Hot take but Radahn was the true winner of their battle. Edit (3/19): Just to clarify in the video since I think a lot of people got confused since I failed to have explained it well enough, when Malenia bloomed the Scarlet Aeonia against us, this was the Second Time she bloomed, she wasn't a true goddess yet, she was approaching Godhood. She needed to bloom one more time. In the ending part as well, if you betray Milicent, she blooms into the flower, and drops an item that says that this is her "true" form and that she will bloom into a Scarlet Valkyrie after some time. This might also happen with Malenia and might be her 3rd bloom. (theory) I hope that clarifies it better, I'll be sure to better clarify these vague stuff in future videos. Also, apologies for the slight popping in the audio, I couldn't figure out what was causing it even after re-recording. Will do better next video.
@@ryo9630 I think it's trauma from fighting her that makes everyone hate her. I like her character personally and don't really get the crazy distain some people show for her.
That lore alone convinced me to make that ash the one I upgrade to +10 lol just think of how far they had to travel, while enemies were attacking from all sides, while carrying a goddess on your back. Damn.
People would say “malenia won” or Radahn won” but I dont think anybody won, like Ranni says. Like really, both armies failed to claim victory, and nothing came of their battle except the strongest of both armies basically getting fucked from it. There was nothing achieved from all that fighting except despair and death. Rather than a winner everyone loses
@@Silver4Hire2 That seem more like a duel and you can duel without problem in a war leader vs leader so i don't see the problem but doesn't matter And yes on this modern days a duel seems like the dumbest idea to do in a war it's understandable
I don't think we really know who was the better swordsman between Malenia and Radahn because didn't it say Malenia just up and went with the nuclear option? I guess I could say that I win too if I dropped a tactical nuke on my army and my enemy's army, barely survived, and was carried to safety by one of my surviving soldiers.
The moment you die to anyone in Elden ring you been defeated Malenia is just better than anyone. Imagine if being killed once in Elden ring made you recreate a character hahaha...
@Vaunnie No one is downplaying anything. Malenia is the hardest boss in the game, WAYYYYYYYYYYY harder than Radahn imo. Fuck the lore and who is debatably stronger, Malenia made everyone know that she is the blade of Miquella for damn sure.
The fact that none of the strongest beings we've fought in Elden Ring were at their true potential when we faced them, makes me wonder what future expansions and games could possibly have for us. As unlikely as it is to happen, the thought of clashing with a sane Radahn or a fully manifested rot goddess Malenia, sends shivers down my spine.
It's kinda fromsofts forte that every god boss monster you fight is sort of just an empty husk of what they once were with you just ending their misery.
Mohg is pretty much at full strength and I think Rykard can only get exponentially more powerful. We just cut down Mohg because the alternative isn’t thinkable and Rykard was relatively early in his development of becoming the covetous demon 2.
We fought the elden beast and beat it and that’s stronger than radahn and malenia in their prime so our character at this point ain’t worried about anyone
It's really just perfect that the words "The Tarnished will not be overturned-" is followed immediately by a death montage. Really just perfectly arranged.
6:53 I think it’s the second time the flower blooms. The first time was probably a childhood incident, in which Malenia lost her arm. You can find that flower in the room next to Malenia’s boss room at the root of the haligtree. The scarlet aeonia item description says whenever this flower blooms, Malenia’s rot advances, and when it blooms the third time, she will become a true goddess. The third time would be her fighting the player. That explains why her title in the second phase is “Malenia, Goddess of Rot”.
that's an interesting thought. It always seemed strange that she knew how to unleash the rot against Radahn when she never did it before. I assumed that was the first time and the room was the second time but your way makes more sense
2:08 It feels like GRRM wrote Malenia's master, he reminds me of Syrio Forel with their fighting styles evocative of flowing water, and both of them teaching girls to fight.
Maybe the Entity of Scarlet Rot is doing the same as the Elden Beast and The Greater Will. Searching for a host who in this case can bloom a couple of times to inherite the power of this Outer God just like Marika and the Elden Ring.
Thats definitely it, most if not all the demi gods are being somewhat fought for by an outer god. Malenia - rot god Moghwyn - formless mother Ranni - moon (but this is more Ranni’s choice) Miquella - Eclipse(?) unsure about this one Morgott - greater will (his choice) Rhykard - serpent (his choice) Seems like a free for all of outer gods trying to get champions.
This is super interesting because this is basically what the Great Ones in bloodborne were doing. They were all great ones, but had different agendas. The most obvious being the moon presence, imprisoning gehrman to lead the hunters to kill the baby of the great one Oedon. And then Nokron the eternal city itself just looks like a chalice dungeon from BB. Definately one of the best areas of the game
Her being an empyrean is a factor as well i think, it makes sense all the outer gods trying to get influence in the lands between and go against The Greater will. Both the greater will and elden beast n erdtree it self is not native to the lands between, they replaced whatever order or gods that was there and prob why they goes to war left and right with their neighbour.
Miquella creating a whole new material to marginally combat scarlet rot and I'm just over here with some fire giant spell that completely cures it in 4 seconds for 8FP.
@@zacharyhawley1693 right. it's one thing to catch the rot from breathing in spores, and another to have an outerdimensional rot god intertwined with the very fibers of your soul and being.
Two important details to add: 1) When Radahn seized the Stars he sealed the fate of many people, principally Caria, Ranni and Miquella. While less emphasized in lore compared to the former two Miquella’s Haligtree is described as needing an Eclipse to grow which at least occurred before The Shattering until it grew to the size of a tree. Any further growth became impossible due to Radahn and thus forced Malenia and her Cleanrot Knights to clash in Caelid if Miquella’s plan was to succeed 2) Mohg seemingly kidnapped Miquella sometime between Malenia going off to fight Radahn and getting carried back to Elphael by Finlay. Since she was in a coma this whole time she has no knowledge of Mohg’s plot nor his intention to raise Miquella to “true godhood”
but she said "as i awaited his return" implying she know that miquella has been stolen, did she know that he was stolen by mohg, idk, up for debate i think
@@farianandadiratama it never implies that she knew he’d been kidnapped lmao. “As i await his return” could mean shes waiting for him to come out the tree. Even if she did know he was gone she wouldnt have known he was kidnapped
Maybe when an empyrean is born, their very being is linked to an outer god, that's why the two fingers beings get assigned to an empyrean, so they can hinder that link to outer gods other than the Greater Will, that's why Ranni makes sure to kill her assigned two fingers and get rid of her body, so that she can get create a new order without all who came before. Miquella doesn't seem to have an assigned two fingers, Mohg took him and the formless mother is influencing the world through him with Mohg's help, maybe that's why he never grows, an "eternal son to a formless mother", that's the curse of a forceful link from an outer god, similarly Melania got linked to the outer god of rot, with her despair leaving her weak to that elder god's influence, blooming her, rebirthing her into something else, like Millicent mentioned.
That could explain the dead two fingers copies at the top of each Divine Tower, which I wondered about. It explains why the Roundtable Two Fingers instruct us to kill all the demigods, because they all shook off their handlers.
Mmm I don't think so. They are called empyreans because the two fingers consider them perfect beings. I see no reason the two fingers would consider them perfect or even allow them to live if they were linked to an outer God automatically as that would threaten the golden order and the greater will. No I don't don't it's automatic at all, I think the other outer gods considered them prime targets and began to use them like a parasite trying to force their way into the world to project their order and law of the world, atleast with Malenia it is not by choice. Ranni and Ryykard seem to have chosen other outer gods by their own will.
so dear commander, you and your army were undefeated so I grant you the titl-...oh unfortunately one of your foot soldiers died making you not undefeated its really up to definition if Malenia can call herself undefeated after fighting Radahn to a standstill. does fighting in a battle and not winning mean losing or does your opponent not winning mean that you won?
"I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella. And I have never known defeat." After watching her nuke Caelid with Scarlet Rot & my experience fighting her, the above quote felt even sharper than her sword.
@@ajbolt7 Yeah, she didn't run. Her soldier carried her unconscious body away. Mighty convenient and she never came back. Meanwhile, my boy Radahn stayed running the field and invited everyone to challenge him.
@@raygonzales197 Radahn was down for the count dude. You think her Knight could grab her off the back of Radahn while he’s conscious?? Regardless she never came back because there was no reason to after Miquella was stolen, and she remained asleep.
The tarnished is more than a match for Melania. *shows footage of tarnished getting wrecked* That was a nice touch 😆. Took me three sessions to take her down 💀
I love that, even with her being naked in her Scarlet Aeonian form, they chose to give her a realistic body type for an athlete/warrior. Malenia's second phase reminds me of classical art in the way it uses both her form and the blooming butterflies to represent beauty, rather than it focusing solely on her nudity. The latter half of her fight is a marvel of artistic game design.
It’s so amazing how they did it. Video games don’t exactly have the best reputation when it comes to how it deals with women (for good reason), but they managed to actually make it tasteful. Reminded me of “The birth of Venus”, with a good dose of my nightmares. I’ve never had the experience where I’ve been in awe because of just how artistically beautiful something is, while also shitting my pants in terror because of it.
Yeah im sick and tired of companies thinking women who are atheletic realisticly dont have curves! Thank god fromsoft gave her hips non the less. All atheletic women arent just formless humans barely identified as women from the face.... *COUGH COUGH* Abby *COUGH COUGH*
@@bacon2274 i mean... they dont do men well neither. Not all men look like Hollywood actors with Muscels like Marvels Thor. That too is just as unrealistic as female characters like Black widow, Wonder woman, etc. yet no one seems to mind that for some reason just saying stuff like: 'ItS a MaLe PoWeR FaNtAsY!' Notice how tall most men are in video games aswell! Only around 15% of worlds men are over 6 feet. Now just add having a perfect face complexion and being very muscular and not overweight. And your looking at a less than 1% of men. Even if you dont see those as unrealistic even if it definetly is. You have to admid atleast that characters like: Jojo characters Hulk Zangief Geras Goro Etc Are unrealistic. Could i just ask why are unrealistic women not okay but unrealistic men are?
Really well done summary of Malenia! Nice work! That bit at the end is very striking, and makes me remember a part of her lore that mentions "If she blooms the third time, she'll ascend as a goddess". The scarlet flower she leaves after her defeat could be the third blooming, and she may only lay dormant in the center of it. Too bad we won't ever see what comes of it except if a sequel happens. But anyways, nice work!
Plus if you betray milicent and she blooms jer father (or the item you get from her) will tell you that she will be reborn as a rot valkyrie. So the same could aply to malenia, now that she "died" her transformation into a true goddess starts. Can you imagine if we have to stop her with miquella in the dlc? Like he finishes the needle that will allow us to stop her (since the needle as of yet is unfinished)
@@theoneandonly9775 True. I'm 100% sure they gonna get a lot of attention. Malenia and miquella are my favourite characters. I'm really interested what they'll do with them. DLC would be amazing!!
i always like the sort of contrast that comes from melania and the player character. She is undefeated and will give up even her pride and body to stay that way, whereas the tarnished of no renown is possibly the most defeated being there is. Ultimately one has to accept that defeat is an ultimate part in the cycle of life and by the end of the fight it feels like an epic moment of humbling as you show her the power of losing.
"The sheer, unimaginable skill of the tarnished destined to become Elden Lord." *shows footage of tarnished getting one shotted by Melania over and over
I love how in the segment where he talks about how the Tarnished just wiped the floor with her while showing the Tarnished dying over and over. Great gag
Radahn fought her while holding the stars back and constantly using gravity magic to ride his horse, he also didn't nuke an entire region to win, he has the moral victory
@@raziel6304 “the moral victory” as he’s reduced himself to what is essentially elder rings version of a hollow thanks to tanking the scarlet rot point blank. I’m sorry, but I think I’m going with Isshin Ashina’s philosophy “victory by any means”
@@enthusiastofcute Doesn't mean he didn't kick her ass to the point that she lost control, gave aids to everyone and would've died if it wasn't for one of her knights carrying her unconscious body away afterwards.
@@raziel6304 Don't you forget that Malenia also fought while bearing the Scarlet rot within herself too. That would make both of them to be pretty equal on the burdens I would say.
Another cool aspect of this game that the other games other than maybe sekiro is the game acknowledges that you are a super bad ass warrior at a practically unstoppable March towards the end of the game. Sure in souls and bloodborne you get to that level of badassery but you don't have npcs saying you're scary or stating that your strong or even the bosses acknowledging your progress. Just a cool detail that helps convey that your character too is a legendary fighter able to stand toe-to-toe with the other greats.
In DS1 you would probably become some renowned figure, if there was enough people left in a Lordran who are sane enough to to care. Same deal with DS2 and DS3 to some extent, but atleast you’re acknowledged somewhat like Friede recognizing you as the Lord of Hollows if you do that ending
I wonder if the rot sickness appearance in the Lands Between was a consequence of removing the Death Rune from the Elden Ring, so it can spread endlessly, corrupting everything and everyone.. Also, might this sealed outer god be the same as the Fire Giant followed? Looks like Radagon got a curse from him, if you read Giant's Red Braid item description... "Radagon was said to have despised his own red locks. Perhaps that was a curse of their kind.". This curse might come to pass to his offspring. IDK
The fire giants’ god is a different god, and radagon hair was a curse from the fire giants, but I’m not convinced it is as the relevant item descriptions just says it was viewed as a curse. I think it’s more the association of fire giants and red hair and bearing any likeness to them was seen as a curse by radagon.
When Melania wakes up when we get to her is she literlaly waking up form her battle with Radahn? Did she go from one godly fight right to the next (in her view)? Pretty crazy from her pov lol.
The fact General Radahn was still holding the stars back even while in a state of madness speaks volumes. Malenia is cold but the prosthetics didn't hinder her for those saying it did. Her holding the Scarlett rot at bay is a feat in it self though but In the end she went all out and Radahn didn't he continued to hold back the stars even after being infected with rot to me clearly Radahn won or would've won.
It is stated that Radahn is the mightiest Demigod. Perhaps not the most powerful, but to be called the mightiest means he is likely the best among all of them when it comes to combat. Who knows what would happen if he let the stars loose. I'd argue he would have defeated her.
For the prosthesis, it's actually an improvement most of the time. Millicent specifically says that the Valkyrie's Prothesis just feels like her arm whereas Commander Niall's prothesis makes him OP.
you’re literally forgetting that Malenia fought him fully blind, regardless of him holding the stars back, she fought him to a stalemate whilst enduring and holding back the rot as well as being blind. look at the after effects of the fight, Malenia’s state vs Radahns state, he is worse off, therefore she is correct in saying she’s never known defeat, it is clear as day that she took the W in that fight even if they don’t want to confirm it, when you’re fighting in a battle/war you fight to die, you fight with everything you’ve got.
@@helloitsme6827 Don't get me wrong, I'm a Malenia Stan she is super fucking badass. But also remember that she was unconscious after that battle for the rest of the shattering all the way until you walked into her boss room. Neither were doing good. They are undoubtedly the most powerful demigods(maybe Rykard I have no idea where he falls). To call that battle anything but a stalemate would be incorrect. You're right, Malenia had her deficits which only makes her more cool. It's hard to say what happens on what ifs, but Radahn is praised as the mightiest for a reason. Even if Malenia is the coolest.
@@helloitsme6827 im just saying she couldn't beat him so she went to using the Scarlett rot she didn't kill even after using full power while he never went all in. Just so I didn't remember incorrectly the video stated their was no winner that day. You can say she ended up better off and call that a w because thats fair to say. Im just saying full power radhahn would've literally killed her were talking hyped up poisoning vs the power if gravity he could've easily broke every bone her body especially if he can hold back stars. To me she went all out not him so i view Radahn as more powerful regardless of who anyone declares winner. I see what you saying though
Very nice video! One question, do you know what the scarlet bloom left from the grace in the Haligtree roots is? That's seems like the second blooming of Malenia maybe? I think it is said that at her third bloom, Malenia would become a true god.
@@timurfattahov2759 Not really. It would be weird for her to bloom again without any reason, mention or explanation in game. A lot of people believe it's the one from caelid. She also has an unused dialog where she mentions the third blooming will happen at some point. Her ability description also basically says that she hasn't bloomed 3 times yet but it's destined to happen.
@@eldensouls9847 Yeah, it could be another false sister or something similar to how Millicent bloomed. However, given "Remembrance of Rot Goddess" my interpretation is that she became the goddess to attempt to defeat you. A lot of the other remembrance descriptions refer to past events up way before you meet them - not necessarily their state during or after their defeat. A counterpoint could be when looking at the word "true goddess" in the Aeonia incantation description - "With the third bloom, she will become a true goddess." Perhaps her 2nd phase wasn't the true goddess but a fake or temporary goddess, but FS usually would write things like "False King Demon Soul"
@@timurfattahov2759 I mean the ability you can get for defeating her also basically says that the third bloom has not happened yet. She also has unused dialogues where she says one more is left to happen at some point
@@timurfattahov2759 if you betray milicent her item drop says that now she will transform/be reborn as a rot valkyrie abd she is in the same flower as malenia So maxbe after her "death" the true transformation starts
Malenia and Radahn are so incredible : -both training (one to gain strength and master gravity magic while the other training so she would never bow before the scarlet rot within her, studying the blade and refusing to use her power) -both two of the most admired demigods (The cleanrot knights following Malenia even if it means succumb to the rot while Radahn's knights organising the Radahn's festival, determined to give Radahn a death fitting his warrior self) -Both bullying Godrick I do like to imagine children arguing about wich one of these two they would serve (Radahn maybe suffering from his scarry and threatening appearence and Malenia forced to curse her companions) Radagon's genes are truly something...
So, I was looking to see what text pops up when you defeat Malenia to settle the debate whether she is a goddes or not and whether she's bloomed a 3rd time. One of the most interesting thing FromSoft does when you defeat a boss is change the text depending on the power of that boss. When you defeat most bosses you get something along the lines of Legend Felled, Foe Vanquished or the like. When you defeat the Elden Beast, you get God Slain, but looking back defeating a Rune Bearer bares no text at all.... I think this is something done purposely and has some meaning.
Im pritty shure we cant kill them without the rune of death, and have been wondering how we did it all the time, as you aparently need that so they dont reincarnate
@@theonesithtorulethemall I think you're on to something! Unless the Ae of Duskborn is the cannonical ending, it's very possible that none of the Rune Bearers are dead. This can leave a lot of open possibilities with DLC and what not!
@@Tenouraku additionally a lot of them keep talking after their body fades, Margit and Malenia for several seconds. We “kill” Margit but he just comes right back as Morgott in Leyndell, where we actually see a corpse. Rykard leaves remains as well. But Godrick, Radahn, Malenia, not so much. Maybe there’s something to this?
@@connorryan2715 You can see Godrick's dead body getting stomped by Gatekeeper Gostoc after his boss fight though. General Radahn's corpse is literally being consumed by Alexander, the POTBOI in order to exponentially increase his own power in order to challenge you. Malenia's Aeonia flower blooms in the arena after you defeat her.
Considering the scarlet rot is a cycle, what if when the tarnished returns after a very long time to the Haligtree Roots, Malenia was reborn into a true goddess of rot and youd have to face her again?
It seems kind of vague in the game, but by the lore I'm not sure killing a demi-god without using the rune of death is even possible. Although Radahn got pretty messed up without it being used.
@@cseijifja She only bloomed twice so far and the third one is destined to happen at some point. She also has some unused dialogues that also suggest that she's far from done
@@AlphaOmegon in power, debatable. But in lore, I believe the twins legacy easily topples the generals lore. Radahns story of being a badass is cool and all, but their story is much more tragic and can have more implications in the future.
@@Umiedo Malenia seems to definitely tops Radahn's lore by a huge margin. Radahn's lore is dependent on his loss in his own Final Battle against Malenia and the aftermath of his final moments before getting inflicted by a Scarlet Rot plague on a point-blank range in Caelid Wilds.
@@malachi1477 What makes you think that? Her second phase is def stronger, but her first phase is on par with Radahm while he's holding back the stars.
@@chilly456 kinda makes me wonder how mental the battle would have gone if Radahn also threw away his pride and decided to unleash the stars and meteors onto Maleina while she’s doing all her scarlet rot shangigens…The lands between would be completely obliterated most likely
Man I love your content so much. Such high quality!! Please keep it up. We need a video for all the main characters, and of the nice npc that we encounter. Maybe a video on the races of the lands between? Particularly on the Albinaurics? Or the Numen? Ps.: I laughed so hard on the “very skilled tarnished who would be more than a match for Malenia” lmao
I think that, same as Millicent's father knew it should be us to kill her in order to turn in that amber aeonia, malenia knew if radahn to kill her, she would immediately turn into amber. I believe that after amber form she's guaranteed to become a rot goddess, which she didn't want to. That's why she chose to deal with radahn in manner she did. And if she blooms herself, she has two more times before it happens. So now, after malenia awakens, she's full fledged goddess. Millicent awakens with her, and, as her "daughter", being born from single god, she's empirion now. So rot worshippers establish rot supremacy - they have their own goddess and they also replace marika with scarlet valkery. That's what i believe plan was
As a boss I didn't love her or hate her, she was cool but there were cooler foes. My favourites were Rykard, the Black Knives and Godskin Apostole. But in terms of lore and meta I think she's brilliant. They pulled a bait and switch and told a great story with Malenia, without spelling out anything. This is the character they used for the marketing campaign, like the poster girl, she was everywhere. In the opening cutscene she's showed standing valiantly against a King Kong sized opponent; in the first area of the game, we learn she destroyed Godrick, the first big opponent for us. She's hailed as undefeated, unrelenting. But then we get to Caelid and the roles for her and Radahn are switched. The opponent she was standing against in the cutscene was a General defending his own land, someone who was fighting while literally holding the stars back with his magic. Malenia was the aggressor. In the fight he disarmes her but waits for her to get back up and fight face to face. What does she do? She uses a dirt bomb and completely ruins Caelid, destroying countless lives and ending the land forever. But Radahn still doesn't die, he keeps holding back the stars. So much for the Blade of Miquella being undefeated. What does Malenia do? She stays in her fortress, doesn't do anything to search for Miquella. She just lays there waiting. And then when the player meets her, something that rarely happens in these games transpires: the player character fights a legendary figure at the peak of their power and wins. Think back to Artorias, Gerhman, Midir, Gwyn, Sihn, Ludwig, Radahn himself, Lorian, Isshin, Owl. All either gone mad, heavily injured, past their prime or all three. Not Malenia: she literally becomes a God during the fight......and the Tarnished still prevails. I don't believe that's random at all. What I think they were going for with Malenia is , don't judge a book by its cover. She LOOKS like an unbeatable hero who overcame impossibile odds, but she was actually an invader and someone who failed with no excuses twice: first against Radahn, and then against the Tarnished, even after literally becoming the Goddess of her element. Her "curse" was actually her weapon, and the only reason she survived in Caelid.
She was helding the outer god within herself, rotting her from the inside. It was not a "dirt bomb", not a power, but a curse that was handicapping her just like Radahn and the stars, so they were in similar conditions. The reason she unleashed the rot over Caelid and lost her pride, was to win the fight, no matter what, in order to return to the Halightree and watch over Miquella (who was inside it when she left, trying to bloom powerful enough to sever the influence of the outer gods in the Lands Between, free his sister from the rot, and probably the world from the Great Will, which we know is an alien entity). It's stated that third time Malenia blooms, she will rise as a "true goddes", but I don't think she would have control over her divinity, that's why Millicent let herself die to the rot, as she knew her autonomy will be lost in the blooming. Just like Marika, the Greater Will and everything that let to the shattering. Back to Malenia, she made what she thought it was a necesary sacrifice for Miquella's empress, as she's his blade. Little did she know that in the meantime her brother was being kidnapped and violated by a pedophile maniac. The tragedy is inside the futility of it all, so I don't believe she's cheap or evil, she's just not as heroic as Radahn, but that's because of the dilemma she was set up into
Why do people create theory that Radahn was simply interested in defending his homeland? It is clearly stated that all demigods wanted to get a fair share of the great runes, which cause them to engage in civil war. This imply that Radahn, too, isn't a pacifist. Keep in mind that Godrick disguised himself as a female because he didn't want to get spotted by Radahn, which implies that Radahn can be quite aggressive.
I think the Scarlet Rot was brought out from Malenia, if it was around before her then Dragonlord Placudisax would have been immune to the Rot, but he’s extremely susceptible to it, unlike the Elden Beast who is immune to it
The grand cloyster has the lake of rot though and since the formless mother has power in the eternal city the same should be true for the rot outer god.
its explicitly stated in several items that the lake of rot is the result of an outer god, and the whole area has nothing to do with melania. Also the elden beast is immune to everything not just rot
I don't think she knew exactly where he is honestly, her dialogue under the haligtree said she's still waiting for him to come back. Mohg also take miquella while she was fighting radahn no? malenia doesn't even know he was kidnapped at the time
@@balthasargelt447 I posted this comment before fighting malenia so I didnt know that she specifically said she was waiting for him implying she had no idea mohg had him
@@Wolf-bz6kq she knows. It was described that the knowledge her brother was gone was possibly worse poison than the Rot itself. She just had no clue Where Mogh had taken him. Word was sent to her on campaign. She stopped in Lyndell and kicked the shit out of Godrick before Radhan. From what we can tell she was told around then and had the knowledge prior to her fight with Radhan. She is waiting for him out of desperation. It is tragic.
Hold the phone, so you are saying that since scarlet rot is a cycle of decay and rebirth, Malenia is gonna bloom again into a stronger boss? No way man, im not fighting Malenia with 2 swords
@@draw2death421 Rykard works differently though. He needs to be consumed by something/someone before he can return, which is why we kill Tanith to prevent his return. Also don't ask how his head is there, I guess we just missed or something idk.
"The sheer, unimaginable skill of the tarnished destined to become Elden Lord." ; Cuts to a montage of me rolling off of cliffs, getting eaten alive by rats, forgetting my bow is equipped while trying to swing my sword, all while screaming "jesus h christ I am so fucking scared right now".
Millicent blooms if you betray her. Malenia blooms as well when you defeat her. There is another scarlet Aeonia near the Site of Grace before Malenia's arena...would that be someone I know nothing about? Someone I missed in the lore?
Radahn in my opinion has some of the most unique lore along with melania I just wish they gave him more air time. He would've Been a amazing end game boss... especially at full strength. He was tough as is but imagine him with out the scarlet rot poisoning.. he was legit a fraction of himself
The Blue Dancer charm isn't talking about Melania. But rather the blind swordsman who trained her. He was once given his sword (Flowing Curved Sword) by a fairy and used it to seal the Rot God. Later, he trained Melania (Prosthesis Wearers Heirloom), likely because the Rot was attempting to manifest through her. Sadly, his efforts were for naught, because Melania succumbed to fear and mostly particularly pride. Choosing to embrace the Rot rather than lose a battle as a noble champion.
What do you think is the “canonical” ending of the game? I feel it’s where the tarnished gets all remembrances and completes most if not all side quests. Including getting the mark from the 3 fingers, getting the perfected needle which causes the tarnished to find the dragon lord and remove the mark and finally putting the rune of death back on the elden ring, making it whole again. And a sequel could be about the remaining gods, which I think are the scarlet rot, the god the 3 fingers follow, the serpent and whatever Fia brings back alive. Possibly whatever god the giants were also following. Because we prove at the end of the game that we have the power to defeat a god.
Oh I so hope we get an Elden Ring trilogy to fully flesh out its lore! Currently on my second playthrough to focus on all of the side quests I missed or messed up on. Can’t get enough of FromSoftware’s brilliant story telling
I think all of them can be canon tbh but I think Ranni’s is the most unique, i’d like that to be canon then maybe Miquella wakes up and finds what happened and it’d be a battle of Empyreans.
I like the theory that us defeating Malenia might be a terrible mistake on our part, basically causing her to bloom and unleash the rot within herself into the world. As Fromsoft has often made killing "Optional" bosses/characters in their games to be narratively evil/bad choices at times. So from a roleplay/story perspective, it might just be best to leave her alone. UNLESS, after defeating her and then sticking the now purified needle into the flower left behind is the way to actually cure/stop the spread of the rot in the world. Honestly, the game/lore is confusing AF at times. Like do the demi-gods actually stay dead, or will they just return to life eventually? Because they keep mentioning rebirth and explicitly state that everyone in the Lands Between can't truly die, but then nobody seems to ever actually do so in-game (from what we ever witness). So like either the lore is purposefully contradicting itself and we have to form our own personal lore/continuity, or maybe the idea is that in a future DLC (maybe post-game after we become Elden Lord) everyone is reborn and we get to do battle with certain characters again. Personally, I think that IF everyone ingame is semi-immortal and will be reborn (so long as you don't choose like Frenzied Flame, DungEater, or Death as the endings) then this whole questline with Millicent and Malenia might have been intended to like have you kill her, purify her flower/remains, and then when she is eventually reborn she'll be no longer afflicted by the Scarlet Rot. Again, I dunno. Hard to sort this all out and we gotta probably wait a few more months or a year to see any DLC or additional content updates to add more (hopefully).
The reason people don’t experience ‘death’ is because when they die their soul returns to the erdtree, they still ‘die’ as in soul leaves their physical body, but their soul remains intact due to Maliketh and Marika sealing destined death away in a sword, and then hiding the sword within Malikeths body. This is why even after we kill Margit the fell or Morgot we hear them talk to us from the heavens, despite having been killed by us. Also think of Praetor Rykkard “a serpent never dies” because due to destined death being sealed away stuff doesn’t ‘die’ the way it does in our world, everything returns to the roots of the erdtree. When we kill boses, we are technically ‘killing’ them. we separate their physical forms from their souls, the same way ranni separated her soul from her physical form too, ranni took a fragment from the rune of death (stolen from maliketh before he hides it in a sword) and made weapons with the fragment that were capable of killing Goldwyn the Golden, this was the first recorded death of a Demi god so we know that in the lore Gods and Demi gods are killable. it’s just most of these bosses are champions to the point where only the chosen tarnished is able to bring death to them
I haven't watched the video yet. I just want to say Thank you for the detailed spoiler warning at the beginning of the video. I had beaten Malenia, but hadn't completed the game. I appreciate the warning and the content, so I gave you a like and a sub. I hope your channel continues to grow and flourish.
Hold up, those statues in the cloister are also present in the mohg area, but are they part of the ancient civilization or built in worship after it's fall? What's bothersome about the apparent obviousness is the slab that they hold resembles the fingerprint shield and its.... Well, fingerprints.
You said the biggest battle of the shattering was the one fought in Caelid but I thought the biggest one was the one on mount Gelmir, or at least I remember reading it on some items.
Y’all wonder if the twins were born from pacts from other outer gods? Like the omen twins were born from a primal place and then these twins were born from rot and then an outer god we have not encountered, also defeating Rhadon would mean that he would not have control of the stars anymore potentially helping Ranni’s plan
what armor are you wearing in this video? specifically the chest piece, it looks really cool! Also amazing lore video, really cool character, i can't believe fromsoft put such a great amount of lore into such a hidden boss. what a gem.
Its a bit odd to see a Genshin channel cover Elden Ring lore and really well at that! Good on ya man! (Never played Genshin, im terrified of Gacha games)
So, we kill Malenia after she has bloomed twice. But the description says that if she had bloomed a third time, she would have become a true God. Makes me wonder what she would even look like. I mean, she gained wings after the second bloom...
Anyone can tell me who turned into a scarlet flower in a room next to the Grace before Malenia's bossfight? I only did Milicent quest halfway (giving away the unalloyed needle)
I believe that Malenia bloomed for the third time during our fight with her. There is an Aoenia Blossom next the the grace site before the boss room and it has some travelling clothes next to it. Now it is mentioned somewhere she has bloomed twice before. I'm guessing that was the site of her first blooming to become a valkyrie and the second was Radhan so this is the third time so she became a goddess. I think it was Gowry who said it or it was the rotted wing insigna that mentions the amount of blooms one needs. (So many items). And it's not one of Millicents sisters as we fight all 4 of them should we help Millicent.
You are right. That is what I concluded as well. An item in game says she needs to bloom theice to attain godhood and that she has bloomed twice prior, with the second being the blooming of the scarlet aeonia in caelid. Thats why in the game in her 2nd phase she gains the official title 'Malenia, goddess of rot'. I think in our battle she unleashes the scarlet aeonia as a nuke strategy like she did versus Radahn and it allows her to ascend.
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Hot take but Radahn was the true winner of their battle.
Edit (3/19): Just to clarify in the video since I think a lot of people got confused since I failed to have explained it well enough, when Malenia bloomed the Scarlet Aeonia against us, this was the Second Time she bloomed, she wasn't a true goddess yet, she was approaching Godhood. She needed to bloom one more time.
In the ending part as well, if you betray Milicent, she blooms into the flower, and drops an item that says that this is her "true" form and that she will bloom into a Scarlet Valkyrie after some time. This might also happen with Malenia and might be her 3rd bloom. (theory)
I hope that clarifies it better, I'll be sure to better clarify these vague stuff in future videos.
Also, apologies for the slight popping in the audio, I couldn't figure out what was causing it even after re-recording. Will do better next video.
love your video bro
I agree. She basically poisoned him in one-on-one combat. No honor in that.
It's not really a hot take since everyone pretty much worships Radahn and despises Malenia.
@@ryo9630 I think it's trauma from fighting her that makes everyone hate her. I like her character personally and don't really get the crazy distain some people show for her.
@@diegomurillo5562 Yeah, it seems most are just projecting their frustrations into Malenia
Just mentally thinking about how far the walk from Radahn’s boss arena all the way to the Haligtree actually is, Finley is a legend
finley is a hero.
That lore alone convinced me to make that ash the one I upgrade to +10 lol just think of how far they had to travel, while enemies were attacking from all sides, while carrying a goddess on your back. Damn.
@@user-ju6ro9it4b Well not really, rescued Melenia. And she is a bi*ch.
Truly the most dedicated simp of them all.
Truly the most dedicated simp of them all.
People would say “malenia won” or Radahn won” but I dont think anybody won, like Ranni says. Like really, both armies failed to claim victory, and nothing came of their battle except the strongest of both armies basically getting fucked from it. There was nothing achieved from all that fighting except despair and death. Rather than a winner everyone loses
^^^ this right here. The entire war is an example of classic george rr martin writing . That everyone inevitably loses in war.
Like the video say if we are counting the fight with honer pride etc radahn one 100% but if it's a normal fight without that then it was a draw
@@TheDarknessVL idk why anyone would count honor and pride in a war. In a duel maybe, but not in a war
@@Silver4Hire2 That seem more like a duel and you can duel without problem in a war leader vs leader so i don't see the problem but doesn't matter
And yes on this modern days a duel seems like the dumbest idea to do in a war it's understandable
I don't think we really know who was the better swordsman between Malenia and Radahn because didn't it say Malenia just up and went with the nuclear option? I guess I could say that I win too if I dropped a tactical nuke on my army and my enemy's army, barely survived, and was carried to safety by one of my surviving soldiers.
Malenia: "Im never known defeat."
Player: "Me too. I will just keep respawning."
Lol clearly you have been defeated if you have to respawn! 🤣🤣
She’s never know defeat on a technicality, since she didn’t know victory in battle against Redahn it was a draw
The moment you die to anyone in Elden ring you been defeated Malenia is just better than anyone. Imagine if being killed once in Elden ring made you recreate a character hahaha...
@@eyeseeyou9411 i would win in every boss fight just to die to a damn pack of dogs lol
Tarnished: "I have never known true death"
"While Radahn was conquering the stars, I was studying the blade"
Melania, Blade of Miquella, Scarlet Godess, Queen of Weebs.
Lol "Deciding what regions to rot and what to not what say you Samurai will you surrender?"
@@justsomewritingfan2202 Also Malenia: Mmmh, this sounded better in my head.
Shes a hard mfer.
@Vaunnie No one is downplaying anything. Malenia is the hardest boss in the game, WAYYYYYYYYYYY harder than Radahn imo. Fuck the lore and who is debatably stronger, Malenia made everyone know that she is the blade of Miquella for damn sure.
The fact that none of the strongest beings we've fought in Elden Ring were at their true potential when we faced them, makes me wonder what future expansions and games could possibly have for us. As unlikely as it is to happen, the thought of clashing with a sane Radahn or a fully manifested rot goddess Malenia, sends shivers down my spine.
It's kinda fromsofts forte that every god boss monster you fight is sort of just an empty husk of what they once were with you just ending their misery.
until you over level and flatten them.
Mohg is pretty much at full strength and I think Rykard can only get exponentially more powerful. We just cut down Mohg because the alternative isn’t thinkable and Rykard was relatively early in his development of becoming the covetous demon 2.
We fought the elden beast and beat it and that’s stronger than radahn and malenia in their prime so our character at this point ain’t worried about anyone
@@leonskennedy9463 for real though, lorewise the tarnished should be able to keep up with the both of them in their prime.
It's really just perfect that the words "The Tarnished will not be overturned-" is followed immediately by a death montage. Really just perfectly arranged.
6:53 I think it’s the second time the flower blooms. The first time was probably a childhood incident, in which Malenia lost her arm. You can find that flower in the room next to Malenia’s boss room at the root of the haligtree. The scarlet aeonia item description says whenever this flower blooms, Malenia’s rot advances, and when it blooms the third time, she will become a true goddess. The third time would be her fighting the player. That explains why her title in the second phase is “Malenia, Goddess of Rot”.
that's an interesting thought. It always seemed strange that she knew how to unleash the rot against Radahn when she never did it before. I assumed that was the first time and the room was the second time but your way makes more sense
"The sheer, unimaginable skill of the tarnished destined to become Elden Lord."
You mean the sheer, unimaginable stubbornness, right?
The sheer, unimaginable skill of my fellow mimic tear +10
the sheer unimaginable power, of the azur comet
The sheer, unimaginable skill of spamming Corpse Piler.
Or yknow, the ability to press L2 with Rivers of Blood equipped lol
The sheer, unimaginable skill of my CheatEngine table +10
2:08 It feels like GRRM wrote Malenia's master, he reminds me of Syrio Forel with their fighting styles evocative of flowing water, and both of them teaching girls to fight.
omg i thought the same thing when i fist found the weapon reminded me of him
Good to know that i wasent the only one who made the connection
Malenia fighting remind me of Griffith sword style though.
Maybe the Entity of Scarlet Rot is doing the same as the Elden Beast and The Greater Will. Searching for a host who in this case can bloom a couple of times to inherite the power of this Outer God just like Marika and the Elden Ring.
Thats definitely it, most if not all the demi gods are being somewhat fought for by an outer god.
Malenia - rot god
Moghwyn - formless mother
Ranni - moon (but this is more Ranni’s choice)
Miquella - Eclipse(?) unsure about this one
Morgott - greater will (his choice)
Rhykard - serpent (his choice)
Seems like a free for all of outer gods trying to get champions.
That is both terrifying and yet a fascinating concept but makes sence.
This is super interesting because this is basically what the Great Ones in bloodborne were doing. They were all great ones, but had different agendas. The most obvious being the moon presence, imprisoning gehrman to lead the hunters to kill the baby of the great one Oedon. And then Nokron the eternal city itself just looks like a chalice dungeon from BB. Definately one of the best areas of the game
Her being an empyrean is a factor as well i think, it makes sense all the outer gods trying to get influence in the lands between and go against The Greater will. Both the greater will and elden beast n erdtree it self is not native to the lands between, they replaced whatever order or gods that was there and prob why they goes to war left and right with their neighbour.
@@ArlunGrim And Chadan is the only one not bending to any God.
Miquella creating a whole new material to marginally combat scarlet rot and I'm just over here with some fire giant spell that completely cures it in 4 seconds for 8FP.
To be fair you don't don't have a perpetually refreshing scarlet rot bar like she does.
You can literally kill yourself and respawn its kinda broken as long as you stubborn you will always win
@@zacharyhawley1693 right. it's one thing to catch the rot from breathing in spores, and another to have an outerdimensional rot god intertwined with the very fibers of your soul and being.
Two important details to add:
1) When Radahn seized the Stars he sealed the fate of many people, principally Caria, Ranni and Miquella. While less emphasized in lore compared to the former two Miquella’s Haligtree is described as needing an Eclipse to grow which at least occurred before The Shattering until it grew to the size of a tree. Any further growth became impossible due to Radahn and thus forced Malenia and her Cleanrot Knights to clash in Caelid if Miquella’s plan was to succeed
2) Mohg seemingly kidnapped Miquella sometime between Malenia going off to fight Radahn and getting carried back to Elphael by Finlay. Since she was in a coma this whole time she has no knowledge of Mohg’s plot nor his intention to raise Miquella to “true godhood”
but she said "as i awaited his return" implying she know that miquella has been stolen, did she know that he was stolen by mohg, idk, up for debate i think
@@farianandadiratama I don’t think she knows it was mohg but she def knows he went missing.
@@farianandadiratama it never implies that she knew he’d been kidnapped lmao. “As i await his return” could mean shes waiting for him to come out the tree. Even if she did know he was gone she wouldnt have known he was kidnapped
malenia went to radahn to take his great rune
@@masteroogwaywaschilled4649 thats not true at all. This is a stupid take
Maybe when an empyrean is born, their very being is linked to an outer god, that's why the two fingers beings get assigned to an empyrean, so they can hinder that link to outer gods other than the Greater Will, that's why Ranni makes sure to kill her assigned two fingers and get rid of her body, so that she can get create a new order without all who came before. Miquella doesn't seem to have an assigned two fingers, Mohg took him and the formless mother is influencing the world through him with Mohg's help, maybe that's why he never grows, an "eternal son to a formless mother", that's the curse of a forceful link from an outer god, similarly Melania got linked to the outer god of rot, with her despair leaving her weak to that elder god's influence, blooming her, rebirthing her into something else, like Millicent mentioned.
That could explain the dead two fingers copies at the top of each Divine Tower, which I wondered about. It explains why the Roundtable Two Fingers instruct us to kill all the demigods, because they all shook off their handlers.
Mmm I don't think so. They are called empyreans because the two fingers consider them perfect beings. I see no reason the two fingers would consider them perfect or even allow them to live if they were linked to an outer God automatically as that would threaten the golden order and the greater will. No I don't don't it's automatic at all, I think the other outer gods considered them prime targets and began to use them like a parasite trying to force their way into the world to project their order and law of the world, atleast with Malenia it is not by choice. Ranni and Ryykard seem to have chosen other outer gods by their own will.
"The Cleanrot Knights were undefeated in the Shattering."
Radahn dragging 3 of their corpses: "What was that?"
I’m pretty sure he just meant that they never lost a battle under malenias leadership not that they didn’t die.
General Rodahn: dis shit bussin 😩
Tasty snacks is what they are.
The quote is unfinished. They were undefeated in their campaign. Meaning they pretty much succeeded in every battle
so dear commander, you and your army were undefeated so I grant you the titl-...oh unfortunately one of your foot soldiers died making you not undefeated
its really up to definition if Malenia can call herself undefeated after fighting Radahn to a standstill. does fighting in a battle and not winning mean losing or does your opponent not winning mean that you won?
"I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella. And I have never known defeat."
After watching her nuke Caelid with Scarlet Rot & my experience fighting her, the above quote felt even sharper than her sword.
"I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella. And I ran away from Radahn, because I didn't want to lose."
@@raygonzales197 she didnt tho. She was carried out because asleep. And radahn was likely incapacitated too, otherwise he would have finished her.
@@raygonzales197 she didn’t run though?
@@ajbolt7 Yeah, she didn't run. Her soldier carried her unconscious body away. Mighty convenient and she never came back. Meanwhile, my boy Radahn stayed running the field and invited everyone to challenge him.
@@raygonzales197 Radahn was down for the count dude. You think her Knight could grab her off the back of Radahn while he’s conscious??
Regardless she never came back because there was no reason to after Miquella was stolen, and she remained asleep.
The tarnished is more than a match for Melania.
*shows footage of tarnished getting wrecked*
That was a nice touch 😆. Took me three sessions to take her down 💀
Took me 8 hours when I faced her the first time. 😂
@@ArlunGrim
While I'm out here remaining undefeated because I never got the chance to fight her.
@@xxx_jim_the_reaper_xxx you're gonna learn her name very well when you do.
@@kentarochew9507
I don't have the game, y'see.
@@kentarochew9507
Unless, you can like let me borrow it. Hahahahahahahaha
I love that, even with her being naked in her Scarlet Aeonian form, they chose to give her a realistic body type for an athlete/warrior. Malenia's second phase reminds me of classical art in the way it uses both her form and the blooming butterflies to represent beauty, rather than it focusing solely on her nudity. The latter half of her fight is a marvel of artistic game design.
It was amazing despite her being a scarred rotten multi amputee she was fucking beautiful.
I don't know how they managed that.
It’s so amazing how they did it. Video games don’t exactly have the best reputation when it comes to how it deals with women (for good reason), but they managed to actually make it tasteful. Reminded me of “The birth of Venus”, with a good dose of my nightmares.
I’ve never had the experience where I’ve been in awe because of just how artistically beautiful something is, while also shitting my pants in terror because of it.
Yeah im sick and tired of companies thinking women who are atheletic realisticly dont have curves! Thank god fromsoft gave her hips non the less. All atheletic women arent just formless humans barely identified as women from the face.... *COUGH COUGH* Abby *COUGH COUGH*
@@bacon2274 i mean... they dont do men well neither. Not all men look like Hollywood actors with Muscels like Marvels Thor. That too is just as unrealistic as female characters like Black widow, Wonder woman, etc. yet no one seems to mind that for some reason just saying stuff like: 'ItS a MaLe PoWeR FaNtAsY!'
Notice how tall most men are in video games aswell! Only around 15% of worlds men are over 6 feet. Now just add having a perfect face complexion and being very muscular and not overweight. And your looking at a less than 1% of men.
Even if you dont see those as unrealistic even if it definetly is. You have to admid atleast that characters like:
Jojo characters
Hulk
Zangief
Geras
Goro
Etc
Are unrealistic.
Could i just ask why are unrealistic women not okay but unrealistic men are?
Idk about that. I don't think unaloyed gold inside the flesh is all that very realistic.
I hope there will be a DLC that elaborates on the stories of Malenia and Radahn. They are such rich and deep characters.
Miquella dlc will be malenia heavy i think. Radahan though? I don’t think so because his full story and characterisation is over.
Melenia “I have now become a true god, now you will lose”
Tarnished “lady I already killed one god what’s a second”
Inhales in darksouls series... "slayin gods u Say, bitch im kinda proffesional"
Yeah, but the tarnished probably died to her like, 20 times after...
So....
@@cloberlobster2276 shhh those were battles in the mind before the true fight.
@@cloberlobster2276 does death even count in lore?
@@megaavonaco9954 I guess it can count as other tarnished who have tried to defeat her before, failed, and afterwords malenia falls back to sleep.
Really well done summary of Malenia! Nice work! That bit at the end is very striking, and makes me remember a part of her lore that mentions "If she blooms the third time, she'll ascend as a goddess". The scarlet flower she leaves after her defeat could be the third blooming, and she may only lay dormant in the center of it. Too bad we won't ever see what comes of it except if a sequel happens.
But anyways, nice work!
I think it's almost guaranteed at this point to see more of her and miquella in a dlc. They are definitely not dead
Plus if you betray milicent and she blooms jer father (or the item you get from her) will tell you that she will be reborn as a rot valkyrie.
So the same could aply to malenia, now that she "died" her transformation into a true goddess starts.
Can you imagine if we have to stop her with miquella in the dlc? Like he finishes the needle that will allow us to stop her (since the needle as of yet is unfinished)
Rykard is alive still too, wouldn't put it passed from.
@@theoneandonly9775 True. I'm 100% sure they gonna get a lot of attention. Malenia and miquella are my favourite characters. I'm really interested what they'll do with them. DLC would be amazing!!
@@davidf3974 and godwyn is alive aswell
i always like the sort of contrast that comes from melania and the player character. She is undefeated and will give up even her pride and body to stay that way, whereas the tarnished of no renown is possibly the most defeated being there is. Ultimately one has to accept that defeat is an ultimate part in the cycle of life and by the end of the fight it feels like an epic moment of humbling as you show her the power of losing.
"The sheer, unimaginable skill of the tarnished destined to become Elden Lord."
*shows footage of tarnished getting one shotted by Melania over and over
i love how at 12:48, Arlun was basically praising the Tarnished on how they defeated Malenia, the clip shows multiple "You Died" moments :)))))
:)))))))
I love how in the segment where he talks about how the Tarnished just wiped the floor with her while showing the Tarnished dying over and over. Great gag
My favorite boss in the game just love her design and lore.
Radahn: You’re good melania, the strongest I’ve fought so far.
Melania: IM NOT LOSING TO YOUUUUUUUU!!!!! *fucking nukes caelid*
Radahn fought her while holding the stars back and constantly using gravity magic to ride his horse, he also didn't nuke an entire region to win, he has the moral victory
@@raziel6304 “the moral victory” as he’s reduced himself to what is essentially elder rings version of a hollow thanks to tanking the scarlet rot point blank. I’m sorry, but I think I’m going with Isshin Ashina’s philosophy “victory by any means”
@@enthusiastofcute Doesn't mean he didn't kick her ass to the point that she lost control, gave aids to everyone and would've died if it wasn't for one of her knights carrying her unconscious body away afterwards.
@@raziel6304 all true, but it doesn’t change what happened to Radhan at the end. Neither of them won anything.
@@raziel6304 Don't you forget that Malenia also fought while bearing the Scarlet rot within herself too. That would make both of them to be pretty equal on the burdens I would say.
Another cool aspect of this game that the other games other than maybe sekiro is the game acknowledges that you are a super bad ass warrior at a practically unstoppable March towards the end of the game. Sure in souls and bloodborne you get to that level of badassery but you don't have npcs saying you're scary or stating that your strong or even the bosses acknowledging your progress. Just a cool detail that helps convey that your character too is a legendary fighter able to stand toe-to-toe with the other greats.
Godfrey says that we have fought long and hard and when we defeat him he says that we deserve the crown.
@@AlphaOmegon I love Godfrey
In DS1 you would probably become some renowned figure, if there was enough people left in a Lordran who are sane enough to to care. Same deal with DS2 and DS3 to some extent, but atleast you’re acknowledged somewhat like Friede recognizing you as the Lord of Hollows if you do that ending
@@AlphaOmegon yeah same with malenia, when you defeat her she says you have the strength of an elden lord
@@buckyhurdle4776 For real. Man I would pay money to see Radhan have a friendly duel with Godfrey. Radhan idolized him.
“The knights who follow her would be the most fearsome in the lands.”
Crucible Knights: bet
I wonder if the rot sickness appearance in the Lands Between was a consequence of removing the Death Rune from the Elden Ring, so it can spread endlessly, corrupting everything and everyone.. Also, might this sealed outer god be the same as the Fire Giant followed? Looks like Radagon got a curse from him, if you read Giant's Red Braid item description... "Radagon was said to have despised his own red locks. Perhaps that was a curse of their kind.". This curse might come to pass to his offspring. IDK
radagon's curse is from fire giant nothing to do with malenia's curse, malenia's curse is from a outer god unnamed god of scarlet rot
The fire giants’ god is a different god, and radagon hair was a curse from the fire giants, but I’m not convinced it is as the relevant item descriptions just says it was viewed as a curse. I think it’s more the association of fire giants and red hair and bearing any likeness to them was seen as a curse by radagon.
When Melania wakes up when we get to her is she literlaly waking up form her battle with Radahn? Did she go from one godly fight right to the next (in her view)? Pretty crazy from her pov lol.
Yes
Ohhh that's a good point! I keep getting caught up in the fact that her brother is gonna be PISSED when he wakes up lol
The fact General Radahn was still holding the stars back even while in a state of madness speaks volumes. Malenia is cold but the prosthetics didn't hinder her for those saying it did. Her holding the Scarlett rot at bay is a feat in it self though but In the end she went all out and Radahn didn't he continued to hold back the stars even after being infected with rot to me clearly Radahn won or would've won.
It is stated that Radahn is the mightiest Demigod. Perhaps not the most powerful, but to be called the mightiest means he is likely the best among all of them when it comes to combat. Who knows what would happen if he let the stars loose. I'd argue he would have defeated her.
For the prosthesis, it's actually an improvement most of the time. Millicent specifically says that the Valkyrie's Prothesis just feels like her arm whereas Commander Niall's prothesis makes him OP.
you’re literally forgetting that Malenia fought him fully blind, regardless of him holding the stars back, she fought him to a stalemate whilst enduring and holding back the rot as well as being blind. look at the after effects of the fight, Malenia’s state vs Radahns state, he is worse off, therefore she is correct in saying she’s never known defeat, it is clear as day that she took the W in that fight even if they don’t want to confirm it, when you’re fighting in a battle/war you fight to die, you fight with everything you’ve got.
@@helloitsme6827 Don't get me wrong, I'm a Malenia Stan she is super fucking badass. But also remember that she was unconscious after that battle for the rest of the shattering all the way until you walked into her boss room. Neither were doing good. They are undoubtedly the most powerful demigods(maybe Rykard I have no idea where he falls).
To call that battle anything but a stalemate would be incorrect. You're right, Malenia had her deficits which only makes her more cool. It's hard to say what happens on what ifs, but Radahn is praised as the mightiest for a reason.
Even if Malenia is the coolest.
@@helloitsme6827 im just saying she couldn't beat him so she went to using the Scarlett rot she didn't kill even after using full power while he never went all in. Just so I didn't remember incorrectly the video stated their was no winner that day. You can say she ended up better off and call that a w because thats fair to say. Im just saying full power radhahn would've literally killed her were talking hyped up poisoning vs the power if gravity he could've easily broke every bone her body especially if he can hold back stars. To me she went all out not him so i view Radahn as more powerful regardless of who anyone declares winner. I see what you saying though
I absolutely love Malenia's lore so this was a treat. Thank you
The death compilation while hyping up the tarnished was elite lol
Very nice video! One question, do you know what the scarlet bloom left from the grace in the Haligtree roots is? That's seems like the second blooming of Malenia maybe? I think it is said that at her third bloom, Malenia would become a true god.
It is - she blooms into the Goddess of Rot in the second half of her phase, as presented in the video
@@timurfattahov2759 Not really. It would be weird for her to bloom again without any reason, mention or explanation in game. A lot of people believe it's the one from caelid. She also has an unused dialog where she mentions the third blooming will happen at some point. Her ability description also basically says that she hasn't bloomed 3 times yet but it's destined to happen.
@@eldensouls9847 Yeah, it could be another false sister or something similar to how Millicent bloomed. However, given "Remembrance of Rot Goddess" my interpretation is that she became the goddess to attempt to defeat you. A lot of the other remembrance descriptions refer to past events up way before you meet them - not necessarily their state during or after their defeat. A counterpoint could be when looking at the word "true goddess" in the Aeonia incantation description - "With the third bloom, she will become a true goddess." Perhaps her 2nd phase wasn't the true goddess but a fake or temporary goddess, but FS usually would write things like "False King Demon Soul"
@@timurfattahov2759 I mean the ability you can get for defeating her also basically says that the third bloom has not happened yet. She also has unused dialogues where she says one more is left to happen at some point
@@timurfattahov2759 if you betray milicent her item drop says that now she will transform/be reborn as a rot valkyrie abd she is in the same flower as malenia
So maxbe after her "death" the true transformation starts
The indomitable tarnished monologue over the death montage is 👌 perfect in every way
Malenia and Radahn are so incredible :
-both training (one to gain strength and master gravity magic while the other training so she would never bow before the scarlet rot within her, studying the blade and refusing to use her power)
-both two of the most admired demigods (The cleanrot knights following Malenia even if it means succumb to the rot while Radahn's knights organising the Radahn's festival, determined to give Radahn a death fitting his warrior self)
-Both bullying Godrick
I do like to imagine children arguing about wich one of these two they would serve (Radahn maybe suffering from his scarry and threatening appearence and Malenia forced to curse her companions)
Radagon's genes are truly something...
Meanwhile Ranni 🤦🏼♂️😂
So, I was looking to see what text pops up when you defeat Malenia to settle the debate whether she is a goddes or not and whether she's bloomed a 3rd time. One of the most interesting thing FromSoft does when you defeat a boss is change the text depending on the power of that boss. When you defeat most bosses you get something along the lines of Legend Felled, Foe Vanquished or the like. When you defeat the Elden Beast, you get God Slain, but looking back defeating a Rune Bearer bares no text at all.... I think this is something done purposely and has some meaning.
Im pritty shure we cant kill them without the rune of death, and have been wondering how we did it all the time, as you aparently need that so they dont reincarnate
@@theonesithtorulethemall I think you're on to something! Unless the Ae of Duskborn is the cannonical ending, it's very possible that none of the Rune Bearers are dead. This can leave a lot of open possibilities with DLC and what not!
@@Tenouraku additionally a lot of them keep talking after their body fades, Margit and Malenia for several seconds. We “kill” Margit but he just comes right back as Morgott in Leyndell, where we actually see a corpse. Rykard leaves remains as well. But Godrick, Radahn, Malenia, not so much. Maybe there’s something to this?
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You can see Godrick's dead body getting stomped by Gatekeeper Gostoc after his boss fight though.
General Radahn's corpse is literally being consumed by Alexander, the POTBOI in order to exponentially increase his own power in order to challenge you.
Malenia's Aeonia flower blooms in the arena after you defeat her.
@@xxx_jim_the_reaper_xxx yeh you right, wasn’t thinkin
Considering the scarlet rot is a cycle, what if when the tarnished returns after a very long time to the Haligtree Roots, Malenia was reborn into a true goddess of rot and youd have to face her again?
Phase 3 LET'S GOO
Nah her fight sucks major ass.
@@marorerimeraremaro2533 She is top 5 best bosses in game…
She was already a Goddess of Rot in the second phase
@@tdspkhype3042 She would have been if Waterfowl Dance wasn't a troll ability.
The Malenia fight montage you had during the voiceover at 13 minutes was great XD
There is also the flower that bloomed in the room before the Melania fight where you find Millicen't armor; I wonder what the significance of it is
Probably one of Milicents sister
@@eldensouls9847 I agree since you find the traveler set next to it.
It’s actually Melina
Prove me wrong but she's definitely not dead right? She's also destined to bloom once more
she does , you put her down right after it.
It seems kind of vague in the game, but by the lore I'm not sure killing a demi-god without using the rune of death is even possible. Although Radahn got pretty messed up without it being used.
@@cseijifja I thought that was the second bloom?
@@blobbything2986 in her effor to defeat you, she transforms into godess of rot, you kill her anyway.
@@cseijifja She only bloomed twice so far and the third one is destined to happen at some point. She also has some unused dialogues that also suggest that she's far from done
these two are my favorite Elden Ring characters *By far*
above both Ranni and General Radahn.
Nobody Tops Radanh nor Hoara Loux
@@AlphaOmegon in power, debatable.
But in lore, I believe the twins legacy easily topples the generals lore.
Radahns story of being a badass is cool and all, but their story is much more tragic and can have more implications in the future.
@@AlphaOmegon obviously Malenia topped Radahn lol
@@AlphaOmegon i want more hoara loux i looks absolutely sick and his lore and writing is so interesting
@@Umiedo
Malenia seems to definitely tops Radahn's lore by a huge margin. Radahn's lore is dependent on his loss in his own Final Battle against Malenia and the aftermath of his final moments before getting inflicted by a Scarlet Rot plague on a point-blank range in Caelid Wilds.
Getting the lore like this gets me more into the game. TY.
Malenia is the only boss to not have a "_____ Felled" screen upon defeat, so perhaps she remains undefeated still...
Mate I’m absolutely loving these videos, keep up the great work 👍
Can’t wait for The Shattering DLC! I really want to take on Radahn in his prime
No one would stand a chance
Not a chance lol
@@chilly456 malenia is stronger already and we beat her… fym dawg
@@malachi1477 What makes you think that? Her second phase is def stronger, but her first phase is on par with Radahm while he's holding back the stars.
@@chilly456 kinda makes me wonder how mental the battle would have gone if Radahn also threw away his pride and decided to unleash the stars and meteors onto Maleina while she’s doing all her scarlet rot shangigens…The lands between would be completely obliterated most likely
Man I love your content so much. Such high quality!! Please keep it up. We need a video for all the main characters, and of the nice npc that we encounter. Maybe a video on the races of the lands between? Particularly on the Albinaurics? Or the Numen?
Ps.: I laughed so hard on the “very skilled tarnished who would be more than a match for Malenia” lmao
All that tarnish hype talk while malenia dog walks him 50x times in the background is mad funny
My favorite part is while he praises the tarneshed he shows them dying multiple times durring the fight XD
I think that, same as Millicent's father knew it should be us to kill her in order to turn in that amber aeonia, malenia knew if radahn to kill her, she would immediately turn into amber. I believe that after amber form she's guaranteed to become a rot goddess, which she didn't want to. That's why she chose to deal with radahn in manner she did. And if she blooms herself, she has two more times before it happens.
So now, after malenia awakens, she's full fledged goddess. Millicent awakens with her, and, as her "daughter", being born from single god, she's empirion now.
So rot worshippers establish rot supremacy - they have their own goddess and they also replace marika with scarlet valkery.
That's what i believe plan was
i think malenia's rot when it blooms definitely is beautiful
Now we make DLC Boss Born by Defeat her.
// imagine if her and Miquella can combine identity to together like Marika & Radagon do . . .
I have to say this was a sick video. The parts with radhan and malenia were sick
The Dung Eater will come for me?! Dont threaten me with a good time!
Just awesome video man, with a great gut punch realization at the closing line
As a boss I didn't love her or hate her, she was cool but there were cooler foes. My favourites were Rykard, the Black Knives and Godskin Apostole. But in terms of lore and meta I think she's brilliant. They pulled a bait and switch and told a great story with Malenia, without spelling out anything.
This is the character they used for the marketing campaign, like the poster girl, she was everywhere. In the opening cutscene she's showed standing valiantly against a King Kong sized opponent; in the first area of the game, we learn she destroyed Godrick, the first big opponent for us. She's hailed as undefeated, unrelenting. But then we get to Caelid and the roles for her and Radahn are switched.
The opponent she was standing against in the cutscene was a General defending his own land, someone who was fighting while literally holding the stars back with his magic. Malenia was the aggressor. In the fight he disarmes her but waits for her to get back up and fight face to face. What does she do? She uses a dirt bomb and completely ruins Caelid, destroying countless lives and ending the land forever. But Radahn still doesn't die, he keeps holding back the stars. So much for the Blade of Miquella being undefeated.
What does Malenia do? She stays in her fortress, doesn't do anything to search for Miquella. She just lays there waiting. And then when the player meets her, something that rarely happens in these games transpires: the player character fights a legendary figure at the peak of their power and wins. Think back to Artorias, Gerhman, Midir, Gwyn, Sihn, Ludwig, Radahn himself, Lorian, Isshin, Owl. All either gone mad, heavily injured, past their prime or all three. Not Malenia: she literally becomes a God during the fight......and the Tarnished still prevails. I don't believe that's random at all.
What I think they were going for with Malenia is , don't judge a book by its cover. She LOOKS like an unbeatable hero who overcame impossibile odds, but she was actually an invader and someone who failed with no excuses twice: first against Radahn, and then against the Tarnished, even after literally becoming the Goddess of her element. Her "curse" was actually her weapon, and the only reason she survived in Caelid.
She was helding the outer god within herself, rotting her from the inside. It was not a "dirt bomb", not a power, but a curse that was handicapping her just like Radahn and the stars, so they were in similar conditions.
The reason she unleashed the rot over Caelid and lost her pride, was to win the fight, no matter what, in order to return to the Halightree and watch over Miquella (who was inside it when she left, trying to bloom powerful enough to sever the influence of the outer gods in the Lands Between, free his sister from the rot, and probably the world from the Great Will, which we know is an alien entity). It's stated that third time Malenia blooms, she will rise as a "true goddes", but I don't think she would have control over her divinity, that's why Millicent let herself die to the rot, as she knew her autonomy will be lost in the blooming. Just like Marika, the Greater Will and everything that let to the shattering.
Back to Malenia, she made what she thought it was a necesary sacrifice for Miquella's empress, as she's his blade. Little did she know that in the meantime her brother was being kidnapped and violated by a pedophile maniac. The tragedy is inside the futility of it all, so I don't believe she's cheap or evil, she's just not as heroic as Radahn, but that's because of the dilemma she was set up into
Cope.
Why do people create theory that Radahn was simply interested in defending his homeland? It is clearly stated that all demigods wanted to get a fair share of the great runes, which cause them to engage in civil war. This imply that Radahn, too, isn't a pacifist. Keep in mind that Godrick disguised himself as a female because he didn't want to get spotted by Radahn, which implies that Radahn can be quite aggressive.
"I have never known defeat"
Some random guy with no clothes and a torch: "Oh really?"
My story can be summarized in a few words: I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella.
U are still one of the best story tellers i ever watched
I think the Scarlet Rot was brought out from Malenia, if it was around before her then Dragonlord Placudisax would have been immune to the Rot, but he’s extremely susceptible to it, unlike the Elden Beast who is immune to it
The grand cloyster has the lake of rot though and since the formless mother has power in the eternal city the same should be true for the rot outer god.
@@TheTetsuHai that’s very true
its explicitly stated in several items that the lake of rot is the result of an outer god, and the whole area has nothing to do with melania. Also the elden beast is immune to everything not just rot
@@lemonworm ahh, I don’t read every single item description unfortunately
Enjoying these so much. Please keep them coming!
Mohgs palace was under caelid made me think she was trying to rescue her brother when she encounted radahn
I don't think she knew exactly where he is honestly, her dialogue under the haligtree said she's still waiting for him to come back. Mohg also take miquella while she was fighting radahn no? malenia doesn't even know he was kidnapped at the time
Lol no, Miquella was kidnapped during the fight of Radahn and Malenia.
@@balthasargelt447 I posted this comment before fighting malenia so I didnt know that she specifically said she was waiting for him implying she had no idea mohg had him
@@Wolf-bz6kq she knows. It was described that the knowledge her brother was gone was possibly worse poison than the Rot itself. She just had no clue Where Mogh had taken him. Word was sent to her on campaign. She stopped in Lyndell and kicked the shit out of Godrick before Radhan. From what we can tell she was told around then and had the knowledge prior to her fight with Radhan. She is waiting for him out of desperation. It is tragic.
Fantastic video. I love the lore of this game and you do a great job explaining it. You deserve more subs.
Hold the phone, so you are saying that since scarlet rot is a cycle of decay and rebirth, Malenia is gonna bloom again into a stronger boss? No way man, im not fighting Malenia with 2 swords
Yep shes gonna come back. Tho so is Rykard Lord of Blasphemy. If you return to his arena his head has allready reformed.
@@draw2death421 Rykard works differently though. He needs to be consumed by something/someone before he can return, which is why we kill Tanith to prevent his return. Also don't ask how his head is there, I guess we just missed or something idk.
@@draw2death421 How is she gonna bloom again?She already bloomed 3 times and became a full godess and died to the tarnished.She's gone.
@@theonewhoismany8072 i hope your right i hate her lol.
@@theangrywig3905 non the less he probably will return one day. Aslong as his head is there someone can come consume it.
"The sheer, unimaginable skill of the tarnished destined to become Elden Lord."
; Cuts to a montage of me rolling off of cliffs, getting eaten alive by rats, forgetting my bow is equipped while trying to swing my sword, all while screaming "jesus h christ I am so fucking scared right now".
Millicent blooms if you betray her.
Malenia blooms as well when you defeat her.
There is another scarlet Aeonia near the Site of Grace before Malenia's arena...would that be someone I know nothing about? Someone I missed in the lore?
The whole montage of her just destroying the tarnished while you’re narrating “her defeat” hilarious.
She was affected by the rot all the time and yet was still undefeated. She must of been all powerful
I beat that bitch with a club. Not so all powerful I guess.
Radahn in my opinion has some of the most unique lore along with melania I just wish they gave him more air time. He would've Been a amazing end game boss... especially at full strength. He was tough as is but imagine him with out the scarlet rot poisoning.. he was legit a fraction of himself
Malenia: I have never known defeat. Redahn: i mean, thats a bit questionable...
A draw is not the same as defeat. Both are incapacitated at the end ofnthe battle.
Well Radahn didn’t win, and Malenia didn’t either. If nobody won then no single party lost. Stalemate.
"Dormammu I've come to bargin"
*killed*
"I am millenia, blade of miquella"
"the undefeated" sure bud whatever you have to tell yourself.
The Blue Dancer charm isn't talking about Melania. But rather the blind swordsman who trained her. He was once given his sword (Flowing Curved Sword) by a fairy and used it to seal the Rot God. Later, he trained Melania (Prosthesis Wearers Heirloom), likely because the Rot was attempting to manifest through her.
Sadly, his efforts were for naught, because Melania succumbed to fear and mostly particularly pride. Choosing to embrace the Rot rather than lose a battle as a noble champion.
What do you think is the “canonical” ending of the game?
I feel it’s where the tarnished gets all remembrances and completes most if not all side quests. Including getting the mark from the 3 fingers, getting the perfected needle which causes the tarnished to find the dragon lord and remove the mark and finally putting the rune of death back on the elden ring, making it whole again. And a sequel could be about the remaining gods, which I think are the scarlet rot, the god the 3 fingers follow, the serpent and whatever Fia brings back alive. Possibly whatever god the giants were also following. Because we prove at the end of the game that we have the power to defeat a god.
Oh I so hope we get an Elden Ring trilogy to fully flesh out its lore! Currently on my second playthrough to focus on all of the side quests I missed or messed up on. Can’t get enough of FromSoftware’s brilliant story telling
Also the Outer God of Blood.
@@nightcorewb4949 the formless mother
IF there is a sequel, it's gonna take ages to arrive 🥲
Rn I'm just excited for any DLC we might get
I think all of them can be canon tbh but I think Ranni’s is the most unique, i’d like that to be canon then maybe Miquella wakes up and finds what happened and it’d be a battle of Empyreans.
Love these videos you got a new subscriber!!!
I like the theory that us defeating Malenia might be a terrible mistake on our part, basically causing her to bloom and unleash the rot within herself into the world. As Fromsoft has often made killing "Optional" bosses/characters in their games to be narratively evil/bad choices at times. So from a roleplay/story perspective, it might just be best to leave her alone. UNLESS, after defeating her and then sticking the now purified needle into the flower left behind is the way to actually cure/stop the spread of the rot in the world. Honestly, the game/lore is confusing AF at times. Like do the demi-gods actually stay dead, or will they just return to life eventually? Because they keep mentioning rebirth and explicitly state that everyone in the Lands Between can't truly die, but then nobody seems to ever actually do so in-game (from what we ever witness). So like either the lore is purposefully contradicting itself and we have to form our own personal lore/continuity, or maybe the idea is that in a future DLC (maybe post-game after we become Elden Lord) everyone is reborn and we get to do battle with certain characters again.
Personally, I think that IF everyone ingame is semi-immortal and will be reborn (so long as you don't choose like Frenzied Flame, DungEater, or Death as the endings) then this whole questline with Millicent and Malenia might have been intended to like have you kill her, purify her flower/remains, and then when she is eventually reborn she'll be no longer afflicted by the Scarlet Rot. Again, I dunno. Hard to sort this all out and we gotta probably wait a few more months or a year to see any DLC or additional content updates to add more (hopefully).
The reason people don’t experience ‘death’ is because when they die their soul returns to the erdtree, they still ‘die’ as in soul leaves their physical body, but their soul remains intact due to Maliketh and Marika sealing destined death away in a sword, and then hiding the sword within Malikeths body.
This is why even after we kill Margit the fell or Morgot we hear them talk to us from the heavens, despite having been killed by us.
Also think of Praetor Rykkard “a serpent never dies” because due to destined death being sealed away stuff doesn’t ‘die’ the way it does in our world, everything returns to the roots of the erdtree.
When we kill boses, we are technically ‘killing’ them. we separate their physical forms from their souls, the same way ranni separated her soul from her physical form too,
ranni took a fragment from the rune of death (stolen from maliketh before he hides it in a sword) and made weapons with the fragment that were capable of killing Goldwyn the Golden, this was the first recorded death of a Demi god so we know that in the lore Gods and Demi gods are killable. it’s just most of these bosses are champions to the point where only the chosen tarnished is able to bring death to them
Yeah but what if I'm a follower of the rot and want her to achieve her potential like gowery
I haven't watched the video yet. I just want to say Thank you for the detailed spoiler warning at the beginning of the video. I had beaten Malenia, but hadn't completed the game. I appreciate the warning and the content, so I gave you a like and a sub. I hope your channel continues to grow and flourish.
Hold up, those statues in the cloister are also present in the mohg area, but are they part of the ancient civilization or built in worship after it's fall? What's bothersome about the apparent obviousness is the slab that they hold resembles the fingerprint shield and its.... Well, fingerprints.
I think mohg is hiding there with miquella (the hand cocoon thing) to start his dynasty or some sheet
Through the great skill of the greatest tarnished ever known LOL as Melania is constantly kicking his ass over and over again
Malenia: "I've never known defeat."
Naked Pot Man: "Allow me to educate you then."
sheer unimaginable skill or the mimic tear kek
by the sheer unimaginable skill of the Tarnished....
meanwhile Tarnished continues to get one shotted 17 times lmao that was so funny
Love the video ! I love the lore of elden ring and this video is so well made, keep up the good work !
You said the biggest battle of the shattering was the one fought in Caelid but I thought the biggest one was the one on mount Gelmir, or at least I remember reading it on some items.
I think its said to be the most horrible, not the biggest.
And it's probably the most horrible bcs snakeman just ate everyone lol
@@joaoluizkfsantos8392 does the snake eats rykard or does rykard eats the snake?
holy heck, I had no idea there was an epic fight between Malenia and Radahn! that's so cool. 😮
Dex/faith malenia vs str/int radahn
Y’all wonder if the twins were born from pacts from other outer gods? Like the omen twins were born from a primal place and then these twins were born from rot and then an outer god we have not encountered, also defeating Rhadon would mean that he would not have control of the stars anymore potentially helping Ranni’s plan
I want the lore about Radahn's horse
Radahn cut his feet off and can make himself weightless so he uses trusty pony for zoomies
The horse can bench press Jupiter
@@Bladadah he cutted his feet?
what armor are you wearing in this video? specifically the chest piece, it looks really cool! Also amazing lore video, really cool character, i can't believe fromsoft put such a great amount of lore into such a hidden boss. what a gem.
Its the cleanrot chest piece altered
Its a bit odd to see a Genshin channel cover Elden Ring lore and really well at that! Good on ya man! (Never played Genshin, im terrified of Gacha games)
I love how when he talks about the Tarnished being skillful, it's just a bunch of clips of people dying.
So she's a war criminal using chemical weapons.
Cleanrot Knight Finlay is a GOAT for sure
So, we kill Malenia after she has bloomed twice. But the description says that if she had bloomed a third time, she would have become a true God. Makes me wonder what she would even look like. I mean, she gained wings after the second bloom...
Pretty sure that was the third bloom, she literally gains the title of "Goddess of Rot"
She already bloomed twice and the third is against us.
I love hearing the lore about the SECOND STRONGEST demigod lol. Redmane for life!
Anyone can tell me who turned into a scarlet flower in a room next to the Grace before Malenia's bossfight? I only did Milicent quest halfway (giving away the unalloyed needle)
It's either Malenias flower from caelid or one of Millicent's sister(and it's not Malenias second bloom as some idiots believe)
One. I can’t believe she’s related to Starscourge Radahn. And second, I didn’t know she was part of the Golden order. That’s insane!
I believe that Malenia bloomed for the third time during our fight with her. There is an Aoenia Blossom next the the grace site before the boss room and it has some travelling clothes next to it. Now it is mentioned somewhere she has bloomed twice before. I'm guessing that was the site of her first blooming to become a valkyrie and the second was Radhan so this is the third time so she became a goddess. I think it was Gowry who said it or it was the rotted wing insigna that mentions the amount of blooms one needs. (So many items). And it's not one of Millicents sisters as we fight all 4 of them should we help Millicent.
You are right. That is what I concluded as well. An item in game says she needs to bloom theice to attain godhood and that she has bloomed twice prior, with the second being the blooming of the scarlet aeonia in caelid. Thats why in the game in her 2nd phase she gains the official title 'Malenia, goddess of rot'. I think in our battle she unleashes the scarlet aeonia as a nuke strategy like she did versus Radahn and it allows her to ascend.
wonderful video and narration.. i like it