Full Plot of Elden Ring: World of Twins

Elden Ring plot has always been full of mystery, and there are many other aspects of the game that have yet to be thoroughly explored, but at the very least, a general plot will be offered below.

What is Elden Ring and Elden Lord?

Elden Ring

First of all, Elden Ring is not a literal ring, it is more like a super large Rune with enormous power. Surely, you all know about the Great Rune obtained when defeating the boss which, after activation, will give us all kinds of stats, don’t you? They are the debris dropped from the Elden Ring when it was destroyed, the cause of The Shattering war.

The Elden Ring is not an item in the Elden Ring plot, it is simply a great source of power given to Queen Marika, to enable her to rule The Lands Between. The power of the Elden Ring is stored in the Erdtree, from which it radiates to the whole world with golden rays of privilege.

Queen Marika can be understood as a vessel of the Elden Ring. She does not possess it, but on the contrary, she is only its container. In other words, Marika was just someone chosen by an even greater force to protect the Elden Ring.

Elden Lord

Many people misunderstand Elden Lord to be the highest position in that planet, the one who defends and receives power directly from the Elden Ring. But this is not the case; Elden Lord is merely a title that confers no substantial power without the Elden Ring. For example, despite being the first Elden Lord, Godfrey was banished from The Lands Between and became a Tarnished.

At this point, many people will wonder why the Elden Ring was destroyed and broken into many Great Runs. The one who destroyed the Elden Ring was Queen Marika. What caused her to do so was the death of her son Godwyn the Golden. Although Marika had many children, it is not clear why it was Godwyn who caused her extreme grief, lost her mind, and destroyed the Elden Ring herself.

This is the most important opening in the Elden Ring plot. After the Elden Ring was destroyed, The Shattering War also broke out, and the Tarnished were summoned back to seek someone to become Elden Lord.

Queen Marika destroys the Elden Ring

After Queen Marika disappeared during the events of The Shattering, The Lands Between needed a new leader, or more accurately, a new Elden Lord. In the Elden Ring plot, not only the main Tarnished but many other Tarnished as well as Demigods all desire to become Elden Lord.

To become a true Elden Lord, one must find and collect Great Runes to restore the Elden Ring to its original state. However, in the plot of the Elden Ring, there are many paths to becoming an Elden Lord, as well as how that new God governs the world.

Queen Marika's Real Family and Background

In order to fully understand why Marika destroyed the Elden Ring in the Elden Ring, we have to talk about her origins first. Queen Marika is not an ordinary person but comes from a race called the Empyrean. The Empyreans were more like a superior life form than the normal creatures in the Lands Between.

An Empyrean can also absorb knowledge beyond the physical body, as well as sense forces from outer space. They are, therefore, called down to be Lord Gods and thereby receive a mighty power above all. Marika and the Elden Ring are one such case, she has conversed with a god named Greater Will.

This god allows Marika to possess her powers through the Elden Ring, thereby making her ruler and Lord of The Lands Between.

Great Rune shards shattering from the Elden Ring

The golden light that radiated from the Edrtree was the power of Greater Will. When the great war of The Shattering broke out, this divine light fell into thousands of pieces, some of which still retained some of the warmth of Edrtree and became the Sites of Grace.

Marika, after becoming the supreme ruler, sought Elden Lord as her mate and bodyguard. A Badland warrior named Hoarah Loux was chosen. After becoming Elden Lord he changed his name to Godfrey and this was also the first Elden Lord.

Godfrey and Marika had a child together in the Elden Ring plot, namely Godwyn the Golden. Then, they have twins Morgott and Mogh. In addition, there is another reason for Marika to choose Godfrey, that is, when Empyreans want to sublimate as God, they need to have a partner or spouse by their side. These people will follow that Empyrean for life and share in the power of the lord god.

 Godfrey - Elden Lord first in the Elden Ring storyline

After becoming Elden Lord, Godfrey helped Marika capture the lands around The Lands Between, bringing them under her rule. The territory was stretched to the far North and there they encountered the resistance of the ice giants. This time Godfrey personally went to war.

He single-handedly annihilated all the giants, annexing the northern lands into his territory. But after that battle, something made Godfrey's fighting spirit seem to have vanished. This Elden Lord became strangely indifferent.

With the land of giants no longer a concern, Godfrey was no longer worth using to Marika. The Immortal Queen kicked her husband out, banished him from The Lands Between, took his blessing from Erdtree, and made Godfrey the first Tarnished in the Elden Ring plot. Godfrey has since disappeared, but The Lands Between still needs an Elden Lord, so Marika chooses Radagon - a knight of the kingdom.

 Battle ruins in the North of the giant

Radagon, like Godfrey, once led an army into the land of Liurnia. It is under the auspices of House Carian and Queen Rennala. These two meet on the battlefield, but then both Radagon and Rennala fall in love. They then fell in love, got married, and became husband and wife.

The couple has two sons, Radahn and Rykard, and a daughter, Lunar Princess Ranni. With Radagon taking Rennala, the territory of Liurnia automatically became part of The Lands Between and the war ended.

After Godfrey was banished and Radagon was called by the queen to the capital Lyndell, Rennala became melancholy. She always misses her husband and spends all her time holding an orange egg that was originally a fragment of the Great Rune left by Radagon. Some time after that, there were many rebellions against the Carian house and Rennala's academy, which made this queen even more withdrawn in her shell, completely unconcerned with everything outside.

Queen Rennala

Radagon then becomes the second Elden Lord in the Elden Ring plot, he also becomes the husband and spouse of Queen Marika. Radagon's two sons were also blessed by Marika to transform into DemiGods, known as General Radahn and Praetor Rykard.

The couple later had another set of twins, one female, and one male, Malenia and Miquella, and things became even more brilliant on The Lands Between.

In fact, both Marika and Radagon are inherently the same entity. Marika is the female self and Radagon is the male being separated from each other. Marika becomes Queen and marries Godfrey to gain the power of the Elden Ring, and Radagon becomes a knight to help Marika rule the Lands Between.

Many theories suggest that it was Radagon who actively seduced Rennala, so that he could quickly settle the war and neutralize Rennala, a powerful mage who could threaten Marika's position as the sole queen. 

Marika and Radagon return after merging

After both the male and female versions achieved their goals, Marika banished her ex-husband Godfrey and Radagon actively abandoned Rennala, they returned together and became a couple to receive the Elden Ring's power back. Godfrey had previously found important clues and learned that Marika and Radagon were the same person. He was taken aback by this crazy fact, so he was banished from The Lands Between even faster.

Radagon's children with Marika and their previous spouses are theoretically the same blood, so it's no wonder Marika turns them all into Demigods. Along with that, the fact that Radagon is Rennala's husband suddenly throws it all away and returns to the capital because this is just a merger with his other half.

The Lands Between

Rennala is a normal person, so originally Radahn and Rykard did not have the same strength as Demigod, and Radagon at that time had not returned to become Marika's mate, so he did not receive the blessing from the Elden Ring.

Malenia the Severed

Marika has another brother, Mailketh, who is also an important character in the Elden Ring plot. He is the guardian of the Rune of Death, the indirect cause of Marika's anger to destroy the Elden Ring.

Why was Elden Ring destroyed again?

After Marika married Radagon and made her male self Elden Lord, she began to think about finding a successor. Among Marika's DemiGod children, there are 3 people with Empyrean blood that are the couple Malenia and Miquella and Lunar Princess Ranni.

However, Marika and Radagon's two children were both born with cruel curses. Miquella is forever in the form of a child and Malenia is infected with Scarlet Rot - poisonous blood that causes living things to corrode and rot, slowly dying in excruciating pain. Since Malenia is DemiGod, this poison cannot kill her, but it also makes Malenia very miserable.

Malenia poisoned General Radahn when the two fought

Despite being God and giving her children strength from Erdtree, Marika still fears that one day her children will be harmed, or killed regardless of whether it is DemiGod or not. Here it should be clearly stated that death is a constant thing in the Elden Ring plot, when a certain creature falls, its soul will return to Erdtree, bask in the golden light, and begin a new journey. 

With supernatural beings like DemiGod, the only thing that can kill them is the Destined Death, which comes from the Elden Ring's Rune of Death. So Queen Marika took it out of the Elden Ring, leaving it to her brother Mailketh to guard. Things were going relatively smoothly until Ranni led the black knife assassins to steal a fragment of the Rune of Death, inlaid it on a dagger, and killed Godwyn.

After the Elden Ring was broken, Erdtree lost its power, so the DemiGods no longer received blessings, so they were killed by Tarnished.

Godwyn's death completely destroyed Marika, and she grew angry at the Elden Ring's power for not being able to protect her son. In a fit of exasperation, Marika used a hammer to smash the Elden Ring into a thousand pieces. Radagon then tried to correct his wife's mistake, but it was all too late. The Elden Ring broke into Great Runs and lost its power, beginning the Great War of The Shattering.

The Greater Will Lord then punished Marika by fusing the male and female selves into one, confining Marika and Radagon into a statue, inlaying the remains of the Elden Ring on them, transforming the two wives. This stack becomes the container for the remaining Great Rune fragments.

The Elden Ring is in fact a living being, an Elden Beast sent by Greater Will to give Marika strength. When the main character Tarnished uncovers the secret, Elden Beast also embodies to destroy the intruder.

Why did Godwyn Have to Die?

Now you understand why Marika destroyed the Elden Ring and the events leading up to The Shattering in the Elden Ring, don’t you? But there is still one unanswered question in the Elden Ring plot, which is why Ranni had to kill Godwyn. As mentioned above, Ranni and the twin Malenia - Miquella are Empyreans, selected as potential candidates to succeed Queen Marika.

Because Miquella was cursed to never grow up, and Malenia had the poisonous blood of Scarlet Rot, Ranni became the most likely successor to Marika. She is guided by an entity called Two Fingers, in the Elden Ring plot, Two Fingers or Three Fingers are also a form of space entity, they are quite similar to Greater Will but weaker, each of these entities has different purposes.

Two Fingers is like an organization serving the Royal Family and Marika but in reality, Two Fingers is more like a servant of Greater Wil. It was responsible for finding successors, guiding them, and creating knights to support these candidates.

Roundtable Hold Assembly

However, Ranni strongly disliked this. She even hates her own body and doesn't want to put her life under the arrangement of extraterrestrial entities. Thus Ranni planned to steal a fragment of the Rune of Death, inlay it on the knives of the Black Knife assassins, and attack and kill Godwyn.

At the time that Godwyn is killed in the Elden Ring plot, Ranni also uses the Rune of Death to end his flesh. Simply put, Godwyn still has a body but the soul has been destroyed, and Ranni has a soul but the body is considered to have disappeared. The deaths of these 2 people created 2 Cursemark of Death shards, a sign that DemiGod was killed.

Later, Mailketh, ashamed of his failure to complete the mission, buried the remains of the Rune of Death deep in his arm, using his own body to seal it so that no one else could take it. That is why Gurranq (Mailketh) always craves Deathroot - the scent of death, when he himself is holding it in his body.

With the Rune of Death gone, the creatures in The Lands Between fall out of the cycle of life and death. Many were unable to die and were forced to live forever, their spirits wandering the earth in the form of hazy white shadows, forever bound to the mortal world and unable to return to Erdtree. This is a terrible curse in the Elden Ring.

Mailketh - guard of the Rune of Death

As for Ranni, she later met the main character Tarnished, accidentally helped him and decided to choose Tarnished as her life partner. In fact, with the power of an Empyrean, Ranni does not necessarily choose Greater Will as her god master, but can communicate with a power other than space, as long as the conditions of having a husband are met - in this case he is the main Tarnished.

In the Elden Ring plot, the powers sought by the Empyreans, also known as the Order, as those serving Erdtree take the name Order of Golden, a reference to the golden light emanating from Erdtree.

Ranni herself also found another Order at the end of the game, she became the new God in place of Marika, Tarnished became Ranni's mate. Ranni's lord turned the moon to obscure its golden light on The Lands Between, ushering in a new era for these two.

That's the whole set of what happens in the Elden Ring plot, basically, these are the most important information to give you a brief understanding of the plot. In the future, we will continue to learn about the endings, as well as the important supporting characters to clarify the remaining details.