Probably the “head” thing is just there for technical reasons. Fromsoft loves to put needless details on stuff, but even them have limits /:

it would be unlikely that Renalla rebirthed Rellana since she only her great rune after Radagon left her and the timeline does not seem to fit, I assume Rellana joined mesmer before Renalla met Radagon

the pair sowrds that she is wearing are not greatswords

Marika did the same thing as a token/gesture to the Shaman Grandmother in their home village

​@@garienza No, Messmer's crusade definetely started after Godfrey was exiled. He knows of the Tarnished and since Messmer has been denied any contact with the Lands between since his exile, it means he must have been there when the Tarnished left and only later started the crusade. Which means the Crusade started way after Radagon left Rennala

Don't we all

brb going to buy hair dye and cocaine

​@@vera39440 leave the cocaine brother youre fine 💀

And some of them ARE moody redheads

I've been a Carian my whole life and didn't even know it...

The real tragedy

If FromSoft hadn't wasted a year making that AC6 game that no one bought we'd have a much more fleshed out DLC.

@@TheCreator919lol, what a short sighted comment. AC6 was great.

@@TheCreator919 ac6 > elden ring

​@@TheCreator919Speak for yourself, that game is great lol

Fromsoftware Games: The only dating simulators in which it always goes badly

The real Carian Queen 😂 She will take on Messmer's foot and a half long snake 🐍

Was looking for this

​@@mossy3565save like 2-3. Two AC games and kingsfield apparently.

My man probably likes dwarf stars 😂

Well duh. They are to easy to dodge

Some boys are more down with massive snakes

Vision of two handing….

Damn smh

Or something like, the Lady of the Maddening Moon, the Lass of Pale Satellite, the Maiden of the Twin Spheres... Ok maybe not the last one

aaahhh my the stars take the world!

@@youwotboi9288 Or if you're Ymir, Lord of Merely the Closest Celestial Body

​@@delrunplays2903Lord of the Local Hunk of Rock

Lady of Lunacy

l feel it was mutual at some point at least. Messmer gifted her a sword which is what Carians do when marrying and we find an item of hers in Mesmers castle

Ok, just to be clear... Rennala was into Radagon while Rellana's into his son, Messmer? Not the weirdest relationship in Elden Ring, but still... The Carian siblings muat be really into that Marikussy.

​@@sharif47 I mean, she's younger sister, so maybe wanting your hawt nephew is okay age-wise.

​@@viorp5267Also they have coupled shields

​@@sharif47 Turtle pope dialogue implies that it wasn't known that Radagon had kids with Marika before becoming Elden Lord, when he says that why Radagon becoming Marika's consort is a mystery.

Really has a lot in common with Pontiff Sulyvan lol.

just like pontiff sulyvahn, sir alonne, gwyn, soul of cinder, i mean pinwheel got one there seems to be little rhyme or reason to who gets a cutscene

⁠​⁠@@uberculex Wasn’t Pontiff a victim of fromsoft following what the vocal minority of the fans wanted?

​@@uberculexThis might be a hot take, but the Pontiff opening is better without a cutscene. Rellana would have been better with one though

Why do people want a cutscene so bad. What would it even have been

me when i see unriveted chainmail

Like divine beast dancing lion but without cape

That is a psychological reaction… I think is called or related to Automatonophobia?

It's HEMA accurate.

the pontiff sully treatment

very reminiscent of the Frenzied Flame taking over someone's head.

Ahhh, may the full moon take the world! May the dark moon take the world!

Lady of Chilling Moonlight

objecthead fans going feral

@@placebounicorn2325 😂😂

Absolutely goated band name

I'm absolutely stealing that line, it's too cool to let go.

Pairing anything with "renegade" is badass

@@armintor2826 renegade raider lmao

Try finger but hole

Hell she could grant me relief 😏

This DLC has lot of fan service Another one is Consort Radhan For fan who wanted to fight prime Radhan

@@user-zz3lm8nx9x i guess we have to thank the bastard who wanted to see prime radahn

@@heldanl7202 Or curse him, Radahn is hard to kill after all

@@user-zz3lm8nx9x, and don't forget the callback for Lothric and Lorian fans.

@@user-zz3lm8nx9x mogh's body is weaker than radahn's body, and miquella prevented him from going into rage mode in the second phase. he is not prime radahn.

Radahn would like to disagree....

...I have an idea

@@grandpa6065 But he IS the redhead XD

I'm a true Carian, then

I agree. Just like weapon enchantments make a difference between Fire (scale with Strength) and Flame Art (scale with Faith) we need to differentiate Fire and Flame for the same reasons.

Red and Blue: Electric Boogaloo

Night and flame doesn't actually use night magic, it came from the ancient astrologers and night sorcery was invented far after they were gone, by the nox and sellians

Oh I thought that the sword of night and flame's purpose is recontextualized after the DLC. After all, we find that one in Caria Manor. Not exactly "not where Rellana used to live" 😂

It's funny because "Irithyll' is taken from Tolkien's universe, Ir = When, Ithil = Moon contextually meaning the Time of the Moon, so when we fight Moonrithyll his name is literally "MoonMoon"

​@@TypeCeruleanso, twin moon?

​@@TypeCeruleanWell if he is a follower of the moon that follows around someone who witnessed a moon, it may be appropriate to call him a moon orbiting another moon. One of the names for this theoretical ( hasn't yet been seen in real life ) astronomical object being "moonmoon"

​@@TypeCeruleanImagine Fromsoft next boss is just some bloke called Guy Chapman or smt

Im pretty sure at least that carian knight is female by facedata

I'm waiting for a video showing the difference in height between the highest point and the lowest point in the map, the vertical distances in the dlc sometimes feels absurd like bayle arena and st trina location or the abyss

Same!

Verily, allow me to transmute this passage Into medieval-laced rendition to fit the setting: "Hark! Thine hair are hereupon flourished!" "Wherefore is sororal brethren of mine absent?" "Whomst did thee believe graced thine blessing?"

"I cri evrytiem"

Nah, some people just flock to any banner where's blood to be spilled. In several wars during the XX century there were examples of volunteer units formed from citizens of countries that didn't participate in the wars themselves. Like Norway volunteers that enrolled in nazi ranks because, duh, they thought swastika is cool.

Many people mistake malevolence as charm . It appears as confidence.

​@spottedslash4256 no, messmer himself isn't a bad guy, he was kinda brainwashed and forced to wage this war for Marika, a war of revenge against the hornsent. I like to think Messmer himself was more compassionate and charismatic than Marika (as seen with how he treats the albinaurics, another shunned race that he meets himself and is able to create his own opinion on, without Marika telling him anything) he was just brainwashed into seeing the hornsent as more vermin than people. Marika is pretty messed up

Neat interpretation!

Amazing chest ahead.

Pickle required ahead

try tongue but hole

Marika out there NTRing both sisters just by existing

bruh that's literally his aunt

This is exactly what I wear every time eat with a fork to avoid stabbing myself in the face.

​@@HeckYep me too. I have an interdimensional portal in the front that connects to my mouth to further prevent accidentally stabbing my lips while eating

Such attention to detail. They even included the eternal friendzone!

Oh snap, I've been using them since I got them and I didn't even think to use L1! I'm stuck on the final boss so I'll try it out on mooks before I finally buckle down and beat the final boss. Thanks man!

In AC6 we literally become a living "metal potato" in the true ending, lmao

@@nachalnik5738 WAIT WHAT

Par for the course in Armored Core even before Miyazaki joined the company and started directing- there's a reason why the final 3rd Gen game was called Last Raven.

@@nachalnik5738 AC6s true ending is weird, mostly because it leaves a lot up in the air. Not to mention I know FromSoft loves non linear story telling but Igauzu being the final boss just seemed a bit odd. Don’t get me wrong I really liked the fight and Ayre showing up help out was awesome but when I had to take a minute to remember who Igauzu was it just felt out of the blue I guess.

​@@screamthesecond3946In the final unlockable ending humanity melds with the coral

Now I’m imagining she has frizzy curly hair, that’s cute

Worst helmet hair

You might be on to something. It makes me think of my sweetheart who is a little embarrassed by her hair. It's very thin, somewhat wispy hair and she refuses to do it up in any way because of it. In particular, she doesn't like to wear her hair back at all because she says "it makes my forehead look huge" (I however think it makes her look really nice, lets everyone see her smile better. ^w^). What I'm saying is that your probably not wrong. I've found that a lot of girls and ladies have issues with their hair, they just don't say much about it.

This theory comes with interesting implications, given all three of Rennala and Radagon's children had red hair.

​@@clutchedbyanangel That's because Radagon was cursed by the fire giants

Leaving the shield as a gift to pick up a sword in his name with his power with an oath granting that power. I say an oath since that's what Radagon gave to Rennala as well. Until he broke it but yeah.

Wait carian greatshield? You mean the dueling shield?

@@ecthelionalfa A type of dueling shield

Rennala continues to be abandoned by everyone she ever loved lol 😂 first her sister then her husband - at least Rellana left on better terms but still

diapers?

*Narrator:* "She could not."

Rennala is directly said to be the "elder sister", I know twins arent born exactly at the same time, but that would be a weird way to say it.

I actually think Renna could be that twin lol the Dark Moon likes to hide and she's an adherent of it. Her name starts with an R. Her outfit is in Renna's Rise that was named by Ranni. Renna teaching Ranni in secret with Ranni potentially not knowing she's her aunt is a cool story point. A few things to consider lol

@@DanielGarcia-rx3kt The towers are also called "The Three Sisters." I always found it weird cuz Rennala was the first and last Carian Queen and almost definitely had only one daughter with no mention of any sisters, but now we have confirmation she had one younger sister she almost certainly had another one somewhere.

​@@LuciferLucklessYesss!! Exactly we have one more Carian royal unaccounted for - but this does mean that Rellana wasnt completely unhinted at in the base game

@@LuciferLuckless oooooh

A real "Uh-oh" moment

Kinda wordy, I'd go with small sullies

Smoltiffs, if you will.

cringe

Or Pontiff Smallivans

More like Pointy Sullivans

Hey, unlike Marika who's always playing 5D Chess, the Carian princesses are much more proud to have feelings, probably because it's a matriarchy. Whereas Marika, it's Might Makes Right, and everyone likes strong muscle men like Godfrey (Who's great). But when looking at the values those two houses cherish, Carians come off as much more human, much less bloodthirsty, and infinitely more civilized. Like, their women actually love the dudes they marry. Compare that to Marika marrying whichever Lord serves to give her more followers... She has to appeal to the lowest common denominator and not in a good way. Miquella was gonna do things better, combine the values of those two houses once more, but look how that turned out....

Who wouldn't? 😏

she wants that base serpent

I said nothing and just killed her on my first try...

When I saw the second phase, I immediately made a joke about HRT, “Pontiff? You too? HRT?”

I'm pretty sure some of her attack animations are literally ripped straight from him.

​@@KyokujiFGCYeah, the parry bait and the lunge.

@@KyokujiFGC "Yeah Fromsoft should sue these lazy asses !!!!!!/?.§!!!" What's inherently wrong with reusing animations ? Explain it to me with all your game developper insider knowledge, random internet whiner.

Got that scarlet brain rot

The gold and silver also corresponds with D’s gauntlets

They've also kept the "upper half of a woman on top of arthropod idea" going for 3/4 games. But in that case ds3 was the odd one out.

@@Eo-ms3kw eh they were still there technically, the Fair Lady’s corpse is in 3 but idk if we count that

@@sanguillotine I didn’t even think about that, but that also traces it back to Elden Ring’s identity Themes, which is cool asf

@@matthiasbarish1296 Nah, that doesn't count. That's not revisiting the idea but just reusing a character from a previous game.

Ranni's man/woman stuck by her in the end! ...Well, unless you give her the ring, then dump her for Fia. That's probably gonna sting.

​​@@TriforceWisdom64*100% runners when they like fia's ending better*

Rellana and Rennala lost everything for a toxic redhead Ranni IS the toxic redhead

@@RamixTheRed Truly, she is the Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss

​@@RamixTheRedshe stays winning... 12 mil spouses and counting

Is there any other way to get there? I'll have to check again but I don't remember there being one. Far as I know she's standing in front of the only path.

It’s a short cut in the same way stormveil is a short cut to liurnia

@@spectralassassin6030she is not, there’s a path that goes under, it’s near Thollier’s first location

@@sanguillotine Hm. I'll check it out later. Don't think I found that in all my exploration.

@@sanguillotine At least Godrick had a Great Rune and like five questlines tied to his defeat. And also Stormveil was a much more elaborate dungeon than Ensis.

Sword for a Ring how very Carian of her. But its flipped. Rennala gave Radagon the sword (just like Ranni does to the player) for the ring(I guess she got one we don't really know). Seems like Rellana was the one who proposed to Messmer and he accepted by gifting her the flaming sword.

That’s very interesting.

Actually, by closer look on the details of the ring you can see Marika‘s emblem on it. So I wouldnt think it was gifted from Rellana, but more a sign of his devotion to his mother, Marika.

​@realnarouchan true, but from what we know of carian marriages, the women give the spouses a sword as proposal. If messmer gave Rellana the sword, he's technically the wife

It wouldn't be a Fromsoft game then. Reconciliation is a foreign concept to Miyazaki. He only knows betrayal and loss.

Same. You have to be able to duplicate a shadow version of yourself as well. But, she has two glowy swords so she’s sulyvahn now.

Reminds me a story of Raistlin Majere and Krysania from Dragonlance, where she eventually resurrected him but he was too hell-bent on continuing his mewing streak to love her back.

I love this interpretation, also to add to it maybe ymir had a hand in helping her despair along while he was scheming to honor something beyond the full moon.

thats why she is ready to whoop our asses as soon as we come to Castle Ensis. The only satisfaction she has left is combat so she makes sure if we are looking to kill messmer we're gonna have to go through her and that we have to work for it

All because Messmer just wanted to please his mother and earn her affection.

​@@Diamond_2403 Mommy issues

Thing is, Rellana is specifically named the younger sister. Though technically twins can be designated that way too, Elden Ring doesn't specify that they're twins. For example, we don't know who the older is of the twins Miquella and Malenia so chances are this applies to the Carians too. Meaning there might be a third Carian royalty whose name starts with an R that is an adherent of another moon... In other words, Renna. I think it's possible the Three Sisters in Caria Manor aren't a reference to Ranni and her siblings but rather Rennala and her younger twin siblings Rellana and Renna.

@@DanielGarcia-rx3kt Explains why there are 3 towers behind the mannor too.

Daniel got it, but I also want to add that they straight up don't look alike at al as far as body types go. Renallas got some freaky long limbs

Just another way she's a reference to Dancer.

that's just dark souls baybee

​@@ZullietheWitchis there anything changed in map structure before release? Or maybe something cut about Godwyn or other characters?

They aren’t that bad in pve, not sure in pvp. Problem is that it only shine at high level.

Her weapon has a unique moveset which I personally value more than being meta (Fromsoft can easily change numbers on a weapon with any patch). I beleave her twin swords are the only melee weapon in the game with a left handed attack in place of the block.

As much as I love every Soulsborne game, that's kinda the case with all of them besides Sekiro. The rush to rearrange assets and reconfigure mechanics late in development has had pretty obvious effects in every game. See the cut Archstone, the Dragon Butts of Izalith, all of DS2, Kos and Ebrietas switching names and making Micolash's dialogue confusing, Sulyvahn having no cutscene or dialogue (plus iirc his model was originally called Aldrich and located in the Kiln as final boss), and finally Elden Ring adding entire NPCs and quests in free updates because some stuff just dead-ended unexpectedly on day 1.

Remember, no bosses need cutscene. Its just a bonus

Just because the game didn't tell you about it initially, doesn't mean it couldn't exist.

We never found out anything about Renna, and she has one of the three sisters' towers. I don't think it made sense that one of the Towers was named after Seluvis, so maybe it originally belonged to Rellena

The area where Ranni stays is called the Three Sisters, so it's most likely Rennala,Rellana, and Renna. Two are taken one Ranni and the Second by Saluvis which is obviously not one of the sisters.

The only weird thing to me is why rellana moon require 72 int when rennala, a full sorcerer, only require 70

@@elphiefanful Sure but in the base game, important characters get set up before you see them, everything feels like it belongs. Like you read the sword monuments which let you know about Malenia and Radahn. The DLC lore feels completely separate from the base game, under the convenient guise of "Marika hid the land of shadow away" which leads me to believe the DLC wasn't planned until after release. It was definitely a letdown from a story/lore perspective for me.