The Night of the Black Knives

Lore

In an event that would come to be known as the Night of Black Knives, a group of assassins, all of them Numen women and associates of Marika, fell upon the Royal Capital. Wielding weapons imbued with the power of Destined Death, stolen from Maliketh, the assassins slew several demigods before the attack could be thwarted. The first to fall was Marika's first-born, Godwyn the Golden.
Some time after this, Marika finally turned against The Greater Will. She lifted her hammer and shattered The Elden Ring; while Radagon simultaneously tried, and failed, to repair it. Unable to remove Marika as its vessel, the Greater Will imprisoned her in The Erdtree along with Radagon, the two bound together in a single body.
Fragments of the ring splintered into Great Runes and spread across The Lands Between, starting a conflict between her demigod children to determine who would be Marika's successor. War after war was fought, but there would be no victor. And even in shackles, Marika would remain a god.
True to her promise to Godfrey and his warriors, Marika restored grace to the banished Tarnished. They would rise from their graves, and journey to the Lands Between to once again brandish the Elden Ring. The Tarnished formed the Roundtable Hold, where they worked to realize the goal given them by Marika. The tarnished would be served by the blacksmith Hewg whom Marika had charged with smithing a "god-slaying weapon" before his imprisonment inside Roundtable Hold.