Witch-Hunter Jerren |
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| Location | Redmane Castle Academy of Raya Lucaria |
| Role | Quest NPC and Summon |
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Witch-Hunter Jerren is an NPC in Elden Ring. Witch-Hunter Jerren, also known as Castellan Jerren, is a part of the Sorceress Sellen questline. He can also be seen as a herald, making proclamations about the Radahn Festival around Redmane Castle just as the festival is getting prepared to start. He then, initiates the festival. Jerren has the opportunity to fight alongside players as an NPC Summon.
I am Jerren. Foolish old warrior, and witness. Incidentally, do you like a good festival, from time to time?
Witch-Hunter Jerren Location in Elden Ring
Witch-Hunter Jerren can be found at church at Redmane Castle.
- This NPC moves
- This merchant can be fought
- If defeated, drops: Eccentric Set
Witch-Hunter Jerren Questline: How to complete Witch-Hunter Jerren's Quest
In order to proceed with these quests that involve Sorceress Sellen, Starscourge Radahn must be defeated. You can then find Jerren seated at Redmane Castle, north of the Chamber Outside the Plaza Site of Grace. [Map Link]
If he is not at Redmane Castle, he is likely already at his second location in Witchbane Ruins. Speak to him then you can find him next where you previously found the chained Sorceress Sellen in Witchbane Ruins.
If you still cannot locate Jerren in the Witchbane Ruins, you may need to further progress in the Sorceress Sellen questline. At his point you will probably need to bring Sellen's stone to the puppet body in Seluvis' secret basement by the three sister towers in north Liurnia before he will appear with Sellen's body in this location.
The next encounter should be at the Raya Lucaria Academy Library. [Map Link] You will be given a choice to side with Sellen or Jerren. If you choose to side with Jerren, you will be engaging in combat alongside him against Sellen.
Siding with Sellen
If you side with Sellen and defeat Jerren, his armor set, Eccentric Set is obtained. This includes the Eccentric's Hood, Eccentric's Armor, Eccentric's Manchettes, and Eccentric's Breeches. You can also gain the Glintstone Kris from Sellen as a reward and gain access to Shard Spiral for purchase.
Siding with Jerren
Choose to side with Jerren and you will obtain Sellen's Bell Bearing, and Witch's Glintstone Crown upon the defeat of Sellen. He will also reward you with an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone after speaking with him. You will find him where his summon sign was outside the Grand Library Site of Grace.
Dialogue in Elden Ring: Witch-Hunter Jerren
Introduction before the festival
- Oh, Tarnished, are you? How did you slip inside, with the gate closed? Hmph. No matter. If you can fell one of them, you're a champion, in my book. I am Jerren. Foolish old warrior, and witness. Incidentally, do you like a good festival, from time to time? Well, it's true, this fortress houses only the vanquished. But when the stars align, we celebrate. A war festival honoring the last battle and death of General Radahn, the mightiest demigod of the Shattering, and bearer of a Great Rune.
- [I'm not the festive type] Well, you're not much fun, are you, chum? No matter. One day you will see. That true warriors bask in glory at the festival.
- [About Iji] Well, I haven't heard that name in an age. Then you must serve Princess Ranni? The next time you speak to Iji, tell him this: The festival of Radahn will surely set Ranni's fate into motion. By the by... Is that old fool still hammering out weapons? His enormous frame, cramped in that little place... Bit of a haughty sort. Strange fella, when I knew him. And funny thing, his swords were all blunt as stone. But not one of them decayed when faced with the scarlet rot...
- Go on, now. This old geezer hasn't any use for you just yet.
After the festival
- At last, the war festival has ended. Brave champion you have our gratitude. The Celebration was spectacular. General Radahn is surely pleased. Festering with rot, and crippled by madness, all he wanted was an honorable death.
- Finally, my work is done. I am no longer bound to this fortress. I have a task in mind. Old business you could say. You wouldn't understand. May we meet again if the fates deign it, brave champion.
Festival Proclamation
- Champions, welcome! The stars have aligned! The festival is nigh! General Radahn, mightiest demigod of the Shattering, awaits you! A celebration of war! The Radahn Festival!
- Are you good and prepared, young chum? The festival begins!
- Ah, well met. I hardly expected to see the champion of the festival here of all places. You didn't ... know Sellen did you? Well, whatever the case, she's dead now. Just put it behind you. She was known as the graven witch Obsessed by the primeval current, countless sorcerers fell to her hands. The most dangerous mage in the entire history of Raya Lucaria's Academy
- It is strange through. The woman, she was like a husk, her soul already fled. I suspect Sellen lives on, elsewhere. I'm sure she'll turn up eventually, in another body. A sickening thought, but one that won't stop gnawing at me.
Siding with Jerren, during Sorceress Sellen invasion
- "Sellen, Graven Witch, enemy of Caria.
I vow this time to crush both your frame and your primal glintstone.
I am Jerren, bringer of your death. Do not forget."
Final
- My thanks, for the aid given. I heard from Iji that Lady Ranni might have found herself a champion. But I didn't know he was talking about you. You've helped me fulfil an old promise. This is the least I can do for you. Please, take it.
[Hands you x1 Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone] - Well, I must be leaving now. Brave warrior, if the fates deign it.. No, we shall indeed meet again, at the next glorious tourney.
- Well, I must be leaving now. If the fates deign it, may we meet again, Tarnished.
When attacked
- Ugh! What's the matter with you? You trying to get revenge?
- (Combat) Very well. If the Graven Witch put you under her spell, you must be eliminated...
- (On player kill) Rest now. Alongside the witch's corpse.
- (On death) You...are a menace... Iji...beware...
Elden Ring Witch-Hunter Jerren Notes & Trivia
- Can be summoned during the second phase of Radahn's boss fight
- In combat, Jerren wields a Flamberge with the Flaming Strike Ash of War, and a Carian Glintblade Staff, which he uses to cast Magic Glintblade.
- This set's design is inspired directly from the armor once worn by German Landsknecht, elite mercenaries who were often hired and served underneath the Holy Roman Empire. They were especially famous for their use of the Zweihander greatsword.
- His set is very similar in appearance to Slave Knight Gael, along with the hood and beard.
AnonymousCan you kill this guy after defeating radahn at redmane Castle?
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I spoke with him in Redmane to start the festival, how did I not receive his gesture?
Every time I see him, I can’t help imagining him juggling a bunch of glintstones or smithing stones or something.
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Careful just running up to Sellen in Witchbane ruins; the marionette soldiers followed me down and almost killed her :/
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At the end of his portion of sellens quest, he mentions meeting you again in a future great tourney. I hope we team up to kick godwyns fish ass in the dlc or something. gael wizard bro is bff
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he died during the fight and i only found his armor in his sign! i got no stone!!!!
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Are there any way to attack him in the castle? My game is bugged, and he hasn't moved from the castle even after I killed Radahn, so now I can't progress Sellen's questline.
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He's more a mix between Hodrick and Gael if you look at his Breastplate (chest armor) and ofc the Flamberge.
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He's more a mix between Hodrick and Gael if you look at his Breastplate (chest armor) and ofc the Flamberge.
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The fight against Jerren is rough. He has ten thousand stamina and can dodge roll a million times in a row so he avoids every spell Sellen casts,and if you try to take advantage of the distraction to attack,he turns around and chunks you for 3/4 HP in one swing. You'll notice that during this brief moment,Sellens spells do ABSOLUTELY NO DAMAGE to this man. He could have a lovely afternoon tea sitting in the middle of Sellens entire arsenal of spells and it would be a gentle breeze on his face.
If you use Sellen as bait,it's 0 diff and he kills her in like four hits. If you try to fight him using her as backup,he will avoid every attack and then two tap you
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This is noted on Sellen's quest page, but not here:
Siding with Jerren allows you to kill both of them for both sets of rewards (just kill Jerren outside the library after he gives you the stone).
HOWEVER, if you kill Sellen, you cannot get the Azur and Lusat armor sets until NG+!
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Anyone else think this guy might be voiced by the same guy as Gideon?
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Early 2000's triple H could have voiced him
The stars have aligneduhh...
The festival is nighuh...
Prepare for battluhh...
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Wish you could somehow get his armor and still keep him alive at the end of his quest. His role is small but I really like him from what we do see and I hope he shows up again in a DLC, like he said. Eh, until then, anything for that sweet drip
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So is there a point to siding with this guy? If you side with sellen you get 3 armor sets and a sorcery. If you side with jerren you get a max upgrade mat. Plus you actually get to know sellen during the questline, this guy has like one bit of dialogue during it. Really feels like the game is pushing you into siding with sellen. Wish it was more fleshed out, giving him his own side of the quest and better rewards, making it a bigger choice at the end.
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If we get arena DLC, I’ll bet Jerren will be involved with that tournament somehow. Until then, I’ll be cosplaying and holding my own tournaments in Leyndell where the tree crucible knight is blocking the elevator shortcut :)
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Maybe consider putting more info on his page, like say... how he's also one of the ways to start the radahn festival? Seems like a pretty important piece of missing info.
For those who obviously don't know because this wiki doesn't say anything, if you defeat the two champions in redmane castle first before talking to ranni and starting the festival through helping blaidd, there's another way to start it in game, with entirely different dialogue from npcs. Jerren and iji seem to have history, and if you talk to iji after meeting jerren he'll have you go back to jerren to start up the festival a totally different way. Just thought I'd share.
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*after killing sellen*
...and then... the ashes were three. *maniacal laugh*
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I got Sirris ptsd when I was summoned to protect Sellen.
The difference was Sellen was not completely useless in every possible way.
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Anyone know how to glitch into Radahn's arena after Jerren had been killed?
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This man only lives in NG+, sorry but I'm putting 3 armor sets in front of a smithing stone.
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If you side with Jerren you can still get his set after by killing him after getting the ancient dragon smithing stone
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Behold, one of the only cool npcs who doesn't die tragically!
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Anyone thinking this may actually be Slave Knight Gael? After beating Radahn and speaking to him he talks about his work being done here and having another bussiness to attend “one you wouldn’t understand” he says. This made me think maybe it is Gael becouse in Dark Souls III he is also able to “travel between worlds”. One being Kingdom of Lothric, Painted World of Ariandel and Ringed city. Also his appearence is somewhat similar to Gael. And since we have Patches (I know he appears in all Fromsoft games but it serves as good example in this case) in this universe, maybe there are more hints suggesting that these two worlds are somehow connected. Anyone else had this thought popped in their head after speaking to him?
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I got Witch's Glintstone Crown even when I sided with Sellen, after her transformation, it's next to her.
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On the promotional imagery of Elden Ring with Vyke kneeling before a sword underneath the Elden Ring (literally the background to this site), if you look closely at a full-screen version of it, a little to the right of Vyke on the ground is Jerren, or at least another person wearing his pants... his sword is at an angle so you can't tell if it is a Flamberge, but nonetheless it is a relatively long sword.
Most dps from a summon for radahn but his sign is almost impossible to find
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Killed radahn, spoke with jerren and exhausted his dialogue at red mane castle and now he’s gone. Tried to find him at witchbane ruins but he’s not there. I also haven’t been able to trigger sellens dialogue that makes her give me the primal stone. All she says is her normal chained up dialogue. Nothing that needs absolution either. Any ideas?
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Sided with this dude since i wasn't really using sorceries, plus he's a cool guy who fought alongside me against Radahn, plus Sellen's fate when you side with her is a horrible one that's worse than death.
Can be killed after siding with him and getting the Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone from him. Will drop the Eccentric Set even then.
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People: *thinks critically about quest choice*
Me: haha bye bye goofy clown man
Probably the best npc to summon for radahn, Alexander is tankier but the Castellon does more damage
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The section for his Sellen fight dialogue is wrong, he says "I vow this time to crush both your frame and your primal glintstone." He doesnt say fame.
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So, I never spoke to him at all regarding Sellen. Progressed her quest to the point where she has her new body and is gone from Seluvis lab. Went to the library agd both summon signs were there.
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if only you could get lusats and azurs drip when siding with him. he could maybe tell you to go to them and kill them, could even have a renalla-like boss fight with each.
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Cant find Jerren anywhere. I've killed Radahn, and progressed Sellens questline to where she has her new body. Can find Jerren in Redmane castle or Witchbane ruins. Never talked to the guy besides for starting the Radahn fight/festival. Any ideas where he can be hiding?
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Get yourself the Marais' Executioner Great Sword and the Regal Omen Bairn alongside Jerren's armor, bam Slave Knight Gael Build (and it should be pretty good in PvP, as the MEGS had a good weapon art and the omen bairn can counter ranged build and BHS mfs)
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Everybody gangsta till the clown emoji whips out a flamberge and the gael music starts playing
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cant find him in redmane also he is not in the witchbane ruins. havent done any of the questline. sellen is captured. raddahn is dead selvious is dead. what should i do?
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Maybe his resemblance to Gael is simply because all of the Lands Between is actually the painted world his niece was going to complete after giving her the blood of the dark soul.
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The stars have aligneduhhh, in the middle of the ringuhhh, the festival is nighuhhh
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Please don't scold me, but I used a glitch to get to kill Radahn early, and then Jerren was sitting in the castle, speaking like the festival hasn't begun yet all the time, so now I can't progress Sellen's quest as he hasn't moved from the castle. Anyone know if there's a way to trigger his dialogue to the one after the festival?
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*Meeting Jerren for the first time* "Your clothes, give them to me. Now."
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Objectively morally correct in his path against Sellen, but she taught me everything I know and I gotta stick with baby mama to the end.
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Is Jerren a pretender? With the fake beard an all? Feels like someone took the real Jerren's mantle, and donned his fake beard to continue the witch hunting legacy. Or did we accidentally rip off an old man's beard when we looted his head armor.
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Sellen and Jerren's quests are intertwined. In the Japanese, wouldn't their names be almost identical? Not trying to be racist, but it's a fact that their pronunciation of L's are quite sketchy due to their writing systems.
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"We WILL meet again, at the next tourney."
**** yes we will gimme the DLC From
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Of course you can side with Jerren for the Ancient Dragon Stone, and then Kill him after you get it for his armor. But this way you dont get the glintstone kris or the spiral shard magic
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the reason im siding with him cuz he look like uncle gael plus he help us with radahn
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If I side with Jerren will I get Sellen's new spell (spiral)?
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Does anyone know what happens if you go to Redmane Castle and kill him before getting the festival quest? Who is going to hold the festival?
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I never knew this but he is the only that is aware of new game plus just a little easter egg hinting jerren knows of the new game plus mechanic and he will always meet you every single journey
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I never knew this but he is the only that is aware of new game plus just a little easter egg hinting jerren knows of the new game plus mechanic and he will always meet you every single journey
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If you side against sellen, and receive the ancient smithing stone you can then kill him to get his set also ;)
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Spoilers
You can still respec if you side with Sellen, just go to a grace and reload the library.
Renalla is back in the middle and for some reason Sellen is to the side turned into one of those big face balls. You can also pickup glimstone crown and study. But she sounds like she is in pain. Not sure what happened with the lore
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So....I sided with him agains Sellen, talked to him and all, but after reloaded the map he just gone. Can I find him anywhere else or that Eccentric Set is lost forever ?
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there lot of missing dialogue in this wiki, especially if you met ranni first and go to jerren before festival started he will have unique dialogue about your connection with iji and ranni and her fate
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I'm finding it difficult to choose who to side with, is there really a bad guy in this situation?
It seems sellen was just hunted for seeking more knowledge no?
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I wish there was a witch hunter covenant. Now that sorceries are OP, it'd be fun to hunt inexperienced witches.
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I got a different behavior, I talked to him right after defeating Radahn, 80 hours later was doing Sellen's quest and he skipped witchbane ruins, directly to the fight, didn't got to talk to him before the fight
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Hand it over, that thing - Your Eccentric set. For my characters drip
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Dumb character dressed like a clown. If it wasn't for his silly getup, nobody would even remember him since he's basically a nonentity.
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Jerren has dialogue "about Iji". I just heard it and he knows a lot more about renna than he would seem.
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If you want to know how to get the armour set if you sided with him but didn't kill him when he was at the grand library you have to go to the end of the Ringed City DLC from DS3 and kill him there.
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I'm sorry Jerren, you were a cool ass dude when I met you at the festival, but have you seen what Sellen looks like under her mask? I'll go bros before hoes on my next playthrough homie.
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As for the old promise remark by Jarren,
I suspect it might be that Ranni herself was under the tutelage of Sellen. Prior to losing her husband Rennala as Carian royalty, heard about Sellen who was going about sacrificing her students for pursuit of knowledge, and they called the witch hunter named Jarren to find her body.
He found Sellen however his duty to the master of the castle Redmane, Radhan was more pressing. So when you lay Radhan to rest that task from his shoulders is lifted and is free to dispose of the witch that he had hunted.
It makes sense if the pumpkin head boss was a hired by Jarren to keep the witch hunter at bay and deter any would be adventurer to become her knight in shining armour.
She only has time aplenty due to her belief that no one could kill Radhan. Which is why her next step is one that of hurry and transporting her essence. If push comes to shove, she will easily dispose off the tarnished to be a primeval.
TL;DR : Shes the conflicted genius who wants to be the best with whatever means necessary and in doing so becomes a perverted figure of her beliefs and former self. This can be taken further when she says "even her dullest pupils have a place..." there was no need to say dullest and it'd have still been great!
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Fought this guy today on my sl16 character for Selene's quest, and he is strong af on that level... The strongest NPC I've fought so far.
When he invades he seems to be immune (or at least VERY resistant) to poison and maybe scarlet rot, as I ran out of throwables and bolts before he got affected. And he could almost one shot me...
Sheet was real...
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What, still here? Hand it over. That thing, the Elden Ring.
Does someone know what happens if you kill him in the Witchbane ruins? Will you be able to progress in Selen's quest?
I progressed the story pretty far before remembering to finish Sellen's quest. Jerren was missing from all locations suggested in the wiki. No worries though...I warped to the Grand Library at Raya Lucaria, and outside the library, both summon signs were visible. I chose the red one (which challenges Sellen, and sides with Jerren) even though I don't recall ever talking to Jerren about Sellen at this point...but whatever...I wanted the Dragon Smithing Stone and even without conspiring or premeditating the murder, this time, I got the stone from Jerren (outside the library after the battle).
Sorry Sellen...at least I helped you last time.
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I wonder if Jerren will factor into any DLC. His final comment of seeing you at the next tourney could be a little breadcrumb that some DLC is going to happen at the Caelid Arena that's currently not being used - the one guarded by the giant jar. Just speculation.
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Cool to see a character eith nearly the exact same name. Mine being Jeren.
So i killed Jerren on my 1st playthrough, now on my 2nd i killed Sellen, after that i knew i was done with the quests and decided to kill Jerren outside the Grand Library. When he died he said something and at the end he said something like "Iji Beware...", i thought it was interesting and went back to Iji and he wasnt there. Is this because i killed Jerren or does that happen during Rannis quest and its just a coincidence??
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this quest is bugged. I choose to help sellen fight jerren but both of them dead at the same time. After the fight sellen is alive and well and still give you reward, but after resting at the grace, she transform into giant stone orb:(
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On my SL1 run did this before festival after meeting Ranni and working under her. Has dialogue about Ranni and Ijji after choosing the dialogue option stating "I Love a Good Festival". Comments about Ijji's swords all oddly being not sharp but that they did not fail in scarlet rot. This likely indicates his personality influencing his smithing while boasting his smithing capabilities despite his quirks.
Hand it over, that thing, your redundant unoriginal comment on this page.
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