'A delicate goldwork ring. Can be used as a finger whistle. Sound the whistle to summon and ride Torrent, the spectral steed.' Torrent is unique. There is exactly one of him in the canon, and he is given to the Tarnished by Melina at her first appearance, before any maiden of the Erdtree has been chosen. He is a horned goat-like steed, shaggy, capable of double-jumping into the air to catch the spirit-springs scattered across the world. He was, the dialogue suggests, a maiden's mount before he was the Tarnished's. 'You think this is the one, Torrent? Is that him, Torrent? Is that her, Torrent?' Melina speaks to him as one speaks to an old companion who has watched many people fail.

Torrent can fall in battle, but he is never gone for long: upon his death the whistle calls him back, though each summoning drains the Flask of Crimson Tears. When Melina sacrifices herself at the Forge of the Giants to set the Erdtree alight, Torrent rides on; of the two, it is she who does not return. Across the canon's possible endings he is the only companion who survives every path; the only character whose loyalty does not bend depending on which lord the Tarnished crowns. 'It's not too late.' Melina says it about the player. Torrent, who was hers, knows what she means.