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The Carian Royal Family was a faction in Elden Ring.
Overview[]
Members of the Carian Royal Family were prolific magic users and erstwhile heads of the Academy of Raya Lucaria, who were famous for developing their own glintstone sorceries.[1] They originated from the mist-laden region in the west of the Lands Between, known as Liurnia of the Lakes.
The Carian Royal Family would reach its peak under Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon. In her youth, she was a prominent champion who would go on to charm the academy with her lunar magic, becoming its master. She also led the Glintstone Knights and established the house of Caria as royalty.[2]
Background[]
The Carian Royals have always been closely associated with the western coast of Liurnia,[3] which is the location of their estate, the Caria Manor, as well as the Three Sisters region immediately behind it. Another location of importance was the Carian Study Hall, a large library in eastern Liurnia that connects to the region's Divine Tower.[4]
The Carian royals were served by magic preceptors notable for large hats with the movements of the stars drawn on the inside of the brim,[5] as well as on their bright blue gowns.[6] All glintstone sorcerers are the descendants of astrologers, a fact that the Carians remained aware of.[5] The astrologers preceded the sorcerers and had established themselves in mountaintops that nearly touched the sky, and considered the Fire Giants their neighbors.[7] They would read fate in the stars, but alas, the night sky no longer cradles fate.[8]
However, the Carian royal family were mostly known for the famous enchanted knights that served them. These enchanted knights, anointed by the Lunar Queen, were heroes of the highest honors,[9] and served as direct retainers to the kingdom's princesses.[10] Their swords were embedded with blue glintstone, and could serve as catalysts, letting them wield sorcerous battle skills. Despite numbering fewer than twenty, this power made them a match for even the champions of gold in battle.[11] They combined this art with their swordsmanship to maintain pressure upon their foes, striking in waves of steel and sorcery.[12] The Carian knights never wavered, and even had sorceries that could alleviate the buildup of sleep or madness.[13] There were also enchanted troll knights among their number, comrades of young Rennala, bound by oath.[14] They were called into service when the Queen invoked an oath they swore. These trolls were treated as true knights of Caria, and would fight arm in arm with their human comrades.[15]
The famous Loretta was once a royal Carian knight,[16] and served as a personal guard to Carian royalty.[17] Despite fighting mounted and using a war sickle, her favored weapon was said to be the bow, and she developed sorceries imitating the power of a greatbow.[18] She would leave her service in search of a haven for Albinaurics,[19] but an apparition of her remains to defend Caria Manor to this day. Several Albinauric mages, such as Pidia, remained as servants to the Carian Royal family,[20] seemingly facing less persecution there then in other parts of the Lands Between.
The oldest sorcery devised by the Carians would conjure an enemy-seeking glintblade, and it would serve as a prototype for more enhanced sword-phalanx sorceries wielded by royal enchanted knights.[21] They also created sorceries that would conjure magic swords that could sweep, slice and pierce their enemies. Some sorceries were said to have been taught to them by the enigmatic Crystalians, to mark the swearing of an old concord.[22]
Due to the influence of the Carians,[23] the Lazuli Conspectus would eventually developed in the Academy. The scholars of this conspectus sought to master Carian sorcery, and viewed the moon as equal to the stars.[24] This would be seen as a heterodox pursuit, or even outright heresy,[25] by their colleagues at the academy.
History[]
When Queen Marika the Eternal established her new Age of the Erdtree, she dispatched a champion known as Radagon to lead her armies against the lands of Liurnia. Not much was known about Radagon before he joined the ranks in the Liurnian Wars,[26] but he was seen as a great champion with flowing red locks, and he would lead a great golden host to Liurnia, where he would meet Rennala in battle.[27]
Radagon would fight two wars against Rennala and the Academy,[28] both of which saw no clear victor.[29] Instead, Radagon eventually repented his territorial aggressions by cleansing himself with Celestial Dew,[30] swore his love to Rennala and became the husband of the Carian Queen.[31]
He married her at the Church of Vows,[32] and it would be this matrimonial union, and reconciliation between the houses of the Erdtree and the Full Moon[33] that would eventually have grave consequences for the Carians, as it was during the age of the Erdtree, that Carian astrology withered on the vine, as the fate once writ in the night skies had been fettered by the Golden Order.[34]
Rennala would bequeath Radagon with a greatsword,[35] to honor a long standing tradition in which a Moon Greatsword is bestowed by a Carian queen upon her spouse.[36] Upon entering into marriage with Rennala and joining the Carian line,[37] Radagon would order Carian magic preceptors to don masks of confidence, to make it clear that all of their matters were to be kept strictly private.[38] While husband to Rennala, he studied glintstone sorcery taught at the Academy.[39] Together, Radagon and Rennala would go on to have three children: Radahn, Rykard, and Ranni.
After Godfrey, the first Elden Lord, was hounded from the Lands Between, Radagon left Rennala to become the second husband and King Consort of Queen Marika, and would receive the title of second Elden Lord.[40] Queen Marika made Radagon's and Rennala's children her demigod stepchildren.[41] When Radagon left, Rennala's heart left with him.[42] Realizing their heartbroken queen was no champion at all, the Academy rebelled against the Carian royal family and Rennala would find herself under the assault of her own students, who would eventually lock her away in the grand library.[43]
Liurnia would descend into civil war, with the Carians and their retainers on one side,[44] and the Academy and its Knights of the Cuckoo on the other.[45] The soldiers of Raya Lucaria were known as the Cuckoos, as their symbol was a peering cuckoo bird, the bird's shrewd gaze an expression of their refusal to be mere servants of the academy.[46] They were given free rein by the scholars of the academy to wage war as they pleased, and they were infamous for their rapacious ways.[47] The Knights of the Cuckoo would use "faux sorceries"[48] and would be taught lesser spells by the academy as payment for their contract.[49][50] Meanwhile, the Carian royal family had secretly been preparing against the disloyalty of the academy by devising sorceries that could dispel incoming spells and retaliate with glintblades. The moon and stars would go their separate ways.[51]
The war would eventually lead to the siege of Caria Manor.[52] The Carians were taken of guard, but their strength had not yet fully waned, and they managed to repel the onslaught by conjuring a powerful enchanted snare that remains potent to this day.[53]
Current Events[]
As the Lands Between fell into disarray, the last Carian Princess, Ranni,[54] made her way back to her family's ancestral home, where she would gather her allies and vassals in order to set her own plans into motion.[55] Her vassals included her faithful shadow, the Half-Wolf Blaidd,[56] her families old troll blacksmith Iji, who was now her war counsellor,[57] as well as Seluvis, a preceptor in the sorcerous arts.[58] She also won the loyalty of Glintstone Dragon Adula who swore a knightly oath to her and now guards the path to her tower.[59] The Tarnished can join the group and eventually become her consort as she ushers in her Age of the Stars.
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