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elden ring lore has gotten way too specific especially for a game purposefully abstract. love lore as much as the next but ya’ll need to blink for a few days

"... Without any sign of wavering." This means he did not waver. Unless there is another piece of lore that specifies Godfrey was wavering in his thoughts and/ or internally, the talisman tells us that, externally, he did not show any signs of wavering.... Which, again, means he did not waver. P.S. Apologies if this correction was already pointed out.

11:07 🥲 I wish

I just have to say, this is maybe the best and most well thought out theories and video presentation of said theory ive seen maybe ever. I believe this theory whole heartedly and was definitely pickings up on some of these things while playing through the dlc. But you put it together so so cleanly. Very well done friend, im subscribing!

What if misbegotten are just different beast with intelligence? Stormhawks,wolves,and lions to be exact? Some fly, the big red ones look like red wolves in a human form, and the ones with the cleavers have lion like faces with blue eyes.

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One thing about the bonny village bit, it's reminiscent of the village Marika grew up in, down to the celebrations and the braids. I think the reason why even the Golden Order had to respect it is because ultimately, that's what marika was trying to preserve, her culture. The skinning part and the godskin connection I feel correlates to the agreement Marika made with the primordial snake of death (the OG GEQ). The village represents the original contract and stipulations made required for The Golden Order to be established. All in all it would be bad PR for the Greater Will to not uphold it's contract. Just as it would be for Marika to not uphold hers and we see Marika's consequences very clearly

Northerner description: A face found among the hardy people of the unforgiving north. Some say they're descended from giants. I theorize Godfrey/Hoarah Loux is based on the Irish hero Lugh. Lugh's mother is Ethniu (or "Enia"), and her father was Balor, a one-eyed Giant. Godfrey might be the grandson of the Fell God. Since he's an old man by the time we meet him, it might not be crazy to theorize he had red hair at one point. Messmer's flame works the same way the Fell God's does in burning a tree. Likewise, on the opposite side, there's Rennala, a giantess. Her mother, possibly Renna, might have been a Finger Crone like Enia.

I love the analysis in the first part of the video, but something doesn't click for me in the speculation at the end. First of all Messmer's crusade happened BEFORE Tarnished were banished. Messmer recognizes the PC as tarnished. He wouldn't have Godfrey's soldiers if they already left for badlands. Secondly, I am still bewildered how Horax fot himself subjugated. Such powerful, dominant, testosterone juggernaut would not freely let himself be used and abused by Marika. WHY did he exchnaged divine incantation for erdtree SAP, took on Serosh and let himself be exiled? The nature of 'seduction' must be much more sinister. E.g. mind control spell or other form of manipulation. Also, erdtree stopped producing SAP, because it was burned (dust in capital) and replaced with golden illusion that became the dead object of faith.

I think that to be a god in elden ring y must be lgbtq+ like, Marika is bigender and pansexual (while they was radagon, they married rennala, and while marika married godfrey and itself with radagon) then we have Ranni, wich can marry the tarnished being a man or a woman, making she bissexual, then we have Miquella, who is in a homossexual relationship with his older brother, and now placidussax has 2 genders too? another bigender. is Michael Zaki a secret ally?

PLACIDUSSAX IS TRANSEXUAL OMG

I really hope Vaati, Smough town, Ratatoskyr, Tarnished Archaeologist, Lowkey. Your watch thus video. Your points makes so many sense.

It also makes sense why Marika Seduces Horrah Loux. She needed a Lord in order to become a god. Just like Miquella needed Radahn to be the god of compassion.

Also, Messmer knows what a tarnished is, and since the Tranished existed only when Godfrey was banished

So you mean to say the Divinw beast are inspired from Serrosh And the Divine Bird are inspired from the Storm Lord.

Godfrey is the greatest character in Elden Ring he doesn't use incantations or sorceries, the blood of a god does not run through his veins and he doesn't have powers from an outer god. he doesn't have great runes, and while others battle and fight wars to gain powers he seals his own power, even in his first death he died with Serosh The first Elden Lord and the ONLY character in Elden ring with a remembrance in his name "Remembrance of Hoarah Loux"

Call it cope, but even after the DLC, I was still convinced Godfrey battled Placidusax. My rationalization was, while Placidusax lost two of his heads in his battle with Bayle, he lost another in his battle with Godfrey much later.

I think Pasidusax was defeated by Godfrey first then Bayle finished him off.

Ya know i really dig this theory. However, seeing as how neither Serosh nor Godfrey seem to have any horns, i feel like it might be safer to say that Godfrey wasn’t necessarily part of the hornsent. Rather, what if he was just a highlander who was revered by the hornsent for accomplishing a feat similar to Ornis? The grandam might still be upset with Marika seducing him even in this case.

Finally! A concrete timeline to the events before the Shattering! With the addition of the DLC a lot of the history just didnt add up because prior to this I assumed most of the events happened pretty later on right before the Shattering, but all of it was long before that. Marika's rule happened longer before acquiring Godhood which made a narrative that makes a lot of sense.

The sap made him a golden puppet. 14:51 the sap is the same as the potion Ranni kills you for trying to make her drink it. It controls your fate. Amber is fossilized sap. |AMBER STARLIGHT: An ephemeral sliver that gives off a pale amber glow. What remains of a passing flash of starlight. If the stars command our fates, then amber-hued stars must command the fates of the gods. Such is the belief that inspired the use of these shards to prepare a most special draught. Cannot be consumed by mere humans. This is why Nepheli drinks the blue potion. Generational trauma. The story repeats again.

Miazaki has a real good chance to write books, or have them written explaining more to the story of everyone not all of it, but more lore for fans to snap up like starving paranahs.

Theory fits perfectly great video bro

19:16 Stormlord was Grandsax. He attacked because Marika usurped GEQ

I released a theory video a few months ago in which my big conclusion was that Godfrey was Marika’s seduction that really picked up and got a ton of positive attention. We cover a lot of different angles and have some different conclusions but it’s fun to see how we both ended up with that as our central basis.

You think the reason godfrey choose to fight placi alone is because placi is already damaged due to his fight with bayle so godfrey choose to do a fair 1v1 duel instead of ganking on him with his golden army.

10:03 that explains why the godskin hunt was conducted the way it was: in order for marika to ascend to godhood, she had to commit an atrocity of her own, and to amplify her atrocity she not only killed thousands of hornsent, but skinned them alive (as can be seen in the trailer). The gloam eyed queen, her own daughter melina, learned of this and sought to bring her recompence in the form of the godskin hunt, returning the pain in kind.

To me, the seduction was also to the hornsent themselves. Keep in mind that Marika, before founding the golden order and being chosen by the greater will, was a shaman of no renown. Even with the powers of the greater will by her side, i find it hard that she could have rose to prominence si easily. After all, according to the lamenter's gaol, the hornsent at one point (probably in secret) REJECTED divinity, considering it to be illeggittimate. So, why the hell wuold they willingly give power to a hornless woman who promised them the elden ring? The answer could be in three things we find: first, thr fact that furled horns were considered a sign of divinity in hornsent culture. Secondly, the mimic veil, which allows to someone to change their appearence. Note that it is also known as "Marika's mischief". Third: the statue we find in the specimen storehouse which reppresents a feminine figure, dressed and posed exactly as how we find Marika, except she has furled horns. Putting this togheder, we can assume that Marika came to the hornsent as a woman with furled horns, promising them the elden ring, the total controll of the world. So they raised Marika to their queen, whom instructed them to build the divine gate, unaware of its actual purpose. In the meantime, she seduced Godfrey, who being a hornless probably was a bit looked down upon in hornsent society, despite his status. Further more, judging by Nepheli Loux, in seems that the highanders, and by extention Godfrey, had a solid sense of justice. So they had something in common: they were both hornless, and saw hornsent society as unjust. However, right before the genocide of the hornsent, Godfrey objected, thinking it was unfair that innocents were also getting killed. In realiation, Marika banished him and all those loyal to him outside the lands between.

Love this video. I had already theorized myself that Godfrey was of the Hornsent culture, although I came to that conclusion through a very different path: the beast claws. In the cutscene where Godfrey kills Serosh and absorbs his essence, there's a brief moment where serosh's claws are superimposed over Godfrey's hands. Looking at the beast claws, they look nearly identical to these superimposed claws, and Godfrey fights in a very similar manner as the claw moveset. Another clue linking the Messmer soldiers to Godfrey is their use of a stomp attack. Stomps are a pretty unique attack, and they are exclusively used by enemies linked to Godfrey (more on this in a moment) and are a default skill on a single weapon type: axes. Stomp attacks are a skill used against us by Crucible Knights, the loyal warriors of Godfrey himself. The other enemies to use this tactic in some capacity are the misbegotten, which also wield axes and cleavers, along with being explicitly tied to the Crucible. The Leontine misbegotten are also heavily associated with Radagon....who also utilizes stomping prominently in his attacks. The mystery of just who exactly IS Radagon continue to deepen after playing the DLC, despite many of the questions surrounding him being answered. But the idea that he was a factor in the lore going back to the events we learn about in the DLC, to the Hornsent, and to Marika's ascension to godhood, is looking more and more likely. Perhaps, with more lore videos like this, we will find the answer to his origin hidden in the game. Or at least enough clues that we can piece together to draw our own conclusions, if there isn't enough evidence for a definitive theory. While I don't disagree with any of the main arguments being made here, I do have some questions. Or at least one question: what happened to Godfrey and Serosh's horns? While everything pointed to Godfrey being a high status individual amongst the Hornsent, given that Marika chose him specifically to marry, I never actually made that conclusion. Not that it didn't make sense, but because Godfrey (and Serosh for that matter) lack a specific trait of the upper echelons of Hornsent culture: horns. Despite his clear and numerous ties to the Crucible, Godfrey doesn't have any horns. Interestingly neither does Serosh, despite every other lion/lion-like creature in the game having some kind of horn growths. Godfrey's twin sons being born not only as Hornsent, but as uniquely and abundantly blessed by the Crucible, in addition to all the other evidence, is enough to confidently state his origins as an important figure in Hornsent culture (certainly noble, likely even Royal). With that said, what about Godwyn? We don't ever get to see what he looked like before his assassination; instead we get a few brief glimpses of his corpse from a limited angle, followed by what now appears to be putrescence writhing underneath his skin and leaking out of his eyes, as well as an artists rendering of the night of black knives, a depiction which on close examination again raises more questions than answers. Was he born free of the curse of his father's heritage? Or is the blatant absence of any depiction of Godwyn as he was in life a major clue we spent over 2 years ignoring because it was inconvenient to our preconceived ideas about what the DLC would/should be about? We learn that Grace, and the sap of the Erdtree, are linked concepts, if not one and the same. They are also framed in a way that raises some red flags, but without quite knowing why. There's just a vague sense of unease surrounding grace and the sap, like there's more to them than we have been told, but despite those details being withheld, the implication remains that something feels very off. Godwyn shares this same vague sense of apprehension, of there being something about him we don't know that if we did know would totally and irrevocably change our perception of him

When you brought up the storm lord I genuinely gasped

Note that Godfreys axe has the same patterning as the Beasts Great Curved Sword. I think there is a very important connection there.

The three lives Daenerys sacrificed for her dragons were Khal Drogo, The Witch that cursed him, and her unborn son. That last one is a bit of a parallel to Godwyn mayhaps? Obviously Godwyn lived a whole life, but both mothers sacrificed their sons lives.

Well done, this is much better evidenced by game lore than most of the speculation ive seen since SotE dropped.

Has anyone tried to summon the Stormhawk in the arena with Ornis? 👀🤔 Might need to in another playthrough

What happened to the mistranslation video?

The question remains. What is the Sap of the Erdtree? The Erdtree produces 3 things: fallen leaves, which are a sign of decay, light, which is the guidance of grace, and sap. The Erdtree is likely just the Greatree, with the Marika's golden rays of light adorning it, to create the Erdtree we see now. The Greatree's primary function is to act as a conduit for the dead to "return" to it. It seems that this function remains in the Age of the Erdtree. But what does this mean? It makes sense how people can return to the Erdtree through Erdtree burial, but how are they then reborn? We don't see people falling out of the Erdtree. Unless the Sap of the Erdtree IS the very same people who have returned back to it. Greatjar Warrior Alexander's whole journey is about starting out as an empty vessel, and collecting the corpses of fallen champions, and combining them within himself. "Lend me strength, O warriors within! Let us become one champion, together!" I think this mirrors the Erdtree, and Godfrey exactly. Hell we even summon Alexander for Fire Giant. Erdtree burial collects the dead, and produces sap, which is akin to Alexander's Innards. Strength that is bestowed upon those deemed worthy. It is no wonder Godfrey is the leader of the Tarnished, I think he was literally been carrying around fallen champions within himself. Interestingly, this might change how we look at his kin such as Nepheli Loux. When he is banished from TLB, he clearly keeps Serosh, yet reverts back to Hoarah Loux. What does this mean for the champions we carried within him? I think it is very possible they, now free of the Erdtree's reign, are able to be reborn naturally, and become people again like Nepheli Loux.

Why would Godfrey be the seduction? If there's anyone who's chad enough to be with Marika it'd be Godfrey

It would be interesting if he attained that high standing maybe even that if a lord, and if he chose for Marica to return through the divine gate, that being the seduction I stress of his chosen consort perhaps the gloom eyed queen, there’s not a lot of basis for this, but I think I’d be an interesting idea

Beautiful theory that ties up alot of loose ends,I had my suspicions eversince I played the dlc that Godfrey was one of the reasons why Marika gained so much influence amongst the hornsent.That and the lesser theory that she somehow was the only successful jar saint which granted her power and her alter ego Radagon.The talisman you mention,Lords Bestowal,is also found in Messmers Shadow Keep,which means Godfrey was aware and even interacted with Messmer.

You think Horah Loux tamed the Elden beast for marika?

Piece by piece you'll put it together. Then we can review it all and reflect.

Incredible analysis. Grounded yet creative :D

I think youre theory is good in some points but not lore accurate in others...but its a nice video Im not agree with serosh, godwyn and the seduction But the origin of godfrey its ok, the reason of the crussade its ok too, and the timeline its (mostly) ok But serosh its from farum azula, so godfrey battled first placidusax (hoara loux, not godfrey) Here, the lord of beast serosh, in service of dragonlord, was took, and godfrey born...he decides to act as lord, and serosh begins yo act as his regent Then, the erdtree born and the fire giants war occurs Then, he beat the hawk of the storm, the stormking A crown its warranted with strenght, and placidusaxx was elden lord...so godfrey neeeded to beat the dragonlord to be elden lord, and then, act as a defender of the erdtree, then, bring war yo the world to mantain the erdtree safe Morgott abd mohg are the firstborns of godfrey, not godwyn (Godwyn was born when the primordial energy begins to weakened, thats why he is more human and younger than morgott looks, plus, the sigil of morgott shacles and everything related to morgott abd mohg its from the bounty age and the crucible, and the sigil of the era of godwyn its the normal erdtree, you can see this in the incantation to resist lightning and the leyndell symbol of leyndell knights, instructed by godwyn) Finally, the seduction its ftom the 2 fingers to marika They offer marika power, cause she is and empyrean chosen to start a new age, the erdtree age So they gave her support and marika appears in belurat, as the primissed god of the hornsent, the one who would guide her to the divinity they wanted But divinity its a prision Marika was betrayed, and during all her life, was a slave of the golden order...this, made her lost faith, and then she decides to destroy de erd, the golden order and break the e.r

There's some cut content regarding miquella and Messmer that I think actually supports the crusade timeline. Originally, Messmer would say something like "Thou art tarnished...Miquella spoke of thee" (paraphrasing) To me this line being cut actually supports the theory that Godfrey's banishment was the trigger to the crusade. If they had kept the line then the crusade would have started before Godfrey's banishment since clearly Messmer did not know about the tarnished. But now that it's gone, this implies Messmer was already aware of what a tarnished is, thus, the long march had to have happened before the veiling of the shadow lands. As a follow up theory, I think the presence of the impalers catacombs in the weeping peninsula might point to the long march being forced by spear point. There is evidence of this with the rusted anchor description too. There was one left behind ship, I think the last tarnished ship got cold feet and attempted to remain only to be taken out by Messmer the Impalers forces, with the dead from his army being entombed in the impalers catacombs

The existence of lion beastmen likely predates the sacred beasts of Enir Ilim but Godfrey is DEFINITELY "the seduction". The Hornsent absolutely hated the idea of their perfect saint Marika recruiting the highland warriors and betraying their plans for her.

I can't understand how your videos are not up in the Lore Olympus with Vaaty, Crunchy, Smaughtown, Ratatoskr, miss Chalice, Kosm etc... This one was so fu**ing good...

Nice video. I get caught up with the divine invocation of the hornsent versus dragon communion. What i mean is the consumption of "spirit" versus "flesh." Hornsent continually summon the spirits of their defeated enemies and gained increased powered. But, with dragon communion, the individual has to literally eat a heart of flesh or stone everytime for increased power. Idk, cannibalism is a theme throughout Dark Souls and Bloodborne, so I think I'm partly trained to look for cannibalism in these games 😂. But, I get "Soylent Green" vibes from the Lord's Bestowal talisman. You could compare "sap" to "blood" and that Godfrey has pause at this new flesh consumption ritual.

Man your videos are amazing. Great evidence and i do think it makes sense. My question is, in light of this evidence, where does the Gloam-Eyed Queen fit in?

Daenerys hair style sure looks familiar here 24:24