Queen Marika the Eternal

Queen Marika is a tall Numen woman with fair skin and long, flowing golden hair gathered into two uneven braids, the right being longer. She typically wore a circlet, gold armbands, gold serpentine bracelets, and either a black dress or a robe patterned with golden floral motifs. Often depicted in cruciform poses with her head bowed, she simultaneously evoked divinity, fragility, regality, and martyrdom.

In the present era, her body appears as a stone-like, petrified husk, fractured and cracked like broken porcelain. She is shackled and suspended on a great Rune Arc with a red needle-like shard piercing her abdomen like a spear. During the final confrontation, her body transforms into Radagon of the Golden Order before the Elden Beast reveals itself. Following the player's victory, she ultimately reverts to a chubby form of her former sel.

Queen Marika is worshipped and believed by many to be a goddess that brings joy and blessings across the world. Her actions, however, suggest that she is not truly the benevolent being that her followers are led to believe. While her expansion upon the Lands Between initially brought order and prosperity amongst its, inhabitants part of it brought in conflict in return. Most notably, she had eliminated the Fire Giant race to near extinction as part of her conquest, having left one survivor behind. She then imprisoned this survivor with a curse to watch over the Flame of Ruin, so that no one else could come into its possession and use it to burn the Erdtree. Marika's involvement in the Night of Black Knives suggests that she may possibly have a treacherous side of her as it is believed that Godwyn's death may have been her doing due to the Black Knife Assassins having connections with Marika, despite being driven to the brink over her son's death. In addition, it is mentioned in Maliketh's Remembrance that, in spite of entrusting her half-brother the role to guard Destined Death, she had betrayed him, nonetheless, suggesting a sign of disloyalty towards even her family.

It is also implied from their shackles and the description of the Regal Omen Bairn that Mohg and Morgott were not treated fairly by their mother, as Omen children born of royalty are imprisoned underneath the capital city of Leyndell, and retain their horns. This would explain why both brothers retain their horns and why Mohg is found beneath the capital in the sewers.

In spite of all this, Marika's motives and intentions are entirely enigmatic, especially in regard to her shattering the Elden Ring. Whether the things she's done were purely malicious or the results of her being a slave to the Greater Will and the Golden Order remains unknown. The latter is heavily suggested, however as certain descriptions of different objects suggest that Marika slowly grew to question the intent of the Golden Order. Her background as a former resident of the Shaman Village suggests that the cruel fate that her people were subjected to by the Hornsent led her down to the path of an oppressive warlord. Ultimately, this led her to cultivate a hatred for the Hornsent and to a greater extent, the Omen as well, as their horns reminded her of the Hornsent themselves.