Thinking about it now, Marika gave birth to the omen twins after she got rid of the crucible and so it’s like there was a curse upon her. If the Gloam eyed queen really was a snake, it would make sense that Messmer was cursed with the snake form after Marika had Maliketh slain her, thus cursing her lineage.

HE'S COOKING AGAIN ! SOMEONE STOP HIM !! HE'S SPOILING THE ENTIRE GAME !!

Miyazaki is sending a Godskin Trio to timdiggity’s house as we speak.

Tim is just Miyazaki giving us the answers because we can’t figure it out ourselves. Miyazaki just acts like he can’t speak English so that he can secretly make this videos under this false name.

Great video Tim - you are cooking rn, loving the content!

It was great collaborating with you Tim! (aka having a dissociative episode TOGETHAAAAAAA)

Snakes shed their skin -- so if you're right, I would think the "godskin" the Apostle's wear is actually the shed skin of that serpent itself, rather than just trying to mimic its appearance.

"Mom, the scary man in my phone is making sense again. Can you come and get me?"

Honey wake up! Timdiggity’s about to have another schizo episode.

I always thought the bracelet on Marika looked like a snake coiled around her arm.

This actually makes SO MUCH sense. Also the fact that the power of runes and other outer gods is manifested through the EYES, think madness, grace and dragon eyes. So maybe thats why shes taking something directly from the serpent's eye.

Also as we all know, the serpent seduced Adam and Eve to eat the apple, it could be the case that the GEQ (serpent) seduced Radagon, while Messmer, their son, represents the betrayal, then Marika went nuts and killed her.

Hear me out. The crucible was a mating pile of snaked resembling a crucible knot. The Chinese Snake Knot symbolizes good fortune. In ancient Chinese culture the snake is considered the guardian of treasure and riches. It's also a symbol of wisdom and strength. This beautiful and unique decorative knot can be used to make a purse handle, a choker-style necklace, a belt or a bracelet.

9:20 the blasphemous blade also drains/restores HP, which just further deepens its connection to the godskins 😳

Bro held Miyazaki at gun point at this one to get the answers

I like that you present these theories with the tone you use. I can’t stand watching theory videos where I feel like I’m being yelled at or they’re choosing to act like if you disagree with them you’re wrong

This is BLASPHEMOUS! 😂 I don’t care if your predictions are right or wrong, the curiosity and courage it takes to put up these kinds of videos is admirable. GG!

At this point this guy is just a dev trying to point us in the right direction fr

Yeeees, it also looked like an eye to me! And since runes look so much like irises and we can get them from crushing skulls, I theorised the threads are made of the same "material" (energy) as runes are, basically the power of the Elden Ring. And the intro about the seduction and betrayal, paired with the snake and tree imageries make this into a really compeling theory. PS: thanks for lowering the background music a pinch! It's still nice to have it there, but it makes it easier to listen to you ♥

I love how so many lore channels have popped up recently with mindblowing theories. It's crazy how there is so much we've yet to understand about Elden Ring.

So the Gloam Eyed queen was the god to Placidusax in the age before the Erdtree, when she gave birth to many demigod children including the godskins and the god devouring serpent. When the Numen people arrived in the lands betwene the Numen empyrion Marika (in the form of Radagon who had not yet developed his own personality) infiltrated the royal capital of Farum Azula, seduced and betrayed GEQ and when she went to pull the shards of the elden ring from her still warm corpse discovered their unwanted child within. Placidusax fled taking the capital with him, and Marika used her firstborn son as a weapon to subdue the lands at the heart of the old order whilst she built the new one. In the history books Marika would swap the roles of herself and the Gloam Eyed Queen, portraying the serpent as the traitor to the erdtree instead of the other way round and hiding all the evidence of the truth away in shadow.

gotta be honest, i don't care if all of this guy theories are right or wrong, i just enjoy the yapping

This guy has only 3 videos and he's single handedly melting the entire community's collective brain

The "Am I crazy for thinking this" theories are exactly what we need right now. This is good stuff here

Just this week I had a thought watching the Godskin Noble at Gelmir, with the snake skin in the background, that maybe the skin / armor of the godskin's is made of the shed skin of a snake that has eaten gods. Rykard's face appearing on the God-Devouring Serpent could mean that the faces of other gods a different snake has eaten would appear too. So the GEQ being a snake would fit that nicely ;P

it makes perfect sense, because as we know, runes come from the eyes, same as madness appears in the eyes

From the first time I saw this trailer it looked like godskin cloth that marika was reaching into. it has the same thick folds, white color, and you can faintly see stitching. however we see a godskin in the temple of eglay in the volcano manner- this could tie into that. snakes definitely have a role that we don’t fully grasp yet. Also it seems strange that marika would reach into a snakes eye, where as reaching into the parted cloth of a corpses’ clothing makes more sense. (after typing I have a thought, snakes’ eyes turn a milky blue color just before they shed their skin- this is an oily secretion that helps the old skin slide off, so…assuming the gloam queen *was a snake, maybe this skin shedding was where the idea for the godskins came from? maybe the color of her eyes influenced her title as queen?)

I haven't seen these many theories since game of thrones ended

1:38 Love to see the use of Neon White’s music in an Elden Ring speculation video of all places. Such a dope game.

Eyes and tears have so much significance in Elden Ring, and other FromSoft games too! For example in Sekiro, the Divine Dragon also dwells in another realm, has a closed left eye, and its tears are basically the most important item in the game.

Tim you crazy, Frenzied Flame adherent... You're speaking heresy! (and making so much sense!)

Timdiggity should take over George Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and finally finish it for all of us. An amazing imagination!

Great video also the gloam eyed queen's sword looks like two serpents intertwining

Mesmer was the love child of Radagon and the Gloom Eyed Queen. Red hair and snakes were the give away. Also in the trailer talks about an “affair” and “betrayal”.

Miyazaki about to put you in the evergoal if you keep this up

Could the Gloam Eyed Queen have been the god to Placidusax's Elden Lord? It makes a little more sense for a giant snake to choose a dragon as a consort, rather than a humanoid choosing a dragon. Also, you find destined death (which was taken from the GEQ) in Farum Azula.

IM SOLD BRO AGAIN KEEP IT COMING WE EDGING HARD AT THIS POINT

This is exactly what the community needed, a certified, unrepentant, balls-to-the-walls schizo. Your vids bring back memories to the early days of Dark Souls 1 theory crafting that went on back then. I honestly don't even care if they're even close to true or not, they're just too entertaining.

I love it, awesome thinking! So, as Miyazaki, let me tell you this part of the Lore. Gloam Eyed Queen is the TWIN of Marika, and Godwyn is the TWIN of Messmer.

The biolizard boss track during the intro is inspired.

Just continue, I like all your elden ring videos

Could be that the Gloam Eyed Queen was devoured / joined with a snake like Rykard

He's right! Ain't no rule says a snake can't be an empyrean!

An eye!! I totally was thinking about something else...

Following the idea that Marika/Radagon had an affair with the snake to produce Messmer and then betrayed it: doesn't Marika's bangle look an awful lot like a coiled snake? Would make a lot of sense to wear something like that if you were said snake god's consort... Honestly, given that snakes are heretical I've always wondered why she wears a bangle that looks like one. I also think there's a lot of supporting evidence for this claim in Norse mythology. I'd recommend people watch GamePlus's video on the Norse influences on Elden Ring, because there's a lot. Assuming the Erdtree is inspired by Yggdrasil (the world tree that exists in the space between realms ala the lands between), we know that a serpent coils around the roots of the Yggdrasil trying to destroy it from beneath. This would support your claim that a serpent god in opposition to the Erdtree resided in the crucible, what would become the base of the Erdtree. It also makes sense that if it were a snake, Marika would be reaching into its eye, the main identifying feature of the GEQ. This is a great theory imo

Another connection between the GEQ and Snakes are that Snails are crepuscular in nature, coming out at twilight. Miyazaki designed the Snails as Snakes intentionally. If he had wanted the Snails to be actual Snails he would have had them designed as such. Snails are hermaphroditic (like Marika, and perhaps the GEQ is, too). Another interesting detail to note is the Imps in the catacombs are said to use "serpent-tongued" weapons in version 1.00. The more I think about it the more it seems like tge catacombs are essentially like snake tunnels through which a large snake might once have passed underground. What if the Imps originally served the GEQ, or the Ancient Serpent god? This might explain why there are so many Snails underground (in Nokstella and the Crystal Caves). Finally, there is a strange coincidence in Miquella's study room in Elphael that needs addressing. Some people have pointed out that there are pots and jars of plants in the study room and that these plants resemble the ones that are shown on the dlc art wherein Miquella is riding Torrent. But what nobody mentions are all of the SHELLS in his collection on the tables. There are snail shells, sea slug snails, spiral shells, oyster shells, and several other types of shells in his little compartment drawers. It seems an odd detail to have included.

Never even thought that the sack or "thing" that marika is taking that gold strand out could even be a serpents head dam

Of COURSE it’s an eye that’s where all runes are kept dude is a legend

I’ve been pointing at that thing and shouting Eye and being kicked in the sack since the release. I even gestured towards the living corpses of Godwyn.

Three heads missing from papa super dragon. Two great snakes, bodiless dragons...

A solid " ... Omg 🤯" for each segment, this is really good Remember when Melina says "i was born at the foot of the Erdtree"... the foot, the root, the base, the beginning. 😉🐍👁️‍🗨️

It's amazing how much information and speculation can be gleaned from a cinematic. Keep up the great work!

Rmemeber the cinematic trailer that shows Godwyn being murdered with the cursemark of Death and something (the Rune of Death?) moving to his lifeless eye?

Umbasa as my witness the boy timdiggity gone done it again.

I thought that Gideon was the All-Knowing

I feel like the golden threads Marika pulls are like the threads of fate from many mythologies. Needles and thread and weaving all seem to have a symbolic place in this story. Like The godskin stitcher, the tailoring tools and sewing needles both regular and golden, Miquella's needle, The unalloyed gold needle. Pest "threads", Godskin swaddling cloth and Lord of Blood's favor an oath-cloth.

Awesome analysis! I hope it turns out. Massive symbolism in the idea of a Woman, a Snake and a Tree at the beginning of creation - having seen how fromsoft have drawn on real-life religion and myth, this fits almost too well.

Holy shit you were right

The 'restoring' life aspect is quite interesting if you assume the crucible/base of the erdtree formation is akin to Rykard's sword, and that when people are going to die; they are taken to the erdtree base to be 'restored' or 'reborn'.

Dude is the best Elden ring theory channel after a few videos. This is a crazy run so far.

Although Seath the Scaless wasnt a snake, he did have pale white skin and was obsessed with Immortality (aka the rune of death in Elden Ring). So maybe the Gloam eyed Queen will drop us the Moonlight Greatsword :)

Realizing the Elden Beast loosely resembles a Snake 🐍 😳

You definitely cooking my guy. It could be that the “god skin” is actually the snakes discarded skin as it grows that they fashion into clothes in reverance to her appearance.

Thank you!! I was thinking the same thing. I always thought that swishy swirly thing behind Marikas statue could be a loose snakeskin. The reverse roles of seduction and betrayal between "Eve" and the snake seem very interesting too.

Keanu Reeves: “Whoa.”

AWWWW SHEET TIMDIGGITY BACK AT IT AGAIN W THE WHITE VANS

It's fun how those games have less a story and more a framework for mad fanfiction that still always makes sense. We really need someone to make a Souls story summary in the style of dunkey's MGS explanation.

This theory and your other two videos that I immediately binged last night kept me thinking about it in my sleep and woke me up once 😂 you’re a genius bro

while i’m still stuck on how a giant snake would hold a sword, or why it would need a sword the geq being a snake makes sense, because it also explains why the godskinners fashion themselves to look like serpents, to imitate their queen. a gigantic snake rivalling the power of gods might be the case study that rykard needed to let a serpent devour him. a snake being marika’s first ops also explain the massive snake hate that permeates the lands between. also i think it makes sense too that the god eating serpent and the geq are not related, and the god eating serpent is just a serpent. we’ve seen snakes forming shells that help them blend into their environments to avoid persecution (snakes with glintstone shells live in glintstone caves, snakes with skull shells live in/near catacombs or skeletons). if we know snakes and serpents adopt the characteristics of the things they devour (like the 2 winged dragons), then we could assume that the god eating serpent grew big simply from devouring a demigod + a mass amounts of bodies. notice how there are so many bodies, the debris texture/effects in the boss room is a bunch of limbs

Fucking finally someone realized this, now please explain to the rest of the humans that Fia is FortIssAx, We kill her soul (lichdragon) leaving only her body to replicate what happened to Godwyn, soulless lovers in body only rhymes

This is one of the theories I fully support. Snakes were seen as evil by the Golden Order, which is why Marika abandoned her son Mesmer in the land of shadow. He didn't fit the image she was going for for her order. It's part of the reason she nailed the lion to Horah Loux's back and named him Godfrey. Everything looks like Marika rewrote history to make herself look better than she actually was.

My brain exploded with past information as soon as i saw the thumbnail.

Miyazaki likes repeating themes, so Melina being an orphan of a dead white snake god would be like Kos in Bloodborne. Marika could have just raised her as her own, which is why she was probably sealed in a tower and destined to be burned as well. This would also cover why she's called "MarikaDaughter" even if she's not technically.

EDIT: Also, the snake is the only character in the genesis story that told the truth. and given that there were 2 trees, perhaps the Erdtree is the tree of immortality, but the shadow of the erdtree/some other tree is the tree of knowledge... the truth of things, of the past, of what happened... Lilith also knew the secret name of god which gave her the power to fly... Fun fact that may or may not be relevant - Apophis/Apep is the egyptian snake god of the night/darkness, and what do you do at night? Dream... and dream stuff is purple in Elden Ring... and gloam is purple, St Trina is purple the lady of sleep and dreams... who is also Miquella... or may also be Melina... Also, thinking biblically, the snake in the garden, old myths of Lilith being first wife of Adam who allied with the snake... there were two trees; knowledge of good/evil AND eternal life... Erdtree sap immortality etc. might be something?

2:30 couldn't help but notice the giant snake head in the background that looks pretty close to the one in the trailer

The elden beast theme is playing in the background and it even roars where she is standing you can actually hear it. Thats why the hair flows. So with this implied, is the game world, "Lands Between", originally the home of the Elden Beast? Or if that's not the case, she brought it over into the shadow/gloam world we see her walking through, thereby enforcing her own order via the elden beast, creating the now golden Order. Keep in mind, the crucible, was the Greatreee not the Erdtree. Thats why they were called "crucible knights" lol with the original version of how the tree USED to look like. They were then shunned and exiled because of Marika being a maniac tyrant and wanted HER way😂 or at least to hide an "affair" they mentioned. Edit: WAIT HOLD UP. Did Marika create Radagon in herself to sort of "clease" whatever blasphemous sin she had needed to do to get the Elden Ring??????😮😮😮😮😮

I would just like to, once again, point out that I was subbed to this madman before he blew up lmao Seriously man, this is amazing and does indeed make alot of sense to me! Now we wait for Ziostorm's and Quelaag's reactions haha edit: oh yea and still 100 bonus points for being a Sonic OST enjoyer

I was thinking a dragon, but a snake is also a great theory and also something I didn't think about... 🤔

we know you have miyazaki, we’re willing to give into your demands.

gotta say the DOPAMINE hit of hearing that Sonic Adventure 2 song made me realise that this video is going to be a banger

The one thing that you're missing that puts it all together is the fact that The Gloam Eyed Queen is Marika's shadow that she has shed. Marika is messmer and Melinas mother, but so is the Gloam Eyed Queen

im so hype for the DLC

For the point near the end about melina not showing the eye. The eye that is Gloam is the same one that she had closed with the claw mark seal. In the frenzy ending, that seal has faded(most likely cause Maliketh ded at that point). You can still see a sort of 'scar' where it once was. So she had it the whole time; it just wasn't shown until that cutscene. Im not convinced about Messmer possibly being born of Radagon and this potential snake. Im fairly certain Radagon doesnt start existing until well after the GEQ and Erdtree creation events

Good stuff man, keep it up!

Snake? Snakee?? Snakeeeeeee

Subscribe people, dudes earned by now.

Killed it again man. Definitely have me rethinking a couple things!

The blackflame sigil looks like two or more snakes wrapping around itself to create a shape. The shape itself looks like the silhouette of a snake head! The double helix pattern is seen on MANY things in the game, but the Godslayer sword itself seems very much reminiscent of two snakes mating. You are COOKING bro!

Don't forgot Melina said she is bodiless when resting for the first time at altus plateau: "I...have to ascertain for myself. The reason for which I live, burned and bodiless." The melina we see isn't her true form.

Ok how am I just now realizing your character is Sephiroth from Kingdom Hearts

im 5 seconds into the video and had to pause because the music choice just punched me in the throat. thank you for reminding me of that song

The fact that there's a crucible knight alongside Volcano Manor's blasphemous group makes it interesting how they could be related

Vaati could never.

What I don't understand is that you can literally see that the thing Marika reaches into is made of cloth. You can see the threads near the edges, as well as the seams.

Good to see you’ve posted again.

Love this idea!! Best theory yet, IMO!!!

Considering that Melina is spectral, it’s not too hard to believe that she may have been birthed in the land of shadow or from the gloom eyed queen.

This video is just facts, idk why it never connected for me before, but just the headline is enough to fully convince me, it all just makes so much sense! 🔥🔥🔥

I hope I can play the dlc without already knowing every fucking plot twist because of your videos

Love these videos! The beauty of Elden Ring is that it leaves room for open interpretation and speculation.