The Frenzied Flame is a mysterious and devilishly compelling aspect of Elden Ring’s lore, an “Outer God” that seeks to usurp The Greater Will’s dominion over the Lands Between, replacing a strict adherence to order and supposed perfection with chaos, madness, and eternal frenzy. This manifests in-game with an obscure quest surrounding The Frenzied Flame, as is the FromSoftware tradition, alongside a humble selection of madness-infused weapons, skills, and incantations. The incantations in particular have found some implementation in PvP, due to the utility Madness can bring, although the potential of the status was significantly reduced as part of post launch support.
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In a clip uploaded to Reddit, u/JKilleXx understandably panics when a Frenzied Flame incantation ignores the fundamental rules of casting. Standing in the middle of a cavern that is nearby the famous T-posing Elden Ring enemy, the host of this world can be seen with jets of frenzy already protruding from their eyes, which refuse to end. The invader withdraws, then approaches again, continuing this back and forth until they are eventually ambushed, sandwiched between an endless torrent of frenzy and Elden Ring’s iteration of the moonlight greatsword. Deciding defeat was inevitable, the invader bravely panic rolls away from the pursuing frenzy in an attempt to gain distance, which proves futile as three foes converge to conclude the valiant effort.
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Comments likened the host to Ceaseless Discharge, a molten boss from the original Dark Souls, whose name the Soulsborne community often enjoys appropriating in humorous ways. It was also agreed that the moment was reminiscent of a famous scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, only that the boulder Indiana Jones runs from has now been replaced with frenzy. Unlike the film in which Harrison Ford’s character is certainly in danger, the streams of frenzy were seemingly dealing no damage, nor inflicting any build-up of the Madness status effect.
Given the direction, it is likely The Flame Of Frenzy incantation, which the description confirms is supposed to emit a “burst of yellow flame of frenzy from eyes,” but typically only lasts a couple of seconds. Comments deduced that it was a visual glitch, similar to a few witnessed since the release of Elden Ring patch 1.07, given that the host did not take any damage from Madness, and they should not have been able to run at that speed while casting. Patch 1.07 radically altered certain foundations of the game, separating PvP and PvE scaling, as well as implementing wide-reaching improvements to skills, sorceries, and incantations, which seems to have accidentally caused this visual error.
Elden Ring is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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