Long ago, the primordial Erdtree had been abundant and prosperous, shedding blessed dew that nourished all living things equally. Though that golden age vanished in the blink of an eye, as fleeting as any life, it had once been an era of abundance and equality.
However...
At some point, the age of abundance came to an abrupt end. The Greater Will sent a golden Meteor, along with a Beast—the Elden Beast—to the Lands Between. The Elden Beast gradually evolved into the enormous Erdtree.
According to legend, when the Erdtree was still not so tall, in the age of the primordial Crucible of Life, life took all kinds of forms, and there was no distinction between them.
It was also during that time that the Fingers sent by the Greater Will to the Lands Between to govern the world—the Two Fingers and the Three Fingers—were still part of the same hand. They had appeared in the era when the Erdtree was still the Crucible of Life.
Alas, "brothers at odds within the walls" seemed to apply in this world, too. Even within the same hand, great disputes and disagreements arose over the future development of the world. The hand began to fight and split apart. In the end, the Two Fingers won, while the Three Fingers were sealed away in the depths of the Deeproot Depths. After that, the Two Fingers guided the dynasty from the Roundtable Hold in the capital, ushering the Lands Between into the age of the Erdtree, which had continued to this day.
But...
A certain troublesome little girl knew nothing about those rumors, true or false, and she didn't care. All she knew was that the Three Fingers seemed to be somewhere beneath the capital, and she had come to cause trouble for them. Whether they