@@M.A.R.S. well they are magic archers which is why they never miss. There archery is similar to that of the Ancestral Guardians…almost identical…wonder if there is a connection. Between them and the wolf riders 🤔
@@ShadowProject01hats a good point. Also note that ancestral followers, like the nox, predate the arrival of the elden beast in the lands between. Given the Nox's desire to create an elden lord of silver tears, it could be that they created the albinaurics and taught then the archery of ancestral followers?
Thank you so much Rich! I really appreciate your nice words. I am looking into improving my voicework and hopefully can pursue this full-time. Let's see :)
re: Loretta, I like to think that while she wasn't herself an albinauric, she saw their poor treatment and was moved to protect them from her former masters. Mostly just cause it'd be nice to see another kind-hearted person in the narrative (and making her death and the failing of the Halig tree all the sadder). My friend also put forth their own headcanon that she can't walk as a disability so she went to learn from the first-gen albinaurics, which is where they gained her sympathy and eventual protection.
I think considering that she doesn't bleed silver it is likely she isn't an albanauric, but I also enjoy the idea of her being a disabled human who saw the albanauric wolf archers and realized her disability couldn't stop her from becoming the warrior she wanted to become. And I think being disabled herself would give her a unique empathy for the first generation albanaurics, who I think would share many of the same hardships and pains.
Thats not really true. The English is written before and at the same time as the Japanese and is the canonical text. The studio that does it is literally involved in the story writing process from the very first step. There is no "Japanese version" pre existing the english
rewatching the lore vids again now with the knowledge of things in the dlc is so interesting! love the content and your ability to explain things in a way people can easily understand but also in depth
This was a lot of fun to watch! I like the idea of taking the questions that can be answered quickly and making a compilation video like this and spinning the bigger questions into full videos
Worth noting that Castle Sol's heraldry, an eclipse with the sun specifically appearing to bleed a line of light, visually resembles the form of a needle, with an eye at the top and a long shaft emerging from it. This seems to imply, at least to me, that Miquella may well have been the one who commissioned the castle in the first place, especially given the name directly relates to the purpose he was to use it for: a ritual involving the sun. Also, as has been noted by Tarnished Archaeologist, the Haligtree has many statues symbolically representing Miquella as an adult with a massive staff which appears to be in the form of a needle, and at least one of them depicts him walking amongst the roots of the Erdtree. Given the Erdtree's roots are deeply infected by Deathroot, and he is building a new sacred tree, it would appear that his intent is to use his sacred needles' capacity to eliminate the influence of outer gods to eliminate the power of the Rune of Death (which probably draws from the death god that is the patron of the birds with the same name) at the Deathroots' source: that is, that he intends to stab Godwyn the Golden's body and purify his body of the infection. Given the fact that there is a superstition/folk understanding that stabbing a tree with copper nails will kill it in its roots, he may well understand that this might kill the Erdtree in the process; thus, perhaps, he might have planted the Haligtree with the understanding it might need to be a replacement.
You are defiantly going to take off. For several reasons. Mainly you have a great voice, great way of speaking, and great way of forming your scripts. Really good.
It's actually wild to think that, maybe the elden ring wasn't always inside Marika/Radagon, and that it could be there because it's using the 'mesh' of Radagon to hold it together, especially since in earlier depictions of the elden ring such as in farum azula, the elden ring doesn't appear to have the cross hatch pattern behind it (unless I'm not seeing it).
The channel Smoughtown did a great video on the ancient dragons and in it he explains the biblical connection Dragon communion and the Wyrms have. The mention of the Wyrms being cursed to crawl the earth on their bellies is a direct reference to Genesis, where the serpents were cursed to forever crawl on their bellies for deceiving Eve. It just drives home that the transformation into wyrms is the result of the warriors attempting to circumvent their natural place and reach above their station. They wanted to fly with the dragons and instead have to crawl in the dirt forever.
Blacksmith here. We don't melt down things to repair them. If the item is made out of Iron or Steel, we do something called Forge welding (If you do it the traditional way). It's essentially, you heat up the two parts, and sprinkle some steel filings between them. Then add a flux (Borax or pulverized quarts) Then heat the items up to the point where the metal starts to spark. Then gently hit them and gradually starts to hit harder and harder. This way the metals fuze, and becomes one again. You could also cheat, and just grab a tig welder. But a real blacksmith will not allow sutch wizardry in their forge.
I have a theory regarding the eclipse. The symbol of the eclipse does also show up on the shields of the undead mausoleum soldiers and is said to ward off death. Now what does the eclipse resemble? ...... None other than the full cursemark of death. Maybe they tried something similar to Fia, but failed: Create a rune that would modify the Golden Order and allow the dead to live in death.
I wouldnt root out the possibility that Lorreta is Albinauric based on the blood alone because were also hitting her horse and what bleeds red is the creature not the knight.
The Elden Ring can be thought of as the computer code for the world, including bits like "humans cannot die" and "this is how gravity works". Every rune you get is a bit that your maiden can rewrite to make you stronger in different ways. Radagon/Merika happens to have a lot left from the original.
0:18 Nah, Patches snuck into the artist’s studio and posed as his model that day. We all know how he likes to mess with clergy 😉 Edit: on a more serious note, as far as the broken ring, many of the pieces also overlap, so it’s possible they were not broken in the way we are thinking, like hitting a pane a glass with a hammer, but more like shaving flat bits off of a sheet of thick paper, so that they could also overlap. 🤷♂️
one question i have is the connection between Godrick and Godwyn, both bearing the title of "golden". When we fight the shard bearers, it seems we fight them as they somewhat see themselves. Horuah-loux being one of note who denounces his previous name to fight you. Morgott refers to Godrick as "the godlen" and that boy sure loves gold, but he and his rememberance are of Grafting, the path he chose to make himslef out of like when Marika tells her kids to make something out of themselves. Godwyn, before we know him as the price of death, was called Godwyn the Golden. Now going by his death powers that he earned and had to force himself to adopt, but not golden anymore. Is the title of "golden" a required seat to be filled in the Golden order? if so, what role does it bear in the story? remembrance
I thought Marika/Radagon was the elden ring and that's why their body is shattered. In the begining scene when they are hammering their body starts to crack.
I’m interested in seeing if there’s some lore or cut content of a connection between rani and rykard. It’s hinted they may have at one point worked together against the golden order.
Some video I watched said Rykard was a conspirator in the night of black knives. They didn’t have any specific reasons but that could very well be the aforementioned collaboration.
The description of the blasphemous claw item you get from Bernahl says that Ranni gave it to Rykard as a fail-safe, so he could fight Maliketh if necessary
This was an amazing video I hope you plan on doing more I have many questions 1- fias baby 2-the dragon Kin soldier origins are they like magma wyrms? 3-is Milicent related to melania or just a piece of her fragmented ego after she cast aside her pride and sanity to combat radahns overwhelming might 4- is the elden beast the true form of the ending ring or a parasite/avatar of the greater will if you look at radagons model the elden ring looks alot like the elden beast especially forwards the bottom where it greatly resembles the tail 5-dragon lord placidusax do we know what outer god he served at all? Did he have 5 heads or 4? 6-if every empyrean has a beast shadow Marika has maliketh and ranni has blaidd where is the beasts for melania and miquella........dlc?
Whats funny is that I started watching these cause my brain saw the thumbnails and was like ooga booga, but I stayed for the immersive lore explanations in a legit ASMR voice lmao.
About Radagons Rune, it's seen on the statue and is also seen as the thing that's preventing you from entering the ErdTree before you burn it. Radagon is preventing you from entering the ErdTree
You kind of look like Sellen (when she isn't wearing that giant glintstone crown head) and your voice is very soothing to listen to. I just wish you had some gameplay videos. Lore is cool and all, but I feel like having both would be better
Can someone tell me why Ranni had herself killed and why was the simultaneous attack of godwyn the reason the deathmark was only half completed, and why is it that Ranni's flesh perished whilst godwyn's soul did? I understand that Ranni wanted to "cast aside her empyrean flesh" but how is it that she was able to do this with such accuracy? how could she know she would be half-killed?
My best guess is that there is a soul killing and body killing “part” of the rune of death and that Ranni was able to split them up as she is clearly very powerful. She then gave the black knife assassins the soul killing part and used the body killing part when she sensed the other being used. As for why Godwyn, he may have been the easiest/least important to her if she didn’t want to kill her full brothers and Melina and Miquiola are too strong and the Omen twins were hidden away, this is assuming she needed a demi-god to die along with her. Alternatively Ranni could have given the assassins the deathmark and just waited for them to kill somebody and it just happened to be Godwyn, or Godwyn wanted to be killed for some reason and Ranni conspired with him. But ya that’s the best I can come up with
@@andrewlynch4126 Thanks for the response, this makes a lot of sense, but I could more easily see Godwyn being victimized, considering Marika's attempt to revive him in the roots, poisoning them, it all just seems to be a chain of events starting with Marika's removal of the rune of death
Love the overall themes running through the game. So many characters were on a predetermined path and eventually came to the conclusion that they were going to decide for themselves what to do with their lives. Pretty inspiring.
I'm not sure if it's because Farum Azula exists outside of time, but if you go there you can see stain glass depictions of the full elden ring before it was broken. Its massive compared to anywhere else it's ever depicted.
I just wanted to point something out that I've noticed and haven't really seen any other RUclipsr mention. I might just be reaching here but it might just be a cool little Easter egg. All of the main character's names begin with a letter of George R R Martin's name. Godrick, Godfrey, Godwyn. Rennala, Ranni, Radahn, Radagon, Mohg, Miquella, and so on. Maybe a little nod to him or just a major coincidence. It made me chuckle when I noticed
Thank you so so much! I switched up my editing style so this is really rewarding to get lovely feedback from you! I hope you will enjoy your stay here :)
That weird grid-like tree that appears when you say "real life application of grafting" , despite being real life and grafting, its more like a sculpture one guy did once as art, i feel like the theory implies this a standard method of grafting farms use. Fromsoft would only be aware of that if they specifically went trough that wikipedia page
Btw the bald monk statues have scars on their faces. Making them the same as the smoldering heads that appeared in limgrave in the early leaked internal footage. I believe either zullie the witch or sekiro dubi also covered them since they were accidentally left in the network test and could be seen from certain loading zones.
One of my personal theories about Loretta is that she learned her archery from the albinauric women combined it with her carian weapon creation to make her signature sorcery. Then at some point her legs were damaged and thats why she never gets off her horse. Them both having useless legs caused her to empathize with the albinaurics more. At least that's my head cannon.
About the pieces of the elden ring, there is a theory I've heard floating around. Even if we were to gather all the great runes and restore it, the current version is likely only a part of an older version of the ring. The runes in Maliketh's arena might be how the elden ring had appeared in a previous age.
4:26 That's really interesting ! About Godrick the Grafted, I often heard that it was too bad that this whole concept of grafting was kind of a miss, that we only hear about it in the beginning of the game and never after. But this kind of theory about Radagon's attempt to graft the ring in some way is a really cool link to Godrick's !
Thank you for digging deeper into this lore, I came across all this and some notes through out the lands between and they're so vague by comparison to how you decipher it all
How strong would you say the duality concept is in Elden Ring? There’s definitely a duality between Radagon/Marika, Godfrey/Houra Loux, Pidia/Seluvis, Ranni/Melnia, Miquella/Malenia, Godrick/Godwyn, Irina/Hyetta, Yura/Shabriri, and Mohg/Morgott.
I liked to think the Elden RIng inside of Radagon is supposed to be simply both Radagon and Marika's rings combined because it has the crisscross that is Radadgon's and the circles and 'anchor' of Marika's, because if you look at Marika's statues all throughout the Lands Between her dress is flown in the shape of circles so i like to think the circles in the ring is part of Marika's portion of the ring, so both Marika and Radagon's rings are combined, inside of his body because they are the same person, not my best way of wording it all i know, its just my personal theory
One small problem I have with the theory about radagon grafting the Elden ring back together is the fact that he's supposedly using his rune. We know tho that we can introduce new runes to restore the ring, and although Radagon's rune seems to be already part of the whole (the depicted Elden ring in farum azula has the crossed pattern), it'd be pretty weird that he'd include it in the ring as a way to restore it. Idk, I have to think more about it. I'm probably missing a piece here...
Radagon's Mesh, or the crisscross pattern is something that is also represented in many Carian and Raya Lucarian Magical seals. Many item descriptions say that Radagon Learnt Magic while he was married to Rennala. It's reflected in the way that a lot of his Incantations are Faith and Intelligence Hybrids. We can assume that the Radagon Mesh is something he learnt from his time with Rennala,An Erdtree Version of the original stargazer magic.
I had a thought, though have yet to find anything that either proves or denies it. What id Loretta was HALF Albinouric. Because of Latenna's quest, we know it is possible of Albinourics to procreate but either something stopped them, or that they originally weren't, but a method was created to do so. Latenna and Lobo came to Liurnia all the way from the lands of the Halig Tree to find this birthing droplet, but how did she know it was there? Perhaps because Loretta knew it was there and told them because she'd been conceived by it?
The bald statue growing the Erd tree was the Patriarch of Leyndell. He was like the Pope. He is nameless, because he was Marika's boss, and Marika does not like being overshadowed.
10:35 Keep in mind that the Fire Giant also offers up his leg to his god in exchange for power, adding a whole new meaning to "I'd give an arm and a leg for ...". ;)
Good lord. That's so soothing that watching a full video without falling asleep becomes a challenge. I feel so relaxed. As a surgeon that hardly gets enough sleep you simply start to cherish moments where you can finally get home, take a bath, cook some dinner and then finally lie on your bed with your eyes closed listening to this... till 05:30AM when it starts all over again.
I never even considered Radagon grafting the elden ring runes inside himself to keep it safe while attempting to mend it. That's such a neat theory that I really enjoy!
What I find interesting is that there is an emergent story in the symbolism of the moon and stars in the Carian family. First, I want to bring up tarot/astrology/esotericism. In tarot the Moon is akin to the subconscious realm, sometimes the collective unconscious, and the unknown, which sometimes means fear as well; in effect, the unseen realm of the mind. The Star on the other hand represents hope, the convergence of body and mind, and horizons of opportunity. In astrology, the moon is the sphere of emotionality, and in qabbala, the moon is associated with the sphere of Yesod, which may well be seen as a combination of both of the former ideas and more, in the context of the microcosm. With that out of the way, I want to pivot to the obvious point that the full moon only shines with the light of the sun and the earth in the middle, and the dark moon is that side which is turned away from the sun. This to me shows that when Rennala enchants the academy with the full moon, she is shining with the light of the stars she has studied, but when Ranni takes it upon herself to take on the dark moon, she embraces the unknown, the fear, and chooses not to follow whatever might be told to her as fate. Not only does she reject the fate of the greater will, but even when we set the stars in motion for her, she does not desire their light of hope as comfort. She dares to desire to incorporate the shadow into the ego, to live with the fear and be stronger. Ranni’s ending is the ultimate fate does not define you ending, but it’s not an ending full of comfort and joy. Pain will meet you along your path, at every turn, and from every angle, but were it not for the journey there would be no freedom, no expression of the will to life, to overcome, and to realize oneself as their best self. Another thing that’s interesting in relation to this, the ghost at Castle Sol looking towards the Haligtree claims that they were unable to bring about a solar eclipse through prayer, and therefore cannot make it to the Haligtree, begging for forgiveness from Miquella. The Kosmos vid below should explain one possibility for the purpose for this is. During a solar eclipse, the dark new moon completely covers the sun, leaving only a radiant glow around it. This to me is interesting, because it brings together the themes of turning away from fate as mentioned above, with the radiance of golden sun yet in tact. The sun is symbolically linked to gold in alchemy, and both are linked to the sphere Tipheret, just above Yesod. Below Yesod is Malkuth, which is the plane of materiality, literally and symbolically earth. The spheres on the tree of life mirror the alignment of celestial bodies, in perfect syzygy. Whether Miquella intended to bring about the eclipse for the purposes of restoring a soul Godwyn or Ensha, there is at least some potential to me that this eclipse has something to do with shedding his curse, which I think transferred to the Haligtree with his soul. One potential answer arises by once again viewing the center pillar on the tree of life, and seeing that perhaps, Miquella sought his own path to divinity (Kether which is separated and above the aforementioned sephirot) irrespective of the Greater Will. This, in my opinion, might make the husk in Mohgwyn palace a body with no soul, like that of Godwyn’s. However, since there is no life remaining, only the blood which Mohg himself controls, it is not as metaphysically profane as that of Godwyn’s corpse, and continues to grow and develop omen-like qualities, as a result of the Formless Mother’s influence on Mogh. ruclips.net/video/63iyanWDRmA/видео.html
i originally left this reply on another creators channel but it was on an old vid and likely wasn’t seen by anyone. I’m hoping more people get to see what I think, sorry if that makes me annoying 😅
I like the explanation of the ring been broken so now it make more sense that the runes that we hunt are additional round parts to the present Elden ring, now we can see how we get so many round circles in the Elden ring in Farum. Different than most people that think that the three circles are some of the runes we are hunting now.
Wow, fantastic job! I am so glad I stumbled across your channel. I've already found myself watching videos on topics I already know about simply because of how phenomenal your delivery is. Your script and voice are perfect. You've definitely garnered a new subscriber. Please keep up the fantastic work 😁!
There's a symbol of the elden ring in Maliketh's arena. If you take all the great runes and put them together you can make the same symbol with what we see inside Radagon.
That bald statue that you showed... That looked very much like lunar princess ranni's Empyrean body. Especially with how the scarf is draped across the shoulders and across the chest. It almost looks exactly like the one found on her corpse the red one.
I have an interesting idea. Perhaps the reason Loretta has albinurac traits while still having red blood, is because the first Gen albinuracs are made from her DNA. This would help explain why she would do something as drastic as leaving her post to hide them at the haligtree
Your videos explaining lore and answering less important details as in, not the main story or, who are the main characters of the game, are so incredibly appreciated, these lore explanations about certain types of enemies or side missions is just what I've been looking for. your voice is relaxing and is very good for this kinda thing, I'd put you right up there with VaatiVidya honestly haha
The haligtree, like Griffith's vision, is a world accepting of all outcasts. But... why not demi-humans? Didn't get around to it? Are they all gideon's henchman?
I thought Miquella was trying to give a true death to Godwyn? The description of the golden epitaph reads: (A sword made to commemorate the death of Godwyn the Golden, first of the demigods to die. Infused with the humble prayer of a young boy; "O brother, lord brother, please die a true death.") with Miquella being cursed with forever youth and being his half brother
Can’t wait to see your takes on the lore from other stories! This format works really well for FromSoftware, but I’m sure we would tune in for any topic.
Talking about statues, I find those female statues in the pavillions all around the flooded regions of Liurnia to be very intriguing. You can find Smithing Stones in most of these pavillions too...
4:48 --- I get that when you say "original" you mean "original as it existed for the golden order," but the ORIGINAL original, I think, is what we see in Farum Azula. The one we see there has all these wispy bits and so much more detail. My guess is that as each new ruler got their hands on the ring, they'd remove bits as they saw fit; the most obvious example being Marika and removal of destined death. Another example could be that, perhaps there was a part of the ring that allowed for manipulation of time (a la Farum Azula and Placidusax) that was later removed.
That long branch from the bald statue guy looks eerily similar to the new dlc weapon you get from defeating the madness boss! I wonder if hes the guy who put that through the boss himself?
Until seeing the bald statues in leyendell I always assumed they were statues of miquella since they were holding a tree that I had thought was the haligtree and for why they were bald if a very old man had the appearance of a child then a younger one may have been bald but your theory is way more understandable
Another hint that teh elden ring we see inside Radagon is not the full ring is that in Malakeith arena we see a relief that shows the full elden ring and has a ton of pieces and extra bits that are nowhere to be found in game
I am not going to lie, I knew some of these things, but the ones I didn't... I am very, very surprised. I will give great commendation to the Commander Niall segment in particular. I would never have noticed those connections myself, and I heard nobody else make them until now.
11:41 I need to really take my time and send you my thoughts somehow, you touch on so many interesting things. Something noteworthy here, imo, is that it’s interesting that Godrick seems to defy his mother at this point in time. He is honoring the dragons and employing the banished knights. Stormveil doesn’t really seem like outskirts, unless we are saying Leyndell is basically civilization itself.
Lore of Elden Ring and videos to sleep to. Closing my eyes at night and listening to your voice and words that depict and describe the lands between and its characters that fill those lands and places...and your voice that lulls and soothes gently and softly like fall of a single snowflake. I am absolutely in love with your videos. Thank you so much! Keep up the awesome work!
I'm betting it was Godefroy who was the one that imprissoned Nial's men, not Godrick. Godrick was a coward that preyed on the weak, and Godefroy was another who was obsessed with grafting, though the only extra bit of lore we get was that he was jailed by a guy. It could be that Godefroy was actually a fearsome conquerer using stolen power, and Godrick is merely a cheap imitation even in that front.
I have been looking into the fire pillars symbols from the Hallowhorn grounds and Siofra river and it seems to me it could be telling the story origin of the ancient followers and of the old men statues seen in Uhl Palace. A theory of mine is that the ancient followers was sorcerers that got rejected, for some reason, by the civilization of their time. They then found the existence of an ancient spirit, as their name says, they became followers and with time they started to convert their magic sorcery into a more nature and wild style, all that, so their souls could keep living forever and free of the problems of civilization. Inverting the symbols order seen in the same fire pillars, the story could be the opposite. The ancient followers could be the past of all astrologers, sorcerers and magic users, but my first hypothesis, seems way cooler to me
Commander Niall's backstory is that he used to lead a band of mercenaries, but was ambushed by a rival army. In the escape, some of his men fled and survived, though most died, and Niall himself fell into a years-long coma. When Niall awoke, he found himself legless and forced to flee from the same army that ambushed him and his mercenaries. He barely escaped, being both aided and hunted by fiery ghosts of his past. When the dust settled, an old friend that helped Niall escape offered him the prosthesis he wears, and together they built an army of no nation. Niall and his soldiers were again ostensibly just mercenaries, but now they had a new base to call home, in Castle Sol, a far cry from their past as a rag tag group of wandering soldiers. I'm joking of course, but the inspiration is there, plain and in text. It's interesting to see that From Software took inspiration from another open world game, one of the best ever made.
I forget the mask but the mouth of the mask has radagons cross hatching symbol too, and it says it's used as a seal so they cannot speak of secrets or something to that affect
A pleasure to come across a new up and coming channel covering lore for this great game, now I feel even more motivated to finish the game and achieve all endings so I'm able to binge these videos with no worries for spoilers 😄
Welcome back! This was such a great lore video. I do not think that Loretta herself was an Albunaric. The red blood is too much of a give away, but she might be something like an “Elf Friend” like we see in Lord of the Rings, a human ally or even someone who helped inspire the creation of the Albunarics. We do know they are a created species, and it was likely the Cadian Royal family was behind that. Hmmmmm
Could the removal of the dragon heads be an expression of taking those heads for yourself when you use dragon communion? After all, the use of it's power displays only the dragon head.
7:35 Perhaps it has to do with the fact that the dragons have been incorporated within the Erdtree worship possibly making them sacred beings in the eyes of the Golden Order.
Love the content!! I've got one for you. This could be a lore question but also something of a mechanics question. What do you think "Arcane" is actually? So to compare -Sorceries require Intelligence because sorceries are like a science in Elden Ring, attaining power and insight from the stars with glintstones as conduits. Faith is power derived from divine ritual/practice, attunement to "higher" powers and affinity for channeling these sources of power like the Erdtree or Frenzy Flame. But so then...what is Arcane? Arcane is linked to the albinaurics, poison, bleed, occult damage, but also bloodflame incantations/blood sorceries and Dragon Communion. I guess its like the "dark arts" or occult magic? Would love your thoughts
Miss Chalice I love your voice and videos so much. I would love to listen to you talk about Placidusax, the dragon God, the other ancient dragons (maybe in comparison to the present day dragons, who appear almost as a different species) and the beautiful Farum Azula. Congratulations on a new place, I hope you settle in well
where's that "prologue text" from? i've never seen that version of the introduction before. regarding Radagon's crosshatch...it's unlikely it represents the grafting you suggest, since all the Radagon statues have that design, as well as the seal on Raya Lucaria, and it's what covers the mouths of the preceptors' masks. that was Radagon's symbol long before the Elden Ring was shattered. some of the statues, and the preceprors' masks are from before Radagon and Marika even merged together.
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Love these videos! Your work is just like ASMR :P
Just got mine!! thank you!
Why are there no carrots in Elden Ring? 😭
You could make asmr videos with that voice
If Loretta wasn't an albinauric herself, then perhaps she honed her archery by learning from their wolf-riding archers. They are quite formidable.
Yeah especially since every shot they fire is a guaranteed hit, without the powerup
@@M.A.R.S. well they are magic archers which is why they never miss. There archery is similar to that of the Ancestral Guardians…almost identical…wonder if there is a connection. Between them and the wolf riders 🤔
@@ShadowProject01hats a good point. Also note that ancestral followers, like the nox, predate the arrival of the elden beast in the lands between. Given the Nox's desire to create an elden lord of silver tears, it could be that they created the albinaurics and taught then the archery of ancestral followers?
I hope to God you’ve chosen voice over work as a career. Excellent video.
Thank you so much Rich! I really appreciate your nice words. I am looking into improving my voicework and hopefully can pursue this full-time. Let's see :)
You have a very bright future. Keep it up!
It’s her dimples for me, dawg
@@miss_chalice Improve what?
You can`t improve perfection.
@@hanarielgodlike9283VO work isn't just to have a very good sounding voice, you have to be able to adapt and change how your voice sounds :)
re: Loretta, I like to think that while she wasn't herself an albinauric, she saw their poor treatment and was moved to protect them from her former masters. Mostly just cause it'd be nice to see another kind-hearted person in the narrative (and making her death and the failing of the Halig tree all the sadder). My friend also put forth their own headcanon that she can't walk as a disability so she went to learn from the first-gen albinaurics, which is where they gained her sympathy and eventual protection.
I think considering that she doesn't bleed silver it is likely she isn't an albanauric, but I also enjoy the idea of her being a disabled human who saw the albanauric wolf archers and realized her disability couldn't stop her from becoming the warrior she wanted to become. And I think being disabled herself would give her a unique empathy for the first generation albanaurics, who I think would share many of the same hardships and pains.
Good god your voice is smoother than caramel.
Thank you very much! 🍬
@@miss_chalice The pleasure is ours
Yeah I fall asleep watching these. It’s like a bedtime story lol
I be burning my caramel… but he’s right darlin you’re smooth with it! Thank you for the lore and your passion for the project :)
Can something be sticky and smooth at the same time?
this woman needs to do audio books or some shit like that, her voice is amazing.
She's the female VaatiVidya
Absolutely loving the videos, also helps with having the perfect voice for explaining lore, keep ‘em coming!
Thank you so much! Comments like yours make me want to keep doing this more!!
I love the attention to japanese translations! Sometimes some important lore gets lost there like Ranni’s monologue during her ending
Thats not really true. The English is written before and at the same time as the Japanese and is the canonical text. The studio that does it is literally involved in the story writing process from the very first step. There is no "Japanese version" pre existing the english
Anyone else enjoy just listening to various lore channels and other stuff like this? It’s so relaxing for me
Yes every night
This made me like Nial even more even though I knew nothing about him. Thanks for giving me reason to respect him!
I hate Niall but cutting your leg off for your men is pretty sick
rewatching the lore vids again now with the knowledge of things in the dlc is so interesting! love the content and your ability to explain things in a way people can easily understand but also in depth
This was a lot of fun to watch! I like the idea of taking the questions that can be answered quickly and making a compilation video like this and spinning the bigger questions into full videos
My favorite kind of souls content, a soft spoken mega nerd informing me of all the things I have missed in these massive games. 10/10
Worth noting that Castle Sol's heraldry, an eclipse with the sun specifically appearing to bleed a line of light, visually resembles the form of a needle, with an eye at the top and a long shaft emerging from it. This seems to imply, at least to me, that Miquella may well have been the one who commissioned the castle in the first place, especially given the name directly relates to the purpose he was to use it for: a ritual involving the sun.
Also, as has been noted by Tarnished Archaeologist, the Haligtree has many statues symbolically representing Miquella as an adult with a massive staff which appears to be in the form of a needle, and at least one of them depicts him walking amongst the roots of the Erdtree. Given the Erdtree's roots are deeply infected by Deathroot, and he is building a new sacred tree, it would appear that his intent is to use his sacred needles' capacity to eliminate the influence of outer gods to eliminate the power of the Rune of Death (which probably draws from the death god that is the patron of the birds with the same name) at the Deathroots' source: that is, that he intends to stab Godwyn the Golden's body and purify his body of the infection. Given the fact that there is a superstition/folk understanding that stabbing a tree with copper nails will kill it in its roots, he may well understand that this might kill the Erdtree in the process; thus, perhaps, he might have planted the Haligtree with the understanding it might need to be a replacement.
You are defiantly going to take off. For several reasons. Mainly you have a great voice, great way of speaking, and great way of forming your scripts. Really good.
2 in particular.
I’m kidding, she’s amazing.
@@HuhWhatHuhwhatHuh I was looking for you...we're going to hell XD
*definitely. D E F I N I T E L Y.
letting the money makers out for this video.
So many simps
You're videos just keep getting better and better. Loved the ad integration. Very clever.
Thank you for answering these questions! Hopefully the “official” guide will help us further when they release it!
It's actually wild to think that, maybe the elden ring wasn't always inside Marika/Radagon, and that it could be there because it's using the 'mesh' of Radagon to hold it together, especially since in earlier depictions of the elden ring such as in farum azula, the elden ring doesn't appear to have the cross hatch pattern behind it (unless I'm not seeing it).
Like.... somehow I'm sure that's not true... but it'd be cool as hell
One of the only creators that can make me pick up the game for another NG+ Thanks so much and great job on the channel so far!
You're one of my newer favorite channels. Your voice is so dang calming, I could listen to you talk about anything.
The channel Smoughtown did a great video on the ancient dragons and in it he explains the biblical connection Dragon communion and the Wyrms have. The mention of the Wyrms being cursed to crawl the earth on their bellies is a direct reference to Genesis, where the serpents were cursed to forever crawl on their bellies for deceiving Eve. It just drives home that the transformation into wyrms is the result of the warriors attempting to circumvent their natural place and reach above their station. They wanted to fly with the dragons and instead have to crawl in the dirt forever.
Blacksmith here. We don't melt down things to repair them. If the item is made out of Iron or Steel, we do something called Forge welding (If you do it the traditional way).
It's essentially, you heat up the two parts, and sprinkle some steel filings between them. Then add a flux (Borax or pulverized quarts) Then heat the items up to the point where the metal starts to spark. Then gently hit them and gradually starts to hit harder and harder. This way the metals fuze, and becomes one again.
You could also cheat, and just grab a tig welder. But a real blacksmith will not allow sutch wizardry in their forge.
I enjoy this, I think you should keep doing this when you expand your lore legacy
I really enjoyed interacting more with you guys! Thank you, I'd love to do this again and with other games!
@@miss_chalice chalice, where is my asmr video?
@@axelstone3131you’re weird as hell
I have a theory regarding the eclipse. The symbol of the eclipse does also show up on the shields of the undead mausoleum soldiers and is said to ward off death. Now what does the eclipse resemble? ...... None other than the full cursemark of death. Maybe they tried something similar to Fia, but failed: Create a rune that would modify the Golden Order and allow the dead to live in death.
I wouldnt root out the possibility that Lorreta is Albinauric based on the blood alone because were also hitting her horse and what bleeds red is the creature not the knight.
The Elden Ring can be thought of as the computer code for the world, including bits like "humans cannot die" and "this is how gravity works". Every rune you get is a bit that your maiden can rewrite to make you stronger in different ways. Radagon/Merika happens to have a lot left from the original.
0:18 Nah, Patches snuck into the artist’s studio and posed as his model that day. We all know how he likes to mess with clergy 😉
Edit: on a more serious note, as far as the broken ring, many of the pieces also overlap, so it’s possible they were not broken in the way we are thinking, like hitting a pane a glass with a hammer, but more like shaving flat bits off of a sheet of thick paper, so that they could also overlap. 🤷♂️
one question i have is the connection between Godrick and Godwyn, both bearing the title of "golden". When we fight the shard bearers, it seems we fight them as they somewhat see themselves. Horuah-loux being one of note who denounces his previous name to fight you.
Morgott refers to Godrick as "the godlen" and that boy sure loves gold, but he and his rememberance are of Grafting, the path he chose to make himslef out of like when Marika tells her kids to make something out of themselves.
Godwyn, before we know him as the price of death, was called Godwyn the Golden. Now going by his death powers that he earned and had to force himself to adopt, but not golden anymore.
Is the title of "golden" a required seat to be filled in the Golden order? if so, what role does it bear in the story?
remembrance
I thought Marika/Radagon was the elden ring and that's why their body is shattered. In the begining scene when they are hammering their body starts to crack.
7:31 “But someone came along and *defaced* them”
Lol
I really love your videos, entertaining but also has an ASMR quality to them!
Thank you!! I feel most comfortable talking like this so I'm grateful that you may find it relaxing ☺️
i know right her voice made my ears tingle a little not used to it
I’m interested in seeing if there’s some lore or cut content of a connection between rani and rykard. It’s hinted they may have at one point worked together against the golden order.
Some video I watched said Rykard was a conspirator in the night of black knives. They didn’t have any specific reasons but that could very well be the aforementioned collaboration.
The description of the blasphemous claw item you get from Bernahl says that Ranni gave it to Rykard as a fail-safe, so he could fight Maliketh if necessary
This was an amazing video I hope you plan on doing more I have many questions
1- fias baby
2-the dragon Kin soldier origins are they like magma wyrms?
3-is Milicent related to melania or just a piece of her fragmented ego after she cast aside her pride and sanity to combat radahns overwhelming might
4- is the elden beast the true form of the ending ring or a parasite/avatar of the greater will if you look at radagons model the elden ring looks alot like the elden beast especially forwards the bottom where it greatly resembles the tail
5-dragon lord placidusax do we know what outer god he served at all? Did he have 5 heads or 4?
6-if every empyrean has a beast shadow Marika has maliketh and ranni has blaidd where is the beasts for melania and miquella........dlc?
Are we going to get some cyberpunk lore since you've posted a bit of cyberpunk content on tik tok? I'd love to see it
yes!!! Thank you for checking out my TikTok - I would love to cover Cyberpunk 2077 shenanigans
@@miss_chalice awesome! im looking forward to it :)
Whats funny is that I started watching these cause my brain saw the thumbnails and was like ooga booga, but I stayed for the immersive lore explanations in a legit ASMR voice lmao.
About Radagons Rune, it's seen on the statue and is also seen as the thing that's preventing you from entering the ErdTree before you burn it. Radagon is preventing you from entering the ErdTree
You kind of look like Sellen (when she isn't wearing that giant glintstone crown head) and your voice is very soothing to listen to. I just wish you had some gameplay videos. Lore is cool and all, but I feel like having both would be better
Can someone tell me why Ranni had herself killed and why was the simultaneous attack of godwyn the reason the deathmark was only half completed, and why is it that Ranni's flesh perished whilst godwyn's soul did? I understand that Ranni wanted to "cast aside her empyrean flesh" but how is it that she was able to do this with such accuracy? how could she know she would be half-killed?
My best guess is that there is a soul killing and body killing “part” of the rune of death and that Ranni was able to split them up as she is clearly very powerful. She then gave the black knife assassins the soul killing part and used the body killing part when she sensed the other being used. As for why Godwyn, he may have been the easiest/least important to her if she didn’t want to kill her full brothers and Melina and Miquiola are too strong and the Omen twins were hidden away, this is assuming she needed a demi-god to die along with her. Alternatively Ranni could have given the assassins the deathmark and just waited for them to kill somebody and it just happened to be Godwyn, or Godwyn wanted to be killed for some reason and Ranni conspired with him. But ya that’s the best I can come up with
@@andrewlynch4126 Thanks for the response, this makes a lot of sense, but I could more easily see Godwyn being victimized, considering Marika's attempt to revive him in the roots, poisoning them, it all just seems to be a chain of events starting with Marika's removal of the rune of death
Love the overall themes running through the game. So many characters were on a predetermined path and eventually came to the conclusion that they were going to decide for themselves what to do with their lives. Pretty inspiring.
I'm not sure if it's because Farum Azula exists outside of time, but if you go there you can see stain glass depictions of the full elden ring before it was broken. Its massive compared to anywhere else it's ever depicted.
I just wanted to point something out that I've noticed and haven't really seen any other RUclipsr mention. I might just be reaching here but it might just be a cool little Easter egg. All of the main character's names begin with a letter of George R R Martin's name. Godrick, Godfrey, Godwyn. Rennala, Ranni, Radahn, Radagon, Mohg, Miquella, and so on. Maybe a little nod to him or just a major coincidence. It made me chuckle when I noticed
One of the finest composed lore videos on Elden Ring I've seen! Subscribed, and soon to check out other uploads
Thank you so so much! I switched up my editing style so this is really rewarding to get lovely feedback from you! I hope you will enjoy your stay here :)
That weird grid-like tree that appears when you say "real life application of grafting" , despite being real life and grafting, its more like a sculpture one guy did once as art, i feel like the theory implies this a standard method of grafting farms use. Fromsoft would only be aware of that if they specifically went trough that wikipedia page
Btw the bald monk statues have scars on their faces. Making them the same as the smoldering heads that appeared in limgrave in the early leaked internal footage. I believe either zullie the witch or sekiro dubi also covered them since they were accidentally left in the network test and could be seen from certain loading zones.
One of my personal theories about Loretta is that she learned her archery from the albinauric women combined it with her carian weapon creation to make her signature sorcery. Then at some point her legs were damaged and thats why she never gets off her horse. Them both having useless legs caused her to empathize with the albinaurics more. At least that's my head cannon.
About the pieces of the elden ring, there is a theory I've heard floating around. Even if we were to gather all the great runes and restore it, the current version is likely only a part of an older version of the ring. The runes in Maliketh's arena might be how the elden ring had appeared in a previous age.
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That's really interesting ! About Godrick the Grafted, I often heard that it was too bad that this whole concept of grafting was kind of a miss, that we only hear about it in the beginning of the game and never after. But this kind of theory about Radagon's attempt to graft the ring in some way is a really cool link to Godrick's !
There’s some reference to Hoarah Loux having done some kind of grafting also mention of a bunch of dragons forming a living wall
Thank you for digging deeper into this lore, I came across all this and some notes through out the lands between and they're so vague by comparison to how you decipher it all
How strong would you say the duality concept is in Elden Ring? There’s definitely a duality between Radagon/Marika, Godfrey/Houra Loux, Pidia/Seluvis, Ranni/Melnia, Miquella/Malenia, Godrick/Godwyn, Irina/Hyetta, Yura/Shabriri, and Mohg/Morgott.
I liked to think the Elden RIng inside of Radagon is supposed to be simply both Radagon and Marika's rings combined because it has the crisscross that is Radadgon's and the circles and 'anchor' of Marika's, because if you look at Marika's statues all throughout the Lands Between her dress is flown in the shape of circles so i like to think the circles in the ring is part of Marika's portion of the ring, so both Marika and Radagon's rings are combined, inside of his body because they are the same person, not my best way of wording it all i know, its just my personal theory
One small problem I have with the theory about radagon grafting the Elden ring back together is the fact that he's supposedly using his rune. We know tho that we can introduce new runes to restore the ring, and although Radagon's rune seems to be already part of the whole (the depicted Elden ring in farum azula has the crossed pattern), it'd be pretty weird that he'd include it in the ring as a way to restore it. Idk, I have to think more about it. I'm probably missing a piece here...
Radagon's Mesh, or the crisscross pattern is something that is also represented in many Carian and Raya Lucarian Magical seals. Many item descriptions say that Radagon Learnt Magic while he was married to Rennala. It's reflected in the way that a lot of his Incantations are Faith and Intelligence Hybrids. We can assume that the Radagon Mesh is something he learnt from his time with Rennala,An Erdtree Version of the original stargazer magic.
I had a thought, though have yet to find anything that either proves or denies it. What id Loretta was HALF Albinouric. Because of Latenna's quest, we know it is possible of Albinourics to procreate but either something stopped them, or that they originally weren't, but a method was created to do so. Latenna and Lobo came to Liurnia all the way from the lands of the Halig Tree to find this birthing droplet, but how did she know it was there? Perhaps because Loretta knew it was there and told them because she'd been conceived by it?
The bald statue growing the Erd tree was the Patriarch of Leyndell. He was like the Pope. He is nameless, because he was Marika's boss, and Marika does not like being overshadowed.
10:35 Keep in mind that the Fire Giant also offers up his leg to his god in exchange for power, adding a whole new meaning to "I'd give an arm and a leg for ...". ;)
Good lord. That's so soothing that watching a full video without falling asleep becomes a challenge. I feel so relaxed. As a surgeon that hardly gets enough sleep you simply start to cherish moments where you can finally get home, take a bath, cook some dinner and then finally lie on your bed with your eyes closed listening to this... till 05:30AM when it starts all over again.
I’ve always wondered what’s the deal with the golems and why there’s one on a ledge overlooking the red dunes where you fight Radahn.
I never even considered Radagon grafting the elden ring runes inside himself to keep it safe while attempting to mend it. That's such a neat theory that I really enjoy!
That nord vpn diagram with Gastoc was hilarious
What I find interesting is that there is an emergent story in the symbolism of the moon and stars in the Carian family. First, I want to bring up tarot/astrology/esotericism. In tarot the Moon is akin to the subconscious realm, sometimes the collective unconscious, and the unknown, which sometimes means fear as well; in effect, the unseen realm of the mind. The Star on the other hand represents hope, the convergence of body and mind, and horizons of opportunity. In astrology, the moon is the sphere of emotionality, and in qabbala, the moon is associated with the sphere of Yesod, which may well be seen as a combination of both of the former ideas and more, in the context of the microcosm. With that out of the way, I want to pivot to the obvious point that the full moon only shines with the light of the sun and the earth in the middle, and the dark moon is that side which is turned away from the sun. This to me shows that when Rennala enchants the academy with the full moon, she is shining with the light of the stars she has studied, but when Ranni takes it upon herself to take on the dark moon, she embraces the unknown, the fear, and chooses not to follow whatever might be told to her as fate. Not only does she reject the fate of the greater will, but even when we set the stars in motion for her, she does not desire their light of hope as comfort. She dares to desire to incorporate the shadow into the ego, to live with the fear and be stronger. Ranni’s ending is the ultimate fate does not define you ending, but it’s not an ending full of comfort and joy. Pain will meet you along your path, at every turn, and from every angle, but were it not for the journey there would be no freedom, no expression of the will to life, to overcome, and to realize oneself as their best self.
Another thing that’s interesting in relation to this, the ghost at Castle Sol looking towards the Haligtree claims that they were unable to bring about a solar eclipse through prayer, and therefore cannot make it to the Haligtree, begging for forgiveness from Miquella. The Kosmos vid below should explain one possibility for the purpose for this is. During a solar eclipse, the dark new moon completely covers the sun, leaving only a radiant glow around it. This to me is interesting, because it brings together the themes of turning away from fate as mentioned above, with the radiance of golden sun yet in tact. The sun is symbolically linked to gold in alchemy, and both are linked to the sphere Tipheret, just above Yesod. Below Yesod is Malkuth, which is the plane of materiality, literally and symbolically earth. The spheres on the tree of life mirror the alignment of celestial bodies, in perfect syzygy. Whether Miquella intended to bring about the eclipse for the purposes of restoring a soul Godwyn or Ensha, there is at least some potential to me that this eclipse has something to do with shedding his curse, which I think transferred to the Haligtree with his soul. One potential answer arises by once again viewing the center pillar on the tree of life, and seeing that perhaps, Miquella sought his own path to divinity (Kether which is separated and above the aforementioned sephirot) irrespective of the Greater Will. This, in my opinion, might make the husk in Mohgwyn palace a body with no soul, like that of Godwyn’s. However, since there is no life remaining, only the blood which Mohg himself controls, it is not as metaphysically profane as that of Godwyn’s corpse, and continues to grow and develop omen-like qualities, as a result of the Formless Mother’s influence on Mogh.
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i originally left this reply on another creators channel but it was on an old vid and likely wasn’t seen by anyone. I’m hoping more people get to see what I think, sorry if that makes me annoying 😅
I like the explanation of the ring been broken so now it make more sense that the runes that we hunt are additional round parts to the present Elden ring, now we can see how we get so many round circles in the Elden ring in Farum. Different than most people that think that the three circles are some of the runes we are hunting now.
Wow, fantastic job! I am so glad I stumbled across your channel. I've already found myself watching videos on topics I already know about simply because of how phenomenal your delivery is. Your script and voice are perfect. You've definitely garnered a new subscriber. Please keep up the fantastic work 😁!
Oh and great taste in games 😁🔥
There's a symbol of the elden ring in Maliketh's arena. If you take all the great runes and put them together you can make the same symbol with what we see inside Radagon.
That bald statue that you showed... That looked very much like lunar princess ranni's Empyrean body. Especially with how the scarf is draped across the shoulders and across the chest. It almost looks exactly like the one found on her corpse the red one.
I have an interesting idea. Perhaps the reason Loretta has albinurac traits while still having red blood, is because the first Gen albinuracs are made from her DNA. This would help explain why she would do something as drastic as leaving her post to hide them at the haligtree
Your videos explaining lore and answering less important details as in, not the main story or, who are the main characters of the game, are so incredibly appreciated, these lore explanations about certain types of enemies or side missions is just what I've been looking for. your voice is relaxing and is very good for this kinda thing, I'd put you right up there with VaatiVidya honestly haha
The demigods of lore now if only we could set them up romantically so we could get a lore emperion
@@nothanks9503 Considering its fromsoft lore there's like an 80% chance that wont go well
@@nikopteros1659 oh true they would probably both die
Enjoyed the video! That ad break was really clever!
The haligtree, like Griffith's vision, is a world accepting of all outcasts. But... why not demi-humans? Didn't get around to it? Are they all gideon's henchman?
lol the number of dragons heart needed to make the change is actually 1 more then what’s available
I thought Miquella was trying to give a true death to Godwyn? The description of the golden epitaph reads:
(A sword made to commemorate the death of Godwyn the Golden, first of the demigods to die.
Infused with the humble prayer of a young boy; "O brother, lord brother, please die a true death.") with Miquella being cursed with forever youth and being his half brother
7:52 hands down the best sponsorship segment I’ve ever seen 😂
4:35 Really nice deduction miss, you have a very nice approach to the lore, simple and meaningful to the source materials
Can’t wait to see your takes on the lore from other stories! This format works really well for FromSoftware, but I’m sure we would tune in for any topic.
Holy moly you just make this game make sense
Talking about statues, I find those female statues in the pavillions all around the flooded regions of Liurnia to be very intriguing. You can find Smithing Stones in most of these pavillions too...
4:48 --- I get that when you say "original" you mean "original as it existed for the golden order," but the ORIGINAL original, I think, is what we see in Farum Azula. The one we see there has all these wispy bits and so much more detail. My guess is that as each new ruler got their hands on the ring, they'd remove bits as they saw fit; the most obvious example being Marika and removal of destined death.
Another example could be that, perhaps there was a part of the ring that allowed for manipulation of time (a la Farum Azula and Placidusax) that was later removed.
That long branch from the bald statue guy looks eerily similar to the new dlc weapon you get from defeating the madness boss! I wonder if hes the guy who put that through the boss himself?
Until seeing the bald statues in leyendell I always assumed they were statues of miquella since they were holding a tree that I had thought was the haligtree and for why they were bald if a very old man had the appearance of a child then a younger one may have been bald but your theory is way more understandable
Another hint that teh elden ring we see inside Radagon is not the full ring is that in Malakeith arena we see a relief that shows the full elden ring and has a ton of pieces and extra bits that are nowhere to be found in game
AGH 4:00 you’re so right!!! Never thought about his reforge but this is SO COOL!
I am not going to lie, I knew some of these things, but the ones I didn't... I am very, very surprised. I will give great commendation to the Commander Niall segment in particular. I would never have noticed those connections myself, and I heard nobody else make them until now.
11:41 I need to really take my time and send you my thoughts somehow, you touch on so many interesting things.
Something noteworthy here, imo, is that it’s interesting that Godrick seems to defy his mother at this point in time. He is honoring the dragons and employing the banished knights. Stormveil doesn’t really seem like outskirts, unless we are saying Leyndell is basically civilization itself.
Lore of Elden Ring and videos to sleep to.
Closing my eyes at night and listening to your voice and words that depict and describe the lands between and its characters that fill those lands and places...and your voice that lulls and soothes gently and softly like fall of a single snowflake. I am absolutely in love with your videos. Thank you so much! Keep up the awesome work!
I'm betting it was Godefroy who was the one that imprissoned Nial's men, not Godrick. Godrick was a coward that preyed on the weak, and Godefroy was another who was obsessed with grafting, though the only extra bit of lore we get was that he was jailed by a guy. It could be that Godefroy was actually a fearsome conquerer using stolen power, and Godrick is merely a cheap imitation even in that front.
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i do quite enjoy the melodic structure of the videos. your voice is admittedly sweet and it makes for good background stories
I have been looking into the fire pillars symbols from the Hallowhorn grounds and Siofra river and it seems to me it could be telling the story origin of the ancient followers and of the old men statues seen in Uhl Palace. A theory of mine is that the ancient followers was sorcerers that got rejected, for some reason, by the civilization of their time. They then found the existence of an ancient spirit, as their name says, they became followers and with time they started to convert their magic sorcery into a more nature and wild style, all that, so their souls could keep living forever and free of the problems of civilization.
Inverting the symbols order seen in the same fire pillars, the story could be the opposite. The ancient followers could be the past of all astrologers, sorcerers and magic users, but my first hypothesis, seems way cooler to me
I legit listen to you for hours talking about anything . But really loving the lore of Elden Ring!
Commander Niall's backstory is that he used to lead a band of mercenaries, but was ambushed by a rival army. In the escape, some of his men fled and survived, though most died, and Niall himself fell into a years-long coma.
When Niall awoke, he found himself legless and forced to flee from the same army that ambushed him and his mercenaries. He barely escaped, being both aided and hunted by fiery ghosts of his past.
When the dust settled, an old friend that helped Niall escape offered him the prosthesis he wears, and together they built an army of no nation. Niall and his soldiers were again ostensibly just mercenaries, but now they had a new base to call home, in Castle Sol, a far cry from their past as a rag tag group of wandering soldiers.
I'm joking of course, but the inspiration is there, plain and in text. It's interesting to see that From Software took inspiration from another open world game, one of the best ever made.
I forget the mask but the mouth of the mask has radagons cross hatching symbol too, and it says it's used as a seal so they cannot speak of secrets or something to that affect
Makes sense that Godrick took Niall's leg, he does that flying attack too, might be thanks to the grafting
That ad really got me, I thought you were going somewhere super profound with that preamble 😂
A pleasure to come across a new up and coming channel covering lore for this great game, now I feel even more motivated to finish the game and achieve all endings so I'm able to binge these videos with no worries for spoilers 😄
Welcome back! This was such a great lore video. I do not think that Loretta herself was an Albunaric. The red blood is too much of a give away, but she might be something like an “Elf Friend” like we see in Lord of the Rings, a human ally or even someone who helped inspire the creation of the Albunarics. We do know they are a created species, and it was likely the Cadian Royal family was behind that.
Hmmmmm
Could the removal of the dragon heads be an expression of taking those heads for yourself when you use dragon communion? After all, the use of it's power displays only the dragon head.
7:35 Perhaps it has to do with the fact that the dragons have been incorporated within the Erdtree worship possibly making them sacred beings in the eyes of the Golden Order.
Love the content!! I've got one for you. This could be a lore question but also something of a mechanics question. What do you think "Arcane" is actually?
So to compare -Sorceries require Intelligence because sorceries are like a science in Elden Ring, attaining power and insight from the stars with glintstones as conduits.
Faith is power derived from divine ritual/practice, attunement to "higher" powers and affinity for channeling these sources of power like the Erdtree or Frenzy Flame.
But so then...what is Arcane? Arcane is linked to the albinaurics, poison, bleed, occult damage, but also bloodflame incantations/blood sorceries and Dragon Communion. I guess its like the "dark arts" or occult magic?
Would love your thoughts
Miss Chalice I love your voice and videos so much. I would love to listen to you talk about Placidusax, the dragon God, the other ancient dragons (maybe in comparison to the present day dragons, who appear almost as a different species) and the beautiful Farum Azula. Congratulations on a new place, I hope you settle in well
where's that "prologue text" from? i've never seen that version of the introduction before.
regarding Radagon's crosshatch...it's unlikely it represents the grafting you suggest, since all the Radagon statues have that design, as well as the seal on Raya Lucaria, and it's what covers the mouths of the preceptors' masks. that was Radagon's symbol long before the Elden Ring was shattered. some of the statues, and the preceprors' masks are from before Radagon and Marika even merged together.
Every time I watch your video it's make me search more about the secret of elden Ring, it's exciting
That's exactly my desired outcome! So pleased I can aid your imagination and exploration !