When Marika broke the Elden Ring, her other half Radagon fought to fix it. But with each swing of the hammer, his body cracked and crumbled as the Ring shattered in his hands. By the time we face him, he's a husk with writhing shadows standing where his limbs once lay, mindlessly attempting to restore the irreparable Golden Order.
Queen Marika is the vessel of the Elden Ring, carrier of its vision. A god, in truth. But after the Elden Ring's shattering, she was imprisoned in the Erdtree.
Radagon was described as once being a brave warrior with "flaming red hair", and statues littered throughout the game depict him as a stoic, steadfast character, standing proudly in the determined pose of the Golden Order, arms to his sides.
These depictions we hear about across The Lands Between are a far cry from the shambling ruin we eventually find, and so one fan has attempted to model Radagon as he was before the Shattering, restoring him to his former glory.
As this is a FromSoftware game, we arrive amid a crumbling civilisation far past its prime. Radagon isn't the only one to fall from glory. His other half Marika has been...