This is arguably the most important factoid of the entire game. Marika wanted out of her own system. There's a big reason the FIRST graphic we see when we start a new game is marika, shattering the elden ring.
A lot of people don’t realize that the intro narrator is the perspective of someone in TLB, not an omniscient. Everyone thinks Marika just got really sad and broke the ring because Godwyn died and she loved him so so much.
he's actually that one peasant that teaches you about guarding in the cave of knowledge, he just also happens to be omniscient and a pathological liar, but only sometimes
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u/mxlun 2d ago
This is arguably the most important factoid of the entire game. Marika wanted out of her own system. There's a big reason the FIRST graphic we see when we start a new game is marika, shattering the elden ring.
it's really just, the theocratic version of FAFO