Elden Ring Lore - The Lamenter

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  • @Titan_Ult
    @Titan_Ult Місяць тому +74

    The Lamenter is hidden away by the Hornsent because, unlike the Hornsent who face suffering and hardship head-on, the Lamenter becomes content with suffering rather than overcoming it. This contentment, referenced in the Lamenter’s Lantern, represents an acceptance of hardship.

    • @ゼロシン
      @ゼロシン Місяць тому +8

      Theory: Jerren became a lamenter after patches sold him a lamenters mask which he smuggled .
      That was not before radahn called him a furry freak and hugged him, prompting jerren to switch back to normal in embarrassment. Patches took back the mask and sold it to the land of reed’s shogun who was thoiler mimic tear(patches gave thoiler the mimic tear.
      Please do check out more absurd theories on my community posts!

    • @Cleanrot.spirit
      @Cleanrot.spirit Місяць тому +6

      @@ゼロシン100% right this guy understands that theories can be as absurd as possible while adhering to canon. Unlike many who simply bash absurd theories as being bullshit

    • @lumpofmeatsack2013
      @lumpofmeatsack2013 Місяць тому

      ​@@ゼロシン this is just a theory.... A GAME THEORY

    • @kaosisback8376
      @kaosisback8376 Місяць тому

      ​@@ゼロシンwhy jaren

  • @FoxBatinaHat
    @FoxBatinaHat Місяць тому +61

    In Buddhism, it is believed that suffering arises from desiring what is not so. For example:
    1. I want X, but I don’t have X = suffering.
    2. I am in pain, but I don’t want pain = suffering.
    3. Someone I care about has passed away, but I want them to be alive = suffering.
    However, the Hornsent culture would find the idea of accepting or being content with one’s 'state of being' anathema. They created belief systems that revolve around suffering itself, similar to Christianity's concept of penitence, where suffering in this life is believed to lead to future bliss. For the Hornsent, suffering has a divine purpose.
    The Lamenter, a figure who is content in their suffering and cries serenely, frightens the Hornsent. This is because their core belief is that suffering must elevate one to the divine. Finding contentment in suffering, rather than using it to transcend, is entirely incompatible with their worldview.

    • @screech5212
      @screech5212 Місяць тому +1

      I’m kinda dumb but can I have some examples where the hornsent suffering has made them more divine? I don’t doubt you I just want connections

    • @sophiecharron5186
      @sophiecharron5186 Місяць тому

      ​@@screech5212 the jar saints

    • @averypossiblememelord1566
      @averypossiblememelord1566 Місяць тому +2

      @@screech5212The jar saints, curseblades and the simple fact that horn are revered despite the fact that they can grow inwards and stab the bearer

    • @screech5212
      @screech5212 Місяць тому

      @@averypossiblememelord1566 I thought the jar saints pain wasn’t entirely intentional but the act of mixing them is. Also I thought horns were revered because they are a sign as an evolutionary and spiritual gift of the crucible and not for its inward pain.

    • @averypossiblememelord1566
      @averypossiblememelord1566 Місяць тому +1

      @@screech5212 Pain is absolutely a part of the ascension to ‘sainthood’ of the jars as both the Tooth Whip and the Whipping Shack as a whole clearly paint the picture that the shamans needed to be broken both physically and mentally before they could be melded in the jars.
      I agree that the note about the horns was a bit of a reach but it was only mean to be an extra splash of ‘hey look at this’ instead of a main talking point; since they believed that horns were divine, the hornsent would’ve likely summed-up any self-destructive horn growth to be the will of the divine or something like that.

  • @diptube6563
    @diptube6563 Місяць тому +32

    Also the bliss from blindness was due to no longer being able to see the horrors of jarring rituals

  • @Lazymindflayerwithcofffee
    @Lazymindflayerwithcofffee Місяць тому +15

    Btw 4:14 i do remember there being the teory that ,,blindness" ties down to divinity: prophet is blindfolded, the thorn sorccerers who found god in scarlet star after being blinded, as well miquela, like you *need* to be blind to commune with divine. As well as ranni and melina being one eye blind, as if they can commune with divine, but do not let it control them.

    • @Aethelwulf7989
      @Aethelwulf7989 4 дні тому

      A metaphor for blind faith leading them to their demise in a way?

  • @isaacsudduth1574
    @isaacsudduth1574 Місяць тому +18

    It could be a version of Plato's understanding of knowledge. His theory was that a group of men are chained up in a cave with their backs to the entrance. The only way they can see and interpret the world outside is by the shadows on the wall. One day, one of the prisoners is set free and they go outside and see the world for the first time. But when he returns to the cave to tell the others what he had seen, they would not listen. Believing that what he saw wasn't true since it wasn't displayed as a shadow on the wall.
    I believe the lamenter, having obtained the hornsent perceived level of divinity may have gained some truth that the others found undesirable. As a result, to protect their beliefs, they locked him away and continued to deny the truth.

  • @diptube6563
    @diptube6563 Місяць тому +20

    The one eyed Fell god is said to be deformed, and the giants once showed aspects of the crucible ; the lamenter could represent the stunted Pygmy version of what the giants prior form

  • @iboofer
    @iboofer Місяць тому +17

    The lamenter's story reminds me a bit of how Mohg became besotted with the cursed defilement he was born into. Instead of hating his accursed state, he found pride and acceptance of it.

    • @buttersnart
      @buttersnart Місяць тому +4

      One of his horns was spiraled into his eye. Maybe he was nearing full transformation

  • @brodygarwood3302
    @brodygarwood3302 Місяць тому +13

    Seems like Milos was also a Lamenter, stunted giant whose spine is used as a weapon by someone connected to the omen/hornsent

  • @ElMasCaporo99
    @ElMasCaporo99 Місяць тому +8

    Weeping peninsula, castle Morne reference? It reminds me of the frenzied flame. Both seem to be related with extreme suffering and lamentation but with opposite results

  • @alexandermorgan5958
    @alexandermorgan5958 Місяць тому +9

    That face on its back was something I never noticed before. Strange.

  • @maxthepaladin2147
    @maxthepaladin2147 Місяць тому +17

    Hornsent found an entity they didn't understand and found dangerous, and for whatever reason they couldn't eliminate it, so they created a special facility to contain it. Feels SCP-esque in a way

  • @johncrondis4563
    @johncrondis4563 Місяць тому +4

    Lamenter totally connected to giants and fell god, weeping peninsula (where we have lots of Rauh style Ruins) and possibly the godskins with the flame. I also think with the blindness and suffering, frenzy connection is possible. We get the Tibia Caller in the gaol which is strange af.
    The chilling perfumer bottle solidifies the giant connection.
    We also get the clarifying horn charm which is good against frenzy and sleep. I believe this is hinting at something too. That bliss is what blocks the frenzy. Look at the two "woes" daedicar and shabriri, daedicar is in bliss and shabriri is frenzy. I feel a connection here.
    I also think there is significance to why it is in Charos Hidden Grave, flooded with the deathbirds. I cant say exactly what this is, but I have a gut feeling and am going to investigate.

  • @AegisKHAOS
    @AegisKHAOS Місяць тому +2

    Gotta give you props. That head zooming is kinda cute. 👍

  • @frankiefromky
    @frankiefromky Місяць тому +5

    so good! I can hear the lamenting from here! Cheers mates! 🍻

  • @deepsoftime
    @deepsoftime Місяць тому +2

    As for why they locked them away, perhaps they were a reagent to be used along with the shrine maidens in the jars?

  • @TheTomOne
    @TheTomOne Місяць тому +6

    I find it interesting that the Lamenters and Mohg have a connection in that Mohg was half blinded by his horn growing into his eye, while the Lamenter was fully blinded by horns growing out. Is the Lamenter a Hornsent Omen?

    • @christianrose9166
      @christianrose9166 Місяць тому

      The Omen, the Misbegotten, and the Hornsent are technically the same thing, called by different names. In the Land of Shadows they are called Hornsent because their horned state is a sign of divinity, whereas in the Lands Between they're called Omen because their horned state is seen as a curse. In both cases, they are simply beings who have sprouted horns due to a connection to the crucible. That same connection is what defines the various Misbegotten.

  • @peterbear4413
    @peterbear4413 Місяць тому +3

    It's worth noting, I think, that a 'crucible' is defined as 'A vessel made of a refractory substance such as graphite or porcelain, used for melting and calcining materials at high temperatures.' Such as, perhaps, the giant basin that holds the Flame of the Fell God, perhaps? In forging, a crucible is used to contain and hold raw material while it is being purified. So, what if the Crucible, this primal force that predates the Erdtree Order, is actually both at once? The Erdtree, symbol of growth and order, forged by the Flame of the Fell God's destruction and chaos, with the Crucible being the primal vessel holding them both?
    That's my theory anyway.

  • @ghost1b235
    @ghost1b235 Місяць тому +3

    I thought it was a jar saint gone wrong and they hid it away

  • @Trotsworth
    @Trotsworth Місяць тому +1

    I think the color of the pate may indicate it was made in the gaol. The other ates are brown/reddish clay color while this one is blue like the underground around it

  • @MyDogLuther
    @MyDogLuther Місяць тому +2

    I wonder if lamenters can counter frenzy flame

  • @Boricuapsico24
    @Boricuapsico24 24 дні тому +1

    The Lamenter may be the missing link between the hornsent on one side, and the leonine misbegoten and Radagon on the other. The early Erdtree, the crucible, is tinged with red, the color of Radagon's, Leonines, and the Giants' hair, the horns are aspects of the crucible, with the biggest ones coming from giants, and Furnace Visage of the fell god has horns all around. Finally, horned red haired bears eat other horned beasts, focusing the spirituality of the slain creatures. The Giants may be the ancient discoverers/nurturers of the Crucible/Great-tree.

  • @Duanathan
    @Duanathan Місяць тому +2

    Didn't expecting jumpscare

  • @hhowdy
    @hhowdy Місяць тому +2

    Last night I was really tired and was falling asleep to the Bloodfeinds video. Then I guess while I was asleep the old Lamenter video was removed and I in my state of literally popping in and out of consciousness I finally fell asleep. I was expecting to wake up to a video playing, but instead in the dead of night I didn’t wake up to noice and woke up to “This video has been removed by the uploaded”. What the hell woke me up??

    • @square-table-gaming
      @square-table-gaming  Місяць тому +1

      There's a jump scare at the beginning of this video but nothing removed from us. Super weird

  • @HeyGuy4321
    @HeyGuy4321 Місяць тому +2

    LOVE SOILED LOINCLOTHS, THEYRE THE BEST TYPE.... MEANS THEY WORKED

  • @cgzepp
    @cgzepp Місяць тому +1

    I was waiting for this moment!

  • @rwberger6
    @rwberger6 Місяць тому +1

    Its funny how many times a faith connected to the greater will (the crucible's power is directly linked to the one great and greater will even before the coming of grace turned it into the ertree) go through a period of spiritual hardship then get some sort of peace on the other side. The hornsent attempting to ascend go through hardship and through the lamenter we learn that he found bliss through the hardship rather than pushing it away like the others, the flame of frenzy drives you mad but pushing through the madness results in a tranquil state, mages who stared into the medieval current had their minds overwelmed with what they saw but found rest in their bodies turning to glintstone.

  • @Midrasmantra
    @Midrasmantra 3 дні тому +1

    I don’t think the red in their hair is necessarily connected to giants but rather a connection to the Crusible which we often see as tinged red.
    Then again I may be completely wrong about this.

  • @dabidgarcia5859
    @dabidgarcia5859 Місяць тому +1

    OOOOOOOOOOOH SPOOKY MUSIC

  • @reissroony2677
    @reissroony2677 Місяць тому +1

    Has anyone tried fighting miqella as a lementor or tried offer the let is go together to ladia before the fight ?

  • @christopherlyndsay8611
    @christopherlyndsay8611 Місяць тому +1

    Imo the coolest thing in the dlc.

    • @josemiguelvillaloboscorona4626
      @josemiguelvillaloboscorona4626 Місяць тому +1

      When i saw that death animation i was like wtf did just happen

    • @HeyGuy4321
      @HeyGuy4321 Місяць тому

      @@josemiguelvillaloboscorona4626 Its like e-cola, its utterly INFECTIOUS

  • @ItztherealPumpkin
    @ItztherealPumpkin Місяць тому +5

    The Lamenter is probaly the most annoying side boss in the dlc.

  • @BigLou17
    @BigLou17 Місяць тому +1

    Ayee you made a video about these guys nice 👏

  • @momzilla2010
    @momzilla2010 Місяць тому +1

    great vid

  • @beniron5807
    @beniron5807 Місяць тому +1

    Ancient giants ruled the world before. It’s was prob scary remembering the god of the people who prob ruled you still existed and wasn’t done trying to rule the world. I might lament rebelling against a god who was prob way better than the greater Will.

  • @ZeroN1neZero
    @ZeroN1neZero Місяць тому +1

    I can’t say the weeping I’ve experienced was blissful but thankfully we have antidepressants for that.

  • @ゼロシン
    @ゼロシン Місяць тому +11

    Theory: Jerren became a lamenter after patches sold him a lamenters mask which he smuggled .
    That was not before radahn called him a furry freak and hugged him, prompting jerren to switch back to normal in embarrassment. Patches took back the mask and sold it to the land of reed’s shogun who was thoiler mimic tear(patches gave thoiler the mimic tear.
    Please do check out more absurd theories on my community posts!

  • @RexusBlade
    @RexusBlade Місяць тому +1

    Theory Time!: The Hornsent discovered, through trial and error, that Giant and Shaman are a strong mix for Sainthood. Marika/Radagon was a booming success, so they thought to mix in a Hornsent to their next batch, because they would assume adding their own horned divinity would only make an even BETTER Saint.
    Well the Hornsent were right and wrong, this new Saint of Lamentation was created, and it's ability was infectious, a sorrowful joy that killed all who encountered it. It was like a walking disease and had to be put down... But it was too dangerous to fight so they kept it locked away in the same place it was born, among the Jars in the jail/Gaol.

  • @Lazymindflayerwithcofffee
    @Lazymindflayerwithcofffee Місяць тому +2

    8:53 dude, the answer is ,darkness, as in sword of darkness

    • @Lazymindflayerwithcofffee
      @Lazymindflayerwithcofffee Місяць тому

      And another point about ,darkness, : we see it used both as a ,magic, (tools of night hands for example ,shield of knight,) as well as a ,holly, (sword of darkness) so in my head cannon the actual first element is darkness, cause at first there were only darkness, then other stuff/elements begun to take form

  • @Nicoseilas
    @Nicoseilas Місяць тому +1

    I remember finding the lamenting-voice thing and spamming it everywhere because the ghost said something about the cry.
    After many uses i caught myself thinking if it was crying or laughing

  • @blaf55
    @blaf55 Місяць тому +1

    you didnt say shit

  • @HeyGuy4321
    @HeyGuy4321 Місяць тому

    i lament the spooky gimmick, feels like a seasonal store

  • @lady__lefay
    @lady__lefay Місяць тому +1

    I can’t help but see him as Goth, seeing beauty in everything even sadness and death… Hmmm