History Characters / EldenRingSecondaryCharacters

* RedemptionDemotion: He's much stronger as a hardcoded enemy at the end of the quest than he ever is as an ally.

[[Characters/EldenRingMainCharacters Main Characters]] ([[Characters/EldenRingTheTarnished The Tarnished]] | [[Characters/EldenRingMarika Marika]]) | [[Characters/EldenRingRoundtableHold Roundtable Hold]] | '''Secondary Characters''' ([[Characters/EldenRingRenownedAshes Renowned Ashes]]) | [[Characters/EldenRingOuterGods Outer Gods]] | [[Characters/EldenRingDemigods Demigods]] ([[Characters/EldenRingGodfrey Godfrey]] | [[Characters/EldenRingMorgott Morgott]] | [[Characters/EldenRingMohg Mohg]] | [[Characters/EldenRingRadahn Radahn]] | [[Characters/EldenRingRykard Rykard]] | [[Characters/EldenRingRanniTheWitch Ranni the Witch]] | [[Characters/EldenRingMalenia Malenia]]) | [[Characters/EldenRingEnemiesAndBosses Enemies and Bosses]] ([[Characters/EldenRingDragons Dragons]] | [[Characters/EldenRingLiurniaOfTheLakes Liurnia of the Lakes]] | [[Characters/EldenRingRecurringEnemiesAndBosses Recurring Enemies and Bosses]] | [[Characters/EldenRingTarnishedInvadersAndTargets Tarnished Invaders and Targets]]) -]]]]]

-> Well... It was bound to happen some day... What a shit show...

* AbortedArc: He was originally supposed to have a questline where he searched for his people's "Great Caravan" with the Tarnished's help. [[spoiler:He would eventually find them slaughtered for accusations of worshiping the Frenzied Flame, which would cause him to cease trade with the Tarnished and [[ThenLetMeBeEvil seek to become Lord of Frenzied Flame to burn the world in revenge]], only for the Three Fingers to reject him. Should the player inherit the Frenzied Flame instead, Kalé's questline would end with him begging them to burn the world in his stead.]]

* MeaningfulName: His name means "dark" in several dialects of Romani. This doesn't seem to have much bearing since in-game he's basically a NiceGuy who sells you useful tools to help you survive, but in his originally planned quest [[spoiler:he becomes a devotee of the Frenzied Flame after seeing his people buried alive in a giant mass grave]], so it's not a total misnomer.

* SmallNameBigEgo: He calls himself "the great Kenneth Haight" and makes big claims about being the rightful ruler of Limgrave. He even talks down on Godrick, who, unlike him has an actual castle and an army. Even after you take back his fort for him, he claims that you shall be knighted and there will be a grand celebration, but when you reach him in his fort manned by unruly and weak demi-humans, he is forced to admit that he truly has no authority to knight anyone at all.

* TragicHero: Looking at Bernahl's armor description reveals he had the makings of [[spoiler:an Elden Lord - until his maiden threw herself into the fire. Given his current alignment with Volcano Manor, Bernahl may have felt betrayed by Greater Will's machinations of having to burn his own Finger Maiden, leading him to side with Rykard in order to spite the gods]].

!!Removed Characters
The following characters are currently not implemented in the game and were DummiedOut, but have had their questlines and dialogue voicelines datamined from the game's files.

[[folder:Asimi]]
A strange kind of silver tear that offers her power to the Tarnished if they ingest her. Had a quest that involved empowering her with chalices found in the Eternal Cities. She would have eventually left the Tarnished and, when she returned, become antagonistic.
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* DrunkWithPower: Her voice lines after she's fully empowered heavily imply this happened to her.
* EvilCounterpart: Sort of. Her cut dialogue implies she's DrunkWithPower, with Asimi stating that she would've been the "Sovereign Eternal" to the Tarnished as the Elden Lord.
* ItCanThink: A sapient Silver Tear. She can even talk to Melina at certain sites of grace- notably she's the only character aside from the Tarnished to interact with Melina.
* TheSymbiote: Would've been one, though it's unknown what benefits Asimi would have offered. The most common theory is that she's the origin of the Mimic Tear spirit ash, giving you the power to summon her as an exact duplicate of yourself (which is why summoning the Mimic Tear costs health, because you're suddenly and violently removing Asimi from your body), and after she returned and became hostile, she would've become the boss Mimic Tear, with her dropping the fully upgraded Mimic Tear (possibly alongside the boss mimic tear's drops of two Larval Tears and the Silver Tear Mask) as a spirit ash.
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[[folder:Guilbert]]
-->"''Good Lord! Good God of Vengeance! Till grudges soak the lands!''"
-->'''Voiced By''': Shaun Dooley

A 'Redeemer' who serves Radahn and has a thing against Crucible Knight Ordovis, and after him, Godrick. Seeks to find Malenia and avenge Radahn... which eventually gets him infected with Scarlet Rot. May have been replaced to an extent by Yura, with whom he shares a voice actor, and Jerren, who wears his Eccentric's Set in the main game.
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* BadassBoast: When invading you.
-->'''Guilbert''': Didn't I tell you before? No one escapes a Redeemer.
* {{BFS}}: Wields a flamberge, much like Jerren. The sword may have originally been associated with him, as early description of it references the Redeemers (its original skill in Brazil is translates as "Redeemer's Charge")
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Apparently, he was once helpless and had a Redeemer get revenge for him.
* {{Revenge}}: The Redeemers serve the God of Vengeance (whoever that is) and their duty is to get revenge on behalf of others in the Lands Between by invading whoever hurt them.
* RummageSaleReject: The original owner of the Eccentric's Set.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: He might have invaded you as a punishment for angering or killing [=NPC=]s.
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[[folder:Miranda]]

Miranda, Maiden of the Flower Crucible, is a lore figure mentioned only in the removed 'Miranda's Prayer' tool as being the first Miranda Blossom. It functioned similarly to the Omen Bairn, in this case allowing you to use the Miranda Blossoms' light attack.
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* LightEmUp: Associated with this through Miranda's Prayer and could presumably use it like her descendants.
* LightIsNotGood: Associated with light and Holy, but was still a man-eating plant.
* PlantPerson: The first of the Miranda Blossoms. Miranda herself seems to have been sentient, as her tool depicts her 'posed in prayer'.
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[[folder:Rico]]
A follower of St. Trina met at Stormhill Shack instead of Roderika. He would give you a quest to capture dream mist from sleeping creatures so he could brew "dreambrew".
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* LuxuriousLiquor: Described dreambrew as this, claiming it to be the god's nectar and says he knows how to make it, which would have led to asking the Tarnished to recover dream mist from any sleeping enemies they encountered out in the wild.
* MrExposition: A weirdly indirect example. The dreambrew he gives you could be used to get more information on various other characters and reveal their fears and secrets; Kale, for example, feared becoming inflicted with the Frenzied Flame. [[spoiler:When he reaches Miquella's corpse in Mohg's palace, he confirms that [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter Miquella is St. Trina]] and that their body is an empty shell while Miquella himself is in the dream world.]]
* TwentyBearAsses: To get Dreambrew, you'd have to find animals that were 'deeply asleep' (wouldn't wake up unless you attacked them) and use St. Trina's Crystal Ball to collect dream mist from them.
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[[folder:Shanehaight]]
A noble from Leyndell who wore the full Ruler's Set. Hated Omens and would have sent you on a quest to kill a quota of Omens.
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* AmbiguouslyRelated: He looks like an older version of Kenneth Haight. That and their similar names imply they might be related, but since Shanehaight was cut, we'll never know.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:When he finds out that Morgott was an Omen]]. He'd then get killed trying to flee the capital.
* EvilCounterpart: His character is similar to Kenneth Haight if Kenneth were a real JerkAss instead of just a bit pompous. He holds the Tarnished in contempt and tells them to leave Leyndell post-haste when he realizes who they are, and later asks them to kill the Omens down in the Shunning Grounds in the hopes of earning King Morgott's favor, if not an audience. While Kenneth was hesitant to ask the Tarnished for help, he's at least polite to them and espouses cooperation with beings who live outside the Golden Order's purview.
* InSpiteOfANail: The Ruler's Set is found on a corpse in a carriage in the Capital Outskirts, implying that his questline already happened, just without the Tarnished being involved.
* KarmicDeath: He would have eventually been killed by Omens when he tried fleeing Leyndell.
* UpperClassTwit: The description of the Ruler's Set says that it's worn by lords of smaller nations, and Shanehaight very much buys into the less savory aspects of the Golden Order.
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[[folder:Smoldering Church Maiden]]
A maiden with a burned, bandage-covered face you would meet at the Smoldering Church. [[spoiler: She's Bernahl's Finger Maiden, who survived throwing herself into the fire]].
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* FacialHorror: Her face is badly burned.
* JumpedAtTheCall: A somewhat disturbing example. The ultimate duty of a Finger Maiden is to serve as kindling to burn the thorns blocking the Erdtree, something this Maiden not only accepts, but has taken to so wholly that she has burnt herself with various sources of fire in the hopes that it would make her better kindling. She even tells you to burn her with a Fire Monk incantation for that purpose.
* MistakenIdentity: Mistakes you for her chosen Tarnished, [[spoiler: Bernahl]].
* [[MrExposition Ms Exposition]]: She'd tell you about the wall of fire around Caelid.
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* VerbalTic: He likes to end his sentences by taking a pause before saying his name... Shabriri.

* TheArchmage: They ''were''. Azur founded the Karolos Conspectus, the oldest in Raya Lucaria, based on his study of comets, and Lusat followed him with the Olivinus Conspectus, which studied stars. Azur seems to have been greater than Lusat, as the greatest Karolos spell, Comet, requires 52 INT and the requirement to cast his primeval sorcery, Comet Azur, is 60, while the greatest Olivinus spell requirement is 24 for Star Shower, and the requirement to cast Lusat's primeval sorcery, Stars of Ruin, is 43.
* AndIMustScream: Despite their inert state, they're just barely conscious enough to recognize that the Tarnished is nearby so that they can give them their sorceries.
* BodyHorror: The crowns they wear ended up transforming their brains and skulls into glintstone, leaving them in their immobile state.

* InvulnerableCivilians: Because of their near-inorganic state, any attacks will simply bounce right off of them.

* OldFriend: He's old friend of Iji, back from the days Jerren served the Carian royals. Emphasis on old, as Jerren says it's been "an age" since he's so much as heard Iji's name.

* BadBoss:
** He's a commander of the Redmanes but doesn't seem to feel any camaraderie towards them. If you kill your way into Redmane Castle to meet him, he will question how you got past the guards, before dismissing it and simply saying that [[TheSocialDarwinist if you could kill said guards then you must be a great warrior, which he respects.]] Reading his items reveals that he was never particularly tied to the faction, he was a nomadic mercenary who only joined the Redmanes because he befriended their commander. He leaves them after fulfilling his last oath.
** Subtly done at the festival, inasmuch as he can be considered the "boss" of the warriors there. Like all the summons, he's optional and can simply not partake in the fight. ''Unlike'' them he's unavailable as a summon for most of the fight and only becomes summonable after Radahn's second phase transition, at which time he's probably down to about one-third of his health (if not lower). In other words, he throws the few assembled warriors to near-certain death while staying behind and won't actually join the battle until Radahn is already almost dead.

* WarIsGlorious: He proclaims the Radahn Festival to be a "celebration of war" (the castle's decorations reflect this - including the strung-up corpses), exalts martial virtues, and respects battle prowess above all else. This results in a somewhat comical contrast with basically [[SceneryGorn the entire map]] [[WarIsHell of the game he's in]], particularly when the assembled crowd for his speech consists of six people, of which three of which are ghosts (including a blood-crazed psychopath) and one is a mindless puppet.

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* CastingGag: Ryan Morris, who primarily worked as a translator and voice director on previous FromSoftware titles, was apparently brought in to provide a single noise for Goldmask (see NotSoStoic below). This is a nod to Morris' earlier DescendedCreator roles as Nico of Thorulund in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' and Horace the Hushed in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls3'', characters who similarly merely produce a few grunts.

* TheArchmage: Is described by Thops as the most promising sorceress in the history of the Raya Lucaria academy, and she only got expelled for dabbling into magic the academy didn't approve of.

* RecurringElement: Like Greirat in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls3'', she has a questline with a default DownerEnding and a "happy" ending that can only be reached by voluntarily stopping 3/4 of the way through. [[spoiler:If you decline to go after the ''second'' exiled sorcerer for her, she spends the rest of the game chilling at the academy in her new body instead of unwittingly turning herself into an abomination. Similarly to how if you rescue Greirat and tell him to go pillaging twice but specifically stop him from going a third time, he won't end up dying.]]

* NotInThisForYouRevolution: He only joined the Redmanes because of his friendship with Radahn (implicitly based on his respect for his battle prowess) rather than actually caring about who won the Shattering. As a testament to this he'll happily hand Radahn's Great Rune over to literally anyone who can finish him off (even the Lord of Blood's followers are allowed to try), and abandons the remnants of the Redmanes when that's done, having nothing left tying him to the faction. If he fulfills his last oath (killing Sellen) he [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere promptly leaves the Lands Between altogether]] and disappears from the map.

* MageKiller: He's not called 'Witch Hunter' for nothing, and as a former Carian knight, he's used to going up against mages. [[spoiler:And he's the one who defeated and imprisoned Sellen in the Witchbane Ruins.]]
* OldFriend: He's old friend of Iji, back from the days Jerren served the Carian royals.

* DropTheHammer: Invented the Gavel of Haima, which summons a giant magic hammer in the caster's hand, somewhat similarly to Carian magic glintblades.

* AdaptationalHeroism: A minor and possibly unintentional bit. The description of his Mending Rune of Perfect Order describes the problem it aims to address, which in English is given as: "the current imperfection of the Golden Order, or instability of ideology, can be blamed upon the fickleness of the gods no better than men." The use of "no better than men" implies he's castigating gods in question for a moral failure and sees that as the issue. The Japanese description has the same idea but is rather more specific and contains no moral judgement (note that Fundamentalists are scientists at heart, not moral philosophers). The problem with the Golden Order that Goldmask comprehends is that Marika and Radagon were the same god, but could disagree, hence were fallible, and yet both sides could apply that fallibility to the Elden Ring itself by altering it (like removing the Rune of Death), and their human feelings were part of their fallibility. His Perfect Order would be unfeeling, immutable, and eternal. Preventing change to the Elden Ring is in fact [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/y39jpm/ranni_the_savior/isadk1r/?context=8&depth=9 all his rune is ever stated to do,]] for the explicit purpose of entrenching the Order more firmly than ever, now without what he identified as its only flaw. Considering how both stagnation (personal and metaphysical) and a loss of humanity are depicted as the ultimate sources of strife and suffering [[RecurringElement in every From Software game]] including ''Elden Ring'', his "solution" comes off as a little sinister.
-->心持つ神など不要であり 律の瑕疵であったのだ
-->''There is no need for a god with a human heart. That is the flaw of the order.''

* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:A holy warrior gloating and ranting like a madman over the mutilated corpse of a woman associated with the undying? [[VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}} Alfred]], is that you?]]