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   To Perish or Not to Perish, That Is the Question by Tsk3003

   Fandoms: Elden Ring (Video Game)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   28 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Messmer the Impaler/Tarnished (Elden Ring)
   • Messmer the Impaler (Elden Ring)/Reader
   • Messmer the Impaler (Elden Ring)
   • Tarnished (Elden Ring)
   • Queen Marika the Eternal (Elden Ring)
   • Starscourge Radahn (Elden Ring)
   • Gaius (Elden Ring)
   • Rellana Twin Moon Knight (Elden Ring)
   • Miquella (Elden Ring)
   • Malenia Blade of Miquella (Elden Ring)
   • Romance
   • Angst and Tragedy
   • Eventual Smut
   • Some noncanon things because the game is up to interpretation
   • comedy at some points
   • Trauma
   • Mild Gore
   • DARK DARK DARK
   • Developing Friendships
   • Rivalry
   • First Child Syndrome
   • Spoilers
   • mainly based on DLC
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort

   Summary

   You were sent to the Shadow Realm for reasons Queen Marika wouldn’t disclose. Stripped of Grace, you make a deal with Messmer the Impaler that in order to delay your death by his flames, you will find a way to lessen the burden of his ‘curse’ and help the suffering shamans. Along the way you two will find friendship in each other, and eventually have an unbreakable bond between a son of a god and a Tarnished stripped of light. But Messmer will never let it become something more, because it will mean to abandon his duty.

   And to abandon his duty will mean abandoning his mother.

    

   “Then, if Your Grace allows it, I can help you lessen the burden. In exchange, if you ever find the need to perish me by your flames…please grant me a whole day to outrun you.”

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   English

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