Malenia

Malenia was born the child of Queen Marika and her second husband the Elden Lord Radagon. Malenia was afflicted with the Scarlet Rot which ravaged her from within and would cost her several limbs while Miquella was cursed with eternal childhood unable to ever grow into adulthood. At some point Malenia encountered a blind swordsman who had sealed away an Outer God of Rot. The swordsman became her master and trained her in the ways of the blade. Malenia would eventually become a warrior without peer. Malenia and Miquella were close and Malenia would become her brothers sworn blade and protector while Miquella worked tirelessly to try and undo the curses they had both been born into. While unable to find a cure for his sister Miquella designed a needle of unalloyed gold that could keep the Scarlet Rot ravaging Malenias body at bay. After the Shattering Malenia and Miquella both claimed shards of the broken Elden Ring. During the wars between the demigods which followed the Shattering Malenia led an army that marched south from the Haligtree. Malenia won many battles even humbling fellow demigod and shardbearer Godrick the Grafted who groveled at her feet for mercy. She attracted loyal servants like her Cleanrot Knights as well as worshippers who believed her a goddess. Malenia and her halfbrother Radahn would eventually be the last two demigods left standing in the conflict. Their forces clashed in the Caelid Wilds and the two fought a bitter duel for supremacy. Malenia was unable to overcome her mighty halfbrother with skill alone and in desperation unleashed the Scarlet Rot within her. The blooming of the Scarlet Rot devastated Caelid leaving it a rotting wasteland and caused Radahn to rapidly degenerate losing his wits and cursing him to wander the battlefield as a mindless beast feasting on the bodies of friend and foe alike. Malenia herself was not unaffected. Unleashing the Scarlet Rot left her in a coma. She was rescued by one of her Cleanrot Knights Finlay and brought to the Haligtree to await her brothers rebirth as he had encased himself within the Haligtree in an effort to reverse his curse. However during Malenias slumber Miquella was ripped from the womb of the tree by Mohg Lord of Blood before he could emerge from his cocoon. While Malenia slept the Scarlet Rot seeped out from her and began infecting the Haligtree. When she had blossomed in Caelid she had inadvertently birthed the Kindred of Rot who worshipped her as a goddess and hoped to cause her to bloom once again believing that she would usher in a new age of rot. Malenias slumber was eventually disturbed by a Tarnished champion who found their way to the roots of the Haligtree. The two fought and Malenia finally met her match and suffered her first true defeat. However rather than surrender Malenia gave in to the Scarlet Rot and blossomed yet again reborn as a nascent goddess. She unleashed her full fury against the invader but would fall short yet again her dying words an apology to her vanished brother.