Elden Ring FULL Story Explained | Lore Recap Before DLC
the basic Narrative of Elden ring is
quite simple it begins with the
shattering of the Elden ring a cosmic
artifact that governs this world a war
then ensues but no clear successor
arises from the brutal conflict with the
demigods failing to claim the throne the
greater will looks to the tarnished a
long banished Warrior people to restore
order and Ascend the Elden Throne yet
Beyond this basic narrative is a world
of Rich history lore and hidden
narratives that provides a never-ending
rabbit hole for those who enjoy a good
story this is something that can be
experienced in part by watching my
entire lore series a 35-hour exploration
into this incredible world yet in the
comments of that video I noted a common
request could I provide a more condensed
Story summary in preparation for the DLC
that is what this video aims to be a
more concise Story summary of Elden ring
or at least as concise as I can possibly
make it from the division of the one
great to the shattering War this video
will give you everything you need to
understand the low Basics ahead of
shadow of the earth tree so join me this
week as we explore the lore of Elden
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channel the Elden ring itself is the
most important an artifact in the lands
between and so it is fitting that we
begin with it and its arrival in this
world the item description of the Elden
Stars incantation reads the following
this legendary incantation is the most
ancient of those that derive from the AR
tree it is said that long ago the
greater well sent a golden star bearing
a beast into the lands between which
would later become the Elden ring there
are a number of important pieces of lore
to be found Within These few sentences
the first is that the Elden Beast and
the Elden ring are one and the same this
is what is also visually communicated to
us in the final battle of the game as
well ragon holds the Elden ring within
his body but when he is defeated the
Elden Ring’s Avatar arises from the Mist
another visual detail which communicates
this is a crack present along the Elden
BEAST’s stomach highlighting that this
Beast is the Elden ring that was
shattered by Mara we learn more about
the Elden ring and Beast via its
remembrance which reads the following it
was the vassel Beast of the greater will
and living incarnation of the concept of
order if the Elden Beast is the living
Avatar of order then the Elden ring is
an artifact through which order is
imposed you see the greater will never
interacts directly with the lands
between the Elden Beast is its vassel
meaning it rules here on behalf of the
greater will
the two fingers are described in a
similar fashion via the nox mirrror Helm
which reads warned by those committed to
high treason it Wards off the
intervention of the greater will and its
vassel fingers we begin to see a picture
emerging of the greater Will’s
limitations it cannot act directly on
the Earthly plane and can only do so
through third parties the Elden ring the
Elden Beast the two fingers and Mar
herself Ania tells us that marica’s
position of God is basically a chosen
Earthly representative of the greater
will and vessel for the Elden ring queen
Marica is the vessel of the Elden ring
carrier of its Vision a God In Truth
incidentally this is why Mara and ragon
also shatter alongside the Elden ring as
they bear the Elden ring Within
themselves as the vessel of its power
they are part of it in a way oh
radan Le Hound of the golden order Thou
Art yet to become
me thou art yet to become a God let us
be shattered
both mine Other Self indeed we see this
happen in the announcement trailer where
their body shatters alongside the Elden
ring and of course we fight the
shattered remains of ragon still bearing
the broken Elden ring so the greater
will enforces its will on the lands
between via proxy and we know that the
Elden ring brings order and the form
that order takes seems to be a result of
its constituent Parts runes we know
runes are the constituent parts of the
Elden ring because the introduction
tells us that the great runes gathered
by the demigods are the resultant
fragments of the shattered Elden ring
thus all runes range from the great
runes to the small golden runes we
collect are fragments of the shattered
Elden ring it is the composition of
certain runes that make up the current
order that determines in what Manner the
Elden ring imposes order upon the
material realm we know this thanks to
the various Elden Lord endings age of
fracture age of the Dust born age of
order and the blessing of Despair these
endings are all the same in the broader
sense
we repair the Elden ring and become
Elden Lord the fractured Mar’s new
consort however they all differ in a
significant way they each usher in a
different type of order as the Elden
ring is affected by the particular
mending Rune we choose if we introduce
dung Gator’s Rune of the Fel curse the
entire Elden ring is affected and the
world’s order with it indeed the golden
order itself is an order that resulted
from a certain conf configuration of
runes specifically the absence of the
Rune of death this is something we
learned from The Mending Rune of the
death Prince which reads the golden
order was created by confining destined
death thus this new order will be one of
death restored this fact is reiterated
by Ania who says the Run of death goes
by two names the other is destined death
the forbidden Shadow plucked from the
golden order upon its creation this
brings us to an interesting discussion
regarding the greater well it becomes
clear that it cares about only one thing
order no matter the form that order
takes this is a point beautifully argued
by ratat tocar in his video on the
greater will which I will link below in
this video ratat tocar makes the point
that the greater will isn’t necessarily
tied to the golden order specifically
and points to the ancient dragon
civilization to cement this point the
remembrance of pladus tells us that this
great Dragon was once an Elden Lord
himself in an age far before the Earth
tree he too was a consort to a God just
as we are to Mara as our ragon and
Godfrey are to her as well there is
always a God there is always a lord and
there is always an order manifested by a
specifically configured Elden ring in
the ruins of farum aula the dragon
civilization there is a mural depicting
the Elden ring but it looks very very
different and again it suggests that the
order of this time would have been very
different from the golden order indeed
it has a very wild aspect to it with the
chaotic looking branches suggesting it
was the order of a more Primal and besal
era before we go any further I do want
to briefly discuss the process through
which Immortal God is selected rany is
the best source for this as she too was
once an imperian she says the following
I was once an imperian of the
demigods only I Mika and Melania could
claim that title each of us was chosen
by our own two fingers as a candidate to
succeed Queen
Mar to become the new god of the coming
age which is when I received BL in the
form of a vassel tailored for an
imperion imperian are those elected by
the greater Wells vassals to be
candidates for godhood these would be
Gods then must rest control of the Elden
ring and establish a new order becoming
a God and this was a feat that Mara
herself achieved when she was once
imperian the New Order is then completed
by the god taking a consort Elden Lord
pusx rigan and Godfrey being the ones
that we know about so yes the greater
will just want to an order any order
reinforced by the fact that it will
accept the order of the fail curse as
readily as it will the age of order
ordaining you as the Elden Lord equally
in each case this is all well and good
but it still leaves us with some
questions when did this happen though
when did the Elden ring arrive in the
lands between well certainly a long time
before even the Earth tree the Earth
tree and the Elden ring have not always
been synonymous we have already read
aosc remembrance which tells us he was
the Elden Lord in the time before the
Earth tree it clearly took some time
possibly even a millennia for the her
tree to emerge and the Elden ring was in
operation without it for some time my
ideas on this have changed a lot over
time but my conclusion remains that I
believe the Elden ring precipitated
diverse life on this planet meaning it
has been there since the beginning of
Life as We Know It
we only get one reference to the origins
of life in this world and that is via
the maiden of the three fingers heeta
after we assume the mantle of the Lord
of frenzied flame and we touch haetta we
transfer some of its power to her the
three fingers Grant her Clarity and give
her the bigger picture of their plan she
tells us how life came to be and of that
original state of life that the three
fingers yearns to return to as your
maiden allow me to Define them all that
there is came from the one great then
came
fractures and
births and souls so again we learn it
was the greater will that precipitated
diverse life in this world and again I
ask you how does the greater will act on
the Mortal plane indirectly through its
vassals and its Chief instrument the
Elden ring does it therefore not make
sense that it was the Elden Ring’s
arrival that started this change that
its power was what Afflicted the one
great and caused it to split this is
what I believe given what we know about
the greater will I believe the arrival
of the Elden ring via the means
described in Elden Stars was the moment
in which the one great shattered and
that the Elden ring was sent to the
Earth for this exact purpose to reform
the life found within the one great and
impos the greater Well’s order upon it
there is also evidence that the Elder
ring is inexorably tied to life itself
as the golden Rune item description
reads even now runes are still imbued
with the power of life itself the
current order the golden order is one of
Life Unbound with the removal of the
Rune of death Mar’s Rune is also an
interesting shape as suggested by quag
in a tweet there is a real possibility
that her Rune is an inversion of the
Rune of death making it the Rune of of
life and her the god of Life
Additionally the her tree is a creation
of the Elden ring or is at least
connected to its power as illustrated by
each of the endings in which a
rejuvenated her tree takes on the Hue of
the newly configured Elden ring this is
significant as the Earth tree itself
acts as the Nexus of life in the lands
between all life is returned to the
Earth tree via its burials and as is
pointed out by tarnished archaeologists
in their video series on life there are
murals in the catacombs that suggest
death is recycled life being born from
the bows of the her tree we know for a
fact that the earlier form of the her
tree during the age of Plenty would bear
Dew which itself contained life we learn
this from numerous items such as the
Amber medallions that contain the
hardened Amber of the earth tree
described as containing a primordial
Life Energy indeed the vital energies of
the Amber do seem to boo the Vitality of
the Bearer in different ways the Earth
tree is or at least was a life-bearing
tree the source of primordial life
itself which makes sense when you
consider the preceding form of the earth
tree The Crucible we learned that the
Earth tree was once The Crucible via the
god-skin noble set which reads Nobles
are the most ancient apostles who are
said to have assimilated inhuman
physiology not unlike The Crucible the
Earth Tree in its primordial form indeed
it seems as though the physical form of
this Crucible was itself somewhat treel
likee as syura spear is said to be
modeled on the CRS and it takes on a
wild arboreal form we learn more about
the role this Crucible played in regards
to life via the aspect of The Crucible
incantations which reads the following
this is a manifestation of the earth
tre’s Primal vital energies an aspect of
the primordial Crucible where all life
was once Blended together now in the
past I have certainly been guilty of
over complicating the nature of The
Crucible and the era in which it
occurred in the past I have theorized it
merely occupied the period before the
Earth tree with some overlap with the
age of dragons and the beastman
civilization however in starting aesh
for this video I believe the truth is
far simpler that truth being that The
Crucible has existed since the beginning
of diverse life since the splitting of
the one great the description of the
aspect of The Crucible incantation
contains a few key words The Crucible
was the place where all life was once
Blended together and it is the
primordial source of life if all life
had to have come from The Crucible at
some stage it means that it has always
existed at least until it was replaced
by its new form the her tree after all
siluria spear modeled after The Crucible
has its name taken from The Real World
saluan period one of the earliest eras
in the Earth’s history The Crucible was
the form that the one great took after
it had split following the greater
Well’s interference the one great and
Crucible are therefore overlapping
moments in the history of evolution and
thus it makes sense that they are
described using similar language both
are a stage of evolution where life was
Blended together they are an overlapping
stage of evolution but both moving in
the opposite direction The Crucible is
the Blended form of life prior to
diversification is The Crucible of
evolution conversely the frenzied flame
wishes to reduce life to a similar State
as the goal in of itself to return
things to the one great so to surmise
there was the one great a form of
singular uniform life and then came the
Elden ring which OS the greater Will’s
power upon it causing it to break and
become The Crucible from The Crucible
emerged all life and in time this
Crucible would become the Earth tree the
new Nexus of life and they both
represent a distinct moment in evolution
with the AR Trey representing the Advent
of civilization but we will get into
that
shortly so The Crucible era began and
the earliest civilization that we know
of of under this greater Epoch was that
of the ancient dragons fitting given
they can easily represent this world’s
version of the dinosaurs in my ancient
dragons lore video I had theorized that
there could be a reason that dragons
were the first beings on this Earth
zulie The Witch’s video on forto saacs
and the dragons highlights the fact that
under their Stone scales the dragons
have golden skin this is most easily
seen on the great wounds on pedus Sax’s
body body additionally pusx Elden Lord
of his kind breathes a very unique fire
a golden fire the gold color itself
suggests a link to the greater will but
doubly so when you consider there is
another being that breathes golden fire
the Elden Beast itself the Elden Beast
has a very draconic form is it possible
that these first life forms were made in
the image of God perhaps but what is
clear is that this was the civilization
that first acted as living vassals for
the greater will as we have noted or the
power structure they had an Elden Lord a
God and the Elden ring the ancient
dragons unlike their modern devolved kin
are beings of great intelligence as we
learn from Lance Sax’s glaive which
reads the following Lance sax was the
sister of Fort sax it is said that she
took the form of a human to commune with
the Knights as a priestess of the the
Ancient Dragon Cult while this of course
refers to an event far later in the
timeline it gives an insight into their
intellect and Powers they are able to
communicate with other beings and even
assume their forms combined with their
Incredible strength in possession of the
Elden ring it would be easy to see why
some may consider them to be gods and
indeed appears that this was the
relationship between the beastmen and
the dragons throughout farum aula we see
statues of Beast clergymen beside the
bus of ancient dragons implying this
religious relationship we know the
beastmen had a religious beliefs thanks
to the item description of the tenua
which reads short sword given to high
ranking clergymen of farum aula the
design celebrates a BEAST’s five fingers
symbolic of the intelligence once
granted upon their kind a few things to
break down here intelligence was granted
upon them meaning it was a process of
steady Evolution it was a sudden thing
something reinforced by the description
bestial Vitality which reads having
gained intelligence the beasts must have
felt how their wildness slipped away as
civilization took hold it was a sudden
and shocking change that happened in an
instant as an external Force pushed
sence upon them how disturbing it must
be to become aware in such a rapid
manner but what external Force well it
must of course be the result of the
greater well somehow and as I’ve
reiterated numerous times at this stage
the greater well never acts directly
thus I believe their intelligence
derives from the Elden ring and its
first custodians the dragons if this was
the case would it not make sense that
the beastmen would worship and serve the
dragons it is all speculation of course
but to me all the pieces fit the name of
the chinua is very fitting as it is an
Italian weapon that means a five finger
width blade matching the Blade’s
aesthetic design and symbolism but what
have five fingers got to do with the
granting of one’s
intelligence well as I’ve argued in
numerous videos before I believe this to
be a reference to our own Evolution and
our development of opposable thumbs that
granted us the ability to use tools a
foundational moment in our development
as an upright intelligent tool using
Rays indeed the beast’s own development
as a Society seems to be an analogy to
early man to real world prehistory and
credit to tarnished archaeologist who
was the first to point this out in their
Stellar farum Azula lore video which I
will link below first we start with the
Stone Age and evidence of their use of
stone tools revealed to us by looking at
the description of bestial sling which
reads the following it is said that in
the time before the Earth tree Stones
were the first weapons of of the beasts
who had gained
intelligence following tarnished
archaeologists observations we can then
track their development to The Copper
age by observing their burial practices
in farum aula clearly modeled on the
Varna burial of Bulgaria and then
finally into the Iron Age thanks to
their iconic weapons which are
identified as Iron by their item
descriptions this was the earliest
period of civilization following the one
great dissolution and the crucibles
emergence the prehistoric era of
dinosaurs and then primates analogously
represented by dragons and basement
respectively though it does seem as
though man Rose in these times as well
firstly there are artistic depictions of
human characters all throughout farum
aula then of course there’s the
Draconian appearance preet which reads
the following the Stony face of the
people of the ancient dragons among whom
life is typically short lots of
interesting takeaways here and things to
ponder firstly I do consider it likely
that these are the first men given life
expectancy for humans has gotten longer
as we have progressed so it would make
sense that the lives of early men are
far shorter secondly the description
states that they are of the ancient
dragons placing them concurrent with
this primordial race what does of the
ancient dragons mean does their Stony
countenance suggest they themselves of
evolved from the dragons or is it just a
clever bit of word play I think it is
unlikely but I acknowledge it is very
possible my favorite idea is the one
presented by dark tar in his video on
farum Azula where he points out that the
beastmen skeletons drop human bone
shards they also seem to wield Shields
that are also found on human skeletons
in Altus Plateau The Shield of the sun
realm are these our ancestors and is the
sun realm farum aula I leave it to you
to decide but what is clear is that this
Society marked the start of advanced
civilization of the lands between it’s
prehistory of The Crucible Epoch and
what finer representation of the wild
Untamed Crucible of life than the
dragons of course following prehistory
comes ancient history and Elden ring
follows this pattern by introducing us
to a mysterious ancient civilization
whose ruins can be found scattered
around the lands between these are the
ruins found in shifra river ear Palace
found in einzel river old Palace found
in Leia and mwin Palace before we even
get into the architectural style of
these constructions we can learn from
the in-game lore itself that this was an
ancient civilization via the mwin palace
map description which reads in the
lightless depths lies the grave of an
ancient
civilization it is here MOG the Lord of
blood is building his Palace to be the
seat of his coming Dynasty named mwin
and whatever nightmares that may bring
we know this ancient civilization
existed before the Earth tree thanks to
the enel river map description which
reads two great rivers flow beneath the
lands between the shifra and the anill
this vast region is said to be the grave
of civilizations that flourished before
the Earth tree reinforcing the fact that
this civilization flourished in the
lands between ancient era is the choice
of architectural inspiration few will
miss the obvious reference to the
classical Greek Parthenon in mwin Palace
and in general the Roman and Greek
inspired columns that support the
majority of the
buildings there are some other ancient
civilizations mixed in here as well as
noted by content creator quog there is
some Sumerian influence given that the
various obelisks found throughout the
ruins are clearly modeled on the black
Obelisk of Shel maner 3 additionally
tarnished archaeologist has highlighted
in a number of videos that the large
disc found at the foot of Elden John is
modeled on the Babylonian world map and
I would direct you to both of these
creators if you’d like a closer analysis
on the ancient
civilization Central to this
civilization clearly is the
aforementioned Elden John obviously a
figure of of some importance to this
civilization a religious figure Prophet
or leader what is interesting is a
detail that first came to my attention
via tarnished archaeologist video on the
ancient civilization where it was
pointed out that the tablet held by this
preacher has the inscription of a tree
upon it as I explained earlier I now
have a far simpler perspective on The
Crucible now that it emerged from the
beginning of Life on this Earth thus the
tree depicted on the plaque of this
preacher is likely just a depiction of
The Crucible in my opinion it is
therefore possible that this figure was
either the Elden Lord or God of a new
order following the fall of the Dragons
but that is just unbridled speculation
the main takeaway of this section should
be that there were plenty of preer
civilizations that Rose and fell in the
foggy past of the lands between early
history and who knows how many Elden
Lords there could have been between pusx
and Mara but we know there were many
cultures societies and practices that
existed in this time for example before
the Earth tree would come to dominate
ferary practices via Earth tree burial
another Force existed to administer such
rights the death Birds we know these
rights existed before the her tree
thanks to the description of explosive
ghost flame which reads in the time when
there was no Earth tree death was burned
in ghost flame death birds were the
keepers of that fire we know these
rights must have been fairly organized
and embedded in society as priests
seemingly accompanied these birds a fact
alluded to in the description of death
ritual spear these rights involving the
dead being burned in ghost flame by the
death Birds left a significant cultural
footprint in the lands between as they
became symbolic of death itself much
like the skull has for us in the real
world we see this in the mosum knights
who wear the wings of the death Birds on
their back signifying their undying
service to their Lords whereas the Raven
Mount assassins bear the aesthetic of
the death birds and emulate their
movement becoming them representing
their role as Bringers of death this
shows that this was no mere passing fad
and it was deeply ingrained into the
minds of people taking on a symbolic
role in their psyche no doubt as a
result of how dominant these practices
would have been in the preer era there
are countless other examples of small
communities and cultures of this era but
those are quite beyond the scope of this
video there were also some significant
cultural developments taking place in
the mountaintops of the Giants here and
the best introduction to this is
learning of how the fire Giants first
took these mountains
we learn of this fascinating event via
the description of boreal’s mist which
reads the ice dragons were once Lords of
the mountaintops long ago until they
were defeated by the fire Giants and
chased from the peak these ice dragons
follow the physiology of what we know to
be modern dragons and so it’s worth
making a brief diversion to explain
these devolved descendants we know there
is indeed a ancestral link between the
two subspecies of dragons via lightning
strike and we learn of the main
difference between modern and ancient
dragons via Dragon wound Greece which
reads the following when the dragons
were born from their ancient kin they
lost their Stone scales which can now be
used to cause them mortal harm these are
a devolved form that emerged from the
ancient dragons and in a lot of ways
they are lesser and more bestial in
appearance than the Regal and
intelligent ancient dragon
indeed this follows the same design
choice that we see in Dark Souls the
ancient dragons of that world also had
Stone scales of immortality and over
time They too had devolved kin in both
series the ancient dragons have stone
scales and four legs whereas their
lesser Drake or modern kin only have two
perhaps being closer to what we’d call a
drake the modern dragons also do not
wield lightning as the ancient dragons
did employing more traditional dragons
Bri bre albe it of different elements
depending on their environment or Diet
they behave more like animals as well
where the ancient dragons built a
civilization the modern dragons have
territories or nests that being said
they aren’t fully unintelligent as we
get evidence of dragons swearing loyalty
to characters like rany and the carens
exes decaying breath talks about his
memory and hatred however these beings
are clearly more beast-like in their
instincts and behavior
with that said let us return to the ice
dragons boreal’s kin who clearly took Ro
in the mountaintops of the Giants then
they were driven from here via the fire
Giants but where did these fire Giants
come from we get no clear answer on this
but what is clear is that they settled
here henceforth and began to build the
foundations of their own civilization
the Giants are far from mindless beasts
we learn that the art of smithing was
first developed by these beings via the
Hammer item description which reads
Hammer comprised of a large Stone
affected to a metal handle originally a
black Smith’s Tool The Art of smithing
is said to have originated among the
Giants this weapon striking attacks
boast ample weight behind them this is
no surprise when we consider the most
Central artifact of their culture is the
great Forge which contains the flame of
Ruin given this flame is the
manifestation of their God it’s likely
that they are art of Smith was passed
down by their God a fascinating idea
when you consider that many would use
this art to raise the sword against the
same God in the future regardless the
forge itself is an impressive
construction and is similar in style to
the other Grand arches found in the
mountaintops showing us that the Giants
were Builders the Giants were not alone
on the mountaintops however there are
the ancient people known as the zore we
learn that these people are old enemies
of the Giants via their armor set and
they would finally get their revenge on
the Giants by joining with the urry
forces something we learn of via their
armor set as well we don’t get the
reason behind this animosity however
symbolically it appears Elemental and
symbolic while the fire Giants represent
fire the zore represent the ice of the
mountains specifically they are
associated with the school of frost
magic as we can see from the ability
they use and the zamore ice spell which
reads cloaked in icy Tempest the Knights
of zamore have challenged the fire
Giants since ancient times the rest of
the spells in the cold School are
associated with the snowy Crone and rany
and as I speculated In My Blood star
lore video I believe that the snowy
Crone learned from the zor’s original
cold magic to develop her own before
teaching rany and potentially Alber an
interesting Legacy to consider however
the the fire Giants were not hostile to
every Community they came into contact
with in fact they existed peacefully
alongside another culture on the
mountaintops the early astrologers this
is something we learn via the sword of
Knight and Flame which reads astrologers
who preceded the sorcerers established
themselves in mountaintops that nearly
touch the sky and considered the fire
Giants their neighbors as this sword
illustrates the astrologers of the
mountaintops are extremely important to
the story as they are the ancestors of
the Glenstone Sorcerers and the carens
while Glenstone Sorcerers may not
continue these Traditions directly they
did still evolve from them as is told To
Us by the preceptor big hat which reads
Glenstone Sorcerers are the descendants
of astrologers a fact that the carians
remain aware of indeed astrology is
still the foundation of Karan culture
more so than the rest of R lucaria rala
herself was still in astrologer when she
discovered her full moon a fact told To
Us by Stargazer heirloom which reads the
young astrologer gazed at the night sky
as she walked she had always chased the
Stars every step of her journey then she
met the full moon and in time the
astrologer became a queen so while the
karan’s dynasty was founded upon the
power of rea’s moon they still retain a
lot of astrologer practices for example
they employ preceptors advisor teachers
and fate readers of the caran Royals who
are still very much concerned with the
reading of Fate within the Stars the
telescope item description also implies
that the Kens relied upon astrology
heavily until the reign of the earth
tree when the two houses would be linked
by marriage and likely carrying
Traditions may have been displaced by ER
tree ones so this is where the culture
of Leia began and where sorcery began
and we can find traces of this
civilization still in the mountaintops
of the Giants we can find astrological
basins and of course Stargazer ruins
almost certainly the ruins of where
these astrologers once lived at some
stage the astrologers will have migrated
to the lower basins of Leonia but why
did they do this well for those who
became Glenstone Sorcerers it will have
been because of that miraculous material
glint Stone we know that it was an
astrologer who first discovered glint
Stone and the Primeval current thanks to
the description of the founding rain of
stars which reads thought to be the
founding glint Stone sorcery the glimpse
of the Primeval current that the
astrologer saw became real and the Stars
amber rain down on this land we know
that the term Stars Amber is a reference
to Glenstone as this is the exact same
way the sellin describes the material if
glint Stone rained down from the sky and
the V vast majority of it can be found
in Leonia it makes sense that there
would be a mass migration down to the
Basin in order to study this miraculous
material it contains the very life stuff
of the Stars themselves our art draws
upon the powers embedded in Glenstone
but what is the nature of such power
Glenstone is the Amber of the cosmos
golden Amber contains the remnants of
ancient life and houses its vitality
while Glenstone contains residual life
and thus the Vitality of the Stars it
should not be forgotten that Glenstone
sorcery is the study of the stars and
the life therein bringing them far
closer to the Stars than the Towering
mountaintops ever could and in this
migration and shift in study we find the
very foundations of Leonia and the
beginnings of Glenstone magic with that
all said let us shift our attention
back to The Crucible and the era
immediately preceding the her
tree as I stated at the onset of this
video I believe that every event in
culture we have examined thus far up to
the start of the earthree era all take
place during the time of the CRS with
that said we haven’t yet examined the
culture and beings who are most
thematically linked with the cible so
let’s do that now as I’ve noted The
Crucible was the prior form of the earth
tree and thus it is no surprise that in
these Early times it would have taken on
a similar role in a religious sense this
is very much told to us directly by The
Crucible knot feather and scale
talismans a vestage of The Crucible of
primordial Life Born partially of
devolution it was considered a signifier
of the Divine in ancient times but is
now increasingly disdained as an
impurity as civilization has advanced as
you can no doubt from the wording used
here there is a clear thematic
distinction being made between the age
of the arery and the age of The Crucible
the age of The Crucible is one of
rampant Warfare chaotic and violent life
whereas the age of the Ury is the onset
of civilization and Order indeed also
separating these two periods are the
colors associated with them while both
are represented by gold which is fitting
given the connection to the greater well
they are different shades of gold we
learn of how red gold is associated with
The Crucible via the Gilded great Shield
The Shield of godric’s Knight and it
reads the following the red tinge in the
gold coat mirrors the primordial matter
that became the Earth tree the color of
Homeward yearning we see this red gold
present in other elements associated
with The Crucible to reinforce this idea
such as in the armor of The Crucible
Knights and the Red Gold lightning of
the ancient dragon dragons as pointed
out by last protagonist in his excellent
great Tree video why Red Gold well I
think Hawkshaw answers this question
perfectly in his incredible Elden ring
colors video which I will link below in
this video Hawkshaw stresses the
importance of various colors and their
thematic meaning within the story of
Elden ring with red often representing
animal impulses violence rage and lust
but also just generally that it is
linked to vitality and life which
Hawkshaw illustrates by showing how many
red colored items in Elden ring are
associated with
HP the example of red that most
resonated with me from Haw Shaw’s video
is the red blood of beasts this is
fitting for The Crucible the source of
primordial Untamed life as such the
beings and characters associated with
The Crucible should represent this idea
of chaotic unbridled vitality and
violence should the thematics true and
they do The Crucible talismans we looked
at earlier correspond to two main forms
of life the not Talisman for the omen
and the scale and feather for the M
begotten as each represent a chaotic
element of these life forms out of
control growths we know the M begotten
are directly connected to The Crucible
thanks to the description of the winged
M begotten spirites which reads the
following the misbegotten are held to be
a punishment for making contact with The
Crucible
and from birth they are treated as
slaves or Worse the misbegotten are
mismatched chimeric creatures with all
sorts of vestigial Limbs and wings
growing from their bodies that serve no
real purpose it is just uncontrolled
growth life for the sake of Life there
is no uniformity to their kind they are
chaos incarnate in a lot of ways the
themes behind the misbegotten and The
Crucible more generally are in line with
the Bed of Chaos and demons from Dark
Souls both of the Bed of Chaos and The
Crucible are a source of raw life and
both have similar physical forms taking
after a chaotic tree the other creatures
connected to The Crucible are the omen
and aesthetically they line up with The
Crucible brutish creatures of immense
strength and violence covered in chaotic
vestigal horns then of course there are
the human Warriors most associated with
this era
the legendary and Powerful Crucible
Knights adorned in the red gold and
chaotic affectations of The Crucible
they are able to summon the power of The
Crucible at well and there is almost no
better illustration of The Crucible than
these aspects of The Crucible each
variation brings forth an animal element
Wings horns and Tails once again
reinforcing The Crucible connection to
life Savage Warriors for a Savage age
none more Savage than the man these
Knights are associated with haalu who
had become Godfrey first Elden Lord we
learn of this Association via their
armor set which reads armor of The
Crucible Knights who served Godfrey the
first Elden Lord this is how we know
that hu was associated with The Crucible
though one only needs to have fought
Godfree second stage to see how easily
he fits into this age of violence and
beasts Hu is the Persona Godfrey becomes
when he is later banished from the lands
between but it was also his original
name and character a fact we learn from
hu’s remembrance which states that
Godfrey became a simple Warrior once
more he was haalu in the age before the
earthree and he reverted to this Persona
following his Fall From Grace in the
time of horu No Doubt the chieftain had
become a leader through a might makes
right mantra which is more or less
stated in the description of the acts of
Godfrey which reads the following in the
days of the past a crown was warranted
with strength indeed we get further
evidence that this is the case thanks to
hu’s Badland tribes that seem to revert
to his old ways following his banishment
from the lands between we learn of their
ways via the champion headband which
reads headband reserved for the bad
land’s bravest proof that the wearer has
slaughtered countless foes following the
example of their Chieftain hu the Brave
Warriors of the bad lands shun excess
adornment while the Badland tribes are
hu’s culture after his banishment and
time as Elden Lord we can assume that it
is also representative of his attitudes
and values in the age of The Crucible as
well he is Hu in both instances after
all we learn a lot of Godfrey’s
victories at the time when he was Lord
of the battlefield and consort America
but we don’t learn much directly about
hu’s conquests prior to him becoming
Elden Lord there is one of relevance
that I would like to mention and that is
his potential conflict with SOS we know
SOS was once known as Lord of beasts via
the beastclaw great hammer which reads
the black nails protruding from Golden
fur are said to represent SOS Lord of
beasts who went to become king Godfrey’s
Regent
he was once Lord of beasts and then
became Godfrey’s Regent my assumption
being that Godfrey defeated SOS but
respected the Lion’s Council and
strength thus sparing him it’s clear
that this Union would be important to
Godfrey either way as SOS himself would
become the Sigil of the golden lineage
there is certainly more to be said about
hu’s earlier days for example tarnished
archaeologist makes a compelling
argument that Roundtable hold is is part
of early hu culture given it Bears the
lion heraldry of the golden lineage and
its rustic design sets it apart from
high Lan Dell suggesting it does indeed
come from an earlier time it is worth
noting that a lot of the Warriors who
will have fought with Godfrey in the
early days at this stage will have been
the ancestors of the tarnished as we
know from one of marica’s speeches it
was Godfrey’s Warriors who had become
the banished tarnished is it not fitting
therefore that our ancestors once
gathered around the Roundtable of
Lindell as we do now in the grace
sustained copy either way it is clear
that hu was The Greatest Warrior of this
era a mighty Chieftain and thus it is no
surprise that Mar chose him to be her
consort Amica needed a warrior as we
know from Godfrey’s own armor set that
the age of the Earth tree began in
conflict and who better to Champion the
her tre’s Ascension than Hu
before we discuss the wars of the arery
we need to discuss the main player in
this period of Time Queen Marica the
Eternal at some stage in the era before
the erery a mysterious people would
arrive in this world a people called the
new men we learn of their arrival in
nature via the relevant appearance
preset and it reads the following the
face of the Newman supposed descendants
of Denis of Another World Long lived but
seldom born these beings are humanoids
that are not native to this terrestrial
plane and they do appear to be different
Supernatural even firstly there is of
course their long lives which no doubt
is the source of Mar’s moniker the
Eternal as well as the reason the
Eternal cities are called Eternal but we
will talk about the nox shortly there
are further thematic hints about the
otherworldly nature of the Numan VI the
original Japanese for the Numan which is
marabito marabito are spirits from
Japanese mythology who come from afar or
other worlds to bring gifts and wisdom
so at some stage these beings arrived
from another world to settle in the
lands between and this is where we start
to touch on lore that would certainly be
touched upon in the DLC the flavor text
for the DLC tells us that the Land of
Shadows is the place where Mara first
set foot highly suggesting that these
were the lands that the Newman first
made landfall there is also something
extremely interesting that was said by
Miyazaki in an interview with famitsu in
which he said in fact the Land of
Shadows is the place where Mara became a
God and the golden tree was born
naturally there was a culture that
existed before the golden tree and the
line dance character is derived from
that culture this is where it all
happened for the 2 years following the
base games release this has been a gap
in the lore that we have tried to
theorize around as we have noted The
Crucible was the prior form of the earth
tree and at some stage the Earth tree
must have emerged from The Crucible to
usher in a new age and bring order and
civilization but how and why the DLC now
promises to answer those questions and
with the Twisted tree in the distance
and the links to The Crucible seen in
the DLC I am very excited to find out
how this transition happened and what
Mar did in order to stimulate this
change but all we know for now is this
marica’s people arrived in this world
and she was chosen as emperion and we
learn of this status thanks to Malik’s
remembrance which reads malth was a
shadowbound beast given to his imperion
marica’s sole need of her Shadow was a
vessel to lock away destined death even
then she betrayed him
the emergence of the earth tree and
Amica as a new potential God seems to
have triggered a war in the lands
between as protection of the earth tree
reads in the beginning everything was in
opposition to the Earth tree but through
countless victories in war it became the
embodiment of order everything was in
opposition to the Earth tree in the
beginning and this should come as no
surprise given everything we have
discussed up to this point the lands
between prior to this point was a rich
Place full of different cultures
religious and burial practices and now
here comes a new power a power of
Conformity and order that promises to
wash away the ideals and practices of
old and dominate the lands it is easy to
see that many would not be fond of what
the Earth tree represented and they were
right to fear it given the fact that
elements more associated with The
Crucible would soon become oppressed
isolated and enslaved under this new
order hu’s transformation into Godfrey
is itself an illustration of the
transition from The Crucible to the
earthree era we know that the chieftain
known as hu became the lordly Godfree in
order to conduct himself in a way more
becoming for the new age of civilization
he did this by taking on his two most
iconic symbols both of which neutered
his bestial Crucible esque nature his
axe and his lion companion SOS the
description of his acts tells us that it
was symbolic of his vow to conduct
himself more like a lord from chiefton
to Lord godre His companion say Ros
while a remnant of the beasts and their
civilization does not add to hu’s
Violent nature but in fact serves to
drain it we learn of this via the
Godfrey icon which reads Godfrey was a
ferocious Warrior when he to become a
lord he took the Beast Regent SOS upon
his back to suppress the ceaseless lust
for battle that raged within indeed this
was no doubt what was expected of a lord
of this new order as Hawkshaw points out
in his color’s video the ruler’s mask
precisely outlines what is expected of a
ruler in a civilized society as it reads
such a mask illustrates the qualities of
an ideal Lord chiefly wise and
possessing a certain defanged
geniality one at the center of society
often finds these qualities most
expedient it’s clear that as the world
changed with the coming of civilization
Godfrey had to become a different man
and a different leader but this doesn’t
mean that the fighting was done after
all we know that Godfrey was the lord of
the battlefield and his armor details a
number of conflicts this is the era I
call the Erry Wars the war for
supremacist
that brought the lands under the control
of amica’s Ury order but really the most
pivotal moment of this era and the
conflict we know most about is the war
of the Giants we know this was the final
Conflict in this era because of the
relevant war memorial which reads the
war against the Giants Champions battle
trolls betray fire vanquished the era of
the earth tree Begins the end of this
conflict marked the beginning of the
earth Tre era proper the last of its
great enemies to fall this passage also
touches on the likely reason that the
urry forces declared war on the Giants
fear of the flame fear of the flame has
long been a part of Earth tree society
and we see this demonstrated in the item
description for Fire’s deadly sin which
reads the prophet despaired looking up
at the Earth tree for soon the kindling
would burst into Flame bringing ruin the
burning of the earth tree is the first
cardinal sin that is not the domain of
Mere Men the fact that is named the
first cardinal sin to me implies this
was one of the first fears and rules
laid down by the early Earth tree order
it seems as though prophets would begin
to have visions of the tree of flame the
catch flame incantation tells us more
about such prophecies as it reads the
flame of Ruin is an aema to the Earth
tree but prophets sometimes Glimpse it
within the faith all the same sadly when
this occurs their sole reward is
banishment the Earth Tre order tried to
suppress such prophecies as we learned
such prophets would have been ostracized
indeed this seems to be the role of the
Prophet starting class the flavor text
for which reads air ostracized for inici
prophecies and their robe set reads
something similar and reinforces
that the prophet starting class saw this
Vision in particular is the fact it does
indeed start with the catch flame
incantation indeed a connection seems to
be made between these visions and the
flame of Ruin catch flame even mentions
it in the same breath as such prophecies
and I have no doubt it was the fear of
these visions that brought the earthree
forces to the mountain Toops the
seriousness of this conflict is
reflected in the fact that both Godfrey
and Mara personally took to the field in
this battle we know that Godfrey was
there thanks to his armor set and we
know Marica was there because she gave a
rousing speech to her Army on the slopes
of the mountain hark brave
warriors hark my Lord Godfrey we commend
your Deeds guidance hath delivered ye
through each ordeal to the place ye
stand put the giant to the sword and
confine the flame at top the mount let a
new Epoch begin an Epoch glistening with
life brandish the Elden ring for the age
of the Earth tree it is also said that
she defeated the fell God herself
something we learn of via oneeyed Shield
which reads once worshiped by the Giants
this evil deity is believed to have been
slain by Queen Marica regardless Mar and
Godfrey both took to the field and the
well have been been joined by their army
Godfrey’s Crucible Knights and the
zammer who we know took this opportunity
to finish off their old enemies thanks
to their armor which hails them as
Heroes of this war it is Little Wonder
then that the fire Giants face complete
obliteration against such overwhelming
odds yet the actual nature of how they
died has always been an interesting
conversation and is something I most
recently addressed In My Blood star lore
video the corpses of the Giants are all
impaled on on a thorny spear which
appears to have shot straight out of the
ground piercing the face of the fail God
before ripping their body apart from the
inside with thorns it suggests magic and
I’ve always had two main theories the
first is that this is an unknown power
of Mara and the ER tree at this time
Mara is brandishing the power of the
Elden ring and the ER tree is Young who
knows what power she would have been
able to wield at this time we also know
Thorns can be associated with the Earth
tree as well given ragon uses Thorns to
block the interior of the earth tree
however the other theory is the one I
lend more Credence to that these staves
are the work of thorn sorcery in the
Years following the war with the Giants
the UR Dynasty would seal the
Mountaintop guarding the remains of the
flame of Ruin through a special order
the fire monks serving among these monks
are exiled criminals these Thorn
Sorcerers who we know were pun punished
by being blinded with thorns thanks to
their signature Briars of sin spel which
reads an aberant sorcery discovered by
exiled criminals theirs are the
sorceries most reviled by the academy
the guilty their eyes gouged by Thorns
lived in Eternal Darkness there they
discovered the Blood star the proximity
of these Sorcerers to the battlefield
are enough to question whether they are
linked to the mighty staves that pierce
the Giants never mind the thorny nature
of the staves themselves the main thing
for me however is the fact the fire monk
camps even in Leia have these staves
surrounding them to me this suggests
that the thorn Sorcerers at the camp
summoned them just as they did those
Spears long ago either way the Giants
were defeated at least almost all of
them were as we find a solitary fire
giant at the Mount of flame but why why
not wipe them out
entirely well that is a question
answered by the fire Giant’s remembrance
which reads the following the fire giant
is a survivor of the war against the
Giants upon realizing the Flames of
their Forge would never die Queen Mara
marked him with a curse oh trifling
giant mayest thou tend thy flame for
eternity the flame of Ruin would not be
permanently quelled and thus one giant
was Left Alive to tend to it while the
mountain of run was SE sealed and
watched over by the order of the fire
monks who in time would come to emulate
the Giants and worship their charge the
remnants of the old order had been swept
away and the era of the UR tree began
before we discuss the urry era we do
need to discuss a very important Numan
subculture the nox of the Eternal
cities when we meet the KNX in game they
exist Underground and the Eternal cities
exist around the remains of the ancient
civilization there are a number of
reasons why myself and others believe
the KNX are an offshoot of the Newman
firstly there is the dialogue from roier
who identifies the Assassins as Sans of
the Eternal cities but they are also
tied to the Newman via their armor
description suggesting the people of the
Eternal cities and the Newman are one
and the same the next piece of evidence
comes from the Environmental
storytelling of the third Fallen Eternal
City this city has been long abandoned
by the nox destroyed in some Calamity
but nearby there’s a giant ant colony
these ants are somewhat modeled after
the real world Honeypot ants which bloat
when they feed in order to store food we
can see that ants in this game have the
habit of feasting on corpses as many can
be found doing so in anzel river with
the bloated ones dropping the runes of
those they have consumed it is therefore
very telling that the bloated ants found
next to the Fallen Eternal City
exclusively drop Newman runes further
emphasizing the fact that the noxs that
once inhabited this city were Newman the
nox were not always located underground
and this something we learn from the KNX
monk set which reads the following long
ago the nox invoked the eye of the
greater will and were banished deep
underground now they live under a false
night sky in Eternal anticipation of
their Le of the coming age of the stars
and their lord of night what did the
noxs do to evoke the ey of the greater
will well they were involved in the
night of the black knives but this is a
far more recent event and I doubt it
would be described as taking place long
ago instead I believe the nox killed or
at least attempted to kill one of the
greater Will’s two fingers and this act
of sacrilege earned their banishment
below ground if we choose to work with
rany we learn that she is trying to free
herself from her two fingers being
imperian she was assigned one in her
youth in order to do so she asks us to
retrieve a certain artifact from the
Eternal cities the Finger Slayer blade a
special knife that has the ability to
kill the two fingers the item
description for this blade reads the
following the hidden treasure of the
Eternal City of nocon a blade said to
have been born of a Corps this Blood
drenched fetish is proof of the high
treason committed by the Eternal City
and symbolizes its downfall cannot be
wielded by those without a fate but is
said to be able to harm the greater will
and its
vassals this blade is very special and
was clearly made of some dark forbidden
magic the description also tells us that
this is a blood drenched knife and this
is before rannie uses it on her own two
fingers leaving me to conclude that the
nox had already used it on a two fingers
in the past whatever the reason it is
clear that the noxs are no friends to
the greater will or marica’s rule once
they were numen now they are the redyed
KNX even their name which is Latin for
night seems to have been chosen to
represent their opposing ideas is the
armor set we just read tells us the
ultimate goal of the nox to bring about
the age of stars and their lord of night
in this they have a common cause with
rany and perhaps this is why Scions of
the Eternal City work with her during
the night of the black knives indeed
like rany the Eternal cities seem to
have a patron Moon that they align
themselves with the black moon of Noella
we hear about this Celestial entity via
the Moon of Noella Talisman which reads
the following this legendary Talisman is
a treasure of Noella the Eternal City
this Talisman represents the Lost Black
Moon the Moon of Noella was the guide of
countless Stars it perhaps Little Wonder
then that the NOS have also heard about
the age of stars and sought to bring it
about though the Black Star is now gone
it is clear that the KNX resorted to
some rather heretical means to raise up
their lord of night it seems as though
they turned to dark sciences and Alchemy
to further their goals and to
artificially create their lord of night
noxian Alchemy is extremely impressive
and is one of my favorite pieces of lore
for example the nox seem able to distill
the Fate latent within the stars in
order to manipulate the Fate itself
through various potions we see this in
the celestial Jew a fate altering
product that appears to undo aggressions
of the past even ragon cleansed himself
with this liquid following the leian
wars and before his marriage to ranala
there is also the puppet draft something
that is made from Starlight shards again
distilling the power of the stars in
order to Shackle the fate of an
unfortunate victim these are impressive
Feats but more important to their aim of
raising up a lord of Knight seems to be
found in their works of artificial life
the act of creating artificial life in
of itself is a heretical act and this is
something indicated To Us by the
greatest lore item in the game the
aloric blood clot which reads the
following Alban orics are life forms
made by human hands thus many believe
them to live impure lives Untouched by
the Earth trees Grace firstly there are
the dragonkin soldiers Dragon human
hybrids who we learn about via frozen
lightning spear which reads the Dragon
King were born in the Eternal City where
they knew no true sky nor true lightning
instead ice lightning was their weapon
as to why the nox created the Dragon Kin
we can but guess it was clearly intended
to be a powerful weapon or an attempt at
creating a lord of night given the
dragons were the ruling force in ages
past an Elden Lord among them it isn’t
too difficult to believe that the nox
would look to the Past for their lord of
night however these Abominations were
clearly abject failures and so other
artificial life forms would be created
in pursuit of their aims we had
mentioned the Alban orics before and
there is plenty of circumstantial
evidence that the noxs were the original
creators of these beings the main piece
of evidence is actually a cut dialogue
from thops who would have said oh one
more thing but whereare the Alban orics
a cursed Souls born of a forbidden right
of the Eternal City the curse withered
the legs of the old and silence the
tongues of the frogs and now they hold
deep grudges for anyone left untouched
aside from this the very fact that the
noxs are so involved in alchemy and
artificial life means they are the most
likely to have created these beings a
case of aam’s Razor then there are the
silver and mimic tears which also appear
to have been created by the Eternal
cities the evidence in game is
circumstantial the fact these enemies
are found solely in the Eternal cities
being the main factor however there was
a cut NPC in quest that would have
directly linked these beings to the
Eternal cities there was going to be a
special mimic teer called aimi who would
latch on to you in a sort of symbiotic
relationship she would provide you power
while she would slowly copy your form
during this Quest aimi would have asked
you to visit the Eternal cities and seek
out the source of her people and I quote
this cut dialogue now my Lord host great
Lord host may I ask something of you a
chalice is close by the Cradle of my
kind would you mind finding it for me
you should find the chalice and drink it
dry ah my Lord host I am terribly
parched the Chalice will quench my
thirst rejuvenate My Flesh and allow me
to Grant you further strength please my
Lord host it is my only desire My Lord
host great Lord host a teer chalice lies
in these lands too a tear chalice lies
in these lands our mother chalice please
search out this most sacred chalice it’s
suffused with the Blessed wonders of the
Stars it will allow us to become a
perfect whole there is a lot more to say
about the Eternal cities and I have said
it in numerous videos for the purposes
of this video however I believe we have
covered the absolute basics of these
Fascinating
People the early days of er tree rule
appear to be very headyy days Days of
great Bounty and life it is also known
as the age of Plenty we hear of this era
via items like the icon shield and the
sacred Jew Talisman it was the age of
Plenty because the literal sap of the
tree would drip from its bows As Told to
us by the sacred du Talisman the dried
Amber would become treasured relics of
this era and Godfrey’s early rule as the
Amber medallions read the following a
medallion with Crimson Amber in laid the
her tre’s old sap becomes Amber
treasured as the most precious of jewels
in the age of Godfrey the first Elden
Lord a primordial Life Energy resides
inside as we have discussed the AR tree
itself is the Locust of Life the new
form of The Crucible and the source of
all life thus it is no surprise that its
sap contains the essence of life itself
as we can see from the gameplay effect
of the Amber there were benefits to be
had from possessing this sap perhaps
even extending one’s life or curing
illnesses it is suggested that Queen Mar
herself would bestow these blessings
upon her people as the Earth tre’s favor
Talisman reads it is said that when the
age of the Earth tree began such
blessings were personally bestowed upon
their recipients by Queen Marica herself
so yes this age of Plenty was the
earliest period of er tree rule when the
era began and we can more broadly
categorize this as the ancient ER tree
era tarnished archaeologist in a video
called Creeds of the earthree offered a
very compelling analysis of the
different ages of the earth tree divided
into three main periods illustrated by
the relevant schools of incantations the
ancient earthree era era of earthree
worship and golden order
fundamentalism this ancient Earth tree
era would be comprised of the late
Crucible era and the age of Plenty given
it contains both the aspects of The
Crucible and age of Plenty Associated
incantations for example ER tree heel is
named an ancient ER tree incant ation
and it clearly refers to the age of
Plenty in its description as it reads
the Earth tree Once flourished with
abundance yet it was only for a fleeting
moment such is the course of all life
this age came to an end and the Earth
tree would stop producing its sap but
why well the first explanation is that
it just simply dried up the sap was a
byproduct of The Crucible and thus as
time progressed the sap stopped however
there is another Theory again presented
by tarnished archaeologist in that same
video I referenced earlier in it ta
suggests that the original form of the
AR Trey was more arboreal instead of the
Phantom version that stands today and
that the original form was burned to the
ground the evidence ta illustrates is
mainly the ash found in lell when we
first arrive when we later burn the UR
tree Lindale does indeed get buried in
Ash but where then did the original as
as come from note the ash reaches even
amica’s bed chamber suggesting the ash
must have come from above and doors and
windows have been sealed as if to
protect the Interiors from the influx of
Ash and this all predates our burning of
the tree was the original her tree
burned down only to be replaced by a
phantom one I feel these are the type of
questions that will get somewhat
answered in the DLC but for now I will
leave it to you to decide however there
is one final event that I feel falls in
the latter part of the ancient her tree
era and that is the godkin god
hunt the reason I plac this event here
is mainly down to the Black Blade
incantation a reflection of Malik’s
death INB blade which has the Sigil of
the ancient ER tree era as its sigil for
a more in-depth discussion in general
regarding the placement of this event I
would refer you to my Glo eyed Queen
Lura video this movement was centered
around the figure known as the Glide
Queen and we can learn a little about
them via black flame ritual which reads
the following the Glide Queen led the
apostles it is said that she was an
imperion chosen by the fingers as we
discussed earlier in the video imperian
are those elected by the two fingers as
potential candidates for godhood meaning
this glowey queen was a sanctioned
candidate of the greater well and thus
the Sinister godkin God Hunt is just a
dynastic struggle in the grand scheme of
things clearly the greater well was
happy for this to play out how it would
with an order of death being as viable
as maras of course the glowey Queen’s
Army was made up of the godkin Apostles
beings who wielded the black flame of
death the glowed Queen seemingly raised
these beings from birth a fact learned
from the godkin swaddling cloth which
reads the Glide Queen cradles newborn
Apostles swaddled in this cloth soon
they will grow to become the death of
the Gods to me this suggests that the
God skins are not naturally born and
recruited from normal populations they
are created for this singular purpose
and raised by the Glide Queen from birth
one speculative idea is that the God
skins are either beings created from the
Queen’s mag magic infused with the power
of the black flame from birth perfect
vessels for its power indeed it is
suggested that the God skins literally
hold the black flame within them as
black Flames protection reads the
apostles were all embraced by the Glide
queen and the black flame was their
armor within the other potential is that
these are artificial life forms created
by the type of alchemy we already
examined when we looked at the nox we
learned that this flame harnessed the
power of the Rune of death and could
slay the gods as scouring black flame
reads the black flame could once slay
Gods but when malakith sealed destined
death the true power of the black flame
was lost this of course would make the
God skins fearsome opponents to Marica
and her family the item description of
noble presence makes it clear that this
was a god hunt with the apostles
actively seeking to murder the gods and
their followers there their robes
themselves are extremely suggestive are
they truly made of God skin if so how
many of Mar’s kin fell to these Apostles
before being skinned however the item
description only says that it is made of
skin and there is evidence that it is
regular human skin for at the Windmill
town of dominula there is an unusual
Festival taking place the Grim nature of
the festival becomes clear when you
speak to the ghost of one of the
villagers
this is a skinning festival and at the
top of the village is a god skin Apostle
my take has always been that this
Apostle has manipulated the inhabitants
of the village so that it may provide a
fresh supply of skins for God in robes
regardless the psychological effect of
these robes will have no doubt struck
fear Into the Heart of the earthree
pantheon coupled with their gods slaying
flame and led by an imperion it must
have been quite the terrifying time for
the gods however God’s salvation came in
the form of Mar’s shadowbound Beast
malakith who is said to have defeated
the god-skin apostles malakith is a
powerful Warrior no doubt but part of
his power seems to have come from his
blade which he imbued with the power of
destined death itself Something Told To
Us by his armor set which reads malakith
Queen marica’s loyal half brother bore a
blade imbued with destined death and
there was not one demigod who did not
fear Him not only did malakith defeat
the apostles but he seemingly defeated
the Glide Queen herself as the gods
slayer’s great sword reads sacred sword
of the glomi queen who controlled the
god Apostles before her defeat at the
hands of malth thus the Rebellion ended
but what happened to the gloe queen well
her identity has been a long debated
aspect of Elden ring lore but to get
right to it I have always believed that
melanina was once the gloy queen of
course my main evidence for believing so
is the ending of the frenzied flame
where Melina unveils her sealed eye
revealing it to be purple very much a
color one may asso associate with Glo
and of course she threatens us with the
power of destined death the power once
wielded by the Glide there is further
significance to this reveal that I
pointed out in my Gloom eyed Queen video
and that is the timing of this reveal
should you choose the frenzied flame
path Melina will abandon you and she
isn’t sacrificed at the flame of Ruin
thus this is the only time she survives
past the point that the Rune of death is
unsealed and and at the same time her
eye is
unsealed for me it is circumstantial
evidence that melan’s eye is tied to the
power of destined death much as the gloy
queen was next we can consider melan’s
unusual state of being she tells us me
I’m searching for my
purpose given to me by my mother inside
the earth tree long ago for the reason
that I yet live
burned and bodyless the first thing of
Interest here is that Melina exists
burned and bodyless meaning she is
existing in a spirit form this does seem
to be somewhat analogous to rany’s
present form who also exists without a
body and who is also able to appear and
disappear at will as for the burned part
well malakith wielded the red flame of
destined death within his sword so is it
possible that melan when she was
defeated by malth was burned to death by
his flame indeed we can still see the
burn marks on her spirit body now and we
know that the Rune of death can kill in
body while leaving the spirit intact as
this is how rannie also uses the Rune of
death my speculation is that Mara
ordered malakith to kill Molina only in
body so she could later use Melina for
another purpose perhaps to guide a
chosen tarnish to the foot of the earth
tree and sacrifice herself to undo
radon’s meddling
there is also the fact that Melina names
Mara as her mother and if she is the
Glide Queen then it very much highlights
the fact that this is a dynastic
struggle it also ties into to the other
connections I alluded to earlier the
potential connections to the Eternal
cities first of all if Melina is Mar’s
daughter she is Newman and thus would
already have some Blood Ties to the
Eternal cities if you summon Mela in the
fight against morgot you will also
notice is that she has the same fighting
style as the black knife assassins
themselves Scions of the Eternal cities
again suggesting some connection between
Melina and these people next she is
called the Glo eyed queen and the nox
are a matriarchal society and it
therefore wouldn’t be too much of a
surprise if they named Melina as their
Queen in anticipation of her
overthrowing America and becoming the
new God then of of course there are the
artificial elements we discussed earlier
and all of these potential connections
fit if Melina the daughter of Queen
Marica was also the glowy Queen the
final thing we need to discuss is the
ceiling of the Rune of death this is an
important moment to try and place within
the timeline I used to mistakenly
believe that malakith sealed the Rune of
death during this conflict and that the
moment he took its power within his
blade that this was it being sealed and
that he did this to sap their power
essentially however this is just
incorrect as the Apostle’s robe tells us
that it was after their defeat that
malakith sealed destined death I
therefore believe that this ceiling is
actually something that happened much
later following the night of the black
knives and the theft of the Rune of
death’s power following which malth
would seal the Rune within his own flesh
I do however believe that it was this
that marked the start of the golden
order as Ena states that the Rune of
death was plucked from the Elden ring
upon the creation of the golden order it
was taken from the Elden ring and placed
within the sword of malth who wielded it
serving as marica’s feared
enforcer perhaps it was even the God
skins who brought about the first
burning of the ER tree and brought the
age of Plenty to a close V in an
excellent video about flames with an
Elden ring highlights an old cut version
of ania’s dialogue that would have
played at the point where we unleash the
Rune of death she used to say the Rune
of death is Unbound black Flames have
devoured the Earth tree and the lands
between are shrouded by death’s dark
fate with the age of Plenty over and
following the destruction of the God
skins a new era would begin the rule of
the golden order and the age of earthree
faith
we can assume that the Earth tree
military would have been somewhat
reformed in this period of the earthree
faith following the age of Plenty given
the knights and soldiers of Lanell bear
the Sigil of the earthree faith not the
ancient her tree this makes sense as we
can imagine as the age of Plenty passed
the culture of Lindell would undergo
significant changes and begin to shake
off the elements of The Crucible those
that would be considered crude for
example The Crucible Knights were likely
sidelined at this stage given the
description of their gauntlets which
read in time the strength shown by these
Knights and even their appearance was
seen as chaotic and deserving of scorn
it would therefore make sense for the
urry forces to make a standing army of
its own more in line with its beliefs if
The Crucible Knights were banished at
this time this new for course would not
rely on the strength of The Crucible
instead would rely on various protective
incantations that invoke the earth tre’s
power one of these incantations links
this era to one of the more interesting
conflicts in the story The Conflict
known as the leonian wars as the barrier
of gold reads one of the incantations of
Earth tree worship this incantation was
used by the champions of the earth tree
in the first and second lure wars during
which the red-haired ragon joined the
heroes ranks so this is very much a war
that took place in the postage of Plenty
era but still under Godfrey’s reign as
ragon is merely a champion at this time
not yet an Elden Lord indeed it is Ragan
who takes center stage during this
conflict not Godfrey as we hear plenty
about his heroics for example one of the
relevant sword monuments reads the first
larian war radigan’s Glory Burns Red as
his hair he also wasn’t just a champion
during this conflict rather appears as
though he was the leader of the erre
forces as Mariel says the following Lord
Ragan was a great Champion possessed of
flowing red locks he came to these lands
at the head of a great golden host when
he met lady ranala in battle we can
learn some details about these battles
for example despite the fact the Erry
forces were likely much larger the caran
knights were so skilled that they were
able to match the greatest among the
champions of gold as the kion’s KN sword
reads these knight swords could serve as
catalysts letting them wield sorceress
battle skills despite numbering fewer
than 20 this power made them a match for
even the champions of gold in battle the
results of the war also speak fors the
carens were able to hold the superior
forces of the AR tree to a standstill as
a sword Monument reads the second
leonian war no victory for the golden
nor for the moon no prize but atonement
the birth of a vow the wars of Leonia
instead end an alliance an alliance
sealed by joining the two houses via the
marriage of ragon and queen ranala this
symbolic Union took place face at the
equally symbolic Church of vows and
Mariel describes these events to us as
he says Radigan once cleansed himself
with Celestial due repented his
Territorial aggressions and swore his
love to renala the order of the erre and
the fate of the moon were conjoined and
all the wounds of War forgiven this
miracle blesses the church to this day
and so you need only follow radigan’s
example to restore any bond however
strained or severed to its rightful
state of Harmony this marriage is an
important event in the history of the
lands between as not only does it bind
the lands between together through an
important Alliance but it has many other
effects such as the erosion of Karan
traditions and of course the birth of
some extremely important characters rany
Reichard and radan are all born of this
marriage and each would go on to have a
profound effect on the lands between
perhaps most importantly the marriage
would change ragon as a person and his
learning here would provide the
foundations on which he would build
golden order fundamentalism the ragon
icon reads as the husband of ranala of
Kara the red-haired ragon studied
sorcery and as the husband of Queen
Marica he studied
incantations thus did the hero aspire to
be complete we will return to the
relevance this has to fundamentalism
later but just bear in mind that Radigan
learned a lot from his marriage to
ranala and it was the source of his
desire for holism at some stage during
radon’s marriage to ranala another
significant event would take place
likely a result of the evolving ideals
surrounding civilization and the desire
to shed any attachments to The Crucible
era the event I am referring to is the
banishment of Godfrey and his Warriors
we hear about this event via Mara’s own
words in Mar’s own words my Lord and thy
Warriors I divest each of thee of thy
Grace With Thine Eyes dimmed ye will be
driven from the land between ye will
wage war in a land
ofar where you will
live and die this is the origin of the
tarnished with the term tarnished
referring to their graceless status a
tarnishing of their honor and standing
within the lands of Grace we then learn
that Godfrey LED his people on a long
march to find a new home an event
referenced in both hu’s remembrance and
in his access to description this was so
great a journey that even his mighty axe
was shattered in one of the many battles
of this Odyssey upon settling Godfrey
return to being horu ruling over a new
tribe in a region known as the Badlands
however we know the tarnished spread far
and wide we can choose various starting
classes and races that speak to the
diversity of the tarnished peoples the
fact that tarnished can be of all Races
including the Newman for example
tell us that they are not a people
necessarily connected by Blood but it is
a shared
Heritage masaki himself discussed the
nature of the tarnished in a pre-release
interview with IGN where he said so the
tarnished you could call them tarnished
individuals who have lost Grace and this
was a long time preceding the setting of
The Game a long time before the
ancestors of the characters that are
present in the world were banished and
exiled from the lands between these
tarnished despite their banishment there
also seems to be a strong loyalty to the
two fingers and the greater well
embedded in their culture for example
there is an organization known as the
confessors a group very much connected
to the tarnished the crepus black key
crossbow tells us that the head
Confessor is a member of Roundtable hold
and thus ET tarnished CPUs also links
the confessors to the Roundtable
assassin
as the creepus vile talks about these
Roundtable killers and given he is the
head Confessor it means that the
confessors and these assassins are one
and the same with that in mind if we
look at the incantations of these
assassins we can learn that they are
identified as tarnished for example the
darkness incantation reads the following
incantation of the two fingers servants
who once served as the Assassins of the
Round Table hold the Assassins were
themselves once tarnished who had
strayed from guidance and they pursued
their Duty in the darkness that is
without Grace so the confessors are a
tarnished
organization operating from Roundtable
hold and are so zealous in their loyalty
to the two fingers that they will hunt
down their fellow tarnished if they are
deemed traitors the Confessor Hood tells
us more about the tarnished association
with the two fingers as it reads the
following the church is outside the
lands between dedicated to the teachings
of the two fingers send confessors out
to follow the guidance of Grace the
confessors are loyal servants to the two
fingers ready to hunt down and quietly
dispose of their enemies this item
description has a lot of interesting
detail firstly it tells us that these
churches spread the religion of the two
fingers in the countries outside of the
lands between secondly it reinforces how
loyal these tarnished are to the two
fingers
they spread their message far and wide
and they will kill any who oppose the
two fingers there is another interesting
interaction which reinforces the idea
that the tarnished are often considered
to be Servants of the two fingers as
when we first arrive in the lands
between burn Hill asks us if our faith
in the guidance of Grace holds firm if
we confirm that it does he says the
following does your faith in the
guidance of Grace Hold firm despite the
collapse of the golden order yes you’re
a tarnished through and through takes me
back but that’s a quality needed now
more than ever any interest in bearing
the torch of my battle Arts all I know
is the sword picked up a fair few tricks
in my time too Now’s the Time to pass
them on to a good and proper tarnished
like you this is the expected mindset of
a tarnished and I have personally always
found it fascinating that the tarnished
have retained their loyalty to the lands
of Grace despite their banishment from
it with Godfrey vacating the throne the
power vacuum would be filled by none
other than ragon himself who would
abandon his marriage suddenly in order
to return to Lindell and this is told To
Us by Muriel who says the following
however when Godfrey first Elden Lord
was hounded from the lands between
Radigan left renala to return to the
earthree capital becoming Queen marica’s
second husband and King consort taking
the title of second Elden Lord the
mystery endures to this day as to why
Lord Radigan would cast lady ranala
aside and moreover why air Champion
would be chosen for the seat of Elden
Lord with that said the time has come
for to discuss ragon and his era of
golden order
fundamentalism Mariel asks an important
question why was rigan a mere Champion
chosen to become the Elden Lord that
would replace the great Lord Godfrey the
answer will be apparent for anyone who
has played the game and uncovered ragon
Secret at Lindell Radigan is Mara Mara
and ragon are two egos that inhabit the
same physical phical form a reality that
we witness in the climactic battle of
the game where Marica is transformed
before our very eyes into ragon but how
did this come to pass was ragon always a
part of America or did he once exist as
his own person before being fused with
America I have always been in the school
of thought that believes Radigan has
always existed as a part of America and
that he was never his own individual rad
seems to have no history prior to the
lorian wars where he seemingly appears
out of nowhere and is leading the ER
tree forces I believe there is plenty of
evidence to suggest that ragon was
indeed already part of America at even
this stage firstly he is leading the
entirety of the urry forces without
having earned this position but this
makes sense if ragon is actually Mara
there is also the fact that it is ragon
who makes the decision to stop the ER
tre’s territorial aggression and to
instead make peace with Leia through
marriage as Mariel says the following he
soon repented his territorial
aggressions though and became husband to
the Kian Queen who is ragone to make
massive political decisions why is a
mere champion of the erre order deciding
when territorial aggressions need to end
and alliances are to be formed there are
further details regarding radon’s
marriage to ranala that hint at the fact
ragon was indeed Mar at this stage and
that steps were taken to maintain the
privacy of this fact the caran
preceptors were important advisers to
the caran Royals and thus would have
been in close contact with both ranala
and ragon it is therefore interesting
that the description of their masks the
mask of confidence reads the following
when ragon married ranala he ordered the
caran magic preceptors to Dawn these
masks to make it clear that all of their
matters were to be kept strictly private
so if we accept that ragon has always
been a part of Marica then we do need to
consider how and when this came to pass
was Marica born with ragon as a separate
Persona or did he manifest at some
important moment in her life I leaned
towards the latter for a few reasons and
specifically I think ragon manifested at
the climax of The War of the Giant
when Marica became the ruling God proper
the first piece of evidence I would
direct your attention to is the
description of Giants red braid which
reads the following every giant is red
of hair and ragon was said to have
despised his own red locks perhaps that
was a curse of their kind for me the
language used here is very interesting
that red hair is a curse of their kind
and I believe that ragon was created
during this conflict and somehow the red
hair curse of the Giants imprinted
itself upon this new persona of Marica
consider the context of this conflict it
is the final battle of a long series of
Wars it is the moment when Marica is
crowned God of a new era but it is a
bitter conflict with Marica herself
taking to the field and slaying the fail
God herself she seemingly hates the
Giants a fair bit as her dialogue quoted
in the fire Giants remembrance is pretty
callous is it possible that amica’s
hatred of the fire Giants also imprinted
upon this new personality as for how
ragon came to be I would speculate that
it was perhaps an effect of the Elden
ring itself after all Marica is a vessel
for its power and it isn’t too much of a
stretch to imagine that it caused Mara
to create a secondary Persona ragon and
Mara certainly have some thematic
connections to some of the ideas found
in alchemy specifically the concept of
an alchemical
the magnum opus of the field a being
which is reconciliation of opposing
matter male and female in one body the
Rebus is said to be a combination of the
White Queen and red King and it is hard
to ignore the clear inspiration that
Maha and ragon take from this concept
the rabus is said to be the perfect
being given that it is the unification
of all matter and perhaps this is why
the Elden ring transformed Mara so that
she would be the perfect God and vessel
for the Elden ring this is all just
speculation and ragon is an extremely
complex character and I would therefore
direct you to my ragon lore video should
you require a more indepth explanation
of this character with all that said
perhaps it isn’t too much of surprise
that ragon is a character very concerned
with wholeness and the reconciliation of
opposing schools of thought these are
the concepts that form the basis of
golden order fundament ISM we can see
this in the actual gameplay elements as
golden order fundamentalist incantations
like law of regression require both
intelligence and faith in order to cast
them the reconciliation of sorcery and
faith we gain a further understanding of
the ideals of fundamentalism when we
examine its two main laws the law of
causality and the law of regression both
of these laws reinforce the concepts we
have already discussed that all things
must be conjoined connected and
reconciled it is a philosophy of holism
for example the law of regression reads
the following the fundamentalists
describe the golden order through the
powers of regression and causality
regression is the pool of meaning that
all things yearn eternally to converge
as is explained by content creator last
protagonist in their excellent great
Tree video this long law of regression
is a reference to the real world
statistical phenomenon known as
regression towards the mean regression
towards the mean is the idea that in a
set of data the extreme outliers of that
data set will move closer to the mean or
average in subsequent sampling in the
context of Elden ring the law of
regression is slightly different and
instead is a reference to the
fundamentalist desire to have life
converge into a more uniform Force
this is why golden order fundamentalists
are so brutal to those who exist outside
of their holistic worldview they are
extreme variables that contradict their
ordered converged view of life I serve
the golden order that I might put this
crooked land to rights following only
the guidance of the great Elden ring
those who live in death fall outside the
principles of the golden order their
mere existence Sol the guidance of gold
tainting its truth and so it is the
Vermin must be
exterminated down to the very last
before we move on to the night of the
black knives we need to discuss another
important element of radon’s rule the
birth of his children with Mara mea and
melenia Micha and melenia were born
special both their parents shared the
same divine body and we learn about the
auspicious nature of their birth via
millenia’s remembrance which reads the
following Micha and melenia are both the
children of a single God as such they
are both imperion but suffered
afflictions from birth one was cursed
with eternal childhood and the other
harbored rot within melenia was born as
a vessel for the Scarlet rot chosen by
the outer God of rot to Herald in a new
order of rot something it’s explained to
us by Gary Queen Marica and her King
consort Radigan were blessed with twin
demigods and melenia was one of them she
was born an imperion carrying the
Scarlet rot an imperion is no mere
demigod in the age of the Elden ring and
queen manica the precious emperion was
born a new God to forge a new order
since melenia fought radan and the great
Scarlet flower blossomed in aonia I have
dedicated myself to her and to the
resplendence of the order of rot the
cycle of Decay and rebirth melenia did
not choose this however and thus she and
her brother would seek a cure their
whole lives in order to preserve melenia
and prevent the goddess of rot from
emerging for her part melenia would
learn combat techniques from a very
special mentor and we learn about this
relationship from prosthesis wearer
heirloom which reads though Born Into
The accursed Rot when the young girl
encountered her mentor and his flowing
blade she gained wings of unparalleled
strength this Mentor shown on the
heirloom image itself is likely the
legendary blind swordsman and there are
a few reasons for believing so firstly
the heirloom talks about his blowing
blade and this is the exact same
adjective used to describe the blind
swordsman’s blade in other sources for
example the blue dancer charm reads the
following the dancer in blue represents
a fairy who in Legend bestowed a flowing
sword upon a blind swordsman blade in
hand The Swordsman sealed away an
ancient god a God that was rot
itself this swordsman had a long history
with the Scarlet rot using the flowing
water-based techniques of the Blue Fairy
he sealed the Avatar of the outer God of
rot beneath the lake of rot flowing
water thematically fits as the opposing
Force to rot due to the shle view of
stagnant and flowing water in short the
idea of Purity in the ever-flowing cycle
of life in Shinto is commonly
represented by flowing water and
conversely stagnant water is used to
represent the perversion or halting of
said Cycles
pests and insects thrive in stagnant
water and thus they are often also used
to represent corruption and rot simply
put stagnation is death and flowing
water is life and credit to air athetics
who essentially explained it exactly
this way in their Silent Hill video
which I will link below melenia thus
fights as a flowing river smooth
rhythmic even unending attacks her
signature move is called water foul
dance after all and my understanding has
always been that the blind swordsman did
not teach her combat techniques for the
sake of battle press although this is a
significant benefit but so melenia could
use these techniques to forall the rot
within her much as The Swordsman sealed
the outer God of rot all those years ago
melenia was not alone in her struggle
however the eternally young mola is
touted as the wisest imperion of all by
his sister and from what we know of him
this certainly lines up he helped his
father develop golden order
fundamentalism something we learn about
from the descriptions of discus of light
and triple rings of light both of which
state that Mika was actually the one who
taught Radigan these particular
incantations mola’s true motive for
investigating the depths of the golden
order was actually to find a cure for
his sister and this is revealed in the
description of rigan’s rings of Light
which read the following one of of the
incantations of the golden order
fundamentalists a gift of gratitude to
the young Micha from his father Radigan
and yet the young Micha abandoned
fundamentalism for it could do nothing
to treat millenia’s a cursed rot this
was the beginning of unalloyed gold this
was what pushed Micha to begin his own
golden order an unalloyed golden order a
version of order free of the impurities
that polluted his fathers
but what are these impurities well the
various versions of micha’s Golden
unalloyed Needle tells us that the
meddling of the outer Gods is what Micha
is chiefly concerned with this is no
surprise given the outer God of rot had
ruined his sister’s life and he had no
doubt watched her suffer her whole life
losing her Limbs and her freedom to the
Scarlet rot michela’s new order was
audacious in its intent taking an herry
sapling he attempted to grow his own
Earth tree something we learn of via the
halik tree Crest circot which reads the
following this cirat Bears the crest of
the halik tree though watered with
mela’s own blood since it was a sapling
the Hal tree ultimately failed to grow
into an her tree it’s clear that micha’s
order was meant to rival and replace the
current her tree order a new capital
city to replace lell the Hal tree to
replace the ER tree and unalo gold to
replace the golden order he did help his
sister he forged her unalloyed armor and
gold prosthetic limbs which no doubt
helped to forall the rot within her body
and most importantly it seems as though
he gifted her one of his unalo gold
needles we find the broken needle in the
heart of eonia right beneath the
original Scarlet Bloom suggesting that
melenia discarded it or dropped it just
before she unleashed the Scarlet rot
during her battle with ran we can give
this repaired needle to melicent one of
the Scarlet Valkyries and the needle
successfully holds back the Scarlet rot
and allows her to function without
debilitating pain and thus we can assume
it did something for melenia when she
had it micha’s empathy for his sister
does seem to have carried over to the
denisons of the lands between in general
as he appears to be a protector of the
weak and the
outcast the sacred Crown Helm worn by
his foot soldiers reads the following
who is it that michola shall bless if
not the low and the meek indeed the
halig tree town seems to be home to the
reviled M begotten and the Alban orics
have also been granted sanctuary in the
lands between MCA also seems to have
cared for Godwin and those who live in
death the golden Epitaph a memorial
sword reads the following a sword made
to commemorate the death of Godwin the
golden first of the demig Gods to die
infused with the humble prayer of a
young boy oh brother Lord Brother please
die a true death the young boy quoted in
this sword is of course Mika a fact
reinforced by the weapon art of this
sword which presents a halic tree sigil
when used mola is also associated with
Castle Saul a castle which seems to be
devoted to returning the souls to those
who live in death something we can learn
about from the various ghost dialogues
found around the castle who are
beckoning the eclipse to swallow the sun
to return the souls of the Dead micha’s
connection comes from a specific ghost
dialogue wherein the castian of the
castle his ghost apologizes to Micha for
failing to return Godwin’s soul to him
at some stage Micha CED himself and
embedded himself in the halic tree’s
inner wall we can clearly see where this
cocoon was located in Millenia boss room
in a hole beneath a Micha like growth
Gideon himself relays intelligence about
Mika where he says he had also heard
that Mika had embedded himself in the
halig tree I heard speculation Mika
embedded himself in the helic tree but
before he could finish someone cut the
tree open and absconded with his infant
form
indeed it seems those words held weight
why did he do this
well millenia’s armor contains a quote
from her in which she mentions that
Micha had made a promise a promise that
he would keep in the past I had
speculated that this was to do with his
Ascension to godhood and that by
embedding himself in the halic tree he
would be able to become the unalloyed
god and banish the outer Gods forever
fully curing his sister and others
tormented by the machinations of the
outer Gods however with the release of a
DLC trailer my thoughts have somewhat
shifted Micha has somehow traveled to
these lands of Shadow with the flavor
text from the Bandai Namco website
telling us that he gave up his very
flesh in order to travel to these lands
is this cuning process tied to that
Journey that it somehow allowed him to
ascend in spirit to this different realm
only time will tell but Micha strikes me
as a being who has plans within plans
and it’s likely he is searching the
shadowlands for something that will
allow him to achieve his goals as of
right now neither melenia or mcla are in
a good spot MLA was captured by Moog
during the shattering and his mortal
remains have been corrupted by M’s Omen
blood MOG wishes to establish a new
order the order of blood M’s Patron is
the outer God known as the mother of
Truth like any order however this order
needs a God to which Moog will be the
consort Lord Moog has therefore stolen
the imperian Micha hoping to transform
him into the god of blood however Micha
has long left the Mortal plane his
Spirit has anyway and M is merely in
possession of a vacant husk there is one
final facet of mola’s character I wish
to discuss and that is his ability to
compel as we have briefly discussed
Micha does seem to be an empathetic
character and thus one worthy of loyalty
drawing good people to his side like
Loretta who secured Asylum for the Albin
oric and in exchange she has become
micha’s loyal KN however there is a more
Sinister side to Micha one explored by
the bewitching branch which reads the
following tree branch blessed with an
incantation of unalloyed gold the
imperian Micha is loved by many people
indeed he has learned very well how to
compel such affection the branch thus
offers a sample of micha’s power and the
power to compel is essentially the
ability to turn someone into your thrall
this raises the question of how far this
power goes does it afflict everyone
who’s loyal to the unalo or does he only
use this power when he needs to his army
contains some of the most zealous
Warriors of any demigod with his foot
soldiers able to blow themselves up in
incredible display of faith and
destructive power is melania’s love for
him even real or is it another effect of
his power I do think I think many
including melenia love Micha for the
qualities we’ve explored in this chapter
however I have no doubt that despite his
appearance Micha could be a terrifying
Vision to his enemies there’s a lot more
to Micha and he will play a big part in
the DLC so I would highly recommend my
recent Micha lore video but with that
said let us return to the timeline of
events and look at the night of the
black
naves in both the introdu cinematic and
the story trailer this event is almost
presented as a Prelude to the shattering
war and I am of the school of thought
that this night was an aggravating event
that would eventually lead to Marica
shattering the Elden ring roier gives us
a good overview of what happened that
night as he says it happened during the
Golden Age of the ER tree long before
the shattering of the Elden ring someone
stole a fragment of the Rune of death
from malth the Black Blade and on a
bitter night murdered Godwin the golden
that was the first recorded death of a
demigod in all history and it became the
Catalyst soon the Elden ring was smashed
and thus sprang forth the war known as
the shattering roier also gives us a
nice overview of how this murder took
place a group of conspirators stole the
Rune of death from the blade of malth
and used this blade to kill the renowned
demigod God Godwin the golden born of
the lineage of Marica and Godfrey he
then later identifies the culprits of
said conspiracy as in a separate
dialogue he says the following you
recall our conversation about the night
of the black knives yes they say the
Assassins who carried out the deed were
SS of the Eternal City a group entirely
of women arrayed in armor of silver
under cloaks which fooled the eye the
knives they wielded though were imparted
with the power of the Rune of death
through Sinister right the black knife
assassins are descendants of the Eternal
cities thus they are kin to America and
the royal family given they are numen or
nox this is why the black knife assassin
armor set relates these individuals to
America as it reads the Assassins that
carried out the Deeds of the KN of the
black knives were all women and rumored
to be Newman who had close ties with
Marica herself there are many reasons
why these women would conspire against
the crown after all they are descended
from the nox who have a long history of
resisting Erry Authority and it
therefore isn’t difficult to understand
that there are some of Mar’s kin who
have an issue with her rule however they
may well have been gathered and
influenced by the lead figure of this
Insurrection rannie the witch
stepdaughter to Queen Marica through
some investigation roier is able to
identify rannie as the hand that crafted
the black knife blades when confronted
with this accusation rannie does not
deny that she was involved as she says I
see quite the sleuth aren’t we indeed I
am the witch Ronnie I stole a fragment
of the Rune of death and used it to
forge the gods slaying black kniv
through fearsome right I did it all in
the past I have speculated where rannie
could have learned such a fearsome right
and I believe that her Mentor the snowy
Crone is the most likely source of such
magic ranny’s new puppet vessel is
indeed based on this witch something we
learned from the description of ranny’s
clothing set and it is therefore clear
that this figure had a large influence
on rannie this witch also taught rannie
ice magic and taught her about the
deeper mysteries of her Dark Moon as
Glenstone ice CAG reads the snowy Crone
taught the young rany to fear the Dark
Moon as she imparted her cold
sorcery is it not possible therefore
that this snowy Crone taught rany about
darker rights rights that could be used
to transpose the power of the Rune of
death into a blade there are further
hints that the snowy Crone has knowledge
of the darker elements of the world as
alrick a sorcerer of the Sinister Blood
star also uses cold magic suggesting he
too might have been a student of the
Crone at some stage as well rany’s
reasoning for joining this conspiracy is
for her own personal goals rather than
specifically overthrowing the earthree
dynasty she explains why she did what
she did in a moment of Candor as she
says the following but I would not
acques to the two fingers I stole the
Rune of death slew mine own Imperium
flesh casting it away I would not be
controlled by that thing rany’s aim this
night was to destroy her own imperian
body in order to free herself from the
control of the two fingers and the
greater will indeed we can find rany’s
original body discarded and with the
half wound wheel of the centipede upon
her back the description of the curse
mark that we can take from her body
reveals the truth of the ritual that she
executed that night as the item Des
description reads curs Mark carved into
the discarded flesh of rannie the witch
also known as the half wheel wound of
the
centipede this curse mark was carved at
the moment of death of the first demigod
and should have taken the shape of a
circle however two demigods perished at
the same time breaking the curs mark
into two half wheels rany was the first
of the demig Gods whose flesh perished
per is while the prince of death
perished in Soul alone rannie
specifically organized a ritual she had
some of the Assassins carve half of the
Rune of death into the back of Godwin
while she had the other half carved into
her back at the exact same moment doing
it this way rannie split the effect of
the Rune of death between two people she
used Godwin as a totem so he would take
the death of the Soul while she only
died in body rannie used Godwin to free
herself and he was left to suffer a
horrific fate his lack of Soul
transforming him into the Aquatic Prince
of death I have discussed this in great
detail in my Godwin lore video and I
therefore direct you towards that if you
want a more in-depth look but Godwin’s
appearance is likely a thematic illusion
to shinal beliefs surrounding stagnation
and death something we explained earlier
in the video to me this is why we find
so many instances of Godwin’s corruption
found in pools of stagnant water
including Godwin’s Arena and is why the
tiar Mariners are also associated with
water though they also blend this idea
with another deathly figure Kon from
Godwin his curse of unlife would spread
in the form of death route and its item
description reads the following on the
night of the dire plot the stolen Rune
of death enabled the first death of a
demigod later the Rune of death spread
across the lands between through the
underground roots of the great tree
sprouting in the form of death route the
death route is literally the stolen
fragments of the Rune of death spreading
like a weed across the world afflicting
others with the same loss of soul that
Godwin has the consequences of this
night were far-reaching not only freeing
rannie from her shackles and allowing
her to pursue her age of stars but it
also Unleashed those who live in death
across the lands between it also shook
the foundations of the golden order and
Mar’s rule setting events into motion
that would change the world forever it
was Queen Mar who would shatter the
Elden ring and disrupt the current order
of the
world Melina recreates a speech from
Marica herself where she declares her
intent to destroy the Elden ring in a
speech directed at ragon she said is oh
Radigan Le Hound of the golden order
Thou Art yet to become
me thou art yet to become a God let us
be shattered
both mine other self ragon and Mara
fight for control of their shared body
during this event with Marica shattering
the Elden ring while ragon tries to
repair it Something Told To Us by the
descript deson of Mar’s Hammer which
reads the tool with which Queen Mara
shattered the Elden ring and ragon
attempted to repair it the hammer
partially broke upon shattering the ring
becoming splintered with Rune fragments
we can see this conflict in the
announcement trailer and the
introductory slides where each ego
alternately takes control before Mar is
ultimately successful in destroying the
Elden ring as to why she shattered the
base of her own power when well I have
hinted at it in the prior chapter I do
believe it was the brutal event of the
night of the black knives that drove
Marica in her despair to destroy the
Elden ring and pave the way for a new
Lord and order my first reason for
believing so is the timing as I’ve said
the introductory cinematic the story
trailer and roer’s retelling of events
all place the night of the black knives
as the prequel event to the shattering
heavily hinting a connection however
there is a more direct piece of evidence
to be found on the Bandai Namco website
itself in an article that accompanied
the release of the story trailer back in
December
2022 the article describes the basic
background to the setting and it says
the following of the night of the black
knives and the subsequent shattering so
Begins the tale of the shattering a
devastating war between the children of
Marica demigods of the lands between
one Grim night in the depths of winter a
flock of unknown assassins stole across
the lands between in a coetaneous attack
this foul Covenant snuffed out the lives
of many of the god Queen’s King
throughout the Empire too numerous and
too scattered for her Godly protection
to save the Assassins targets were
multifold but none was as devastating a
loss to the Eternal queen as that of
Godwin the golden after his death the
Elden ring was somehow shattered and the
Order of the world broke with it many
demigods were murdered during this event
but it was the death of Godwin the
golden that caused Mara the most grief
following his death she would shatter
the Elden
ring the introductory cinematic tells us
that at the time the Elden ring was
shattered Queen Mara also disappeared
and there is good reason for her absence
as she has been imprisoned within the
her tree as punishment for her crime and
this is something Ania explains to us as
she says Queen Marica is the vessel of
the Elden ring carrier of its Vision a
God in truth but after the elen Rings
shattering she was imprisoned in the
earth tree a grim punishment for
shattering the order despite her godhood
however Queen Mar had prepared for this
moment and I do need to take a moment to
acknowledge fellow content creator ratat
toscar for refining my ideas surrounding
Queen marica’s intentions in a recent
podcast on his channel ratat tosar and I
discussed many elements of Elden Ring’s
lore including the Knight of the black
knives I have long being a proponent of
the theory that Queen Marica was not
involved in the black knives conspiracy
mainly highlighting the fact that rany
is the one who clearly benefits from it
as well as the quotes from the Bandai
Namco article that heavily imply Amica
was devastated by the events of that
night however ratat tocar challenged my
perspective offering a solid argument
for the opposing view by suggesting that
Queen Marica purposefully disrupted her
own order in an attempt to create the
conditions that would lead to the
shattering with the hope that a Worthy
new Lord would arise from this conflict
aside from the description of the black
knife armor which speaks of these
assassins having close ties to Mar ratat
tocar cited a certain speech by Queen
Mar as evidence of this particular
Theory as she said the following hear me
demigods my children beloved make of
thyselves that which he
desire be it a lord
be it a God but should he fail to become
art at
all he will be
forsaken amounting only to
sacrifices now I still don’t agree that
America was involved in the
assassination of Godwin I believe the
Bandai Namco article is very indicative
of the developer intentions regarding
the story and the reference in the black
knife assassin armor in my opinion is
not a reference to Mar being involved D
and is instead a reference to marica’s
Blood Ties to the Assassins indeed
fellow content creator Loki translated
the black knife armor set from the
original Japanese and offered his
appraisal of it I quote Loki now it is
said that the Assassins who are the
perpetrators of the KN of the conspiracy
are all women and according to one
Theory were visitors close to Amica Loki
then goes on to explain that the
translation of close is in the
psychological sense not in terms of
dealings however I think there is a lot
of value in what ratat tocar said and I
now believe that in response to the
brutal events of that night Amica did
indeed plan to set up the conditions for
the shattering in order to bring an end
to the stagnation of the current ERA and
replace it with something new she
therefore warns her children of the
coming conflict that they will be set
against each other in a brutal
competition ition that will Forge a new
Lord she also planned for their
potential failure as it is she that
seemingly assigns hug to Roundtable hold
instructing him to produce a Gods
slaying weapon for the future tarnished
no no no
no I need to do better than this this
will never kill a God I can do better
than this it needs to slay a bloody God
she must have done this prior to
shattering the Elden ring as she would
be imprisoned after that point meaning
that Marica was laying contingencies in
advance of shattering the Elden ring
indeed it seems as though Mar long
considered the tarnished as her Ace in
the Hole as when she banished them a
long time ago she already promised them
that one day they would return to the
lands between
then after thy
death I will give back what I once
claimed return to the lands
between wage
war and brandish the Elden ring grow
strong in the face of
death Warriors of my
lord lord
Godfrey however War would not
immediately break out between the
demigods as it seems as though a sort of
council was formed to maintain order in
the unstable period following Queen
Mara’s disappearance there there is
reference to this Alliance in a sword
Monument found in alus plateau and I
quote it now the First Defense of
Lindell a sovereign Alliance rots from
within traces yet remain of bloody
conspiracy I have speculated in the past
that this Sovereign Alliance is a
unified Council of the demigods that is
represented by the Thrones that we find
in morat’s Arena however this peace was
fleeting and the alliance would CR
leading to the First Defense of Lindell
and the greater conflict known as the
shattering War we know that each of the
demigods claimed A Shard of the broken
Elden ring artifacts of great power
known as the great runes these great
runes are both sources of immense power
but also part of the reason that the
demigods end up at each other’s throats
the power of the runes grant them great
power but also warp their character soon
marus Offspring demigods
or claimed the
shards of the Elden
Ring The Mad taint of their new found
strength triggered the shattering
a war from which no Lord
arose a war leading to
abandonment by the greater will this is
a fact confirmed by Miyazaki himself who
said the following in an interview with
PlayStation and I quote him now in Elden
ring we wanted to take a slightly
different approach because we had these
brand new characters that George R
Martin wrote alongside the setting and
Mythos he provided for the world he
created these very heroic and grandiose
designs essentially these demigods from
the history of Elden Ring’s world so we
wanted to take what he provided us and
create a new core for these characters
and how we design them from the Boss
Designs that we’ve revealed so far the
one that I feel is a good match for how
we take a eroic concept and twist and
misshape it due to the power of the
Elden ring shards is godric the grafted
he is an excellent example of this
because he encompasses that feeling of
sadness and frustration when a Lord
comes to the end of his Reign trying to
cling desperately to the power he still
has left each of the Demi Gods has a
heroic element to them that was
perverted by the Twisted power of the
great runes and if you like a more
in-depth discussion on this subject I
would highly recommend ratat tocar
heroic concept series each of the
demigods with great Rune in hand clearly
believed that they were the rightful
successor perhaps all except morgot who
saw his demigod kin as nothing more than
pillagers and traitors to the Earth tree
there are many great battles of this war
the siege of volcano Manor the two
defenses of Lan Dell and millenia’s
humiliation of godric to name a few and
detailing all of these events is quite
outside the scope of this video however
we already know the ultimate result of
this war thanks to the opening cinematic
which states that it was a conflict from
which no Lord arose it was a stalemate
the story trailer informs us that the
last two standing were none other than
radan the star Scourge and melenia The
Undefeated swordswoman meaning the
climactic battle of the war was the
battle of Ionia this battle culminated
in a ferocious duel between Millennia
and radan Ran’s power was so
overwhelming that Millennia would
unleash that which she had been holding
back her whole life the Scarlet rot the
result in cataclysm caused Millennia to
briefly become the goddess of rot the
original eonian Bloom is still present
in the center of the swamp it having
grown into a treel likee life form and
its tendrils reaching all parts of kalid
neither demigod walked away Victorious
from this event General radan is eaten
away from the inside by the rot until he
became nothing more than a beast and his
forces would forever be occupied
fighting off the Scarlet rot and its
denisons resolved to Halt its advance or
die in the attempt the red M Knight
armor reads the following when they were
driven to defeat by Millennia Scarlet
rot the red M Knights burned the Crest
on the left breast of their armor to
indicate their resolve alas dear home I
Shan see you again for our duty is to
remain here a Bull workk against the
blight Millennia didn’t fear much better
something we learn of via clean rot
night Finley’s ashes which read the
following Finley was one of the few
survivors of the battle of eonia who in
an unimaginable Act of heroism carried
the slumbering demigod melenia all the
way back to the Halo tree
she managed the Fate alone fending off
all manner of foes along the way first
of all it tells us that Finley was one
of the few survivors of the battle of
eonia suggesting that very few of
millenia’s forces were able to walk away
from this conflict next it tells us that
the unleashing of the Scarlet Rock left
Millennia in eoma and thus she had to be
carried all the way back to the hel tree
where her newly released rot would
infect its bows and turn it into a
rotting husk that contain literal
waterfalls of scarlet rot with the fall
of these last two demigods the greater
well would renounce them and look
elsewhere for a replacement Lord they
would look towards the tarnished this is
where our Story begins in the
introductory slides to the game we hear
about the most famous of the tarnished
who were brought back to the lands
between by Grace tainted by the
strengths of their runes her children
Ward but none could become Elden Lord
and so Grace was
extended to your kind the
tarnished
listen the fingers speak the great will
has long renounced the
demigods
tarnished show no
mercy have their heads take all they
have left
indeed we do see a Sprite of Grace next
to each of these characters if you look
carefully enough we ourselves are
eventually granted Grace resurrecting us
and bringing us back to the lands
between this is the power of Grace not
only does it guide the tarnished but it
is the source of their
immortality one thing that you will
notice is that all of the legendary
tarnished with the exception of FIA are
dead by the time Grace comes to them
telling us that it brought them back to
life before guiding them to the lands
between indeed we see this process
happening in real time to our own
character who has granted Grace at the
beginning of the story resurrecting them
and bringing them to the lands between
in the book called Overture of Elden
ring Miyazaki confirms the connection
between grace and the tarnished ability
to resurrect and I quote him now the
immortality of the tarnished St s from
the power of the guidance of Grace
tarnish that die outside the lands
between are given new life through the
guidance of Grace and are beckoned to
the lands between this is basically the
start of the game I guess the guidance
doesn’t want the player character to be
freed we as the player arrive quite some
time after the first tarnished arrived
in the lands between as the round table
hold has quite a rich history and many
stories of past tarnished who have come
before us for example there are varram
the Raging wolf who is described by his
armor set as one of the first tarnish to
have visited Roundtable hold there are
also veteran tarnished like Old Knight
esvan whose armor set reads the
following armor worn by Old Knight esvan
esvan is one of a few wizen tarnished
who survived to this day the term wizen
really reinforces how old isan is and
how long he has been in the lands
between there are also head
that the two fingers have been here for
some time as the coded sword description
reads Champions would gather at the
round table hold in days long past when
the two fingers were masters of oration
their flesh Yet full of vigor we find
this weapon in the Fortified manner but
it is clear that it is the Ethereal
Roundtable hold that is the Gathering
Place of Champions being referred to
these Haan days seem to be long past the
two fingers are now withered and
crumbling hiding in their inner chamber
rather than giving inspiring speeches
the champions of our time also seem to
be far from the great champions of old
most of them clearly incapable or
unwilling to take on the demigods and
claim the great runes VAR a servant of
the Lord of blood Moog gives an
excellent appraisal of the sorry state
of the round table as he says but but
how did you find the round table oh you
don’t have to say it before the round T
was chalk full of venerated Warriors but
now it’s home to Puff chests and has
beans I fear you’ve been terribly
disappointed I don’t blame you there are
also a few notable tarnished who almost
became Elden Lord before we even steep
foot in the lands between vik and Bernal
we learn of bernal’s failed path to
lordship from his armor set which reads
the following beasts are drawn to
Champions and to Lords and this armor
befits a champion worthy of becoming a
Lord and that is what Bernal was until
his Maiden threw herself into the fire
Bernal certainly is a mighty warrior and
it is therefore not surprising to learn
that it some point he was close to
becoming Elden Lord however his plans
were styed by his Maiden throwing
herself into the fire perhaps being
denied lordship after all his work was
what made Bernal bitter and was what
pushed him to become a recusant VI
seemingly got even closer before
pursuing the path of the frenzied flame
once one of the greatest champions of
the Roundtable and the closest to Elden
Lord we learn of vik’s sudden change of
heart via his armor set which reads no
other tarnished was closer to the throne
of the Elden Lord than vik but without
announcement VI traveled far below the
capital and was scorched by the flame of
frenzy did he make his choice for his
maiden or did some other Force lure him
with suggestion we ourselves are tempted
to take this path by none other than
shabiri who tries to emotionally
manipulate us into accepting the
frenzied flame you about to sacrifice
something precious the life of a fair
Maiden that you would toss into the
fiery Forge only so that you may be Lord
what a horrible thing to ponder your
ascendancy requires her
sacrifice whether she wishes it or not
but how would the Lord Crown
so be looked upon chosen tarnished and
would be Lord
Dare To Tread the path of true rigor
spare the poor
girl and sing your own flesh in herstead
content creator V limit in his video on
vik suggests that vik was also
confronted with this dilemma and was
unwilling to sacrifice his maiden and
thus chose the path of the frenzied
flame there is definitely some weight to
this as in the region where we fight the
frenzied Vikes red f Phantom there is
the corpse of a maiden found in the
nearby Church of inhibition is this
Phantom version of VI still defending
his Maiden even after her death
ultimately vik failed and he was
imprisoned on his way to the flame of
ruin a tragic story here and I would
recommend V limit’s video if you’d like
a more in-depth look at this subject so
it is up to the player character to
succeed where all others have failed and
we certainly rise to the challenge we
slay the broken demigods and claim the
great ruins earning the favor of the two
finger and gaining access to alus
plateau and the capital we then kill the
current king of Lindell morgate the
veiled Monarch staunch defender of the
Erry and our Nemesis who has tried
desperately to prevent our Ascension by
assailing us as his Market Alter Ego
upon his fall we should be granted an
audience with Mara and become the next
Elden Lord however we find our access
blocked by thorns and a certain seal the
Seal of ragon ragon tried to stop Mara
from breaking the golden order and even
now with the Elden ring shattered he
will do anything to defend his
rule however Melina gives us hope and
directs us to a more heretical path
through the Forbidden lands to the
sealed Mount of fire where she
sacrifices herself to unleash the flame
of ruins power upon the Earth tree to
burn the Thorns however we must add one
final ingredient something that has been
missing from the lands between for far
too long destined death our Quest brings
us to shattered farum aula where we hunt
down malakith who has been hiding here
as gank in the stress of battle malakith
once again imbus his Blade with the Rune
of death and upon malak’s defeat the
Rune of death’s power is once again
introduced to the world and the Earth
tree is consumed Med by fire with the
Thorns burned we are finally able to
enter the Earth tree and we are
presented with a striking scene as anyia
told us Marica is indeed imprisoned here
but in one final last ditch attempt to
defend the golden order ragon takes
control of the body and with the
shattered Elden ring embedded in his
body and Hammer he makes a formidable
opponent once he falls the Elden ring
itself leaves his body and takes its
original form the Elden Beast this is
the god that Mar wanted the tarnish to
slay and was why she imprisoned the
smithing Master Hugh in Roundtable hold
forging a weapon that can slay a God Is
No Easy Task but perhaps with the help
of the Dragons The Impossible can become
possible the final Stone needed to fully
upgrade our weapons is very special as
it is in fact the stone scale of an
ancient dragon and its description reads
the following smithing Stone made by
polishing a golden gravel Stone a scale
of the ancient dragon lord and hidden
treasure of farum aula the ancient
dragon lord seat is said to lie Beyond
Time this Stone lightly twist time
allowing the creation of a weapon
capable of slaying a god this is one of
the most fascinating item descriptions
in the entire game for me it firstly
tells us something about the Eternal
nature of the ancient dragons they are
Immortal because their Stone scales
manipulate time secondly the item
description directly attributes these
time manipulation properties as the
reason we are able to slay a god perhaps
we displace the Elden beast in a
temporal sense or move it to the end of
its timeline and thus it ceases to exist
regardless we slay the Beast and return
it to its runic form giving us the
opportunity to decide how the world
shall be repaired will we repair the
Elden ring as the two fingers and
greater will expect and thus restore
order ruling over a new era as Elden
Lord we can of course customize the
Elden ring and dictate the form that the
New Order takes either perfecting the
golden order inflicting it with the
curse of the omen or giving those who
live in death a place in the New Order
there are however two other options
options I suspect the greater will
America did not anticipate the age of
stars and the Lord of chaos endings in
both endings it seems as though the
influence of the Elden ring is finally
excised from the world with ranny’s new
logical order ruling from the cosmos A
God who is far removed from Earth so she
cannot be swayed by faith and emotion in
The Lord of chaos ending we complete the
mission of the three fingers and their
desire to undo all of the works of the
greater will returning life to a uniform
State a primordial soap the arery is
burned To The Ground by the power of the
frenzied flame despair made manifest
those who gave me Grace howed without
words saying they wished they were never
born they come their Lord take their
torment despair their Affliction every
sin Every curse the Melt it all
away is Lord of chaos no more
fractures no more
birth Melina having not been burned in
the flame of Ruin has the power of
destined death returned to us and the
glow Queen promises us death for
bringing ruin upon the
world that is currently where the L sits
Miyazaki has confirmed that there will
be no new endings introduced in the DLC
and so you can safely choose the ending
of your choice before entering the
shadow lands however I do wonder if
there will be some alternate dialogue
with melenia so if I had any advice it
would be to leave her boss fight alone
for now considering we will be meeting
her long lost brother in the
DLC thank you all so much for watching
this video especially if you made it
this far this was the most ambitious
script that I’ve ever done and I’m so
grateful for everyone’s support there
are of course some details that I
skipped over in this video the demig
gods and the outer gods in particular
are subjects that each deserve their own
video and I didn’t go over in full
detail in this video but I have given
them this treatment in their own videos
and I would suggest you check out those
videos if you wanted more information
this video was designed to give you a
broad and solid understanding of the
basic story of Elden ring and its lore
in preparation for the day C however if
you are interested in more I would
recommend my Micha and melenia lore
videos as these are characters that are
most relevant to the shadow of the AR
tree at least as far as we are aware let
me know your thoughts below I love
hearing your theories and
interpretations of the stories
especially when we may disagree as
that’s how I do learn and change my
ideas but for now guys that is My Story
summary done and I really need to get
some sleep but until next time guys I
will see you in the shadowlands take
care and have a wonderful evening
From the One Great to the Shattering War, this Elden Ring Lore video aims to give a thorough overview of the game’s main narrative and background lore. By explaining the main story we hope to provide players, old and new, a catchup before the Shadow of the Erdtree release.
Intro: 0:00
The Elden Ring: 1:25
Life and the Erdtree: 9:58
Ancient Dragons: 16:22
Crucible Era Civilisations: 23:14
Mountaintops of the Giants: 28:25
Crucible Warrior Culture: 37:01
The Erdtree Wars: 45:55
The Nox: 58:49
Early Erdtree Era: 1:08:01
Gloam-Eyed Queen: 1:12:01
Erdtree Faith: 1:22:22
The Long March: 1:27:56
Radagon and Fundamentalism: 1:33:58
Miquella and Malenia: 1:41:44
Night of the Black Knives: 1:54:17
The Shattering: 2:02:09
The Return of the Tarnished: 2:17:20
This is an extremely expansive video that looks at the entire story of Elden Ring including: The Shattering, Erdtree, Marika, Radagon, Godfrey, Ranni, Fia, Radahn, Malenia, Miquella, Morgott, Margit, Bernahl, Rykard, the Greater Will, Elden Beast, Godwyn and More!
Editor: Creators Studio – https://creatorsstudio.co.uk/
Commission Thumbnail art by Shimhaq: https://twitter.com/shimhaq
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REFERENCES
Ratatoskr Video Re Greater Will: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOrOygLipnQ&t=23s
Tarnished Archaeologist Re Farum Azula: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW6A53xgfsg&t=2s
Dark Tark Farum Azula Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gdTjVHgYzw&t=4s
Tarnished Archaeologist Ancient Civ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyiOtwyH0Sk&t=463s
Quelaag Tweet re Rune of Death: https://twitter.com/xIngenue/status/1630793485916995585?s=20
Hawkshaw Re Elden Ring Colors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcIEWVFSce8&t=740s
Tarnished Archaeologist Re Godfrey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syzMebGy7HA&t=60s
Tarnished Archaeologist – Creeds of the Erdtree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MNPMmL6N3g&t=1576s
V-Limit video on Fire in Elden Ring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w8gMUigyOs&t=209s
V-Limit video on Vyke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3XvpHeAe3E
Last Protagonist on Greattree and Crucible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNe8EtddkS8&t=2s
Ratatoskr Podcast with Smough on Elden Ring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUDRAYSG3jY&t=1435s
Ratatoskr Heroic Concept – Rykard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz6YubLocIo&t=688s
Ratatoskr Heroic Concept – Radahn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs_Rzs4x49s&t=434s
Ratatoskr Heroic Concept – Godrick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqgEDUzr-ZI&t=143s
Miyazaki DLC Interview with Famitsu: https://www.famitsu.com/news/202402/22335199.html
Miyazaki Pre-Release interview with Playstation: https://blog.playstation.com/2022/01/28/an-interview-with-fromsoftwares-hidetaka-miyazki/
Shout out to @TheAshenHollow for some of the Malenia Footage
Shout out to Lokey and Last Protagonist for their translations and insights
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Soundtrack is Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, Sekiro, King’s Field and Elden Ring
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