Tarnished Immortality Explained | Elden Ring

In this Elden Ring Lore Short we offer an explanation as to why the Tarnished are able to resurrect and the relationship to the Guidance of Grace.

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[SmoughTown]

Thanks for watching guys, remember to let me know your thoughts below!

[The_Keeper]

Tarnished: **dies**
Greater Will: "Wake the fuck up, Tarnished. We've got an Erdtree to burn!"

[jorcornel]

Also explains why some Tarnished die permanently: they are abandoned by grace

[dootmarine]

"No clear successor came out of the Shattering"

Morgott, who not only tried to keep the demigods united but also denounced his accursed blood, rallied the forces of Leyndell against the other demigods and *won* and has been ruling over the Golden City and protected the erdtree for gods know how many years:
"Am I a joke to you?"

[armintor]

They really saw the Dung Eater and said "yeah, hes the one. Give'em grace he'll be perfect!"

[mrwinemaker]

I half expected the SmoughTown short to be 20 minutes long

[dazza]

Godwyn was probably the greater will's greatest hope of a successor. Ranni certainly torpedoed that boat.

[matthewchrist]

“Queen Marika has high hopes for us. That we continue to struggle. Unto eternity.”

[flipmosquito]

"brave tarnished.. you still have a quest to fulfill, until then you cannot die."

[silvernichu]

That does always leave the question why we're still immortal even when faced with Destined Death as well as just about anything after the Rune of Death is unbound by the tarnished.

The simple answer would be that its for gameplay reasons, but I do wonder if I'm missing something here.

[kirbyisever]

Not being able to die until God says so is pretty metal.

[alfalldoot]

I noticed how the unalloyed golden needle that you can use in Placidusax's arena doesn't remove your grace. This might further imply that the Greater Will isn't an outer god like we already expected

[awoodenkiwitoy]

This is why all the npcs can die when you can't, they all go off about how they can't see the guidance of grace anymore, while you still can. Maybe it's not so much that we're not allowed to die, but we're the only tarnished who's not lost faith in their mission, kind of like going hollow in dark souls.

[doyouremebervodka]

Tarnished - died for the 304th time

"Please, let me die!"

Outer gods - "I did not give you permission."

[FayeRantTheStrong]

For me it's pretty horrifying. Greater will allowed Tarnished to be banished beyond the fog to fight battles to death and then ressurrects them after that suffering to die endlessly by enemies that far outmatch them in power (Demigods). Only to be outcasted again whenever they become useless. Many of them are indoctrinated and/or just feel the need to go to erdtree like moths into the light, which i assume is due to greater will's influence on them. Essentialy Tarnished are slaves and tools to the greater will, sentenced to suffer many lifetimes until they outlive their usefulness. After all gold only serves well those who have power and doesn't accept any impurity.

[CoffeeBrainzz]

Considering Elden Ring takes place in the LANDS BETWEEN, to me I interpret it as all these different characters reside in the worlds and lands of other FromSoft games such as Demon/DarkSouls/Sekiro (Yuras armor literally describes the world of Sekiro where he turns into the Demon and turns to bloodshed. As well as Vyke is literally the soldier from Dark Souls, the DragonArmor lady aswell etc.)

Basically Marika sent the Tarnished out to live a full life and when they die… “what was once taken, shall be returned” and they were given back their Grace to use the knowledge they’ve gained in their life from other games/Worlds/Lands to bring about change to the land that has been suffering due to Deaths removal and Marikas changed mind on Eternal Life
(Since her first born Godwyn was now eternally suffering… unable to reincarnate and unable to die…She realized The Gloam Eyed Queens way of Death may have been a better possibility and then continues to SHATTER the Elden Ring giving way to possible change)✨🧐

[raycardomcquirter]

Kind of a morbid reason but that's why I love it

[LilAnonomus]

This has been my biggest question that I felt nobody was asking. Though I used to think that grace wasn't necessarily tied to the Greater Will or the Erdtree since we still revive after the tree burns down, and we still have it even when we're doing stuff the Greater Will probably wouldn't like, like getting the Flame of Frenzy. I guess the reason we still have grace even when we're clearly working against the Greater Will is that it's just that desperate for a successor and we seem to be the only possible candidate so it'll hold out hope that we could change our mind at the last second because either way the world is lost to them. When the Two fingers at the Roundtable "go silent" and we're told it could take millenia for an answer that's the Greater Will basically giving up on The Lands Between and going "don't bother us with this anymore unless you have an Elden Lord."

[prestongiles]

"Oh no, I have been stabbed in multiple places by those wierd menorah lookin' things the Albinaurics wield! I am slain!"

Greater Will: CLEAR! *Grace defib*

[Nkemjo]

I like to think the 2 fingers refers to 2 on the mouse pad buttons and back in the day you would have 1 finger each on w a and d on the keyboard. Hence the 2 fingers and 3 fingers who are outer gods who influence the tarnished (we use our hands to control the player tarnished). I always thought it was a sly joke by the dev team 😂