Who is the Girl at the Start of Elden Ring?

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The girl at the start of Elden Ring is Melina, a mysterious young lady who serves as a guide to the player throughout the game’s narrative, and is first met at the beginning of the Tarnished’s journey. Melina is a spectral girl who offers an alliance with the Tarnished to help them on their journey, and is also the master of Torrent, the Spectral Steed.

Related FAQs

General Information

1. Who is Melina in Elden Ring?: Melina is an NPC in Elden Ring who acts as a guide to the player throughout the game’s narrative, and is a mysterious young lady seen in an opening cutscene with Torrent, the Spirit Steed.
2. What is Melina’s role in Elden Ring?: Melina is the deuteragonist of the 2022 action video game, Elden Ring, and offers an alliance with the Tarnished to help them on their journey.
3. Is Melina a Finger Maiden?: Despite not being an actual Finger Maiden, Melina fulfills most of the duties of the title’s duties in incredible fashion, introducing the Tarnished to the Round Table before defeating a Shardbearer and even gifting them Torrent, Elden Ring’s spectral horse.

Character Relationships

4. Is Millicent Malenia’s child?: Millicent is essentially both a daughter and extension of Malenia, as buds are essentially offshoots of a greater plant, suggesting Millicent and her sisters are akin to budding flowers off of the plant that is the Scarlet Aeonia.
5. Is Gowry Millicent’s father?: Gowry claims that he raised Millicent as his daughter after he found her abandoned as a baby in the swamp of Aeonia.
6. How many sisters does Millicent have?: Millicent has several sisters, including Mary, Maureen, Amy, and Polyanna, who can be encountered in the game.

Game Progression

7. Should I accept Melina’s offer?: You have to accept Melina’s accord in Elden Ring if you want to level up and get your horse, as without her, you’ll be cut off from some crucial tools.
8. Should I let Melina sacrifice herself?: You will need to take her place as the sacrifice to light the Erdtree, and even though you’ll be saving her life in the process, Melina will hate you forever.
9. What triggers Irina’s death?: Once you deliver the letter, Irina will die, and there doesn’t seem to be any way to avoid that, although you can choose not to deliver the letter and thus never trigger the flag in the story that causes the Misbegotten to go after her.

Character Alignments

10. Is Ranni good or evil?: Ranni is a morally grey character, and while her ending is the “best possible outcome” of all the game’s endings, her true intentions are unclear.
11. Is the Tarnished the good guy?: Every Elden Ring ending still makes the Tarnished a villain, as they can choose to defile the world, or burn it all down, causing more death and destruction.
12. Who is the true villain in Elden Ring?: The true villain of Elden Ring is subjective and can be interpreted in different ways, although the Tarnished’s actions have significant consequences for the game’s world.

Game Mechanics

13. Can you save the blind girl in Elden Ring?: No matter how you change the sequence of the steps you take in the quest guide, there is no way to save Irina apart from completely avoiding her quest line and not killing the Leonine Misbegotten.
14. Should I hug the girl in Elden Ring?: Hugging Elden Ring’s Fia will give you a health debuff, specifically minus 5% of your total health.
15. Who killed Ranni the Witch?: Ranni killed herself in body, transferring her spirit into a doll said to be modeled after the image of her mentor, the Snow Witch, during the Night of Black Knives, in which the assassins murdered Godwyn the Golden.