You're MY Leonard now!

@@Borderlines Miquella wanted an epic mount

Imagine your half sister, before nuking you whispered "Yo Miquella wants you." But then gets nuked wandering for years. We finally kill him thinking we freed him and bro gets revived

Miquella: "Tarnished killed Leonard! Yes, funnel your anger at Tarnished!"

"It seems in your anger, you killed him."

Nah bro that line was crazy 💀

Would prob be the other way around 😭

Of course Radahn loves Miquella. Ask Mohg.

Is miquella gay or is he genderless. This I dont understand very well.

Rahdan is a horse girl, he chooses Leonard obviously.

Ignorant and thoughtless comment. Miquella looks young but he's as old as Malenia and not to mention he's was genius at incantations even before abandoning the Golden Order

​@@guighee7310miquella may be smart but he's emotionally and mentally immature he Abandoned his sense of love, compassion, doubts, fear, regret, and in an effort to make everything humane, lost his own humanity in the process

⁠@@guighee7310 it’s an observation made about a fictional character. You don’t have to take it that seriously. Learn to maneuver that Margit sized stick out of your ass

@@generalsheep4169 ''he Abandoned his sense of love, compassion, doubts, fear, regret, and in an effort to make everything humane, lost his own humanity in the process'' Miquella was someone willing to sacrifice his corporeal being in order to unbind himself from the Greater Will and start a new order that would create a better world, unlike Ranni that selfishly sacrificed poor Godwyn instead. Godwyn is the soulless monstrosity that lives in death now because of Ranni. No demigod is an upstanding citizen, but Miquella is by far the best one

@@guighee7310 and in the process he stripped himself essentially into the same as the frenzied flame Wanting all to be equal and treated equally And the frenzied flame isn't really a very big force of good His intentions were well meaning, but just as an immature child, his methods of going about it were not

Then wouldn’t it also make sense to take control of the personification of your opposition and make them fallow you in the attempt to bring everyone under their banner to your control

@@lancestewart9013 I guess that's pretty much what Miquella did to Radahn, I doubt Radahn really liked being in kahoots with Miquella

Im headcanoning that miquella just has a crush on radahn and everything else is a shoddy justification. Plus radahn is like radahn level strong

​@TheScrootch I mean we have evidence that he did resist, when malenia led her siege to caelid and fought radahn, he fought back, not wanting to go along with miquellas plan

He has a weak spot for bad boys it seems. He can change him, for sure!

Yet tarnished still remains maidenless, but nowadays and hopefully for the greater good of between lands 😅

Nah elden ring is just some random mf tryna clean up a royal family fuck up of the ages, literally

​@@marcoonroad7Idk about you but this tarnished is honeymooning on the moon with his 4 armed maiden

@@tristanneal9552dolls dont count.

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Now cometh the Age of the Restraining Order?

MAY COPS TAKE THE WEAPON!!

@@LordKnightBane It appears The Tarnished need to obtain that ending

@@LordKnightBaneGOLD COMMENT😂

The question is who wants to enforce restraining order on demigods?

Honestly, I could totally see that!

Absolutely horrifying. It works perfectly and shows petulance a divine child could display.

That would be the most FromSoftware hidden lore to ever lore ever

That's an objectively wrong interpretation. The Secret Rite Scroll says he had to die for the Lord's Consort to ascend to godhood.

@@wispfire2545 ''It works perfectly'' It really doesn't. There's lore directly contradicting it within the game.

Oh I never made those connections-that’s great! I especially like the idea that Miquella’s age of compassion is just a blended together hive mind where All is One. It's also interesting that Miquella's circlet doesn't raise Mind, which governs resistance to Sleep and Madness...

I had thought about this too, miquella's order would be an absolute order, and as such it horseshoes around and becomes no better than chaos

@@kann4915 Knowing that Radahn was reborn without his horse, it horseshoeing around somehow becomes more ironic

Oh if only we had access to that ending

Which means Ranni is still best ending four armed blue mommy for the win

That's a great point about the intergenerational trauma! My next video is all about Metyr and how she lost contact with her mother.

​@@garrulousgoldmaskit's. Crazy to think that the greater will might not be the POS we all thought, and metyr is the real issue here.

​@@Cman04092well only really being an issue because the greater will abandoned her, in a desperate attempt to get the greater will back, she brought, well, all of the problems, but they still stem from the greater Will's actions

@Ytinasniiable that's not fair, merry and the fingers chose how to react to the greater will missing, and who's to say the greater will abandoned then on purpose, and even so, it doesn't excuse these dirty dirty fingers, who cause immense pain and suffering on innocent people who have nothing to do with the greater will.

@@Cman04092 what one does in response to trauma they cannot always be held accountable for The greater will is one of those uncaring cosmic horror gods that likes to start shit and then ADHD onto something else and ignore the chaos it created when it left

You seem to forget that in the ancient royalty, marriages between family was an everyday matter. It dosen't sound to crazy of them both making that vow, to extinguish the flames of war between Caria and the Golden Order reignited when Radagon leave Renala

There's a vid of showcasing Miquella's 3d model and he has a ring on his right ring finger iirc. So I don't know if Radahn was serious, joking, or pressured to be his consort but the ring is proof I guess that he did proposed and not some off hand promise (Doubt its godwyn's proposal ring since the dlc items described radahn as miquella's wish consort). Then the whole engagement was called off and now the present.

@halletelen9825 The vow sounds to me like it was worded as "When I become a god, will you be my consort?" Whether Radahn was serious or not, I think he accepted thinking that Miquella was too weak and naive to accomplish his goals (again, seeing him as a child). Radahn never actively helped Miquella achieve godhood. Miquella had to prove that he could become a god before Radahn had to make any changes to his plans/lifestyle. So he just kept warring and living out his own ambitions till his duel with Malenia. However, once Miquella resurrected him and became a god, Radahn decided he might as well honor his vow. It's also possible that Radahn didn't know the full implications of godhood when he promised himself to Miquella. After learning that godhood would be an eternal prison for Miquella, he actively opposed it because he couldn't put that fate on the one he loved.

It's like you're all ignoring the fact Radahn's soul is in Mohg's body....who was ALREADY BEWITCHED. This wasn't Radahn's call. You don't waste an entire army for a duel.

@@Kn1ghtborne ye i do agree he was already controlled at the gates, also the army thing also makes sense

You know i instantly sing it 😂

And she still lost the fight

Lol, I don't think it was about Radahn's sexuality. He just didn't want to be with Miquella

bro needed brain dmg in order to be with miquella

Well if Miquella like his mother has opposite sex other self... Its kinda ooo(and I remember forever youth curse which mean St Trina is Lo..) never mind.

@@bowenjudd1028The two are not mutually exclusive.

Save a horse, ride your brother..

this is an interesting insight although i still think rykard's plan for usurping the gods was probably just the very simple one he tells the player: he's just gonna eat them

In Sekiro, the women of the Sunken Valley would often ritually "marry" the serpent god by feeding themselves to it. And now that Elden Ring has officially confirmed Tarnished Archaeologist's theory that being a god in Elden Ring is defined, at least in part, by taking a consort as Lord, we can see why Rykkard is one of the two demigods who the game calls "Lord": he became a Lord by "marrying" a god.

@@Nemo12417 That should have been obvious. Being a god is being a vessel of an "outer god".

Thank you so much mate! This DLC was absolutely stacked with lore revelations! Though I don't think any of them can ever top the majesty of the Albinauric Bloodclot.

Grand to see you here you magnificent madlad! I have written an analytical essay once or twice for English class, and your work just leaves me astonished every time

Me: OMFG RYKARD WAS A GOOD GUY?! Rykard: Always has been...TOGETHAAA!!!

If only Marika invented restraining orders!!

@@DonPetexX Her children needed a protective order against her. 😂

@@cynreiusacari3163 Facts. Marika might be the shittiest mom in all of videogames' history 😂

​​@@cynreiusacari3163She is the worst mother ever. Let her children live with their dad. The demigod raised by Radagon and Renala turned out good (except rykard but it was way later after he left). And the childen raised with Godfrey were good too (except mogh but that due to how Marika treated him in the first place. The one that were involced with Marika were manipulated, setup, abandoned. She should not have the kids

​@@KKKumabruh, mogh was charmed by miquellas, so everything he did was miquellas fault.

I think this is accurate, especially considering that his other half St. Trina desperately wishes for Miquella not to become a god. In order to do so he had to abandon his doubts and St. Trina alike

I kinda think the post final fight memory was Miquella talking to Godwyn tbqh. His hands were clasped in prayer, and he was by himself, if he was talking to Radahn I think they would've shown another demigod throne

Also Morgot was really loyal to Marika whereas Mogh wasn't. His ambition probably made him more likely to be charmed, or at least easier

I disagree, Miquella specifically saw radhan as a hero lord like Godfrey and his father

This doesn't make sense at all. The Eclipse Miquella tried to use on Godwyn was to give Godwyn a true death from the soulless monstrosity he had become, which only occurred when Ranni assassinated Godwyn in the Night of the Black Knives, event that cause Marika to shatter the Elden Ring and cause The Shattering period. Miquella chose Radahn because he was strong and yet kind. You can see that on the item description for Remembrance of a God and a Lord. It reads, and I quote, ''In their childhood, Miquella saw in Radahn a lord. His strength, and his kindness'' Marika is responsible for the biggest atrocities in the story and you're comparing Miquella to her because he charmed Mohg in order to get access to the Land of Shadow? That's a crazy way of thinking to me. Multiple genocides = making some people like you? See how silly that sounds? ''I also think that his relationship to Malenia isn't as sincere as she believes it to be'' This makes zero sense. ''As for Mohg, I think he was necessary to enter the land of shadows because he was a demigod AND shows extensive traits of the crucible. That naturally creates a much stronger connection to this realm than his siblings (Morgot sealed his "accursed blood" and thus wasn't viable).'' I like this part. This is also how I believe how Mohg gained access to the Land of Shadows when it was sealed away by Marika, by being an Omen and by being a child of Marika. Good thought.

@guighee7310 I think it's possible that Miquella could've looked up to Radahn and chose him as his consort, it's just strange that there was absolutely 0 connected between the 2 even hinted at at all in the story. The biggest issue I have canonically with this was what was the reason Radahn took part in the shattering war on his own side and not just join Miquella then to be his consort

Good choice. I chose ranni's ending, as i am inclined to put ratio before faith. Ranni's godhood is removing herself from lands between, letting natural courses to go as it goes. It was neither good nor bad, love how rational that is

​@@tegar.wicaksonooGlad to see a fellow based Indonesian here

I think Ranni's ending is better in that sense, it is practically the same ending but this time there are no lords or gods directing anything, when Ranni and the Tarnished become god and lord they leave, leaving each one in the lands between have their own will and choose their own destiny.

@@Basthor_1 My problem with Ranni’s ending is: 1-Ranni herself, bc of her godwyn and fortisax are in eternal suffering (No the ends don’t justify the means, we saw that with miquella) 2- The age of stars take care of the gods problem, but what about the ppl ? Men can be as evil and twisted as any god, just with less destructive power. When we take the order from the lands between we leave it in a anarchic state (the absence of order is chaos or mayhem), a lawless land where there is no major power to enforce the law to protect the weak against the worst human kind can offer or against demi-humans or misbegotten, there is also a power vaccum as well, so a tyrant could take over and make life there more miserable than before. Men can slave its own kind and make the most atrocious things of it, the gods are like 60% of the problem, the other 40% is ppl, thats why the elden lord ending is the best for me, not only we stop the gods from meddling with the Elden Ring, but we are the law, the major power that that can be a beacon of hope to the weak and defenseless.

"Righteous Tarnished, become a lord, not for gods, but for all men." - Sir Ansbach. Best character in the game and someone we can’t let down.

Platonic consort...sure, I see..

Yeah I feel the same. Probably the same way Marika saw Godfrey as a means to an end through his strength.

I agree with this. It’s better to think about mohgs body + rahdan soul would make a better host to conjoin with like what marika and radagon did. With the other half that has abilities to control everything with speech, that would make everything op in all stats. No weakness and even if there was “talk no jutsu”

@@chrisdiokno5600 they actually don't mince words in this game. You shouldn't stretch too far to find the meaning..

@@nathanwaibel454 Fair, but some do suggest his feelings for Radahn may not be purely out of love. Rather half love, half pragmatism.

That cat could have been his Serosh!

@@garrulousgoldmask yap + The video was great as usual, keep going 💜.

@@garrulousgoldmask They should have restored Radahn's Cat (a very fearsome warrior obviously) and also Kalé's questline while we're at it.

So Radahn is even MORE badass than we previously thought! What a gigachad!

​@@thedukeofchutney468The ultimate gigachad, "I'M GONNA TANK TIME ITSELF"

I personally think that radahn stopped the stars so he could halt his own fate with miquella, and ranni being affected was just a side benefit. Outside of ranni just trying to establish her own order, we don’t really see her explicitly trying to stop miquella. Also, we don’t really have evidence that radahn wanted there to be a change in the order, especially given he practically worshipped radagon and Godfrey, the 2 mascots of the golden order. However, godwyns death could have occurred so miquella didn’t get his first choice in a consort (presumably), but I don’t see any affirmative evidence for either godwyn being miquellas first choice, or that this was why godwyn was killed by ranni.

​@@doncolbus134 It's never explicitely stated that Radahn was a big fan of the Golden Order, just that he admired Radagon and Godfrey which makes me think he admired them for their prowess on the battlefield on not on ideological grounds. Also Ranni trying to ascent to godhood is in itself already her working against Miquella. As the item description of Miquella's boss incantation says, one god and lord consort are already all the world needs

Aldia is the absolute GOAT! Once I've had my fill of Shadow of the Erdtree, there's another Aldia video I can't wait to make. And ofc an Aldia speech would fit perfectly for Dark Souls 2 2!

It’s what happens when you’re an empyrean

⁠@@FirstnameLastname-tl1bqMalenia is empyrean and only has 2 arms. Technically 1 arm 🤷‍♂️

And he even says let’s go on a thousand year voyage

​​@@FirstnameLastname-tl1bq that doesn't really make sense because she is a doll, and her doll is fashioned after her witch mentor who was not Empyrean to my knowledge. None of her siblings except Miquella has four arms. Also Ranni's true body has only 2.

@@drazzytime9353 they may also be empyrean but are they really acting on it? Does the game really treat them the same? Miquella’s age of compassion and the diametrically opposed Ranni with her age of isolation are the only demigods with a real shot at winning

And Marika

And Ranni

​@@Androtesh 85% of the cast

​@Androtesh Ranni is innocent, maybe you like living under someone's thumb and be controlled by otherworldly beings

@@TheTinMan2077 tell that to Godwyn.

Definitely! The connections between the Hornsent, the Omen, and the LOATHSOME DUNG EATER are really fascinating and something I'm planning to explore!

@@garrulousgoldmask I always assume that because the Elden Stars is an Erdtree incantation, then the crucible is derived of the Elden Beast therefore the Omen are a natural part of the Order of things. What Dung Eater was implanting was simply a deviant interpretation that he has no real connection too. Now however the Hornset appear as a precursor to Dung Eaters torture methods as a godly saint act.

I picked the death mending rune because I wanted to fix a land where nobody could die with all those decrepit zombie like aristocrats and whatnot, and also to correct Godwyn's fate that got destroyed by Ranni and the growing influence in the land from his living body festering and corrupting everything. But the ending didn't give any clue to what would change (aside from the concept of death being back, even for the undead), nor what it did for Godwyn. And the Shadow of the Erdtree is supposed to be an entire realm entirely, yet there were two differents area with Godwyn's cloned face in it and it was full of "Those who live in death" which is quite surprising, but no mention of Godwyn at all in the DLC I'm so sad that this whole thing is left open ended and as a mystery :(

@@Lamren that’s disappointing I wished they did expand on aspects of Those who Live in Death

I feel like Dung Eater is really bad at advertising his ending. If he wants to make everyone Omens because he knows it was once considered the blessing of the Crucible / hates the Golden Order's anti-Omen bullshit, he sure does a bad job at explaining it and just look like a batshit crazy serial killer who does it all for the evulz.

This is the Genshin Impact take

Not entirely. It's implied in the DLC, that even though miquella is older than his appearance suggests, that he still has the maturity (or rather 'immaturity') of a child. He's innocently insensitive to the extreme. He sees no problems with the horrible acts he commits, in the same way a child still learns morality and develops empathy.

@kreigsmachine4050 Radahn has a good head on his shoulders like his father.

"the one who refused to be embraced" could also refer to our hero, John Eldenring

"the one who refused to be embraced is refer to the tarnished

Damn you right.

​@@Soulute367HA

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don't do my fujosisters like that

what are you talking about, people in the lands between do have free will

@@user-it7rw7vt8j no they don't. You can't have free will with literal Gods exist alongside you, and dictate their will with force. You can have any internal disagreements with them, sure, but any moment you decide to voice your choice or even thoughts about making this choice potentially, you will be overpowered and punished. This is not an existence with free will, coz you unable to act according to your will.

@@oldensad5541 there are literally tons of characters running around doing whatever

@@user-it7rw7vt8j which is either great heroes, challenging God's, or servants of the Gods. As I mentioned before you either have power to act on your will, or you are one of those pathetic creatures roaming around from Marika Shire to Marika shrine. Shocking revelation - regular people of Land Between is not those who challenge the gods. Not even those who serve them as a heroes. This zombies IS a people of Land Between.

@@oldensad5541 but the zombies roaming around do have free will

@mistahanansi2264 we deserved the chance to establish Radagon as the new god! The man has interests in academia, smithing/building, and being a good dad that also understands the importance of order. 😂

Melena > Ranni

​@@cynreiusacari3163I'm not sure about "Being a good dad" dude, last time I check dude bred 3 child with a foreign woman then left them for selfcest, ultimately made her chronologically insane and his 3 children has daddy issues

​@@cynreiusacari3163Isn't it implied that its sort of his fault that the Golden Order was so oppressive?

@@crow3958 until we hear his side of the story he gets the benefit of the doubt for ditching Rennala. All three were accepted and I would even argue sane despite being disgusted with the order in the case of Ranni & Rykard. It would be great if we were given more information about Rykard pre-shattering, he appeared to fulfill all his duties and responsibilities regardless. Ranni only cares about Ranni and is happy to murder anyone to get her way. I lean towards her being an experiment with the amber egg to account for her empyrean status. She seems emotionally detached from everyone else and doesn’t even have a picture of any family member in her tower. Yes, there’s the item about Rennala and her looking at the moon but it’s likely the affection is mostly one sided. Radahn is interesting and the most similar to Radagon. While he was infatuated with the tales of heroes and war to the point he would excel he is also interested in academia. Any battles he participates in likely have clear objectives and few civilian casualties unless a purge is ordered. Even then he’s likely to pass the buck onto someone else or whoever is giving the order wouldn’t ask. Out of all of the demigod children only Godwyn and Rahdahn seemed not to mind being stepchildren and willing to interact with any of them.

Funnily enough, the showrunner for The Acolyte just revealed she was inspired by Elden Ring no-hit challenge runners!

They even added Yoda as a mini boss lol the Demi-human Swordmaster Onze

is the true and ranni is miquella and the part male of miquella is godwin and malenia say same things after you kill her

I don't think so ranni only killed him as part of her plan.

These words haunt me, could it be that Mikella did not say this with good intentions?

Miquella is referring to Radahn, not Godwyn

@@guighee7310 he also addresses Godwyn this way if you read the description of Golden Epitaph

Well, we know Radahn earned considerable renown as the Starscourge in his youth, and Miquella used to be a Golden Order fundamentalist like his father at first but later abandoned fundamentalism, for it could do nothing to treat Malenia's accursed blood. Radahn being older than Miquella could hint to the Starscourge Conflict happening before he made the vow. When Miquella and Radahn made the vow Miquella sounds terrified, like he's desperate to solve the world's problems so he devised a convoluted plan to become a god and replace the Golden Order. If anything Miquella is against the influence of every single god except himself, and Ranni is against the influence of everything except the stars. I find it plausible that Miquella needed Radahn _because_ he's capable of holding the stars back. I'd argue Radahn was honoring the vow they made because he had Jerren, an expert swordsman duty-bound to get him killed, who is seemingly his second in command as well, which means he might have wanted to secure an honorable death for himself.

I don’t know about that, he’s described as kind and being much more than a warrior - which is why Miquella wanted him and thusly why he rejected Miquella

Yeah I am very surprised at this reputation people keep attributing to Radahn. He is a warmonger, corrupted by the Great Rune. You can see how rotten he had become in the story trailer of the base game. He looks demonic.

What is this "all evidence" you speak of? I doubt he would be loved so much if he was just power hungry and violent.

He's cool and a baddass.

Probably but comparing him to everyone else he is a saint.

You'd also have two nickels for every time we fought a femboy master manipulator who was the child of a powerful god who doomed our reality!

Oh for sure!

I was calling out myself, anyone else was just collateral damage 😅 And thanks mate!

the fact Godwyn's soul was what died means he couldnt be brought back to life in the most conventional sense (the cursemark of death says the prince of death perished in soul alone, so Fia didn't bring it back), and his body was so distorted and absorbed into the roots it would be incredibly hard for Miquella to bring it to the land of shadow and implant another soul into it. so in what manner could they have used Godwyn. imo its far more fan service to force Godwyn back into the story when his death was such a catalyst for important events.

Then explain why malenia said what she said to rhadan in the battle of aoenia

​@@FelonOW The battle of Aeonia still makes no sense with the current dlc revelations anyway. The dlc ending is dogshit

@@fakechloe207 yeah i agree i think theres a lot of unanswered questions for sure but i also believe thats intended becausse if you give all the answers it loses some of the magic behind the unknown. I wish the lore was a tad bit more fleshed out and i thought the ending was light weight for what the games are

I never thought about it that way but that would make a lot of sense!

No the hornsent aren’t gods they worship the Crucible (they are pagans) trying to make a god by using Merika’s people the Shaman, thats what you find in the Gaol in Bonny village

they are described as having "tutelary deities" who it appears once lived among them in some form, and (lore from the ascetic outfit) it was apparently possible to become one from being an ordinary hornsent there's also the unspecified*divinity " the grandma calls on to inhabit the lion that may or may not exist finally she's also apparently an Empyrean, so hornsent have at least the potential to become Marika style capital-G Gods so they've got a lot going on religiously speaking

Not quite all of them, but someone had the potential, think of it as the concept of apotheosis, with some Roman Emperors becoming Gods after death

Yeah, the connections between the Hornsent and the Omenare really fascinating. And now that you mention it, since Morgott was the Veiled Monarch I don't think Miquella or the other demigods knew that Morgott was an Omen (or only found after Mohg was enchanted anyway).