Queen Marika and her two Elden Lords
Elden Ring never shows its royal family in one scene. The family tree Elden Ring players piece together comes from item descriptions, boss fights and a few lines of dialogue, and the official site gives only the outline. Marika’s offspring, demigods all, took the shards of the shattered Elden Ring known as the Great Runes, and their war over the shards is the world the player enters.1
Queen Marika stands at the centre of the chart. Her first husband was Godfrey, the first Elden Lord. TheGamer says he was later banished and became Hoarah Loux, leader of the first Tarnished.6
Her second Elden Lord was Radagon. Before he came to her, Radagon was married to Rennala, a Carian royal, in a marriage meant to end a conflict between Caria and the Golden Order. He left Rennala to become Marika’s consort.6 That gives Marika two husbands and Radagon two wives on one row of the chart.
In Leyndell, the royal capital, a spell cast on Radagon’s statue reveals the words Radagon is Marika.7 The chart keeps them as two symbols, because the game presents them as two people for most of its length and the player fights Radagon at the Elden Throne. From the Leyndell point a dotted gold line labelled One being joins them. TheGamer notes that the game never says whether the two were one from birth.6
The children of Godfrey and Marika on the Elden Ring family tree
Kotaku names three children of Marika and Godfrey. They are Godwyn the Golden and the twins Morgott and Mohg, both born as Omens with horns that the Golden Order shunned.4 Game Rant gives the same three.9
Godwyn was the first demigod to die. His soul was slain on the Night of the Black Knives, while his body lived on and spread a kind of undeath.6 The chart gives him the cross of a death that happened before the game begins.
The twins went separate ways. Morgott stayed loyal to the Golden Order and rules Leyndell as the Omen King when the player reaches it, while Mohg went underground and served an Outer God.610 None of the official pages names their father. That Godfrey is their father is the reading of Kotaku, TheGamer and Game Rant, and the chart follows it with that caution.46
Godrick the Grafted is the first demigod most players defeat. Game Rant traces his line back to Marika, Godfrey and Godwyn and says it is unknown how many generations stand between them.9 The chart therefore hangs Godrick under Godwyn on a dotted arrow labelled Descends from, not on a parent line, so that no grandparent is invented.
Radahn, Rykard and Ranni, the children of Rennala
Radagon and Rennala had three children, Radahn, Rykard and Ranni.69 TheGamer points to the red hair the three share with Radagon.6
Radahn is Starscourge Radahn, fought at Redmane Castle in Caelid on the main path.10
Here the reveal in Leyndell matters most. The official site calls the demigods Marika’s offspring.1 Radahn, Rykard and Ranni are the children of Radagon, so once Radagon is Marika, they are Marika’s children too. On the chart the line from Radagon to Marika does that work, and the three keep their place under Radagon and Rennala.
Miquella and Malenia, the twins of Marika and Radagon
Marika and Radagon had twins, Miquella and Malenia, and Kotaku notes that both were born accursed.46 Game Rant calls both of them Empyreans.9
Their curses differ. Miquella was cursed with eternal youth, and Malenia was chosen by the Outer God of Rot as its avatar and lost an arm and a leg to the rot.6 The chart joins them with the forked line of twins, as it joins Morgott and Mohg.
Messmer in the family tree after Shadow of the Erdtree
The expansion adds one child to the family. In an interview with Famitsu before its release, director Hidetaka Miyazaki called Messmer the Impaler one of the heroes, at the level of Godrick, Malenia, Radahn and Rykard, and said that he is called a child of Marika.3 Kotaku’s account of the story calls Messmer the son of Queen Marika and the brother of Malenia and Miquella, and names no father.5
The official prologue sets the expansion in the Land of Shadow, the place where Marika first set foot, a land set ablaze by Messmer’s flame. Miquella went there and waits for the return of his promised Lord.2 Miyazaki added that the Land of Shadow is where Marika became a god.3 Kotaku names Radahn as the promised consort, and the chart draws that bond as a pink dashed arrow from the Shadow of the Erdtree point.5
The chart draws Messmer under Marika alone. TheGamer guesses at Radagon as his father from his red hair, and TheGamer’s own account of Messmer calls him the supposed firstborn son of Marika.68 Both readings are guesses, so a second parent line would claim more than the game says.
What the Elden Ring family tree leaves open
A family tree Elden Ring fans draw often fills the gaps with guesses, and the fan charts that rank for this search mix the two. The table sorts every link on this chart by where it is stated. Official and director statements come first, then links the games press agrees on, then open questions.
| Link | How it is told | Drawn as |
|---|---|---|
| Marika and Radagon are one being | Shown by the statue in Leyndell | Dotted gold line from Leyndell |
| Messmer is a child of Marika | Stated by the director and by Kotaku | Parent line from Marika alone |
| Godwyn, Morgott and Mohg are children of Godfrey and Marika | Agreed by Kotaku, TheGamer and Game Rant | Parent lines from both |
| Radahn, Rykard and Ranni are children of Radagon and Rennala | Agreed by TheGamer, Game Rant and Kotaku | Parent lines from both |
| Godrick descends from Godwyn | Given by the press, with the generations unknown | Dotted arrow, no parent line |
| Messmer’s father | Never named | Not drawn |
| Melina as a child of Marika | A guess of TheGamer | Not on the chart |
The Elden Ring family tree region by region
Each card gives what changes on the chart at one stage of the main path that Den of Geek sets out. Read each card after you reach its region.
Limgrave
Stormveil Castle
Spoiler note. Godrick is defeated.
- The Tarnished passes Margit and defeats Godrick the Grafted.
Sources10
Liurnia
Raya Lucaria
Spoiler note. Rennala is defeated.
- Rennala gives up the Great Rune of the Unborn.
Sources10
Caelid
Redmane Castle
Spoiler note. Radahn is defeated.
- Starscourge Radahn falls at the festival of Redmane Castle.
Sources10
Leyndell
The royal capital
Spoiler note. Radagon is revealed.
- The shade of Godfrey and then Morgott the Omen King are fought.
- The statue of Radagon shows that Radagon is Marika.
The Elden Throne
The last fights
Spoiler note. The ending of the base game.
- Godfrey returns as Hoarah Loux.
- Radagon and then the Elden Beast are fought.
Sources10
Shadow of the Erdtree
The Land of Shadow
Spoiler note. The expansion in full.
- Messmer joins the chart as a son of Marika.
- Miquella waits for Radahn, his promised consort.
How to read this Elden Ring family tree
A square is a man and a circle is a woman, and Marika carries the double outline of the person the chart is about. A horizontal line between two symbols is a marriage, and a slash across it marks a couple who parted, as Godfrey and Marika did and as Radagon and Rennala did. The small numbers beside Marika and Radagon count their first and second marriages.
Lines down from a marriage lead to children, and a fork joins twins. Godwyn’s cross is his death. The dotted gold line, the grey dotted arrow and the pink dashed arrow are the chart’s own story lines, and the words at each end change as Story position moves.
To build your own Elden Ring family tree, open this chart in the editor and add the links you accept, or start from the story charts. The symbols are set out in the genogram symbols.
Questions about the Elden Ring family tree
People and sources
A page of its own lists all 14 characters on the chart, each with a short note and the sources for it, and the ten numbered sources this article cites. It also gives this page as a reference in the APA, MLA, Chicago and Harvard styles, ready to copy.