after exiting the Stranded Graveyard you see a masked man at the end of a hill, right infront of a lost grace, as you approach him he speaks

"Oh, yes... Tarnished, are we? Come to the Lands Between for the Elden Ring, hmm? Of course you have. No shame in it. Unfortunately for you, however, you are maidenless. Without guidance, without the strength of runes, and without an invitation to the Roundtable Hold... You are fated, it seems, to die in obscurity."