The Demigod family tree in Elden Ring: Godfrey, Marika, Radagon, & Rennala

Thanks to the work of George R.R. Martin and Hidetaka Miyazaki, the inhabitants of Elden Ring have a complicated family tree. While it’s no golden broccoli of the sky, its many branches are no less impressive.

What is the Demigod family tree in Elden Ring

The Children of Godfrey and Marika
Godfrey, the first Elden Lord, was also the first husband of Marika. Despite being a great warrior for ages, he was eventually exiled by Marika because his warrior spirit had faded. Before his exile, he and Markia produced three children: Gowyn, Morgott/Margit, and Mohg. Godwyn was born a demigod and sired Godrick and Godefroy. Morgott/Margit and Mog were born as Omens.

The Children of Radagon and Rennala
Though they were initially meant to go to war with one another, Radagon and Rennala fell in love. Their union bore three demigod children, as Radagon was a god. When Marika cast aside her lover Godfrey, she ordered that Radagon return to her and, thus, he did. Marika then took in Radhan, Rykard, and Ranni as her stepchildren.

The Children of Marika and Radagon
Marika and Radagon are actually one in the same. They are a singular god that can split themselves into two. Their pairing produced Malenia and Miquella.

Elden Ring Demigod Family Tree: discussion and theories

Other demigods in Elden Ring Family Tree

Though not her children directly, there are two other demigods in the Lands Between: Maliketh and Godrick.

It’s unclear where Godrick sits on the Golden Lineage, all of those children who trace their ancestry from Godwyn. It’s mentioned several times that Godrick is an offshoot, several orders removed from any real divine power. He sought to use the process of grafting to give himself enough power to justify his claim to be “Lord of all that is Golden,” though every character who describes him believes the process to have both failed and be antithetical to true lordship.

Maliketh was Marika’s half-brother, a half-wolf like Blaidd, who acted as Marika’s shadow as Blaidd did to Ranni. Charged with safeguarding the Rune of Death, his failure to do so resulted in the Knight of the Black Knives, exile to Faram Azula, and betrayal by Marika, who left him to rot there for all time. Maliketh bound Destined Death (the Rune’s other name) into a seal on his left hand and vowed no one should take it again.

Who is Queen Marika in Elden Ring Family Tree

Queen Marika – or “The Eternal”, as she’s referred to – is the main deity in Elden Ring. Her queenship and claim to divine origin are unknown, and there’s no in-depth theological lore released by FromSoftware, as of yet, that details how exactly she became the goddess that she is. Nevertheless, it’s made clear that her rule over the Lands Between before the shattering of the Elden Ring artifact was one of divine right. There are even Stakes of Marika scattered around Elden Ring’s legacy dungeons and the open-world environments. These stakes are essentially worship statues of Marika that work in a similar fashion to the Sites of Grace. However, players can only respond at these stakes, and can’t do anything else that the sites of grace provide, like upgrading and refreshing flasks.

Although Queen Marika’s backstory isn’t completely known, there’s enough information to piece together who she is and the kind of role she plays in Elden Ring. In addition to her godship over the Lands Between, she’s also the mother of the demi-god lords that fight to control remnants of the Elden Ring artifact, known as the Great Runes. There are multiple demi-gods throughout the Lands Between, and they act as some of Elden Ring’s main characters that the Tarnished protagonist must defeat to reclaim the official title of Elden Lord. Once the remnants are pieced back together, the next Elden Lord can take the crown. A similar comparison to this is Elrond forging the king of Gondor’s Narsil blade in Lord of the Rings, so that the throne can be rightfully reclaimed.

Who are The Outer Gods in Elden Ring Family Tree

The Outer Gods are mysterious beings mentioned throughout the lore of Elden Ring. They do not appear to manifest physical forms within the Lands Between and instead influence the events of the Lands Between in other ways, including through worship by denizens of the Lands Between and by powering incantations.

The Outer Gods are responsible for many of the events that happen both before and during Elden Ring’s story, and have acted in both benevolent and malicious ways, and the various endings of the game (except, perhaps, the curse and dark moon endings) involve substituting one of the various outer gods for the Greater Will and beginning a subsequent cycle in which that god’s power is incorporated into the Elden Ring.

The Outer God with the most influence in the current iteration of the Lands Between, and the creator of the Elden Beast, which later manifests the Elden Ring. Its main goal appears to be to maintain order within the Lands Between, although it appears to accomplish this by harvesting the life-essence of the dead of the Lands Between through the roots of the Erdtree. This Outer God uses the Two Fingers as vassals and is primarily associated with Erdtree, Golden Order, and Two Fingers Incantations.

This Outer God is mostly involved in the “Elden Lord” and “Age of Order” endings. (Although Corhyn comes to believe Goldmask was a madman who sought to betray the Golden Order, it is unclear this is actually correct. Corhyn frequently expresses confusion at Goldmask’s wisdom and disbelief at, for instance, the revelation that Marika and Radagon are elements of the same whole, implying that he is unable to truly understand the nature of the Order or the forces that drive it.

Godwyn the Golden in Elden Ring Family Tree

Godwyn the Golden was a demigod and son of Queen Marika the Eternal and Godfrey the First Elden Lord. In the “Night of the Black Knives” he was assassinated by Ranni and her accomplices from the land of “Numen” with the use of special weapons created with the Rune of Death.

Godwyn the Golden was the firstborn son of Queen Marika the Eternal and her consort Godfrey, the First Elden Lord. Godwyn was presumably the progenitor of the so-called “Golden Line”, of which Godrick the Grafted was the final descendant.

Early in his mother’s divine reign, the Erdtree came under assault by the Dragons, who had ruled the world before Marika’s ascent. The forces of the Erdtree managed to triumph against the dragons, with Godwyn prevailing against the dread Fortissax, earning the mighty dragon’s friendship in the process.

Is Margit a Morgott?

Morgott, The Omen King is a Boss in Elden Ring. Morgott is the true identity of Margit, the Fell Omen and the self-proclaimed “Last of All Kings”, found in Leyndell Royal Capita.

Is Radagon a demigod?

Rennala is royalty (not a god), but since Radagon is a god, they had three demigod children: Radahn, Ranni, and Rykard.

Did Radagon and Marika have kids?

Radagon and Marika went on to have twins; Malenia and Miquella. Since Radagon and Marika were in truth a single being, their children would be born cursed; Malenia, afflicted by the Scarlet Rot and Miquella cursed with eternal childhood.

Is Morgott the son of godfreys?

Morgott was the son of Queen Marika and First Elden Lord Godfrey, and twin brother of Mohg, Lord of Blood.