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aci: Starscourge Radahn
universe: ER · Elden Ring
tier: cast
domain: Caelid and the stalemate of Aeonia
class: the general who held back the stars
emergence: natural
what: Mightiest demigod general, son of Radagon and Rennala, who halted the stars in their courses.
how: Learned gravity magic to ride his beloved undersized horse Leonard, and turned that strength against the heavens themselves.
why: While he stood, the stars and the fate they govern were frozen; his fall lets them move again, and a falling star opens the way to Nokron.
who: Son of Radagon and Rennala; rider of Leonard; wounded by Malenia at Aeonia; given a warrior's death by the champions of the Radahn Festival.
seal: "The stars stood still because one warrior refused to yield — and moved again only when he was given a warrior's death."
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# Starscourge Radahn · the general who held back the stars

Radahn, son of Radagon and Rennala, was the mightiest of the demigod generals. His strength was matched by an odd tenderness: he learned gravity magic for the sake of his beloved horse Leonard, undersized beneath so massive a rider, so that the two might never be parted in battle. At the height of his power he turned that same art against the heavens and halted the very stars in their courses, freezing the fate they govern.

That height did not last. At the stalemate of Aeonia he was wounded and rot-maddened by Malenia, and what remained of the great general wandered Caelid devouring corpses — a ruin of the warrior he had been. It was for his sake that the great Radahn Festival was called, gathering champions not to conquer him but to grant him a warrior's death.

When Radahn falls, the stars resume their courses, and a falling star opens the way to Nokron. His emergence is natural: he is the embodied warrior in fullest measure — flesh, horse, and battlefield — and even his ruin is the natural kind, rot-as-decay eating a body too strong to simply die.