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Elden Ring Lore: Rivers and the Origin of Scarlet Rot
The lore of the rivers in the Lands Between, the cultures which worship them, and the origin of the Scarlet Rot. #gaming #eldenringshadowoftheerdtree #eldenring #lore
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Elden Ring Lore: A Crucible of Spirits
Переглядів 2,8 тис.21 день тому
The lore of the crucible and how it relates to death. Soundtrack from the Elden Ring OST

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  • @mirrormonkey2
    @mirrormonkey2 3 години тому

    Makes a whole lot of sense! I never considered that the scarlet rot might be a modified version of the previous, simpler rot.

  • @Zythryl
    @Zythryl 6 годин тому

    We have Miquella, reborn as a god of the same Light worshipped by the Hornsent, and Malenia who, as this video posits, is part of, or related to, a consequence of the cruelties inflicted upon the Hornsent, both being children of the unified Marika and Radagon, the union of whom has been theorized to be the product of the Hornsent’s jar-creation-experiments… Perhaps it truly is all connected. Perhaps the curse mentioned by the Grandam runs even deeper than we suspected, beyond the appearance of Omen. …this was a wonderful video. Honestly one of the best of its kind; succinct AND convincing. You had me hooked with the visual parallel of Malenia’s impaling grab attack and Romina’s stinger grab attack, which I had never considered before. The only logistical issue I can see is the idea that Malenia’s curse, which she was born with, is related to Romina’s act of weaving the rot during/after the Crusade. It implies the Empyrean twins’ births would have been after the Crusade, which I don’t think many people would feel right in believing, even if there’s no real evidence pointing either way. …that said, I personally wouldn’t let it matter much, because these kinds of things are imagination/vibes-based. If it’s cool to think about, it should be thought about. Connecting the two major instances of Scarlet Rot through the buds and through the rivers is a wonderful thing to ponder. Keep up the great work!

    • @Stormking66324
      @Stormking66324 4 години тому

      Thank you, that means a lot! And let me try to convince you Messmer's crusade occurred before the twins were born. First off, Rellana's joined Messmer's crusade with a large force of Carians. The fact she received Rennala's blessing to do so(a lock of hair on her helm), implies to me that Radagon had yet to leave her. Otherwise she would not support her sister joining Marika's war. There is also almost no mention of Radagon in the land of shadow, whereas messers forces clearly take inspiration from Godfrey based on their stomp moves and some tailsmens. Based on this, plus the fact Messmer knows about the tarnished, I would place the crusade right around Godfrey's banishment, but before Radagon marries Marika.

  • @koocherry793
    @koocherry793 8 годин тому

    Excellent video!!

  • @momzilla2010
    @momzilla2010 10 годин тому

    i love this vid

  • @momzilla2010
    @momzilla2010 10 годин тому

    wow this was a great vid. worth a sub from me

  • @swamashijudbedolofritt4448
    @swamashijudbedolofritt4448 11 годин тому

    Your theory...... 10/10. Good job!

  • @bjarnivalur6330
    @bjarnivalur6330 11 годин тому

    My personal pet theory is that the blind swordsman is just a personification of flowing water, as in, you use flowing water to clean yourself and to wash away the rot, some cultures might have deified and personified it as a grate protector from rot

  • @philosobee6412
    @philosobee6412 14 годин тому

    Great video… you will see me next time 🤘

  • @Throne6810
    @Throne6810 15 годин тому

    Maybe the Nox were connected to the giant stone coffins. Maybe the Nox knew the giants of caelid and the mountain. They do show up next to water when Malenia bombed Radahn

    • @Stormking66324
      @Stormking66324 14 годин тому

      @@Throne6810 The clayman bubble sorceries of the ancient dynasty do share a sigil with the Sellian/Nox spells, possibly implying a relation.

  • @steamedhamlet
    @steamedhamlet 15 годин тому

    This is a great way to look at and make sense of the lore. Everyone is trying to direct the flow of souls to their desired destination. It's a battle for souls. A spiritual war. We see it today and it's always been the case. Those fighting to shape your opinions and your reality and your belief system to fit their agenda are basically redirecting your soul to their own path.

  • @thesis_gaia7960
    @thesis_gaia7960 16 годин тому

    1:05 first time i fought her i was so desperate, second time i was more chill, and i just noticed that not only that whole area feels like a Shadow Of The Colossus area, Romina battle music is also really reminiscing the SOTC songs

    • @goldie1573
      @goldie1573 10 годин тому

      apt considering rauhs implied connection to the golems!

  • @MultiSoulforce
    @MultiSoulforce 16 годин тому

    I like how the dlc explains how Marika got cursed to have cursed children

  • @chrislevack405
    @chrislevack405 17 годин тому

    First question response: ...I mean, I used a horse ox thing to do 99% of my traversal.

  • @dgalloway107
    @dgalloway107 17 годин тому

    In the scorched ruins of the gravesite plain, you can find a spirit of a hornsent weaving a curse on Marika's lineage. he says he will forge it from the raw resentment of his slain kin. Could this be why the Omen of the Lands between are haunted by bitter spirits? with their horns being a sign of spiritual potency, manifestations of the spirits of dead Hornsent haunting them would cause their horns to run even more wild than the Hornsent, because the Hornsent have horns as a controlled result of their spiritual practices, whereas the Omen have horns unwillingly as a result of their blood ties to Queen Marika tying them in to the curse wrought on her. Maybe these would have merely been people with a couple horns here and there, were it not for the spirits of the race Marika slaughtered clinging to them bitterly. All of these spirits were Crucible-touched. Makes sense that Omen horns grow beyond all reason. And if spirits travel through the water, then they aren't limited in their travel to and from the Realm of Shadow, as a massive bay-lake-thing is all that remains linking the land of shadow and the lands between physically. Side note, in the Elder Scrolls series, water doesn't necessarily contain spirits themselves, but memory. Memory which is reabsorbed by all and accumulates in potency as experience passes. Interesting how both of these ideas contain the idea that water contains something of the dead that continues to shape the living ad infinitum.

  • @dgalloway107
    @dgalloway107 17 годин тому

    So wait, does that mean that from other cultures' perspective, my baptism was me getting pushed and pulled to and from the Underworld?

    • @Stormking66324
      @Stormking66324 14 годин тому

      @@dgalloway107 Possibly! Another reason many rivers are connected to the underworld in myth is that they are thought to purify the soul. I’m not entirely familiar with the cultural basis of baptism, but I think it plays a similar role of purifying the spirit, just before you die instead of after!

    • @dgalloway107
      @dgalloway107 14 годин тому

      @@Stormking66324 Well I'm apostate now, but I was raised baptist so its always nice to see other perspectives on one of the wierdest events of my childood in my opinion.

  • @DylanWintersteen
    @DylanWintersteen 17 годин тому

    Bro, use a crossfade

  • @Writh811
    @Writh811 17 годин тому

    A very interesting look at the rivers and rot. Thanks for all the hard work in putting this video together. While I haven't put to much thought or investigation in this area myself, so much to look at in this world, I did have one small unimportant thing to share. The coffins, the text that makes them fly is Smithscript. Smithscript is formally introduced in the DLC with a series of weapons that can be thrown but will return to the wielder. These weapons have those symbols on them but for the best view the Smithscript shield icon is what you wanna look at. Unfortunately, this is one of those revelations that doesn't really offer much but scraps of certainty are very rare in Fromsoft Lore so anything you can take for 100% fact we gotta be thankful for lol.

    • @Stormking66324
      @Stormking66324 14 годин тому

      @@Writh811 Thanks! That’s a very interesting connection I never noticed. Interestingly this seems to also be the same writing on the black knifeprint item.

  • @brnecessities3335
    @brnecessities3335 18 годин тому

    I would love to see more discussing the death legacy of the palace ruins and if they connect to the Nox, as well as the Nox’s own connections with death. I was disappointed there wasn’t more revealed about them in the DLC.

    • @Stormking66324
      @Stormking66324 14 годин тому

      @@brnecessities3335 The clayman bubble sorceries of the ancient dynasty do share a sigil with the Sellian/Nox spells, possibly implying a relation.

    • @brnecessities3335
      @brnecessities3335 10 годин тому

      That’s a cool connection. I’m also curious how their relation to Marika’s shaman people relates to the broader story, like if the shamans are a separate group descending from the palace culture or something. Excited to see whatever else you plan on discussing!

  • @falgalhutkinsmarzcal3962
    @falgalhutkinsmarzcal3962 18 годин тому

    Sleep, too, is a form of stagnation. Hence why St Trina is a flower and why we find her being protected by the Putrescent Knight. Putrescence is Rot, and flowers grow from old graveyards due to the nutrients of decomposing bodies (coffin ships). Moreover, poisons are derived from flowers (Miranda flowers) and distilled by Perfumers. This also explains the connection between Thiollier, the Perfumers, House Marais (their masks and poison/rot affinities), and his desire for eternal slumber. It seems that the Twins, Miquella and Malenia, both suffer from Stagnation.

  • @HeyGuy4321
    @HeyGuy4321 21 годину тому

    Excellent video. Immediately subbed

  • @yunkinto
    @yunkinto 21 годину тому

    13:06 what if… ALL of Marika’s children‘s afflictions come from hornsent curses. The omen curse is the most obvious one, but what if miquella’s eternal nascence and whatever took over godwyns corpse also comes from the hornsent

    • @Stormking66324
      @Stormking66324 18 годин тому

      @@yunkinto This is definitely a possibility! The curse’s afflicting Marika’s children all seem to be tied to her past in some way. As you said, the curses of the omen twins, Malenia and maybe Miquella are likely linked to hornsent, but if we look at Messmer his curse might be more linked to the gloam eyed queen (who is associated with snakes).

  • @ElMasCaporo99
    @ElMasCaporo99 21 годину тому

    Subscribe

  • @sethrose1632
    @sethrose1632 22 години тому

    Awesome video!

  • @Blockvard
    @Blockvard 22 години тому

    Thank you for a good watch. Is the runes on the stone coffins alike those on the weapons from Eochaid?

  • @sethrose1632
    @sethrose1632 22 години тому

    Just found your channel and so glad! Great work!

  • @Chris-lc3wi
    @Chris-lc3wi День тому

    The production quality here is really high, Kudos. 1080p would have been nice though, it shows when you're watching on >1080p resolutions.

  • @onesphor5821
    @onesphor5821 День тому

    thank god a lore channel that not AI

    • @timelineenjoyer
      @timelineenjoyer День тому

      i dont think i’ve seen one elden ring lore channel done by ai. i’d kinda prefer them to the nasally british ones 😅 (not smough he’s great)

    • @thesis_gaia7960
      @thesis_gaia7960 16 годин тому

      ​@@timelineenjoyer me neither, it either has a ASRM like narration or none at all

    • @spicec3613
      @spicec3613 15 годин тому

      Are you drunk

    • @llab3903
      @llab3903 15 годин тому

      @@timelineenjoyerI haven’t either. Warhammer however…

    • @YungTigris
      @YungTigris 15 годин тому

      @@llab3903the warhammer ai channels are terrible, i could understand if they wrote the script and used an AI voice but they just chatGPT the script and call it a day and theyre all terrible

  • @Willie_Dickins
    @Willie_Dickins 3 дні тому

    This video is making me think that the nature of the flame of frenzy to be able to melt both spiritual energy and physical matter could have made it a tool to be used, not just in the creation of a lord of frenzied flame, and not just to end the world. If one were to use it carefully enough, could its use potentially create crucibles of life?

    • @Stormking66324
      @Stormking66324 3 дні тому

      @@Willie_Dickins That is an interesting thought. In my interpretation, the one issue is that the frenzied flame destroys spirits permanently, meaning their energy could not re-enter the cycle of life. That being said, there do seem to be some frenzy-based lifeforms like the aging untouchables, so maybe life could be created from frenzy.

  • @annekkipu
    @annekkipu 3 дні тому

    great video! I’m definitely writing some stuff down as I was just looking for more information about golems myself lol 🫶 thank you for pointing out the crystal darts ~

  • @parallellines2568
    @parallellines2568 4 дні тому

    Hey its parallwl lmao I personally think it would be a mischaracterization to say romina realized she could achieve divinity through the rot Instead i think this is more akin to the bloodfiends, who in their grief, beheld their fallen ancestor, and in doing so beheld the formless mother In other words, her grief revealed to her a divinity she was foreign to, and her grief imprinted on the rot in a way

    • @Stormking66324
      @Stormking66324 4 дні тому

      @@parallellines2568 🚨Parallwl spotted 🚨 Yeah that’s fair, the way I worded it might have forced the goals of the hornsent onto Romina too much. Romina may not have wanted to achieve divinity through rot, but I think in creating the scarlet rot she imprinted the idea of blooming flowers to try to save the buds of her church. That blooming was a divine act which remained a path to divinity, but creating a god was likely not a goal of Romina, and more a byproduct.

    • @parallellines2568
      @parallellines2568 4 дні тому

      @Stormking66324 i do like the idea that this is some form of extension of the hornsent's goals, only defiled by grief

  • @The808basshead
    @The808basshead 4 дні тому

    Comment for the comment gods. Hope to see more!

  • @The808basshead
    @The808basshead 4 дні тому

    Great video! This topic is sorely under covered, as is the engineering of the waters and lands themselves. I have a question for you as I have been pondering the lake of rot for some time. Why do you think it was made in the first place? Were the Nox attempting to amass spiritual energy with their damn? Why on earth is the other far side associated with Elden John and a more ritualistic ancient dynasty? Was this area meant as a repository for rot or is that a happy accident? And how on earth does the glintstone cluster /mushroom shelving at the center all play into this? The story of this region defies me still.

    • @Stormking66324
      @Stormking66324 4 дні тому

      @@The808basshead Thanks! I agree the lake of rot is definitely a very interesting but mysterious region. Since we have so little information on the region, there are lots of valid theories. My interpretation is that the ancient dynasty ruins (grand cloister) predates the lake of rot, and that the blind swordsman defeated the god of rot there much later, possibly around the time of the Nox. When he defeated the god, it’s essence was sealed within the lake, making it the lake of rot. The Nox built the dam at this time so that no more spiritual energy would enter the lake in an attempt to prevent the spread of the rot. It’s also very possible the ancient dynasty was involved with the god of rot though. As for the glintstone cluster, if you check the map it is actually right under Raya Lucaria. Rot can infect glintstone, as we can see with the rotten cystallians, so maybe that is another source of energy for the rot. I also think the lake of rot could be the reason Liurnia is sinking into the water above ground. It’s definitely an interesting piece of world design.

  • @nbmoleminer5051
    @nbmoleminer5051 4 дні тому

    Thanks being able to help me clarify connect the dots better on my thoughts on the Flower aspect of the Crucible

  • @edward.constantine
    @edward.constantine 4 дні тому

    Finally, someone's giving this topic more attention.

  • @brnecessities3335
    @brnecessities3335 8 днів тому

    Now we just need an explanation of the jellyfish…

    • @Stormking66324
      @Stormking66324 8 днів тому

      That's coming in the next video! In short, there's a link between death and water in Elden Ring...

  • @thatranter33
    @thatranter33 11 днів тому

    I love this content keep it up 🗣🗣🗣🔥

  • @greatwarden4853
    @greatwarden4853 14 днів тому

    Rather than "spiritual energy", could the crucible be the intangible wind which blows spirit ashes away? More evidence for an intangible wind is the fact that the Spira incantation results in a "normalised" crucible current. If "normalised" means to make something more normal, mundane or physical, this means that crucible currents which are NOT normalised are intangible and only affect spirits and spirit ash.

  • @nbmoleminer5051
    @nbmoleminer5051 14 днів тому

    YES more Fromsoft lore youtubers love to see it🎉👍

  • @NihilisticRealism
    @NihilisticRealism 14 днів тому

    the crucible is a time, not a place

    • @rafsandomierz5313
      @rafsandomierz5313 13 днів тому

      Well and also a place where all life originated from, according to Siluria's armor description. It does mention a crucible which would be the first tree in existence and trees are usually said to be created first.

    • @NihilisticRealism
      @NihilisticRealism 12 днів тому

      @@rafsandomierz5313 'the past is, as they say, a different country' - great jar alexander

    • @void.sawyer
      @void.sawyer 7 днів тому

      Space/time

    • @Stormking66324
      @Stormking66324 3 дні тому

      I agree the crucible is not a place, and there was definitely a time in which the crucible had a stronger influence, but it is also definitely a force which acts as the basis for many things in Elden Ring. The Erdtree draws from the crucible, even into the modern age.

  • @rattle_boyale
    @rattle_boyale 14 днів тому

    Nice video, thanks for sharing your work. Keep going!

  • @gygaxthecat2448
    @gygaxthecat2448 14 днів тому

    Merika made the burning of bodies obsolete.

  • @gygaxthecat2448
    @gygaxthecat2448 14 днів тому

    Once a year new loretubers show up. I love to see the new views on the details of Elden ring! This is my second sub this week to tubers with less than 50 subscribers.

  • @albertonunez2045
    @albertonunez2045 15 днів тому

    I never connected the ancestors spells were similiar to the desthbirds but now it seems so obvious. Great video!

  • @crystalgem2850
    @crystalgem2850 15 днів тому

    thanks

  • @annekkipu
    @annekkipu 15 днів тому

    a wonderful well structured video that helped me sort out my own thoughts. I hope to see more of your content in the future!

    • @Stormking66324
      @Stormking66324 15 днів тому

      Cheers! Working on the next video right now.

  • @tryuntildie1648
    @tryuntildie1648 15 днів тому

    Good quality good audio good content in par with the top elden ring theory channels. Wish you a better future

    • @Stormking66324
      @Stormking66324 15 днів тому

      Thanks so much! Hoping to finish another video soon!

  • @TheDiscerningTarnished
    @TheDiscerningTarnished 16 днів тому

    It’s refreshing to see new channels give new life to Elden Ring lore. Great video.

    • @Stormking66324
      @Stormking66324 16 днів тому

      Thanks! I'm a fan of your videos!

    • @TheDiscerningTarnished
      @TheDiscerningTarnished 16 днів тому

      @@Stormking66324Thank you! I've just subscribed and I can't wait to catch your next video!

  • @cozarooni1834
    @cozarooni1834 19 днів тому

    Glad that I stumbled upon this in my feed, this is a really good and clarifying video!