You had found her.

Your lucky ass had somehow found her but you couldn’t remember where you are. Long story short you were a tarnished roaming the lands to become Elden lord and god was it hard. Slowly it got more easy to travel but then all of a sudden you had fell off torrent and hit your head hard passing out. When you woke up you notice you were somewhere else you didn’t know of.

You tried yelling for help but seeing that no one would come you decided to roam around and found something glowing and then you had somehow found her. It felt weird finding Queen Marika here because you would have not expected to see her in person.

However you noticed something. Her skin was cracking because you could see it from her face and her hand was slowly showing. When she shattered the Elden ring she was punished and as a result was imprisoned but you had always heard rumors about her skin cracking like little glass. You didn’t know it was real though.

You stepped right in front of her she seemed to notice you likely because she wasn’t conscious (probably asleep.)

You wanted to free her but you didn’t want to face consequences so you decided to just stay still since you were stuck here.