#re: the three sisters - i dont think theyre meant to represent sisters because. one of them is named after seluvis.

[slavonicrhapsody]

I’ve seen a bunch of theories about the snow witch that hinge on the assumption that her name is Renna, but what if Renna was never actually supposed to be her name?

what we know about the snow witch, or snowy crone, is that she was a weird old lady in the woods who taught the young Ranni heretical cold sorcery, and wore the pointed hat and robe Ranni wears now. Ranni’s doll body is said to be “modeled after” her… but it cannot be a perfect 1:1 impersonation of her, because Ranni doesn’t look like a “crone” at all!

Rather than an attempt to fully impersonate the snow witch, I think Ranni’s doll body is more of an homage to her old mentor. and with that in mind, I think that the name “Renna” might also be an homage to perhaps the most important mentor in Ranni’s life — her mother.

I think it’s very fitting for Ranni to use her new persona as a way of maintaining her connection to her teachers after she slew her physical body and abandoned her previous life. though Ranni is accused of being cold and unfeeling, she’s actually very sentimental — her co-conspirators are her closest childhood companions, her base of operations her childhood home. she still loves her mother and defends both her body and her legacy. she died wearing her mother’s talisman. wouldn’t it be sweet if she chose to call herself Renna out of love for Rennala?

#elden ring #ranni #ranni the witch #re: the three sisters - i dont think theyre meant to represent sisters because. one of them is named after seluvis. #they’ve clearly been given names describing their current purpose: the one where ranni lives. the one where seluvis lives. #and renna’s rise is where we collect ranni’s snow witch clothes… it’s also where ranni departed on her ‘dark path’ #it might be where ranni’s fake identity ‘lives’ #the identity which she abandons along with the snow witch clothes when she departs on her quest #‘tell the two fingers that RANNI THE WITCH cometh to rend thy flesh’