Elden Ring: Who Is Marika?
The moment you walk out of Elden Ring's tutorial, you come face to face with Marika. Well, as close to face-to-face as you can get in the wild. There are churches dedicated to her and stakes named after her scattered across the map, allowing for you to respawn and summon aid. To say she's an important figure would be an understatement.
Her children make up a good chunk of the games' main bosses while her story is tied to Elden Rings' key dilemma, the shattering of the titular ring. She's embroiled in the game's narrative, a clearly important figure you'll hear about time and time again.
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Queen Marika the Eternal, to use her full title, is the Elden Ring's vessel, and she is the mother of the demi-humans we find and fight across the Lands Between. But she's more than a queen and certainly more than a vessel.
Spoilers for Elden Ring ahead.
To understand Marika, you have to understand that she has two halves, her female half and her male half — Marika and Radagon. This is where things get weird. Marika was married to the first Elden Lord, Godfrey, but when he became Tarnished and subsequently exiled from the Lands Between, she took a new husband — Radagon. She married herself.
But before the two wed, Radagon married Queen Rennala, bearing numerous children who Marika would then raise as her own step-children, turning them into demigods. If you don't know, Rennala is the Queen of the Full Moon and, by the time we arrive at the Raya Lucaria Academy, its master.
While Radagon left Rennala to be with Marika, he didn't go without leaving a parting gift. He gave her an amber containing one of the Elden Rings' shards, a Great Rune — a demigod. He also left her his wolf who guards the
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