Elden Ring Nightreign’s Collector Signboard is a Game Changer

Despite the deck being stacked against it, Elden Ring Nightreign has managed to succeed as an Elden Ring spin-off, even if the games are as different as night and day. Unlike its open-world action-RPG parent, Elden Ring Nightreign is a co-op-oriented roguelike with battle royale elements, and many fans were unsure about it being a worthy successor. While the game is not for everyone, and only a fraction of Elden Ring’s over-30 million players are interested in it, that fraction has still produced over 3.5 million sales in one week, so it’s safe to say the experiment was a success.

After such an impressive start, the question then became what was next. Even if clearing its eight Nightlord runs and Remembrance quests wasn’t easy, that’s still a low amount of content for a roguelike to launch with. With Elden Ring Nightreign’s paid DLC still under construction, FromSoftware has opted for a smaller set of updates in the meantime that add more replay value to the game. Nightreign is set to receive duos in the future, solo play has already been improved, and souped-up versions of the Nightlords are slowly rolling out, but it’s the new vendor attached to those Nightlords that may be the most valuable addition.

Elden Ring Nightreign’s Everdark Sovereigns Aren’t For Everyone

Elden Ring Nightreign adds its first Everdark Sovereign, a more challenging version of Gaping Jaw, but it is not for every player.

How The Collector Signboard Fits Into Elden Ring Nightreign

Starting with Adel, Baron of the Night, Everdark Sovereign versions of every Nightlord will be added to Elden Ring Nightreign. The Everdark Sovereigns are stronger than their regular selves, only being open to players who have already cleared their old versions and demanding even more effort to overcome their new phases and abilities. Available Sovereigns will be up for one week before they rotate, but FromSoftware could take the Monster Hunter World approach and make them permanent additions once all the Sovereigns are released. It’s a good addition to Nightreign‘s content, but will only really hook players seeking ever-greater challenges.

Things really start coming together once the merchant associated with these Everdark Sovereigns comes into play. After managing to defeat one of Nightreign‘s Sovereigns, the player will receive a new currency called Sovereign Sigils and access to the Collector Signboard in the bottom-left exterior of the Roundtable Hold. From here, players can spend Sigils to:

Gain additional Vessels
Buy powerful Relics
Buy costumes
Swap between the two versions of the Guardian’s final Remembrance Relic
Trigger any Shifting Earth event
Unlock the ability to switch between the dark and light states of the Roundtable Hold’s Great Site of Grace

While most of the items on offer are shared between the Collector Signboard and the existing Murk shop, there’s too much potential here to ignore.

Elden Ring Nightreign’s Future Could Be Dictated By The Collector Signboard

Besides the inherent usefulness of gaining full control over the Shifting Earth system, the Collector Signboard should eventually become the destination of all endgame Nightreign players. Over the course of the game’s life, FromSoftware can add new costumes, Relics, and potentially even more quality-of-life purchases to the Collector Signboard’s wares. Some things could also be part of the Murk economy, but at considerably higher prices than anything in Nightreign at this point. Everdark Sovereign clears and grinding would give postgame players something to do, and the Collector Signboard would provide that little bit of extra motivation.

FromSoftware Must Follow Through With The Collector Signboard

Of course, that makes a lot of presumptions about FromSoftware’s intentions with the Collector Signboard compared to how it’s implemented right now, but there are not many other ways to take a vendor with a superboss-fueled currency. This could, and should, change how players interact with Nightreign, and since the game’s campaign can potentially end very quickly, a transformative objective feels like the missing piece. Hopefully, whatever is planned for the Sovereign system and the Collector Signboard can keep Elden Ring Nightreign worth returning to for months to come.