even with the inspirations in various media to create this character he remains one of the most unique in the souls saga in terms of design and personality
This whole quest is literally the Pedro Pascal crying meme. After sharing moments with Blaid, becoming brothers in combat, winning against Radhan, journeying through the underground, we end up havibg to watch our comrade become corrupt and inevitably put him down and out of commission. Goodbye Blaid, I REALLY wanted your armor in the end
@@The_Nocturnal_Raven based on OP's comment Blaid seems more like Elden Ring's version of Solaire. you meet him, enjoy fighting together, he slowly starts becoming corrupt and you have to put him down granted you can save Solaire in the end but still
Note that there's a dead assassin by him when he's mad, and that you find a replica of his own head in the area. It appears an assassin disguised as him was attempting to kill Ranni.
One more thing, if you reload the area after talking to iji abou Blaidd's death, you'll find iji's giant flaming dead body surrounded by the corpses of the same assassins blaidd fought. Not sure why his body is in flames but that got me almost in tears, just right after losing Blaidd, Iji is also gone :(
Yeah, I'm curious as to why Iji also dies. My guess is that once Ranni committed to her Dark Path after you give her the means, the Greater Will sent out assassin's for anyone helping Ranni.
@@Kryto_Gaming I can't recall what clued me in on it, but Iji cast the dark flame, because he found himself turning against rani and took his own life after the assasins.
@@grimmcquade i doubt this is the case but how i see it is the assassins were the ones who cast said blackflame purely because it looked as if they were garbed in black knife gear tho obv not black knife assassins, iji had turned from the path of the erdtree long ago which is why he wears the mirrorhelm as it prevents the intervention of servants of the two fingers (i think literally in game it reduces the chance to be invaded when playin coop)
until the very end, he remains loyal to his princess, even getting rid of the traitor (seluvis) honestly I feel kinda bad to fight him, he's literally my fav NPC but at the same time I want his armor lol
Oh also, if you look around when he's gone mad, he took on 3 black knife assassins by himself and won. True legend. (and Iji killed 2 prior to his death)
@@MichaelIZKOOL during part of the quest it tells you to "find a treasure for ranni". When you reach a message spot it is blaidd saying he has gotten rid of the traitor and then that guy is dead.
@@slaayerr1 Pretty sure Seluvis' real identity was Pidia, the albinauric puppet master guy in the top of the Carian manor. They have the same voice actor and both of their deaths are synced. When you near Pidia's location after giving Ranni the finger slayer blades you can hear him being killed by his own puppets and if you go back to Seluvis' rise afterwards he is slumped over like an inanimate object, meaning he was probably just Pidia's puppet all along. So honestly I'm not sure if it's Blaidd that took care of seluvis... I think he was talking about the assassin that was impersonating him and it was Ranni that turned Pidia's puppets against him, not Blaidd. I might be totally wrong though lol.
If you mean Solaris you can actually save him in DS1 this requires you to tediously take a very annoying path to a late game area early to kill the goddamn sun bugs that possess him. So maybe the case is Similar here.
Wouldn't say our only friend, Iron fist Alexander the warrior jar was our friend too Torrent is also technically our friend He stuck by us the whole game from the beginning till after the end Other NPCs that could be friends or at least have some kind of friendship-ish sort of thing going on can be with the giant blacksmith Blaidd tells us about, the girl that tunes our spirit, the blacksmith in the roundtable, the giant turtle and the female tarnished that helps us beat Godrick (daughter of the guy with the map on the table in the roundtable)
For future users : do NOT approach Blaidd immediately!!! He will continue to talk and give exposition - struggling against his own fate and how he is still driven to protect Ranni. Only if you approach he will lose his mind, triggering the fight. Still amazing he managed to hold out for this long, fighting against what is essentially a Sleeper Agent programming.
@@somebodyWhoExistsIGuess he will always go mad after Ranni's quest. What you'll need to do in order to "hear him" is approaching him in a hearing distance, as in this game you can catch numerous NPCs mumbling to themselves or someone else (for example the Roundtable Hold smith). If I remember correctly, if you teleport to Ranni's Rise, you will be within the hearing distance, but I can't exactly remember. This game is a blur to me.
Blaidd is a shadow beast, the same as Godfrey's Serosh and Marika's Maliketh. The shadow beasts are created by the Two Fingers to guide and protect the gods and demi-gods, of which Ranni is an empyrean. The problem is, Ranni has betrayed the two fingers, which is causing a split in Blaidd, who is ever loyal to Ranni but still a potential puppet to the Two Fingers. Iji is aware of this, and locks Blaidd in a gaol, trying to free Ranni from him. Iji, as well, is a possible puppet, and thus wears a mirror helm to block out the influence of the Greater Will. When Rannis betrayal was fully recognized by the player acquiring the finger-slaying blade, the Two Fingers sent an assassin, disguised as a Blaidd lookalike named the Baleful Shadow, to kill Ranni, which we dispose of. Meanwhile, Ranni accomplishes her mission. She kills a Two Finger, possibly the very last one in the actual world, and ascends to be one with the stars that design her fate. Because of her ascension, Blaidd, still torn between the two, loses his mind. It isn't clear whether the black knife assassins at Rannis tower attacked him and caused his mental break, or whether he brought them with him under the control of the Two Fingers and managed to come to his senses long enough to turn on them. What is known, though, is that shadow beasts are part of their master, so with Blaidds master ascending rather than outright dying, this may have caused his sanity break. Iji is also attacked and killed by Black Knife Assassins. The assassins are all Numen women; the same race as Marika. Ranni indirectly caused all of the events surrounding the Black Knives and the entire war, but that's a comment for another video.
Ranni caused everything. In a simple domino effect. were all told this information right out the gate. What is interesting is how it effected her most loyal companions. Did she know they would be all fucked over, Or not? is my question.
Guys in the comments talking about Blaidd not betraying Ranni when the ingame description of his armour (leggings l think) litteraly says that he'll defy fate itself if it would mean betraying Ranni.Dude can go against the Two Fingers through sheer f*cking force of will
Well blaidd was meant to be a personification of guts himself and 2 fingers was meant to be the personification of “the god hand” in a way you could say that just like guts blaidd is willing to go against the grain of destiny itself just to prove his own free will
Uh no. The reason why the black knife assassins are there in the first place is because Blaidd went mad and wants to kill her. Otherwise he'd have no reason to attack you or them. Because of Ranni killing her 2 fingers the curse that's literally a part of his soul forced him to betray her lol
I love Blaidd. He's one of the only Souls characters who's truly left an impression on me. Most NPC's are there to lend you a hand, give you a quest, and/or betray you at some point. Blaidd technically did all of these things, but his personality and devotion really stuck with me. Ranni's quest line actually depressed me a little. The end of the Carian bloodline. All three of them perished willingly. Ranni and Iji were excellent characters in my opinion, but Blaidd was on a different level. To see him like that made the fight harder than it needed to be. Then to see Iji's fate shortly after. Assaulted by the Godslayer Black Knives and perished by black flame. He did take three of them with him though.
Perhaps… if you side with ranni, she will help immortalize them for their hard work, their devotion to her. She will remember them always, even if her work was… well, let’s just say less than approving, least to the greater will.
Hearing iji talk like that about Blaidd needing to be eliminated it makes me a little happier I didn’t know about this cause it kinda put him in a negative light for me no matter killing blaidd by far the saddest thing I’ve done in along time
He didn't want to kill Blaidd, just neutralize him. That's why he locked him up in the Gaol, to keep him from striking against Ranni when he inevitably went mad.
Iji has some dialogue about Blaidd after you kill him expressing deep regret and admiration for his unbreaking loyalty that couldnt even be tampered with by the greater will
@@hecc7906 exactly he even says he’d fight tooth and nail for as well as when he’s gone mad he says he is her shadow a part of her he never show a sign about hurting ranni
I absolutley loved Blaidd and in my playthrough I donned his armor and cloak as a sign of respect so that he could continue to serve Ranni alongside me even as I ascended to Lord alongside her Blaidd was with me
Man I did the same thing, I never took off Blaidd's cape until after I finished my first playthrough. He's my favorite character, may he rest in peace :(
Returning to the Rise after Ranni's quest was an emotional roller coaster. I was happy to hear Blaidd speaking and was hoping I'd get his armor and weapon for helping Ranni. When he turned on me it was heart breaking.
It’s low-key disturbing the implications of Blaidds creation. There are “Demi-Humans” within the game and Humans. He seems to be a mix of the two. Obviously more human, than beast.
@@fishsmellbad1862 no, hes from numen, which is a location outside of the lands between, and the same place that radagons female ego, queen marika, is from; he is also queen marikas brother (maliketh I mean)
@@DainTerrowin Its worth noting that Radagon didnt always have queen marika as his alter ego and that they fused at one point. Its implied Radagon initiates this himself after Marika shatters the ring in order to keep her from contesting the greater will again. Despite Marika being locked away it seems she still has some kind of influence on the lands between. As far as Maliketh goes, we aren't sure of his orgin but we do know he is only Marika's half brother. Unlike Blaidd who was created by the greater will itself. I wish we had more info on Maliketh actually.
the fact that he held it together for so long even though ranni was disobeying the fingers is just so sad. When I first went back to the rise I was so confused why his name was red so I tried to go to the church of vows to fix it, turns out he just finally couldn't hold it back anymore
It's reasons like this that make me truly believe the two finger and the Greater Will in general are truly corrupt. Benevolent beings don't create tragedy, but malevolent ones do. Poor Blaidd, your own mind stolen from you because you thought to rebel.
@@FecalMatador yeah it’s not his mask because it would be called Blaidd’s mask but it isn’t, it’s called the black wolf mask or something and it doesn’t look the same as Blaidd it looks a little different
I thought Iji was going to kill himself at first from the comments he made when you told him about Blaidd's death (after you killed Blaidd of course). But because he died from assassination, I can only then come to the conclusion that Iji KNEW that there were assassins coming after him and he wasnt going to be able to fend them all off. But then if thats true, despite knowing they were coming and you being there to actually help him, he didnt tell you at all and only insinuated that he was going to meet Blaidd soon. So I think he really did want to die but he decided to go out fighting the assassins instead.
I’ve never played a Fromsoftware game before, but I had a distinct inkling that a majority of our compatriots would pass. Well… I was correct, and I’m not very happy about it.
That’s kind of creepy tbh. You kill your only friend, take the clothes off his corpse which ain’t even cold yet and you prance about in them. Ranni might be the ice witch but the tarnished player is the coldest mf in the lands between
I want to believe it, but in dark souls 1 for example you still have to fight the great grey wolf sif even if you save him in the dlc because he is protecting atorias grave. This could be a throwback. If you can save ranni, then perhaps there is a way, but I doubt it.
@@BeekoBaggins You can save solaire by killing the chaos beasts or whatever, but I was talking about Sif in conjunction with Blaidd storyline specifically.
The very moments where Elden Ring took a turn for pain. I remember yelling no, trying to figure out why this happened. I wish there was an option to save them but this is how it be, sage...
Blaidd was given to Ranni by the Two Fingers - the very thing she hates and wants to be free of since it "dictates her fate." If she turned upon the Two Fingers, Blaidd would be made to "persuade her to stay." When you kill the Baleful Shadow, it IS Blaidd. Sent by the Two Fingers to stop you. Ranni was forced to pretend to be a smaller doll to hide from it and that's why she was mad when you found her and figured out what was going on. Even if you don't release him from the Gaol, the Two Fingers has already set it in stone that should Ranni try to change fate, Blaidd must stop her. And it tears him up inside. He doesn't want to hurt his Princess. It's why she tells you to tell Blaidd and Iji she loves them. She knows Blaidd doesn't mean it. Unfortunately, the dichotomy of his actions and his own hypocrisy causes him to go insane, the words of the Two Fingers telling him to kill you and Ranni, his own heart wanting it to end and for Ranni to be happy. He forces you to kill him so he can't hurt her any longer. And you give him a warrior's death.
The Baleful Shadow isn't Blaidd. It's an assassin sent by the Two Fingers to stop Ranni. Which is why Ranni says "O shadow, thou'rt the last. Tell the Two Fingers, that Ranni the Witch cometh to rend thy flesh." And then proceeds to tell you to tell Blaidd and Iji that she loves them. You then go and see the REAL Blaidd who has succumbed to the curse. More evidence to suggest this is the Black Wolf Mask you can pick up. Which is a perfect replica of Blaidds face used by an assassin. EDIT: Those same assassins were sent to kill Blaidd and Iji. Blaidd killed the one sent after him, the body is next to him, and Iji was killed but not before taking about 3 or 4 of them. You can find his body when you go back after killing Blaidd.
As reply above said, The Shadow is not him :| .His hypocrisy doesn't make him go insane. He wasn't hypocritical at all anyways. He was designed (cursed) to go insane by the Two Fingers to kill Ranni, but even at that, he didn't kill her and protected her from another assassin.
@@Goaheadandstaymad21332 Blaidd killed a few as well. Keep going down the stairs outside Rannis door and you will see a couple more assassin bodies on the ground that Blaidd killed. They both got 3.
Jeez thanks for the clarification. Honestly I wasn't sure what was going on & was kinda lost in the questline. Didn't know why I fought him but I wanted the Moonlight Sword & was confused & mad to kill him. Apparently it wasn't him & its not finished yet I have to go back to Ranni rise to complete the quest. Thank you.
And this is part of the reason Ranni wants to break the world free of its current rule. Even her own loyal shadow turns against her if she rejects the order for her destiny.
Who the Hell sent those Assassins after Blaidd, Iji, and Selivus? Literally right after Ranni left, everyone connected to her started dying. Having to kill Blaidd is one of the toughest things I had to do in games recently. I really didn’t want to… but there is no such thing as happy endings in Elden Ring. Hell, I was shocked that Selivus was dead as well. Sure, I didn’t like him at all, but still… at least he went out fighting. Iji was the last straw. I liked Iji, and seeing him literally burning like that made me hate the Black Knife Assassins. After that, I traveled the Lands Between and hunted every single one that was still alive.
I love Ijy on the sole fact that all game you only see unga bunga trolls and giants, and then you see this one, reading a book and being a very soft-spoken blacksmith.
Ranni’s questline is the most unique to me considering how much they standout to the rest of the characters of the world, which lead me to loving the set of characters surrounding Ranni ( not selvus) and even Ranni became my all time favorite character
I never found him stuck in that evergaol, he was just outside the rise after I got the darkmoon greatsword. I was confused bcuz iji had never explained to me why blaidd went mad. Anyone else miss that crucial step?
Yeah I missed it too, that's the nature of Souls-like games unfortunately. I actually missed almost all of Blaidd's quests etc during my playthrough. When I was doing Ranni's quest I went straight to the end after the sea of rot section.
@@Kryto_Gaming That's one of the problems of souls game, good quests like this are easily missable. But I suppose some players enjoy finding it out themselves. However when I play it, it's not really possible to not miss it without reading the wiki, so it defeats the purpose of finding it out myself anyway.
I found out what happens, so I stopped with the Ranni quest. I like Blaidd. One of the best characters in ER. And he can keep his armor. Looks better on him anyway 😁
Blaidd didnt die in my Playthrough. He killed the Tarnished and then went to become the Elden Lord, to bring the age of Stars, together with Ranni, like he deserved. And everyone who tells me thats just the Tarnished in his Armor and a Wolf head is a liar!
Funny how Ranni tells you to tell Blaidd and Iji that she loves them. And these two are both surrounded by assassin corpses... as they went down like the champions they were... Not Seluvis. Nobody cares about Seluvis. He died like a wimp.
I refuse to go back to the 3 sisters as I don't want to fight him. I imagine if I go for Ranni's ending that Blidde realises that she's alive and perhaps he comes back and takes the place of her shadow once more. I won't kill him or return there I love him as an NPC.
Unfortunately you won't be able to complete the questline if you do not kill him. Below in the wiki of elden ring: After completing Ranni's questline, return to Ranni's Rise where you'll find Blaidd outside at the entrance, hostile. Defeating him will grant you his greatsword and his armor set (except the helm, which can be found near Seluvis's Rise). Note that you need FULL questline completion, which means after you get the Dark Moon Greatsword and not only up to when you give Ranni the Fingerslayer Blade. ------------- If you don't kill Blaidd, you unfortunately cannot complete the questline and thus cannot get the Dark Moon ending.
@@nubmuffin6754 That's not what that means. It's saying that in order to get Blaidd to show up outside the entrance you need to fully complete Ranni's questline. Once the full questline is complete, then Blaidd will show up outside the entrance to Ranni's Rise.
@@Crown-Fox I've actually tested this, with Ranni's ending. When attempting to become Elden Lord and defeating the last boss you get the option to make your decision on how you end the game. If you did not defeat Blaidd, you do not get her option. Below taken from what NEEDS to be done in order to completely finish Ranni's questline: Age of Stars - Ranni’s Ending In order to reach Ranni’s ending players need to have completed her questline before the final boss fight. Instead of mending the Elden Ring, you summon Ranni to your side. She will then start the Age of Stars. Ranni’s Questline: Meet Ranni at Ranni’s Rise in northern Liurnia and start her quest there Find Blaidd at Sifora River and follow his instructions to get more details from Seluvis Defeat Radahn in Caelid Go to Nokron and find Ranni’s treasure the Fingerslayer Blade and return it to her to get the Carian Inverted Statue Place the statue on the podest in Carian Study Hall in eastern Liurnia Use the portal in the first tower right of Caria Manor to reach Nokstella Collect the Miniature Ranni Doll and talk to her three times at the nearby Site of Grace Defeat the Baleful Shadow to get a key from Ranni Use the coffin and defeat Astel Use the Keyon the the chest in the Raya Lucaria Academy to receive the Dark Moon Ring and unlock a portal behind Astel Take the lift behind him and go to the Cathedral of Manus Celes Give Ranni the ring and defeat Blaidd ---------- You HAVE to defeat Blaidd otherwise you quite literally, do not tie up loose ends and thus cannot finish her quest line. Effectively barring you from getting her ending.
I wonder if it's possible to not kill Blaidd and continue his quest. Iji says that if he ever is too focused on smithing it's better to leave him alone or he might attack but this never happened. So it might be a hint towards Blaidd.
If you add it all up the black blades killed seluvis and iji, they tried finish blaidd but couldn't. And when you approach blaidd from the back it is as if he taught you were one of the black blades.
If you do the snap gesture (the same one used when you first meet him in mistwood) while you are fighting him, he will deaggro and talk to you. There is actually a different ending for this quest and you still get all of his items.
@@MatyFattyDaddy I don’t know about Iji, but I tried the snap gesture and it worked. I don’t know if I reached the end of the quest actually I just figured I did bc I got all of Blaidds items, I’ll go see Iji and see if he’s still alive. I just got the idea bc I saw that you can deaggro patches with grovel gesture if you fight him again.
I weirdly got the same ending for not helping Blaidd. Like Iji, I believed the shadow fate too much and thought it was better for Blaidd to not live a fate of killing his master. Still, he somehow broke out just like this with more dialogue about him trying to resist at Ranni's doorstep. Maybe somewhere down the line even one of the assassins actually unlocked him, hoping for his help when it actually backfired out of his sheer will. It was sad, but heroic of him. Even as he turns and fights us, I still can't say he was a traitor since madness might have only stopped him from seeing other allies, but his last thoughts were protecting Ranni. Then Iji died, even more salt to the wound, but it took arcane dark fire to do the job.
I always wondered. Blaidd is going mad because of his connection to the 2 Fingers (An Outer God) Could you give him the needle which prevents the influence of Outer Gods?
Can someone explain to me why the black knives killed iji? Ranni created them no? Did she like... just create "the black knives" and they sought other employers. Cause i assume they were after ranni seeing as blaidd killed them and as for iji its really weird. First time i saw him dead i thought he killed himself. Why would the black knives go out of their way to kill iji? My theory : Cause at that point they bassically fully turned away from the greater will and so they sent them. However we have other problems Is blaidd unafected by the greater wills mission? Cause imo Ranni turned away from the greater will the moment she CREATED the black knives. Theres quite a paradox here do you see...
ranni didnt created the black knives, all black knifes are numen, meaning that they are loyal to marika (and only her can command them). ranni only invude their knife with a fragment of the death rune, and nothing more. also someone had to snithc ranni about where the rune of death was and marika also knew this since she was who exiled poor maliket
I had a really weird first playthrough when it came to Ranni, Blaidd and Seluvis. Heck, Blaidd wasn't even present for most of it (just met him briefly in the Mistwood and during the Radahn Festival) and Seluvis just randomly died out of the blue. I was really confused at the end when I came across Blaidd all deranged outside of Ranni's tower after finishing the game with her ending. In my current playthrough I've gone through their quest lines thoroughly, and man I missed out on a lot of good story progression.
I´m confused rn as it doesnt go as it´s supposed to go, looked some thing sup just to especially not miss out on this. All i did yet was find blaid in the woods, beat the guy he wanted me to beat and possibly another? ,joined ranni ,talked to everyone there, accepted seluvis quest but didnt do anything yet (and seems i cant cause none of the characters has any convo to give them the potion), found and talked to Iji. that´s it i was told they would be at whatever place it was and ive been pretty much everywhere, but didn´t see them. Went to the huge underground area where also blaidd should be but wasnt. maybe that comes later? I really don´t know. When i went back to rannis tower she was in her sleep. next time i saw blaidd is at the festival and i didnt do it yet, hence i was still missing characters that should be there.
@@Tropicanine If you haven't gone to Redmane Castle (which I think was what messed things up for me during my initial run) I think you'll find Blaidd in Siofra if they've mentioned him going there, he's near the stairs with the fires that you light up, but you have to follow the cliffside to the north for a bit (he should be visible in the distance, near the spot where you can jump up with Torrent). I believe he'll end up going to Redmane after you complete this part. As for Seluvis, I never encountered Nephali again after meeting up in Roundtable Hold, but I ended up finding an alternative solution to the potion quest so that didn't matter.
I wish that during the fight there was an option whenever you stagger him to try and talk some sense into him, so he can eventually overcome the influence and defy his destiny. Unfortunately Elden Ring isn’t an anime
Blaidd is Ranni. The greater will created Bliadd for Ranni from Ranni. He is her shadow, so he represents everything she is not. She is weak and uses powerful magic; Blaidd is strong and carries a huge sword as well as being male sticking to the duality that is all over this game. Every Empyrion in the game had a shadow created for them by the greater will to protect and control them. Think of every shadow as a hard counter to each empyrion in the lands between.
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Even to the very end, he did his best not to betray Ranni. Truly one of the greatest NPCs we got to see in souls games
even with the inspirations in various media to create this character he remains one of the most unique in the souls saga in terms of design and personality
@@AshenOneLouis I disagree with both of you, Sun Bro is the most original and nuanced character Miyazaki has made.
@@AshenOneLouis u mean Guts
@@melancholyman369 Blaidd is even better tbh
@@HCWz-_-Over9000 explain why, bet you can't. :)
This whole quest is literally the Pedro Pascal crying meme. After sharing moments with Blaid, becoming brothers in combat, winning against Radhan, journeying through the underground, we end up havibg to watch our comrade become corrupt and inevitably put him down and out of commission. Goodbye Blaid, I REALLY wanted your armor in the end
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Dope ass armor, blaidd is a legend 😳
For me, killing him was the second time I saw him after killing Radahn… didn’t quite get the quest story
He is the evolution of Artorias within Elden Ring. He even looks like him to a dregree, and I'm sure that's not a coincidence.
@@The_Nocturnal_Raven based on OP's comment Blaid seems more like Elden Ring's version of Solaire. you meet him, enjoy fighting together, he slowly starts becoming corrupt and you have to put him down
granted you can save Solaire in the end but still
Note that there's a dead assassin by him when he's mad, and that you find a replica of his own head in the area. It appears an assassin disguised as him was attempting to kill Ranni.
If this is true then wow...
yes, in the description of the mask it says it was worn by an assassin
This mask can be gotten when you first get to the rise.
Also when you kill the “baleful shadow”, pretty sure that’s the assassin disguised as Blaidd.
Actually there's 3 or 4 dead assassins near Blaidd in this part
One more thing, if you reload the area after talking to iji abou Blaidd's death, you'll find iji's giant flaming dead body surrounded by the corpses of the same assassins blaidd fought. Not sure why his body is in flames but that got me almost in tears, just right after losing Blaidd, Iji is also gone :(
Same, I finished talking to him, accidentally sat at the site of grace, turned around and he was on fire like HOW DID THIS HAPPEN!?
Yeah, I'm curious as to why Iji also dies. My guess is that once Ranni committed to her Dark Path after you give her the means, the Greater Will sent out assassin's for anyone helping Ranni.
@@Kryto_Gaming I can't recall what clued me in on it, but Iji cast the dark flame, because he found himself turning against rani and took his own life after the assasins.
@@grimmcquade i doubt this is the case but how i see it is the assassins were the ones who cast said blackflame purely because it looked as if they were garbed in black knife gear tho obv not black knife assassins, iji had turned from the path of the erdtree long ago which is why he wears the mirrorhelm as it prevents the intervention of servants of the two fingers (i think literally in game it reduces the chance to be invaded when playin coop)
@@JesusCrab i thought only the godskin apostles could cast black flame originally
My boy Blaidd didn't deserve this
On life, mans helped us put Radahn to rest w/ honor but we gotta murk our boy 😢
so did my boy Iji.
both of them didnt deserve any of this....
@@irfancahyo5057 Iji wasn’t in the fight against Radahn
Just how many more good wolf do we have to kill, Mizayaki, how many more.
Neither did Artorias...
until the very end, he remains loyal to his princess, even getting rid of the traitor (seluvis)
honestly I feel kinda bad to fight him, he's literally my fav NPC but at the same time I want his armor lol
Oh also, if you look around when he's gone mad, he took on 3 black knife assassins by himself and won. True legend. (and Iji killed 2 prior to his death)
@@stabcityblues5264 There is 3 black knife assassin's next to Iji's body not 2 (1 is a bit far)
Is there something Blaidd says somewhere that indicates that he's the one who kills Seluvis?
@@MichaelIZKOOL during part of the quest it tells you to "find a treasure for ranni". When you reach a message spot it is blaidd saying he has gotten rid of the traitor and then that guy is dead.
@@slaayerr1 Pretty sure Seluvis' real identity was Pidia, the albinauric puppet master guy in the top of the Carian manor. They have the same voice actor and both of their deaths are synced. When you near Pidia's location after giving Ranni the finger slayer blades you can hear him being killed by his own puppets and if you go back to Seluvis' rise afterwards he is slumped over like an inanimate object, meaning he was probably just Pidia's puppet all along. So honestly I'm not sure if it's Blaidd that took care of seluvis... I think he was talking about the assassin that was impersonating him and it was Ranni that turned Pidia's puppets against him, not Blaidd.
I might be totally wrong though lol.
Big fucking surprise, you gotta kill your only friend like in Dark Souls 1
If you mean Solaris you can actually save him in DS1 this requires you to tediously take a very annoying path to a late game area early to kill the goddamn sun bugs that possess him. So maybe the case is Similar here.
@@cozysundew33 but as I remember he will just stop progressing his path, not a real good end.
@@2010giant no his story still goes on and he's available to summon in your final fight against Gwyn
@@cozysundew33 I think he meant Great Grey Wolf Sif.
Wouldn't say our only friend, Iron fist Alexander the warrior jar was our friend too
Torrent is also technically our friend
He stuck by us the whole game from the beginning till after the end
Other NPCs that could be friends or at least have some kind of friendship-ish sort of thing going on can be with the giant blacksmith Blaidd tells us about, the girl that tunes our spirit, the blacksmith in the roundtable, the giant turtle and the female tarnished that helps us beat Godrick (daughter of the guy with the map on the table in the roundtable)
For future users : do NOT approach Blaidd immediately!!!
He will continue to talk and give exposition - struggling against his own fate and how he is still driven to protect Ranni.
Only if you approach he will lose his mind, triggering the fight.
Still amazing he managed to hold out for this long, fighting against what is essentially a Sleeper Agent programming.
bro idgaf i just want his armor
@@terrorclawful fr
@@terrorclawful i said do not approach hum immediately, not "do not approach at all"
I didn't approach him and he still went mad after Ranni's quest
@@somebodyWhoExistsIGuess he will always go mad after Ranni's quest. What you'll need to do in order to "hear him" is approaching him in a hearing distance, as in this game you can catch numerous NPCs mumbling to themselves or someone else (for example the Roundtable Hold smith).
If I remember correctly, if you teleport to Ranni's Rise, you will be within the hearing distance, but I can't exactly remember. This game is a blur to me.
Blaidd is a shadow beast, the same as Godfrey's Serosh and Marika's Maliketh. The shadow beasts are created by the Two Fingers to guide and protect the gods and demi-gods, of which Ranni is an empyrean. The problem is, Ranni has betrayed the two fingers, which is causing a split in Blaidd, who is ever loyal to Ranni but still a potential puppet to the Two Fingers. Iji is aware of this, and locks Blaidd in a gaol, trying to free Ranni from him. Iji, as well, is a possible puppet, and thus wears a mirror helm to block out the influence of the Greater Will.
When Rannis betrayal was fully recognized by the player acquiring the finger-slaying blade, the Two Fingers sent an assassin, disguised as a Blaidd lookalike named the Baleful Shadow, to kill Ranni, which we dispose of.
Meanwhile, Ranni accomplishes her mission. She kills a Two Finger, possibly the very last one in the actual world, and ascends to be one with the stars that design her fate.
Because of her ascension, Blaidd, still torn between the two, loses his mind. It isn't clear whether the black knife assassins at Rannis tower attacked him and caused his mental break, or whether he brought them with him under the control of the Two Fingers and managed to come to his senses long enough to turn on them. What is known, though, is that shadow beasts are part of their master, so with Blaidds master ascending rather than outright dying, this may have caused his sanity break.
Iji is also attacked and killed by Black Knife Assassins. The assassins are all Numen women; the same race as Marika. Ranni indirectly caused all of the events surrounding the Black Knives and the entire war, but that's a comment for another video.
Great comment!
Ranni caused everything. In a simple domino effect. were all told this information right out the gate. What is interesting is how it effected her most loyal companions. Did she know they would be all fucked over, Or not? is my question.
@@kylecaligiuri9717 I think maybe, but I doubt that she would not do it just because of them
This gave me the much needed closure. Thanks for the insight.
@@AllanZhang16 I live to serve.
Guys in the comments talking about Blaidd not betraying Ranni when the ingame description of his armour (leggings l think) litteraly says that he'll defy fate itself if it would mean betraying Ranni.Dude can go against the Two Fingers through sheer f*cking force of will
It says an assassin wearing that armor, not blaidd.
The cold bothered him anyway...
Well blaidd was meant to be a personification of guts himself and 2 fingers was meant to be the personification of “the god hand” in a way you could say that just like guts blaidd is willing to go against the grain of destiny itself just to prove his own free will
@@handbanana2459 This. The Guts parallel is on point. Blaidd is a struggler.
Uh no. The reason why the black knife assassins are there in the first place is because Blaidd went mad and wants to kill her. Otherwise he'd have no reason to attack you or them. Because of Ranni killing her 2 fingers the curse that's literally a part of his soul forced him to betray her lol
I love Blaidd. He's one of the only Souls characters who's truly left an impression on me. Most NPC's are there to lend you a hand, give you a quest, and/or betray you at some point. Blaidd technically did all of these things, but his personality and devotion really stuck with me. Ranni's quest line actually depressed me a little. The end of the Carian bloodline. All three of them perished willingly. Ranni and Iji were excellent characters in my opinion, but Blaidd was on a different level. To see him like that made the fight harder than it needed to be.
Then to see Iji's fate shortly after. Assaulted by the Godslayer Black Knives and perished by black flame. He did take three of them with him though.
Iji was a good ole' boy
Honestly glad to see this quest and blaidd stuck with other players the same way it did for me.
@@firelordwaffle2987 blaidd is the equivalent to Solaire in Ds the dude literally helps you fight a boss if not two like a champ
Perhaps… if you side with ranni, she will help immortalize them for their hard work, their devotion to her. She will remember them always, even if her work was… well, let’s just say less than approving, least to the greater will.
I still miss onion bro :(
he was a find good lad!!
Hearing iji talk like that about Blaidd needing to be eliminated it makes me a little happier I didn’t know about this cause it kinda put him in a negative light for me no matter killing blaidd by far the saddest thing I’ve done in along time
He didn't want to kill Blaidd, just neutralize him. That's why he locked him up in the Gaol, to keep him from striking against Ranni when he inevitably went mad.
Iji has some dialogue about Blaidd after you kill him expressing deep regret and admiration for his unbreaking loyalty that couldnt even be tampered with by the greater will
did you watch the video? he says that even after he went mad he was still loyal to Ranni
@@hecc7906 exactly he even says he’d fight tooth and nail for as well as when he’s gone mad he says he is her shadow a part of her he never show a sign about hurting ranni
Indeed it was sad coz I kept thinking how much damage blaidd tanked from radahn and then i have to kill him
I absolutley loved Blaidd and in my playthrough I donned his armor and cloak as a sign of respect so that he could continue to serve Ranni alongside me even as I ascended to Lord alongside her Blaidd was with me
Did the exact same man.. my Guts strength great sword playthru ended up becoming a Blaidd tribute too...
Man I did the same thing, I never took off Blaidd's cape until after I finished my first playthrough. He's my favorite character, may he rest in peace :(
@@thenatchgig4213 Guts woulda been proud.
@@alphonse1379 he isn't real, fictional characters don't exist, get a grip.
@@red_menace1829 Bitter little man.
Returning to the Rise after Ranni's quest was an emotional roller coaster. I was happy to hear Blaidd speaking and was hoping I'd get his armor and weapon for helping Ranni. When he turned on me it was heart breaking.
Well, you did get his armor and sword for helping Ranni....
Just... not in the way you wanted.
It’s low-key disturbing the implications of Blaidds creation. There are “Demi-Humans” within the game and Humans. He seems to be a mix of the two. Obviously more human, than beast.
Maliketh was the same wasn't he?
@@fishsmellbad1862 no, hes from numen, which is a location outside of the lands between, and the same place that radagons female ego, queen marika, is from; he is also queen marikas brother (maliketh I mean)
@@DainTerrowin is his step-bro
Blaidd was created directly from the greater will to be Rannis shadow.
@@DainTerrowin Its worth noting that Radagon didnt always have queen marika as his alter ego and that they fused at one point. Its implied Radagon initiates this himself after Marika shatters the ring in order to keep her from contesting the greater will again. Despite Marika being locked away it seems she still has some kind of influence on the lands between. As far as Maliketh goes, we aren't sure of his orgin but we do know he is only Marika's half brother. Unlike Blaidd who was created by the greater will itself.
I wish we had more info on Maliketh actually.
Return to Iji's site of grace after this dialogue. You'll see. Great quest. One of the greatest in Soulsborne.
Also, I returned to Ranni's site of grace, and I got an extra dialogue of the supposed "deactivated" doll version.
@@lavitz95 yes that changes you from her fair consort to dear consort
Loyal to the very end. He definitely deserves the title of good boy.
You were my brother Blaidd! I loved you😭
is over Blaidd，i have the high ground
I didn't want too 😭
😭RIP
Blaidd is screaming Beserk references.
Furry
Such a living image of Guts from Berserk. Miura will continue living in the videogame community for so long :')
I can see the story that being wrote here:
In a nutshell, you gotta put down the dog…
Sadness…
The best laid plans of Eldens and Rings go astray...
這邊我要幫布萊澤平反一下...
他意志快發瘋的時候 他一定知道自己阻止不了也拼命抵抗，所以在拉妮離開後(明顯背叛二指的行為)
布萊澤必發瘋..但同時他也用最後的理智在壓制狂化...才會有我們剛到塔時，布萊澤在跟自己說話的情節，不段強調自己不會背叛拉妮
同時也知道自己無法掌控狂化的身體，所以乾脆就站在門口了...誰來殺誰，想進去的要過他那關...而證據確實也是，門口死了一堆刺客。半狼布萊澤就算失去理智了也要用自己的方法守護主人
看到你最後那句我直接破防……………………太忠誠了看得心超痛
狼哥我大哥
拿完戒指回來菈妮派手下幾乎全部死光，黑刀也太有效率了吧
心痛...我還沒玩到這裡, 但我有拿到個道具叫諾克斯鏡面盔, 說明中寫到給犯下大逆不舉的人用能彈開二指的干涉, 不知道能不能給狼哥用, 不想狼哥結局這麼慘呀...
@@sklibrom4491 應該不能，狼哥本來就是被雙指指派幫助菈妮成神的，詛咒早就種下，菈妮砍死雙指選擇追尋星星後，狼哥什麼時後發瘋就是時間問題
This was a near perfect quest imo, very likeable characters with a sad ending but good ending
Couldn't save any of them tho.
Not Rogier.
Not Blaidd.
Not Iji.
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Fuck Seluvis tho, he deserved to suffer more.
the fact that he held it together for so long even though ranni was disobeying the fingers is just so sad. When I first went back to the rise I was so confused why his name was red so I tried to go to the church of vows to fix it, turns out he just finally couldn't hold it back anymore
This quest line could be made into a 6 episode mini anime and would make everyone cry lmfao 🤣
It's reasons like this that make me truly believe the two finger and the Greater Will in general are truly corrupt. Benevolent beings don't create tragedy, but malevolent ones do. Poor Blaidd, your own mind stolen from you because you thought to rebel.
I understood when I killed him in the first play through... I had to kill em with the great sword.... It was the only way 😔
@Shinidoshi I realize...
@@rikudo282 you were just like me
@@MaeMlethis trying to make history
@@Become-Eggplant but who's to judge the right from wrong....
@@rikudo282 When our guard is down I think we'll both agree...
Blaidd is basically “the Struggler” of Elden Ring.
I tried not to kill him by keeping him in the evergaol. He showed up at ranni’s rise and became hostile nonetheless.
You cant keep that good boy down
I think his head is an actual wolf because when you kill him he drops no mask and his mouth looks super real
Nah. I forgot wear but you can get his real mask
@@FecalMatador yeah it’s not his mask because it would be called Blaidd’s mask but it isn’t, it’s called the black wolf mask or something and it doesn’t look the same as Blaidd it looks a little different
It is an actual wolf head.
@@FecalMatador Read the item description on the wolf mask, it says assassins used it. Probably trying to get close to ranni.
Spoiler: He frees himself if you don't so the endresult will sadly be the same.
He was the goodest boy till the end.😢
Good boy yes, goodest is for Sif
After that fight I felt so empty. RIP my boy Blaidd
I thought Iji was going to kill himself at first from the comments he made when you told him about Blaidd's death (after you killed Blaidd of course). But because he died from assassination, I can only then come to the conclusion that Iji KNEW that there were assassins coming after him and he wasnt going to be able to fend them all off.
But then if thats true, despite knowing they were coming and you being there to actually help him, he didnt tell you at all and only insinuated that he was going to meet Blaidd soon. So I think he really did want to die but he decided to go out fighting the assassins instead.
I’ve never played a Fromsoftware game before, but I had a distinct inkling that a majority of our compatriots would pass.
Well… I was correct, and I’m not very happy about it.
You were a good man in a bad situation, Blaidd. I wear your armor proudly.
That’s kind of creepy tbh. You kill your only friend, take the clothes off his corpse which ain’t even cold yet and you prance about in them. Ranni might be the ice witch but the tarnished player is the coldest mf in the lands between
Do you also use his sword? I really wanna use it but I feel like it's so bad.
It's decent. The speed buffs for colossal weapons made its skill fun to use, but the later bosses will still dance around you.
theres gotta be some way to save him, it feels like its being hinted at that there is a way
I want to believe it, but in dark souls 1 for example you still have to fight the great grey wolf sif even if you save him in the dlc because he is protecting atorias grave. This could be a throwback. If you can save ranni, then perhaps there is a way, but I doubt it.
There’s also solaire
@@BeekoBaggins You can save solaire by killing the chaos beasts or whatever, but I was talking about Sif in conjunction with Blaidd storyline specifically.
Even if I can't save him, if I can let him die not so mentally in anguish I'd be happy
I told the blacksmith that blaidd died and he committed suicide :(
This takes me back to the dark souls npcs "no matter who you help they will just end up dead or go hollow mainly because of you"
Blaid is the greatest guy ever, loyal to the very end. My the sun smile upon him
The very moments where Elden Ring took a turn for pain. I remember yelling no, trying to figure out why this happened. I wish there was an option to save them but this is how it be, sage...
Blaidd was given to Ranni by the Two Fingers - the very thing she hates and wants to be free of since it "dictates her fate." If she turned upon the Two Fingers, Blaidd would be made to "persuade her to stay."
When you kill the Baleful Shadow, it IS Blaidd. Sent by the Two Fingers to stop you. Ranni was forced to pretend to be a smaller doll to hide from it and that's why she was mad when you found her and figured out what was going on.
Even if you don't release him from the Gaol, the Two Fingers has already set it in stone that should Ranni try to change fate, Blaidd must stop her. And it tears him up inside. He doesn't want to hurt his Princess. It's why she tells you to tell Blaidd and Iji she loves them. She knows Blaidd doesn't mean it.
Unfortunately, the dichotomy of his actions and his own hypocrisy causes him to go insane, the words of the Two Fingers telling him to kill you and Ranni, his own heart wanting it to end and for Ranni to be happy. He forces you to kill him so he can't hurt her any longer. And you give him a warrior's death.
The Baleful Shadow isn't Blaidd. It's an assassin sent by the Two Fingers to stop Ranni. Which is why Ranni says "O shadow, thou'rt the last. Tell the Two Fingers, that Ranni the Witch cometh to rend thy flesh." And then proceeds to tell you to tell Blaidd and Iji that she loves them. You then go and see the REAL Blaidd who has succumbed to the curse. More evidence to suggest this is the Black Wolf Mask you can pick up. Which is a perfect replica of Blaidds face used by an assassin.
EDIT: Those same assassins were sent to kill Blaidd and Iji. Blaidd killed the one sent after him, the body is next to him, and Iji was killed but not before taking about 3 or 4 of them. You can find his body when you go back after killing Blaidd.
As reply above said, The Shadow is not him :| .His hypocrisy doesn't make him go insane. He wasn't hypocritical at all anyways. He was designed (cursed) to go insane by the Two Fingers to kill Ranni, but even at that, he didn't kill her and protected her from another assassin.
@@maysilversi8253 I'm not so sure.
@@Goaheadandstaymad21332 Blaidd killed a few as well. Keep going down the stairs outside Rannis door and you will see a couple more assassin bodies on the ground that Blaidd killed. They both got 3.
Jeez thanks for the clarification. Honestly I wasn't sure what was going on & was kinda lost in the questline. Didn't know why I fought him but I wanted the Moonlight Sword & was confused & mad to kill him. Apparently it wasn't him & its not finished yet I have to go back to Ranni rise to complete the quest. Thank you.
It's always the souls characters that we like the most. My boy Blaidd got did dirty.
And this is part of the reason Ranni wants to break the world free of its current rule. Even her own loyal shadow turns against her if she rejects the order for her destiny.
I wish Blaidd was like a boss, as cool as he is, it would feel cooler to see if he had more of a presence in the lore
i was so confused i came back to ranni's look out and found the whole gang slaughtered and im wearing blaidd's head now
if you reset at bonfire after talking to Iji blacksmith after halfwolf dead you will find Iji also dead and loot his ball bearing
Who the Hell sent those Assassins after Blaidd, Iji, and Selivus? Literally right after Ranni left, everyone connected to her started dying.
Having to kill Blaidd is one of the toughest things I had to do in games recently. I really didn’t want to… but there is no such thing as happy endings in Elden Ring.
Hell, I was shocked that Selivus was dead as well. Sure, I didn’t like him at all, but still… at least he went out fighting.
Iji was the last straw. I liked Iji, and seeing him literally burning like that made me hate the Black Knife Assassins. After that, I traveled the Lands Between and hunted every single one that was still alive.
I love Ijy on the sole fact that all game you only see unga bunga trolls and giants, and then you see this one, reading a book and being a very soft-spoken blacksmith.
He is such a good boy 😥 you still killed him tho. I thought you can save him
Ranni’s questline is the most unique to me considering how much they standout to the rest of the characters of the world, which lead me to loving the set of characters surrounding Ranni ( not selvus) and even Ranni became my all time favorite character
I never met Blaidd even once, and met him right at the very end of his questline- and had to kill him.
Dammit Miyazaki!!! Why must I kill all my friends and brothers in arms in every game you make?!!
I never found him stuck in that evergaol, he was just outside the rise after I got the darkmoon greatsword. I was confused bcuz iji had never explained to me why blaidd went mad. Anyone else miss that crucial step?
Yeah I missed it too, that's the nature of Souls-like games unfortunately. I actually missed almost all of Blaidd's quests etc during my playthrough. When I was doing Ranni's quest I went straight to the end after the sea of rot section.
@@Kryto_Gaming That's one of the problems of souls game, good quests like this are easily missable. But I suppose some players enjoy finding it out themselves. However when I play it, it's not really possible to not miss it without reading the wiki, so it defeats the purpose of finding it out myself anyway.
Ranni also talks about it while you're carrying her underground, so even though I never found him in the gaol I could tell what happened.
I found out what happens, so I stopped with the Ranni quest. I like Blaidd. One of the best characters in ER. And he can keep his armor. Looks better on him anyway 😁
If I didn’t do her quest, is that going to keep him alive?
Could he even be a danger to Ranni? she can literally kill things just by thinking about it
I'm assuming she doesn't know about that failsafe the two fingers placed.
Well the curse is actually his spirit, the red phantom you fight.
Blaidd didnt die in my Playthrough. He killed the Tarnished and then went to become the Elden Lord, to bring the age of Stars, together with Ranni, like he deserved.
And everyone who tells me thats just the Tarnished in his Armor and a Wolf head is a liar!
Funny how Ranni tells you to tell Blaidd and Iji that she loves them.
And these two are both surrounded by assassin corpses... as they went down like the champions they were...
Not Seluvis. Nobody cares about Seluvis. He died like a wimp.
Pretty sure Selivus has been dead for a while since he was being puppeted by that hidden Merchant, Pidia or something.
@@shinkicker404 ...well, I totally missed whoever that guy is. Still, nobody likes Selivus.
Can't wait until the Vaati video about Blaidd!
This game has great characters.
I refuse to go back to the 3 sisters as I don't want to fight him. I imagine if I go for Ranni's ending that Blidde realises that she's alive and perhaps he comes back and takes the place of her shadow once more. I won't kill him or return there I love him as an NPC.
Unfortunately you won't be able to complete the questline if you do not kill him.
Below in the wiki of elden ring:
After completing Ranni's questline, return to Ranni's Rise where you'll find Blaidd outside at the entrance, hostile. Defeating him will grant you his greatsword and his armor set (except the helm, which can be found near Seluvis's Rise).
Note that you need FULL questline completion, which means after you get the Dark Moon Greatsword and not only up to when you give Ranni the Fingerslayer Blade.
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If you don't kill Blaidd, you unfortunately cannot complete the questline and thus cannot get the Dark Moon ending.
@@nubmuffin6754 That's not what that means. It's saying that in order to get Blaidd to show up outside the entrance you need to fully complete Ranni's questline. Once the full questline is complete, then Blaidd will show up outside the entrance to Ranni's Rise.
@@Crown-Fox I've actually tested this, with Ranni's ending. When attempting to become Elden Lord and defeating the last boss you get the option to make your decision on how you end the game.
If you did not defeat Blaidd, you do not get her option.
Below taken from what NEEDS to be done in order to completely finish Ranni's questline:
Age of Stars - Ranni’s Ending
In order to reach Ranni’s ending players need to have completed her questline before the final boss fight. Instead of mending the Elden Ring, you summon Ranni to your side. She will then start the Age of Stars.
Ranni’s Questline:
Meet Ranni at Ranni’s Rise in northern Liurnia and start her quest there
Find Blaidd at Sifora River and follow his instructions to get more details from Seluvis
Defeat Radahn in Caelid
Go to Nokron and find Ranni’s treasure the Fingerslayer Blade and return it to her to get the Carian Inverted Statue
Place the statue on the podest in Carian Study Hall in eastern Liurnia
Use the portal in the first tower right of Caria Manor to reach Nokstella
Collect the Miniature Ranni Doll and talk to her three times at the nearby Site of Grace
Defeat the Baleful Shadow to get a key from Ranni
Use the coffin and defeat Astel
Use the Keyon the the chest in the Raya Lucaria Academy to receive the Dark Moon Ring and unlock a portal behind Astel
Take the lift behind him and go to the Cathedral of Manus Celes
Give Ranni the ring and defeat Blaidd
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You HAVE to defeat Blaidd otherwise you quite literally, do not tie up loose ends and thus cannot finish her quest line. Effectively barring you from getting her ending.
I wonder if it's possible to not kill Blaidd and continue his quest. Iji says that if he ever is too focused on smithing it's better to leave him alone or he might attack but this never happened. So it might be a hint towards Blaidd.
伊吉...溫柔巨人...
老賊做個人讓他們善終不好嗎
宮崎老賊式的溫柔-都到墳墓裡整整齊齊的
@@PIKA-rl4km 哈哈哈哈
死就是最好的善终了 不用再在这个凋零的世界里挣扎
@@haodong6783 人终有一死，而有些人却需要一点点小小的帮助呗
If you add it all up the black blades killed seluvis and iji, they tried finish blaidd but couldn't. And when you approach blaidd from the back it is as if he taught you were one of the black blades.
If you do the snap gesture (the same one used when you first meet him in mistwood) while you are fighting him, he will deaggro and talk to you. There is actually a different ending for this quest and you still get all of his items.
He doesnt have to die?
For real? I'll play the whole game again to save him. Does it save Iji too?
@@MatyFattyDaddy reply to me if it's true when you do it
cap
for sure
@@MatyFattyDaddy I don’t know about Iji, but I tried the snap gesture and it worked. I don’t know if I reached the end of the quest actually I just figured I did bc I got all of Blaidds items, I’ll go see Iji and see if he’s still alive. I just got the idea bc I saw that you can deaggro patches with grovel gesture if you fight him again.
Well I guess that explains why he was crazy mad when I found him... I just never got the middle part of the quest!
LOL you still killed him
Blaidd was the only NPC that didn't expect anything from you and yet,he was kind.Trully well made NPC
其實你不救他 他也會出來在那邊...
I weirdly got the same ending for not helping Blaidd. Like Iji, I believed the shadow fate too much and thought it was better for Blaidd to not live a fate of killing his master. Still, he somehow broke out just like this with more dialogue about him trying to resist at Ranni's doorstep. Maybe somewhere down the line even one of the assassins actually unlocked him, hoping for his help when it actually backfired out of his sheer will. It was sad, but heroic of him. Even as he turns and fights us, I still can't say he was a traitor since madness might have only stopped him from seeing other allies, but his last thoughts were protecting Ranni. Then Iji died, even more salt to the wound, but it took arcane dark fire to do the job.
I always wondered.
Blaidd is going mad because of his connection to the 2 Fingers (An Outer God)
Could you give him the needle which prevents the influence of Outer Gods?
I feel like this wouldn’t work but I can’t tell you why. Underrated comment. I’d like this to be delved into
the neddle only prevent the otuer gods of madness influence, no all outer gods influence...
or the roten effects~
I honestly never thought his voice would sound like it does 😂😂
Annnd here comes another wolf character that will make me question if i am a furry-
Dogs life span is to short for how much good they can bring. A warriors true best friend he was.
Man I really hope theres some way to save him :(
I plan on taking up blaidds mantle, he was a good half wolf half man, corrupted unfortunately. His legend will be forged in my blade, as his memory
Can someone explain to me why the black knives killed iji?
Ranni created them no?
Did she like... just create "the black knives" and they sought other employers.
Cause i assume they were after ranni seeing as blaidd killed them and as for iji its really weird. First time i saw him dead i thought he killed himself.
Why would the black knives go out of their way to kill iji?
My theory : Cause at that point they bassically fully turned away from the greater will and so they sent them.
However we have other problems
Is blaidd unafected by the greater wills mission?
Cause imo Ranni turned away from the greater will the moment she CREATED the black knives.
Theres quite a paradox here do you see...
ranni didnt created the black knives, all black knifes are numen, meaning that they are loyal to marika (and only her can command them).
ranni only invude their knife with a fragment of the death rune, and nothing more. also someone had to snithc ranni about where the rune of death was and marika also knew this since she was who exiled poor maliket
I had a really weird first playthrough when it came to Ranni, Blaidd and Seluvis. Heck, Blaidd wasn't even present for most of it (just met him briefly in the Mistwood and during the Radahn Festival) and Seluvis just randomly died out of the blue. I was really confused at the end when I came across Blaidd all deranged outside of Ranni's tower after finishing the game with her ending. In my current playthrough I've gone through their quest lines thoroughly, and man I missed out on a lot of good story progression.
I´m confused rn as it doesnt go as it´s supposed to go, looked some thing sup just to especially not miss out on this. All i did yet was find blaid in the woods, beat the guy he wanted me to beat and possibly another? ,joined ranni ,talked to everyone there, accepted seluvis quest but didnt do anything yet (and seems i cant cause none of the characters has any convo to give them the potion), found and talked to Iji. that´s it i was told they would be at whatever place it was and ive been pretty much everywhere, but didn´t see them. Went to the huge underground area where also blaidd should be but wasnt. maybe that comes later? I really don´t know. When i went back to rannis tower she was in her sleep. next time i saw blaidd is at the festival and i didnt do it yet, hence i was still missing characters that should be there.
@@Tropicanine If you haven't gone to Redmane Castle (which I think was what messed things up for me during my initial run) I think you'll find Blaidd in Siofra if they've mentioned him going there, he's near the stairs with the fires that you light up, but you have to follow the cliffside to the north for a bit (he should be visible in the distance, near the spot where you can jump up with Torrent). I believe he'll end up going to Redmane after you complete this part.
As for Seluvis, I never encountered Nephali again after meeting up in Roundtable Hold, but I ended up finding an alternative solution to the potion quest so that didn't matter.
In my game he kills the wizard
I think Seluvis dies either way
He kills the wizard before going mad (he left a message for you to “dealt with a traitor”)
@@AaronShenghao oh i didn't see that butwhy would seluvis be a traitor?
@@tunyonyoutube1376 spoilers:
Seluvis wanted to give Ranni a more potent potion to make her a puppet
@@JBlackMage2more spoiler:
then seluvis achieved it? is that why we found ranni turned into a doll?
No matter what he goes berserk and tries to kill you and u get his cool armor so it doesnt change anything
你是在哪个墓穴能解开blaidd的？一般的video guide都是告诉玩家完成ranni的任务后直接回ranni家就会打blaidd，但是也不会告诉你是什么原因，然后iji会照样在最后说那句“他是怎么逃出那座封印监狱”的话，一开始还以为是个比喻....原来是真的有他把封印起来，但是玩家不去开他照样在ranni家门口发狂... 有点难以理解
he could break free from his imprisonment even without your help. or so the other players claim
獵犬的封印禁地，也是彈指狼哥能幫打的那個封印禁地。
When you return to Iji there are assasin corpses around him.
半狼變伴郎
By a cruel irony, I killed Blaidd with the Godslayer Greatsword, so both he and Iji have perished by the black flame.
布萊澤真的很帥
Blaidd was not saved in this video
原來還有封印監牢那部分 我是直接從到塔那邊 他就發瘋了
封印監牢可以跳過
但狼一定會瘋
巨人軍師也是徒勞
Some of you finish Ranni's questline and get her ending for Ranni.
After I finished the questline, everything I do is for him.
We are not the same
布萊澤你就安心去吧
菈妮跟我在一起很幸福
I didn't even know this was a part of the quest
我把半狼哥放出監牢後直接殺了，回塔還是能在門口看到他發瘋
因为他没有把东西交给你，死不瞑目啊
I wish that during the fight there was an option whenever you stagger him to try and talk some sense into him, so he can eventually overcome the influence and defy his destiny. Unfortunately Elden Ring isn’t an anime
Blaidd, is a really interesting character, and I'm not saying that because I'm a furry. Be is genuinely interesting ^^
You missed the most disturbing part, what happens to the Giant Blacksmith when you return later.
Doesnt show which location my man
The evergaol where the guy he wanted to kill was
Darill or something like that
Created by the 2 fingers, fell in love with ranni, couldnt bring himself to make a choice = broken mind
Blaidd is Ranni. The greater will created Bliadd for Ranni from Ranni. He is her shadow, so he represents everything she is not. She is weak and uses powerful magic; Blaidd is strong and carries a huge sword as well as being male sticking to the duality that is all over this game. Every Empyrion in the game had a shadow created for them by the greater will to protect and control them. Think of every shadow as a hard counter to each empyrion in the lands between.
這位置是哪個封印地牢?
獵犬的
@@jackson711tw 感謝
Damn this answered like the main question I had in the game. Didn't get this dialogue. All the more reason to screw over the fingers, poor Blaidd.
話說狗哥有救嗎？
還是把他一隻關在裡面他就不會死了，我記得我都給拉妮套上戒指了，才想起狗哥的事
他會自己掙脫 一樣跑去門口發瘋 在雙指死的時候就注定他的命運了
中间没去地牢救狼哥 套完戒指回去一样会看到狼哥在那边
此樓正解
I didn't even know you have the option to set him free, I completed the quest but missed that part completely.
有傳到三姊妹塔後布萊澤發狂的對話嗎，記得他會說幾句話
他会不兽控制
自言自语 然后开始抓狂