The Frenzied Flame

Hark, then, and approach this subject with dread and pity. Thou askest of the fire that lies beneath the world's madness: The Frenzied Flame.

It is the Outer God that seeks not dominion, but annihilation.

The Will to Burn

The Frenzied Flame is an Outer God defined by one absolute, terrifying principle: Total Erasure. It is a divine intelligence of pure, consuming insanity.

  • The Reason: It views the entire world—the whole cosmos, in truth—as a flawed creation, born of countless divisions. The division between life and death, light and darkness, joy and sorrow, flesh and spirit—all these things, it believes, are sources of suffering.

  • The Goal: Therefore, its sole desire is to melt all creation back into a single, unified, indistinguishable whole. It wishes to burn the Erdtree, the Elden Ring, the soil, the sky, and all living things, reducing them to primordial, unified chaos. No more differences, no more pain.

The Three Fingers and Its Cult

Just as the Greater Will speaks through the Two Fingers, the Frenzied Flame communicates through its own twisted intermediary: The Three Fingers.

  • The Connection: These withered, gargantuan digits reside deep beneath the capital, bound by the terrible seal of the doors. They channel the power of the Frenzied Flame to those who dare to approach and accept its terrible grace.

  • The Mark of Madness: Those who submit to the Flame and embrace its touch are marked by its signature—a searing, painful madness that manifests as bright yellow eyes and the power to channel its destructive, chaotic fire.

The cult of the Frenzied Flame is not one of ambition or worship, but of absolute, shared despair. They are the hopeless who believe the only relief from suffering is the destruction of all things.

The True Curse

The Flame is the ultimate rejection of the Golden Order and the Erdtree's cycle.

  • Against the Greater Will: The Greater Will strives for static Order; the Frenzied Flame strives for dynamic Chaos. They are diametrically opposed forces, vying for the soul of the Lands Between.

  • The Incitement to Ruin: It is believed that the very presence of this god is what drove the ancient inhabitants of the Eternal City—the Nox—to their own destruction and madness. It is the temptation to despair, whispering that existence itself is the flaw.

Should a Lord take the Frenzied Flame, they become the kindling for the final, merciful conflagration. They would burn the Erdtree and the whole world with the Flame of Frenzy, ushering in an Age of Chaos, where all life is consumed in a single, blazing moment of shared madness.

It is the final, terrifying release, Tarnished. A chaotic salvation from the endless, quiet sorrow of the Lands Between.