{"id":1532592,"date":"2026-03-21T22:58:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Q2tY4rws3b5gPwxB3AYrKg"},"modified":"2026-03-21T22:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:58:53","slug":"hero-modder-restores-the-coolest-bit-of-elden-ring-cut-content-the-heartbreaking-tragedy-of-the-second-guy-you-meet-that-actually-kinda-justifies-the-games-most-evil-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/hero-modder-restores-the-coolest-bit-of-elden-ring-cut-content-the-heartbreaking-tragedy-of-the-second-guy-you-meet-that-actually-kinda-justifies-the-games-most-evil-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero modder restores the coolest bit of Elden Ring cut content: The heartbreaking tragedy of the second guy you meet that actually kinda justifies the game&#8217;s most evil ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Modder Transquility on the Elden Ring Nexus has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/eldenring\/mods\/9244\" target=\"_blank\">restored Merchant Kal\u00e9<\/a><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusmods.com\/eldenring\/mods\/9244\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;s NPC quest<\/a> in our 2022 game of the year. There was originally a lot more to the early game vendor&#8217;s character, and I think it could have been a standout part of the game. <strong>Spoilers for Elden Ring and the cut quest ahead.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kal\u00e9 doesn&#8217;t have much to do in the release version of Elden Ring: He&#8217;s memorable, being the second NPC you run into, and he offers an intro of sorts to wolf knight Blaidd and Ranni&#8217;s sprawling questline. But as dataminer Sekiro Dubi revealed shortly after Elden Ring&#8217;s launch, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/unused-elden-ring-quest-would-have-tied-an-early-npc-to-the-games-darkest-secrets\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kal\u00e9 was, at one point, meant to be the driving force<\/a> behind the hidden Frenzied Flame ending\u2060\u2014the one where you commit omnicide\u2060\u2014taking up the role occupied by &#8220;Shabriri Grapes&#8221; Hyetta in the final game.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\" data-nosnippet >\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"high\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0Cljs4UTdT8\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The upshot is that actor Nabil Elouahabi delivers one <em>hell<\/em> of a performance, starting out as the affable merchant we know but devolving into despair and rage as he discovers how his people were wronged by Marika and her Golden Order, ultimately urging you to take up the Frenzied Flame to avenge them. <\/p>\n<p>This quest more explicitly contextualizes the people you find buried alive under Leyndell\u2060\u2014context that&#8217;s buried in item descriptions in the final game, classic FromSoft\u2060\u2014and it offers a reason to pursue the Frenzied Flame ending beyond just &#8220;being evil&#8221; or completionist gamer curiosity. Melina&#8217;s pleading with you not to meet the Three Fingers takes on a different cast in conversation with Kal\u00e9, whose rage and indignation over the fate of his people undercuts Melina&#8217;s optimistic humanism.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great stuff, but the only way to experience it until now has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0Cljs4UTdT8\" target=\"_blank\">Sekiro Dubi&#8217;s 20-minute video<\/a> featuring Elouahabi&#8217;s datamined voice lines. Transquility has reimplemented the quest, so it&#8217;s now fully playable. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/elden-ring-mods\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elden Ring mods<\/a> are pretty simple to install and use, too: The Mod Engine 2 utility required here runs a separate executable offline and has modded saves separate from normal ones, keeping everything kosher with Easy Anticheat.<\/p>\n<p>Writing this just now, I felt a stirring of hope that FromSoft might reimplement Kal\u00e9&#8217;s quest in some form in the upcoming Tarnished Edition update to Elden Ring. Remember how that free GOTY update was supposed to come out last year? I don&#8217;t care how booboo the Switch 2 port of Elden Ring runs, I&#8217;ve been putting off a replay with those new weapons and starting classes for too long!<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"c1c857c1-799d-456f-bc50-159bbbc2e409\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hero-modder-restores-the-coolest-bit-of-elden-ring-cut-content-the-heartbreaking-tragedy-of-the-second-guy-you-meet-that-actually-kinda-justifies-the-games-most-evil-ending.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"c1c857c1-799d-456f-bc50-159bbbc2e409\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/hero-modder-restores-the-coolest-bit-of-elden-ring-cut-content-the-heartbreaking-tragedy-of-the-second-guy-you-meet-that-actually-kinda-justifies-the-games-most-evil-ending\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modder Transquility on the Elden Ring Nexus has restored Merchant Kal\u00e9&#8216;s NPC quest in our 2022 game of the year. There was originally a lot more to the early game vendor&#8217;s character, and I think it could have been a standout part of the game. Spoilers for Elden Ring and the cut quest ahead. Kal\u00e9 doesn&#8217;t have much to do in the release version of Elden Ring: He&#8217;s memorable, being the second NPC you run into, and he offers an intro of sorts to wolf knight Blaidd and Ranni&#8217;s sprawling questline. But as dataminer Sekiro Dubi revealed shortly after Elden Ring&#8217;s launch, Kal\u00e9 was, at one point, meant to be the driving force behind the hidden Frenzied Flame ending\u2060\u2014the one where you commit omnicide\u2060\u2014taking up&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/hero-modder-restores-the-coolest-bit-of-elden-ring-cut-content-the-heartbreaking-tragedy-of-the-second-guy-you-meet-that-actually-kinda-justifies-the-games-most-evil-ending\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1532593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,34],"class_list":["post-1532592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-rpg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hero modder restores the coolest bit of Elden Ring cut content: The heartbreaking tragedy of the second guy you meet that actually kinda justifies the game&#039;s most evil ending | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Modder Transquility on the Elden Ring Nexus has restored Merchant Kal\u00e9&#039;s NPC quest in our 2022 game of the year. 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