The player turned to find the incantation teacher named D.
D: "You met Fia?"
"Hmph. I'd advise you to stay away from her. In my personal opinion, no one who gets close to the Death Knights comes to a good end."
The player selected: [Death Knights?]
D gave a contemptuous sneer. "They are the knights of Godwyn, the Eldest Prince... That said, the Eldest Prince has been missing for many years. They're nothing but madmen chasing death."
The player selected: [Chasing death?]
D: "Yes. Under the Erdtree's blessing, death was once a distant word to the Golden Ones. But the prince betrayed his bloodline... Since then, even gold has had a time limit called a lifespan."
D: "Those madmen have been searching for a way to eliminate immortality. Hah. Absurd."
The player selected: [Eliminate immortality?]
D: "Ah... It's too tragic. In this age, the strong enjoy long lives, with death far removed from them. Yet the weak reach the end of their natural lives in less than a hundred years. How unfair is that?"
The player pondered this. That was quite a lot of information.
According to D, were the people of the Lands Between originally immortal? Was it only after Godwyn, the Eldest Prince, did something that the concept of a "lifespan" came into being?
And the length of that lifespan depended on strength? The strong lived longer, while the weak couldn't even live a hundred years?
The player remembered what the Tracker had said: "You only have one life."
Only one life... Was that because the Tarnished weren't Golden Ones? Or was having only one life the price of entering the Thousand-Year Contest?
*The Death Knights could enter Roundtable Hold, which meant they were Tarnished too. The Duchess had once said that the Tarnished were people who had