What other mysteries do you wish we knew more about in Elden Ring?

Godfrey was Hoarah Loux first. Marika chose him for being badass and then gave him Serosh to tame his bloodthirsty ways. Only then was he titled Elden Lord, and named Godfrey.

Maliketh probably ended up slaying those forgotten Demigods. His name is supposed to mean “Death of the Demigods” after all. Everyone was and is afraid of him because he wields the power of Destined Death and uses it to kill things permanently.

"how big is the world (outside the game area)" is a question that applies equally to every fromsoft souls/like game. Creating situations that feel like they're some global crisis only to explicitly tease the existence of far away lands with completely unrelated issues otherwise unaffected by the nonsense over here is a core component of their world building

I saw a post online that translated the Japanese lines that the spirit by the mausoleum says. He's not calling him an "ugly baby" like Google Translate suggests, he's calling him a "bastard", as in a child Marika had outside of her two known consorts. That would explain why they're unwanted.

I think Messmer is the reason snakes are seen as traitorous because it's my personal theory that he burned The Great Tree so that the Erdtree could be grown from the ash but as we are told constantly burning the Erdtree is a cardinal sin and Messmer has some pretty solid snake imagery.

I've seen pretty concrete lore that the Shadow Lands is actually above, in the sky. So the "Lands Between" is in between the Underworld (underneith) and the shadow lands "above".

About the headless Demigod children. -the head is important in ER lore, we have to specifically put Marika's head back on her body when we complete the game, or Ranni offers it up to the Dark Moon. The eyes in the head reflect runes/alignments (godfrey's eyes becoming dim, blood eyes, dragon eyes) I've always thought that the headless state of them is very important, we can see that people can commandeer bodies in the lands between (Sellen can take over bodies) but more threateningly Shabriri when they take over Yura's corpse-just imagine the mayhem that could be caused if an outer god or one of their servants possessed the body of a Demi God. We see in game that several children of Marika align themselves with influence of outer gods, but it's not out right possession. Furthermore, the walking mausoleums, why are they walking, why are they keeping the corpses from resting in the ground or coming in contact with the ground. I think this has to do with Death Root and how it gives license to Those Who Live in Death. We see death Root...take root in static locations, but not in the mausoleums. There are little barnacle like skulls attached to the feet we don't see anywhere else in game but no evidence of death root like we can all over in game, even Farum Azula which is physically detached from the Lands Between but this tells us that Farum Azula was once part of the Lands Between and lifted only after Godwyn's death to allow the spread. Also the bells that are attached. We see music or musicality tied to summoning spirits all through the game. Ranni's bell to summon spirit ashes, how the commanders yell to summon spirits of soldiers, wraith calling bells, and the bells on the mausoleums to keep the mausoleum soldiers protecting their wards. What I wanna know is what was done with the missing heads. Sacrificial axe-"Hatchet used in ancient sacrificial rite. A Deathbird is depicted as a malevolent deity. The power of the rite yet lingers. A small amount of FP is restored upon slaying a foe." so were their heads offered as sacrifice like we see the Fire Giant do with his own leg?

I'd say Outer God of Frenzy is all but confirmed by the stated characteristic of the unalloyed golden needle that it removes the effect of an outer God's influence. Since it's this feature that allows you to remove the flame of frenzy from your character, that heavily implies outer god. The fell god is also most likely the outer god that the fire giants served which would make it bare minimum 6.

My theory is that Marika is simply avoiding the IRS

I'm pretty sure that Ensha (the one that attacks us) was sent by Gideon to retrieve half of the Secret Medallion after we get it, so he only attacks after we obtain it.

Considering GRRM wrote at least some of the backstory, I interpreted Marika and Godfrey’s relationship being somewhat similar to Cersei Lannister and Robert Baratheon, where Godfrey is a savage warrior who Marika married out of necessity, but was probably not a very good husband or Elden Lord after the battles were over, so she got rid of him. George loves combining large scale stories about gods and kings with personal and familial drama, and there’s quite a lot of that in Elden Ring’s story

The soulless demigods have got to have ties to Godwyn. Godwyn was the first of the demigods to die and his death was not conventional and I don't think Marika knew that, which is why he still received an Erdtree Burial and in turn causing deathblight to spread through the roots of the Erdtree. I'd like to think that these children of no renown were her guinea pigs in ways of trying to save Godwyn's soul.

One thing I discovered while just looking around while playing was that there is a supermassive mountain-like landmass located north of the Haligtree. It is only one texture and with mods or glitches, if you go over to it, which you surprisingly can, you will discover that it is not a solid object and you will just fall through it, so it is just a model used for visual aspects. But it raises the question of what this land is, because it is pretty big

I always sorta assumed the godskin apostles were responsible for the soulless demigods. The emaciated bodies almost look skinned as well and we know from the item descriptions that their armor IS made of Godskin and the skins are larger like the bodies in the mausoleum’s

I'm so glad you started KZfaq, I've been watching you since botw first came out, thanks so much bro for making my childhood so good

Vyke killed 2 unknown demigods by the way

I'm so hungry for Elden Ring theories and videos like this. There are so little of them on KZfaq. Please make more. Bring me MORE. I NEED MOOOOOORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I loved this video Bandit! Love lore. I have been watching some of your OOT playthrough and am loving you narrations and emotion. Thank you. :)

I wanted to clarify one thing: the outer god of rot≠the goddess of rot. Malenia is a vessel for the outer god of rot, in the same way Marika is for the Elden Ring. We know this because we know of at least one other god of rot, the scorpion god sealed by the blind swordsman. He later teaches Malenia, and I doubt that could've happened if she was already sealed away. We can also safely assume that he didn't seal the actual outer god because the outer gods would by definition exist on a different plane of existence, and thus be beyond such triflings.

According to SmoughTown the soulless demigods may also be Victims of the night of black knives.

Re: sacrifices I'm not sure I'd treat it as a literal sacrificial ritual. Marika engineered the Shattering seemingly to break free of the Greater Will and to allow someone to forge a new destiny. That someone ends up being us, but we have to kill the demigods to do so. In that way, they become mere sacrifices to allow a Tarnished to become Elden Lord.

I would say there are 2 types of incantations/ sorceries. Those that are created trough study and those that summon powers from the outer gods. If im not mistaken, glintstone scales on inteligence. I would say only the incantations that scale out of faith are related to outer gods

13:44 I don't think the soul is referring to the headless being as Marika's unwanted child, he's referring to Godwyn. He is the soulless demigod because his soul was killed, and, despite the fact that Godwyn was Marika's favorite child, his new form as the Prince of Death is unsightly to the Golden Order. The mausoleum knights are also associated with Godwyn, wielding weapons infused with Death, and Lhutel's ashes even state that she chose to Live in Death to serve the "soulless demigod" until he could be reborn.

I believe that the event of the Rune of Death’s removal isn’t different to the concealment of the Land of Shadow. Fromsoft & Bandai’s phrasing makes it seem like that the “Golden Order’s dark secrets” (Bandai, 2024) will be uncovered… and we know that the Golden Order was founded on the principle that Marika became the Eternal Queen after removing Death. And we know, from interviews and trailer context, that the Land of Shadow is where “Marika became a god and the Erdtree was born” (Famitsu, 2024). Now, I’m not saying that the Erdtree is a later edition to the game’s chronological timeline. Instead, I’m inferring that the “Golden Tree is born” (Famitsu, 2024) Miyazaki is referring to is specifically the Erdtree as we see it today. I believe there was ALWAYS an Erdtree of Life (perhaps the Crucible form of the Erdtree, perhaps an ancient Greattree), but after doing whatever Marika did in the Land of Shadow to become a god (I think she defeated the Gloam Eyed Queen and removed death to be on the Eternal), the nature of the Erdtree changed to what she sees fit… hence “the Golden Tree was born” (Famitsu, 2024) I think, among many of the things that will only bring us more questions, that we’ll actually get a lot more answers than prior Miyazaki DLC’s. Among those answers/clarifications to be The Removal/Nature of the Rune of Death; Numen and Marika; and the Crucible, Elden Ring and the Erdtree.

During Ranni’s and Alecto’s plot, they killed not only godwyn but also many minor members of the golden lineage, is it possible that just as godwyn was left a hollow carcass, no soul just body, that the soulless demigods in the mausoleum are also victims from the night of the black knives…?

im like 100% sure that the serpent eiglay is the elden beast equivalent for the crucible, which im also pretty sure is the tree from the DLC, as it pours the primordial life goop into the chamber below, same way that the erdree blesses new life into the land through sap falling into marikas bedchamber

"Other lands" LMFAO sir! (The fairy tail "wow" made it even better) "III-c are they tasty" 😂😂😂😂

Apparently the Japanese lore community has a theory that we the tarnished are a discarded child of Marika. You can hear bells and the mausoleum thumping when we are revived in the cutscene. Wild shit

Oh! I can tell you why the Gloameyed Queen had Destined Death. She was the previous god, bearer of the Elden Ring, before Marika. This is why she was a Queen. Her husband is Placidusax. And they did indeed serve The Greater Will. Placidusax's resting idle even mimicks the Two Fingers' stance in their communion with The Greater Will.

Woooow, it really has been two years, I am STILL waiting on the bosses/dungeons series where you tell us about the boss people and a certain other KZfaqr tells us about the dungeon!

Bandit your outro music is so good. Wish i could get it as my ringtone

Well made video!!!! Keep up the great work man!!!

Buddy... You gave me an Elden Ring lore video, one about mysteries at that... AND you used some old school Zelda music?? My good man ❤

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Just want to say I’m glad to see you back with Elden Ring :)

I see a Bandit video, I watch! Have a great day everyone!

Hahahaha i still love that you sneak in a bit of Breath of the Wild in your background music like you have been for most of your other theorys

Did I hear you ask “what does the word “Elden” even mean?” It means old.

The best way to interpret Marika is as a combination of Mother Nature and Cersei Lannister. She is constantly trying to beget upon the world more powerful children (Evolution) and she discards the unwanted children (Natural Selection, the sheers for the Tree of Life that snips off unviable branches of Evolutionary iterations). Cersei also has children (with Robert and with her twin, Jaime). She kills the child that she had with Robert, and she kills all of his bastards in a night of knives. She keeps and prizes those she had with Jaime (Joffrey, Tommen, Myrcella) and dispenses of Robert's potential claimants to the throne. Obviously, this is not a 1 to 1 situation, but I wonder if all of her children with Godfrey were Omen and/or cursed. Maybe Godwyn was not even Godfrey's son. Maybe he was someone else's. Maybe Godfrey was a cuckold. What is interesting about the Hellenic Greek concept of cuckoldry is that a cuckold would often be depicted as having horns like a beast.

I saw a theory that Radogan was a mimic tear of Marika. Maybe the headless children were actually just failed mimic experiments, heads removed to hide what Marika was trying to do. Would also tie in with the Eternal Cities.

This whole video screams watch Tarnished Archeologist serious

I got the vibe that the Lands Between is basically Purgatory. It also seemed like a doomed world to me. Everywhere you go, things are in ruins or decay, and about to crumble. Even Leyndell has sand build up (before you kill Maliketh, there's a lot of it already there. Guess they don't have janitors there; only a thousand knights). There are broken down villages, and very few "people" left. Even if you "win", win what? Elden Lord of a broken world.

my theory on the soulless demigods is that they’re not directly sacrificed by marika, rather the subject of a ceremonial burial she oversees (likely via morgott and his forces) when they’re killed by a tarnished. the beheading of the demigods would be to symbolically take back the godhood they failed to deserve; and their loyal soldiers being beheaded alongside them would serve the dual purpose of making sure that nobody is able to physically speak their names anymore (or possibly even think of them, given that the brain is now gone), condemning them to eventually being forgotten by the greater lands between. this is why there are places like the impaler’s catacombs (yes, I think messmer is a soulless demigod. more on that in a bit) that are seemingly of great importance yet named after a person nobody knows of I initially got on this whole train of theorizing while thinking about the fact that vyke 100% For Sure killed at least two demigods in order to be eligible for lordship, but *we never see them mentioned ingame*. given there are five mausoleums, I assume there’s at least five demigods that have been killed/buried this way, and my dlc theory is that they’ll be the ones we fight in the shadowlands - they seem to be a metaphysical burial ground for things that marika wants everyone else to forget (hence the presence of her messier conquests, crucible beings, etc), so it makes complete sense to me that her shunned children would be trapped there as well

Speaking of the headless children in the mausoleums around several of these mausoleums are armies of headless soldier ghost and Knights. I've always guessed that this headless Army served sacrificed children in the mausoleums given their titles as mausoleum Knights and soldiers. But also it says in one of the descriptions that they beheaded themselves to serve their masters in death.

Just realized that destined death might be an imperfect version of the rune of death, which means the rune is connected to the formless mother. Basically it became its own cult because it needed a place in the universe or someone to worship it for its existence. Because it was already part of the natural part of the world and that is the result now that the rune of death is plucked from the rest of existence. And the Revelation about the mausoleums I'm not sure I've heard before.Thanks Bandit!

4:37 I'd go with the Primeval Current being associated with glintstone instead of the Dark Moon. The Dark Moon already has its own spell.

Regarding the dead demigods, I think you're really right to bring up that quote of Marika/Melina. I usually conceived of that as referring to the Shattering and all the demigods waring to become Elden Lord. But yeah, what if instead it is much earlier. Tarnished Archeologist's recent dive into the story depicted on the pillars of the Ancient Civilization below the Lands Between suggests a story of sacrifice. Maybe at some point earlier in history, sacrifice was a required part of nourishing the Erdtree (Greattree?). And in removing the Rune of Death from the Elden Ring, Marika would have had to change those practices. This also echos what Jack is a Mimic is looking into right now, suggesting that Marika actually was behind the Night of the Black Knives along with Ranni. Her needing to sacrifice a child once again for... some reason? A thing she'd done many times before, but maybe knowledge of these practices were locked in the Shadow Realm when it was sealed away.

That felt more than 11 questions

I think a cool theory i thought that could explain a few of these. The walking bell mausoleums contain the “demigod children.” Maybe Merika had these children with Godfrey, however due to them being unable or just dumb they werent able to achieve their goals. This makes them sacrifices and also gives merika motivation to leave godfrey and go with radagon.

Heedlessness, sacrifice, and beheadings in general seem to be strongly tied to death rite and death birds-- a whole unit of headless knights that protect these massive walking graves too. Idk how it's all connected, but I've noticed it in my own prying.

I saw somewhere that Marika banished the tarnished as she fed on strife and conflict, so when all her enemies disappeared she send them away to find more conflict and war. Godfrey knew he would eventually come back to her

great video :)

why was half of Leyndell pushed underground, and was it an Eternal city before this event happened? What did that accomplish? Does it suggest that the only way to gain substantial power is through stars and outer space, and physically limiting their access to a sky, they were disarmed, in a way?

"I wish this was more fleshed out" - Fleshed out. - Soulsborne. Pick one.

1:59, 2:55, 4:21 Ghostflame is NOT Destined Death! Ghostflame is the fire of an outer God that was revered before the age of the Erdtree, while there was still a normal concept of death. The envoy of this outer God was the Twin Bird, who birthed the Deathbirds. The Deathbirds create the Ghostflame by burning the bones of the dead. They serve this God of death as fire keepers by wielding these freezing fires as a weapon to protect the graveyards. Check the item description of Explosive Ghostflame for a short confirmation. You are probably confusing the Ghostflame with the God slaying Blackflame of the Gloam-eyed Queen, that you also mentioned a sentence later. This magical flame actually has Destined Death as the source of its power. You can distinguish the two by Ghostflames blue hue and its frostbite status effect. Blackflame is completely colourless and has the max health burn very similar to pure destined death. Another thing: Destined Death does NOT have to power of those who live in death. It can NOT create undead like you mentioned. This is happening because Godwyn died in soul alone, while his body is still alive in a freakish state of cancerous growth, spreading this undeath everywhere in the lands between. It is true that Godwyns soul died through destined death, but if the rune of Destined Death (the Mark of the Centipede) was not split into the Cursemark of Death he would have died a true death, with his body dying as well. Instead Ranni used the other half to slay her body to free her soul from the Two Fingers. Destined Death is not the source of undeath, Godwyn is or at least what is left of him. 5:21 While it is correct that outer Gods often chose a "Messiah", like with Marika and Mohg this does NOT make that person immortal. Marikas (and in turn Mohgs) immortality came from the removal of the Rune of Death from the Elden Ring, it had nothing to do with their "God" status. This is not to be confused with the source of immortality for the Tarnished, which is the Guidance of Grace, a blessing by the Greater Will. Sorry to bash into your video like that. I understand why you made these mistakes, they are easy ones to make in the confusing mess of Elden Ring Lore. I hope you don't mind me correcting you. Have a nice day.

Sellen says: Glintstone is the amber of the cosmos, golden amber contains the remnants of ancient life and houses its vitality,while Glintstone contains residual life. I think these stones are where the magic comes from, not Gods. Some Gods might be related to magic but they don't necessarily create them.

Majoras's mask soundtrack at the end! Hell yeah!😊

6:29 I would argue that as far as this goes his outer god was time, especially considering the state he was left in, and the fact you go back in time to fight him

Gonna save this video and come back after the DLC is over and see what we have answered. Probably nothing but I never thought about a lot of these points cuz I figured there wasn’t an answer to most things like who the outer gods are or what the Elden ring actually is and its purpose

Marika and Radagon are twins that had incestual fusion. That's why they had 2 sets of twins with different consorts. In like real life, their children were born with defects, one being afflicted with a rot curse, the first two being deformed.

About soulless demigods: Godwyn the golden is said to be the FIRST of demigods who was killed/died, so that implies that after him many more died or were killed, taking into account that when the game starts all demigods are still alive (kinda?), we only have these soulless demigods to think that died after Godwyn. BTW Godwyn is also referred to as Soulless comrade of Miquella, so this is another clue who these are.

The rune of death isn't a mystery, it's simply the concept of death made as an object. It can bring back the dead because the lack of death is life, same for the immortality of the gods

I think they are not her kids just mimics or a homunculus of her blood since they have decorations are from the city of Norkron witch could be for necromancy and they mimic great runes which is why you can duplicate them

Here’s an outer being (maybe or maybe not a god) that you didn’t mention: The horned being that appears in the Omen’s dreams, terrifying them.

I always assumed that the demigods in the mausoleums were killed in the war/fight against the gloam-eyed queen and godskins.

4:52 don’t forget Chaos! As for the fell god, I think that’s the god of the fire giants, and gravity magic is something with Raya Lucaria, same with Glintstone. One theory I have for the Soulless King is that he was a consort for the Gloam Eyed Queen. He was a skeleton man, I just think it would be funny and kind of fitting for the goddess of death to have a husband who’s kitted out like a skeleton.

If Merika was salty about Godwyn getting murked, why didn’t she just use the power of the Elden ring to bring him back to life? If Ronni can figure out how to do that voodoo on him, I’m sure Marika could have used the rune of life or something. 😆

I assumed the sacrifice of the unwanted demigods, allows their un-remember corps to be used to gain power to those more deserving. Nameless, but still with power from there lineage, they can now be used to duplicate more renowned Remembrances. Kept in ever Walking Mausoleum so their power, rune and souls don't rejoin the Erdtree before being used.

I remember in the game it said something about demi gods began to fall 1 by 1. This was about the plot of the black knives. Godwyn it said was the 1st of the demi gods who was killed. This means other lesser demi gods were slain

I don’t think that the mausoleum corpses are necessarily linked to Marika. I think that what Melina is saying to you is Marika tells her children that you need to seek power or else a tarnished will kill you (she did plan all of this stuff out and was a terrific mother lol)

My favorit mystery is about Malenia's 3rd bloom and that she was supposed to become a true god after the 3rd bloom. The first Bloom she caused willful by stabbing herself with her blade, when she fought Radahn. The second was after she lost the fight to you, the player. Soo....was it really the last time we faced Malenia?

Just a theory - The Elden Ring has been shattered, taken apart, etc. Now that it is broken, it can not be restored to its former glory. In Dark Souls, one of the major themes is 'restoring the flame.' I feel that Marika is trying to restore the Elden Ring, that the runes are decaying over time. The point of having all these children is for them to grow, gain power, and then be used to embolden the Elden Ring. This is also why the Tarnished where exiled: they live lives of hardship and then return in a battle-royale so that the strongest of them can 'restore' the Elden Ring for a time.

7:05 I think it’s important to understand where the source of lore come from. The concept of ‘Elden Lord’ is in the perspective of current day golden order. In the dragon era there may have been an equivalent NOT called Elden Lord but otherwise consort to the God.

Not really a theory, but i have the following ideas: -As Gideon says when we kill him "Marika wants us to struggle eternally", essentially to fight. (but he was wrong about the fact that a tarnished can't become elden lord so...) -We know that there is a "golden lineage" which started with marika and godfrey and continued with godwyn the golden and their other children (at least the 2 omens) all the way to godefroy and godrick. I think they are distant descents of marika like great-great-granchildren or something. -The children of radagon and rennala are officially stated to be "demigod step-children" when radagon married marika so we know that, at least officially, one can become a demigod by marrying into the family of marika What I propose is the following thing: what if Marika and all her extended family are given the choice to be "god or lord" to create a struggle or war? apparently she wants there to be war all over. And could this be why she took grace from godfrey and the tarnished? they were the strongest warriors and army and there was no more war after their victories. So she and godfrey win against all their enemies and other gods (at least the giants had another god) and then there was peace, but marika doesn't want that (for whatever reason), so she sends away her army and creates a vacuum of power and she forces her demigods to fight between themselves. Whose who refuses are sacrificed. The ritual appears to be connected to the remembrance concept, as it happens in game so maybe... the sacrifice of a demigod can help to empower the great memories who are within the erdtree? Like a sacrifice to creare a more powerful warrior? Then, when all this demigods have finished with their war and have found some sort of equilibrium... then she awakens the tarnished. And here comes back her original army, ready to take another fight in the land between. To create an eternal war.

Lets not forget patches is a sign that the universe from Dark souls could be the same one from elden ring at a different age. When i heard of placidusax having a dragon god i thought of the Nameless king (Gwyn's son) who you defeat on DS3, who is allied with the dragons and is also a God. That or theyre referring to the Dragon god that Gwyn killed in the war between the gods and the dragons from DS.

Well, if the bell tower corpses exists to recall remembrances, maybe Marika figured she could utilize these lesser children to recreate the beings held within a remembrance, and perhaps with them a sort of facsimile of the rune shards of the elden ring. From there maybe she could have forged another perhaps different elden ring, one not beholden to the elden beast or other outer gods.

The walking mausoleums also have the same architectural style....so maybe their origin steams from the Eternal Cities.

I have a feeling either Melina or messmer could be that unwanted child. We know little of both, but enough to know that Melina is potentially the gloam eyed queen, and I wholly believe they could be twins, just like miquella and malainia, and morgott and mohg. Melina, after having the rune of death stolen from her, was then subsequently killed, burned and bodiless as she says, but could've reborn as a sort of spirit, not yet lost, and able to aid the player in her journey to remember who she was (which she does in the frenzy flame definitely). Messmer on the other hand, could've been unwanted not by his desires to not be a god or Lord, but because like another comment said, he could've tried doing Marika a favor and burned the Greattree down to make way for the big golden Erdtree we see today. This, as the commenter also said, could be the reason burning the Erdtree is seen as a cardinal sin, and also why snakes are seen as blasphemous

Seeing the thumbnail, lately my question has been about the walking mausoleum corpses. I havent really heard many people mention it.

There are caskets near the melania boss room that look exactly like the wandering mausoleum caskets except they are clothed and have heads. They look suspiciously like the oracle envoys to me. And no one seems to talk about them!

Kitetales released a good video on the topic of the lost god of Placidusax

Has it ever actually been confirmed that the Greater Will IS one of the outer gods? Honestly, I’ve always gotten more of an Eru Illuvatar analog vibe from them.

I like to believe that Reedlands is referring to the place where Sekiro Takes place in.

The problem with fromsoft games is that the lore ends up being a lot more shallow than it should be due to how the story is given.

Im just realizing that Ranni and Radahn were the children of Radagon and Rennala - but that at the time, Radagon wasnt Marika - neither parent was a God. How exactly are they demi-gods then? How exactly was this justified to the people of the lands between, who didnt know Radagon was (eventually) Marika?

Wasn't it said for Placidusax that he was elden lord before the erdtree but not called that he was just the equivalent?

I think the soulless demigods are the remains of what vyke and Bernhal (I think) have slain in order to acquire their great runes.

Rykard when he realizes his momma was the biggest snake dancer of them all 😂

I always thought that the "soulless demigods" were simply demi gods that Marika had which weren't born with any power or strength. Below that of even Godrick, who used the power of Grafting to artificially make himself stronger. I subscribe to the theory that Marika (and the numan in general) are the same people as the Nox, so maybe she simply brought these artifacts to decorate the tomb of her children. Becuase, despite her not wanting them, she still had some love or maybe even just respect for her children

Elden Ring lore video? I will be there no matter what

I have a question…. If in order to become an Elden Lord, you must be king consort to the current God of the Lands Between, how are we even supposed to become Elden Lord if Marika is dead?

Holy Erdtree, Batman!

I have a theory about the Moseleums. So as most might of heard it is very likely for Messmer to be a son of Marika and Radagon and he is cursed with fire like how Malenia has scarlet rot. With Messmers fire he burnt down the great tree for the Erd tree to grow ( as stated by others already). Doing so is a cardinal sin therefore Marika had to sacrifice him to perform a ritual where instead of fully dying he went to the shadow of the erd tree. Due to there being multiple moseleoums and multiple dead demigods I believe the Nokrons, who’s chests and artefacts where in the room cloned his body to complete the ritual potentially. Sorry for rambling on please be welcome to fill in the probably many holes in this theory.

I'm gonna put forward a bit of an in-depth theory about the soulless demigods. In short, I think that they are Marika's children from before Godfrey, and maybe before she ascended to godhood (Godfrey is referred to as the first Elden Lord, but this does not preclude Marika having any other relations prior to becoming a god). We start with the Nox. They are referred to in the shortened item descriptions (and older full item descriptions) as of the "empyrean family", and implied to be Marika's descendants. Important to note the word empyrean, so implying before Marika's ascension to godhood. This would also coincide with how Gowry calls the Sellians (who have heavy ties with the eternal cities) "descendants of the Eternal", the title being shortened from queen Marika the eternal since she is maybe not queen at this time. So how exactly are the Nox related to Marika? Well, we can look to other known children of Marika outside the golden lineage. As mentioned, there is a spirit near one of the wandering mausoleums talks of the mausoleum cradling a "soulless demigod, Marika's unwanted child", but the older 1.0 version of the spirit's text gives us a better clue. It refers to the soulless demigod as a bastard. Stands to reason then that this demigod is not of her union with Godfrey or Radagon, which opens the possibility that the Nox aren't either. So who could have fathered these soulless demigods? Well the only named character referred to as "soulless", other than Godwyn, is Ensha. Could be that Ensha was known as the soulless king in, say, the land of shadow or the land of the numen (at least before Marika came to the lands between), and fathered these soulless demigods with Marika, but that's a bit of a guess. It's equally as likely that Ensha and Marika founded the eternal cities together, and there's some theories that there's still an unknown figure that the Nox revered, and Ensha would fit that spot nicely. There are a couple bits of evidence that Ensha may be the Lord of Night that the Nox are waiting for as well. This would also tie in to how they could be related (by blood). For instance, Ensha has definite ties to the eclipse, which could with some imaginative liberties be construed as "night". First, a spirit in Castle Sol says "surrender yourself to the eclipse! Grant life to the soulless bones!". Given the specific use of the term bones, chances are this refers to Ensha or one of his descendants rather than Godwyn. The spirit at the top of Castle Sol also says "Lord Miquella, forgive me. The sun has not been swallowed. Our prayers were lacking. Your comrade remains soulless..." which may tie Ensha to Miquella's plans. It would make more sense than this referring to Godwyn, since based on the previous ghost in Castle Sol, there is specific mention of bones, and they want to bring life to this soulless demigod, whereas Miquella wishes for Godwyn to "die a true death". Also, the Eclipse Crest Heater Shield description states that "the sun in eclipse is said to be the symbol of the Wandering Mausoleums where the soulless demigods slumber". Now, if we do a bit of datamining, we find that the tibia mariners are internally referred to as "Night King's kin". This could also be related to Ensha, since the tibia mariners are heavily related to death and I believe that Ensha is somewhere referred to as the king of death, but if not there is definitely some kind of allusion there either way. The clinging bone weapon wielded by Ensha also has a skill that "drains the life" of a foe, and obviously there's the fact that Ensha is almost always referred to in relation to his skeleton. This would therefore maybe tie to the twin aspects of Ensha as a lord of death and to the potential "night" resulting from a solar eclipse. I suspect that in her ambition to control the cycle of life and death, and by removing the removing the rune of death from the Elden Ring, Marika took away Ensha's role in death and the afterlife, or at least cut his influence from the lands between (perhaps relating to how the land of shadow in the DLC was said to have been separated from the lands between?) There's a few other implications of this theory, particularly relating to Miquella's plans and the development of the Haligtree as well, but this comment is already long enough.

4:00 Wdym you’re not sure about the frenzied flame being from an outer god ?? Miquella’s needle literally says that it has the power to chase away the influence of outer gods then explaining how it can be used for that exact purpose to avoid the frenzied flame taking over The fell god is straight up said to be an outer god from which came his red flammes incantations, it would make more sense that the darkmoon has frost magic as its signature effect

"Why is it called Lands Between?" me wilding: GRRM's Middle Earth lmao

I think it’s quite possible we do get the see the soulless demigods faces; as aprons.

Outer Gods are simply outside the current order, but all capable of becoming the next Merkia in one form or another. Through a through a demigod is the way we are told is possible.

One mystery I’ve been enjoying exploring is Ensha. We literally get no knowledge of who he actually is. But I have a theory that he used to be serving Mohg or the formless mother for many reasons I’ve discovered