Godwyn the Golden was a demigod and son of Queen Marika the Eternal and Godfrey, First Elden Lord. In the Night of Black Knives, he was murdered by the Black Knife Assassins with the use of daggers imbued with a fragment of the Rune of Death.
Godwyn was the son of Queen Marika the Eternal and her consort and first Elden Lord, Godfrey, making him a scion of the so-called "Golden Lineage", of which Godrick the Grafted was the final descendant.[1]
During his mother's reign, the Erdtree came under assault by the Dragons,[2] who had ruled the world before Marika's ascent. The forces of the Erdtree managed to triumph against the dragons, with Godwyn prevailing against the dreaded Fortissax, earning the mighty dragon's friendship in the process.[3]
This friendship between former foes led to the establishment of the capital’s Ancient Dragon Cult,[4] in which Leyndell Knights could learn dragon incantations. Fortissax’s own sister, the dragon Lansseax, took the form of a human to commune with the knights as a priestess of the cult.[5] The cult was allowed within the Golden Order since its seal, and light