11 Works in Tarnished Needs a Hug (Elden Ring)
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Death.
Death was always with Reed, even if he wasn’t a particularly violent person.
He chased death, he ran away from death… yet death was always a step further, always out of reach, always unavoidable.
Always won… until one decision changed everything.A.k.a: A different take on NG+ with a tarnished who is trying his best to get a better ending.
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Echoes of the Shattered Lands - Lost Grace Found by luoren_2568
Fandoms: Elden Ring (Video Game), Shadow of the Erdtree DLC
23 Oct 2025
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No living being exists within nor near the holy metropolis, not without the crippling emotion of despair for The Land Between’s devastation. Save for one.
A Lord. An Elden Lord.
Words piece together in their mind, floating and translucent as it whispers quietly, like a lullaby -
“...passing flash… if the stars… command the fates of the gods… consumed… mere humans…”Fate...
Fate?
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Love, Grace, and the Awful Woman Who Married My Tarnished by WideAssAirVents
Fandoms: Elden Ring (Video Game)
15 Oct 2025
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Torrent wants to go home.
Their Age of Stars has saved the Lands Between, but Ranni and her consort left too much unfinished. Ranni volunteers to visit their home to see how things are going, and the couple put together a list. It's not a short list. Ranni will try to find Blaidd, check on Tanith, make sure Boc found his way to their friends, and many other things. And, of course, Ranni's wife is still tortured by frenzied burns. She must find a cure for that. It's a good plan, simple, and afterwards they can resume their secret journey with no regrets tying them down.
Unfortunately, the worst excesses of the golden order and the outer gods survive in a place that almost none remember. Its inhabitants are kind, and their leader seeks peace, but chaos stalks their steps. Luckily, there is one who can help! Her wife's... close friend. Melina. The woman her wife burned herself alive to save. This journey will be the death of her, after all. -
A Moon-loving Tarnished's journey by Justanothertarnished
Fandoms: Elden Ring (Video Game)
06 Oct 2025
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The Tarnished wakes up after his "time out" in the badlands with a new goal: Becoming Elden Lord.
But this goal appears to shift as he travels and meets more and more people.
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The Lands Between were cruel.
Endless suffering. A cycle of pain, death, and revival. Death meant little when one arose not too long after perishing. There was nothing but hatred in the Lands Between.
Callahan should know. Tarnished, they called him. Graceless. Even as Callahan started gathering the shattered Runes of the Elden Ring, his victories were hardly celebrated. Not even by him, for those victories did not come easily. Countless deaths– meaningless deaths– paved the road to becoming Elden Lord.
The Elden Ring was restored, but it only brought an Age of Fracture.
For years, the Tarnished Elden Lord ruled unchallenged. Things improved for some time, but ruling while inexperienced and uncaring of the finer unwritten laws of the nobles, it was only a matter of time before they rose against the one who had claimed the Elden Ring.
They were not aware that Destined Death and Time danced around Callahan as it did on Farum Azula. For Destined Death remained broken and unwhole, and until it was mended, no one would die a true death.
-In which a weary Tarnished travels to a time where the Lord of Destined Death is yet to rise.
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- Part 7 of Mar's Writes Rare Pairs
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Time gets loopy and every single version of the Tarnished combines and it messes him up in the head. He finds his way to Messmer, determined to make him face his inevitable abandonment and lack of purpose.
The pair eventually learn to rely on each other and more.
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The journey of two tarnished who meet by chance, and travel through the lands between, searching for something to believe in.
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Haydn gestures fruitlessly, any eloquence escaping him. “This used to be… easy. And now it’s not easy. I can’t think what I’ve done or said to warrant this cold shoulder I’m getting, so if you could just tell me instead of making me guess, I’d really appreciate it.”
The directness seems to put the Omen on the spot. “That – it is – there is no upset.”
He heaves a sigh, “Come on, don’t do this to me. I’d apologise if I knew what I was apologising for. Just tell me.”
Margit looks at him.
“Thou art too attached,” he says at last.
Tarnished wants to be closer to Margit the Fell, while Margit wants to keep the faith-shaking distraction at arm's length. But a botched attempt to infiltrate Volcano Manor will throw both their plans into disarray.
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- Part 4 of Unstoppable Force | Immovable Object
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“To be birthed from Nothing at the behest of another’s dream…”
Never, a knight of Nothing and Nowhere, is awoken from death and called by grace to return to the shattered remains of the Lands Between as Tarnished. However, she finds she remembers little of the lands and even littler of herself and must venture forth to uncover both the memories that were stripped from her and the truth hidden behind a path paved by gold.
Navigating surreal dreams of the stars, and haunted by the echoes of a love long ago, she soon remembers a promise made and must fight between the influence of the Outer Gods and her own reason of existence.
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Maliketh the Black Blade lives in hiding. Under a ragged clergyman's habit and the name of Gurranq, he tends to a small sanctum. Yet he isn't alone. For an age and more, through wars and insanity, he has kept someone special at his side.