What Happens In Elden Ring? The Game's Story, Part 12: Becoming Elden Lord
After tens, possibly even hundreds, of hours venturing through the Lands Between in Elden Ring, the moment has finally arrived. You're now entering the Erdtree to stand before Marika, become her consort, and claim the title of Elden Lord--fulfilling your destiny as a Tarnished and following the guidance of grace to its final conclusion. All of Elden Ring has all led up to this.
If you guessed that your path to claiming and repairing the Elden Ring still isn't that clear, though, you're right. There are more challenges to face, and more revelations about the Lands Between to reckon with. The story is about to take one final, hard turn, with potentially big effects on our interpretations of the events we've seen play out through the course of the game.
It's the last, and biggest, of the spoilers beyond this point.
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What Happens In Elden Ring? The Game's Story, Part 11: Leyndell, Ashen Capital
The way is clear into the Erdtree, where the Elden Ring awaits. As you enter, you see Marika, bound in what looks like a Rune Arc--one of those chunks of the Elden Ring you can use as a consumable item to empower your Great Runes--and stabbed through the chest with another chunk of what looks like the same thing. (Hey, are you getting the Jesus references, or are they too subtle?)
The bonds break, dropping Marika to the ground. She is the living vessel of the Elden Ring, and we find her crumbling and broken just like the Elden Ring itself, suggesting that shattering the Elden Ring wasn't without a cost to Marika. Even as you watch, though, Marika changes before your eyes. Her blonde hair turns a bright flaming red, and she stands not as Queen Marika, but as the Golden Order fundamentalist champion,
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