7 Elden Ring NPCs Whose Lives You Ruined by 'Helping'

I mean if you help Dung Eater, you can't really say you were just trying to be a good person and it backfired. He literally did exactly what he said he was going to do.

The Dung Eater literally says "I shall defile each corpse with care" That's not a guy you want to let out.

That sorcerer just saying "fuck it" and starting to beat you with his spell book was one of the funniest things I've seen in a while

For people wondering what's going on with Sellen: her turning into a Burgerking Pinball is not your fault, Rennala didn't do that to her, and she might have even planned on doing that to herself as some sort of transitive phase like Azur or Lusat's crystalline appearance. If you help her against Jerren, and she shows up in Raya Lucaria, but you never tell her about meeting either one of the Primordial Sorcerers (I never met Lusat), she will stay in charge of Raya Lucaria forever. For the record she never actually hurts Rennala. She just kind of... pushes her into a corner, lmfao. Check behind the bookcases.

To be fair, Alexander lived and died the way he choose, as a warrior in battle. Also by giving his innards to the small jar in Jarburg, a part of him lives on, able to become an even more formidable warrior.

Being a veteran to from software games, the first thing I think of when meeting NPCs is "I wonder what long convoluted course of events I have to trigger to actively bring about their demise.....cause I want that hat."

For reference of how op Thops spell is: you can use it to reflect Elden star, black blade, almost all abilities from Renala. Thops is the true genius. o7

Note for PATCHES questline: You can go back to Murkwater Cave to get ambushed by Patches a second time. He will then tell you that it has been a long time since you two met and will open his shop again.

One theory I’ve heard is that Thops died essentially from overwork, pouring everything he had into creating his spell.

There are two graves near the place where you reunite the Jellyfish with her sister. The tombstone reads "Here lie Aurelia and Aureliette, who never saw the stars". sadness ahead

Melina gives you a hint when you rest at the Altus Highway junction (where Boc is before moving to the capital) where she says he's sad and cries often. She thinks he wants to be told he's beautiful. The hint is there, but you have to talk to Melina when you rest at the site of grace

I remember that it took my dad literally an hour to find Boc because he refused to look it up. It was hilarious just watching him run around trying to find the voice.

You’re hardly responsible for Sellen’s life…she starts off dying and chained to a wall in a dungeon. You help free her by transplanting her life crystal to a new body. After that she chooses to challenge Rennala…not your doing.

Alexander actually DOES get stronger, not just numerically, as the game progresses. By the time of the final fight, he can pull off a flaming Shoryuken and huge gravity crush attack taken straight from Radahn. He can do some real damage if you're not careful.

Alexander and the little jar are a far more optimistic parallel to Siegmeyer and his daughter from OG dark souls, who went hollow and was put down by his daughter. Alexander at least died happy, and his jar friend went on to become a jar worthy of Alexander’s memory.

Alexander breaks my heart, but truely chose his fate. So I can't help but love him for the Jar he was. A Jar with a heart of a warrior. To his last.

Thops you OBJECTIVELY helped. He achieved his life's work. He literally changed the world because of you. He died having finally achieved his goals. You made that possible.

While I don’t want anyone to accidentally hurt Boc, naturally discovering the “You’re Beautiful” solution just by sheer timing and circumstance (didn’t meet Boc until much later on) was easily one of my favorite moments in all of Elden Ring. Using the item a few times, partly hoping it would cause a reaction but mostly just doing it for the sentiment, only to then talk to Boc and see a new dialogue option was incredibly exciting, and the conversation that followed cemented the whole experience as my favorite quest line in a Souls game, period. That’s one demi-human monkey this world doesn’t deserve.

"Elden Ring is an empowering story about starting out as a meager low level tarnished with a miniscule healthbar - and going on to get a ghost clone that does the rest of the game for you" I cried both tears of laughter and sadness

10:30 “and then the sorcerers beat thops to death with a book. Because they realised that the one thing they hated more than an idiot was a smart ass.”