Elden Ring Endings: How to Get All 6 Endings

Elden Ring has six endings. After you defeat the final boss, you choose one at the Elden Ring itself: the default Age of Fracture, three variants that use a Mending Rune from an NPC questline, the Lord of the Frenzied Flame ending, and Ranni's Age of the Stars, which you start with a summon sign instead of touching the Ring. You can only see one per playthrough, but a save backup lets you see them all in one run.

This guide is spoiler-light: it explains what each ending requires, not what happens in the cutscenes.

All Elden Ring endings at a glance

Every ending needs the main story bosses beaten first. Our boss order guide lists them in sequence.

How the ending choice works

After defeating Radagon and the Elden Beast, you reach a Site of Grace called Fractured Marika next to the Elden Ring. Interacting with the Ring gives you a list of options. Mending Runes you have collected from questlines appear there as extra choices, and the Frenzied Flame option appears if you have accepted the Three Fingers.

Most questlines do not lock you in until that final choice, so you can carry several Mending Runes at once and decide at the end. The big exception is the Lord of the Frenzied Flame ending, covered below.

Age of Fracture (default ending)

This is the standard ending. Beat the final boss, interact with the Elden Ring and choose to mend it. It needs no questline, so it is the one you get if you skipped every side quest. You become Elden Lord and the existing order continues.

Age of Order (Goldmask)

This ending comes from the Brother Corhyn and Goldmask questline:

1. Meet Brother Corhyn in Roundtable Hold.
2. After reaching the Altus Plateau, follow Corhyn to find Goldmask near the Altus Highway Junction and Forest Greatbridge area.
3. Meet them again in Leyndell. Find the Golden Order Principia book in the Erdtree Sanctuary, give it to Corhyn to learn the Law of Regression incantation, and cast it at the Radagon statue below the sanctuary to solve Goldmask's riddle.
4. Follow them to the Mountaintops of the Giants and later to the Ashen Capital, where you find Goldmask lying near the coliseum with the Mending Rune of Perfect Order on him.

Be careful with timing. GamesRadar warns that events after the Fire Giant fight lock you out of this quest unless you have already progressed it far enough.

Age of the Duskborn (Fia)

Fia's quest gives the Mending Rune of the Death-Prince. The main steps, as laid out by GamesRadar, are:

1. Talk to Fia when you first reach Roundtable Hold, and hug her after you reach the Altus Plateau to get the Weathered Dagger.
2. Give the dagger to D, Hunter of the Dead.
3. After defeating two Shardbearers, find Fia in a previously locked room in Roundtable Hold.
4. Reach the Deeproot Depths and hug Fia at the Prince of Death's Throne.
5. Retrieve the Cursemark of Death from the Divine Tower of Liurnia and bring it back to her. Reaching that tower requires the Carian Inverted Statue from Ranni's questline, so the two quests overlap.
6. Reload the area and defeat the Lichdragon Fortissax boss to get the Mending Rune.

Blessing of Despair (Dung Eater)

This ending uses the Mending Rune of the Fell Curse from the Loathsome Dung Eater, who appears in Roundtable Hold once you have reached the Altus Plateau.

1. Bring him one Seedbed Curse.
2. Use the Sewer-Gaol Key to free his body in the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds below Leyndell.
3. After he is defeated outside the capital, return to the Roundtable Hold and talk to him again.
4. Bring four more Seedbed Curses to his body in the cell, five in total.

There are six Seedbed Curses in the game, so you have one spare. One of them comes from Blackguard Big Boggart's questline and is lost if the Dung Eater's quest reaches a certain point first.

Lord of the Frenzied Flame

This is the ending to be careful with. To set it up, go down into the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds beneath Leyndell, defeat Mohg, the Omen, and find the hidden path down to a large sealed door. Approach the door without any armor equipped to open it and accept the Three Fingers' flame.

That act locks you out of every other ending for the playthrough. PowerPyx's advice is to reach the door, rest at the nearby grace and leave it alone until after the final boss, then come back and touch it once you have backed up your save.

How to undo the Frenzied Flame

The only cure is Miquella's Needle. Finish Millicent's questline to get the Unalloyed Gold Needle back, defeat Malenia in Miquella's Haligtree, and use the flower she leaves behind to turn it into Miquella's Needle. Then use the needle in Dragonlord Placidusax's arena at Crumbling Farum Azula. After that, you can't take the Frenzied Flame again.

Age of the Stars (Ranni)

Ranni's ending is the longest questline in the game and is often called the secret ending. The key steps are:

1. Get Torrent, then talk to Renna at the Church of Elleh.
2. After defeating Starscourge Radahn, meet Ranni at Ranni's Rise in northern Liurnia and work for her and her servants.
3. Find the Fingerslayer Blade in Nokron, Eternal City and give it to her.
4. Use the Carian Inverted Statue she gives you to reach Nokstella, Eternal City, and pick up the Miniature Ranni doll.
5. Push through the Lake of Rot and defeat Astel, Naturalborn of the Void.
6. Collect the Dark Moon Ring from the chest in Rennala's arena and give it to Ranni.

After the final boss, don't touch the Elden Ring. Use the blue "Summon Ranni" sign on the ground near it instead. Killing Ranni at any point makes this ending impossible.

How to get all endings in one playthrough

You can only finish one ending per save. PowerPyx's method is to complete every questline you want, defeat the Elden Beast, rest at the Fractured Marika grace and then back up your save:

• PlayStation: copy the save to cloud storage or USB in the console's saved data settings, with auto-sync turned off.
• PC: copy the save folder from your user AppData folder (the "EldenRing" folder under Roaming) to another location.
• Xbox: rely on the cloud save, which is more fiddly; follow your console's saved data options carefully.

Watch an ending, then restore the backup and choose another. The ending you pick is permanent for that save, so without a backup you would need a new playthrough, such as New Game+, to see a different one.

Frequently asked questions

How many endings does Elden Ring have?

Elden Ring has six endings: Age of Fracture, Age of Order, Age of the Duskborn, Blessing of Despair, Lord of the Frenzied Flame and Age of the Stars. You choose one after beating the final boss.

What is the best ending in Elden Ring?

There is no official best ending. Many players and outlets, including GamesRadar, favor Ranni's Age of the Stars because it comes from the longest and most involved questline, but it comes down to which outcome you prefer.

Can you get all endings in one playthrough?

Not on a single save without a backup. Back up your save after beating the final boss, watch one ending, then restore the backup and pick another.

What locks you out of the Age of the Stars ending?

Killing Ranni or failing to finish her questline before the final boss does. You also lose access to every non-Frenzied Flame ending if you open the Three Fingers' door without curing it with Miquella's Needle.

Can you undo the Frenzied Flame ending?

Yes, with Miquella's Needle. Get it by completing Millicent's questline and defeating Malenia, then use it in Dragonlord Placidusax's arena in Crumbling Farum Azula.

Does Shadow of the Erdtree change the endings?

The six endings above are all chosen at the end of the base game, after the Elden Beast. The DLC has its own final boss, but it is played separately from this ending choice.