expanding on other characters, starting with the dragons, placidusax was the former elden lord, even before marika, and had his own form of the greater will. a sculpture inside of malikeths arena even implies that the elden ring looked different in the era if dragons. the dragons ruled over the floating city of farum azula with little to no problems until the birth of bayle the dread. (CURSE YOU BAYLE I HEARBY VOW YOU WILL RUE THIS DAY BEHOLD A TRUE DRAKE WARRIOR AND I IGON SOLID OF SCALE YOU MIGHT BE FOUL DRAGON BUT I WILL RIDDLE WITH HOLES YOUR ROTTEN HIDE WITH A HAIL OF HARPOONS WITH EVERY LAST DROP OF MY BEING) bayle the dread was the progenitor of the modern dragons. pretty much their father. bayle and placidusax didnt get along very well because he was a modern dragon, lacking the stone scales that made the ancent dragons immortal. bayle led a tyrannical seige of farum azula whoch ended in a stalemate, with bayle retreating to the land of shadow, and placidusax remaining in farum azula. placidusax would create th dragon cult to hunt down bayles kin and devour their hearts for power. but none could slay the dreaded one. not even the dragon lord himself.