I'd like to mention another small albeit insightful youtube channel The Tarnished Archaeologist

Tbf it's a very ugly mask. I'd be unfocused too

I recommend watching Hawkshaws video breakdown of the significance of COLOR in elden ring and how it relates to almost everything. I know Quelaag's touched on this before but not as in depth and cohesive as Hawkshaw.

The whole Radagon revenge plot and misbegotten must be tied into the Round table blacksmith Hewg. He says he made a promise to Marika to make a weapon capable of slaying a God. Perhaps he was referring to Father Marika/Radagon.

@@alephnole7009 the problem with this possibility is he outright states “I must keep my promise to her, to forge a weapon capable of killing a god.” That “her” kinda disqualifies Radagon lol. However I’m working on a theory that maybe Marika and Ranni were working together to overthrow the Greater Will, you have Ranni who slew herself to make one half of the mending rune and her assassination of Godwyn to make the other so they had a new rune of death, then Marika banishes Godfrey and his tarnished kin because of the prophecy then shatters the Elden Ring and is Imprisoned for her act and Radagon was thusly called back to attempt to fix it then Miquella and Malenia were born and with Radagons help Miquella developed a material and needle capable of negating the Will of outer gods on the lands between. Eventually Miquella likely realized what his parent Marika realized with the Erdtree and the Greater Will that they were just another outer god force vying for power. And so in order to free his family for their chains to the the Greater Will be began his plan to grow the Haligtree, a great tree that accepted all life and had no meddling of the forces of an outer god, to ensure this he even watered the tree with his own blood so that the only force within the tree was his own. However a Saint of another outer god kidnapped him before it could grow to fruition, Mohg of the Formless Mother. Then it went downhill from there, Malenia at some point after returning bloomed a second time likely from the trauma of losing her brother to Mohg which is why the rot has The Haligtree in such a horrible state.

Could you link the video? Im curious

@@peacewalker4058 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdpgbNRi397Xgpc.html the tarnished archeologist. if you haven't watched this guy before.... God. you are in for a treat.

I saw the same video and was going to type out the same message thanks for saving me the time!! Everyone check out The Tanished Archeologists channel for more insight

@Sealth Womack Legit the best lore channel period. literally... I haven't even played the game... I mean I watched my brother beat a boss or 2 on his play through, but I haven't played Fsoft games since the DS series. a fan, but it's just been a while. Either way TA's videos are so incredible, and captivating that I know a ton about a world I've never visited myself. I do plan to get the game around the time of the DLC

@@FFNOJG I had to start my second play through after I saw his videos lol

Malenia definitely attacked Radahn to break his control over the stars and unlock Miquella's fate. This would have allowed the solstice, where Miquella planned to drain the sun of its gold, to occur. The entire point of Castle Sol, the solstice, and draining the sun of its gold was to fashion a golden needle large enough to cleanse the world of Rot (capital R there for the god's name) and potentially all Outer Gods. Doing so could have potentially cured his sister of scarlet rot and saved his brother from undeath at the same time. Therefore all of the Outer Gods were aligned against Miquella thus he was destined to fail - but imagine if he had succeeded.

This is my exact theory! It makes so much sense! Malenia only moves at miquella behest. So malenia nuking caelid was her ultimate sacrifice to help her brother achieve his goals. Rather then doing it out of spite like many people believe.

@@richardrussel4567 bro is a predicting genius

bro knew

@@richardrussel4567 bro knew

… Look at the artwork for the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, that is exactly what we are seeing in the background; The erdtree weeping golden sap that we originally thought was being strangled by death root, now can be seen as being born from it…

The crucible was when everything was one. Like if the 3 fingers and the 2 fingers weren’t separated.

Thank you!

Interesting idea! Do you think Radagon et al were beasts/beastmen, or simply humans serving Serosh? Because the Red Wolves are a big ??? to me

​@@CrunchyVideos I think it depends on how you define 'human'. I don't believe that his clan were Beastmen to the tune of what you see in Farum Azula, instead I think his clan probably looked more or less like larger humans, but probably still displayed some of the 'Crucible' traits that we see depicted in the Crucible Talismans, which could explain why the Siege of Castle Morne is being echoed by a Misbegotten rebellion in the modern day events at Morne. I believe the Red Wolves (and Radahn's total unwillingness to give up on his poor horse) can be explained by the Bastard Sword and the Iron Armor set in the inventory of the merchant located at the Castle Morne Rampart Site of Grace. For context, the merchants actually appear to be selling items that they're scavenging up from the areas they're selling from. The Bastard Sword's item description speaks to the Siege of Castle Morne, and it's subtle, but the Iron Armor set has Radagon's crosshatch-and-braid motifs on every part of the set (gauntlets need to be viewed in-game to see it - It's on the inside of the wrists). And some, but not all, of the scales of the chest piece are actually out of alignment and crossing over each other at an opposing angle, in a similar fashion to how some, but not all, of the swords of the Grafted Blade Greatsword have been deliberately forged to overlap one another. A lot of this is information communicated visually, so there's no one item description I can easily point to for all of the following, but when you examine the armor and weapon designs, and the environmental storytelling around Limgrave and Stormhill (specifically Old Knight Istvan and the Kaiden Sellswords), I believe that these items point to Kaiden as the country that the clan is likely from, and that the clan came to serve Serosh as part of Stormveil after whatever mass exodus forced everyone off the Mountaintops of the Giants, in a similar fashion to the varying allegiances of the Banished Knights we see in game. The Kaiden Sellswords are diasporic, have close bonds with not only their horses (looking at Radahn), but also to the *wolves* they share their camps with, are roughly 7 feet tall, are noted to be of incredible strength and wield their greatswords one-handed, they wear armor forged into scales and cloak themselves in animal hides, and I believe they're probably descended from giants. The Kaiden do also seem to have some connections to the Misbegotten in their weaponry, but due to the lack of info on Misbegotten in general, this connection is still pretty tenuous. TL;DR I believe the red wolves speak to Radagon being of the same ancestry as the Kaiden Sellswords, who keep a lot of pet wolves around and seem to enjoy setting up their camps next to wolf packs.

What is your reddit so I may peruse the compiled evidence? Also question - one thing that might throw a wrench in your theory that Godfrey and Serosh's beasts are unrelated - what about the description of the Beastclaw Greathammer that Gurranq gives you? Where the description explicitly names Serosh and Gofrey both.

Thissss ! I just watched the tarnished archeologist and he goes DEEP on the myths and legends characters are based on and I have been studying these masters at work

@@basedgodly1623 can you post link?

My favorite aspect to it is that the game is literally a complete deconstruction of these typical magical warrior age and even fromsoftware type stories. The game is obsessed with the spectrum of color and spoken word, and the story is just a complicated way of telling the story about different agents of philosophies and ideologies trying to preserve and change the world in the way that they see fit. Everything with the outergods is fascinating due to them not ever truly having a physical form, just more in the direction of abstractions that revolve around a few things that you the player can take from as association.

That’s very kind of you!

Yeah hoping you get more subs, your content is legit

Sorry but that title goes to SmoughTown but crunchy has some bangers as well

As Hawkshaw once said "this is not a bite sized piece of lore sentimentalism". This was a dig at channels like Vaati who, instead of really making any revelations or theories about the lore, focuses on the emotional and dramatic aspects of the story. This line really stuck with me because it encapsulates my feelings towards those types of channels perfectly. I'm not looking for elden ring the sad story time, I'm looking for explanations and ideas that further our understanding. It is for this reason I think Vaati is extremely over rated and channels like this one are sadly swept under the rug because the reality is most people just want a quick fix and Vaati provides that in a dramatic way. TLDR Vaati was never 'the lore guy' IMO and channels like crunchy/hawkshaw/tarnished archeologist/etc. are the true champions.

@@coreyrachar9694 Well said, I agree completely that Vaati is heavily overrated and not really a legitimate "lore guy". I watched a few of his newer videos since I'm getting heavily into the lore, and all I could notice were the inconsistencies and the amount of corrections that would be in the comments. Definitely a channel that focuses more on the sentimentality and telling a story instead of actually exploring the lore and what it means.

The circle also seems to align with the wall surrounding Leyndell. The other day I was looking at the map and tried to make something out of where the underground and the surface overlapped. Did you notice that the Academy of Raya Lucaria stands right above the Grand Cloister? Might just be coincidenses butbyou never know with these games

@@GullibleZDI Raya lucaria is indeed right above the large and moon-like cluster of glintstones. The lake of rot and the grand cloister is right below it. It is also kinda interesting how the crystallians that are a lifeform comprised of glintstone crystals are somehow capable of fusing with the Rot to make the rotten crystallians variant. If glintstone is the residual life of the stars and there is a huge cluster of it in raya lucaria with a lake of rot that was said to be the ‘essense of the rot god’. I have bo choice but to assume that the rot god was an alien entitiy like the astel and that when it was sealed away, its essense created a lake of rot and its residual life created a cluster of glintstone.

Thats exactly what i was thinking. It looks to be deathroot so maybe the birth of the erdtree? IDK but i noticed the same.

you feel bad for fictional video game characters

lol bro trying to troll a dude who posted a comment 9 months ago @@yikes6969

@@yikes6969 yoo people feel things about stories?? yooo really... people like, read fiction and then like, feel things? What is that? One day you will have grown up and won't feel childish when you have fun thinking about stories, because you won't be scared of looking like a child

Radagon isn't a good guy

@@yikes6969 I know feeling anything must be foreign to you, that's okay.

That Color Theory dude would be Hawkshaw and yes, these guys are all great. Crunchy, Hawkshaw, Tarnished Archaeologist, Smoughtown and a new guy I found, can't remember his name, but I'll edit it into this comment, when I find it.l, just in case you're interested. The last guy sticks strictly to cannon stuff that can be found in game, with little speculation that he points out. It's great. Anyway, I'll be back. Edit: His name is T-L-G-T-W. I devoured 7 hours of the videos he's come out with so far the other night at work and he's got more coming soon. I can't wait. Also, I forgot about Quellag, Last Protagonist and probably too many others to name. Anyway, enjoy the lore, I'm getting back to it. 👍

@@xantishayde-walker4593 thanks friend! I'll check that guy out!

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

you worded this great, probs my favorite mystery in the game is marika and radagons story and how they became one or if they always were one. hopefully we’ll find out from the DLC

Ooh I like the molten idea- if you look up at Altus Plateau from the Ruin Strewn Precipice, it looks a lot like an igneous rock formation- there’s three different rock types in the cliff face inelegantly juxtaposed together. Could just be coincidence though. “Champion” is used in other contexts too- the sword monument in MotG off the top of my head- but yes it does refer to Radagon several times.

​@@CrunchyVideos This is getting silly, but staring at the map - perhaps the steam explosion from the "pour" explains how Farum Azula got into the air, and how chunks of it ended up all over Limgrave? The steam is even still there, in the form of the clouds.

@@arabidllama Kinda lines up with some of the alchemical ideas I had of the Lands Between as a giant chemistry experiment. I’ve got some vague ideas about volcanoes and fire and gravity, but I’ll have to think about it more.

Lol it will probably only confuse them further, but thank you!

Also it occurred to me that as crazy as it may be, to create, there must be an engine. And this engine must be quite terrible in power. Fell gods fire & other gods I’m guessing contributed to creating these energy sources, then when not needed, we’re either discarded, subjugated or banished. Probably another reason they were reviled so much

Also there are many depictions of trees and vines growing out of a jar/the forge

Hehe I tried to make it line up with what I was saying like it does with Armstrong

I think the idea that a plant (erdtee) would grow from a pot (crucible) is a hilarious and deliberate joke. I’m not detracting from this great suggestion.

In the original story, the dragon is just a dragon- he doesn’t have a son. Interesting that they chose to add that in the movie. If you’re interested in Beowulf (I’m actually a huge nerd, I tried to memorize it in Old English) there’s a very beautiful translation by JRR Tolkien that was finally published a few years back, it was sort of his life’s work.

Thank you!