It was involved. Someone stole a piece of the Rune of Death from its confinement, and used it to fell Marika's favored child. Godwyn the Golden, First of the Dead. [ This title seemed to have some significance to Ironeye, though he did not immediately explain. The Forsaken hadn't asked about his kind in particular, after all. He lowered his hand from the Forsaken's shoulder to lean it again upon the railing. ]
Soon after, the Elden Ring, and the Order it represented, was broken. The demigods fell upon each other in a great war to claim its fragments as inheritance. And as the chaos continued, the conditions in the Lands Between grew worse.
...it is a long story. But suffice to say, disaster led to disaster. In my time, most of Marika's lineage are thought to be gone. The ones I have met have been... disagreeable.
[ Hello, yes? Marika? He'd like to make a complaint about Godrick and his bullshit whirlwind spam. In any case, though Ironeye's phrasing was more polite, his tone suggested that an altercation had broken out. Apparently, he had survived these encounters, and he did not seem to bear them any particular reverence. ]
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Soon after, the Elden Ring, and the Order it represented, was broken. The demigods fell upon each other in a great war to claim its fragments as inheritance. And as the chaos continued, the conditions in the Lands Between grew worse.
...it is a long story. But suffice to say, disaster led to disaster. In my time, most of Marika's lineage are thought to be gone. The ones I have met have been... disagreeable.
[ Hello, yes? Marika? He'd like to make a complaint about Godrick and his bullshit whirlwind spam. In any case, though Ironeye's phrasing was more polite, his tone suggested that an altercation had broken out. Apparently, he had survived these encounters, and he did not seem to bear them any particular reverence. ]