Demigods

The Golden Lineage

A Demigod is a child born of a god, and in our age, that means the offspring of Queen Marika the Eternal. They are not mere mortals blessed by the Erdtree; they are blood descendants, inheriting a portion of Marika’s divine status and the raw power of the Elden Ring.

They are the great grandchildren of the Primordial Crucible itself.

When Marika shattered the Elden Ring, the very law of the world fractured into mighty pieces—the Great Runes. It was the demigods who seized these shards, and in doing so, their inherited divine power became monstrous. The Great Runes did not merely grant power; they amplified the inherent flaws within each child, twisting them into the grotesque tyrants who plunged the Lands Between into the Shattering, the great civil war.

The Monstrous Kin

Their nature is chaos, and their lineage is cursed. To understand them is to understand the various forms of their corrupted power:

The Elden Lord's Bloodline (Godfrey and Marika)

These were the first children, born of the Golden Lineage, yet only one was truly blessed:

  • Godwyn the Golden: The favored son, the glorious paragon. He was slain in soul, his body becoming the very source of the Deathroot that now poisons the Erdtree. A good man who became a terrible curse.

  • Morgott, the Omen King: A son born of the Omen curse—marked with shadow and horn, cast into the sewers. Yet, he was the Last of All Kings, the one who defended the throne in loyalty to the Order that rejected him.

  • Mohg, the Lord of Blood: Morgott's twin, also Omen, yet he did not find loyalty, but resentment. Mohg followed an Outer God of filth and blood, seeking to raise his own dynasty from the shadows.

The Carian Royal Line (Radagon and Rennala)

These children inherited the power of the moon and the intellect of the sorcerers, but their ambition was cosmic:

  • General Radahn: The mightiest of them all, who adored his horse and mastered gravity magic to hold the very stars in place. He did so to prevent the fate dictated by the cosmos, a fear that turned him into a ravenous, mindless hulk in the end.

  • Lunar Princess Ranni: She who craved not a kingdom, but freedom from the Greater Will. A master conspirator who murdered her own flesh to become a spirit in a doll, orchestrating the death of Godwyn to forge her own destiny beneath the cold moon.

  • Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy: The judge who forsook the law, plunging his own body into the great serpent of Volcano Manor. He became a blasphemous union of flesh and parasite, seeking to devour all things, even the gods themselves.

The Final Empyreans (Marika and Radagon)

The final twin children, born perfect, yet afflicted by terrible, inescapable curses:

  • Malenia, the Blade of Miquella: The peerless warrior, plagued by the all-consuming Scarlet Rot. She fought the war of the Shattering to a stalemate, her Great Rune a symbol of festering, magnificent disease.

  • Miquella, the Unalloyed: Malenia's twin, cursed with eternal childhood. He sought to cure all affliction and create an unblemished world at the Haligtree, but he too was stolen away, his ambitions frozen in place.

These are the demigods. They are the broken reflections of a broken god. They hold the world's law in their hands, yet their madness makes them refuse to relinquish it. They are the reason no peace can be found, for they are both the royalty and the calamity.

Dost thou now understand why we pray they all meet a final, true death?