Wife said not aloud to spend the $$🥲🥲

Sure as heck.

Why would I preorder digital content

​@@jonathandrummel6075bro how poor are you

​@@OtherMomoto...play it when it releases?

My friend actually made a lot of sense to me, that assassin actually made the black wolf mask in order to pretend to be blaidd

Wow excellent Most theories don't make sense But is it possible that the black knives were protecting iji As there were protecting ranni against blaidd And it's very clear that Blaidd is going mad. Here's the rub 1. Ijis helmet is off - same helmet that kept his location secret from their enemies - the golden order - the godslayer skin assassins Iji didn't fight back , nor did he kill himself The black knives were protecting him He simply removed his helmet making himself the enemies intent on killing ranni aware of his presence A godskin assassin after ranni came to the carian manor and killed iji The flame didn't need to change It was always the lesser version

@@ChessheromusicI like this theory

​@@Chessheromusici never thought of that, after all the Black assassins worked with Ranni. The only hole in this theory is that their ringleader is imprisoned in the Moon Altar, so it doesn't make sense why the Black assassins would still work for her.

@@Chessheromusic Iji did fight back though... There are dead black knife assassins surrounding his body, he took them down with him

Blaidd seems like he was raised as Ranni’s adoptive brother since Iji also tells us that the two grew up together, played together, and were basically inseparable ever since Blaidd met her

@@lumenflowers OP poster is correct. The japanese term implies it's the same relationship as Maliketh and Marika.

@@dannywest8843 oh I didn’t think OP was incorrect I just think that Iji’s comment about how they were raised adds more support to that idea

A shadow is quite literal in Elden Ring. It's basically their real shadow but given life. And referring to it as a sibling wouldn't be an insane thing to do. But not a sibling literally.

White girls and dogs hey

I don't think protected is the word. I think the godskins were looking for the cursemark of death in order to remake the rune of death. They might not have known where Godwyn's was, but they could have pieced together where Ranni's is. The noble fights us so we don't get it first.

@@ChocolateBadness Makes sense too😁

@@ChocolateBadnessI mean the noble only spawns in if you approach the tower, it’s not like the other godskin in the windmill village who’s just walking around doing nothing

@dontpreorder2783 I get that, but I just interpreted that as we get there at the same time. Same way they port in at farum azula. There, the conclusion I came to was they were going to double team Malekith and just take the rune of death back in its entirety since you foiled them getting the cursemark from Ranni's body.

​@@ChocolateBadnesssomething else to consider is that the tower isn't accessible until you have the necessary item to go through the library. Maybe the godskin couldn't access the tower and is waiting to ambush someone who might be able to.

In fact there is a holy knife that looks very, very similar to the black knifes. So my guess is that those where used to create the black knifes and maybe to kill godwin?

@@DotTiuri The Blade of Calling is all but confirmed to be the original state of the black knives before they were altered. Melina even uses it if you summon her to fight Morgott with you. In that fight she has the fighting style of the black knife assassins. Not to mention both of their ashes of war are the same animation but with a color swap and different elemental damage types

Exactly

The blackflame is probably a phenomena that comes into existence when the rune of death and the all burning flame of ruin get combined. A flame that can burn the immortal. So if the rune is used on a troll like Iji, who arguably is close to the fell god because he loves smithing, he could combine both the rune and flame within himself to go out in a blaze of blackflame.

The troll hammer wepon also has split damage with fire on it

Seconded!

THIS! Please!!!!

Good call

I’m curious as well. Personally I believe the Gloam-eyed Queen to be Ranni’s mentor Renna the snowy crone who was secretly her teacher….which I also believe is secretly Melina. Or atleast who she was before she lost all her memories and became burned and bodiless. It explains why the doll Ranni’s soul lives in who she tells us is modeled after her former teacher looks exactly like Melina as well. Because they are the same person.

@@dedicatedtomars3140 what about the extra 2 arms on the doll?

His daughter is related to dark souls three morne the man himself

I never knew Blaidd was even trapped. But I went to Ranni's tower and he was there and I rushed to Iji to tell him about Blaidd death and after progressing the story a bit more I went to him and he was dead. I was shocked to see his body engulfed in black flames.

Yeah without a guide I dont think i would had ever found out that blaid was trapped in the bloodhound evergaol

You can save iji by never talking about Blaidds death.

​@@likeshine22wait really?

@@Jugggernaawwt Yup. It never triggers the event if you just don't talk about it.

then...he killed himself?@@likeshine22

Just don’t go back to the tower. Problem solved.

Iji betrays Blaidd & sends the black knives after him. Driving Blaidd mad. After you tell him about Blaidd's death he kills himself. I've tested this: if you don't kill Blaidd Iji never dies, if you kill Blaidd but don't tell Iji then he never dies. If you free Blaidd Iji will never confront you about it. Also the ice magic that Blaidd wields is a gift from Ranni, if he wasn't faithful to her then he couldn't call upon the enchantment. It's very clearly implied that the dark moon is a manifestation of Ranni's power. I believe that Iji choose to suffer until death fighting a unit of black knives until they slowly tore him apart as you alone could make him suffer sufficiently to match what he did to Blaidd. But wishing to spare Ranni & you from further pain and protect her from further incompetence on his part. He ordered the black knives to butcher him, after all did he not slowly trick & betray Blaidd. Most importantly how could a peaceful death regardless of how painful it might be ever make things right in Iji's eyes. he set all of his oldest friends allies against him & drove him mad from isolation & paranoia. What else could Iji do to make things right

Maybe he killed the assassins and then killed himself?

@@edwardconner3335 If Iji only dies when you tell him about Blaid. It means that Iji only dies when he tells the knives that Blaidd is alive. They definitively know each other and share information. But the outcome is still a mistery.,

@@alexandreporter705 the knives attack Blaidd regardless of Iji. Plus since a number of knives attack you regardless of affiliation and at three are directly loyal to Miquila the knives actual motivation is sadly anyone's guess.

@@edwardconner3335 What are the knives loyal to Miquela?

I always thought the Gloam-eyed Queen became the witch who taught Ranni. This would fit with Iji being first the smith of the Gloam-eyed Queen, when he made the Godslayer Sword, then going into service to the Carian Royal Family as smith and Ranni's warden. He could have then introduced Ranni to the "witch".

@@probablyfacetious2895 she has her own titles and their sorceries dont line up. Ranni learned of the "Dark Moon" which requires incredible intelligence. All the gloam-eyed queen stuff is related to faith. these things are important details.

Melina is the gloam eyed queen, there is SO much stuff to support this but I think it's as simple as looking at what the Gloam eyed queen was known for and exactly what Melina wants you to do through the entire game.... Kill a god.

@@izackmorales4420 Melina can't be gloam-eyed queen either because of the same reason I described previously. Gloamy was a rival to Marika before the Erdtree age. It doesn't make sense for Melina to be Gloamy. Gloamy also has ties to godskins and Melina doesn't do anything remotely Godskin.

@@VultureXVHey there! First off within the Frenzied Flame Ending we see that Melina’s closed eye was actually a gloom colored eye. The eye we usually saw open is now dulled in color. Mind you that Maliketh has a single gloom eye known as the beast eye given to you to find deathroot. Deathroot is basically related to the destined death/Rune of Death which was previously held by the Gloom Eye Queen. Why would Melina have only one eye that’s gloom colored and Maliketh has another gloom colored eye but also just a single eye. Remember how Maliketh had essentially taken the Rune of Death from the Gloom Eyed Queen. We can assume the eye was another relic taken from the Queen. This would explain why Melina, likely the Gloom Eyed Queen, only has a single Gloom eye while her other eye is completely void of color and gray almost like it’s gone or taken. I mean I thought that was pretty solid proof of Melina’s connections to the Gloom Eye Queen or rather her identity.

Iji never removed his helmet, his corpse still has it on. The Night's Cavalry pursued Alecto and Tiche, they are responsible for Alecto's imprisonment, not Ranni. Alternatively, Alecto could have sealed herself in the Moonlight Evergaol to hide from the pursuing Night's Cavalry, patiently awaiting Ranni's return. Plus, Ranni was busy transferring her soul into a puppet and going into hiding, unlikely she'd just reappear solely to betray Alecto for no discernable reason. We know that the Night's Cavalry pursued the Black Knives through Liurnia after Godwyn's death because we are literally showed the Cavalry in pursuit during the he story trailer. The literal only thing that the Greater Will has power to do in our current age of the Shattering is bypass the Grace system Marika established. The Greater Will removed the demigods' means of resurrection and gave it to the Tarnished. That's it, that's all it can do now. Why would you assume that the Greater Will would trust the ones who brought it to heel in the first place? And why would the Black Knives trust the Greater Will? How would they even communicate? They don't seem to have Grace or Fingers, and they're clearly not prospects like the Tarnished are. There is literally no evidence that the Black Knives somehow have this deep connection to the Greater Will that not even the Tarnished have. And what of Blackflame on Iji's corpse? So the Godskins got their grace back too? The very same Godskins who work alongside Rykard, and directly delivered the fragment of Destined Death to Ranni. The Noble on Ranni's divine bridge, surrounded by Sanctuary Stones, who is literally guarding her tower, her corpse, and her secret, is all the proof needed to directly tie Ranni to the Godskins. And when you combine all the evidence the game provides, Ranni is literally the only viable culprit

​@@jeffjefferson2853 Why would she kill Iji

Ranni and the Black Knife Assassins had separate motives for the night of the black knives so it would probably be safe to assume that after the events their goals no longer aligned. Killing off Ranni would be tying up loose ends for the Black Knives.

​@@Ixxlostinaboxwhatvwere the Black knives motives? As assassins, I would assume their motive was payment. They are from Nokstella IIRC, so may have that grudge against Leyndell, but they are also Numen, like Marika.

That’s something is them killing Godwyn.

Truly unforgivable

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@@buffoonustroglodytus4688lmfao

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Actually I'm fairly certain that after the Night of Black Knives Ranni and her crew were at odds with the Black Knife Assassins and far from being in her service they were in open conflict with her ever since. Consider the placement of Alecto, the Leader of the Black Knife Assassins Evergoal on the Moonlight Altar and Tiche's ashes description and the implications that Ranni imprisoned the Leader of the Black Knife Assassins right after She fled the capital after slaying Godwyn. So if the Black Knife Assassins truly were in her service why would Ranni do that especially since they hale from the Eternal cities where the Finger Slayer Blade Ranni needs to slay her 2 fingers in located? Indeed with the Black Knife Assassins being Allies it would make no sense that she ever had issues laying her hands on the finger Slayer blade at all. No Ranni and the Black Knife Assassins were immediately on bad terms in the aftermath of Night of Black Knives. Why? I think it comes down to who the Black Knife Assassins did not slay that Night, namely Radahn. I think Ranni knew the whole time that Radahn holding back the Star suspended her fate, I mean Jerrin knew it, Selen knew it, Iji cursed himself for not realizing it, why wouldn't Ranni know her own fate's connection to the Stars? I think the Black Knife Assassins betrayed Ranni over that point and that's why Ranni locked Alecto up. As to why the Black Knife Assassins would betray Ranni over Radahn I think there are 2 possibilities: 1.The Black Knife Assassins did so because Radahn holding back the Stars was protecting Sellia which secretly an above ground outpost for the Eternal cities from which the Black Knife Assassins haled from (Also likely where their concealing armor was made note how all the night spells are all about concealment) 2. The Black Knife Assassins had already secretly entered into the service of the lone Empyrean in opposition to Ranni, Miquella and sabotaged Ranni's plans by sparing Radahn on the one hand while using her talents to forge the Black Knives necessary to slay Godwyn toppling the Golden order in favor of Miquella's Order of Unalloyed Gold. After all the location where the most living Black Knife Assassins are to be found along with their Armor set guarding the secret seal to the Haligtree in Ordinia Also the ant riders in Nokstella are seemingly using Miquella's bewitching magic to control the ants (who humorously will attack their riders if the spell is broken) More over I don't see why Ranni would bother having Iji and Blaidd killed by assassins in the 1st place, she knew them to be fully loyal to the death they'd slay themselves if she but asked them to do so. Hell Ranni had more faith in Blaidd than Iji did calling him a complete failure on the part of the 2 fingers and she's proven right on that count as Blaidd chooses suicide at the hands of the Tarnished precisely because he knows 1st hand the Tarnished is strong enough to do and have thus far proven themselves loyal to Ranni. Also like you said Iji knew his death was imminent and accepted it, so why kill some of the Assassins his mistress sent to slay him? It would be pointless. No those Assassins were not sent by Ranni or Iji as far as I can gather.

​​@@Terminalsanity Ranni was busy transferring her soul, and in hiding, in no position to seal anyone. The Night's Cavalry, sent by Morgott and allied with the Golden Order, pursued Alecto and Tiche, killed Tiche, and sealed Alecto. Tiche's ashes do not imply Ranni did anything. Yet we see the Night's Cavalry in pursuit in Liurnia in the story trailer while Ranni is speaking of the Black Knives plot. They are chasing Alecto and Tiche. There is little to no evidence in the game that the Black Knives are allied with Miquella (the ones in Ordina are just as likely to be prisoners as they are allies, they're in an evergaol afterall). And unlike Ranni, Miquella has a valid reason to imprison the Black Knives (he was closest to Godwyn afterall) The point I'm trying to make is that the presence of Black Knives in evergaols in both Ranni and Miquella's territory isn't enough evidence in and of itself to prove anything either way. We need more evidence to base a solid theory on. So I came to a different conclusion. There is no proof that Ranni sealed Alecto, only minor circumstancial evidence. There is no proof that Miquella is allied with the Black Knives, only minor circumstancial evidence (and there's definitely no proof that Miquella is allied with the Godskins). There is, however, strong evidence that the Night's Cavalry pursued and sealed Alecto. And there is direct proof that Ranni works with both the Godskins and the Black Knives, who we know were working together during Iji' assassination due to the Blackflame on his corpse. The Godskins are directly connected to Ranni through the presence of a Noble, surrounded by Sanctuary Stones, on her divine bridge, guarding both her corpse and her secret (this is the very same Noble who delivered the stolen Fragment of Destined Death to Ranni). Ranni is the primary suspect of Blaidd and Iji's death, and nothing can convince me otherwise

@@jeffjefferson2853 No the Golden Order absolutely did not imprison Alecto in evergoal on the Moonlight Altar only Carian royals (or at the least someone with a Carian royal ring) like Ranni can access the Moonlight Alter and Tiche's ashes definitely imply Alecto was imprisoned that shortly after the Night of Black Knives. All signs point to Ranni locking Alecto up. Even if the Golder order had locked Alecto up which is all but certainly not the case why wouldn't have Ranni freed such a useful ally? No the Golden order locking up Alecto angle of yours does not work or make sense. The Night's Calvary have nothing to do with the Night of Black Knives they're were initially Morgott's personal shock troops used in the defense of Lyndell who later became his anti-tarnished hit squad tasked with by Morgott with eliminating any Tarnished trying to become Elden Lord throughout the lands between. Its literally why his parting words in his as Margitt the Fell Omen guise is "Fear the Night". I'd say the 4 living Black knife assassins guarding the seal to Miquella's Haligtree is pretty strong evidence that Black Knife Assassins were aligned with Miquella as you know its direct proof that at 4 of them were in his service. Now the ant riders in Nokstella using bewitching magic on their mounts that's indirect but intriguing evidence. There only link between Ranni and the Godskins is the Godskin Noble on the Bridge to the divine tower where her original body with the curse mark containing a fragment of destined death and its presence there probably has more to do with the fragment of destined death/the Death rune contained in the curse mark on the Ranni's body than Ranni Herself as every location the Godskins appears have a connection to destined death/the Death rune (Yes even volcano manor as Rykard too possessed fragments of Destined death/the Death rune) as far I can tell the Godskins are trying to restore the power of their Black Flame by recovering fragments destined death/the Death rune so they can resume their God hunt. Like I said before its seems pretty redundant for Ranni to send Assassins to kill Blaidd and Iji as they both made it very clear they were both perfectly will to Die for Rani Blaidd literally chooses to die by the Tarnished hand Iji recognizes and accepts his impending death without complaint so why would Iji waste his time fighting the Assassins and killing several of them? No if Ranni wanted them dead all she had to do was ask them to die for her and they would both do it without complaint or question. Sending assassins makes no sense on her part. Also if the Black Knives were in Ranni's service why would getting to Nokron an Eternal city from which the Black Knife Assassins haled from and obtaining the fingerslayer blade there be such a challenge for Ranni? No for all the reasons I've outlined at length that post the Night of Black Knives the Black Knife Assassins were at odds with Ranni not working with her. You can debate the particulars of why that might be that much is very clear.

​@@Terminalsanity It literally shows the Night's Cavalry in Liurnia when Ranni speaks of the Black Knives. The Black Knives did not have access to Nokron either, they were based in the Leyndell Eternal City now located in Deeproot Depths. The 4 Black Knives in the evergaol were likely sent to kill Miquella, and subsequently trapped in the Evergaol trying to reach the Haligtree. As for the Moonlight Altar, the Carians themselves sealed it off after everything went down. The ring is found with Rennala, not Ranni's Rise, Divine Tower, or Renna's rise, the places you'd expect if Ranni herself placed the Moonlight Altar seal. How can you interpret a Godskin, surrounded by fragments of Faram Azula (home to Destined Death), on Ranni's Divine Bridge (only accessible with an object given by Ranni), as anything other than what it obviously is? This Godskin came directly from Faram Azula to deliver the fragment of Destined Death to Ranni. How else did she get it? Why is he surrounded by Sanctuary Stones if not because he rode a chunk of Faram Azula down onto Ranni's bridge? Again, we can debate for ages, but I believe my evidence is more sound But assuming you're correct about Ranni herself sealing Alecto. So what? The Black Knives were scattered, and Tiche was the only one with Alecto. The Black Knives likely assume their leader is dead. They have no reason to assume otherwise. And we are specifically told that the two were pursued after slaying Godwyn, and we are shown the Night's Cavalry in that very pursuit, and we know that the Cavalry works for Morgott who is loyal to the Golden Order.

@@jeffjefferson2853 Dude look at the story trailer clip again 1st it not actually clear those are Night's Calvary in the trailer The riders are hooded which the Night's Calvary never are and given the line they are shown over is in reference to the night a fragment of destined death was stolen I'd say those were mostly likely Black Knife Assassins fleeing the theft scene of the rune of death or heading to assassinate Godwyn with it because you know the next thing in the clip is the sound of Godwyn being stabbed. their location is unclear given the lack of swamps its not definitively Liurnia, hell since its pre-shattering it could be Caelid for all we know more to the point there's 0 indication they're chasing anyone or anything all that's clear is they are in a hurry. The Eternal Cites have one shared culture I have no idea how or why you would assume the Black Knife Assassins could only access one of them when they haled from all of them. Seriously the denizens there even share some their moveset the the connection is literally overtly stated by Rogier. The 4 Black Knives in the Seal in Ordinia are plainly guarding it along side the Albanuric archers there otherwise they would be shot by the archers when they appear when they attacks player or would have escaped long ago as with their invisibility would have made breaking the seal themselves absurdly easy. Seriously the archers plainly aren't prisoners there why would you assume the Black Knife Assassins were?More over there's spirit Black Knife Assassin calmly walking the street outside of the seal not to mention Ordinia shares the exactly same architecture as Sellia the implication being they were among the original inhabitants of Ordinia and helped build it. The inaccessibility of the Moonight alter largely refutes your interpretation full stop there's no indication anyone aside from the carian royals even could access it. Sorry you need to concede that point you literally have no evidence you support your claim that the Night's Calvary imprisoned Alecto there but baseless conjecture. All tangible evidence points to Ranni being the one who imprisoned Alecto there, there' not even a suggestion that anyone else but her could have done it. Same way I interpret the Godskin's forcing their way into Faram Azula which is way harder to get than the Divine Tower in Liurnia: They powerful/desperate enough to get that far to try reclaim their former Godslaying power. Makes more sense and is more consistent than your take of they were powerful enough to force their way into Faram Azula but had to have a connection to Ranni to get to the Bridge to the Divine Tower or fall from above the towers were sealed not the bridge at any rate nothing you said there refutes any aspect of my own take. That's the thing though you have cited way less actual evidence than I have and frankly have made much more conjecture some of is literally you grasping at straws like that whole bit with the night's cavalry chasing the black knife assassins through liurnia Its not clear those were night's cavalry indeed the context would suggest they were mounted black knife assassins on their way to slay Godwyn not the night's cavalry chasing them down after the fact. Also there's 0 indication they they were chasing anything. The Significance being if Ranni did lock up Alecto there would be a reason for her to do it and a pretty compelling reason at that given Alecto's status as Leader of the black knife Assassins. We know Ranni is fully capable & willing of getting rid of former allies the fate of Seluvis/Pidia makes that clear but she didn't do that for no reason, Seluvis/Pidia betrayed her. One would presume something similar happened with Alecto or Ranni got something significant from imprisonin Alecto . At any rate I think imprisoning their leader strongly indicates that the Black Knife Assassins and Ranni were not good terms post Night of Black Knives. No we are not shown any such pursuit, its not even clear that was the Night's Calvary since all the riders are hooded unlike the Night's Calvary indeed the context of the scene strongly indicates those were the Black Knife Assassins on the their way to slay Godwyn since you know that what follows that scene not what precedes it. Also if that was supposed to be the Night's Calvary chasing down the Black Knife Assassins wouldn't they need to be carrying Sentry torches?

To be fair, they never fixed the Black Flame effect on the Gargoyle Black Blade's unique skill despite it being a Destined Death weapon. I think the flame on Iji is 100% intentional, but there is a precedent for the two being mixed up.

@@KG-jd6ok Yes they did. I used that sword for basically the entirety of my first playthrough (which I did not too long ago) and the Weapon Art releases a red slash.

@@LEO_M1 Look at the effect it triggers on the enemy itself and compare it to the one from the Black Knife or Maliketh's Sword.

But doesn’t Blaidd still have dialogue that he was sorry? Or maybe I’m confused about that. It could be that his body was being puppeted, or he was fighting with himself, making him go mad. His loyalty was strong, but so was the GW’s influence, being forced to fight but not wanting to.

@@monroerobbins7551 Yes. Basically, Blaidd was fighting the madness. That's what we saw. We walked up to him basically at the end of that fight, and Blaidd lost it.

Agreed, this was the most obvious theory for me as well, however, that first theory mentioned in this video is sound as well

no it doesn’t i don’t think Ranni killed them and im glad people are moving away from that theory

@@Zach-qo1on Who do we know for a fact uses the Black Knives, only one person. I'm sorry if your waifu Ranni senpai isn't who you want her to be. Literally anything else is speculation and here she is saying it. Iji knew he was going to die soon. It all fits without adding speculation.

I know right? This is such a stupid video to make. It's not even a theory. It's straight up implied that she's the one who kills Iji. She's literally the only one with a connection to the Black Knife Assassin's and that line straight up sells the point. Blaidd goes mad because she strayed from the path destined to her, and Iji has to die because he knows too much of her plan. Iji himself is content with this.

@@DioBrandoZaWarudoMudaMudaMuda I don't mind speculation and alternative theories. The video is fine to me but the guy who refuses to acknowledge what's obvious in the comments is pretty irritating.

For every answer, we will get 2 more mysteries, lol.

@@Cman04092Exactly! 😅

It's cute y'all think there will be answers lol.

There isn't destined death fire animation for trolls, try it. It apears as black flame on trolls.

​@@EmilKlingbergthere is

Actually Gargoyle's Blackblade is not bugged. It's just a subtle hint that Malekith is actually the Gloam-eyed queen.

@@GraatiMalekith isn’t the Gloam Eyed Queen, he was given the rune of destined death by Marika.

Ok so I've heard this, and honestly I would like it to be true lol but is there any definitive proof??

That's possible but then it's still strange that FromSoft still hasn't fixed this, at least for Iji's body.

@@Solibraebecause it’s based on a glitch that I think they’re unsure how to fix. But yeah he was supposed to be burning with DD I believe

@@wolfiemuse Well yes but are FromSoft really so incompetent that they can't change one fire effect for another? Unless they programmed it in a very strange way then I don't see why they wouldn't be able to change it.

@@Solibrae not incompetent - a result of complicated coding shit that when you have a bunch of team members working on the same project, everyone takes different shortcuts and sometimes shit like that can happen where a small inconsequential bug happens, but because it doesn’t affect the overall game experience, it’s not on the priority list of things to fix. Like… I dunno… the Arcane stat being broken for like 6 months? 🤣 but yeah I wouldn’t call that incompetent I would call that an unfortunate oversight that FS doesnt need to pay someone to go figure out why that’s happening and fix it, only to end up causing another problem by fixing that one. It’s harmless.

Yeah melina is def the gloam eyed queen

I read it as him being afraid that the greater will may take over his mind and force him to act against Ranni. Blaidd would have done well to wear one too if one might fit.

Well, as stated in the video, he most likely orchestrated Godwyns death with/for Ranni, so I imagine the helmet is how he stayed hidden from them, and was completely uncontested by any of their devout. The possibility that he may have aided the gloam-eyed queen would only strengthen that. I doubt that the Greater Will would overtake him, as that isn't really what they do. They can be fought against by mortals, just not their puppets.

Iji didn't betray Blaidd, he imprisoned him because Blaidd is first and foremost a puppet of the Greater Will.

⁠​⁠ adding to the reply above, shadows are programmed to kill their empyreans should they betray the greater will. Iji likely always knew blaidd would turn on Ranni as soon as she approached her two fingers with the knife so him locking Blaidd in the evergaol was for his own sake. What he didn’t realize was that Blaidd would maintain his loyalty, even in his madness So its less that betrayal is second nature to Iji but more like, he always knew it would come to this and he’s had a lot of time to come to terms with it

@@PatGunnyep, like Magneto uses his helmet in X-men, I figured the same

The Gloam-Eyed Queen is Melina (who is actually just a spiritual manifestation of the Demi God Miquella, Malenia's accursed twin brother)

Its pretty clear he died fighting them.

ranni killed him🤦🏿‍♂️

Nah, Patches hates followers of whatever is the current accepted God system, if it weren't for him getting all mushy for Tanith, he probably would have alighned with Iji.

😂

Ranni's quest line and ending sound like the realm of darkness and end of the world in KH1 when you put it that way. The moon symbolism too. huh. Wonder if Godwyns soul is somewhere in the Shadow Lands.

Screw Ranni

@@gabrielbelmont2447 I wish I could

No, she doesn’t say that

@H240909 yes she does keep exploring nockron......but do not defeat bladid red phantom,

No she doesn't say she will betray them, at least not in that sense.

Don't worry about it bro, take ur time.

I have 200ish hours in Elden Ring but still haven't finished it 🤣

I only got it last Christmas, and still haven't started it yet (for the same reason)

Meanwhile I have like four hours of free time per evening and I got it finished within a month of release. Priorities 😉

Just admit it’s hard buddy 😭

I’lø sub right this fuckin instant if you swear an oath to never cease development of new videos pertaining to elden ring lore

That being said my brain jumps to the godskins and the black knives being allied together