The Tarnished are people who once lived in the Lands Between under the light of the Erdtree, but were exiled and stripped of that light - the game calls it losing "grace." Being Tarnished isn't a species or a title so much as a punishment: at some point in the past, these people were sent away and lost their connection to the Erdtree's guidance, along with any hope of dying a real death. When the ...
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