It had happened long ago, before Zhao Si arrived in the Lands Between.
On a cold winter night, Marika lay quietly asleep on her shell-shaped stone bed, bathed as usual in the light of the Erdtree.
As the only goddess of the Lands Between, she had a dream. She dreamed of all the things that had happened before.
When she was still a little girl, she lived in the Eternal City.
The Eternal City was vast, with water flowing around it, making it look like a city built on water.
These Numen had chosen a plateau in the Lands Between because it offered enough space and a clear view of the night sky. Aside from these practical reasons, their choice also had to do with their mission.
The huge, bright moon and the sky full of stars brought a little comfort to the Numen living in a foreign land.
Those far from home always missed their homeland.
Marika did not quite understand why their branch had come to this place called the Lands Between.
She only knew that they said they had been guided here, and that they were willing to believe in the Stars. In their eyes, the moon was the largest "star," the head of the Stars, ruling over all the others.
Following the moon to the Lands Between had been the right choice.
Here, they had found their mission: tending the Erdtree sapling.
An unknown number of years ago, the Greater Will had cast the seed of the Erdtree and the Elden Beast into the Lands Between.
This would become the origin of everything.
Young Marika did not quite understand what that meant. She simply went to the forbidden grounds of the Eternal City every day, leaning over the wall to gaze at the Erdtree sapling from