Goldmask

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	~ Goldmask's usual response when interacting with The Tarnished.

The Ever-Brillant Goldmask, or simply Goldmask, is a supporting character in the 2022 RPG-action video game Elden Ring. He is a wise and legendary scholar and Golden Order fundamentalist of unknown origin, who is well-known for his studies on the Golden Order.

After receiving the grace of gold, he travelled to the Lands Between to begin his research and study on the Golden Order's current and imperfect state, leading him to seek to "perfect" the Golden Order and bring true order in his own way. Completing his questline will allow the Tarnished to achieve the Age of Order ending.

His vocal effects were provided by Ryan Morris.

Appearance[]

Goldmask appears as a slightly tall, thin and gaunt person, with charcoal skin and a golden sun-shaped mask over his face.

Personality[]

Goldmask is an enigmatic individual who is mostly silent (though he often can be heard breathing), and prefers to communicate via body language and changing his position to random areas of the Lands Between, though he doesn't really appear to communicate often. As a result, not everyone understands his motives and idealism. Despite this, he is an eminent scholar who seeks to fulfill his idea of a "perfect" Golden Order, believing that its current state and imperfection is the result of the fickleness of the Gods and had come to conclude that they are no better than men.

Because of this conclusion, Goldmask became ambitious in restoring order by bringing forth his own "perfected" version of the Golden Order, though this led him to lose the support of his loyal disciple Corhyn, who would denounce his own master as a madman and a heretic for his ideologies and suspicion regarding the Golden Order's holism.

Biography[]

Nothing is known of Goldmask's origins nor his real name, but what is known is that he is a Tarnished scholar and a staunch fundamentalist of the Golden Order. Having predicted the guidance of grace and being beckoned by it, this led him to travel to the Lands Between to contemplate the Golden Order.

Despite being a Golden Order fundamentalist, Goldmask is opposing towards the hunters who hunt Those Who Live in Death, lamenting of their current state and that their learnedness had been reduced to fanatical raving, believing that all the good and the great wanted, in their foolishness, was an absolute evil to contend with, which Goldmask believed didn't exist as a concept in the Golden Order.

While he is busy contemplating the Erdtree in Altus Plateau, he was approached by Brother Corhyn, a cleric of the Golden Order, who wished to travel with him, and Corhyn took it upon himself to become the scholar's disciple and documentarian, such as having to chronicle his wisdom and decipher the meaning of Goldmask's movements, which the latter changes every minute. Reaching the royal capital of Leyndell, Goldmask suddenly became perplexed by the identity of Radagon, a great champion with flowing locks of red hair and the husband of Queen Rennala of the Full Moon, the former ruler of the Academy of Raya Lucaria and the head of the Carian Royal Family.

Radagon's existence caused Goldmask to question the principle that Queen Marika the Eternal, the sovereign and divine ruler of the Lands Between, is the one true god. Because he is confounded by this, he ceased all movement and became still. After receiving some help from a Tarnished of no renown, Goldmask learns the revelation that Radagon is Queen Marika herself, as they are in fact a single being and they share the same body as one. Having learned of this truth, Goldmask and Corhyn continued to travel the Lands Between before stopping at the Mountaintops of the Giants.

There, Goldmask suddenly became suspicious regarding the Golden Order's holism, which Corhyn denounced as an act of heresy. Though he continues his service to Goldmask, he has started to lose faith in his master and even began doubting him. While still doing his service, Corhyn eventually became wracked with doubt.

Death[]

Later, after the Tarnished sets the Erdtree on fire, following their defeat of Maliketh, the Black Blade and the releasing of the Rune of Death, Corhyn, losing his mind, had now lost faith and he denounced Goldmask as nothing more than a madman who rejects the Golden Order's perfection and is seeking to replace it with his own "perfected" version of order.

Dead Goldmask — Goldmask's corpse with the Mending Rune of Perfect Order.

As he had returned to Leyndell while the Erdtree burns, Goldmask discovers a mending rune and apparently modified it based on his transcendental ideology on true order. Having reached enlightenment, he eventually died from an unknown cause. Upon finding his corpse, the Tarnished can obtain the Mending Rune of Perfect Order, which can allow them to perfect the Golden Order and fulfill Goldmask's legacy, thus bringing forth the Age of Order.