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The round staircase is dull and dark, with only the light from the lamps, but that too hardly lit up the stairs. The steps of the three echoed in the staircase; they gradually reached the end of the staircase and ended up in the arc-hallway. Nepheli said in a bit of frustration, "Why are there so many hallways here?", to which Ruox replied, "Even I do not know, this castle is here from even before my great-grandfather was a kid, who knows how many centuries it has been and who made it and how."
They travel through the hallway, and Roux said, "Just past the hallway, there is the entrance to the Throne Room."
Nepheli asked, "By the way, tarnished, you must have seen the throne room before, right?" Tarnished just nodded, and Ruox got confused and asked, "Wait, you have seen the throne room before? How?"
Nepheli said, "Well, of course, he has seen, he is the butcher of the roundtable after all. He was the one who slew Godrick."
Ruox exclaimed in shock, "B-Butcher Of The RoundTable?, but I heard he is no less than a bloodthirsty mon-..." He realized he was a "I-I am sorry, but I never thought of The Butcher Of RoundTable as a wise man, such as sir."
Tarnished said, "Enough, enough.. I don't mind what anyone calls me. It is one who decides what they are... not others."
Just as they finished talking, they arrived at the end of the hallway and found a small garden leading to a large gate made of wood and iron. The garden had many weapons impaled in the ground, likely from fallen warriors and soldiers. There was a dead body of a dragon on the statue with its head missing.
Tarnished got a quick flashback of the time of his fight with Godrick. Then, Tarnished was just a beginner and had to face great difficulty and fell countless times while fighting him, but his undead nature kept bringing him back to life.
Tarnished and Ruox pushed open the gate to the throne room together. The Throne Room was dusty and had a creepy vibe to its environment.
Ruox said, "This is it, the throne room. I, as a captain, do not have permission to enter, but I will wait for you both out here. May Truth Guide Thee."
Nepheli said, "We will be back, once we find what we are looking for, that is." Ruox smiled a small bit and looked at Tarnished, who just gave a nod of agreement.
Ruox turns back and stands guard at the door, and both Tarnished and Nepheli disappear inside the murk of the Throne room.
As both of them are in the heart of the Throne room, Tarnished looked around and said, "Doesn't this seem odd?"
Nepheli said, "Ruox?? he isn't that suspicious you know." Tarnished look and ceiling and said, "Not him.. I mean this place... isn't this too weird?"
Tarnished walk toward a murky brown throne with symbols carved on its back rest which was placed in the middle of the room and said while circling it, "Like why is the throne in the very middle of the room?" and he look behind throne at walls and said, "What is up with these statues? who are those even?"
Tarnished's eyes were stuck with a statue of a woman crucified, which was placed in the middle of two other statues. Nepheli said in excitement, "Oh, I know, they are the most important figures of the Golden Order. On the left is the first Elden Lord Godfrey, on the right is the second Elden Lord Radagon and in the middle is the one and only Queen Marika The Eternal, but I thought you should have known about them"
Tarnished said "I know about them, but I haven't seen them before, Even Marika's church didn't have statues with her face intact."
but Tarnished kept looking at statue of Marika and Nepheli noticed that and asked, "Something wrong?"
Tarnished said, "That face, I believe I have seen it somewhere before."
Nepheli said in a joking tone, "Pfft.. don't joke around, she was sealed inside ErdTree long before we were brough back to life. You must have seen her statue in a church."
Tarnished said, "Whatever, let us find the map," and walked into the other section of the throne room on the left, which had a ladder going down.
Tarnished said, "I will look down, you search the Throne area." Nepheli nodded and said, "Sure, why not? Call me if you find anything... stone face."
Tarnished nod, his expression didn't change even now, just like a stone face. Nepheli goes back to the Throne Area and starts her search, and Tarnished starts to go down the ladder, but as he was descending the ladder, his gaze fell on the statue of Marika again; and he felt a sharp pain in his temples and head, which disappeared as fast as it appeared.
But what was intense than pain was the sense of déjà vu, he was sure he had seen her somewhere for sure, but he could not remember. He can not even remember his name, which is why he is called by the title 'Tarnished' even now, unlike other tarnished who retain their memories before their death. He has no identity, he remembers.
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why do you guys thinks Tarnished feels déjà vu??? tell me in comments ;)