Fun fact: in old English, "sc" was pronounced like "sh", so the "Scadutree" is pronounced like "Shadutree". IfI'mwrongplzbenicetome

I’ve always felt a lot of marika’s actions in the base game felt weird for a god like being, but finding out she basically entered a slave contract with the greater will in exchange for the safety of her loved ones (getting rid of death) after her people were slaughtered changes a lot. It makes her going 0-100 immediately on her sons death make a lot more sense. She basically viewed the greater will as having lied to her and betrayed her by letting him die

I just realized that the omen are being treated the way they are due to Marikas history with the horsent. This whole chapter 4 part is stunning. Using her tormentors own power to achieve godhood, bathing her new world in light while condemning the hornsents world in shadow and then stealing the rune of death to make them suffer eternally by her own sons hand, thus creating the curse of the omen. Although I still don’t get how she achieved godhood to begin with. Why weren’t the hornsents able to do that themselves but a random shaman was? Did it have to do something with the two fingers helping her?

I think it's possible the hornsent would have raised one of their own to godhood, if not for Marika's intervention. The old woman in Belurat is referred to in one item description as the "Empyrean grandam," which at the very least means the towerfolk knew about Empyreans and this lady was in charge of finding and/or training them So I have a theory that in that moment with Marika in the trailer the hornsent were one step away from successfully creating a god of the Crucible. They'd constructed the Divine Gate, they had the primordial gold that would become the Elden Ring, and they had an Empyrean... And then Marika, who had been pretending to be their ally up until this point, killed that person, stole the Elden Ring, and ascended to godhood herself "The seduction and the betrayal"

I feel that Radagon and Marika are like St. Trina and Miquella. Like St. Trina is Miquella's "Love". So, Radragon is an aspect of Marika broken off so she could become a God. But everything eventually will move to recombined back together. So, when Radragon merges back, He will become the God Marika became by losing him.

To me, the dlc explains to us that Radagon is Marika's divested self through the journey of Miquella.

On a related note, The design of the furnace golems seems to be a sort of twisted karmic retribution towards the Hornsent approved by Messmer and Marika. The shamans were mutilated, then stuffed into jars to become saints by the Hornsent so in response, Marika orders her son Messmer to wage a brutal, genocidal war against the Land of Shadow with his most prominent war machine being the massive furnace golems where the Hornsent themselves are rounded up in droves, dead or alive (but most likely still alive for extra cruelty), to be stuffed in the golems and lit aflame to bring it to life. Imagine the screams and howls of terror and agony and the smell of burning flesh as the golem surges to life; An instrument of death’s first gasps of “life” brought forth by the deaths of so many within its frame to serve as fuel for the golem as it marches over the land as an instrument of terror, destruction and mockery as it wears the horned mask of the fell god of fire the Hornsent so feared.

Just a theory, but considering that Melina is messmers little sister. Notice how his right eye has the seal, Melina has a birds foot (death bird) tattoo over her left eye. Maybe confirming that her curse was to be inhabited by a death bird queen. The gloam eyed queen.

My Crucible theory: The tower folk alternately describe it as a spiral, a pair of twin trees, and also as a current that reaches up toward the heavens... But that last one at least is not a new concept to us. We've seen plenty of currents shooting up toward the heavens both in the DLC and in the base game. The spirit springs I think that in the place where the Erdtree is now, there used to be a massive spirit spring that rose up in two streams spiraling around each other, most likely taking with them a great fountain of water since the Erdtree's roots are right above the source of the two underground rivers. Perhaps these waters even at one point had healing abilities similar to the sap of the Erdtree, before Marika transformed this fountain of life into a tree of life Her biggest mistake was separating the two trees, because she wanted a world of order and light, without chaos and shadow. The Erdtree and Scadutree SHOULD have been together, twined around each other like a spiral and in balance with one another But that aside, if the Crucible is a miraculous spirit stream where all life is blended together, where does its power come from? From spirits of course. We learn from the Suppressing Pillar that when the Lands Between and the Land of Shadow were one, it was a place where all forms of death "washed ashore." It was a place where all the world's dead were inexorably drawn, where their spirits would gather and blend in a single great melting pot, a crucible you might say, and then eventually burst up from the ground and bring new life to the world Death was the source of the Crucible's life, and this might explain why the sap of the Erdtree dried up so quickly after Marika sealed the Rune of Death

I wonder if that specific Hornsent who said these cruel words to the shamans in Bonny Village lived long enough to be subject to similar cruelties by Messmer’s crusaders when they invaded. I don’t know how long Hornsent lived but assuming he lived to see the crusade take place, I can only imagine it shifting from him whipping shamans with tooth whips and shoving them in jars like it's an ordinary day to him being captured by the crusaders before enduring days of being beaten and branded by serpent flails while being yelled at with slurs and obscenities by them such as being “Graceless scum” who’s only purpose is to be hunted, dehorned, impaled and burned before being forced to march alongside fellow Hornsent who’ve been rounded up, beaten, branded and dehorned to a furnace golem that has yet to come to life. As the Hornsent are being pushed and crammed inside the golem to the point where’s it’s getting hard to breathe, they are given a speech by a Black Knight captain who says that though they are graceless vermin with no place in the order, their lives will at least serve one purpose: as kindling for their holy crusade. The Hornsent suddenly reminisces on those shamans back in Bonny Village and realizes that he has become a victim to the same cruelties he inflicted on them. However, he has no time to think of his current predicament as the crusaders set the golem aflame and the screams of countless Hornsent and the stench of their burning flesh fill the air as the golem comes to life. So ends the life of one Hornsent among thousands, now used to fuel a lifeless machine of death and murder as it marches onto the battlefield. And so, the crusade continues.

The shape of the Divine Gate is very reminiscent of a crucible. If you look at the negative space, it looks like light being poured out of a bowl of some kind... Or metal being poured out of a crucible.

Knowing that she was a Shaman and that Shaman's bodies meld together with the bodies of others, it makes sense that Radagon was his own person but became part of her, whether by choice or not

I don't think the Hornsent created the Gate of Divinity. In the story trailer, the bodies of the Gate are still fresh as Marika walks through them. It makes more sense to me that this was Marika's "original sin", as they call it. She used the sacrifice of countless Hornsent to rise to godhood.

I think Marikas seduction and betrayal is related to whoever the father of Melina and Messmer was.

I love when there are spoiler warnings in Fromsoft game videos as if anyone thinks they’d be able to figure the lore out by themselves in game 😂

Since we know the Jars can create a meshed personality of sorts, I think it is possible that "Marika" is a successful saint of the shaman jars. That is the reason she became an Empyrean and was able to rise to godhood. Radagon can be a second "personality" created by the Jars who embodies order and honour. Also there are mentions of Marika betraying the Hornsent. Maybe the Saint Marika was prayed to by the hornsent and she used her status as a saint to raise an army somehow and then turned on the Hornsent for revenge. Later she went on to become a God after being contacted by the Greater Will/Two Fingers. Also its pretty much confirmed that Messmer is son of Radagon and MArika due to the red hair

I don't think that Marika wed herself to Godfry until well after she had become a God and it was this mysterious Serpent entity who keeps popping up that was her original Lord Consort as she became a god

There's a theory which states that the Land of Shadow and the Lands-Between were once part of the same landmass, but became separated due to Marika sealing the Land of Shadow after ascending to godhood. This theory also states that Leyndell was once connected to the ancient ruins of Rauth by a massive bridge which started at the divine bridge in the southwestern part of the city.

I was of a mind that Radagon was a mimic tear, but now I think he is Marika's discarded Faith in the GW, much like how St Trina is Miquella's discarded Love. This might be why she calls him "leal hound of the GO" and why she gives a speech speaking of no longer relying on "blind faith" in their future.

Imagine if Rani had just chosen someone else, like Mohg

One more thing I noticed in Bonny Gaol, in the areas where there are Shaman Pots and living Innards there are no Warrior Jars, but in the areas that has only corpses there are actual Warrior Jars.

20:35 this can somehow explain how Marika and Radagon, Miquella and Trina were able to “mend together”. Which could also explain how Miquella just left parts of his body away and Godrick grafting abilities

I do think that Marika probably did a lot of what we see Miquella do in this DLC. I think she travelled and left part of herself across the land. What if Radagon was her St. Trina, just not her heart/love, maybe her fanaticism or yearn for perfection. Radagon sought more knowledge as a champion, going so far as to learn sorcery from the best sorcerer of his age, Rennala, and yearned to create perfect order as Elden Lord. Marika could have cut him out and then became a God. I also wonder if the Gloam Eyed Queen was also originally another aspect of Marika that she cut out, explaining why Melina may evoke ideas of the GEQ in the frenzy ending if you don't use her as kindling. I think Marika wanted to be a God of abundance, of life, in order to combat the death that her people the Numen/Shamans experienced at the hands of the Hornsent. It would make sense later on then when Godwyn dies that she, in severe grief, shatters the elden ring and locks away the realm of shadow as it is a land associated with death. I think Radagon reappeared during the Liurnian Wars under the guise of being on Marika's side, but was actually only working with the Greater Will and the Two Fingers to eventually supplant Marika as the vessel of the Elden Ring and become God. That could explain the dialogue from Marika later on, she realizes who Radagon is at the point of his betrayal, proving to be her other self, like St Trina and Miquella, and yet to become a God. We see the Two Fingers try to stop Ranni, they send a Baleful Shadow after her, but we never see the fingers ever try to stop Miquella, or at the very least no evidence is found yet showing any interruption, so what if they don't care if Miquella becomes a God, because they just need a new vessel for the next age. Miquella doesn't seem to want to stop the continuation of the Elden Ring, he is a fundamentalist, he just wants to stop pain and suffering, like Marika except that he is going to basically control or compel everyone to do so. Marika's story is tragic, not just the sad backstory but because of how she became what she hated in her past life. The forces of the Erdtree committed genocide against the giants, went to war against the Carians and the Ancient Dragons. She caused suffering and she sees this all come to fruition when one of her family (extended) rebels against her order by murdering her son. Shattering the Elden Ring is something akin to her last defiance against the Greater Will, who she possibly has viewed as the progenitor of the cycle of suffering she was the victim and perpetrator of. She still was a tool and perpetrator of genocide, so the people saying she is a hero is a bit off, but it doesn't mean her act of shattering the Elden Ring and trying to end the cycle isn't a heroic act. I don't think Marika would call herself a hero

This raises a lot of questions regarding her first marriage with Godfry. Was he part of the hornsent culture? We know the crucible Knights were his warriors or connected with him, so they had some connection to the power or admiration of the crucible.

Her removal of the rune of death to punish the hornsent eternally is great. Great lore video. There’s still so much of this story to tell. I want a sequel damnit.

2 items, a couple lines and an empty village, all it took to understand all the intentions of Marika, turning her from a villain, to a tragic character

you can find white snake skin in Bonny village in bushes not far from "O mother"

Very well done! As someone who's watched at least 100 of these lore videos, I have to say this one has been the best. You have thoroughly covered this topic.

Crucible reminds me of Sailor Moon, the ending using a Cauldron as a place where everything is born.

Messmer's snakes are the same color as the dead one in the gate trailer. That's his pops yo😂

It looks to me as if the Gate of Divinity was the true goal of the flesh jars. The hornsent used bodies for bricks and shrine maidens for mortar. They were creating a place for one of their own to achieve divinity, and perhaps the creation of a god was originally a mutual goal of the hornsent and shrine maidens, but after that alliance morphed into a genocide, Marika simply ascended first and put a stop to it.

When we think that the Nox are Numen a few things start to make sense. We know that the lands of shadow didn't use to be disconnected. Maybe she saved them and told them to create a world underground to protect them from the hornsent. She then said they committed a sin to make interaction with her kin something like treason to deter trespassers.

The woman in the portrait with Midra has spiral braids and Marika leaves a spiral braid at the statue in Bonny village. Could they be the same person?

I feel like Marika and Radagon were once one person. Then they split, as Miquella split from St.Trina. Then they recombined after Godfrey was banished and the ring was shattered.

I belive that the hornsent used the great jar innards to construct the divine gate, as they refer to the innards as saints. To become a saint one can give their life to a divine purpose - the constructon of the divine gate. In the trailer, the gate has a similar colour as the jar innards.

WHO THE FUCK WORKED OUT MOVING THAT STATUE?! Absolutely baffles me how some things are found in Elden ring

Holy moly I’m early, just in time too. I haven’t been able to sleep tonight. Congrats on 300k btw

oooooh! "Have mercy. For the spirited-away shamans." is her wish! I like that!

Goddamn dude...your lore is so imprecise. Marika statues are almost all near mesmer soldiers, which means it was mesmers forces that broke marikas heads. Also, marika refers to radagon as her other self. That means he's always been with her. He is her alter ego.

Suddenly the moniker of "Omen" makes sense. 🤔

These lore videos are hitting like crack from the whole community love to see it!

I have been watching your videos for a good minute now. I'm glad to see you covering Elden ring, as I moved from Zelda to Elden ring myself LMFAO, love the video Keep it up, please! :D Also I'm interested to know more about the connection between Melina and the Gloam Eyed Queen.

Well done, really got in there. Checked the japanese translations. Got some stuff I hadn't seen mentioned anywhere else. 10/10 good video.

Wow! so many dots connected! Thanks man❤🙏🏾

Came out right before bed perfect!

I just wish it wasn’t so confusing to know what changes once you become a god via the divine gateway. I mean does the universe bend to your will now or do you just have enough holy damage to kill everything

that was really good man

Well done

In the last of ziostorm's video it was shown that there's a huge shedded snake skin that can be found in shaman village that looks similar to the snake skin that can be found in the arena were we fight the Godskinn noble in Volcano Manor. There's no explanation why it's there. My only guess is that it may have been planned to be part of an abandoned storyline that may explain the origin of Marika's aversion to snakes.

miquella's gentle world = "benevolent" dictatorship/monarchy which ofc is an oxymoron.

17:41 the woman in the tree. It’s an offering to the grandmother, that would be the presumably petrified woman in the tree, it’s a common concept in faith to have a person die such that a tree bearing fruit may grow, and that’s probably what’s happening here, based on the fact they have an entire separate culture up there, shaman are spiritualists, and it is likely that corpse is the shrine referred to by marika’s proper title “shrine maiden” in the Japanese

this is a great video. here's what I think. I believe that snakes used to be quite integral to the crucible, and to the erdtree. but now, they have done something so terrible that they are seen as traitors to the erdtree. you may think this is just because of messmer, but it thinks it goes deeper than that. I believe messmers father was a serpent god. I believe the serpent tempted Marika to commit the original sin, just like Eve in the garden of Eden. and then she burnt down the erdtree with messmers flame. the scadutree looks like a burnt tree, without any leaves. the burning of the erdtree is described as the cardinal sin, and I believe that the original sin was the first time the erdtree was burnt. the item description for "messmers kindling" says that he keeps company with the original sin, and he literally does keep company with the base abyssal serpent, and his flame. miquella is definitely a kind of christ-figure, and wishes to atone for the original sin, as it says in his great rune. I think the original sin is an extremely important factor in marikas rise to power, and is also probably the reason why the lands are shrouded in shadow now. but that's just my theory, I may be wrong. still looking into it, and I may end up making a video about it if I get enough information together.

Im telling yall the hand we touch to enter the dlc was mesmer legit looks like he trying to break out of the shadow place from that egg

I think each of different curses of Marika's children were all from beings. After all outside of Godwyn, all of children we know were cursed. And Godwyn also could have curse that was just not outwardly visible. Mesmer was cursed by Englay so he was born as base serpent with humanoid shell/skin. Omen twins and other Omens in sewers from are cursed by Hornsent. Malenia from curse by Romina, after Marika/Mesmer destroyed Church of the Bud. Miquella could be cursed by Plasudisax or his god by stopping his time, so he never grows up. Melina could be cursed by Gloam-Eyed Queen so her body combusted with half of destined death (same as Ranni), or by fell god of fire giants (but I think Radagon was recipient of Fire Giant curse). Or Marika could have been cursed directly and she just passed her curses on her children (other than Omens as hornsent seemed to curse her progeny).

Where all these crazy cinematic coming from? Are those trailers? Just edited gameplay? Like the shot of the person in the divinity gate. That was wicked

Marika story. The horrible process of making a organic parthenogenesis philosoper stone.

it's incredible darks souls music is still used widely for any video regarding from softwares games. Iconic soundtrack!

9:37 lol

We really have no idea about what the actual seduction and betrayal are 😂 can only speculate! Thanks Michael Zaki!

Grandam's curse is just the horns on Morgott and Mohg

My headcannon will always be that radagon was a half giant warrior with the fell god within him, and he and marika were tooth-whipped into flesh slurry and combined in a jar. Together they seduced Godfrey, lord of the divine bird kingdom of the erdtree and home of the crucible, become god and took over the world

I don’t know much about Eldin Ring but I just wanted to say congrats BanditGames on successfully changing up your channel away from Zelda content only! I totally get the frustration with the lore being nerfed in totk so seeing your success is like a mini win for me too!

the road from bonny village to the cathedral of manus metyr is full of wolves，unnaturally. i can't help but thinking these wolves must mean something，then i realize there is a statue of a girl and three wolves in Farum Azula. i imagine young marika was once in bonny village then she run away，on the road she somehow made the wolves to help her，eventually she hided in the cathedral of manus metyr the people there helped her and guided her to became a god

Blood and Wine is still the top dog for me, but this DLC is up there for sure.

Messmer is probably Radagon’s son, inheriting fire from his fire giant genetics

Waiting for your take on Messmer!

Marika’s people be like: From numen to shaman to “nah man” 😢

ayo what's the OST in the background @ 11:52 ? so trippy lol, great video also

Do you have Zelda shrine music in the background? Lol love it

Best DLC lore video.

Super long shot theory here, and borrowing from another YT video where the pile of flesh that Marika pulled the golden threads from was a giant snake, what if that was the Gloam Eyed Queen? And perhaps Marika/Radagon sired Mesmer and Melina. Mesmer inherited the more snake aspect (and red hair from Radagon), and Melina inherited the glaom eye? With the great betrayal being the slaughter/sacrifice of GEQ that Marika makes to acquire the golden threads to craft the elden ring?

Elden Ring Lore - The Tower Priests Worship "The Spiral" My headass - Row Row Fight the Powa

3:21 me who got that very tattoo a few months ago: yes, yes it totally does.

4:28 I think this line of dialogue more implies that Marika didn’t want to merge with Radagon to become one. I think Radagon and Marika were once the same but at some point a curse was placed on Marika to split her into two halves.

with the talk of messmers base serpent and the crimes of bonny village, im kinda surprised you did even mentioned the eiglay shed snake skin in the north of the village

The jars we find in the erdtree realm also present a different seal compared to the ones we find in the realm of shadow. Does this mean that the culture if potentates also propagated in the erdtree realm, after the shadow realm was banished?

27:00 nah that doesnt seem to line up with the timeline. 1. he already has the marika sealed eye in the trailer when he burns and ravages Belurat. 2. it is heavily implied he was either born with the serpent or it was actively sealed into him by Marika herself.

now we sorta understand why kids like morgott and mogh were looked down upon as they were constant reminders of her original sin

I was just watching through the cutscenes and noticed how Godfrey the grafted severed his arm so that the dragon head would attach to it. I wonder if Godfrey is able to do that because he is from Merikas line which would adhere to other corpse/flesh

Really makes it really clear why the Omen are so feared by Marika

Great video and great explanation for a lot of stuff in the DLC. But there is one thing I've been wondering for quite some time now and suprisingly it seems that no one really talked about yet. Or at least, I haven't seen any videos or discussions about this topic about Marikas seduction, betrayal and what her connections with the Fingers (and in turn Greater Will) is. To me the location of Shaman Village is very interesting since it seems to be quite secluded and strangly close to the Finger Ruins of Dheo. So isn't it possible that Marika, in a desperate attempt to save her people found Metyr (which we learned was the first shooting star to fall upon the Lands Between) and made a deal/pact to gain power and followers to go against the Hornsent. Maybe she even stumbled upon Metyr on accident and got seduced by her by promising Marika revenge and a better future. Marika realised her mistake and later in a another desperate attempt shattered the ring and tried to bring it all down to try and remove the influence of the Fingers and Greater Will that she was responsible for. This would also explain what Count Ymir told us.

Alright hear me out folks. Here's my theory on what Marika's seduction and betrayal was, and this has a lot to do with the parentage of Messmer and Melina. Marika by birth was a red haired powerless shaman, from the bottommost sect of the hornsent society. But she was special because she was chosen as an empyrean from the shaman people by her two fingers. Marika in her desperation, fear, and anger towards the hornsent manifested this other self that is Radagon. She was then instructed by her two fingers to use Radagon to commit an act of blasphemy which would later grant her significant power.. Now the hornsent were an advanced civilization that worshipped the crucible, created the gates of divinity by blending life forms together to emulate the crucible, and ultimately succeeded in accessing the powers of the crucible. The hornsent were strongly connected to the godskin. It was the godskin that aided the blending of lifeforms by skinning and making up those gates of corpses. The leader of the godskin, the golden haired gloam eyed queen was the god of the time and represented the crucible. You see crucible like features on the goskin nobles and apostles (tail, crucible like incantations etc). The godskin also had some kind of association with serpents as we have seen a godskin noble at the temple of Eglay. Here is what Marika and her two fingers plotted: Marika would use Radagon, a powerful and charming champion to seduce and have an affair with the gloam eyed queen. Once seduced, the gloam eyed queen birthed two red haired children, Messmer and Melina. Marika was also bestowed upon a powerful shadow by the two fingers, Maliketh. Once the children were born, Marika would use the opportunity to assassinate the gloam eyed queen using Maliketh. Marika would then pluck out the golden rune of the gloam eyed queen as shown from the trailer. This rune resided within the golden hair of the gloam eyed queen (You see that the body from which the hair is removed looks like godskin and the sky in the scene looks like a golden sky is about to replace a previous gloam colored sky). Marika would therefore assume godhood and would become the golden haired queen. The seduction, the affair and the betrayal is what lead to gold arising through Marika. And so was shadow born. I think shadow here also refers to the two children Messmer and Melina. Messmer inherited the black flame (Black pyrefly) and serpentine natures from his mother and Melina inherited the gloam eyes and destined death. Marika would seal both of these away. The golden braid that Marika left to the grandmother before she left her village forever, which is her prayer and confession, is simply a part of the same golden hair that she tore off from the gloam eyed queen for the great rune. Marika became a golden haired god but Radagon would remain red haired. The red hair reminded Marika of her sin which is why Radagon always hated his hair.

Honestly i dont blame Merika for what she did before the shattering. Except for the child abuse, its all understandable.

The crucible sounds a lot like the many concepts that are brought up at different points. The Law of Regression and Casuality. The One Great, the primeval current, the jarring rituals, and in fact the forge of the giants resembles a giant crucible.

I wonder if the body that Marika reaches into in the trailer is the Gloam Eyed Queen, that body looks a lot like the Godskin stitching. She had control of destined death before marika right? What if that was one of the things to become a divine god was having control of that aspect as part of the elden ring

I noticed something interesting about the jar people: they have similar posture and movement to the Black Knife Assasins, kind of hunched over with their knees turned inwards. I wonder if the Black Knife Assassins are what remain of Marika's people who were stuffed in jars, perhaps after being excised from the rest of the flesh in Messmer's hospital wing. Perhaps that is why the Black Knives appear injured. There's even a Black Knife who begins the fight with missing health in the base game.

i love you bandit man

First thing I thought seeing Gaius is also the Moblin Boar guy from Twilight Princess hahahaha

Radagon is marika, the dialogue you showed was literally her saying my other self at the ending when she was talking about merging into one body before that they were separate at one point when he was with rannala but when we fight radagon marika is shown to be the same body but one point their bodies were separate, also the reason their children were cursed is because of them being the same person.

Theory: crucible is a spiral tree upon which The Tower was built to honor it. Bloody remains seen in trailer are Hornsent offerings to the Crucible to let it grow more, until it reaches gods - like Miquella used his own blood to grow Haligtree. Marika burned Crucible away, which is why Enir-Ilim is covered in ash. Marika took part of Crucible, a seedling maybe, with which she created Erdtree at separate location.

that makes so much sense especially with all minus godwin being cursed and deformed

Man this DLC can be called a whole game it's so big and it revealed so many things and still there is so many questions .... i hope it doesn't end up like some other stories where they end up leaving it half assed

I don't believe the betrayal speaks of what marika did to the hornsent but what she did to her fellow Shaman, for one we see marika ripping out golden hair out of a body, and the shaman (judging from marika herself) have golden hair. Secondly the gates are made of fused flesh and who else then the shaman have an affinity with flesh fusing?

Graet job

Also have a theory on the pots in the lands between that Marika turns them into an almost form of reward for great warriors to be congealed into pot warriors as a way to turn her back on the horrors that were done to her people inside the pots in the land of shadow.

I had a thought. We obviously know that the Hornsent of Bonny Village (I'm not entirely convinced Bonny Village wasn't considered somewhat radical, even by Hornsent standards) valued the Shamans strictly for their use in pots, but presumably their capacity for melding with others could be utilized outside of pots as well Such as in the creation of the Divine Gate, for example

17:23 that's the Dark Souls 3 fire keeper.

I don't think radagon was ever his own person. I think like St.Trina when miquellia became a god, Radagon was Marika sheading her flesh in the same way.

Thank you so much to you and your crew for this video! I hope to this comment might help to spread your work through the algorithm because you really deserve it! You make the best elden ring content ever!

I still dont know what marika took out of that slimy mass in the intro cinematic