Elden Ring Nightreign Has an Ultra-Rare Item You've Probably Never Seen, and Players Still Are Puzzling Over What It's Really For

Elden Ring Nightreign has been retired for implicit 2 months now, which means players person had ample clip to puzzle implicit and tease retired each morsel of its lore. But there's inactive 1 ultra-rare point successful the crippled that astir players person astir apt ne'er seen before, but which immoderate successful the assemblage judge inactive holds an tremendous secret: the Cord End.

If you play Nightreign and, similar me, had nary thought what this adjacent was until conscionable now, here's the rundown: the Cord End is simply a legendary consumable point that lone appears successful large and tiny churches successful Nightreign from breaking boxes. Its driblet percent is ridiculously debased - conscionable 0.035% - meaning astir players volition apt ne'er adjacent tally into it. Its listed usage is cryptic: "Gain introduction somewhere." If you don't cognize wherever that determination is, the point is wholly useless to you.

But for those successful the cognize (or those pursuing our useful guide), it's not excessively hard to find the concealed doorway it opens. Hidden successful a cliff partition successful a ravine astatine the halfway of the map, there's a sealed entranceway that lone opens if you person the Cord End connected hand. Inside is simply a unusual statue of a girl, and 3 Sacrificial Twigs, talismans that let the wielder to dice precisely 1 clip without losing runes oregon levels. It's an absorbing reward, to beryllium sure, but admittedly a small underwhelming fixed the ridiculous rarity of the Cord End required to get them.

Now, granted, it's apt astatine slightest portion of the Cord End's enigma is successful adding lore details to Elden Ring Nightreign via its statement and the statue of the miss successful the enclosure it opens. We won't screen that here, arsenic the meaning down it is beauteous heavy into endgame spoiler territory for Nightreign, but lore YouTuber VaatiVidya has a large breakdown of what the Cord End is from a lore position and wherefore it matters.

But that each said, the deficiency of existent mechanical payoff for specified a uncommon find has players speculating that there's thing much to this concealed door. For the past 2 months, the assemblage has been investigating retired theories astir the Cord End and the Sacrificial Twigs. With a deficiency of immoderate caller oregon caller clues, the concealed hunting had mostly slowed down, but a cryptic station connected the Nightreign subreddit precocious fired up everyone's curiosity again, inspiring radical to interval caller theories astir however to do... something... with those twigs.

The biggest obstruction to uncovering thing is the sheer rarity of the Cord End. Some players are reporting seeing their archetypal 1 aft hundreds of hours of play. So anyone who wants to trial theories has to get highly fortunate successful really getting a Cord End to statesman with, and past besides getting the nonstop cleanable different circumstances they're looking for (specific bosses, definite locations appearing, definite characters successful the party, and truthful forth) to trial retired immoderate it is they privation to test. So portion it's improbable that there's thing caller to observe regarding the Cord End astatine this stage, there's astatine slightest a susurration of anticipation successful the information that truthful fewer radical are successful a presumption to marque that find to statesman with.

Is it a secret? Is it simply lore? Is it thing we'll beryllium capable to unlock successful a aboriginal DLC, arsenic immoderate person theorized? Who knows! But what's genuinely chill present is that an ultra uncommon point is inactive sparking this level of curiosity and treatment and enigma successful the assemblage months aft the game's release. Whether there's thing deeper to the Cord End oregon not, its enticing rarity is capable to get me, astatine least, fired up... if I tin ever get 1 to drop.

We gave Elden Ring Nightreign a 7/10, saying that "when Elden Ring Nightreign is played precisely arsenic it was designed to beryllium played, it’s 1 of the finest examples of a three-player co-op crippled astir – but that's harder to bash than it should be, and playing solo is poorly balanced." Nightreign precocious saw the summation of a duos mode, and the crippled had sold 5 cardinal copies arsenic of July.

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