We hear of the "Will" and the "Grace," but we see the consequences:
This is the genius of the script: The narrator (Melina) isn't welcoming you with open arms; she is daring you to try. It sets up the central theme of the game: Ambition. In a world where the gods failed, is the ambition of a lowly Tarnished a virtue or a sin?
A symbol of the Golden Order, the Erdtree is the source of the Elden Ring. elden ring intro script
The demigods waged war. But no victor emerged. No lord arose. Only ruin.
Their petty squabbles have brought ruin to the Lands Between. We hear of the "Will" and the "Grace,"
And —who would raise a new dynasty on corpses and formless mothers.
The Golden Order falters.
It creates a sense of . You aren't just fighting bosses; you are putting down the twisted, ruined family of a goddess.
"The Elden Ring, shatter'd. The fallen tell of the Golden Order, broken." A symbol of the Golden Order, the Erdtree
You. Dead once. Tarnished. Lost to the Long March.
'Tis the Marika, Queen of the Eternal, and the embodiment of the Elden Ring, who bore the Demigods. And it was Marika who shattered the Elden Ring.