====== 📖 Lore & Timeline ======

The Lands Between are steeped in myth, divine power, betrayal, and decay. Elden Ring's story is revealed through fragmented dialogue, item descriptions, and environmental clues — making exploration essential to uncovering the truth.

This page is your gateway into the world’s deepest lore: gods, demigods, wars, and the fall of the Golden Order.

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===== 🕰 Timeline Overview =====

→ [[eldenring:lore:timeline|Chronological History of the Lands Between]]

Covers:
  * Age of the Crucible (primordial chaos)
  * Rise of the Erdtree and the Golden Order
  * The Shattering of the Elden Ring
  * The War of the Shardbearers
  * The Tarnished’s Return

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===== 🧝 Major Entities =====

=== 🌳 The Greater Will & The Erdtree ===
  * [[eldenring:lore:greater_will|The Greater Will]]
  * [[eldenring:lore:two_fingers|Two Fingers & Three Fingers]]
  * [[eldenring:lore:death_principle|Destined Death & the Rune of Death]]

=== ⚔ Demigods & Their Lineages ===
  * [[eldenring:lore:marika|Queen Marika the Eternal]]
  * [[eldenring:lore:godfrey|Godfrey, First Elden Lord]]
  * [[eldenring:lore:radagon|Radagon of the Golden Order]]
  * [[eldenring:lore:rennala|Rennala of the Full Moon]]
  * [[eldenring:lore:radahn|General Radahn]]
  * [[eldenring:lore:malenia|Malenia, Blade of Miquella]]
  * [[eldenring:lore:rykard|Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy]]
  * [[eldenring:lore:morgott|Morgott & Mohg]]

=== 🐉 Outer Gods & Forces ===
  * [[eldenring:lore:outer_gods|List of Outer Gods]]
  * [[eldenring:lore:frenzied_flame|Frenzied Flame]]
  * [[eldenring:lore:scarlet_rot|The Scarlet Rot]]
  * [[eldenring:lore:godskins|Godskins & the Gloam-Eyed Queen]]

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===== 🗺 Historical Locations =====

  * [[eldenring:lore:leyndell|Leyndell, Royal Capital]]
  * [[eldenring:lore:farum_azula|Crumbling Farum Azula]]
  * [[eldenring:lore:mountaintops|Mountaintops of the Giants]]
  * [[eldenring:lore:haligtree|Miquella’s Haligtree]]
  * [[eldenring:lore:caelid|Caelid & the Scarlet Wastes]]

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===== 🔍 Interpretation Guides =====

  * [[eldenring:lore:item_analysis|Item Description Analysis]]
  * [[eldenring:lore:fan_theories|Popular Lore Theories]]
  * [[eldenring:lore:endings|Game Endings & Their Meaning]]

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===== 🧩 Lore Quick Facts =====
  * The **Elden Ring** is not a literal ring, but a metaphysical structure of law and power.
  * The **Tarnished** are exiles called back to restore the broken order — or defy it.
  * The **Outer Gods** are unknowable entities in conflict with the Greater Will.

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