Screenshot: FromSoftware / George Yang / Kotaku
In Elden Ring Nightreign, right before you fight the Nightlord Libra, Creature of Night, it’ll try to bargain with you, offering up a powerful boon to increase your abilities for a price.
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First appearing as the Scale-Bearing Merchant, it will stand in the middle of the field and ask if you want to accept a deal. Attacking it immediately begins the boss battle and transformation into Libra. Refusing a deal also triggers the boss battle, but choosing to leave the conversation doesn’t.
The Scale-Bearing Merchant typically provides three options, and they seem to cycle in and out between expeditions. Here are the ones we’ve found so far, as well as both their positive and negative effects.
All Libra, Creature of Night Deals
Add an extra flask to your maximum amount.
Decreases your maximum HP
I wish for eventual greatness
Grants Ascetic Greatness, which Increases max HP, FP, and Stamina.
Halves max HP, FP, and Stamina through Ascetic Path for a limited time, until Ascetic Greatness activates.
When HP is at a critically low level, it fully restores it.
I want to hold death at bay
This does not protect against deathblows and you lose one level upon restoration.
I want to fight at utmost strength
Temporarily increases player’s attack, madness resistance, and max HP.
Libra gets a damage resistance buff.
– I wish to expand my intellect
– have great strength
– have great dexterity
– have deep faith
touch with arcane
Changes stats based on what was chosen, like a class swap. For example, a magic-focused Recluse can choose “have great strength” and gain the strength of a Raider. The Recluse’s intelligence stat is also now similar to that of a Raider’s.
The change is seemingly irreversible for the rest of the expedition.
Grants an accessory that provides extra runes dropped by defeated enemies. This is automatically equipped upon retrieval but can be unequipped to remove both its positive and negative effects.
HP constantly drains slowly.
I want resistance to ailments
Grant ezra resistances to ailments.
I want the power of a demon
An eye periodically appears above the player which can shoot projectiles at enemies.
Madness builds up within the player whenever the eye does appear
I desire a powerful weapon
Grants a powerful weapon.
I want to gain many levels
Grants the player three additional levels.
Every time a flask is used, one level is lost.
Out in the wild
Sometimes, you’ll encounter the Scale-Bearing Merchant during your expeditions and it will curse you with a spell that caps your maximum HP. This is an incredibly detrimental effect that needs to be removed ASAP and in order to do so, you must pay a Rune fine upwards to 35,000 (or attack and try to kill it, which it will then turn into a less powerful but still tough version of Libra, Creature of Night).
Screenshot: FromSoftware / George Yang / Kotaku
If you decide to pay it off, it’ll also let you bargain for one of its boons. This version also has its own set of boons, which are worded a bit differently but have similar effects:
- Take resistance to status ailments
- Take enhanced armament
- Take sacred flask
- Take runes
Elden Ring Nightreign is available now on PS5, Xbox Series X, and Windows PCs.
