From the introduction: The fallen leaves. Tell a story. The Great Elden Ring, was shattered. In our home, across the fog. The Lands Between. Now Queen Marika the Eternal is nowhere to be found. Her son Godwyn the Golden first to perish, in the Night of the Black Knives. Soon Marika’s offspring, demigods all, claimed shards of the Elden Ring. The mad taint of their newfound strength triggered the Shattering. A war from which no lord arose. A war leading to abandonment by the Greater Will, that guides both the Elden Ring and the Erdtree it sustains. Arise now, ye Tarnished! Ye dead, who yet live! The call of long-lost grace beckons! To cross the fog, to the Lands Between. To stand before the Elden Ring