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The Tarnished) is first and foremost the player's character in Elden Ring who must go through tough rigors and mortal challenges throughout the story. The term Tarnished does also apply to characters other than the player character however, as they and the player are "individuals who lost the grace of the Erdtree and were consequently banished from the Lands Between by Queen Marika the Eternal. Following the breaking of the Elden Ring, the Tarnished were beckoned by lost grace, fragmentary divine light from the Erdtree, to return." Tarnished are thus anyone beckoned by ambition and blessed by grace, who quest for the Elden Ring; to become Elden Lord. This great endeavor involves countless struggles, deaths and mortal battles against demigods, bearers of Great Runes, a well as fellow Tarnished.
In layman terms, that means fighting great enemies, bosses, and even other players.