Who Is St Trina? | Elden Ring DLC LORE

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  • @Ziostorm
    @Ziostorm  4 місяці тому +10

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    • @Blackyankii
      @Blackyankii 4 місяці тому

      Am I the only one interested in "the formless mother"?

    • @r3gret2079
      @r3gret2079 4 місяці тому

      Perchance, the question is not "is St. Trina a man?" But rather "is Miquella a girl?" Hmmm? Lol

    • @R_o_o_k_i_n_g_t_o_n
      @R_o_o_k_i_n_g_t_o_n 4 місяці тому

      i have seen a theory that i actually do believe that melina is actually st. trina with st. trina being in the same boat as radagon being a segment of one persons personality that was fully and completely disconnected from them and turned into its own person. the reasons for this are varried and the video i got this idea from is here and everyone should go watch it not just to support the creator of this theory but also to get WAAAYYYY more evidence than i can give in a youtube comment ua-cam.com/video/zZwct5XkWHA/v-deo.html
      beyond this though the part about melina being in the same boat as radagon is a thought i came up with personally and i will say the original theory creator i feel is missing a lot of lore understanding to flesh out the idea properly but i do agree with the baseline thought that melina is st. trina and st. trina was once simple just another name for miquella before at some point he decided to split himself the same way his mother marika did

    • @Hiddenhand1
      @Hiddenhand1 4 місяці тому

      St.Trina = Medusa

    • @theMAN3554
      @theMAN3554 4 місяці тому

      great game. played it before the full release. did not once cross my mind that is not yet a full release.

  • @sulfenir2477
    @sulfenir2477 4 місяці тому +38

    miquellas adult form is described as unnerving because it contradicts his curse of forever being a child.

    • @GhostWriter-Gohan
      @GhostWriter-Gohan 4 місяці тому +2

      To me it's subtext on their slumber effects manipulating afferant nerves regulating the pineal gland.

  • @alejohp8725
    @alejohp8725 4 місяці тому +182

    Okay: predicting the next swamp is a sleep-inducing mess where enemies constantly kick your ass. At the end, you gotta fight St. Trina.

    • @Vihbe-Chaan
      @Vihbe-Chaan 4 місяці тому +11

      This is it

    • @debiluspegus8236
      @debiluspegus8236 4 місяці тому +7

      I have some issues with the idea of fighting Trina, like, she's described as a young girl, maybe a child, doesn't seem... Menacing, but fromsoftware did make us fight a newborn, so, I may be wrong

    • @alejohp8725
      @alejohp8725 4 місяці тому +10

      @@debiluspegus8236 if it’s an alter ego of Miquella that maybe went rough, it’ll probably be a terrifying, creepy, pale-skinned caster girl. Probably quite disturbing, actually.

    • @debiluspegus8236
      @debiluspegus8236 4 місяці тому +3

      @@alejohp8725 you've got a point, I guess we will know next month

    • @skyyameYT
      @skyyameYT 4 місяці тому +4

      That butterfly spell in the trailer looks like it would be a boss drop from her…

  • @CrematedCube
    @CrematedCube 4 місяці тому +70

    One last bit of St. Trina lore that flew under the radar here is the Dolores the Sleeping Arrow Puppet:
    "One of Seluvis's favorite puppets. Spirit of a handsome archer who dressed in the style of a man.
    Called the Silent Hunter by some, she fires St. Trina's arrows from her shortbow."
    "Dolores once belonged to the Roundtable Hold, where she was both a critic and a friend of Gideon the All-Knowing.
    It was because of her that he and Seluvis went their separate ways."
    The full story is likely just as complex as Radagon and Marika, but I highly doubt Trina is merely an alias of Miquella.
    At this point I mostly regard them as two characters merged together instead of a single split character
    On the whole I believe she comes from an older time than Miquella, with hidden ties to the Albinaurics and their specialty of archery.
    Particularly when Miquella lilies appear to be modified Trina lilies instead of vice versa.

    • @davidadams8147
      @davidadams8147 4 місяці тому +3

      Someone make ziostorm read this

    • @jhank0cean
      @jhank0cean 4 місяці тому +5

      Nothing about this dialogue suggests Dolores is St Trina.
      In fact it specifies that Dolores "...fires St Trina's arrows..."
      Literally saying that they aren't her arrows but the arrows of St Trina.
      The "Silent Hunter" part also isn't mentioned or hinted at anywhere else in the game so for now it holds zero significance.

    • @CrematedCube
      @CrematedCube 4 місяці тому +4

      @@jhank0cean I wasn't claiming Dolores to be St. Trina herself, just a follower and representative. However, she is the *only* St. Trina specialist we know of, outside of cut content.

    • @javierchanart
      @javierchanart 4 місяці тому

      St Trina is a mimic

  • @Descendant404
    @Descendant404 4 місяці тому +54

    Ohhh Elden ring, a truly special Game

  • @yunkinto
    @yunkinto 4 місяці тому +52

    Almost my entire recommended is elden ring lore and theories and i love it

  • @NumberD2000
    @NumberD2000 4 місяці тому +131

    Super stoked Miyazaki confirmed St. Trinas appearance. Must not go hollow

  • @VeggiePun
    @VeggiePun 4 місяці тому +7

    If I had to guess the reason their Adult form is unnerving is because they're awake. The middle eye is open, which usually represents an enlightened mind. Then they have mist like tendrils coming off that eye and making 2 more eyes on the top Left & Right. They're super awake lol

    • @GhostWriter-Gohan
      @GhostWriter-Gohan 4 місяці тому +2

      I think they're also unnerving as reference to the control of sleep through the pineal gland via nervous system.
      Don't understand what the #8 is about, for a few ideas but not sure anyone else is really guessing what tf Trina and octopodes have in common

  • @wastefox9100
    @wastefox9100 4 місяці тому +41

    St.Trina can be the teacher of Miquella.
    adult St.Trina = St.Trina as the teacher
    child St.Trina = Miquella as the scholar

    • @asiblingproduction
      @asiblingproduction 4 місяці тому +9

      So, kinda like Ranni and the Snow Crone? or Malenia and the Water Dancer (less so). The student taking on the image of the master?

    • @wastefox9100
      @wastefox9100 4 місяці тому

      @@asiblingproduction
      Yes, like that.

    • @zackdoom
      @zackdoom 4 місяці тому +1

      I like this theory a lot

    • @Ellemonadze
      @Ellemonadze 4 місяці тому +2

      Maybe we think too much and St. Trina is just another outer god. Miquella is the vessel for the outer god of sleep like Malenia to the God of rot. And he doesn't know how to get rid of it or doesn't want to because of his charming powers

    • @wastefox9100
      @wastefox9100 4 місяці тому +2

      @@Ellemonadze
      I don't think so. The outer gods have no names and depictions like St.Trina. And why have we an adult and an child form? Maybe there is a god of sleep, but it's not St.Trina.

  • @titaniumteddybear
    @titaniumteddybear 4 місяці тому +12

    The Elden RIng IS the Elden Beast. And we know that the shape of the Elden Ring has changed over time. Does that mean the Elden Beast looked different when they first came to the Lands Between?

  • @bladeoflucatiel
    @bladeoflucatiel 4 місяці тому +12

    I'm pretty much a hollow at this point. I hope I can maintain my humanity and sanity until the DLC drops.

    • @PMKru
      @PMKru 4 місяці тому

      Bruh 1 Month Wont Kill You. Damn Life Gotta Be Sad If Elden Ring Is Controlling You Line A Addict 😂

  • @clodomirchibreluisant7079
    @clodomirchibreluisant7079 4 місяці тому +12

    maybe it is unnerving to depict st. Trina as an adult because miquella was cursed with eternal youth

  • @HijoDelHongo
    @HijoDelHongo 4 місяці тому +4

    Just speculation with nothing to base it off of - perhaps the super sleepy sleepy boi in the DLC trailer IS Fevor

  • @mocho4487
    @mocho4487 4 місяці тому +8

    What if the character we see lying in that purple swamp in the trailer is one of Santa Trina's clerics?

    • @HeevaEgo
      @HeevaEgo 4 місяці тому +3

      Although I do think we’ll meet Trina Clerics. I think the specific character you’re talking about will actually be a “follower” (a fan boy lol).
      I could be very well wrong here, but the sleeping NPC’s mannerisms come across as an unpredictable state of sleep. Almost as if they were searching for Trina, and just fell asleep right on the spot in their presence. I imagine a cleric would probably have more control over their sleep, and therefore look more comfortable in their sleep than what is shown in the trailer… unless that’s just how clerics sleep, in that case I’m still excited anyways lmao. But I’m waffling, don’t listen to me lol

    • @SHADOWLUGIA10193
      @SHADOWLUGIA10193 3 місяці тому

      its st. trina

  • @erin1569
    @erin1569 4 місяці тому +13

    Your and Ziostorm's content are so similar I sometimes can't tell on whose channel I am on

  • @ZanukaV
    @ZanukaV 4 місяці тому +4

    check out the shield of the guilty, when equipped it gives you resistance to frenzy and sleep and if you look at it, the guilty maiden depicted has a striking resemblance to st trina

    • @DanielGarcia-rx3kt
      @DanielGarcia-rx3kt 4 місяці тому +2

      The only thing about this is that the description says the maiden depicted got their eyes crushed by briars of sin before being reborn in the Lands Between. The closest in-game character similar to this is Hyetta/Irina since I doubt Miquella was reborn in the Lands Between. And even then, Hyetta saying her eyes are melting when you give her the FoF makes me think it's not even her on the shield unless the eyes getting crushed doesn't mean she no longer has them so they can still melt. The Focus increase is likely from the symbolism of having your eyes destroyed.

  • @ryankhosravi3136
    @ryankhosravi3136 4 місяці тому +3

    It would be sick if the DLC, with the introduction of that pink magic, had some Miquella charm spells - similar to the bewitching branch

  • @biancaratu3858
    @biancaratu3858 4 місяці тому +1

    something interesting about miquella and saint trina is that in real life, the hormone that allows physical growth, the GH hormone, only gets secreted during sleep, which both explains the cause for miquella's eternal youth and the need for an alter ego that could fulfill the lack of sleep

  • @mariacostello-xr2ec
    @mariacostello-xr2ec 4 місяці тому +8

    Its possible that mohg was bewitched by miquella

  • @kithugomusic
    @kithugomusic 4 місяці тому +3

    Since there looks to be a sleep inducing swamp, and St. Trina is confirmed to appear I wonder if we will be able to go to sleep somewhere (at site of grace or the like) to be able to see her in our sleep. Since that’s seems to be where people have met her. 😴

  • @alcoyot
    @alcoyot 4 місяці тому +2

    There’s a theme in this game of becoming too consumed with something and being destroyed by it. Like those crystal sorceress who end up turning into crystal. Also whatever happened to Radahn. He became like an avatar of the gold, the energy kind of became his body. Then there’s what happens when you get too into dragon magic, or frenzy flame. It’s all people who become consumed and destroyed when they go too far.

  • @BrassPetals3Voices
    @BrassPetals3Voices 4 місяці тому +1

    Have you looked closely at the statues at the Precipice of Anticipation? There is a small one up in the arches of the Grafted arena and along the walls an adult man statue in long hooded robes. The columns along the walls depict a man tending to two intertwined trees. Those two show up together again outside of the area where Godwyn’s head is. Just before you enter the aggro area down there the adult one is now in bad shape with his face blasted off. The little one is at his feet, missing its head. Marika’s two golden children Godwyn and Miquella? G & M seem to have some relationship to Trina and Gloam Eyed Queen (fish tails on GEQ door in Caelid). I wonder if GEQ and Trina are related in a sleep/death way? We see people like Ranni, Rogier, Fia and the Direwolf trapped in sleep too.

  • @PMKru
    @PMKru 4 місяці тому +1

    That Big Purple Flower Field In The Trailer Is Where Miquella/St. Trina Will Be! Cant Wait To See It

  • @BudravenOG
    @BudravenOG 4 місяці тому +9

    I'm curious how St. Trina is connected to Dolores the Sleeping Arrow puppet.
    The description reads: Spirit of a handsome archer who dressed in the style of a man. Called the Silent Hunter by some, she fires St. Trina's arrows from her shortbow.
    Dolores once belonged to the Roundtable Hold, where she was both a critic and a friend of Gideon the All-Knowing. It was because of her that he and Seluvis went their separate ways.

    • @DanielGarcia-rx3kt
      @DanielGarcia-rx3kt 4 місяці тому +4

      Dolores might very well be a cleric of St. Trina's then. That's what is significant of the use of those arrows: spreading Trina's teachings.

    • @GhostWriter-Gohan
      @GhostWriter-Gohan 4 місяці тому

      It's just speculation from my schema of Trina but there's possible context woven in. "Fires" Trina quells frenzy flame, "Silent Hunter" vs trina's Sound & Healer, "both". All basic blatant thematic possibilities
      Lots of big subtext hints here, IF you're open to overanalyzing every word and syllable. I mean that literally, stop reading now unless you enjoy linguistics, creative thinking and time wasting. Ik the mf who can't read will still @ me a reply, I tried 🤷‍♂️
      You'll pick up a lot of meaningless drivel. A perfect example, I know you didn't see the words Siofra, Ainsel and Uhl in the description. Mostly because they're not written, but they very well can be hidden.
      YES some of this is going to be contrived, I'm going to play with cadence, phonetics, and enunciation. I think that's what lyricists and authors do, it's how you craft subtext. It's also how I deconstruct subtext.
      "... (she fir)es St."she fir/sh-ee fur-uh/Siofra
      "... the sty(le) of" style / ss-tye-ull / Uhl
      "... (and Sel)uvis" and Sel/aind Sel / Ainsel
      I know those 3 are separate but intertwined, they share some generic thematic prevalence of; nascent butterflies, Trina's Lily, archery, the nox, singing et al. Generic connection, if there was even intent and affilliation, but this is the way I look at text when trying to deduce every ounce of information I can.
      I don't expect others to do this, and as I've prefaced, because we're an opinionated community- this is more for entertainment than practical.It's the equivalent of walking around the beach with a metal detector, not running Miyazaki & Martin's brain through the fucking Rosetta Stone

  • @Solar_WolfGaming
    @Solar_WolfGaming 4 місяці тому +2

    That's exactly why the item description for the bewitching branch is so misleading. It's all recipes for sleep potions, so it's meant to be a calming tranqilizing agent used to soothe and quell aggression. It makes sense why Miquella's needle is also used in the same way for the scarlet rot and frenzied flame. It's the calmness that keeps your wits about you in the heat of battle or the sleep aid needed for inducing a restful dreamstate.
    Distilled from water lilies to create a sleep inducing drug with similar affects to alcohol. He's making a pain relieving anesthetic called Ether to treat patients as a doctor in a clinic would. (The downside however being that its addictive and highly flammable) Interesting Bloodborne similarity with the purple mist as well. St. Trina is definitely a healer which aligns well with the idea of Miquella wanting to help people and creating his Haligtree or "Healing" tree 😊👍

    • @GhostWriter-Gohan
      @GhostWriter-Gohan 4 місяці тому

      I've been pretty sure for a while now the Isoquinoline Alkaloid of a specific plant was an inspiration

  • @Musexe
    @Musexe 4 місяці тому +61

    I'm not that deep with the lore.. but something tells me st trina is Miquella like his alter ego or something

    • @welby4296
      @welby4296 4 місяці тому +26

      Thats the almost universally agreed upon thing in the community. Definitely get familiar with the lore before dlc it'll probably make it a lot better

    • @dylanmahon2394
      @dylanmahon2394 4 місяці тому +20

      ShERLoCk hOMeS?!

    • @raymondbellamy6497
      @raymondbellamy6497 4 місяці тому +18

      Dude must be using internet explorer

    • @Practicallypreposterous
      @Practicallypreposterous 4 місяці тому +7

      ​@@raymondbellamy6497 let them cook

    • @COHOFSohamSengupta
      @COHOFSohamSengupta 4 місяці тому +5

      Bro update your browser

  • @michaeljohnston8891
    @michaeljohnston8891 4 місяці тому

    Cool detail I noticed about the Sword of Saint Trina. Although its iconography is heavily associated with St. Trina and sleep, it actually has a real world counterpart.
    Tizona, or Tizón, was the sword of errant knight-turned-crusader Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, more commonly known as El Cid, a transliteration of his title given to him by the Spanish Moors, as-Sayyid.
    El Cid was originally a mercenary who fought for both the Spaniards and the Moors in their wars over the Spanish peninsula in the late 11th century, although he would later come to ally himself fully with Spain in their Reconquista.
    Also notable about El Cid (in relation to Elden Ring), was his legendary warhorse Babieca. There’s disagreement on how he came to own this horse, but one poem describes Babieca as being a “gift from a barbarian”.

  • @KuraSourTakanHour
    @KuraSourTakanHour 4 місяці тому +2

    Hopefully sleep builds become more varied and viable with the new content.
    I feel like that sleep swamp area will have respawning Trina's Lillies

    • @Greywander87
      @Greywander87 4 місяці тому

      I've looked at a St. Trina build before, but there just doesn't seem to be much to support it. The sword and torch use different stats (INT vs. FTH), there's very few spells that fit, and very little gear with purple and silver. If only we could change the colors and emblems on equipment. I'm confident the DLC will give us more options.
      TBH, I think all harvestables should have been on a timer to respawn. I know it's a thing with Souls games to respawn everything when you rest at the bonfire, I just don't think that was a good fit in this particular instance. It makes it too easy to farm some ingredients, and extremely difficult to farm others like St. Trina's Lilies that don't respawn.

    • @KevD720
      @KevD720 4 місяці тому

      Maybe the things connected to miquella aren’t respawning is because he’s not still in the lands between spreading them (pause)

  • @Chaos49thlord
    @Chaos49thlord 4 місяці тому +1

    There’s one point I would’ve added was cleanrot knights are very close in relation to miquella, and the knights drop both Trina lily and miquella Lilly

  • @nathanpatnode7671
    @nathanpatnode7671 4 місяці тому +1

    I know sacred blade isn't a unique skill, but given that it is the skill on the Miquellan Knight sword and the mists of slumber skill on St Trina sword uses the same animation as sacred blade, this could point to another connection between Miquela and Trina

  • @Maniacsurvivor
    @Maniacsurvivor 4 місяці тому +5

    Uhm, this is video is only on the playlist, but not under new videos. Anyway, thanks for the vid.

    • @Ziostorm
      @Ziostorm  4 місяці тому +5

      Guess you got a sneak peek😅

    • @walkervo
      @walkervo 4 місяці тому +2

      Bro actually watched this a day ago lol

    • @Maniacsurvivor
      @Maniacsurvivor 4 місяці тому +2

      :)

  • @oduttagupta
    @oduttagupta 4 місяці тому

    Surprized you didn"t talk about Slumbering Egg. This item is quite rare to find and its description is very intriguing.
    "Owl eggs that will never hatch.
    Prized as a symbol of the most sublime slumber."
    This could be either a reference to Miquella's eternal childhood or Renalla Slumbering Egg.

  • @andresmontalvo427
    @andresmontalvo427 2 місяці тому

    Need an updated version with the now dlc!!! Used this watch this one while I waited. Meeting St. Trina in the DLC was dope

  • @erikreber3695
    @erikreber3695 4 місяці тому +1

    I think we will he his/her clerics in the dlc.
    "My brother will keep his promise. He possesses the wisdom, the allure, of a god - he is the most fearsome Empyrean of all.”

    • @GhostWriter-Gohan
      @GhostWriter-Gohan 4 місяці тому

      I think we always were, straight from the beginning. Just a Mimic and a sole Saint

  • @ShadowProject01
    @ShadowProject01 4 місяці тому +1

    I wonder if the NPC’s feet we see at the cocoon in the trailer belong to Fevor.🤔

  • @thenobody7509
    @thenobody7509 4 місяці тому

    St trina is probably an aspect of miquella that got split off from him. Which might explain radagon is marika thing. Radagon is an aspect of marika which was split off

  • @thecrankyoldman
    @thecrankyoldman 4 місяці тому

    Marika represents a tree, Melina represents a branch of that tree.

  • @raymondcaswell5622
    @raymondcaswell5622 4 місяці тому

    Hey Zio. Gonna throw this one out there for you. Lilies are a "hermaphroditic flower." Miquella is one and the same. Upon birth, he/she would have been treated like a god in the same manor as Markia and Radagon (Rebis). Only issue is Miquella was cursed, like all of Marika's children. You have to be dead to become a "saint," so Miquella is similar to Ranni and Melina. A spirit in a sense. Don't be surprised to see a "lily" over Mequilla's left eye in the same way you see that crow claw over Melina's eye (GEQ). You kinda of see something over Ranni's eye but it's hard to make out. Anyway, finding out about the whole St.Trina thing and how they are a part of Miquella should be interesting.

  • @ranchmantubularspacesausag5709
    @ranchmantubularspacesausag5709 4 місяці тому

    St trina has a waterfowl dance kinda move but it puts u to sleep

  • @mmyr8ado.360
    @mmyr8ado.360 4 місяці тому

    It would be funny if the one in the cocoon in Mohgwyn Palace isn't Miquella at all, but rather the guy who made the cookbooks mentioned, and the painting in the intro was a red herring of sorts to lead us to think that the hand was Miquella's, but in reality he compelled Mogh to bring some of his followers along with him, and he used the scholar instead as a gateway to the Land of Shadow.

  • @itsyaboiguzma
    @itsyaboiguzma 4 місяці тому +1

    Still waiting for Miyazaki's inevitable foot enemy

  • @SalFettucini
    @SalFettucini 4 місяці тому

    Perhaps St Trina is the champion of an outer god of dreams? Manifesting itself as an alter ego of whomever it chooses to be its scion? It’d certainly be a play/callback to Marika and Radagon, and could also play into the dual nature of Miquella’s many dichotomies (male and female, willing to give up its form for the sake of rebirth (but pairing with Miquella’s prescience provides another layer of Miquella’s intent by cocooning itself- if he knew mohg was coming to mess up his plans, thus severing Miquella’s ties to the land of the living, it would set them on a straight shot to the lands of shadow). The possibilities are endless

  • @ahipmom3104
    @ahipmom3104 3 місяці тому

    It's interesting that the Walking Mausoleums go to sleep at late night, since they have a connection to the eclipse and Godwyn, and thus to sleep. We can duplicate remembrances there, which have a connection to Finger readers, and I think the Fingers in general are tracing out or manipulating constellations and fates in the stars (you point at stars to trace out constellations). Late night is when the stars are probably at the fullest? I don't know. I think there's just a missing and now forgotten piece of Miquella/Messmer lore here when it comes to the Mausoleums in general. Especially considering they talk about Marika's unwanted soullless children. Someone should talk about these things again.

  • @louissnipe6778
    @louissnipe6778 4 місяці тому +2

    Cant wait for chasethebro to use saint trina's torch.

  • @dayvsonmacel2
    @dayvsonmacel2 4 місяці тому

    Hey Ziostorm, i have a suggestion for a video which, honestly, would be pretty cool imo. Can you make a video about all (or the most popular) unanswered lore questions? Or the most popular misteries we expect to get a conclusion after the the DLC?

  • @bobbydavis4144
    @bobbydavis4144 4 місяці тому

    St. Trina boss fight is going to be such a pain in the ass. Dodge/roll too soon, sleep. Dodge/roll too late, sleep. Do nothing, super sleep. Can't wait!

  • @GrandmaGotGame_
    @GrandmaGotGame_ 4 місяці тому

    What about the Apostate Church up in the consecrated snowfield? There is a sleeping lady who looks like one the wold riding archers... there are also a great place to farm Trina Lily's

  • @ridleydaemonia1134
    @ridleydaemonia1134 4 місяці тому

    Fun fact, rune bears are susceptible to sleep. Like, two sleep pots with almost base arcane stat as an example.

    • @GhostWriter-Gohan
      @GhostWriter-Gohan 4 місяці тому

      One of the first ones you meet is asleep beside a Trina lily in mistwood ruins , where we meet blaidd

  • @beanking2702
    @beanking2702 4 місяці тому +2

    St trina will be to miqula just as radagon is merika they are and aren't the same

    • @GhostWriter-Gohan
      @GhostWriter-Gohan 4 місяці тому

      Okay but what does that mean to you dude. 2 souls, 2 mind, 1 body? Together since forever or joined later on.

  • @stefanjackson1127
    @stefanjackson1127 4 місяці тому

    My theory is that Miquella's plan is to fuse with Messmer to become a god of the Shadow plane (the soul realm). In Alchemy and Hermeticism it's worth looking into the Alchemical Wedding.
    Miquella and Messmer are 2 sides of the same coin. Like Marika and Radagon. I believe Marika and Radagon were once separate and she ascended her qualities that made her the other half of Radagon. I believe they fused in the same principal of the Alchemical Wedding.
    I think each Empyrean has a plane they must belong on. There are 3 general planes of exiatence: the physical, the astral / mind, and the soul.
    I believe each Empyrean aligns wirh this;
    Malenia being the physical plane where she is a swordswoman who's main deal is decay, rot and rebirth.
    Ranni being the Astral / mind / psychic.
    And Miquella being of the soul.
    Based on this I believe the butterflies represent each Empyrean.
    Since we're on the Lands Between I believe we are on the Astral (Ranni's) plane. I think Miquella knew this and that's why he never chose to fight Ranni because he knew it was her plane to begin with.
    The Astral plane is the 2nd stage in the cycle: Physical > Astral > Soul, so it would make sense it would be the Lands Between.
    I think Ranni and Miquella (maybe Malenia too) all conspired in the Night of the black knives.
    My theory beforehand is that Marika made it impossible for the Empyreans to leave to their respective planes because she didn't want to lose any children and broke the cycle.
    I believe across the other planes there will be respective "other half" Empyreans for both Ranni and Malenia too.
    - I have a dew more ideas that seem to go with these theories and make sense.
    Between looking at Jungian Psychology, Hermeticism, Alcehmy, Tarot, Kyballah and the Rosicrucians, there is some real similarities.

  • @TJuice1986
    @TJuice1986 4 місяці тому +1

    43 Days to go!!!

  • @albodoin
    @albodoin 4 місяці тому +1

    If Miquella is forever a child then it's not him in the cocoon but instead it's Mesmer the Impaler.

    • @Someone-fv3iv
      @Someone-fv3iv 4 місяці тому +4

      No, not necessarily. Miquella was growing inside of the cocoon so that he would eventually break his curse. The body in there has been sustained by the blood Mohg has put into it, causing it to naturally grow. The body is just the grown and withered body of Miquella. :)

    • @GhostWriter-Gohan
      @GhostWriter-Gohan 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@Someone-fv3iv so wanting to GROW, the CHILD size miquella spun his own cocoon, later exiting an INFANT?
      Whats up with the giant grown woman in the Haligtree roots, just decoration?

    • @albodoin
      @albodoin 4 місяці тому

      @@GhostWriter-Gohan Yeah that does not make any sense...if you look at the ring on the hand it's made out of snakes, so I still think it's not Mikella in that cocoon.

    • @GhostWriter-Gohan
      @GhostWriter-Gohan 4 місяці тому

      @@albodoin that's likely because you don't speak English naively, because I was disagreeing with the belief that Miquella was in the cocoon

  • @biovalve1410
    @biovalve1410 4 місяці тому +1

    Maybe St Trina is an Outer God that possesses Miquella and is inflicting him with the curse of eternal youth?

  • @Oddspace337
    @Oddspace337 4 місяці тому +1

    Another awesome break time lore video. Love the vids @ziostorm.

  • @jakubchalupa8510
    @jakubchalupa8510 4 місяці тому

    Remember to pick up all focus increasing talismans and items

  • @SeanBistline-fv6zi
    @SeanBistline-fv6zi 4 місяці тому

    St Trina is the adult other half of Miquela who came into being when Miquela planted the haligtree and went to sleep, St Trina exists in the land of shadow and can interact with the land between through peoples dream. I think much like Merika and Radagon are the same being that when Merika became Elden Lord and created the land of shadow the Erdtree split her being as part of the contract and the Haligtree offers the same sacrifice as the Erdtree therefor splitting Miquela’s being as well, this allows both Miquela and Merika access to both the land of shadow and the land between simultaneously granting them lordship of both realms

  • @markop.1994
    @markop.1994 4 місяці тому

    Sooo on a total sidenote i bet that pink magic from the dlc trailer are poison spells. Its the same color as the poisonbloom flowers.

  • @DanielGarcia-rx3kt
    @DanielGarcia-rx3kt 4 місяці тому

    Thinking of that Miquella is Melina video, I wonder if perhaps Melina is Miquella's divestiture of everything Golden? I only think of that because of the scar on St. Trina's face on the torch and considering it was likely made when the Haligtree was being grown then perhaps it was before Miquella went to the Land of Shadows? Melina being his incantation/faith side of the equation with Trina being intelligence/sorcery could be a very compelling thought given Miquella explored Golden Order Fundamentalism and that requires equal balance of Faith and Intelligence. A sort of split like the Dung Eater's though a bit more extreme. Especially since that Torch has a Faith requirement when everything else Trina-related uses intelligence.

  • @tommangum3675
    @tommangum3675 4 місяці тому +5

    Godhood in Elden Ring seems to require the ability to be a vessel for a God/Outer God.
    Marika/Radagon bears the Elden Beast/Elden Ring
    Malenia bears the Rot God.
    Ranni shed her Empyrean flesh, but that may be because the God of Night needed an independent vessel.
    Miquella is associated with Youth/Abundance, but if he is confirmed to also be St. Trina, the Goddess of Sleep/Dreams, this may indicate that Miquella has already ascended to the same level of Godhood as Marika/Radagon, and St. Trina.
    On a somewhat unrelated note, the Palace Approach site of grace: I believe it being the most popular farming location with the despondent Albinaurics is no coincidence. I like to think that those particular Albinaurics have seen the truth of their lord Miquella. Beyond his kidnapping, I believe they have seen and are awakened to Miquella's terrifying nature. "Pure and radiant, he wields love to shrive clean the hearts of men. There is nothing more terrifying."
    I like to speculate that those Albinaurics, like almost everyone else, has been orchestrated by Miquella to be there... for our express purpose of farming them for runes.
    "What is my purpose?"
    "You pass butter."
    "...oh my god."

    • @KopruluRuler
      @KopruluRuler 4 місяці тому +1

      At the end of it all I wouldn't be surprised if it was Miquella who orchestrated our maiden's death all along... after all, we get his steed and are also given his (or Trina's) spirit summoning bell which are absolutely crucial to our journey. It seems Ranni and Melina are also in cahoots with some of his plans concerning the Tarnished.
      Melina: just wants change, any change bars annihilation (frenzy)
      Ranni: further her own goals, freedom and iconoclasm
      Miquella: absolute godhood, harmony under adoration.
      What bugs me is the fact that imo, game implies all tarnished were exiled from the lands between through boats (weeping peninsula lore) but our late tarnished seemingly teleported/was summoned there to a place called the chapel of anticipation. Someone is playing 4D chess with us.

    • @GhostWriter-Gohan
      @GhostWriter-Gohan 4 місяці тому

      ​@@KopruluRulerthank you for picking up on this, I've not seen many other people get there. 4D chess is well put, everyone tells me it's just a plot twist for the sake of a plot twist. I won't ruin your hunt and I'm definitely not giving zio his next video 😂

  • @esther9433
    @esther9433 4 місяці тому

    When I was a newby, I thought Miquella was following Trina's teachings. That's why he chose to protect the species rejected by the Haligtree. I thought that Trina was ancient, older than maybe even the Erdtree. It seems like the people of Uhl palace were Trina's believers and since they live underground, I thought they were around before Miquella. I could be wrong. What if we are all wrong and she's the gloam eyed queen loool

  • @uncleol
    @uncleol 4 місяці тому +1

    I hope the DLC gives us a good way to farm Trinas Lilies.

    • @Someone-fv3iv
      @Someone-fv3iv 4 місяці тому +3

      Assuming that there is an entire sleep swamp in the DLC, I am sure that you will be able to farm MANY Trina’s lilies :)

  • @BoiBlaketh
    @BoiBlaketh 4 місяці тому +1

    Great video, I’m hyped for this DLC ☝🏼 What is that chest/cape piece at around 3:40?!

    • @HeevaEgo
      @HeevaEgo 4 місяці тому

      The Albinauric Women’s chest armour. You can farm them at the Consecrated Snowfield

  • @rtzen9293
    @rtzen9293 4 місяці тому

    Think they will touch on anything about being a maidenless tarnished? Vari was the only one to mock us many maideless ones with that diss.

  • @PoGeRz69
    @PoGeRz69 4 місяці тому

    I love watching lore videos sharing them with my friend

  • @redx3009
    @redx3009 4 місяці тому

    I have a theory primarily drawn from color scheme between Gold and Purple. These are the colors represented by Miquella/St. Trina, where else do we se those colors represented? The eyes of Melina.
    Anyways I am not claiming that Melina is Miquella, just that there are glaring clues within the game that point out towards The Source of everything.

  • @clame3065
    @clame3065 4 місяці тому +1

    ziostorm, my beloved

  • @sam2399
    @sam2399 4 місяці тому

    I'd like to fight strong enemies in dream spaces, kinda like everjails.

  • @kimlee6643
    @kimlee6643 4 місяці тому +1

    The sheer number of sleep animations (check Limit Breaker's vid) together with the cut content makes me wonder how big Miyazaki's plan for this stuff really was, and what part of it will materialize in the DLC. We've had confirmation that the DLC will not patch base game design, but we also hear someone telling us to get on with the touchy touchies to reach said DLC. Intriguing.

  • @OD91MJ
    @OD91MJ 4 місяці тому

    St Trina is gonna be a pain in the ass sleep boss. I know it.

  • @aric8027
    @aric8027 4 місяці тому

    Is that a mimics veil at the bottom of the St. Trina's sword handle?

  • @asianwhiteguy3472
    @asianwhiteguy3472 4 місяці тому

    Nice investigative work as usual 👍

  • @TJuice1986
    @TJuice1986 4 місяці тому

    Another great video, keep them coming! 👊🏻

  • @joshuawilson9005
    @joshuawilson9005 4 місяці тому

    I just came to realization that the cocoon is probably at Trina not miqualla because we know miqualla did not break his curse the size of the body in the cocoon is bigger than all the demigods even radahn and another discovery I found is the cocoon does not match the hole in the haligtree it's too big which leads me to believe miqualla left the haligtree and when to the shadow realm with the help of mohg and that body in the cocoon could be st trina or some other being we don't know about ive even suggested it's messmer buttt that doesnt clear out because the land of shadow is not a dream place it's a place that exist just like the lands between so who ever it is in that cocoon had access to the land of shadow but I'm sure it's not miqualla I'm almost certain it's st trina

  • @kwamemwangs2173
    @kwamemwangs2173 4 місяці тому +1

    Alright whats going on guys 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

  • @Kwyn-With-A-K
    @Kwyn-With-A-K 4 місяці тому

    8:09 who is this a statue of? Is that all the forms of Miquela

  • @lich8546
    @lich8546 4 місяці тому

    I can see it. If this Trina is a boss by chance she's gonna put us to sleep 🫣

  • @syllawblood
    @syllawblood 4 місяці тому

    Miquella in that cocoon doesn't look like a child. Looks bigger than mohg

    • @HeevaEgo
      @HeevaEgo 4 місяці тому

      Since day 1 of Elden Ring, I’ve taken this to just mean that since Miquella’s youthful soul is no longer housed within his body, the body can be defiled and altered and grown and changed - as a result of Mohg’s blood rituals.
      It is miquella, but him entering a cocoon in the first place is why his body becomes big.

    • @syllawblood
      @syllawblood 4 місяці тому

      @@HeevaEgo oK, found the Drake fan!

    • @HeevaEgo
      @HeevaEgo 4 місяці тому

      @@syllawblood huh? It’s literally part of the lore that Mohg tries to “share his bloody bedchamber with the young empyrean”, the creep that he is?
      Am I making this up??

  • @landongill5039
    @landongill5039 4 місяці тому +1

    Alright, What's Goin On Guys 🤑

  • @coledaulton8740
    @coledaulton8740 4 місяці тому

    Wasn’t there a cut questline with fevor or some other follower of Trina?

  • @zackdoom
    @zackdoom 4 місяці тому

    Trinas lilys are withered like miquella

  • @simonealcazar816
    @simonealcazar816 4 місяці тому +1

    The Albinauric archers do not shoot St.Trina arrows. I don’t know how you’ve come to this conclusion. 7:34

    • @Solibrae
      @Solibrae 4 місяці тому

      He did make a mistake there but while they don't shoot these arrows, they do have a chance to drop them, so there's still a strong connection between the two.

  • @DeadlyTinyOrc
    @DeadlyTinyOrc 4 місяці тому +1

    Yooooo about time

  • @treymarkus1987
    @treymarkus1987 4 місяці тому

    Am I trippin or could the statue in the mimic tear arena be st trina? (4:11) robed figure idk

  • @AmboXB
    @AmboXB 4 місяці тому

    I hope they bring back Gwyndolin/Prince Lothric’s VA for Miquella. Would suit him nicely IMO.

  • @Hiddenhand1
    @Hiddenhand1 4 місяці тому

    st.Trinas Comes from Rykard , DLC snake head

  • @flugga182
    @flugga182 4 місяці тому

    to me the fact that the Trina's torch clearly states that it depicts Trina in her adult form while Miquella is cursed with being forever a boy, is proof that they are not the same person. It does not get more clear than that, right?

    • @GhostWriter-Gohan
      @GhostWriter-Gohan 4 місяці тому

      What makes a person. Their mind ? Their body? Their soul?

  • @buckschneider7973
    @buckschneider7973 4 місяці тому

    Well the last vid you reacted to might actually be correct. St Trina goes in and out and hard to detect and see the gender of. Miquella for sure. Adult version Melina, makes sense

  • @HeevaEgo
    @HeevaEgo 4 місяці тому

    Of course, everything I say here will be meaningless because we’ll have answers in 1 month….
    …. but I think the relationship is a twist on Marika/Radagon. I DO Think Miquella and Trina are different personalities and “people” (perhaps like Marika and Radagon). However, unlike Marika/Radagon, I think Trina purely exists in the form of a spirit - intangible and bodiless. Miquella being divested of flesh (typical empyrean activities atp) means to me that Trina is closer to their goals. Hence why we’ll see Trina in the Land of Shadow, and not some dream realm, because Trina is traversing the Land where Miquella departed to - in hopes of unifying together.
    I’ve never held the belief that they were the same person, personality. It would make more sense, in the context of the world, if they were different. But the game leaves the idea ambiguous enough for there to be room for speculation

  • @Blindking84
    @Blindking84 4 місяці тому

    Hey so I'm watching a video about Alucard and how he got his powers and apparently he was called "Vlad the impaler" the weapon and the grab move and special move garden of the impaled that messamer uses are all linked to Vlad himself also Vlad's origin story of being a crusader type fighting for good and in the end dies cursing God and everything else... Could this be the same with messamer and why he may have burned the erd tree... Also messamer looks like a vampire to me now... That pale skin those bat like wings on the snakes his unique blood flame... What say you #ziostorm

  • @darkmatter9643
    @darkmatter9643 4 місяці тому

    Me personally, I think St.Trina, Miquella and Melina are the same person

  • @TeamKhandiKhane
    @TeamKhandiKhane 4 місяці тому

    Its been my theory that Miquella will end up a boss if not the boss of the DLC. However since the DLC trailers scene where the jars are hanging in a spiraled staircase, it makes me think back to Griffiths rescue in Berserk, and the Four Kings in New Londo. There be some treachery afoot here.

  • @RSAVee
    @RSAVee 4 місяці тому

    Will your first dlc through be streamed or solo and then take things from there?

  • @redcap2771
    @redcap2771 4 місяці тому

    Maybe Melina is St Trina daughter. Wild guess

  • @nayeonranghae
    @nayeonranghae 4 місяці тому +1

    wanted to get v rising but refunded it cus my laptop was trash now i have a pc and i wanna play it lol

  • @99Livesx
    @99Livesx 4 місяці тому

    Lemme find out St Trina is an all out brawler🤣

  • @xion38
    @xion38 4 місяці тому

    We still need an answer to why Miquella is blonde. All children of Radagon have red hair, including Malenia, who is his twin.

  • @FreeRunn3r97
    @FreeRunn3r97 4 місяці тому

    what if in the cocoon it's actually st trina?

  • @HiroThatDude
    @HiroThatDude 4 місяці тому

    I'm searching Elden ring dlc everyday just begging for more info I'm to excited plz give me another 50 hrs at least dlc

  • @bananacorn4375
    @bananacorn4375 4 місяці тому

    Pretty sure it’s the Covetous Demon

  • @xflip94
    @xflip94 4 місяці тому

    Babe wake up the alright whats going on guys just dropped a new video! Lol just kidding im maidenless