Gideon: I know I was his boss and he listened to every word I said... but I have no idea why he attacked you. Probably went crazy, oh well! He's dead forever, let's not look into it further.
@@Divinity-of-sin the respawn mechanics of ds2 was cool for that exact reason lol, joined the covenant of champions and went to the area with big knights/golems right away and didn’t know what I did to myself till much later in the game near the end.
@@leopoldwhylie5076in ds2 enemies in an area can despawn after being killed like 12 times, but when you join that covenant of champions they keep spawning and the game in general becomes harder(enemies do more damage, you do less i think)
Tried to kill me on the table! "Wuzn't me." Tried to stab me in my ankle! "Wuzn't me" I even fought him in the hallway! "Wuzn't me" Killed him and took his shit anyway!
And that's the difference between Gideon and Ranni. At least SHE has the rectitude to admit that the whole world being fucked up was mainly caused by her actions.
@@Ravagerbladeshe isn't his daughter, Loux is a tribe's name. She's at best a far descendant of Godfrey. We know Gideon raised her wich means she's not very old since all she knows is the shattering. Godfrey at that point has been dead for thousands of years until he was resurrected and he doesn't reach the lands between until shortly before we meet him before the Tree.
I didn't know about it either so a week later when I signed back in and decided I needed to upgrade some gear and I always go to the hold for that I was in for quite the surprise
@@quailfeather Ye wtf how did you connect those two dots in your head? What makes you think Ensha has anything to do with Castle Sol or the half that is guarded by Niall?
Knew something was fishy about Gideon when I told him Seluvis wanted to poison his adopted daughter and he’s like “yeah, do what thou wilt. We hold to no code here.” And I’m like “excuse me?! What kind of ‘fellowship’ is this where anybody can gank anyone? You’re sick, dude.”
It was such a cool moment when you return to the round table for the first time after getting the medallion and things are immediately different. Like all the sudden Ensha comes outta nowhere tryna kill you! I think the first thing I noticed was that I could target something, I can’t remember what exactly told me something was up, but damn that was so cool to play!!
I literally experienced that last night, I completed the "quest" in the village and then went on exploring and farming runes, then when I was low HP and without heal items I decided to went back to the round table to level up some equipments and summons, I teleport and all sudden the area is dark, this guy appear from nowhere attacking me and I am just there don't even knowing what is happening, I died two times before killing him. Was a very interesting experience being caught by surprise and unprepared
Meanwhile, his body guard invading you in the Hold, Fia murdering D and you potentially drugging his adopted daughter, also in the Hold? Par for the course, "We hold to no code, here." Yeah, great. Feeling reaaaaal safe here. Ironically feeling safer when the place is in shambles and literally burning. Once Gideon leaves.
For even more proof that Gideon was behind it all, Nepheli outright calls the Omenkiller at the village "one of [her] father's pawns." when talking to her at the Roundtable after killing it
Whats even more creepy is the fact Gideon immediately knows when you gained the medallion. I wouldnt be surprised if you could see a beetle thats just watching you and when you get near it it just vanishes (since people have linked the beetles to being gideon's eyes and ears as they share the same symbols)
I honestly think that Gideon should've deserved a full cutscene when you fight him so he gets the respect he's due instead of being able to trounce him while he talks, he's definitely the most dangerous tarnished out there and really deserved a better boss fight
Yes yes yes yes, he his surely rhe most important tarnished of the land between, and we can see his shadow all over the lands between. Hell even in rykard arena we see a gideon pawn. I thinks only vyke and Bernald can match him in power, but he is not even a fighter, but a scholar. Fromsoft really miss a good character
he doesn't deserve respect, even if he was the strongest Tarnished. Gideon is barely better than Seluvis, he just doesn't insult you as much. Gideon is a pathetic and heartless Golden Order fundamentalist, he inflicts death and suffering onto everyone who stands in the way of his religion and the need to be a smartass.
Also fun fact - in some places of the Lands Between you can actually find chestplates of Gideon's agents. One of such is in the Rykard's arena, implying that Ofnir actively spies on those demigods. It also explains why Ofnir can use spells and skills of the demigods you've slain (Rykard's Rancor, Scarlet Aeonia, Comet Azur and Bloodboon)
I like how after assassination attempt, Gideon just says “oh I guess he tried speeding up the process of my plan. Don’t worry bout plan, I never liked Ensha anyways”
Going back to the round house table and getting ambushed really scared me not because it was scary but because I couldn’t even trust the safe heaven to be safe anymore 😂
I remember encountering his daughter over a pile of corpses and she said something along the lines of “I’m quite familiar with this sight”. I only vaguely remembered her at the time so I just thought it was rambling but now that I know who she is it makes so much more sense
@@thatonesaxophoneguyI did too, I saw the health bar and red name above him but I’m a sucker for hearing everything of what someone has to say in this game
Its so fitting that he's a complete pushover as a boss. He's sly and cunning and despite all his knowledge he has to let others do the heavy lifting for him. He's a silver tongued manipulator but he can't even put up a proper fight and I think that's well deserved.
Right? And remember, one of the first lines he says when you enter the roundtable hold for the first time; "It is safe here. You may put down your guard" : )
and in my 300 some hours of playing i never knew the one guy that invades you was ensha and i always wondered why bro died, but now i know why, i never looked at the names when the random invades you aside from the tarnished eater
That moment you return to the Roundtable hold and it’s all dark and empty and then all of a sudden you get ambushed. It’s one of the craziest moments in the game!
I did not know that the guy Ensha attacks you because you get the medallion, and only does after you get it. That is so freaking cool. I'm way too stupid to figure this story out myself but watching these videos is mind blowingly awesome sometimes
Gideon didn't have Ensha attack us, he did it of his own volition. Ensha is known as the "Soulless Lord" based on his armor. Castle Sol houses the second half of the Haligtree Secret Medallion, and the inhabitants of the castle are trying to bring about an Eclipse to return the soul of Commander Niall's long lost master, which evidence seems to point to being Ensha. Ensha attacks us because he is already in possession of the other half. Ensha and the Mausoleum Knights may hold the secrets to a huge part of the secret story to the game. It is my belief that being soulless is a major aspect to this universe. After all, a bodyless soul and a soulless body coming together would create a whole being... a "Single God."
That’s cool and all but ensha is really really weak. And commander naill is pretty darn strong. So ensha being a master doesn’t make much sense gameplay wise
@@ballsbruh1565 I don't think his difficulty omits possible lore implications. The Albinauric Village is fairly early game, so you're not going to have to go up against an insanely hard enemy. It's meant to be a small thing that you write off until you make the connection towards the end of the game when you finally get the other half of the medallion. The lack of the Eclipse could also explain why he isn't powerful at all. His motivations for wanting the Haligtree Medallion could be to capture Miquella and take him as Empyrean to Ensha's Lordship. There's even a spirit who laments about the Eclipse not returning a soul to Miquella's "comrade," rather than referring to Ensha though it may refer to Godwyn or maybe even the player character Tarnished. Travelling to the Helphen (spirit world) and seeing Miquella as St. Trina may require us to regain a soul if we don't have one, something like that will probably be explored in the expansion.
@@ballsbruh1565gameplay doesn't really matter to lore tbh, I mean radahn was a way tougher fight than morgott despite morgott being shown defeating radahn in the opening
i get even more catharsis out of that clip of a half-naked tarnished t-posing over gideon's smouldering corpse as it burns away into the flames of frenzy
I always feel like a fool for not realising all this myself. Because when i played all this it was disjointed and each moment occured many hours of gameplay apart... over weeks. So cool though. Very nuanced moments that i guess you lose sight of in your first playthrough.
@@wasabi1363 because it is entirely incorrect? because you don't know what you're talking about? because you don't have access to Ranni nor her quest until after Lauretta, meaning to get to Ranni you have to pass the village? because the trigger for Ensha's invasion is getting half of the medalion from the Albinauric elder and has nothing to do with Ranni?
I've never played a Souls game, but the sheer mass and depth of the lore really fascinates me. I'd love to let my brain go on a deep-dive infobinge at some point
The girl will also tell you that she can’t believe Gideon would do this, I don’t actually know what triggers the dialogue change but I’ve heard it twice from her.
I remember when Ensha first invaded. Never knew why, all I knew is that the Rountable was looking alot like the Abandonded Firelink Shrine and thinking, "Ah shit"
Actually its Ensha who commands the massacre in the village. He is the "all hearing" being literally the ears of Sir Gideon. There is a finger reader maiden near Raya Lucaria thats also talks about a "all hearing". It doesn't make sense that both the finger maiden and Latenna would call him by the wrong name.
Gideon is known as the All-Hearing, because that's all he does, is hear things. "The All-Knowing" is a self-proclaimed moniker because he's an arrogant idiot who got Marika's most basic desire wrong. All-Hearing is a jab at Gideon, it's why he was entombed in ears.
@@quailfeather No he is know as the "All-knowing". There is not a single item or NPC that calls him "All hearing". We can loot from Rykard's arena the Eye Surcoat used by Recusant Henricus. It says it represents the "eyes and ears" of SIr Gideon. All his spies are his "ears" and "eyes".
WAIT wait wait! That's why Ensha actually attacks you!!!!!!!!!!! holy molly! I knew that he was the one who massacred the village but never figured it out that you having the medallion is what triggers Ensha to attack you.
Gideon: “Ah, I knew you’d come... To face the El-wait, why are there yellow flames coming out of your eyes...? 🤨” Me: *Smiling in 2-handed Frenzyflame Seal and Inescapable Frenzy.*
@@vineethsai1575I don’t know if that’s the case with the tree or his motive, he heard one half baked line of thought from each half of their god and thought “yes I must have heard correct, our god must want things exactly as they are.” Without thinking “yea maybe I got something wrong or don’t understand something.
actually, it's implied that the brute was Ensha, not Gideon, then Gideon, after getting the info from Ensha, sent forces to the Albinauric village to find the medallion half.
Is there a lore explanation specifically for Elden Ring, as to why when you kill any regular mob they always respawn after resting on a Grace? know there is probably a different reason for the lore of each Souls game, but specifically in elden ring, it doesn't feel like it is ever explained. The whole thing about "returning to the erdtree" doesnt seem valid, because both the entities that are cursed and aren't cursed respawn (example: the omens and the leyndell knights, respectively). Only bosses seem to go through "erdtree burial" or whatever it's called since they don't respawn and you could claim they were absorbed by the tree.
What made you think a tree burial was a good thing let alone a pleasant thing? They have monks who practice live mummification and living burials as incredible honors, circumcision is considered normal and right too culturally. If you came in blind and ignorant and saw folk doing these things to both willing and unwilling don’t you think you’d oppose all that barbarism? I would. Graceless tarnished like bosses don’t die but they also don’t comeback like a tarnished with grace, go look at “the lord of beasts” and see what happens when you come up short now apply that to the folk who are glorified check boxes to the greater will and outer gods that at best don’t care or are actively making life torment for the stepping stone?
Rune of death removed infinite respawns which is why the capital will turn to ash when you defeat Maliketh and not when you just burn down the Erdtree (hence all the inhabitants are dead) After is just gameplay reasons really 🤷 And also why Morgott will disappear only after destined death is unleashed again
Well to put it simply "death" doesn't exist in the Lands Between. Mariak removed the rune of death from the Elden Ring so everything under the Tree can't truly be killed unless they are returned to it via "Erdtree burial". However that and the rules of death changed when a fragment from the rune of death was stolen. My guess is after the fragment was stolen and used in the Night Of Black Knives that it somehow made all Demigods and certain individuals lost their immortality and could be killed. But lesser beings like our character and mobs are still immortal and can't be truly killed. Hence why they respawn at the grace when you rest or die. At least that's been my understanding
As others have said, because the rune of death was removed from the elden ring by marika in order to grant her "eternal" moniker and continue her reign.
@@JamesMadisonsSpiritAnimal makes sense except that in the game you're also a tarnished and you have infinite lives just like the mobs that respawn every time you sit at the grace
I never picked up on the fact that Ensha ambushes you after you get half of the medallion. I assumed it was timed or after you reached a certain level.
I always was so confused as to why Ensha would attack. I thought just like hitting a certain progression trigger would cause it to had no idea it was tied to the medallion.
I honestly didnt know that was a different person, this game has so much stuff im still finding out about the lore and i bought it when it dropped lmao. (granted i played it for a while and took a break)
It should be noted that the dialogue of the finger reader in academy town also pretty much states that slaughtering the village was by Gideon's command.
Gideon after you kill Ensha be like: „Aight, I gotchu fam. Fuck Ensha I didn‘t even like him, you the Boss.“
@Joshua Carrillo if you think abt it he was already buried, got him pre-ordered
😂😂😂
nah, he's more like: "oh, sorry about that, i absolutely didn't mean to kill you haha"
Gideon: I know I was his boss and he listened to every word I said... but I have no idea why he attacked you. Probably went crazy, oh well! He's dead forever, let's not look into it further.
@@Acesahn exactly 😂
The sad thing is, I killed much more Albinaurics than Gideon to rune farm and to get the blue silver clothing....
You murderer.
Nah it s fine they respawned, right? 👍
@@Divinity-of-sin the respawn mechanics of ds2 was cool for that exact reason lol, joined the covenant of champions and went to the area with big knights/golems right away and didn’t know what I did to myself till much later in the game near the end.
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus never played DS2. Please explain.
@@leopoldwhylie5076in ds2 enemies in an area can despawn after being killed like 12 times, but when you join that covenant of champions they keep spawning and the game in general becomes harder(enemies do more damage, you do less i think)
For someone who calls himself the all knowing, he sure didn't know the ass whooping that was coming his way when I pulled up to his boss fight. 😂
😂😂
the all knowing but couldn't stop yapping while I was charging my comet azur to one shot him 😭🤣
The all knowing apparently doesn’t know how to roll out of a corner while I press r1.
The all knowing, but He didn't know His flask was empty
All yall talking shit while requiring him to be in his speech to one shot
Gideon after you kill ensha “that wasn’t me”
Tried to kill me on the table!
"Wuzn't me."
Tried to stab me in my ankle!
"Wuzn't me"
I even fought him in the hallway!
"Wuzn't me"
Killed him and took his shit anyway!
If a guy gutted your servant like a fish than asked if you sent him you would deny it too
A mastermind using an edgy boy toward their own demise for his selfish gain, where else have we seen this troupe =)
@Magaso242 lmao I love that song 😂😂
And that's the difference between Gideon and Ranni. At least SHE has the rectitude to admit that the whole world being fucked up was mainly caused by her actions.
And thats why Nepheli strays from her "fathers" path too
Inb4 Godfrey is her actual father
What's nepheli's last name tho? 😂
@@adijandric2992 Nepheli Loux, Hoarah Loux...
You can also summon nepheli in the final fight against godfrey/hoarah loux
@@Ravagerbladeshe isn't his daughter, Loux is a tribe's name. She's at best a far descendant of Godfrey. We know Gideon raised her wich means she's not very old since all she knows is the shattering. Godfrey at that point has been dead for thousands of years until he was resurrected and he doesn't reach the lands between until shortly before we meet him before the Tree.
Never knew the trigger for Ensha’s invasion, good to know lol
Lol same. I would just fast travel to roundtable and check my phone only to get jumpscared every playthrough
@@bradengoldsberrylmao i literally just got jumpscared. I put his ass down in two hits though lmao
Here I am a year later 😅
Honestly! I always went back before even getting to Liurnia and get ambushed for know reason
I didn't know about it either so a week later when I signed back in and decided I needed to upgrade some gear and I always go to the hold for that I was in for quite the surprise
I think it should also be noted that despite Gideon saying Ensha was "getting ahead of himself" it's VERY likely that Ensha is literally just a puppet
Ensha acted of his own volition. He was already in possession of the other half of the medallion in Castle Sol; unknown to Gideon.
@@quailfeather ironic
I have no idea how I got there but he says something along the lines of "the served he purpose. She is of no use to me now"
The medallion in castle sol is Ensha's?!
@@quailfeather Ye wtf how did you connect those two dots in your head? What makes you think Ensha has anything to do with Castle Sol or the half that is guarded by Niall?
Knew something was fishy about Gideon when I told him Seluvis wanted to poison his adopted daughter and he’s like “yeah, do what thou wilt. We hold to no code here.” And I’m like “excuse me?! What kind of ‘fellowship’ is this where anybody can gank anyone? You’re sick, dude.”
Seluvis, not Sellen
@@malpheus4299 Ah yes. Seluvis. Thank you.
I was like, there's another tarnished that I'd prefer to make into a puppet, just down the hall in fact.
@@nate7LP_my_dog_found_the_knife man, puppet Gideon would be hilariously strong if he still scaled with defeated shardbearers.
Gank top
It was such a cool moment when you return to the round table for the first time after getting the medallion and things are immediately different. Like all the sudden Ensha comes outta nowhere tryna kill you! I think the first thing I noticed was that I could target something, I can’t remember what exactly told me something was up, but damn that was so cool to play!!
Probably the fact that a red phantom comes and starts fucking you up is what told you something was up Lol
And the lighting of the room being so low i guess
The fact that someone turned off the lights and that no one was around anymore helps too 💀
I literally experienced that last night, I completed the "quest" in the village and then went on exploring and farming runes, then when I was low HP and without heal items I decided to went back to the round table to level up some equipments and summons, I teleport and all sudden the area is dark, this guy appear from nowhere attacking me and I am just there don't even knowing what is happening, I died two times before killing him. Was a very interesting experience being caught by surprise and unprepared
It looked like some creepypasta shit, but I love it
Gideon: "You can rest east here and drop your guard"
He says something alone those lines when you first arrive.
Meanwhile, his body guard invading you in the Hold, Fia murdering D and you potentially drugging his adopted daughter, also in the Hold? Par for the course, "We hold to no code, here."
Yeah, great. Feeling reaaaaal safe here. Ironically feeling safer when the place is in shambles and literally burning. Once Gideon leaves.
For even more proof that Gideon was behind it all, Nepheli outright calls the Omenkiller at the village "one of [her] father's pawns." when talking to her at the Roundtable after killing it
Whats even more creepy is the fact Gideon immediately knows when you gained the medallion. I wouldnt be surprised if you could see a beetle thats just watching you and when you get near it it just vanishes (since people have linked the beetles to being gideon's eyes and ears as they share the same symbols)
Funny you mention that, there IS a beetle on the bridge, before you fight the omenkiller in the village.... 🤔
Huh? What? Which beetles? The dungbeetles?
@@brookejon3695yes
Oh...that explains why they drop Ashes of War. That's Gideon's knowledge you are taking from him...
I honestly think that Gideon should've deserved a full cutscene when you fight him so he gets the respect he's due instead of being able to trounce him while he talks, he's definitely the most dangerous tarnished out there and really deserved a better boss fight
True plenty of people hear him start talking, see the health bar and go “oh cool you’re a boss now, prepare to get one shot”
Yes yes yes yes, he his surely rhe most important tarnished of the land between, and we can see his shadow all over the lands between. Hell even in rykard arena we see a gideon pawn. I thinks only vyke and Bernald can match him in power, but he is not even a fighter, but a scholar. Fromsoft really miss a good character
Y'all forget Hourah Loux? He is tarnished too. But I am not sure if he would be stronger than Gideon, as magic is absolutely busted lore-wise.
@@xYuma hoara loux is banned is probably dead during almost the entire game, so i don' count him but he his probably the strongest tarnished
he doesn't deserve respect, even if he was the strongest Tarnished. Gideon is barely better than Seluvis, he just doesn't insult you as much. Gideon is a pathetic and heartless Golden Order fundamentalist, he inflicts death and suffering onto everyone who stands in the way of his religion and the need to be a smartass.
Also fun fact - in some places of the Lands Between you can actually find chestplates of Gideon's agents. One of such is in the Rykard's arena, implying that Ofnir actively spies on those demigods. It also explains why Ofnir can use spells and skills of the demigods you've slain (Rykard's Rancor, Scarlet Aeonia, Comet Azur and Bloodboon)
Smart of him by knowing what they do, how they are, what failed tarnished did and how to defeat them on the future
@@a.r.h9919All that just for a naked tarnished with a pot head to do all the work and one shot him mid speech
I'm now imagining Gideon yelling whilst getting stunlocked by Commander Niall to get the other medalion. A beautiful thought.
Thank you! I never understood Ensha’s character, nor realized Gideon was such a dick!
I'm just glad that he gets his due in literally every single playthrough.
I like how after assassination attempt, Gideon just says “oh I guess he tried speeding up the process of my plan. Don’t worry bout plan, I never liked Ensha anyways”
As stated by @fightingcowboy in his 100% play through, "Gideon is a bitch" 😂
Hahahaha yup. ( Rolls through his desk) (fuck Gideon he's a bitch) 😂
Now the fight with Gideon the all knowing becomes extra personal when I meet him again in battle.
Going back to the round house table and getting ambushed really scared me not because it was scary but because I couldn’t even trust the safe heaven to be safe anymore 😂
It’s crazy how much secret lore there is behind the most subtle parts of Elden Ring
I remember encountering his daughter over a pile of corpses and she said something along the lines of “I’m quite familiar with this sight”. I only vaguely remembered her at the time so I just thought it was rambling but now that I know who she is it makes so much more sense
Her quest line is pretty satisfying, if you ever do a replay you should try following her around the map
I would often step away from the game when fast travelling to RTH to grab a water, snack, washroom etc.
Boy was I surprised this time….
Same man
Gna gna gna "You can rest at ease, here." Thank you Gideon, real safe ship you're running!
He massacred a village, just to get his ass killed in the convergence mod
"i knew you'd come" **gets donuted**
@@Dominated001I actually let him spoke I thought everyone did
@@thatonesaxophoneguyI did too, I saw the health bar and red name above him but I’m a sucker for hearing everything of what someone has to say in this game
@@thatonesaxophoneguyonly the first time
After that it’s on the moment the health bar pops up
Gideon: Ensha? He was just my coffee guy, never knew him.
That pause after the first line.. like he was actually expecting a response
Its so fitting that he's a complete pushover as a boss. He's sly and cunning and despite all his knowledge he has to let others do the heavy lifting for him. He's a silver tongued manipulator but he can't even put up a proper fight and I think that's well deserved.
Gideon like sullivan in ds3 is the closest to a real villain of elden ring since he does all that shit against the player
Right?
And remember, one of the first lines he says when you enter the roundtable hold for the first time;
"It is safe here. You may put down your guard" : )
and in my 300 some hours of playing i never knew the one guy that invades you was ensha and i always wondered why bro died, but now i know why, i never looked at the names when the random invades you aside from the tarnished eater
Exactly my experience as well lol
That slippery bastard gideon.
And now know he wants to be Elden, Lord and wants to kill me for it
That moment you return to the Roundtable hold and it’s all dark and empty and then all of a sudden you get ambushed. It’s one of the craziest moments in the game!
Oh THAT’S why Ensha attacks? I kept wondering what triggers it or if it was just random.
What an age to be living in getting video game stories like these holy ****
I remember when I realized Gideon has covered in ears. **shudder** gave new meaning to "all hearing"
Even if gideon got the medallion in that village niall would clap his ass on castle sol anyway 😂
I did not know that the guy Ensha attacks you because you get the medallion, and only does after you get it. That is so freaking cool. I'm way too stupid to figure this story out myself but watching these videos is mind blowingly awesome sometimes
I’m confused which medallion is it?
@@joshuaconnall4237 Either half of the Haligtree medallion.
@@RavenclawDaisy95 ty
he paused like he was waiting for an answer
I was so confused when I was attacked when I returned to the roundtable hold. Thank you for this explanation, it makes more sense now.
All my homies hate Gideon.
I mean we the players have killed alot more albos then he has
Nope personally loved his character before and after he tried to kill me
Quite the opposite
I like how his adopted daughter (Nepheli) wanted to try fixing the wrongs and wanted to kill the Omen killer who was working for him.
Gideon didn't have Ensha attack us, he did it of his own volition. Ensha is known as the "Soulless Lord" based on his armor. Castle Sol houses the second half of the Haligtree Secret Medallion, and the inhabitants of the castle are trying to bring about an Eclipse to return the soul of Commander Niall's long lost master, which evidence seems to point to being Ensha.
Ensha attacks us because he is already in possession of the other half. Ensha and the Mausoleum Knights may hold the secrets to a huge part of the secret story to the game.
It is my belief that being soulless is a major aspect to this universe. After all, a bodyless soul and a soulless body coming together would create a whole being... a "Single God."
That’s cool and all but ensha is really really weak. And commander naill is pretty darn strong. So ensha being a master doesn’t make much sense gameplay wise
@@ballsbruh1565 I don't think his difficulty omits possible lore implications. The Albinauric Village is fairly early game, so you're not going to have to go up against an insanely hard enemy. It's meant to be a small thing that you write off until you make the connection towards the end of the game when you finally get the other half of the medallion.
The lack of the Eclipse could also explain why he isn't powerful at all. His motivations for wanting the Haligtree Medallion could be to capture Miquella and take him as Empyrean to Ensha's Lordship. There's even a spirit who laments about the Eclipse not returning a soul to Miquella's "comrade," rather than referring to Ensha though it may refer to Godwyn or maybe even the player character Tarnished. Travelling to the Helphen (spirit world) and seeing Miquella as St. Trina may require us to regain a soul if we don't have one, something like that will probably be explored in the expansion.
@@ballsbruh1565gameplay doesn't really matter to lore tbh, I mean radahn was a way tougher fight than morgott despite morgott being shown defeating radahn in the opening
@@zaloon148 Radahn was harder than Morgott? Zamn Im bad at fighting Morgott
@@zaloon148 radahn is the strongest demigod what do you mean that morgot defeated him???
man really sent sans when tarnished over here wielding a rivers of blood
i get even more catharsis out of that clip of a half-naked tarnished t-posing over gideon's smouldering corpse as it burns away into the flames of frenzy
You can't imagine how happy I was when I entered Gideon's boss fight and could finally destroy him as he deserved.
The lore is crazy in this game. I barely understand it but its very cool
I always feel like a fool for not realising all this myself. Because when i played all this it was disjointed and each moment occured many hours of gameplay apart... over weeks. So cool though. Very nuanced moments that i guess you lose sight of in your first playthrough.
as much as i like gideon i dont think i ever let him finish his dialogue when you go to fight him
Lol I thought you were attacked by Ensha after starting Ranni's quest
lol nope you wrong
you don't start Ranni's quest until after defeating the Lauretta phantom boss thing, what you've said does not check out.
@@unfortunately_fortunate2000 how ?
@@wasabi1363 because it is entirely incorrect? because you don't know what you're talking about? because you don't have access to Ranni nor her quest until after Lauretta, meaning to get to Ranni you have to pass the village? because the trigger for Ensha's invasion is getting half of the medalion from the Albinauric elder and has nothing to do with Ranni?
@@wasabi1363 tf do you mean "how ?"
I've never played a Souls game, but the sheer mass and depth of the lore really fascinates me. I'd love to let my brain go on a deep-dive infobinge at some point
gideon was an opp the whole time
my level 308 character just hanging around
Dude I was wondering why I was being attacked at the table. I was like "bro I tried to talk to you and be friends! Wtf Ensha?"
I think Ensha did it on their own accord. This is because Gideon talks about it being "too soon" for Ensha to have attacked the tarnished
Ensha do the same pose and has the same attitude of Lucatiel, from Dark Souls 2
I love Gideons music Lie Again is my favorite
Gideon also changes his spells based on bosses you kill before fighting him, he was always watching you
The girl will also tell you that she can’t believe Gideon would do this, I don’t actually know what triggers the dialogue change but I’ve heard it twice from her.
this game is so fucking good. i loved it all and i had no idea wtf was going on but it just keeps getting better after u learn the lore
33:20 It's like fighting The One Reborn 😂😂😂😂
All my hate towards gideon left when i enterd the evergoal with those aulbinaric archers
Gideon after you kill Ensha: "I was gonna have him do that, but just not yet."
I remember when Ensha first invaded. Never knew why, all I knew is that the Rountable was looking alot like the Abandonded Firelink Shrine and thinking, "Ah shit"
Ensha trying to kill me
Me: whos this lost sassy child?
That is great theory he seems like the type of person to do that
Actually its Ensha who commands the massacre in the village. He is the "all hearing" being literally the ears of Sir Gideon. There is a finger reader maiden near Raya Lucaria thats also talks about a "all hearing". It doesn't make sense that both the finger maiden and Latenna would call him by the wrong name.
Gideon is known as the All-Hearing, because that's all he does, is hear things. "The All-Knowing" is a self-proclaimed moniker because he's an arrogant idiot who got Marika's most basic desire wrong. All-Hearing is a jab at Gideon, it's why he was entombed in ears.
No. It’s made very clear that it was Gideon.
@@quailfeather No he is know as the "All-knowing". There is not a single item or NPC that calls him "All hearing". We can loot from Rykard's arena the Eye Surcoat used by Recusant Henricus. It says it represents the "eyes and ears" of SIr Gideon. All his spies are his "ears" and "eyes".
@@dynamicflashy literally nothing is clear in any fs game
Gideon's armor literally has ears all over
Oh that's why I got attacked by the silent one
Thanks for the information
WAIT wait wait! That's why Ensha actually attacks you!!!!!!!!!!! holy molly! I knew that he was the one who massacred the village but never figured it out that you having the medallion is what triggers Ensha to attack you.
I didnt even know about Ensha coming to kill you because after i got that half i went right to the lift. You learn something new everyday!
Wooow. After two years I finally figure out why Ensha attacked. I actually believed Gideon when he said he tried to claim the treasure himself 😂
Gideon: “Ah, I knew you’d come... To face the El-wait, why are there yellow flames coming out of your eyes...? 🤨”
Me: *Smiling in 2-handed Frenzyflame Seal and Inescapable Frenzy.*
And then he has the gall to say to your face that Ensha "got ahead of himself". Bro doesn't even actually deny he was trying to kill you.
To most people (me included) it went right over heads but it’s incredibly obvious if you take even a second to think about it
Ohhhhhhh now I understand. But why does Gideon want the medallion? Just to get more knowledge?
To burn Haligtree down, as it is the place where the creatures rejected by the golden order go.
@@vineethsai1575I don’t know if that’s the case with the tree or his motive, he heard one half baked line of thought from each half of their god and thought “yes I must have heard correct, our god must want things exactly as they are.” Without thinking “yea maybe I got something wrong or don’t understand something.
@@vineethsai1575 no, he want to located miquella and malenia, so he whant to inspect elphael
@@vineethsai1575 *Malenia, healer haligtreee knights, misbegotten warriors, avatars and loretta enters the chat*
actually, it's implied that the brute was Ensha, not Gideon, then Gideon, after getting the info from Ensha, sent forces to the Albinauric village to find the medallion half.
Gideon after you kill Ensha: Nah bro, I have no idea why he attacked you before the sig... I mean idk why he attacked you
Is there a lore explanation specifically for Elden Ring, as to why when you kill any regular mob they always respawn after resting on a Grace? know there is probably a different reason for the lore of each Souls game, but specifically in elden ring, it doesn't feel like it is ever explained. The whole thing about "returning to the erdtree" doesnt seem valid, because both the entities that are cursed and aren't cursed respawn (example: the omens and the leyndell knights, respectively). Only bosses seem to go through "erdtree burial" or whatever it's called since they don't respawn and you could claim they were absorbed by the tree.
What made you think a tree burial was a good thing let alone a pleasant thing? They have monks who practice live mummification and living burials as incredible honors, circumcision is considered normal and right too culturally. If you came in blind and ignorant and saw folk doing these things to both willing and unwilling don’t you think you’d oppose all that barbarism? I would. Graceless tarnished like bosses don’t die but they also don’t comeback like a tarnished with grace, go look at “the lord of beasts” and see what happens when you come up short now apply that to the folk who are glorified check boxes to the greater will and outer gods that at best don’t care or are actively making life torment for the stepping stone?
Rune of death removed infinite respawns which is why the capital will turn to ash when you defeat Maliketh and not when you just burn down the Erdtree (hence all the inhabitants are dead)
After is just gameplay reasons really 🤷
And also why Morgott will disappear only after destined death is unleashed again
Well to put it simply "death" doesn't exist in the Lands Between. Mariak removed the rune of death from the Elden Ring so everything under the Tree can't truly be killed unless they are returned to it via "Erdtree burial". However that and the rules of death changed when a fragment from the rune of death was stolen. My guess is after the fragment was stolen and used in the Night Of Black Knives that it somehow made all Demigods and certain individuals lost their immortality and could be killed. But lesser beings like our character and mobs are still immortal and can't be truly killed. Hence why they respawn at the grace when you rest or die. At least that's been my understanding
As others have said, because the rune of death was removed from the elden ring by marika in order to grant her "eternal" moniker and continue her reign.
@@JamesMadisonsSpiritAnimal makes sense except that in the game you're also a tarnished and you have infinite lives just like the mobs that respawn every time you sit at the grace
The all hearing person was, ensha, he invades you after you pick up the medallion from albus and he also works for gideon.
While it is correct that the all hearing in the end of the day is gideon, but all hearing is the title given to ensha
So that's why I got randomly attacked-
In his defense, Gideon was right about the Albinauric woman knowing the location of the other half of the medallion
No wonder Nepheli doesn't like that place
I never picked up on the fact that Ensha ambushes you after you get half of the medallion. I assumed it was timed or after you reached a certain level.
I had a feeling it was Gideon who sent Ensha after us.
Bro came straight from the far away land of Mordor
He pretty much admits it when you ask lol
So that’s why Ensha attacked me
I thought I messed some shit when I saw an invader at the roundtable and no ones there
I like her dialogue about seeking justice at that village. Would have liked more closure with Gideon and she. Surely he knows he should be hated
This makes so much sense. I need to keep slapping Gideon harder now each playthrough
I always was so confused as to why Ensha would attack. I thought just like hitting a certain progression trigger would cause it to had no idea it was tied to the medallion.
I honestly didnt know that was a different person, this game has so much stuff im still finding out about the lore and i bought it when it dropped lmao. (granted i played it for a while and took a break)
All this time I never knew what triggered Ensha to attack
*me who got the half medalion and frenzied flame after i burned the erdtree*: no dialouge?
So that why he attack me out of nowhere.... Poor guy dint stand a chance.
I honestly don’t remember if I even picked it up before returning to the Roundtable Hold. Ensha just attacked
I love how after you kill Ofnir, he literally disproves his own life goal: "a Tarnished, CANNOT become Elden Lord"
He's a sore loser.
My theory is that hes just trying to reach malenia about her extended car warranty
If Gideon has no haters it means I’m dead
It should be noted that the dialogue of the finger reader in academy town also pretty much states that slaughtering the village was by Gideon's command.