Fax

It’s about getting maidens 🙌🏼

It’s about worshiping giant fingers and a poop guys curse and astrologists fighting a giant gold tree or something along those lines.

@@Jermcicle It is all just an excuse for Miyazaki to show feet, and for George RR Martin to not finish a story. If he just gives up halfway through its "open for interpretation".

yeaus

AHAHAHAHHA LITERALLY ME TOO!!!!!!!!

"It is finally time" Gamer jail prisoner

Mf same. Ive been seeing lore videos posted but anxiously waiting for vati's

Ah

Same

You won’t understand anything in Elden Ring unless you go out of your way to try.

​@@karmine3640 and who is Trying to go hours upon hours out of their searching for a half of paragraph of information when it could simply give us a 30 second cutscene. It's not cost effective. It's not immersive. It's the games only real flaw. If I go running around for a hours in a huge ass game to figure anything out. It's not immersive. Not fully.

@@mrlionsfan1135 Id argue its the most immersive part

@@mrlionsfan1135all souls game are like this lol, youre not onto something unique. Egghead

​​@@YourSweatyUncle how does a valid critique make them an egghead, go touch grass nerd

😂😂😂😂😂

yep, and immediately launch themselves intercontinental ballistic missile style to hit you for same amount you just healed

Lmfaoo I didn’t get this at first but I realized now 😂

right???

He's gonna attack to ASAP you're using healing

Age of the Crustaceans

In the end.. Everything becomes crabs.

Crustaceous cheapskates that had the potential to rule the lands between and become Elden Lord

@@con-0-tron294 ha ha, no

@@con-0-tron294 Just as the Law of Regression demands.

120? Is that all?

Rookie numbers, gotta pump those numbers up.

how many you got​@@MTCTerminator

Cause its not really the story its the lore of the world

Dudes will literally manifest a stand to seal away their own bloodlust instead of going to therapy

@@jimshotfirst4887 🤣🤣

JoJo reference????

@@jimshotfirst4887😭😭

Godrick was a fool, he grafted a dragon's head when he should have grafted one of those fucking lobsters if he wished to kill us.

CRAAB PEOPLE CRAAB PEOPLE WALK LIIKE CRAAB TALK LIKE PEEOPLEE

@@RoyalMudcrab you're suggesting Godrick would be capable of killing a Lobster

If the dlc isn’t the lobster army invading the island with the god of all lobsters I’m not buying it

Jesus I finally stopped having the nightmares! Why did I read this comment!?

Nice one

Through the guidance of Vaati, I shall become the true Elden Lore...d bu dum tish...

@@federicoolmo8689 nice one indeed

Sir Vaati Vidya, the alllllll knowing!

@@filurenerik1643 He reached godhood with his infinite knowledge

Welcome to the Souls community!

Yeahhh, I started 4 days ago and I’m already level 104. This game is so much fun

@@adamantsteel634 me too. great game

Did you finished it and which starting class did you end up with?

have you played DArk Souls

"We have so much fun talking about this when we run out of things to talk about" Well, that sure sounds like a healthy relationship....

​@@sunnyjim1355what are you implying here ? Like you know their relationship with just a freaking comment

⁠broski ain't been in a relationship before 😆

@@sunnyjim1355 what a maidenless statement and behavior 😂

@@sunnyjim1355Painfully maidenless…

Damn that’s interesting

I saw it was like wtf!....ooooh.

Damn! I will pay attention to that on my NG+ run

Oh my god. That is serious attention to detail in game design.

@@yukiokami8380 That's my favorite fight in the entire game after Radahn, so goddamn epic

28:38 looking at this makes you appreciate that stuff even more

When the God of War visit the God of Wisdom abode :)

My respect to you all, Lord ONGBAL and Lord Vaati.

Compared to you it's like I'm playing these games with wet soggy noodles instead controller. Hate your videos ♥️ (not really, just jelly)

Yeah bruh, you go back to deleting and humiliating these gods with sticks

I got that bit, but had never connected why all the catacomb boss fight areas were festooned with tree roots. Cool detail.

Really? You didnt find it strange that everyone comes back everytime you rest?

@@trequor no, I am a sould veteran.

@@trequorwhat about the omen afflicted?

​@@trequorWhen you play a game there are certain things you just accept as part of the game but not the story, as if they exist separately, and infinitely respawning enemies is usually one of those things.

Best boss in the game!

@@jarrarwinks8470 Don't forget Patches!

@@YourPhysicsSimulator Or the Spirit caller snail

He's a direct descendant of pinwheel

Underrated comment.

I lolled so hard there

Those fucking railgun lobsters...

imagine thinking Godfrey and the Crucible Knights lost to the lobster. I mean its possible u know 😂🤣

@@theobvu I mean, a single Runebear could 100% take Godfrey, Radagon and the Elden Beast at the same time. Those things are actual abominations. So why not lobsters too

@@fabergreen1351 What about a Runebear riding a lobster? Sounds like something they would do lol

sameee! Just scrolling down looking for more info regarding that map! A link, anyone??

Random vtuber with 400k subs on vaatividya with 0 likes

He just yaps about random shit in no order

Makes perfect sense to me!

Amazing comment !

i like this theory

This theory is amazing!

this is now part of my headcanon, thanks

What tortoise? That's a dog

Hahaha yeah try fingers but hole ahahaha fort night lol try rolling Liar ahead but praise the message!!

@@varsoonhks3211 And let's not forget about the classic of you got no right you got no right.

I love just how quickly it happened more than anything haha. Just like, a matter of days and we've all agreed to not kill them and to call them Dog.

" is this a dog? "

BS indeed. Gotta hand it to em though. Question: How to make our most punishing skill leap, even more horrific. Answer: Simple, we place two swamp demons below our Imp ninjas for those who think they survived the fall. Nailed it.👌 Those Omens and lobsters deserve one another. Leave em' down there 😠

Visit the lobsters on the freezing lake. You kill one, more lobsters take its place, there is no respite in the lands between. Lobsters are the true king of elden ring. Long live lobsters- from a lobster lore specialist

@@TheNecroAlchemist I'll make it my goal to kill as many lobsters as I can when I get there

I was thinking that I was the only one who struggle with big ass bear, oversized lobster, chaotic spirit tree shit, and stupid crab slam in this game more than the boss in this game.

@@TheNecroAlchemist - the Rune bears are the worst

@@TheNecroAlchemist awaiting vaati's lobster outer god lore video with great anticipation

Avi, you're an amazing artist... Now where's our elden ring song 😳

@@sunbrobellemont8526 You should check their channel! Hehe

@@sunbrobellemont8526 It's out now!

cringe

YOO Avi! love your music!

bruh

Ok so godefroy wasn't a typo, good. This game man...

Always mistook melina and melenia name.

YT gonna have to write a fat check with all the views this is gonna get

Hi

Alas, the beast still persists

You should win an Oscar for this comment

😂

I spent hours trying to kill it, in the end I stealth past it left it alive, its so dam different from the other bears, strong and have more vigor I think

I used nightmaiden's mist to kill him. I swear he had at least 13k hp

Stop lying for no reason boy

🤣🤣 r u being disrespectful to de game?

YOU KILLED THEM ON YOUR FIRST TRY????? you're a god

a bit late to that, but then the last reply was also today. there is this wyrm you find near the entrance to the catacombs in consecrated snowfield and along the path to the cave there are land octopi. well, i found the entrance, marked the site of grace and decided that i'll go back to this matter later, so i mounted torrent and rode back. the wyrm followed, encountering several octopi on the way. the octopi won.

Beats literal god Elden Beast in two tries but non stop gets clapped by a RuneBear

@@SillyRiz Definitely Not all of them. Although I one tried Margit and Godrick maybe because I got over leveled due to farming so that I could get back at that spear guy near the gate Lol. Malenia had me 5 tries, and Maliketh almost 7.

I like that touch!

This is what I believe as well. So they're considered as one person, only because Radagon is an actual piece of Marika. Which leads me to think that Empyreans are likely beings that are able to break off pieces of themselves and those pieces are given a life of their own.

The Red King and White Queen of the Rebis, but essentially this!

@@memonomoto7419 Just like Malenia with Millicent. Just perfect!

Random thing: But when looking at the Giant’s Fire Whip, it says the Radagon hated his red locks, implying some connection to the Giants themselves. So like, how can Radagon be both part giant and wholly Marika who killed the Giants?

Before: Radahn bad. Melania yas queen. After: I will f'ing murder the Blade of Miquella and avenge my best friend and his horse, Leonard.

I have fewer than 1 friend in the World. That's right. Everybody disses me for making bad videos. I think they are perfect though. Who is right? My dissers or me? Which side are you on, dear di

@@AxxLAfriku The truth is that people hate others who self promote on other people's channels, maybe you should fix that before you start advertising yourself elsewhere.

Well the other popular lore explanations say that Marika and Radagon were like two halves of the same being and that Marika shattered the ring out of grief and disillusionment. This video says that all of these events were planned by her which makes no sense since Ranni did all of the shenanigans to become a Star God in her ending.

@@zerohero5753 I’m wondering this as well, and Vaati did explicitly state there is evidence for this and that’s going to be another video, I’m powerfully curious.

yeah i was wondering the same thing , if it truly was a strategy to win against the last standing enemy it is brutal

…war is brutal. Broken hearts or mass graves. Wait it’s From.. let’s have both!

This has GRRM written all over it

Its the only logical reason there are two entities at all in this game honestly, the whole story of everything makes perfect sense kinda until you see they are the same being and then you think why did they do that it makes so many plot points convoluted, but having the motive of seducing and the returning to marika as a coop makes perfect sense, besides the while shattering and trying to mend unless that in itself was a plan of it's own.

@@petercottantail7850 could you proof read your paragraph please. Thank you.

We might even get a show one day, George R Martin did write the lore after all right?

@@user-bg9fw1hh5t that would be cool, I still don't quite understand a lot of lore points but the game felt so cinematic, some other media adaptation would be awesome

​@user-bg9fw1hh5t I think there is far too much foor them to make a show a studio would have to sign a deal for like 200 episodes and they wouldn't take a gamble that big its a shame because it would be fire

@@Wooldrog lmao. You seriously think Elden ring lore has more to it than GOT? it isn't even close. There's far more people,places and plots in GOT, and they made a show about that.

Dude imagine having a big ass 10 inch thick book just for Elden ring lore lmao Imagine someone seeing it and asking you about it and having to tell them it’s a book of Elden ring lore I need this to exist The book should also be bound in leather and look worn and burned to really fit the vibe

you was funny on the rdc stream rage 🤣

And yet it’s still completely convoluted and confusing.

You could've just understood it yourself by browsing sites that talk about it like vaati does to get his theories

Oh Josh, Cotton, Hollow my brother in arms! So rad to see you guys here as well keep up the banger work! Been watching since gen ultimate!

Yes, I said entertainment twice

All that work just to have your only reply be a bot lmao rip

Makes some sense, though. Could be.

I think this is vary accurate, at least from the item descriptions that I have read.

Best theory I've encontered so far, gj.

I’m totally down with this theory

Marika also came from one god but she doesn’t tween to have any issues, that we know of anyway

Or maybe they were cousins

Selfcest??

they were the only twins right?

@@caliginousmoira8565 I believe so but may be wrong

Yea when I fought him I was just like… “what the actual fuck? It’s an alien, right? But why does it have a human skull head?” Interesting creature for sure and I love how it seems to be made out of mini stars and planets.

Theres a bunch of other ones at look similar underground

They're aliens. You're welcome.

Those ones are pretty easy actually. When the stars fall, they take on various forms depending on where they fall. For example, the fallingstar beasts fall in mines, or near mines, so look like rocks etc. Astel fell near where a load of bones were, so took on aspects of that, and the Onyx lords etc. seem to have taken on that form due to close proximity with humans.

@@GoldenSunAlex What about the fallingstar beast that fell outside the capital walls? It fell closer to a major human population but didn't take the form of an onyx lord.

If you watch the full video he later says Ranni stole only a fragment of death from the black blade. She stole a piece from the black blade not from the elden ring.

It could also be symbolic because she was born a demi-god and casted her ruin away and killed her physical body. "Stealing death" could also mean that she took death for herself and thus, committed suicide.

​@@thepenismightier8120no. It's referring to the shard of death she stole

@@thepenismightier8120that’s an English teacher level stretch

But she had a shadow and killed a great finger. Being a child from them don't make sense

how many people?

literally

We need a crocodile hunter to conquer the wildlife in the lands between because shit be unacceptable.

someone needs to make a crocodile dundee character build 😄

I was shook whenever a literal lobster rose from the ground the murder me.

FInally someone said it. Something wrong in this world. The lobsters, dogs, and crows are evolving. Humans and Demi Gods about to go the way of the Dino's

wow this theory actually makes sense and very interesting, thanks for sharing it!

The erdtree rejection is probably an act of retaliation from radagon. Which he presents the true golden order and it's rules and want to prevent us from changing it by becoming new elden Lord or any of the ending

Marika's true purpose is likely wanting living beings and life in the lands between to continue to evolve in any form without interference from greater will (which let it's up to us to decides with it with golden order other than frenzy flame total destruction of life). Tarnished is her tool to do that.

But isn’t marika radagon? Why would she/he try to stop us then

@@bigballofpaint4407 Perhaps it's a split personality thing, a part of Marika that fears change. Another possibility could be that Radagon was a part of Marika created by the greater will to keep her in check. After all, the two seem to be in opposition to one another, so either seems at least somewhat possible unless I'm missing something

This does make perfect sense. I will keep this in mind. Thank you

I think her race(numens) have certain quirks like longer lives,......and longer lives can often lead to extreme differences in the way sex/reproduction occurs. I think her race by default is like a yin/yang themed race and each single entity has 2 halves. i think its the reason malenia and miquella came out the way they did. radagon would become marika or vice versa when they come to this realization themselves.

YES, that's what I think too. Also, I think queen Marika still controls the grace and thats why you have guidance to go fight Radagon and the Elden Beast (which they obviously wouldn't like) and are guided even helping Ranni, which objective is to kill the fingers and change the rule of the Greater Will. In fact, one of my favourite moments in the game was when Ranni disappears from her tower and a new site of grace faintly appears telling you where did she go.

There's a lot of weird yin yang stuff in this game, D is also a weird twin person, maybe he's Numan too?

Radagan was a leal hound

It's probably true though, those lobsters are no joke.

lobstner

I too believe that those lobsters could and would wreck both factions

I've beat Malenia... I run away from the lobsters.

yesssss 👽

Well, it's been constant pandemics and war as well

FromSoft always has great lore, but GRRM's involvement definitely added a layer of polish to the interpersonal drama. Webs of NPCs bound by family ties, old grudges, and oaths

@@trequor Yeah. That is what GRRM does best

I really like this idea

So multiverse

I like this, but it doesn’t explain the significance in the outer gods interference in the specific lands between. As stated a single human was able to seal away the outer god of Rot all by himself, this to me ties into the description for the mending tune of perfect order stating that the gods are no better than men and make mistakes such as the outer god of rot so I agree your position is likely… extremely likely but the significance of the lands between seems to have some significance so idk if I’d say it’s one of many happening at the same time but again that is plausible especially whenyu consider previous* lores. Great job !

I hope they dont do multiverses for the main lore, such a waste of creativity when all the answer end up as, "its just another universe🤪🤪🤪🤪

@@samuraioftheeclipse4954 Not necessarily multiverse, which is just another way of saying "alternate world" with "alternate" versions of each character but even some completely different world with different actors and rules

What makes her more interesting is her transformation at the end of the game if you choose to become the lord of frenzy her hair turns dark grey/black and her good eye turns grey and her eye that's always closed opens revealing a blue eye which I'm kinda curious what her transformation is all about.

My theory is, what if she is also queen Merika a 3rd part of the original god when they split.

@@christopherh4891 I hope this isn't it. It just seems lazy making different parts of the original god. Elden Ring has a strong theme on 'twins' so 2 parts - Radagon and Marika are more than enough.

@@nimazsheik5152 i agree with this. My theory is that she is Ranni or a part of her. I was talking with a friend a few weeks ago about who sent the Black Knives to kill Warmaster Iji. You find his body and the body of several black knives around him. So here is my theory: When Godfrey lost the guidence of the Grace, and with it his connection to the Golden Order, The Two Fingers forced Malika to either kill him or exile him. We know that at some point Malika stopped trusting the Golden Order and the Greater Will, which this could very well be the catalyst. For the first time Malika and the greater order were at odds with each other. With Godfrey gone and the Elden Lord position open, the Two Fingers turned to Radagon, another one of the Golden Order follower. They forced him (either through Faith or mental control) to abandon Renala, the woman he loved, and to marry Malika in an effort to control her. When that even failed they then forced the two of them to merge, (this is even more valid if they actually have a way to control Radagon.) My theory is, when the Two Fingers realized that Malika was conspiring against them, they started raising the Empyrians with the goal of succeeding Malika as the new vessel of the Elden Ring. One who would actually follow the commands of the Greater Will. Now Ranni however, was raised as Carian Royalty. She studied the power of the stars (or cosmo). She wanted nothing to do with the Golden Order. So she went to Malika. But Malika couldn't openly help her, after all, to do so would directly go against the golden order. So she allowed Ranni to use the Black Knives to steal a fragment of the Rune of Death (We know that the black Knives were loyal to Malika or at the very least very close to her), which would allow Ranni to create the dagger that would allow her to rid of her Empyrian flesh through a magic ritual. When she does this, her soul is split. Which is why she needs to "slumber" as she puts it. She only has half a soul. Her other half is Melina. However, when the Two Fingers realized this (probably through Radagon), they are the ones who ordered the assasenation of Godwyn the Golden, as a message/threat to Malika "Stop resisting us. Stop meddling with our plan or we will start killing your children." However, this backfired on them. When Malika realized what had happened, she went mad with grief and shattered the Elden Ring. We know that Radagon tried to repair it (and failed), which could be further ilustrate that the 2 of them are different people merged in one body and that the Greater Will has a way to control Radagon. With the Elden Ring shattered the Two Fingers had no choice but to incarcerate Malika in the Erdtree and pin the death of Godwyn on Ranni with the goal of unifying the Empyrians against the traitor. This theory then shifts the blame of the Black Knives assassin to Malika/Radagon. This is further seen to by the fact that Seluvis tried to make Ranni his doll. If you notice, Seluvis wears the mask with the symbol of Radagon. The Two Fingers know that in order for the "Ranni Ending" to occur, the Tarnished must defeat the Elden Beast. This would destroy the Golden Order in the Lands Between. So when Seluvis attempt failed, the Two Fingers once again forced Radagon to sent the Black Knives after his daughter, using Malika's body, but by that time it was too late. Ranni was already beyond their reach. This theory of course, depends completely in the Loyalty of the Black Knives to Malika. Otherwise her shattering the Elden Ring makes no sense. But if you assume that, that is indeed the case, then it would explain everything. Malika's grief. The rage that made her destroy the Elden Ring. The fact that Radagon abandoned Renala despite being in love with her, etc.

@@dennismarquez7354 Great theory, but it is MARIKA, MARIKA. Not Malika.

Lmaoo

KEKW

god damn it, ya got me lol

LMFAO

Holy shit it got me good

I had to pause the video cause I was laughing too hard to pay attention xD

Oh my Good LORD! 😳 It's hard to picture but... yeah... I bet Vatti would be good at all KINDS of stuff! 🤯 With a voice of pure chocolate velvet fancy British like that.. Jeez. Sky's the limit. 🤔 Definitely I'd pigeonhole him into sleepytime asmr stuff where he reads ye olde books. Not that his voice is sophoristic or overly maudlin, more 'soothing.' 😌

Imao was amazing, F those lobsters. I fight them as little as possible lol

Which I honestly don't get cuz the scene focuses on the mangled corpse for a little bit.

Crazy to me that they don't, it was the first thing I noticed

From my understanding Ranni stole a Fragment of Destined Death to kill herself and escape from her Empyrien Body that is bound to the greater Will, since she is drawn to other outer Gods. The Black Knifes who serve the two Fingers (Assassins Incantations) used this to kill Godwyn. Maybe for the same Reason the nameless King was exciled, he befriended the ancient Dragons they fought War for so long. If the Greater Will was involved in Godwyns Death it would explain why Marika shattered the Elden Ring after learning the Truth about the Death of her Firstborne. Or Ranni was just pissed at the greater Will because her Father left her Family to go and impregnant himself.

LOL that last line is so strange and its truth makes it hilarious.

I definitely think she tortured it before ultimately killing it, maybe even watched as it bled out. Broke every Bo e in those two fingers lol

For real I was thinking "let's watch some old dark souls lore videos before I go sleep in expectation of elden ring lore vids coming out soon" and then this shows up aaaaa

Dumbf

Learn to read item descriptions

@@josetomascamposrobledano4618 maybe I'm not interested in spending half of my gameplay reading shit, when I can find it all out in a 30 minute video that is actually entertaining.

@@josetomascamposrobledano4618 That's not good story telling at all.

Glad I’m not the only one to have thought that when I heard “Numen” and that they were from a different land haha. Glad that seems to be the case. Love when other literature inspires concepts in games. Cheers!

So much of Elden ring appears "inspired" by LOTR, I have to wonder if George RR Martin wrote anything at all.

The Erdtree is similar to a twisted version of the trees of Valinor.

Also, numen literally just means divinity in Latin.

That would give the numen who were banished to the eternal city for worshipping the moon and rising as black knives to assasinate godfrey a more solid motive, they aren't from here. They don't want to worship the elden beast, they want their old god the moon back

But at the same time it could imply that Radagon is not Marika if you read "children of a single God" as in implying that Marika was the only one of the progenitors that was a god. Like Loki in the Nordic mythology, he is the son of a god and a giant. Therefore child of a single god. I don't know if I explained myself right.

Maybe, when "Radagon" become "Marika", "Children of Radagon and Marika" become "Children of Marika and Marika", that is, children of a single god.

I think it is strange that both Radagon and Marika have separate back stories; she's of a race outside the lands between, and Radagon is implied to be a descendant of giants (also Radahn's size could be explained that way). I don't think they were always the same and it lends toward the plot for a big reason: there is a theme that, by denying the principle of regression, causality is also denied (causality is the greater will dictating the outcome of events, kind of different than causality as we know). This is explained in detail with Ranni's questline and ending. So conversely, I think the golden order was trying to expand its influence by merging Marika with a giant, Radagon, extending the greater will's influence to its conquered foe, and the same was done when Radagon married Rennala and begot children. It was a way of expanding the Greater Will's influence to other areas with great power: the Giants' Forge and Astrology.

@@0zb4lack If you perform a certain spell in Leyndell, I think it was "Law of Causality", before the Radagon statue it changes into a statue of Marika and a message before it tells you "Radagon is Marika". I don't think it can get any more obvious than this. Also the fact that in the final boss cutscene Marika literally transforms into Radagon. They are the same being.

@@Ribsi that's a possibility, I'm not not saying my word it's the one and only truth. But it could refer to after they merged together.

Hm this theory actually makes alot of sense.

Its the only thing that makes sense of all these events in another convoluded RR Martin story.

finally i now understand the story of a game i spent 100 hours playing

i know this was a while ago but I wanted to say this makes a hell of a lot of sense. But there is one thing I think I missed tho and its about Godwyn. Why was he chosen to be killed and who wanted him dead? to prove a point or something?

​@@tj2themaxit was Ranni that commissioned his death, why exactly I don't remember but she probably wanted to start the war of the demigods for her own plan of destroying the Greater Will.

Sir Vaati Vidya, The ALL KNOWING!!!

Sir Gideon will remember that

The loathsome lore reader!

Auughh! 😩😩 Rise up, all ye viewers!

I want to see the Formless mother so bad

@@bobbob-cd9yl well she is formless.

I believe it will expand upon Miquella’s story or The Dusked Eye Queen.

@@bobbob-cd9yl turns out the formless mother is just a giant slime blob. It's made out of liquid so Mohg can easily take and pour blood from it.

True love = the love of God! *God himself went to the cross for you out of love for you as a human being* Philippians 2:5-8

I love this interpretation! I believe that while Marika wasn't commanding him Radagon could act on his own, which is why he came to have such an opposing philosophy to her. But I love the idea that he'd have that sort of mental influence or connection with her still, maybe making her realize what you said.

@@drtrollaux Personally I belive that Marika and Radagon are just like D and his brother, siblings conjoined not in body but in soul.

@@carlfromaccounting1112 they are by the end one body though seeing as Marika turns into Radagon when you fight him

@@ShinGarugamesh I mean, we know a Malformed Star was sent to the Eternal City to curse them with an endless, fake night, right after they made the Fingerslayer Blade and pissed off the Greater Will. Rememberence of The Naturalborn: "A malformed star born in the flightless void far away. Once destroyed an Eternal City and took away their sky. An falling star of ill omen." Nox Swordstress Armor: "Long ago, the Nox invoked the ire of the Greater Will, and were banished deep underground. Now they live under a false night sky" Wing of Astel: "Crafted from a relic of the Naturalborn of the Void who is said to have assailed the Eternal City." Also worth noting Radahn could EXPLICITLY stop this. The moment he dies a star he was holding back falls. Weird. Sure hope the Greater Will didn't manipulate a tarnished into killing the demigods despite not intending them to become the Elden Lo-OH NOOOO WE KILLED HIM EXPLICITLY AT THE ORDERS OF THE GREATER WILL DESPITE IT NEVER INTENDING FOR US TO BECOME ELDEN LORD

@@ShinGarugamesh The Greater Will literally sent a Star Beast with the Elden Beast, and a Star Beast destroyed the Eternal City explicitly because they created weapons that could kill the Fingers. I don't think it's remotely unreasonable to assume that it did a thing it has done multiple times.

Also it seems that Marika was imprisoned possibly with the aid of maliketh the black blade, her shadow. The greater will probably employed him to damage and subdue her which explains what looks like a piece of the death rune stuck into her as well as maliketh's own mention of his "sin" while masquerading as guranq.

Marika is absolutely playing 5d chess against the Greater Will, and I would argue that it goes one step deeper. I think that Marika split herself into the Radagon personality, a loyal champion of the Golden Order, knowing that the Greater Will would eventually see him as an ally and force him to become the new Elden Lord to keep her in check. She rigged the system so that her watchdog was actually herself, that way she could have continued access to the power of the Elden Ring through Radagon even if the Greater Will cut her off from its power. But then Ranni killed Godwyn and Marika knew she was out of time. Whatever she needed that fragment of the Rune of Death for, it was too late. Marika entered the Erdtree as Radagon and smashed the Elden ring, imprisoning herself but crippling the Greater Will's influence. Then she did her best to help and guide the tarnished towards burning the Erdtree.

I love this theory, and it makes sense that Marika who was granted godhood by the greater will has a part of her (Radagon) that interrupts her scheming to escape its control, much like some internal conflict one would have. it paints Marika in a more “human” light, she knew she had to release the rune of death, but could not handle her son dying. Ranni who in a sense desired not only to see herself but her mother free, executed the plan that would lead to the shattering and consequently potential freedom from the Greater Will.

This fight against the greater will would also help me understand why she cursed Hewg to forge a godslaying weapon.

@@apeture_explorer4810 this makes sense as if an empyrean works against the two fingers and the golden order their shadow turns on them. Blaidd loses his mind when he figures out what Ranni is actually trying to do. Iji has to put him in Evergaol because of it and he invades you down in Ainsel River when youre carrying Mini Ranni. If you let him out of Evergaol you find him outside Ranni’s tower, hostile and mad.

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@@medi6892 at least they can speak a second language. You?

@@ShiruSama1 i can speak 6 languages but nice try

@@medi6892 As a polyglot you should understand that even when you reach a C1 or a N1 in Japanese or whatever it's easy to have brainfarts sometimes. And you should understand as well how hard it is to be correct when you're still learning, and how important it is to try and practice from the start.

nothing new for vaati souls videos lmao

@@MrInuhanyou123 true, but there’s so many more NPCs in Elden Ring and so much more dialogue to use from more people

Hey look it's the warden man himself

even the warden main was waiting for this

Honestly probably the only souls game were plot was actually told. If you dont skip shit.

Finally, now we can hear him speak about all the lore theories he saw to make this video from

The lore is actually much simpler than Dark Souls'

@@alvarofs131 it also just started and isn’t nearly as fleshed out.

@@ekroizm It was a give and take. Yes the story and lore are told more directly compared to previous games. But the open world made things a lots more difficult to find stuff haha.

Lobos! What a wonderful crossover event

@@Mylesperhour20 I think he's just a fan finally getting that sweet lore fix like everybody else, like all of us. 😉

Hi Dad

We were indeed, all waiting

Looby 😁 I knew I'd find you here eventually lol

indeed, higher power of FromSoft Multiverses!

Yummy factoid. Radagon is Marika

@@halcyon6098 Factoids by definition are actually incorrect things stated as facts. Radagon is, in fact, Marika. Meaning that’s not a factoid, it’s just a fact.

@@Yomom12388 While that is true, it is also true that "factoid" is a synonym for trivia or minor facts. This secondary definition is how OP is using the word.

To build on that, it seems to me Radagon has some clear connection to the giants (everything about his red hair and all). One of the main stages of Alchemy's Great Work is the separation phase, where matter is burnt and its male and female parts separated. Since the giants and their god controlled the flame it can be theorized that in retaliation for her action against them they used this power to separate Marika into male and female halves (whether the were truly separate of simple a body swap situation is up in the air). Radagon seemed to be motivated by a desire to become whole again, as the symbolic Red King (representing the sun) he was instinctively attracted to Renalla, the symbolic White Queen (representing the moon). This union of opposites in alchemy is supposed to be what creates the Rebis, the perfect being, and this could been indicated by how Ranni was the only Empyrean without any sort of "curse", unlike Miquella or Melania, the product of Marika and Radagon's somewhat incestuous union.

@@Yomom12388 ur a factoid