact on the middle ground. We’ve mentioned it a few times before, but here’s a brief overview. Before the smash, a group of assassins,…
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