'Garb with a modest cloth cape attached. Standard wear for commoners of the Lands Between. The board hung from the neck depicts a sprawling tree, its roots and branches forming two holes. This is a self-imposed shame.' The Commoners are the canon's silent majority : the everyday people of the Lands Between who are NOT Tarnished, NOT demigods, NOT knights or sorcerers. Their garb is plain. Their religion is the Erdtree. Their token of identification is a small wooden board hung from the neck, painted with the Erdtree's image, a self-imposed shame, the description specifies, marking the wearer as a non-noble lay-believer. By the canon's late stages, almost every Commoner the Tarnished encounters is dead or fleeing : a refugee at the Stormveil gates, a mob in the Ainsel chambers, a shrine-keeper at a Site of Lost Grace.

'Modest garb made of cloth. Standard wear for commoners of the Lands Between.' The Commoners' role in the canon is to make the demigod-war's body-count visible. The Tarnished walks past empty villages, passes under hanging bodies in Stormveil's gallows, sees nomadic merchant lines that were once whole towns. Roderika, before her trauma, was a Commoner. Diallos, the broken-hearted nobleman, sought a Commoner retainer named Lanya whose body he never found. Boc the Seamster, a Demi-Human who was raised by Commoners, speaks, the only time the canon raises a Commoner's voice into formal dialogue, of his foster-mother's last act of telling him 'You're beautiful.' The world the demigods broke is the world the Commoners had been quietly tending.