Summary
When Marika broke theElden Ring, her other half Radagon fought to fix it. But with each swing of the hammer, his body cracked and crumbled as the Ring shattered in his hands. By the timewe face him, he’s a husk with writhing shadows standing where his limbs once lay, mindlessly attempting to restore the irreparable Golden Order.
Queen Marika is the vessel of the Elden Ring, carrier of its vision. A god, in truth. But after the Elden Ring’s shattering, she was imprisoned in the Erdtree.
Radagon was described as once being a brave warrior with “flaming red hair”, and statues littered throughout the game depict him as a stoic, steadfast character, standing proudly in the determined pose of the Golden Order, arms to his sides.
These depictions we hear about across The Lands Between are a far cry from the shambling ruin we eventually find, and so one fan has attempted to model Radagon as he wasbeforethe Shattering, restoring him to his former glory.
They Plan To Restore Other Iconic Elden Ring Characters, Too
As this is a FromSoftware game, we arrive amid a crumbling civilisation far past its prime. Radagon isn’t the only one to fall from glory. His other half Marika has been eternally imprisoned within the Erdtree for her crimes, and her daughter Malenia has succumbed to the scarlet rot after her bout with Starscourge Radahn inCaelid.
We also have Ranni, who cast off her body when Godwyn died and inhabited a doll modelled after the Snow Witch who taught her to fear the dark moon. Her corpse gives us a small glimpse into what she would have looked like, boasting the red hair of her father Radagon, but that’s all we have to go off of. Godwyn is likewise shrouded in mystery as we’ve only seen him in vague, obfuscated shots or as a giant malformed head spreading death through the roots of the Lands Between.
The original poster said that they “may make others” like restored Radagon, so perhaps they’ll tackle these vital characters down the line.
Elden Ring
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With worldbuilding from Game of Thrones scribe George R.R. Martin and developed by FromSoftware, Elden Ring is a masterpiece in what has become known as the ‘Soulslike’ genre of action role-playing games.
