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AnElden Ringplayer used the game’s character creator to model their Tarnished after Queen Marika the Eternal. Marika is the reigning divine sovereign ofElden Ring’s setting, the Lands Between.
While essentially a background character inElden Ring, Queen Marika is undoubtedly the game’s most important figure. The entire narrative of the critically acclaimed FromSoftware RPG revolves around the powerful monarch, her extensive bloodline, and the Golden Order movement that rules over the Lands Between. Despite her significance to the world ofElden Ring, Marika is largely shrouded in mystery and players only encounter a decaying version of her during the fight withRadagon of the Golden Order, theconsort and other half of Queen Marika. One gamer, however, has usedElden Ring’s character creator to turn their Tarnished into Marika, giving fans a glimpse of what the god-queen probably looked like when she was in her prime.
In a recent Reddit post that has received more than 6,200 upvotes, user nouvlesse shared photos of theirElden Ringcharacter that was modeled after Queen Marika. Nouvlesse, who provided the character sliders for her rendition of Marika, even dropped some interesting headcanon regarding the sovereign.Elden Ring’sShadow of the ErdtreeDLC, which was released in June, revealed manydetails about Queen Marika’s dark past, including the tragic fate of her fellow Shamans.
Elden Ring Queen Marika Custom Character
Many community members praised nouvlesse’s recreation of Marika, with one user even claiming that it was the best rendition of the monarch that they had ever seen. Another commenter claimed that nouvlesse’s custom character made them realize thatMessmer the Impaler, Marika’s son, actually resembled his Numen mother. Messmer is one ofShadow of the Erdtree’s new bossesand players will have to defeat him to progress through the DLC’s main questline.
The expansion also touched on the story of Miquella the Kind, another child of Marika. The demigod is the brother ofMalenia, Blade of Miquella, who is widely considered to be one of the hardest bosses in the vanillaElden Ringexperience. Like his mother,Miquella also has another half in the form of St. Trina, a mysterious figure that is associated with sleep.
Shadow of the Erdtreewill be the only DLC forElden Ring,according to the game’s director and FromSoftware CEO Hidetaka Miyazaki. The Japanese studio is expected to release an expansion for its mech-based action game,Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon. While not as popular asElden Ring, the latest entry in the long-runningArmored Corefranchise has sold more than three million copies worldwide since launching in August.
