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Ranni the Witch (also known as Lunar Princess Ranni) is a character from the 2022 video game Elden Ring, and is voiced by Aimee-Ffion Edwards. [1] A powerful witch, Empyrean, and supporting character inhabiting the body of a human-sized doll, and a major figure in the game's lore, she desires to overthrow the Two Fingers and replace the Golden Order with the power of the Dark Moon.
Elden Ring sold 13.4 million copies worldwide by the end of March 2022 and 28.6 million by September 2024, making it one of the best-selling video games of all time. [ 98 ] [ 99 ] It was the best-selling game in several regions between February and March 2022, [ 100 ] [ 101 ] and is the fastest-selling Bandai Namco game of all time.
Sacrifice is the offering of material possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity as an act of propitiation or worship. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Evidence of ritual animal sacrifice has been seen at least since ancient Hebrews and Greeks, and possibly existed before that.
The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse (1886) A Solomonic circle with a triangle of conjuration in the East. A magic circle is a circle of space marked out by practitioners of some branches of ritual magic, which they generally believe will contain energy and form a sacred space, or will provide them a form of magical protection, or both.
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a 2017 action-adventure game developed and published by Ninja Theory. It was released for PlayStation 4 and Windows in August 2017, Xbox One in April 2018, Nintendo Switch in April 2019, and Xbox Series X/S in August 2021. Hellblade features support for virtual reality, which was added in a 2018 update.
A sacrificial victim (from Latin victima) is a living being that is killed and offered as a sacrifice. It may refer to: Animal sacrifice, the ritual killing and offering of an animal, usually as part of a religious ritual or to appease or maintain favour with a deity. Hostia, an offering, usually an animal, in a sacrifice.
A holocaust is a religious animal sacrifice that is completely consumed by fire, also known as a burnt offering. The word derives from the ancient Greek holokaustos , the form of sacrifice in which the victim was reduced to ash, as distinguished from an animal sacrifice that resulted in a communal meal.
Animal sacrifice was general among the ancient Near Eastern civilizations of Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia, as well as the Hebrews (covered below).Unlike the Greeks, who had worked out a justification for keeping the best edible parts of the sacrifice for the assembled humans to eat, in these cultures the whole animal was normally placed on the fire by the altar and burned, or ...