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A soul replacement mod under development, themed as player model NPCs.

Healthy Heap of Ash

🌟 **An NPC-focused soul replacement mod** that currently contains over 40 souls (not all currently available), divided into 9 non-immersive categories.

🛡️ Tank Soul

At the cost of damage, speed, and/or mobility, tanks are immovable fortresses on the battlefield with enhanced threat generation and extremely high survivability. But beware, their ability to gather enemies is both a blessing and a curse.

⚔️ Output soul

Fragile but fearsome, the damage-dealing Soul is the complete opposite of a tank, wiping out enemies with extreme bias. Does not include self-protection capabilities.

💚 Healing Soul

When the world burns, who will care for those caught in the "crossfire"? The healer chose a spell instead of a sword or shield. Frail but strong in faith, they provide a variety of restorative effects:

• Exponential gain of Runia

-Hellel's damage-boosting healing

• Daroka's self-interested team sucks blood

🐜 Cannon fodder soul

Every army needs ordinary soldiers, and that's the job of cannon fodder. Weak, fragile, and stupid, all cannon fodder souls summon multiple allies, all of whom are offended by the concept of enemy stance recovery.

🎯 The posture-breaking soul

"Let them kneel down, faded one." The posture-breaking soul has a survivability higher than the output and damage comparable to a tank. Its true strength lies in the huge posture damage, which makes the enemy fall to the ground.

🥊 Hybrid Soul

With survivability and damage somewhere between a tank and a damage dealer, the Hybrid Soul is one of two hybrid characters that leans more toward an offensive playstyle, but has the survivability to hold its own in a melee.

🛡️ Champion soul

The second hybrid character, the Champion Soul, is more survivable and can stand up to the storm, but lacks the enhanced threat generation of a tank and has fewer or weaker ways to directly protect the team.

🔥 Sublimated soul

Some souls go all out, others push themselves to the brink of death, or band together to fight a more powerful enemy. Ascended Souls introduce a new level of upgrades, available only to a select few souls, that greatly increase their power, but at a heavy cost to the summoner.

👑 King Candidate Soul

These souls never became Lords of Elden simply because they had no interest. Bewilderingly powerful, fighting alongside King Candidate Souls is often just as dangerous as fighting against them. It's best to let them handle it themselves.

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✨ New mechanism: Soul Ascension

Certain souls can be sublimated into more powerful souls, often powerful enough to take on DLC bosses alone. All Ascendant Souls require 1900 Health and 170 Focus to summon, and must be upgraded from a set of +10 Souls, 1 Malika's Blessing, a Catalyst, and 1,000,000 Runes. Ascended souls cannot be upgraded again, they are very powerful.

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🛠️ Installation instructions

You need to install Mod Engine 2 to use this mod:

• Extract folders from ZIP files
• Open the unzipped folder
• Drag the folder contents into `C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ELDEN RING\Game\ME2\mod`

After completing these steps, use the launchmod_eldenring batch file to launch the game!

If you want to use it in seamless co-op mode, do the same, but install the seamless co-op mod to `C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ELDEN RING\Game\ME2`

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❓ FAQ

**Why do all souls consume health and focus? **

Because they are significantly stronger than most base game souls, this is reflected in their cost, which is designed to not make them unavailable to most melee builds.

**Can players gain soul spells? **

No. Those are their unique spells, which they spent countless years developing without any intention of sharing.

**Can this mod be used with Seamless Cooperation? **

Yes! Just drop it into the mods folder in your seamless co-op folder and send it to your friend.

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⚠️ **IMPOR …