Rennala Queen of the Full Moon | Elden Ring Wiki

The next time she floats away and casts before my swing can hit her I’m going to boil that damn amber egg and eat it with toast

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Note: there seems to be a bug where using Fire's Deadly Sin immolation damage seems to have no effect on removing the phase 1 bubble around Rennala. if you set yourself on fire with the spell and walk up to one of the juvenile scholars, they will take damage and stop glowing, but it will have no effect on the bubble itself.

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I don't think Radahn, Rykard, or Ranni are Rennala's biological children. We have in-game examples (Lionel, Gideon) of people claiming legal guardianship/parenthood. If Rennala is barren and had several miscarriages, it adds a lot of depth to the rebirth mechanic. Rennala is a grieving mother who has lost her children and can't provide heirs for her husband. Consequently, she becomes obsessed with rebirth. Tragic, really. This makes Radagon's gift of the amber egg look a lot more compassionate. Remember that this was a parting gift after their divorce. The Great Rune of the Unborn description says:

"Perfects those who have been born anew. Children born anew by Rennala are all frail and short-lived."

This supports the theory that Rennala can't bear children. But how then did Radagon have Radahn, Rykard, and Ranni? I'd wager that Radagon and Rennala had a private arrangement with another woman to provide Radagon heirs. This could be what the Mask of Confidence is alluding to. The Mask of Confidence description states:

"When Radagon married Rennala, he ordered the Carian magic preceptors to don these masks. To make it clear that all of their matters were to be kept strictly private."

You can make genetic arguments based on hair color to support this as well (Rennala has raven-black hair and Radagon has flame-red hair, so Radahn (and Rykard?) having red hair is quite unlikely), but hair color genetics is complex, so this line of argument is a bit dubious. But if we assume Rennala is not the mother of Radahn, Rykard, and Ranni, who was their mother, then?

Why did Marika choose Radagon as her consort after she dismissed Godfrey?

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Imagine if the boss fight was just her spamming comet the whole time

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I wonder if this counts to go though the gate to the snow field?

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For RL1, (and other builds that want to make the second phase trivial,) giant hunt timed properly can stun lock her. You can finish her before she gets any attacks off after her initial comet azur. Just run straight at her when she casts comet, flatten her with giant hunt, and then wait just a second or two before using giant hunt again. Her poise will break after two uses. After the critical she should be nearly dead, (with a +10 claymore.)

You can also easily kill her in one bubble pop.

For a fully detailed explanation, I used a fire katana +10 with flaming strike in the first phase. Right before you kill the third schoolkid, use your physick with strength knot and flame shrouding tears, then cast flame grant me strength. Kill the last kid and then when she drops, use flaming strike + R2 followup. A series of R1's will easily finish her. Immediately drink a cerulean tear flask and then switch to your claymore with giant hunt and two hand it. Then just do what I stated above.

I also used radagon's Soreseal and two fingers talisman.

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No poise?

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Whatever was in the egg originally, it's not hers. Ranni might not be her child either since the other two empyreans are born of a single god. I'm surprised more people haven't caught on to this yet given the literal cuckoo imagery surrounding the academy. Rennala is a cuckquean, this is literally hidden in plain sight.

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So, someone correct me if I'm wrong... Did Renalla get buffed since release? Doing her on 2nd character, essentially same build, but this time she hits like a truck and is chaining attacks. She's been getting me with glintstone stars chained with comet azur the moment the stars end. Didn't happen last time we met, she was a pushover.

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If you are a mage and find this boss fight dificult remember that rocksling deals fisical damage.

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Wtf, I killed that witch and became 10000 runes like phantom?

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the ****ing chandelier smashing her little goober children never fails to make me laugh my ass off

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Correction: I think she is worth 40,000 runes.

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Level 73 sorcerer with 10 vigor. Other than this boss and the /spoiler/ triple crystals in the hidden Sellia cave, its never been an issue. Ironically, if I could respec it wouldn't be an issue but From decided to lock a core game mechanic behind a boss so i will be taking a long hiatus from the game

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i get not locking a core mechanic of the game (respeccing) behind a super tough boss, but honestly rennala deserved to be harder

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Feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

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its kinda funny that she's just chilling and sitting at the top right corner of the room behind the bookcase after Sellen "took over" the Academy.

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So i was fighting Rennala and she had summon the dragon, i dodged the viner azur got hut by the dragon, she summon something new , then got hit and killed by the dragon… There were two summons at a time, and it was a good attempt too

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This was my first time ever clearing a boss on the first attempt in a soulsborne game. On NG++ now, finally decided to look at this page. Saw 80 magic resist. Remembered how I used a pure INT sorcery build my first playthrough. Started feeling even more sorry for Renalla than I already did.

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I like how for phase 2 there are literally no combat tips above. Just what is going to happen. 1 to 2 hit kills. Level 50. What a joke. Not re-doing this ever. Waste of time.

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Since Rennala was the head of Raya Lucaria for some time and Radagon and all three of their kids use intelligence based sorcery(Rykard uses magma, Radahn uses gravity, Ranni uses ice) I wonder if all three of the kids and Radagon attended the academy as well? Just some questions, I would have liked to see a flashback of some kind to when the lands between were more normal and Radagon and Rennala were happy together

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lesser foe

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There's a baobab in Madagascar, said to be the biggest one and mother to all of the other oned, that is called Renala, mother of the forest

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Use "Aspect of the crucible: Horns" on her to launch her into the sky. Also I've glitched into her arena on accident by dying on the elevator and now the door to the library is still shut until i open it from the outside

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I would have loved this boss a lot more if she used the Carian sorceries as well, she being the queen of Caria and all. Would have made her so much more formidable in melee. Imagine you dodge all of the slow projectile spam to get in range and she tries to skewer you with Carian Piercer. It would be so goddamn cool and make the fight a lot more interesting, since the challenge would also include fighting her in melee and avoiding all the magical swords that she could be using. That way you can also change the fight to be more in line with what cunning mages and spellblades do- setup strategic traps for the enemy using their ability to deal damage at all ranges with projectiles that can track and magical weapons that can come out faster than a typical armament. Change her AI to not run away as often since she won't need to, make her summon only either the wolves or the bloodhound knight once per fight, and increase her health or defenses slightly.

As she currently stands, it is very difficult to believe that this mage was leading the Liurnian wars and was such a threat that she single handedly made Radagon reconsider conquering Liurnia, to the point that Radagon chose to court her.

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If you're having trouble finding chances to attack in the second phase, try being more aggressive. Dealing a lot of damage stops her casting spells

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greatsword + lions claw = cheese

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Somehow after update she doesn't stagger nor bleed?

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On my 3rd playthrough. Went in with an arcane build. Just simple Uchi with bloody slash and the winged sword insignia. She dropped after 3 weapon arts. Now I know why every says bleed builds are like cheating.

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She does not drop 40k, she drops 30k.

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Maybe I'm overlevelled at 50 when I fought her but man, she's a cakewalk compared to Margit and Godrick...

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Phase 1 of this is anakin's favorite boss fight

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I didn't know summons were available during phase 2, so I did her fair and square. Took me only a dozen times getting nuked out of existence while being distracted by her own summons.

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Lone Wolves' Ashes is the go-to Spirit Summon, if you want to use them. They 100% stunlock the boss and interrupt many of her spell casts and you are free to deal damage in whatever way you choose to. 100% kill, confirmed. (obviously for 2nd phase as 1st phase is already free anyway)

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Bloodbone arrows + Barrage + Fanged Imps = 1 try

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Bloodbone arrow + Barrage + Fanged Imp Summon = 1 try

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Cute boss, Legends Never Die

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This Boss is a pushover for melee builds and highly annoying for magic builds. Great balancing, lol. I never died to her in any melee build but damn did i struggle with my 2 magic builds. I guess i make melee builds and respecc right after her. Damn...maybe im the Problem. Maybe i just play bad. Bah...now im kind of down.

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So I defeated Rennala. Felt strong, proud of myself, went hunting some Liurnia runebears.

Died in 5 secs.

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I tried several different methods after getting wiped out by her in the second phase over and over. I tried the spirits people recommended: Demi-Humans and Kaiden, and neither did much. They didn't distract or interrupt her enough. Then in desperation I brought out the old reliable, Warhawk. I think it took two tries, but I finally got her. The Warhawk is such an underrated spirit. It interrupts casting, does a bunch of slash damage, and fire damage. In the process it gets a lot of aggro. I love the bird. Bird, bird... the bird's the word.

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"Enia will become available in Roundtable Hold, if Rennala is the first Great Rune boss the Tarnished has defeated."
Why tho? As it's believed that the Hold is projection of Lyndell.. help lore ppl.

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died for sure thousend times alrdy in my playtime but never to her. as boss shes a shame.

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She also casts the normal Comet besides of Comet Azur.

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Why don't we get the Homing Crystal sorcery? Because it's similar to Carian Phalanxes? Please, Miyazaki, Crystal Release sucks

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Easy boss, godrick gave me way more trouble.

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Trust me when I tell you to use the Skeletal Militiaman Ashes. Preferably upgraded a level. The full moon attack she does kills any summon in almost a single hit, but those minions will get right back up and continue distracting her (as well as her ash summons). Killed her first try when I stopped using wolves and switched to the skeletons.

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It seems her first phase is the only time a shardbearer's holy absorption is lower than 40%. You're welcome for the pointless info

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For magic users let Rock sling save you, deals physical damage and shreds rennalla. For the second phase summon Kaiden sellsword and he can effectively stunlock rennala

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Magic spamming attacks check, keeps on summoning enemies check, running away simulator check, she being a ***** check. Piece of **** boss

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She turns her kids into tomb stones and then throws them at you

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if second phase is rly illusion
i use snap seed gg

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The article says to use spirit ashes against her, but for some reason I wasn't able to. The symbol on the screen that lets you know you can summon went away after a few steps past the fog gate.

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Honestly, I do not like this fight. It takes some of the worst bosses from dark souls 3 and shoves them together just more annoying. The first phase is pretty much the same as deacons of the deep. Almost exactly. Second is just the crystal sage. Running away 100 times while you're sprinting to catch up, getting pelted with spells that 2 shot you, and spawning more bosses to absolutely ruin you. Honestly, she's my least favorite boss so far. She just seathes lazy boss design energy

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She literally lost everything when radagon left, it drove her insane when the hero of the golden order and part of marika left her yet she's not weak to faith??? Why?

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For magic users, notice how she has 80% damage reduction for magic, which is absolutly huge, that's why even if you never used a sword in the game you have to get something that hit fast and spam her.

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I wish I was the amber egg

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Holy **** I just clowned on Rennala SOOO hard. Demi humans straight up bullied her to death and Bloodhound’s fang shredded her.

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I've not seen anyone talk about it (or I just didn't look well enought) but anyway, here goes a small strory of a bug (maybe) : it all happened before some of the patches, I was cooping with a friend and just before entering rennala's room, we were invaded. Not willing to fight we got in and started the fight, but something held my attention, we didn't saw the message saying that the invader went back to their world, and what do you know ? Phase 2 start and the invader just spawned behind us ! So, no worry, I took him out before going back to the fight, but, I still wonder if this happened to anyone else ?

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She gets difficult when you fight her with one hand…..

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I beat the game and now shes gone. i wanna rescpec but dont know where to find her.

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banana head

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ironic that the boss for the magic zone is mega annoying if youre magic

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Can confirm: as a INT user it's Rock Sling FTW

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Demi-Humans made this fight very easy.

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My game keeps on crashing every time I try to fight her

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For pure mage class I discovered that Rock Sling dose an amazing amount of damage to her and also stuns her out of spell casting.

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Keep getting hit by the ****ing magic missiles after im already locked into an attack

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‘culver’ is the first time i’ve ever looked up a word in the oxford english dictionary and not found a definition for it

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I JUST ****ING LOVE boss that that spam three homing magic attacks and spawn infinite minions AT THE SAME TIME great fair boss, totally don’t get one hit every time i die

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awww her throne is nursing chair

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Yeah...she's definitely the magic foil of the boss crew. It took 5-6 damage rounds to clear her first phase with high INT carian grandeur. Meanwhile simply smacking her with a straight sword barely took two.

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I've a theory that she's not the one in the driver's seat phase 2. I think Ranni is the one piloting her body during that portion, especially considering all her summons match Ranni's various companions, minus Seluvis, but he's hardly on her side. Bloodhound Knight matching Blaidd, Troll matching Iji, Dragon matching Adulla, and remember the first summon spirit obtained ingame is the Lone Wolf Ashes, which we get from 'Renna' as a gift. Might merit more research than just that, but I've not enough patience for it.

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Just Spam Giant Hunt AoW for phase 2
Cheers!

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having headphones helps going through the (deliberately not challenging) first phase quicker since the student we need to attack is the one singing, makes it much easier to locate her almost immediately especially if she hides behind some pillar or something

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Fanged imps. Fanged imps all the way. They're relentless, they run around a lot, and they inflict bleed. Literally killed Rennala for me in the second phase while I dealt with her ashes

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Lore-wise, Rennala might be the 9ne responsible of creating Albinaurics. Being obsessed with rebirth and all. Makes sense that she knows what mimic tears are and entirely based the Albinaurics on the mimic tears. I guess that's why we need a larval tear to be reborn. Essentially our tarnished's soul goes to another body that is made from a fully mature mimic tear that mimics the body based on our wishes.

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weird "boss"

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The tips for fighting Rennala on this page suggest summoning the wolves for the first phase, in the hope you get lucky and they find which kid is keeping her bubble shield powered up for you. I think this would be a mistake. the first phase isn't difficult, the library isn't all that big or confusing, so finding which kid is powering the shield so you can bring Rennala down isn't difficult either. the second phase is more difficult than at the library, summoning the wolves here will be of much greater benefit, they have good stagger in their own right, they wont just distract and do damage to Rennala but the spirit summons she uses against you as well.

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after i defeated her i didn’t get her great rune but enia still gave me a talisman pouch, anyone know anything about this?

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"Note: The game may treat resting at any Grace in Altus Plateau the same as defeating this boss"

Eh, I don't know; I just got finished fighting her, and I've been in the Atlus Plateau countless times, long before I even first encountered her tonight. Maybe they patched it?

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She never summoned against me. I summoned the lone wolves, and they just constantly attacked her. I don't know if they staggered her out of summoning, but if you are having any trouble with this fight the wolves might be worth a shot.

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I was so happy when I found out that I didn't kill ranni's mom by defeating her

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i spammed sword dance with a +14 cross-nagita on phase 2. died in seconds without summoning. too easy. needs buffing

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I like to summon my own lone wolves whenever she summons those. Like playing a high stakes pokemon battle with her

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Other than the dragon, the summons that Rennala uses in her second phase all have parallels to characters surrounding her questline. The wolves are a parallel to Blaidd, the giant is a parallel to Iji, and the bloodhound knight is a parallel to Darriwil (which technically is related more to Blaidd, but still an interesting thing I figured out)

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Contrast with Marika red speared state. It's sweet how rennala is well and protected so much, some mages did defends her, the carian knights, the red wolf, the sweetings, the invincible golden bubble, also ranni even in death.

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Man, people really had trouble with this fight? I think I spent most of it just wandering around in the first phase because it was kind of funny and weird. Second phase I just shimmied past all her spells and summons w/ bloodhound claws and destroyed her

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Rennala the bald, weird long limbs, silly hat wearer; no wonder husband left for the hot blonde upgrade. Let's be real, Radagon never loved her. It was all for Golden Order. That's why it's easy for him to just leave her.

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Birth an Empyrian baby.
Refuse to elaborate.

- Rennala, Queen of The Full Base.

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Discipline your ****ing kids, they're throwing books at me! Are you even listening?

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God, this boss sucks so bad.

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Now that you're out of my life I'm so much better
You thought that I'd be weak without you, but I'm stronger
You thought that I'd be broke without you, but I'm richer
You thought that I'd be sad without you, I laugh harder
Thought I wouldn't grow without you, now I'm wiser
Thought that I'd be helpless without you, but I'm smarter
You thought that I'd be stressed without you, but I'm chillin'
You thought I wouldn't sell without you, sold nine million

I'm a survivor
I'm not gon' give up
I'm not gon' stop
I'm gon' work harder
I'm a survivor
I'm gonna make it
I will survive
Keep on survivin'

Thought I couldn't breathe without you, I'm inhalin'
You thought I couldn't see without you, perfect vision
You thought I couldn't last without you, but I'm lastin'
You thought that I would die without you, but I'm livin'
Thought that I would fail without you, but I'm on top
Thought it would be over by now, but it won't stop
Thought that I would self-destruct, but I'm still here
Even in my years to come, I'm still gon' be here

The kind of energy Rennala needed

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Rennala's unhealthy level of simping for her ex-husband a.k.a put a statue of him post divorce is a bit too much

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The spherical bubble she was in at the first phase, is it from the Egg? Will be cool if we can float, shielded, and revel enemy like that if there are similar egg, maybe dlc?

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My respect skyrocketed when mommy moon also called Blaidd "My Child".

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So question for everyone, In phase two are we fighting a clone of her that Ranni is controlling? Or is there some other story reason I’m missing?

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I believe this boss is immune to scarlet rot at least in her second phase. I shot her with 30 rot arrows and it never procced.

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My favorite boss fight tbh

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There's a goblin in my brain that prevents me from summoning so the second phase killed me in 20 seconds.

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can someone help me, after i defeated her.. she dropped something where it is said that i should go to a finger reader but didnt work.. then i used "use" on it and it only gave 20k runes but nothing else... was that right? (im a mage)

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