In the most general sense, Elden Ring is the story of the god of the Lands Between, Queen Marika the Eternal, and her eight demi-god children. Yet, despite her mastery of the titular Elden Ring and the control over the rules of reality it affords her, there are forces far more powerful than Marika a
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