Proof of Marika's Ruthlessness: in-Game Clues and Lore Descriptions Unearthed

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Marika's cold pragmatism did not stop at the edges of the veiled realm. Within Leyndell, she institutionalized absolute conformity. The Hornsent traits that once terrorized her people, sprouting horns, scales, and chaotic feathers, began emerging among her own children in the Lands Between. Instead of showing maternal warmth, she labeled them "Omens."

She ripped the horns from ordinary newborn Omens, killing most in infancy, and cast highborn royal Omens like Morgott and Mohg into the rat-infested subterranean sewers to live in chains. Her cruelty grew so severe that she fractured herself, birthing or absorbing Radagon, an unbending champion of Golden Order fundamentalism who had zero tolerance for deviance.

When her firstborn golden son Godwyn was murdered during the Night of the Black Knives, Marika finally broke. She shattered the Elden Ring not out of a sudden love for humanity, but because the rigid, inescapable system she engineered had finally turned inward, consuming her favorite child. Even then, her final decree before being impaled inside the Erdtree was ruthless: she banished the Tarnished, stripped them of grace, and told them to wage endless war in foreign lands until they returned to kill her demigod children for power.