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This ending feels so satisfying. Initially the game tempts you with the notion of becoming Elden Lord as a Tarnished. All support characters and in-game indicators lead you along that path.

Mid-to-late game you learn the shocking truth that the notion of becoming Elden Lord is a lie. The Order is broken, the Fingers are broken, the Erdtree is broken. It has spurned you and you're not meant to become Elden Lord. The Golden Order is going to stay shattered, as is. I especially like how the game specifically tempts you around this point, if you've been doing the side quests, with the notion of doing away with the existing Order entirely (Age of Stars) or the nihilistic path of destroying everything (Lord of Frenzied Flame). Psychologically, I do get the appeal of these endings, other than the cool cutscenes and all, these paths were introduced and clarified after the Tarnished has been promised so much and fought so hard, only to discover that it is all a lie. Its understandable to be weary and tired and to not like the prospect of fighting endlessly for the throne of an Order that is broken and corrupted anyway.

Mid-to-late game, in-character, is when you begin losing hope and start giving in to righteous frustration and despair. The time when you were so full of hope and energy, were promised so much and hailed to achieve it, seems like a lifetime ago. Even if you do go on this new journey with Melina, even if you do burn and enter the Erdtree and become Elden Lord, what's the point? You've now seen so much misery and no sign of any stability, order, civilization or peace. Is becoming Elden Lord of such a "fractured" land even worth it?

So imagine my satisfaction when after fighting so hard, my character not only becomes Elden Lord but also manages to fix the underlying "bug" so to speak, with the previous Order, improving it and bringing peace and stability to the Lands Between. Bringing renewed hope that what happened so long ago to shatter civilization may/should never happen again. Imagine being promised something amazing, then finding out it is not your destiny to achieve it, but nevertheless, achieving it against all odds and making it worthwhile in addition, all through sheer effort and rigorous exploration. The sense of achievement is difficult to describe.

While the 2 unique endings are about a revolutionary change and are definitely pretty cool, in my opinion, the Elden Lord - Age of Order ending is about a complicated relationship with destiny itself, and how we come full circle to achieve it.

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after i solved the riddle and told gold mask what i found i didnt meet him and corhyn near star gazer ruin. but after killing black blade when i went to colosseum he was there with Mending rune of perfect order. im playing with 1.02 version idk if its fixed in later versions or not but when i saw this i thought it could be helpful.

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objectively good ending with no downsides? was this put into the games code by anti-fromsoft?

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Constitutionalism?

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Goldmask's vision is to deny the meddling and volatile instability of the gods from bending and altering the world to their will, while maintaining a certain order that even the gods should adhere to. It is basically saying "Y'all we have laws. Higher ups should also adhere to it instead of abusing it for their personal gains". If you think of it, almost every horrid thing that happened can be attrributed to either Marika and her own paranoia, or other demi gods acting similarly. As such Goldmask's vision could potentially be a fix for this (although only time will tell). Of course, simps of a certain selfish mass murdering war instigator with a chronic backstabbing disorder would tend to think otherwise

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So total anarchy (aka age of Stars) is better huh?

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>Greater Will force some sort of new Order on the world.
>The Order is flawed and produce endless suffering.
>Greater Parasite force some sort of new Order on the world.
>The Order is flawed and produce endless suffering.
>Greater Parasite force some sort of new Order (this time invented by goldenmask) on the world.
>???
Lol you sad shumk, who is think that this is a good ending, ever hear the definition of insanity?

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So let me get this straight, this rune perfects the Golden Order keeping it from ever being challenged or changed?
Wouldn't the rot, mistbegotten, omens, etc. all remain? This just cements the current order of things as the way the world is, forever.
I'm ready for the downvotes on this one but that doesn't really sound like a good ending.

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This is not the good ending y'all think it is. The Golden Order stagnated and collapsed because its gods fought endlessly while the world gentrified into oblivion. Fia's ending ensures this doesn't happen again by restoring the natural cycle of life. No more immortals to stink up the place. Ranni's does it by removing any trace of divinity altogether, leaving the Lands Between to self-determine. These endings are about undoing Marika's stank-ass design. Even Frenzied Flame is meant to wipe the slate clean. This one, though, "fixes" the issues with Marika's plan by ERASING FREE WILL such that no one can even imagine shaking things up. I'll take the apocalypse over holy brainwashing any day.

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so I completed Rannis quest and Goldmasks quest, I have mending rune but in front of Fractured Marika I have only option to summon Ranni or become Elden lord.. Does anyone know how to select this ending? I don't want to be Rannis simp for 1000 years..

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Reading comments here I have a feeling that people don't kinda understand some things.
1. "Fickleness of gods" probably refers Radagon and Marika rather than anything else
2. Godmask doesn't argue with the Grater Will, Golden Order was imposed by Marika not the GW and so I'd rather go with an interpretation that Grater Will just wants order of any kind really
3. The Outer Gods and GW are not in any way like what we people probably from christian culture mostly understand by that term, they are not omniscient nor omnipotent; In a way they are simmilar to gods in TES series where gods cannot do nothing on Nirn without people whorshipping them, in the Lands Betwin the GW or the OG cannot interact with the world without some sort of agent
Lastly I'd be happy if anyone would like to discuss it here

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Virgin ranni simp vs Chad goldmask enyojer

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The Perfect Order Ending is thus: No Gods, no Masters. Only Man. We, who whereupon it is our will to see our fates are not twisted and made tools of gods outside our interpretation. We who would simply wish to live our lives without the influence of things beyond our control. We who would be content with simply living to die at an indeterminate point in time, we say no. We deny you and your powers-that-be. We are beyond your manipulation, and you, gods, are no higher or lower than man. This is Man's Answer to your question: "What is your meaning to Life?"

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I noticed some people here are saying that this rune excludes all but the Greater Will's influence on the lands between, but we just killed the Elden Beast which is the Greater Will's vassal, so wouldn't that exclude its influence as well?

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This feels like the "no one moves, eats, sleeps, or does anything ever again because every faucet of their physical reality is now nirvanna" rune. At a glance it seems like the best rune, but it's too perfect. With no strife, no desire, no motivating goals or adverse interactions, everything stagnates into stillness. The second you take the throne reality becomes a ****ed up 5th dimensional nirvana where nothing bad OR good happens and just stops.
This is effectively the polar opposite of the first flame ending where reality breaks down and fuses into one chaotic roiling mass.

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the "SHALL NOT" ending, from what I've gathered from the other comments. very nice

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>Barges into the lands between fxcking naked
>Argues with the great will while T posing
>Wins
>refuses to elaborate

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I found really odd that from software really let a good ending without any major drawback in it

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The Gods that are fickle are most likely Marika or Radagon. It's hard to tell since we don't quite fully know either of their motives outside of pure speculation, but I'd go with Radagon since the age seemed to be turning over to the Golden Order (the Age of the Erdtree being before and during the early stages of Radagon being 2nd Elden Lord iirc), and we know Radagon has heavy influence on the Elden Ring due to seeing his symbol holding the fractured pieces together on the main menu. It is likely because of him that the Misbegotten, Albinaurics and Omen were outcast and why Morgott and Mohg were shut into the sewers.

side-note: I am unsure of what to believe of Radagon's origins, whether he was a separate entity from Marika to begin with, only assimilating with her in order to prevent the destruction of the Elden Ring, or if the whole Mimic + Mimic Veil theory makes as much sense.

The Mending Rune seems to imply it would prevent the acting God (probably Marika since we kill Radagon) from manipulating the concepts on a whim. Seems like a solid ending assuming the Greater Will isn't an evil being... but we can't know for sure.

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“Gods” in this context I don’t think refers to the Greater Will. I think it removes to the mortals turned Gods because the whole reason the shattering turned up was because of Ranni being selfish and killing an innocent son who was loved by everyone. Greed, selfishness, and pride is what the empyreans embolden and its no wonder the two fingers said the Greater Will rejected them. This new perfected order will prevent such hostilities ever again and restore truth.

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The giga chad ending

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Basically everyone is equal under the law nobody is above it from the lowest peasant to the elden lord himself truly the best ending.

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Given that this is subjectively one of the best endings, it's disappointing how bare bones the quest to get it is. Most of the other endings have their own unique cutscenes, areas and boss fights (except for dung eater) but Goldmask's is just "talk to this guy, talk to him again, talk to this other guy, talk to both of them, cast 1 spell, talk to them again 2 more times, then pick up the rune"

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"The current imperfection of the Golden Order, or instability of ideology, can be blamed upon the fickleness of the gods no better than men. That is the fly in the ointment."

Is he talking about Marika and Radagon here, rather than the Outer Gods themselves? In the pursuit of reaching perfection, the alchemical concept of rebis, the union of Marika and Radagon ultimately failed as it formed an imperfect rebis in which both halves both struggled against each other. Maybe this was the intention of Marika all along.

We find ourselves only fighting Radagon, who upon his defeat is forged or transformed into the Sacred Relic Sword by the Elden Beast.

In the end, only a fractured Marika remains. Ready to be mended by the Elden Lord.

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it means that men are to blame just as much as the gods, not the other way around.
to follow the faith on account of the might of the gods is not faith

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the perfect mending rune doesn't exi-

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The perfect mending rune doesn't exi-

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The yolo ending

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Since my 1st playtrough I was convinced this is the best ending, a perfect natural order without the whims of the gods. Yes Ranni ending is more cinematic, but lore whise this is the best one.

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Do you just need to have this in your inventory at the end of the game or do you need to use it in some way? I'm assuming the former as there's no way to equip or use it during the game...

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The Gods it’s talking about are Marika and her children not the Outer Gods. This mending rune is prevent another shattering from ever occurring and from being tampered with.

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After a lot of thought, many of the comments here are totally wrong and about two are correct. Goldmask doesn’t care about himself, through his detachment goldmask never speaks because his listens.

marika shattered the ring because ranni murdered her favorite son. all this because of two control-hungry women who can’t just let things be how they should. The Greater Will is tired of having basic necessities of life beholden to the whims of men. The Greater Will is punishing marika, radagon and the elden dragon are holding marika in place just long enough to be overcome. The Greater Will gives vision to many seeing the erdtree burned, because it will no longer be needed in the new order. The Greater Will brings back the tarnished because their suffering made them humble and therefore worthy where the “gods” never could be.

This isn’t even the first time something like this had to happen either. Radagon was originally chosen to be a great, all-encompassing powerhouse so he could be joined to marika. Godwyn was supposed to replace marika. She was already on the way out before ranni’s schemes were even considered.

Why did even that fail? Because the “gods” are not just fickle like men, they ARE just men. As it is the world had no gods, just belligerent superheroes turned villains. There is no other option than for the Greater Will to step in and take full control instead of just letting things run themselves into the ground.

For the Good of all, there need to be sacrifices. Goldmask loses his attachment to the world but gains knowledge beyond it. Radagon loses his life but gains a world where we need no more warriors like him. The elden beast is no longer needed because the perfect ring cannot be changed and so can never be put in danger again, so it needs no manifestation.

The world only believes the Greater Will has forsaken it, when in Reality the Greater Will has rejected the world and demands a new one.

So what goldmask wants is what the Greater Will wants: to repair the ring then prevent it from ever being changed or damaged again; in the process removing all the terrifying “fantasy” elements of the world and grounding everything. No more super powered pagan-style “gods,” no more magic, no more war, no more manipulation of the most basic tenets of Reality, just the Greater Will and its Church.

Out goes the strange freemason/alchemic references in regards to how radagon/marika/elden beast and the ring operate in regards to the Greater Will; where there is a “blind watchmaker” who just leaves things be after it Creates. No more need for strange finger creatures or their withered husks to read them; the Greater Will takes things into their own hands directly now.

In comes a much more Catholic/Aristotelian view as the past is erased. Not shockingly, it was Socrates, Aristotle, And Plato who pointed out that the “pantheon” could not possibly be “gods” but instead they are deimos (dividers, where “demon” comes from) who have hidden us from the real God.

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Is this the best ending? Seems like it. The Outer Gods get somewhat screwed over, but not as severely as in the Frenzy Flame ending. It's not like they don't fully deserve either fate.

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I think that the Gods the rune is referring to are the Outer Gods. When we mend the Elden Ring with Goldmask rune a golden aura surrounds it as if it were "protecting" it. It influences the whole Order in the same way the Fell Rune defiles the all of it. In Fia's ending the Rune of the Death Prince appears in the lower part of the Elden Ring, meaning it changes only one aspect of the Order, instead of all of it.

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As lackluster as this ending's content is, I'm somewhat satisfied with it. For all the nothing he says, Goldmask I think is emblematic of the devoted truthseeker, regardless of faith or origins. He was wholly devoted to his religion, but through rigorous study and contemplation, he came to be aware of its fundamental flaw, that the entropy and shenanigans of the gods (that which causes suffering and legitimate reasons to resist the Golden Order for some life) make them truly no less fickle than men, and that the Golden Order should be reformed to account for this. The real question is what does the Greater Will (an actual real Godlike entity with ambitions) think about this? What about Goldmask's discovery/gestation made his reformed order "Perfect"? Free of suffering? Or is it simply just an acknowledgement? Or did he write a bug fix to the lore and explain that Radagon is Marika? It's not really explained at all, I sincerely hope we get follow-up information in DLC. I really do enjoy the mystical nature of his character, you cant help but hate brother corhyn for abandoning/maybe killing him, likely right before or after Goldmask had his epiphany.

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Will this end the persecution of Omens and the ones who live in death?

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Unlike the other Mending Runes, this one was discovered, not gestated. Given this fact, where could Goldmask have discovered it? He apparently had to go to the forbidden Mountaintops of the Giants to discover it, but there's really no explanation I'm aware of that hints where he found it. Did he find it near the Flame of Ruin? One of the churches? Or was it more of a metaphorical discovery he made from within, possibly gestating it in his own weird metaphysical way?

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You rewrite the Elden Ring and defeat the Elden Beast, the Greater Will is cut off, it can't controll anything without vassals or gods doing its biddings. Goldmask simply removed the divine influence from the Golden Order.

They are no better than men afterall...

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Too bad most of the alternate endings in Elden Ring are almost the same. Not worth the work.

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I was annoyed that this ending can really only be done by a high level intelligence mage build. I guess you can respec but that is still a pain if you’ve invested in melee weapons.

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Goldmask's ending is perfect.

Greater Will must be the sole authority of the Golden Order, no fallible gods like Marika/Radagon and petty demigods. Mankind must be beholden to the true Deity.

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Goldmask's ending is perfect.

Greater Will must be the sole authority of the Golden Order, no fallible gods like Marika/Radagon and petty demigods. Mankind must be beholden to the true Deity.

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I've noticed that many people are unable follow Goldmask's line of logic that leads to him creating this rune. What Goldmask identifies to be the primary problem with the Golden Order is not the fickleness of the demigods, but the "instability of ideology". This instability is what allowed the gods to screw **** up as badly as they did through changing the Golden Order during the shattering of the Elden Ring. As such, Goldmask fixes the Golden Order not by "removing freedom" or "subjugating everyone to the Greater Will" as many people believe, but by making the Golden Order unchangeable. The gods, as well as everyone else, are still as capable of being "fickle" as ever, however they no longer have the ability to change the Golden Order for their own purposes. The mending rune basically a giant "you don't have the right, O you don't have the right" to any attempts of changing the Golden Order, consequently making the Golden Order permanent, stable ideology and fixing what was in Goldmask's opinion its primary problem. Coincidentally, this means none of the outer gods will be able to change the current Golden Order to their own order ever again should they somehow acquire the Elden Ring (including the Greater Will should it ever choose to come back and cause problems), making this ending one of the more permanent ones. So, whether this ending is good or bad ultimately depends on how good you believe the Golden Order to be. Personally, I believe it to be a good thing if we take what the Turtle Pope said about the core of Golden Order as true so I think this is the best ending out of the six.

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I believe that Gideon's part in Marika's plan shines a bit of light upon the Perfect Order ending from Goldmask. If Gideon is right, what Marika is planning is to keep the Tarnished struggling in the shattering forever, so that no new vassal to the Greater Will arises as Elden Lord. Goldmask knows that, and he also knows that the shattering has it's cause in the fickle dual nature of Marika/Radagon (that is, one part wanting to shatter the ring and the other trying to fix it). So I believe that Goldmask wants to put all of the power into the Greater Wills' hands, so that Order won't be subject to the fickleness of the gods (as the Mending Rune states). I think his ending is something along those lines because Brother Corhyn rejects Goldmask's idea after he finds out about it, and since the Fundamentalist incantations state that their belief is based on the idea that Marika is a goddess (and probably would never go against the wishes of the Greater Will), if we presume Corhyn is a Fundamentalist, it makes sense that he rejects Goldmask's plan.

I'm not sure how the Mending Rune of Perfect Order does that, exactly. Maybe removing the necessity of an Empyrean God, or maybe uniting Radagon and Marika into one thing (truly), or maybe just making the Greater Will all powerful and whatever.

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Tags: mindbreak.

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Tags: mindbreak.

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Tags: mindbreak.

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People are seriously misunderstanding this ending. Goldmask still supports the Outer God that is the Greater Will. What he is fixing are the lesser gods like Marika and her demi-god offspring. They previously had too much freedom and thus messed up the Golden Order. His ending fixes that by removing that freedom and subjecting them to the Greater Will just as much as the regular people.

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based ending

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first:
y'all are bloody reformists
second:
Miyazaki (or the translators) have not read enough Kant to call it a "transcendental ideology" (see item text) and not just a transcendent ideology (whatever that means)

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this guy gets it

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Assuming that the goal is to rid ourselves of control from the outer gods (including the Greater Will) without completely destroying life as we know it, I can't tell wether this ending or Ranni's is the correct choice.

In Ranni's ending, we supposedly remove interference from outer gods by "distancing Order from the Lands Between". But it seems that, for the one thousand years of the Age of Stars, the realm will still be under the guidance of an outside entity (the Moon).

Goldmask's ending is very vague in what it will do to 'perfect' Order. This item mentions that the problem is the "fickleness of the gods". Are outer gods included? Does it mean that all gods (including outer ones like the Greater Will) will be accountable for their actions? Or does it mean that the human gods are fickle and only the Greater Will is worthy of control - therefore ruling the Lands Between and all life in it with an 'iron fist'?

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Is there a way to get this one after the city gets covered in ash?

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Even dead he is still T-posing, truly ever brilliant

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Guys. I'm sure we've all seen the one video that shows you where to get it and you gotta go past the dragon and blah blah blah, really precise fall onto a railing so you don't die, yada yada. Don't do that. Go to the staircase leading to the boss, and go around to the right of it. No falls necessary. Just walk over. I almost facepalmed when I realized this after walking out this way after dying to the jump once, then getting it.

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I finished this quest and have it in my inventory but there's no option to use it after the last boss, wtf?

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I finished this quest and have it in my inventory but there's no option to use it after the last boss, wtf?

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This is by far the best ending. Goldmask is so brazen and ordered that even the outer gods, including the greater will, are too fickle for him. You establish an elden ring that no outer god can meddle with (unless they re-invade the planet I guess). I think this is what Miquella was trying to do as well with Unalloyed Gold.

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I've acquired the rune even though Corhyn died at Leyndell for me when I burned the Erdtree, it might not be tied to Corhyn at all. (Or he is only needed up until Leyndell.)

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This is essentially the "Reject pantheon. Embrace monotheism" ending. This rune (hypothetically) allows the Golden Order to work autonomously, serving only the Greater Will. By cutting out the needs for flesh and blood gods, the Greater Will can effectively shape the world into its ideal state directly.

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Lawful good ending

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does anyone know if mending the elden ring provides an alternate achievement ending? or if it just gives the "elden lord" one

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