If you guys find any inaccuracies with this video, please drop a comment and let me know so I can attach them to this comment! - The Greater Will was not an outer god. Apparently he's in his OWN TIER, so we've got like... four layers of god tiers going on here. - Messmer was actually OLDER than Radahn, so he was born before him. Who is the dad? Nobody knows. - Caelid only seemed to get the scarlet rot outbreak AFTER Melania's fight with Radahn!

The writers weren't on coke. It was just George RR Martin doing his best to avoid writing Winds of Winter.

Mesmer and Melina were likely born before Radahn, an item description described Mesmer as an older brother to Radahn

Mohg shared his omen blood with miquella, in an attempt to grow him into his own consort for his dynasty. This "accursed blood" was what was needed for miquella to enter the land of shadow, which is why it is also the access point for us to transport there as well. So Mohg wasnt an arbitrary pick "hoping for someone to come along and kill him", miquella could access the realm of shadow by charming mohg to kidnap and share his blood with him

Fun fact: if you go by the lore of tower of suppression that is present right between the Lands Between and if you place the shadow realm map according to the description on the cloud in centre of the lands between, you will see the gap filled almost perfectly and the Shaman village is right beneath the Royal Capital Leyndal. All the divine towers in the Lands between also seems to encircle the tower of supression according to the map.

One thing i can say, I think Mogh and Morgot were banished cause the Omen are more than likely related to Hornsent, which are the people who cut up Marikas people in her village and put them into jars

Can’t say I was expecting this, but I will gladly take a lore summary for this collapsed library of a game

Pretty sure there wasn’t scarlet rot in Caelid until Malenia put it there.

The Goldmask ending isn’t just restoring what came before. Corwhyn constantly claims that Goldmask must have gone mad with blasphemous thoughts after he discovers the truth of Radagons identity. When you read his mending rune it says something along the lines of an order without the fickle will of any gods. Goldmask is removing the greater will (and probably other gods) and their influence from the world, allowing you to become an Elden lord that isn’t a puppet of some god. Though it isn’t the flashiest, it’s probably the ending that Ansbach would have wanted when he says “do it for us”. Probably my favorite or second favorite behind Ranni’s

I always wondered why varre was the first npc you meet when you start the game but now it makes so much sense. Miquellas plan relies on you killing Mohg, and by placing varre where all tarnished end up in the lands between he leads you in the direction of mohgwyn palace. If every tarnished starts out at the first step one of them will eventually follow varre to Mohg and kill him

What made me happy with the dlc is that it made Marika much more of an interesting character. In the base game she was too vague. Also Messmer, his bossfight, his knights, his legacy dungeon, his lore. All of them are s tier in my mind

I'm all for leaving some things unanswered and vague, but with this game, I'm honestly convinced, that even Miyazaki himself doesn't have most of the answers we're looking for.

It’s implied that part of the reason for Marika finally ordering Mesmer to kill the honrsent was due to the hornsent at some point cursing Marika and the golden order believers with the omen curse after she betrayed them. When they did this is not directly stated I think, but that in addition to her already large hatred for them is implied to be the reason.

In lore there was also a Great Demigod Hunt where Godskins apparently hunted down lesser demigods and skinned them

I've watched many, many videos to claim to explain the lore to this game. Some 2 hours long, some 4 hours long. They all confused me even more that i already was. This video is the first one that gives me some actual understanding of what this game is actually about!! So thank you. From a non gamer that just likes stories ❤

The Dr.Disrespect face on Mohgs was absolutely foul💀😂

I have no proof, but I feel like it would make sense to suggest that both Marika and Radagon were both shamans, and its how they were able to seemlessly switch between bodies.

Don’t forget the wandering Mausoleums and graves also have the bodies of Marika’s soulless children that she abandoned. So in reality she’s got like 20+ kids

39:50 Miquella is quite literally only one or two steps ahead of you the entire time… he’s at the Scadutree base where younsee the Avatar when you arrive at the Scadukeep and his Great Rune breaks.

I love how godfrey calls himself the FIRST elden lord. It perfectly fits with the narative of the order of light trying to delete the acient history. When new mondarchy was established on dust of other, always the XXX the first came into play. Nothing say that you are the first "new normal" better then that hahaha

Ok but no one has ever told me why miquella’s arm is so fucking big

Having multiple heads, maybe Placidusaax is both the god and the lord. Similar to how Radagon and Merika are both in the same person. Just an idea.

Great video! But I wanted to point something out: it's confirmed in item description that Messmer was an older brother to Radahn, so he was born before or while Radagon was still married to Rennala. So probably Messmer crusade happened while Godfrey was still Elden Lord (maybe it's the whole reason why Godfrey lost his grace, since he had crucible knights as his personal guards and was close to Morgott - it seems he had no problem with the crucible). We're still not sure who was Messmer's (and Melina's) father. Maybe it was Godfrey himself and their red hair is due to the duality that Marika was suffering when she was split into Radagon or maybe it was Radagon himself in an extramarital relationship while Marika was still married to Godfrey - another potential reason for him losing his grace.

Only in a fromsoft title can you fight a space amoeba tree dragon to save a god woman from a tree

Grandam is like a high priest. She's the crucible religion's version of finger readers. Not an empyrean herself.

Worth pointing out that the Erdtree is confirmed to have come from the Crucible, and item descriptions refer to the Crucible as "the Erdtree's primordial form"

Great video, a few notes: the crucible is akin to the primordial soup, but made of flesh, where all life was born from, and it wasn’t just horns that were associated with them but also wings, spikes, tails, etc, all present as “aspect of the crucible” incantations Regarding fingers, I find it funny that 2 are holy, 3 are blasphemous but 5 are the amount of humans and most bosses The trolls are descendent of the defeated fire giants, and they communed with their god of flame through their eyes in the chest, that’s why trolls have holes in their chests where the eye should be and can’t use fire magic

They missed an opportunity to have Rannie show up if you had completed her quest to help you fight Miquella and Radahn. Two Empyrean’s and their chosen simps.

Great vid but i think you missed a crucial part in the rise of the golden order, which is the war between them and the dragons

I feel like your description of Goldmask's ending as "more of the same" is unfair. Goldmask removes Marika's influence over the Lands Between, quite possibly by convincing the Greater Will itself (though the DLC calls this into question, as the Mother of Fingers wasn't even talking to the Greater Will, so it seems odd that the Greater Will would talk to a random monk). Goldmask also indirectly destroyed the Golden Order (which holds at the core of its belief system that Marika is the one true god), but left the Elden Ring intact. In other words, he used admin privileges to make the Elden Ring a read only file, then killed himself so Marika couldn't get the password to his account. No more Shatterings.

22:00 “Dude! Melina, Melania, Marika! How the f*** is anyone supposed to f***ing remember this s***!” I’m glad you went through to create a lore video but this was the best part of the video.

I feel like when the Lands of Shadow were broken off and hidden (if that's true), Merika also did the same to Farum Azula. She knew the old Dragon Lord was sleeping there and placed Maliketh there to watch the portal and keep Destined Death away from the Lands Between. Melina simply found a loophole that her mom left which is her ability to teleport you places.

Never thought i'd see an Elden Ring lore vid from you, great vid too :D

Dont think the miquella/radahn god/consort thing was meant to be seen as incestual. As the Japanese text refers to radahn as King.

Perfect. I have something to drive home to tonight.

What I wanted is if you brought ranni's doll she mirrors miquella in the promised consort fight cause it should 100% be a show down

From what I understood, Marika had plucked the rune of Destined Death first , then the Gloam-Eyed Queen got her hands on it and was using it to kill Gods. So Marika had sent Maliketh to get it back and guard it

All of Marika’s cursed children have names that start with an M, Godwyn does not and was clearly the favorite because of it. The only question is, who was his father? Really?

A lot of the trolls in the were actually slaves or mind controlled in the lands between. That stone in there stomach takes the place of where the second face should be.

Melina is not the Gloam-Eyed Queen, who was a Queen Empyrean and rival to Marika for the godhood. There is a big difference in timeline.

It's pretty cool (for me) that I managed to complete Ranni's ending without guides on my first playthrough. I'm quite sure the other endings were available for me (except the frienzied flame), but I actually liked Ranni's views on how things should be. This is what inspired me to finish her questline, taking me almost 30 hours to complete.

Frenzy flame ending everytime 😈

you can let melina burn the tree down, then inherit the frenzied flame and you dont hear her saying shes gonna hunt you when you do the ending. all you get is the burning tree and world.

This was an amazing video! My only note is that you can get the frenzied flame from the three fingers and burn the Erdtree, then complete Millicent's quest, and become cured of the flame to pick different endings and Melina would survive. But you never see her again, so I can see why this information didn't need to be mentioned.

One interesting thing of note is that it seems like Marika's people, the Shaman, were first the Numen. A race said to be from somewhere else. So the Hornsent may have just been xenophobic. Which is awful. But pretty common.

This is perhaps the strangest drug addled 1970s hippie fever dream I've ever seen. Even Frank Oz couldn't have come up with anything as bizarre as this lore.

Miquella: Two Half Brothers make a whole one, right?

2:53 the game should be called “Elden Setting” or “Elden Mod” to make it less confusing

Great video! Not sure if someone had mentioned it yet but Scadu is pronounced like Shadow. It's an old timey way. Kinda like how gaol is pronounced jail in the game.

Frenzied Flame ending is metal af and therefore the coolest and best ending.

you forgot gold mask's ending which is actually pretty good!! I did it and liked it! i did the Ranni ending on another playthrough so yea, a thing.

Just wanted to say you did a great job making this video. Sure they might be a couple inaccuracies, but for someone who finished the DLC and was left wondering wtf happened is this it, your short, information packed and comedic video was top tier. Thanks so much man, appreciate you

It wasn’t consensual radahns eyes are glowing yellow and he looks hypnotized

The server company analogy helped me understand just what the hell the Greater Will is and how it relates to lesser gods. Thanks for that

IDK if anyone said it yet, but Grandam is just and old term for grandmother, so Grandam is actually the grandmother of the empyrean, not an empyrean herself. It's probably the grandmother that Marika mentioned at the village

I absolutely love your storytelling style. It’s a lot how I like to and just feels more like you’re having a conversation then listening to a lecture. Both equally viable, but one feels more natural.

Obsessed with this video, thank you so much for compiling everything we lore diggers crave so nicely like this 🙌

Great as usual man! The Nitrado poke cracked me up man, well done =)

Didnt think alexander had that big of an appetite

Im so glad I did the Ranni storyline. I hope everyone gets to experience the love, pain and beauty of it.

this was a good video, always wanted to get into the lore but never knew where to start easy to follow ! like the direction of the videos ❤

best story summary ive seen yet. GOOD JOB!

I also see now why the greater will keeps asking for new gods, or is interpreted to be wanting new gods. It's because the order that comes along fails to maintain it self and so the fingers choose a new god for a new order. It's never eternal as everyone thinks it should.

I think marika had a child with a outer being without even knowing it could explain the curses of her children

Finally someone that broke it down in the best simple & comedic manner

I’m offended you’d call the Frenzy Flame ending the worst when Dung Eater literally just wants folks to suffer in excruciating agony. All I did was get burned and burn the tree down. xD best ending aside from Ranni’s.

The SWALLOW NEHIL was so funny.

28:55 =... Some fans theorized Godwynn was Marika's choice to become Ranni's consort as it meant her fave kid would still have a good future. Ranni, already pissed at Marika and her fate just went awol and used him as a sacrifice instead...

You forgot the Perfect Order ending, to mend the Ring but remove the influence of gods from being able to influence it to their will, both that and the Age of Stars endings are probably what would most likely be considered good/canon. Also a few topics and characters are missed or glanced over in this analysis, but it was good nonetheless and helped add some more insight and possible connections.

"Notorious for it's story" yeah I think we lost track of what a story is suposed to be

(Bit of a rant because I see so many people see "consort" and think "THEY FUCKIN!!!") If memory serves me there was a mistranslation from the original texts that doesn't label Radahn as a "consort" but just as a king. But to go off that and clarify, consort does not mean only sexual relationship with said monarch/god. It can just be of a intimate (also isn't only sexual) relationship. Miquella taking Radahn as his consort is more him taking him as a ruler/king for the land he wants to create.(At one of the crosses of Miquella it says he cut out his "love" so I don't think he's having thoughts of a relationship of that nature anyway). Last thing is outside of Gwyndolin (who isn't even gay as far as I know) there has never been a gay/LGB character in ANY of the souls/borne/ring titles so this being the first and it's between half-brothers? Nah. Last last thing, now if he were a "CONCUBINE" then yeah that'd be gay incest 100% lmao.

4:20 should probably cite ratatoskr here man

Wow man I've just watched this video and I've just watched your " see you later" video. And man extremely well done for your first time doing this. Hats off to you man

the gold mask ending isnt restoring the golden order to what it was but rather restoring it to what it SHOULD of been, all of marikas mistreatment of the others would not exist, its simply making the golden order perfect

He says frenzy flame is worst ending, but rannis quest is an illusion meant to give you a false maiden. The only true maiden you’ve always had is Melina. And by becoming frenzy lord you both save your maiden and end the chaos, and she follows you forever afterwards as the only true existing maiden left. Albeit in a vow to defeat you, but you are elden lord and holder of the Elden ring, she’s fated to be stuck as maiden forever because of this. I’ll always believe this is the true maiden ending and not ranni, she’s literally a doll and a false consort using her physical form to manipulate the tarnished. Much like bloodborne true ending of ending the nightmare, frenzy flame ending is similar, but here it’s different, it’s not an end due to the tarnished holding the Elden ring, frenzy flame burning everything to start new makes sense considering what a mess the lands between have become, effectively bringing a new design without a tree and potentially a new game entirely

Technically, Godfrey is the First Elden Lord of his Order. He is the first Elden Lord of The Golden Order.

An Elden ring movie would give crazy

What's interesting to me about Radahn is that the final dlc cutscene, at least to me, implies that Miquella charmed Radahn into agreeing to be his consort. I think this because of the charmed sound we hear once Miquella talks about the gentleness of his order. However, the weird thing is, did Radahn not know he had to die to become his Consort? Because if he did then why did Radahn even fight Malenia to a standstill? Or does Miquella's charming powers also wipe the memory of those charmed so he wouldnt remember until he was resurrected? Questions on questions and it makes you wonder how much of all this From (Miyazaki and GRRM) actually thought about the details of this DLC when they were developing the base game. I have hope that they actually planned this all along, but who knows!

The god gate was most likely build by Marika with the help of Mesmer. Which could be te original sin that the game talks about. It was her revenge on the hornsent people, you can see in the trailer how the corpses are still fresh and I think she killed something divine to the hornsent people to take the runes and create her own golden order.

How come rahdan and Rykard are not conaidered Empyreans like Ranni is? Isnt Ranni's mom Renala as well?

Huhhhhh? Well it’s a pleasant surprise to see you on Elden Ring. Love your Ark survival stories btw :)

Two things I wish they added to the game. 1) After Miquila/Rahdan fight, being able to summon Rani so she maybe a God. 2) Additional dialoge for Melina in the DLC, or more dialoge after the tree is burt and the flame supressing needle applied.

Damnnnn soooo much rage at the end, i love this 🤣🤣🤣

I just realized miquella is controlling rahdan. How? We’ll just think in the boss fight miquella hugs us and we are converted to him… he was hugging rahdan the whole time in the second phase of the boss fight. N he comes out when rahdan soul returns i guess. Maybe rahdan wouldn’t have fought us if miquella didn’t hug him

Instead of just getting scadutree fragments at the locations Miquella discarded parts of himself, they should of just had you collect his discarded parts to use against him during the final battle or to at least make a new mending rune for a different ending. They should have also finished the St Trina quest in the base game to give us more context to their split relationship

Dropping a comment in the first two min. What you did showing a maxed out tarnished shrinking back to that speck of guidance from grace. This game is more than we deserve. 😅

Should’ve put some content on Maliketh “sealing” that sword inside of him. Yk for research purposes…

Detail: it was malenia that unleashed the scarlet rot in the fight against radan it didnt just apear

Godfrey was Elden lord, and became Hora Loux when he was banished from the lands between

My interpretation on any from game: just kill everything thats weird until im the last one standing 😂

Absolutely best explanation. I thank thee greatly. If you read or listen to a bit more about Rycard and Radagon-Marica relation, you basically know everything.

Dont forget the fact that the Radahn we fight in the DLC is Radahn's soul inside Mohg's body (which is another reason why Miquella needed Mohg)

to me, the golden thread Marika raises up looks similar to when the player uses a Rune Arc

9:50 anyone notice that the scadutree chalice and the area its on look like they fit perfectly into leyndell

😂Love Learning whilst pissing myself Laughing. Best way to Learn.😂🤣💜

44:24 i think bro got a tiny bit mad 💀

Nice video, keep up the good work bud

Its crazy how the greater will has been dead for like the very beginning

this is very correct and comprehensive, with one main issue.. the actual timing and chronological order i think is all over the place and incorrect.

I haven't played a SINGLE FUCKIN' SECOND of this game, but the lore is something that's got my interest in a chokehold.