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Subscribe from just £3 Takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love Try a single issue or save on a subscription Issues delivered straight to your door or device From£9.99View Summer Game Fest New games for 2025 Upcoming Switch 2 games Switch 2 stock Recommended reading Action RPGs Elden Ring Nightreign players finally discover where the game's most mysterious key item leads, and it's humiliating Action RPGs Elden Ring Nightreign player beats the final boss solo using nothing but a bell, after presumably giving the guy tinnitus by ringing it so many times Action RPGs Elden Ring sleuth cracks Nightreign open to prove FromSoftware is still being very weird about stat scaling and hitting level 15 really doesn't matter that much Action Games Elden Ring Goldmask questline walkthrough Action Games All Elden Ring Bell Bearing locations Action Games Full Elden Ring Fia questline walkthrough for the Age of Duskborn ending Action RPGs Elden Ring Nighreign patch makes the Nightlords fight fair, stopping one from tanking your framerate and another from performing a combo of "72 consecutive attacks" Action RPGs Elden Ring Nightreign Elden Ring Nightreign players found one boring answer to the mystery of the game's 0.035% drop rate oddity, but insist there has to be more to the impossibly rare item Anthony McGlynn 12 June 2025 The Cord End in Elden Ring Nightreign is perplexing the community When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Bandai Namco) A mysterious item in a FromSoftware game is confounding the community. Must be a day ending in 'Y'. An elusive drop from Elden Ring Nightreign with a hilariously boring use has players theorizing for some sort of deeper function. In Nightreign, if you’re extremely lucky, you might find the Cord End. It's a small item that occasionally spawns in one of the churches. And by occasionally, I mean 0.035% of the time, once every 2,857 runs or so. Useless on its own, the Cord End unlocks a door beneath the castle. In there, you won't find some godlike weapon or elixir of life. Just three Sacrificial Twigs, items that let you keep your runes after death. Handy, yes, but they seem like a small reward for essentially winning the lottery. You may like Elden Ring Nightreign players finally discover where the game's most mysterious key item leads, and it's humiliating Elden Ring Nightreign player beats the final boss solo using nothing but a bell, after presumably giving the guy tinnitus by ringing it so many times Elden Ring sleuth cracks Nightreign open to prove FromSoftware is still being very weird about stat scaling and hitting level 15 really doesn't matter that much ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN | Bring Me to Life Trailer - YouTube As much has spurred the community to investigate further. Multiple theories are going around, the most compelling of which, to me at least, is the notion of the twigs being tied to the Roundtable Hold. They both mention a "cutting-gifted tribe," suggesting they're both part of some elaborate sequence. There are other ideas, such as that of having a specific party of three to equip the items. However, the problem is that the drop is so rare; investigating further is prohibitively difficult without a mod of some sort to uncover the Cord End more often. Dataminers, including Zullie the Witch, are looking through Nightreign's innards at the moment. Not for this specifically, but if there's any suggestion of where this leads, it's likely to be signposted quickly. Of course, a possibility is it leads nowhere. This is FromSoftware, obtuseness is part of the territory. Watch this space. Elden Ring Nightreign player beats the final boss solo using nothing but a bell, after presumably giving the guy tinnitus by ringing it so many times Sign up to the GamesRadar+ Newsletter Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsBy submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. See more PS5 News FromSoftware Xbox Series X PlayStation Anthony McGlynn Social Links Navigation Contributing Writer Anthony is an Irish entertainment and games journalist, now based in Glasgow. He previously served as Senior Anime Writer at Dexerto and News Editor at The Digital Fix, on top of providing work for Variety, IGN, Den of Geek, PC Gamer, and many more. Besides Studio Ghibli, horror movies, and The Muppets, he enjoys action-RPGs, heavy metal, and pro-wrestling. He interviewed Animal once, not that he won’t stop going on about it or anything. You must confirm your public display name before commenting Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name. 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