10 Elden Ring Characters With The Best Backstory

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’s rich lore is supported by a massive cast of characters with highly detailed backstories. Knowing the backstory of the game’s major, and sometimes more minor, characters helps the player piece together the ambiguity of the story world FromSoftware has created with The Lands Between. The motivations and history of ’s cast give depth to the lengthy timeline and events that shaped the world the player Tarnished fights through.

The story of is teased out between the many dozens of characters represented in the game. Some characters, like Melina, have little to no accompanying story, which shrouds them in mysteries that hopefully will be explored in the recently announced expansion . However, several main characters have backstories that are just too vital to ignore, while some minor characters have truly memorable stories packed with just as much awe and grandeur as the major players in The Lands Between. Below is a list of ten characters with the best backstories.

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Malenia, Blade of Miquella, was one of the most formidable shard bearers to participate in ’s brutal war known as the Shattering. She led a group of knights known as Clean Rot Knights, who fought just as fiercely as Malenia herself. These knights were so devoted to the demigod that they fought loyally alongside the Blade of Miquella despite their inevitable decay and death from being so near one cursed with ’s Scarlet Rot. Finlay was perhaps one of the most impressive Clean Rot Knights. She survived Malenia and Radahn’s fight in Caelid and managed to carry the wounded Malenia back to Haligtree by herself.

Morgott and his brother Mohg were born of Queen Marika and Godfrey, the so-called Golden Lineage. However,