Lord of Blasphemy Rykard

Rykard was born the son of Radagon, a champion of the Erdtree, and Queen Rennala, head of both the Carian Royal Family and the Academy of Raya Lucaria. He had two siblings, Radahn and Ranni. At some point, the first Elden Lord, Godfrey, was robbed of grace and hounded from the Lands Between. Rykard's father, Radagon, left Rennala to become Queen Marika's new consort and the second Elden Lord. Rykard and his siblings were thus raised to demigods by their new stepmother, Marika. Under the Golden Order, Rykard was a ruthless justiciar who commanded a company of inquisitors. His inquisitors persecuted and mercilessly tortured those considered heretics to the Golden Order, such as the Albinaurics. He spent time in the volcanic Mt. Gelmir, where he discovered the ancient magma hexes of a forgotten serpent-worshiping religion native to the region, which he brought back into practical use as new sorceries. Rykard also travelled to a foreign land where he encountered a dancer by the name of Tanith, who he would eventually take as his consort. Rykard was also known for the construction of the Iron Virgins, automatons which were capable of both battlefield carnage and abducting victims to transport them to the Volcano Manor. At some point during the Shattering, Rykard fed himself, Great Rune and all, to the blasphemous serpent that dwelled inside Mt. Gelmir, an ancient traitor to the Erdtree, merging with the creature. In the final moments before being devoured, he briefly had a vision of the future wherein he witnessed a serpent devouring the world. Following this, his lofty ambition degraded into gluttonous depravity. He fed on his greatest champions, and in the bowels of the serpent, they became the lord's family. Disturbed by what had become of their master and by the costly battles waged in his name, Rykard's forces abandoned him. Some attempted to put him to rest by searching for a mighty weapon capable of killing their lord. Such a weapon was found in the Serpent-Hunter, an enchanted spear crafted to hunt an immortal serpent in the distant past. However, all attempts made to take his life failed. The spear would come to reside in Rykard's chambers, left by a former Recusant who hoped a worthy champion might one day appear to wield it and spare the once-noble Rykard from further dishonor.

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When Rykard gave himself to the elder serpent, the birth of the man-serpents followed, the deformed offspring of a repellent birthing ritual. One such man-serpent, known as Zorayas, would go on to be adopted by Tanith, and learn to assume an illusory human form in which she went by Rya. She was unaware of the origins of her birth, as Tanith concealed the truth of the Volcano Manor from her and insisted she was born of the grace of a king.

(Source: Elden Ring Wiki)