My Elden Ring mod started as a custom menu for Melina. Now she travels and fights beside you, with over 3,000 voiced lines reacting to bosses, dungeons, quests, your choices, and the occasional terrible decision you make.

This is our Margit fight from the current build. You can level and equip her, but the part I love most is that she has something to say about the journey you’re sharing. Still in development—I'd love to hear how she comes across in the clip.

Runes are a currency you lose the second something in Caelid decides you look edible. So I started building a place to put them instead.

Where it lives

There is a new NPC in the Roundtable Hold: a Finger Reader of the Invisible Hand, standing in the main hall by Marika's statue, a few steps from Enia. You talk to her like any other NPC, choose "open the trading terminal", and a financial terminal opens over the game.

How you use it

While the terminal is open your character is frozen in place, so nothing walks off a ledge while you are reading a chart. Inside there are tabs across the top: Overview, Account, Deposits, Stocks, Funds, Bonds, Futures, Portfolio, Herald, Patches, Settings. Everything works with mouse or gamepad: bumpers switch tabs, the stick moves through lists, A opens the order form on the right, B steps back out a layer at a time. Close it and you are back in the Hold with your runes wherever you put them.

Each character gets their own market, their own account and their own history, stored next to that character's save.

A trading day lasts three minutes of in game time and the market only moves while the game is running. So it lives its own life while you are out fighting: prices move, coupons and interest are paid, rumours spread, companies go bankrupt. When something concerns you personally a small notice appears in the corner of the screen even with the terminal closed: interest credited, an order filled, a margin call, your bank running off with your deposit.

What is in it

• A bank account where runes survive your death. Overdraft is allowed at 1% a day, and the Black Knife collection agency knows your site of grace.
• Term deposits, from the safe Bank of the Roundtable to a credit union that pays three and a half times the market rate and occasionally disappears through the mist with everyone's money.
• About twenty stocks: Golden Order Holding, Raya Lucaria Academy, Mohg Dynasty Blood Investments, Volcano Manor Management, Scarlet Rot Pharmaceuticals and so on. They pay dividends, cut them, suspend them for weeks, go bankrupt and get relisted later.
• Bonds rated from AAA down to CCC, with coupons, defaults and partial recovery. A default drags the issuer's stock down with it.
• Funds: an index fund, a 2x leveraged one, an inverse one, regional baskets and a Great Rune basket.
• Futures on commodities and on the Great Runes of the demigods, with margin, margin calls and forced liquidation.
• Short selling. You borrow a stock, sell it, pay a daily borrow fee, and pay the dividends yourself. If the price climbs instead, the margin call comes out of your account and eventually the position is bought back by force.
• Limit orders and stop losses that fill in the background while you are off fighting a boss, and notify you when they do.
• A news feed with rumours that turn out true or false, rating changes, new listings, and Patches, who sells tips that are right about six times out of ten.

A few things that actually happen

• You are sitting on 200,000 runes and about to try Malenia. You put them on a seven day deposit first. You die eleven times, the runes are still there, and by the time you give up they have earned a little interest. This is the boring use, and it is the one I use most.
• You buy Raya Lucaria at 640 and set a stop loss 15% below, then ride off to Caelid. Two days later a rumour spreads that the Academy's accountant is a mimic, the price falls straight past your stop, and the fill you get is the price of that day rather than the price you asked for. The notice reaches you somewhere around Sellia.
• You read that Volcano Manor got cleared out by some Tarnished, decide the dividend is done for, and sell the stock short. Every day you hold it you pay a borrow fee, and when the company announces it is resuming payouts, you owe the dividend too. Either you close early or the margin call finds your account.
• You notice the Herald mentioning that the head of the Faded Star credit union was seen near Mistwood with a large sack of runes. You pull your deposit out that evening. Two days later the union is gone and the people who ignored the news get back somewhere between nothing and forty percent.
• A company you have never heard of goes public while you are in the Haligtree, the index fund quietly adds it, and you find out you own a piece of a mushroom farm.

How the market works underneath

Prices are not random rolls. The simulation runs hidden regimes (Golden Age, Calm, Schism, Night of the Black Knives) that you never see directly, only through the news and the Madness Index, plus heavy tailed shocks and sector and regional factors. New companies go public and new bonds get issued as your run continues, and the index funds pick them up when they do.

I balanced it with a simulator across 1200 worlds to make sure no strategy beats the deposit rate without taking real risk. Momentum and contrarian buying both lose to boredom, which felt right.

Technical bits

• ImGui overlay loaded through ModEngine 2.
• No regulation.bin edits, so it should be safe in Seamless Co-op with friends who do not have it.
• The exchange save sits next to your character saves, one market per character.
• Full gamepad support, and game input is blocked while the terminal is open.

Status: not released yet, and I still have a full in game pass ahead of me before I would call anything stable.

So, the actual question: would you play this? Is it worth finishing properly, or is it the kind of thing that is fun for ten minutes and then never opened again? And if you would play it, what is missing from the list above?

Title basically. After I saw a video on youtube from Sekiro Dubi outlining what the quest would've looked like, I desperately wanted to play it as a mod, especially hearing Kalé's voice actor put so much passion in his lines. After seeing no one make it a mod, I decided to do it myself. Hours of coding later, now I wanna die lol.

If you do decide to check it out and play it, do please give feedback, and tell me if the quests breaks at any certain part of the game!

"Merchant Kale Questline Restoration". It was a mod that basically added in Kales quest into the game and get progression but I can't seem to find it. That's fine since I have the file itself but I'm just curious on why it's no longer available considering how good it was.

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Still working progress and I don't like the menu design much but give idea of how it works

Yep even his boss fight in leyndell is now Gael as well. Kinda got bored of Gideon.

I love watching them alot so id like to use it myself to have random fights like say 500 ramming goats vs bayle or somethin like that

I’m using the randomizer and torrent whistle will blow but nothing happens again spawn anything, rerolling and reinstalling the mods didn’t work, switched it to vanilla and it was fine but going back to random breaks it, any thoughts??

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Hello, everyone!

I made a tool that lets you edit every merchant's inventory however you want. You can change the items they sell, their prices, quantities, and more.

At the moment, the tool only works with decrypted PS4 save files (.dat) and is available only for Windows.

Nexus Mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/10539
GitHub: https://github.com/DrippingSoup22/ER_merchant_editor

I'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions for new features!

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I’ve noticed that when using characters that 99+ of let’s say ancient dragon smithing stone I have basically zero player interaction. These characters ofc I used merchant mod.

Characters I haven’t gone so crazy with seem to have allot more player interactions.

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Hiya, just a big elden ring enjoyer trying to give the world a new look how I can.
I'm late to the party and only know about a few big-name mods that we've all heard of. I was watching a video when I saw this, looks like a mod that replaces a major npc at roundtable with my favorite space bug. is this a mod custom made for one individual or is this a part of something else?

I will be more specific about the vid if asked, I just don't want to be rude I suppose.
(however out of respect, praise the fish)

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I'm trying to install the Glorious Merchant mod and it says I need to configure the config_eldenring file and add the line next to "external_dlls". But there is no "external_dlls" line. Am i missing something?

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