The Golden Order
Hark, friend, and sit a moment. Thou askest of the Golden Order? Ah, a worthy pursuit. If one is to mend this broken world, one must first comprehend the divine blueprint upon which it was built.
I am Brother Corhyn, a man of faith, and I shall share with thee the truths I know.
The Foundation of Law
The Golden Order is not merely a kingdom or a church, but the very philosophy of the divine. It is the name we give to the set of absolute, unbreakable laws established by Queen Marika the Eternal under the guidance of the Greater Will.
Its core belief is in Causality and Regression—that everything in the Lands Between operates under a perfect, logical, and closed system of cause and effect. It is the pursuit of that perfect equation.
Marika is the Vessel: The Order is made manifest through the Elden Ring, which Marika held within her. When the Ring was whole, the Order's laws were absolute.
Grace is the Guidance: The golden light you see, the Guidance of Grace, is the most visible sign of the Order's favor. It directs those chosen by the Greater Will toward the throne and the preservation of the sacred law.
The Erdtree is the Truth: The great tree is the symbol and mechanism of the Order’s most profound decree: that all souls return to its roots for eventual rebirth, ensuring a continuous, unbroken cycle of life.
Simply put, the Golden Order is the belief that divine law is the single, highest truth, and that all life must conform to its dictates.
The Flaws of Perfection
However, the pursuit of perfect law inevitably creates the 'unlawful.' The Order, in its wisdom, chose to eliminate what it deemed inconvenient truths:
The Removal of Death: The law dictated that Destined Death was a threat to the golden cycle, so Marika removed it. This sealed power then became the very thing that broke the Order when it was stolen to slay Godwyn.
The Suppression of Outsiders: The Order views anything that falls outside its perfect causal chain as an anomaly to be suppressed. This is why the Omens (like Morgott and Mohg) were locked away—their very existence defied the Order's neat categories. This is why the Frenzied Flame is persecuted; chaos cannot be permitted to exist in a land ruled by perfect cause.
The Golden Order is a beautiful, rigorous theory, but it broke the world by trying to enforce a perfection that life itself resists.
The Path of Mending
The Order is now shattered, its law broken. But faith in the Order is not faith in its ruins.
My own journey, Tarnished, has taught me that the Golden Order, as it was practiced, contained its own great failing. It was static—it refused to evolve. It feared the very chaos and difference it sought to stamp out.
If you are to become the Elden Lord and mend the Ring, you must understand the Order's deep commitment to law. But you must also consider what fundamental truth was missing from its original design.
Perhaps true faith is not about following a static law, but about accepting a new truth that allows the old cycle to be redeemed. May your journey illuminate the path, friend. The pursuit of true Order is the noblest duty a man can undertake.