Elden Ring Intro Script ((top)) ✦

| Script Line | Meaning | | :--- | :--- | | "The fallen leaves tell a story." | The Erdtree’s leaves fall as a narrative device. Time is cyclical. | | "Night of the Black Knives" | A historical assassination event where the demigod Godwyn was killed in soul, but not body. | | "The mad taint of their newfound strength" | The shards of the Ring (Great Runes) drove the demigods insane with power. | | "A sovereignless wane" | A period of decline with no ruler. | | "The One Great Will abandoned" | The Outer God (Greater Will) gave up on the demigods. | | "Ye dead, who yet live." | The Tarnished are warriors who died outside the Lands Between but are resurrected by Grace. |

, leaving a power vacuum that no lord has been able to fill. The Call of the Tarnished elden ring intro script

This establishes the player's identity. The Tarnished are a group of exiles who were stripped of the "Grace" (the light of the Erdtree) and banished. However, with the Ring broken and order lost, the grace has called them back from death. | Script Line | Meaning | | :---

reportedly penned a 160-page spec script to capture the game's dense lore and winning over creator Hidetaka Miyazaki. For players within the game, communication is handled via a Messages menu | | "The mad taint of their newfound

"The fate of the Lands Between, and your own, hangs in the balance. Will you answer the call, and take up the challenge?"

[The Elden Ring logo appears on screen, as the game begins.]