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Female |
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Gold |
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Gold |
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Queen Marika the Eternal is the reigning divine sovereign of the Lands Between, and a vessel for the Elden Ring. Her offspring possess demigod status and are bearers of the many shards of the shattered Elden Ring.
Biography[]
At some point, upon the Greater Will sending the Elden Ring to the Lands Between through a golden star, Marika was chosen to become the goddess of the land and became Queen of the Lands Between. Desiring a world with immortality for her and her kin, she removed the Rune of Death from the Elden Ring, thus establishing the Golden Order.
Marika took a consort, Hoarah Loux, a great undefeated warrior, who became the first Elden Lord. In the early days, everything was in opposition to the Erdtree, but with Godfrey at the head of her armies, Marika persevered and the Erdtree would reign supreme as the embodiment of the Golden Order itself.
One of these wars was waged against the Fire Giants, who met defeat when Marika slew their fell god. With the Erdtree now supreme, Marika and Godfrey would rule together and have at least three children: Godwyn the Golden and the twins Morgott and Mohgwyn. The twins were both born as accursed Omen, and were hidden in the depths below the capital. Even so, Godfrey, as well as his and Marika's offspring, would always be counted as the first of the demigods, and would forever be known as the "Golden Lineage".
With her rule secure, Marika announced her intention to search the depths of the Golden Order, declaring the early days of blind belief a thing long past. When Godfrey's last foe fell it was said the hue of his eyes had faded. Marika banished him and his kinfolk from the Lands Between, robbing them of their grace, thus creating the first Tarnished, all in the hope that they would grow stronger by waging war in lands outside her rule, dying, and then be revived and eventually brought back with their guidance of grace returned.
After Godfrey's banishment from the Lands Between, Marika took Radagon as second husband and King Consort, elevating him to become the second Elden Lord. Radagon already had children with Rennala, his previous wife, and after his union with Marika, she would raise her new stepchildren Radahn and Rykard to demigod status.
Marika and Radagon would go on to have three more children of their own: Messmer, and the twins Malenia and Miquella, who had potential successors to Marika. However, Radagon and Marika were in truth one and the same, in fact Radagon was described as Marika's male "other self". Thus, the twins were the children of a single god, and they were both born afflicted: Malenia with rotting sickness and Miquella with eternal childhood.
Purge of the Realm of Shadow[]
In 1324 BTA (1094 NE), following the discovery of the Realm of Shadow by the demigod Messmer, son of queen Marika, and discovering they were not touched by the light of grace, Messmer gathered his armies and traveled to the Realm of Shadow, where he carried out a horrific massacre on its people by Marika's orders, burning and killing all who inhabited the land, destroying their cities in a wave of flame and ash.
Upon discovery of this, Marika charged her son with carrying out this horrific act and abandoned him in the Realm of Shadow to prevent him from ever returning the Lands Between and breaking off any contact with him.
Furious and betrayed, Messmer would continue to slaughter the people of the Realm for the next 1324 years with his armies, though many still eluded him. During this time, the Lands Between fell into chaos during The Shattering, though Messmer was completely unaware of this, and continued his genocide on the Realm.
The Shattering[]
One night, a fragment of the Rune of Death was stolen, and the fragment of the rune was used in order to forge godslaying knives through a fearsome rite.
The assassins used these knives to slay Godwyn the Golden, the first recorded death of a demigod in all history. Queen Marika is said to have been driven to the brink by this event, and some time later she shattered the Elden Ring using her hammer.
Fragments of the ring splintered into Great Runes and spread across the Lands Between, starting a conflict between her demigod children who fought over the Ring's fragments. Battle after battle was fought, but there was no victor. For her part, Marika would be imprisoned inside the Erdtree, possibly by the Elden Beast or the Greater Will itself. True to her promise to Godfrey and his warriors, grace was restored to the banished Tarnished. They would rise from their graves, and journey to the Lands Between to once again brandish the Elden Ring.
Personality and Traits[]
Powers and Abilities[]
Gifted by the powers of the Greater Will and the Elden Ring, as well as a number of godly runes and artifacts, Marika possessed control of the Gilde'rott Universe, or at least the Lands Between, on a celestial level, able to alter the very rules of the realm, down to even single individuals. She is also capable of destroying this just as easily, being able to shatter the same Elden Ring with a single strike from her hammer.