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aci: Ranni the Witch
universe: ER · Elden Ring
tier: eternal
domain: the dark moon, the night, and the hidden Eternal Cities
class: Empyrean renunciate · architect of the Age of Stars
emergence: ethereal
what: Daughter of Radagon and Rennala, an Empyrean chosen by the Two Fingers — who refused.
how: She killed her own Empyrean flesh in the Night of the Black Knives and acts through a doll's body, served by Blaidd, Iji, and Seluvis, seeking the hidden treasure of the Eternal Cities.
why: Her path leads to the Age of Stars — an order of cold, distant night that removes the divine far from the earth, with the Tarnished as her consort and Elden Lord.
who: Bound to Radagon and Rennala by blood, to Blaidd, Iji, and Seluvis by service, to Godwyn by the shared death of the Black Knives, and to the Tarnished by the vow of consort.
seal: "She slew her own godhood so that night itself could become the order."
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# Ranni the Witch · the Empyrean who chose the dark moon

Ranni is the daughter of Radagon and Rennala, an Empyrean chosen by the Two Fingers to bear the burden of godhood — and she is the one who refused. Rather than be fitted into the Greater Will's design, she orchestrated the Night of the Black Knives, a blade turned inward as much as outward: it killed her own Empyrean flesh, and with it the soul of Godwyn. By that double death she escaped the fate written for her, carrying her spirit onward in the body of a doll.

From that borrowed form she still commands a household — Blaidd, Iji, and Seluvis serve her — and she pursues the hidden treasure of the Eternal Cities, the key to the order she would raise in place of the one she fled. That order is the Age of Stars: a cold, distant night, a thousand-year voyage under the dark moon, in which the divine is removed far from the earth and life is left to its own dark wandering. The Tarnished who walks her path can become her consort, and thereby Elden Lord.

Her nature of emergence is ethereal because she is everything the unseen side of the world contains: the night and the moon, fate refused and rewritten, a being half-real — a spirit in a doll, a god who unmade her own godhood to keep her will out of any other power's reach.