>>81251210Dummies! Her hair is black, the golden braids are part of her headdress... also they are spirals, a common theme when if comes to life in hornsent symbolism and much to do with divinity as evidenced by that being the form Radagon takes as the Elden Beast's sword. Most interestingly you see this expression of helices also in the fingerslaying blade of nokron which possibly was used by the Numen to harm Metyr hence their banishment underground and Metyr's chest wound), and many many other symbols including the braids of Marika, the demigods, Miquella's Needles, the symbol of the haligtree, Malenia's helmet's chains as well as the double helix adornments on soldier and knight helmets). So those braids are a tie in to divinity. Midra's sword also twists into a spiral blade. Also interestingly stuff like Marika's bracelet being a coiled serpent. The depths of Elden Ring lore is astounding, AS IS THE DEPTHS OF YOUR FOOLISHNESS!