The real happiest ending here was Kalé, he got to sit in the Church of Elleh for the entire game in blissful ignorance of the genocide against his people because his questline was never implemented
Search for Kale's secret cut dialogue, he was suppost to have a quest where you (the player) would take him to the catacombs beneath leyndell and show him the fate of his people.... And he wasn't happy about it. I'm not sure why FromSoft decided to cut his quest, it offers valuable background on the history of the Caravan.
You know I've been playing the game on stream and I made it a personal mission to kill Dung Eater as soon as I found his real body, and everyone yelled at me like "oh if you just do his quest you get to kill him" and I insisted no, I want to kill him as soon as possible, I'm not indulging him or his quest. So I killed him in the cell. Come to find out, if I had let him out, he would have killed this guy, and Boiled Crab is literally the only buff item I have made regular use of the ENTIRE game, it's helped me through so much of the late game, and if I'd let Dung Eater out I'd be SOL X3
Unfortunately for boggart, dung eaters puppet is actually pretty good, and there's nothing more satisfying than hearing that filth whimper as he realizes he's never going to get to hurt anyone ever again.
You can still have a good ending for him even if you free the Dung Eater. Just don't talk to him after you get Rya's necklace. That way, when you're invaded by Dung Eater, you'll only see some dead guy tied on a chair.
I dont think he is truely dead. Considering his pose is very similar to some in his basement I believe he got the very fitting punishment of being turned into a puppet. Shame we can't summon him though.
Its heart breaking too, I seen somewhere that they were actual sisters and that their grave could be found somewhere around where you bring them together
The sad part about Boc's quest is that the corpse you pick up the 'you're beatuiful' Pate is most likely his Mum. It even has a different accent from the rest of the clay whistles, more Northern and feminine.
Maybe, but in the same way, that means you deliver her final wish, to ensure her child finally loves himself, as she loved him. That’s a happy ending in it of itself, given he already believed her dead, meaning the other Demi humans must have given her such a cruel fate as they separated the two, robbing them of everything. In her final moments, all she wished was for her child to finally be happy. You grant that wish by delivering her final words to her son. I’d say that’s a happy ending. He doesn’t need to know she perished terribly, he just needed to remember she loved him, that she thought he was beautiful, and that’s what mattered.
@@Norinia as a matter of fact boc hears her mother's voice when you use it, which means she probably carve the Prattling Pate herself. But that's my speculation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think Roderika scores highest as "Crestfallen archetype that genuinely turns things around and finds her own value, but is unwilling to compromise her honor and gratitude by leaving Hewg to die alone." We never do find out what happens to them, but even if they died, Roderika still made something meaningful of her life, like her men knew she would.
@@ginjaninja-sv6ozEven so, Hewg will eventually die from Dementia, assuming that we restored the Elden Ring with all of its runes, including Destined Death. Roderika would be alone in the Round Table Hold, to watch Hewg slowly succumb to his affliction.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 I mean, yeah, Hewg is royally fucked because of his dementia, but as Elden Lord, player character surely can at least undo his shackles so him and Roderika are free to leave Roundtable. Let the old man have his final moments of freedom.
@@yogsoggoth Didn't Roderika or the Hag near the fingers say that his mind was only falling apart because it was linked to the Erdtree? You only see him lose it when the tree starts burning but since the endings (except for Frenzied Flame and possibly Ranni's ending) show the tree back to normal, wouldn't that mean he would be restored?
Someone made a small comic of Zorayas journey where she hid inside a bush, asking Boc to fix her cape. Boc called her out to come out and sit with him near the fire but Zorayas afraid her appearance will scare him. Boc insisted so she appeared. Boc just asked for her cape which to her surprise, Boc didn't even question her appearance. They had a lovely night dancing near the fire with her cape fixed and Boc made a new friend.
I like to think that Zorayas ended up bumping into Big Bogart, and in a gesture of kindness, gives him her necklace as she has no use for it anymore. To repay in kind, he gives her some of his boiled prawn and they just sit together to have a snack before she sets off on her journey again.
@@sudanesegamer7886considering she was just gonna die alone in a shack in the middle of nowhere. Her being with her master in his final moments is rather good
The roundtable is a projection tied to the state of the erdtree and marika, in most endings you make the tree *not* burn up anymore so logically so would the roundtable. Hewg is...still not gonna be doing too hot though...@@sudanesegamer7886
@@ongka2000 If summuned near wolves, the spirit can call and mount the random wolves running in the Consecrated Snowfields and use them to move pretty fast
@@felixcote1697 lore wise its actually pretty cool, i forget exactly how it works but its actually the wolves calling her to ride them instead of the other way around
It is likely a bug since all the albinauric archers have a trigger to make wolves come to them so that they can mount them, rather than having a special interraction with specific wolf enemies, so it's most likely just something leftover from Latennas base mechanics as an albinauric archer.
@@vergil8833 | While it's definitely the result of shared code, it's absolutely NOT a bug. Fromsoft loves obscure details like that, especially when it requires little additional effort.
His ending was perfect. He got to see the Radahn Festival, fight one of the mightiest beings in the land, and had an honorable duel with his battle companion--a legend. Alexander was limited by a fragile body and knew that he couldn't become any stronger, but found a true warrior to inherit his strength and carry on his legacy. For a jar, there is no greater honor.
Alexander, Jar-bairn, and Diallos's connected questlines are sad with very slight amounts of hope shining through here and there. Alexander reaches what he considered to be his peak and wanted his duel of fates with you, the only warrior he seems to admire. Diallos, even though he fails to defend the village, manages to redeem himself in his own mind before the end. And Jar-bairn, despite the clear trauma inducing event he witnesses, choose to move forward and aspire to be the warrior he knows Alexander to be (Hopefully, he doesn't get stuck in as many holes).
Alexander has a happy ending imo, he dies in fulfillment of his goals, and no matter how the duel goes the winner gets stronger (Alexander consumes us making him stronger, or he gives us the shard with some flesh attached) and their legacy lives through the victor
Boc really is best boy. He doesn’t ask for much besides a little love and a simple needle. In return, he treats you with the utmost respect and undying loyalty.
Millicent's ending (yes, the one where she dies) isn't unhappy at all. She goes out fighting, on her own terms, rather than becoming another vehicle for the Rot Kindred/Gowry's machinations. She chose freedom, even if it meant an agonising death, rather than becoming a pawn in an insane attempt to create another Malenia. Big respect for my personal favourite NPC.
I think there's really two kinds of character deaths in souls quests. There's those characters who die in fullfillment of their goals with no regrets, such as Siegward of Catarina or Ironfist Alexander, and there are those whose lifes are just tragically cut short by ill fate, like Greirat the Thief or Irina. As far as I'm concerned, a fullfilling death can still be viewed as a good ending in its own right from a narrative perspective whereas a sudden and unexpected Death just feels like getting sucker-punched.
I would absolutely have to agree. I think its very important to make the distinction between characters who make us sad because they deserved better and had a sad story, or characters who succeed but die in the end. I don't think anyone can argue that Alexander didnt completely succeed in his goal of becoming stronger. He goes out with a warriors death and has no regrets. If you visit all of his locations in the world and understand the basic lore of the warrior jars, Alexander pretty closely follows the path laid out by the hero's journey
Poor Greirat, when I heard him say that Lothric was a death trap but that he was certain he could traverse it, I knew deep down he wouldn't return. But his last words, still had some hope within them, as he was happy that we let him continue to steal instead of letting him rot in safety.
Dont forget the npcs who just plain suck. Elden ring has more of these than most. Where the quest has very little to what you do. One thing I will never give dk3 crap about again is the way the player has agency in deciding what happens to them. Though by coincidence most of the happy ending quest in elden ring are ones that involve a lot of agency to the player. At least in this video. Though I will say something this game does really badly over some other ones is actually giving a concrete ending to these good quest. There is no patches at the end of the world as he helps you reveal the illusion and all that. No seigward dying in his sleep after succeeding in his mission. No Hawkwood who has grown past his cowardice and challenges you to a duel to determine his fate for power. Like zoryas just walks off screen after, bock as a npc still doesn't really change. Meanwhile latenna goal is so out there and beyond comprehension in terms of what is actually accomplished that it really doesn't feel much has been done. Dk feels like as a whole the npc quest in this game feel worse the more you do them as many complete themselves. (Alexander the one with the best loot not only has many bugs with it but also doesn't need any player inpute to get done
good catch. Although i was never able to trigger the last stages of this quest, it was so buggy and probably still is, i always lose track of her after the albanauric village
I just love how out of all the NPCs we encounter in the whole world of Elden Ring, the only other NPC Melina even acknowledges and cares about is Boc. It's so cute.
@@enterusername6953 apparently there was some cut content for your Mimic Tear being an NPC companion. Melina has dialogue lines where she talks to it. And the mimic has lines as well
@@stormlordeternal7663 Zorayas calls you her Champion, which is the next best thing to Lord. Godfrey also deems you worthy of being a Lord when you defeat him, and even uses the term "Tarnished" with nothing but genuine respect and and likeness. Out of all of the characters, none made me feel proud to be called Tarnished than Godfrey did.
Zorayas' quest was just the most heart wrenching because she's such a sweet girl. Killing her or making her forget is both hurtful to your soul. Kill her but you don't feel anything but just numbness and giving her the potion is only a hollow happiness. Walking away and refusing to do either and making her realize people can a will love her unconditionally is and that she must set out to do what is best for herself is the sweetest and most fulfilling thing you could feel.
imagine if in a land far out from the strange sea that surrounds these lands there come atles are a power, massive she serpent who guards her new home with fury.
Everything about Volcano Manor is amazing, from the dysfunctional family vibes, the assassinations on behalf of Tanith, and of course Rya's adorable ass and her questline. Genuinely the best area in the game hands down
I cannot tell you how relieved I was that there was a way to keep Boc alive. He's just the sweetest lil bean and I loved him a lot, and I'm glad they gave you a way to make him feel happy in his own skin and not feel ashamed of himself.
I really like Thops’s ending. Its him accomplishing what he’s worked his entire life for and proving everybody who called him stupid wrong. He basically discovers an entirely new school of magic and then dies from contentment.
Zorays' ending when she leaves and names the Tarnished as her champion has me thinking... Since she is by all means the child of a demigod, wouldn't that make her a demigod by default? I mean the other demigods received their power when their parent married a God. Maybe she will inherit that power and become a powerful friend/foe in the next game.
She's adopted, so she doesn't have any holy/powerful blood flowing through her veins. Miyazaki isn't big on sequels anyway. Dark Souls was the odd on one out. He normally does one-offs like Demon's Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro. We might not even get an Elden Ring 2.
To me the funny thing about Zorayas is that, albeit she is perfect and can do no wrong, I'm convinced she rigged the whole thing with Boggart on purpose and was just trying to get him killed. She's a scout for Tanith and the Recusants. She is looking for "tarnished warriors who are willing to murder, if needed, for a righteous cause". So we find her doing the whole damsel in distress routine in the middle of Liurnia. When she talks to you, it's all "woe is me, can some brave courageous soul save me? But look.... it just MAAAAAAYYY involve a tiny bit of murdering. A dreadful bandit has stolen my precious thing".... So you go see about that and while Boggart DOES seem fairly unequivocally a bandit, he's also a pretty small time petty crime type of guy, from what we can tell in the game. He boasts about how he tricked the dumb girl and made away with her necklace, which he then offers to sell you back. As you get closer to him, you see he's got a lot of posturing but, ultimately, seems to be a far cry from the malice of so many characters we meet. We know he was in prison, he stole from a "witless vulnerable girl" but he never attempted to harm her, what he stole from her is just jewellery, he can be easily reasoned with.... He just seems to be trying his best in a cruel world that cast him aside. And then we go back to Zorayas and she just assumes we murdered him. Since we have no qualms about murdering people for the right cause "you know what, you could really join my faction of heroes that just happen to murder a lot", and then presents us with the next step on the test. But Lady Tanith and the Recusants now only have the manpower, they know what they're doing. Zorayas is never given a bodyguard on these scouting missions for explicitly dangerous people, for one. She talks to you, priming you for killing and just assumes you did it. That you would negotiate with Boggart or try to find an amicable solution is something she distracts you from because she is testing you as a candidate for the Recusants. It's hard to tell if she approached Boggart for that reason as well or if he was bait from the get go since Patches is proof that Tanith isn't looking TOO closely at who she brings in. But really... I just can't look at that without thinking Boggart was the mark all along. HE got tricked into stealing the pendant so he'd serve as a test for whoever would be willing to murder him to recover it
@@nickelakon5369 Patches? I dunno, feels like a bit of a stretch because that questline progresses like that even if you just instantly murder him in Limgrave, at which point he MIGHT never meet Rya? It kind of IS a Patches thing to do, but I don't know.... don't quite see it fitting myself at this point
@@VileLasagnaIf you talk to Patches before you get the necklace back, he insists that you talk to Raya and says that she probably needs help and it might be worth it for us.. suspious don't you think?
@@eneasyou OIC... hmm... maybe? But it could also be that he heard Rya and then just decided to not bite. We know he knows OF her but he also makes it to the Volcano Manor all on his own as you can follow him into Mt Gelmir and he knows about the Abductor in Raya Lucaria (maybe that's how HE gets to Altus?)...
This is an extremely cogent perspective about the Volcano Manor - despite Rya's sweet temperament and supposed helplessness, she was part of a vicious House that hunted down other Tarnished. Some of the most helpful NPCs, like Tragoth the Bull Goat, Old Knight Istvan, and a few others are chosen by the Tarnished to be murdered. In fact, the Tragoth's bio specifically says "Tragoth is a famed knight of assistance. Countless Tarnished, facing adversity in the Lands Between, have survived thanks only to the Great Horned One's aid" Volcano Manor isn't assassinating 'baddies' who 'deserve' to die, but rather the most helpful warriors to advance their own agenda. Rya is culpable in all of this, and her making Boggart the MARK complete makes sense in context of what Volcano Manor's goals are.
Them as well. But millicent doesn't need protecting. She tough as nails. Still wife though. Rod will always be the GOAT AND RYA SHOULD'VE CAME TO THE ROUNDTABLE HOLD WITH THE TARNISHED!!! @@yasininn76
I mean, Hewg's tale has a happy ending in my opinion. He did smith a weapon to kill a god, despite him no longer having the memory of doing so. It's terrible that he gets amnesia before you face Radagon and the Elden Beast. Yet once I beat the game I knew he had done it correctly and that was enough for my heart. It actually made the final boss more epic too, I wasn't just doing it to sit atop the throne anymore; it was to see Hewg's tale come to fruition and to spit in the face of Gideon who thought the feat would be impossible.
Technically, Blackguard can have a happy ending. If you progress the Dung Eater's quest to the stage where he ties himself up on a chair in the sewer gaol BEFORE blackguard moves to his spot by the crabs outside the capital, you can prevent him from being killed by the Dung Eater. You could also kill the Dung Eater outright without doing any part of his quest and still save him, but doing that locks you out of getting his mending rune entirely. Blackguard never has any special dialogue as far as I've noticed, but I much prefer to buy crab from him as opposed to his bell bearing.
You can get the Dung Eater puppet summon if you put a hold on the Ranni's quest and feed Seluvis's potion to him in the sewer when he's tied to a chair, but that requires you to trigger Dung Eater's invasion event first and that means you can't trigger Blackguard's event as well if you want him alive. Turns out I just accidently saved him by trying to get the Dung Eater puppet.
You can also do his Dung Eater's full questline without Blackguard dying in the Outer Mort. Before you release the Dung Eater out of his cell, go to Blackguard and make him aggressive to you (hit him). When he's aggressive, Dung Eater can invade you without killing Blackguard. Once you defeat invading Dung Eater, use a celestial dew at the church to absolve your sins. Blackguard will be friendly again. Now Blackguard can cook all the crabs he likes and Dung Eater can do his poop thing. Both of them alive.
To do a good ending for Boggart do this: Buy Rya's necklace from him - then talk to him again and buy some stuff Later talk to the Dung Eater at the Roundtable Hold; later when you have a Seedbed Curse, he tasks you to free him Then get to the moat near the capital, talk to Boggart and buy some stuff again from him At this point he tells you about the horror of the Dung Eater Now aggro Boggart to attack you - and then flee Free the Dung Eater, then get back to the Roundtable hold, where you will find a message of the Dung Eater, that he is comming for you Now get back to the moat and do not get close to Boggart - he is still mad at you at this point But if you didn't aggro him before, then now he would dying and the Dung Eater invades you... If however Boggart is still mad at you, then he lives, while he can even watch you to trample Dung Eater After this just get to the Curch of Vows and get absolution - now you can go back and enjoy another freshly cooked prawn meal with Boggart - he will survive Nepheli can be Queen of Limgrave if you do her quest, and don't give Seluvis' potion to her In this case Kenneth and Gostoc will be at her side in Stormveil Throne room - if you did Kenneth's quest before till he laments he has to find a new lord
Or just wait to by the prawns from Boggart in Liurnia until after you do that part of the Dung Eater's questline. This locks you out of getting one Seedbed Curse, but you only need five to complete Dung Eater's questline and there are six in the game. The last two are both in Elphael, so you have to get that far anyway to get enough Seedbed Curses anyway.
@@Nazgûl77777-Č̣ i did the same my first playthrough but after that i just started going through the main gate and let him live, had no reason to kill him when he hadnt stolen from me or locked me in a dark room with a strong ass knight
I'm so glad we are allowed to not only save Boc but basically gain the most loyal and endearing follower possible in any Soulsborne game. Usually with these games this means these sort of characters' quests end in inevitable misery and depression... but it's like Miyazaki finally allowed us to finally save a truly innocent and endearing charcter can even incorporate Boc into our role-playing. Imagine just making a character just to befriend Boc and your Tarnished goal is to become Elden Lord just so you and Boc can chill in peace and be friends, like that's actually awesome and wholesome goal and worth fighting for
Boc was the First Dude I met and I Just Love him so yes friend I will become elden Lord and then eat sweets with you in a scenic Spot yessir and I'm Happy He doesn't die
Im surprised you didn't include nepheli quest Imo she got the best ending in the game She becam queen of limgrave and has you and the goofy kenneth at her side
@@MrTalithan And he said there from the same tribe, tribes share last names a lot of the time, but even then she could also just be a distant relative not his direct daughter how many people in your family share the last name with you? I'm assuming your not all brother and sisters.
@@MrTalithan Just because she's called that, doesn't mean she is his kid. It could be the same with Gostoc, who in cut content, says he's the son of Godrick. Who's to say what's the truth/lie?
Patches ending is pretty good too. After the volcano manor u can find him at the shaded castle and he "dies" but if u go back to the first cave where you find him with the highway men then u can do his boss fight again and when u hit him he'll recognize you and yield. It's really cute in a way
You nailed it on the head dead on at the end. I absolutely love bleak settings exactly for the reason you described. When a world is filled with tragedy, the happy moments end up being unforgettable.
Am I the only one that thinks a panicked Boc turned himself into a tree and then forgot he did it? Demi humans seem to have this ability naturally. Boc is also located right in the middle of an area where there's nothing but enemies in every direction or the way is blocked by a ravine. "I forgot, some clod turned me into a tree." he was talking about himself.
@@gremlinman9724 the ingame spell being meh is one thing, but the way I understand it is that Thops found a way of protection against glintstone, which seems kinda nice to have if you look at what became of Azur and Lusat.
I like to imagine Zorayas, Boc and Jar Bairn going on an adventure together to seek the answers they want, with maybe Patches acting rude but going because he cares about Zoraya. I think it's in character for him.
Rya is such a pure soul in such a terrible place/world/realm/universe, I'd bet if we *could* accompany her on her journey rather than becoming the (Elden) Lord, we'd all do it in a heartbeat.
I got the final ending of Zorayas's quest. Killing her or removing her memories both sounded terrible. A pity you don't get to actually say goodbye, but she seems happier and that's what mattered.
Thops had an ok ending. His contemporaries will never understand but future generations would come to know that he had invented an entirely new school of magic, one that nullifies glintstones with ease.
i always found myself subconsciously avoiding character quests. I just knew that in a fromsoft game there aren't many quests that don't end in death. really the only one that i did willfully finish was raya's. all the others i either finished without knowingly advancing them or avoided finishing. atleast there are a few good ones that give you a sense of a "good ending" not just existential dread. "i have been feeding this poor blind woman other people's eyes in hopes she becomes no longer blind" like c'mon fromsoft like really.
The first time I arrived in the Ashen Capital and saw that utter wasteland, I immediately began to panic, warped just outside of the capital, and BOOKED it to where Boc was. The whole time I was just ranting "No, no no no, this isn't fair! You can take anyone else from me - Millicent, Diallos, Fia, even Melina - BUT YOU CAN'T HAVE HIM!!" Words cannot express my relief when I found him safe and sound where I'd left him. I legit almost cried (in fact, knowing me, I probably did cry a little), he's one of if not the purest soul FromSoft has ever given us, and I would've been utterly devastated if he had gotten caught up in the aftermath of the runaround the Greater Will had given me. He deserves so much better than that.
People are already mentioning Nepheli having a happy ending, so I'd just like to add that both Kenneth Haight AND Gostoc piggy-back on Nepheli and get happy endings too by making her their ruler. Three happy NPCs in one quest, right there. A case could be made that Shabriri gets a happy ending when you do the Frenzied Flame ending, or really, as soon as you accept the Frenzied Flame. He'll leave Yura's armor set for you, and the last you'll see of him is if you summon him for Hoarah Loux. Additionally, Hyetta was pretty stoked to burn up via the Frenzied Flame. Lady was bonkers. Gowry gets a happy ending when we choose to kill Millicent. It's what he wanted. (although ultimately not a happy ending for him if we then kill Malenia, seeing as that apparently negates the possibility for Millicent to be reborn a 'crimson valkyrie'). Jerren gets a happy ending if you side with him against Sellen. She's been a thorn in the Carian Royal Family's side since before Radahn froze the stars. He and Iji have wanted Sellen dead for a while.
Yeah. Kenneth Haight can finally become a duke again and act as an advisor to a competent ruler who cares for her kingdom, and Gostoc can finally serve a master that treats him well. Both benefits greatly from having Nepheli replace a delusional madman like Godrick as the ruler of Limgrave.
Maybe a hot take here, but I am of the opinion that Thops gets a good ending. You make his day by learning his sorceries, you make his day by giving him a glintstone key and despite being dead at the end he's found cradling his own custom sorcery. A sorcery that would literally birth a new conspectus in the academy at that. He can feel happy in the afterlife knowing he proved the burger king mascot mfs wrong. He's certainly no bluntstone
@@kajus I'd assume it leans more towards a happy end because his work area is still very much clean and tidy, nothings been knocked around, theres no blood spilled and I'm pretty sure hurling magic star stones at people with your staff would cause at least somewhat of a wound. So hooray for Thops! He showed hogwarts whats what
I wish that her questline ending was that she turned into a scarlet rot butterfly or atleast something nice. But no she dies of the rot and nothing ends well for my favorite npc.
Aldia and Vendrick in DS2 are peak Va. Especially Aldia is actually interesting to listen to when knowing about all the light and dark shennigans of DS1.
1:30 interestingly enough, the only characters in the game that can use mimicry without the veil are the demi humans, it's a cool note that even they have their own small branch of magic
Honorable mention to Nepheli’s quest. Becoming the new ruler of Limgrave and Stormveil Castle and being free to become and arbiter of peace and justice is a great ending all things considered. Plus now she has the pleasure of interacting with THE GREAT KENNETH, SERVANT OF TRUE ORDER AND REPUDIATOR OF THE FALSE!
Don’t forget Jarbairn, who receives Alexander’s Innards if you’ve been doing your job, and Nepheli Loux, who becomes Lord of Stormveil, also if you’re doing your job correctly.
Ironfist Alexander’s ending is a bittersweet one but also leaves on a positive note. The entirety of his journey he carved his own path into being a great warrior, unbound by anyone or any faction
To be fair I don't think it would be entertaining to watch a dude who wanted to prove all of his peers wrong be beaten to death by masked people with books
@@phantasmalphoenix2990 The real reason he dies off screen would be because if we could arrive to see him getting beaten by a bunch of nerds, we'd kick their ass and possibly save his life, which would be problematic if he's supposed to die. And if we watch him die in front of us with no way for us to save him, that's more frustrating than sad, it would have "I couldn't protect him, this is bullshit" energy rather than "why do all my friends die?" energy.
Miyazaki has said that he is more of a pessimist and it shows. Sometimes I think it goes a bit too far (I don't think the world is so terrible, honestly, at least in our countries), but the downer stories fit the game and you kinda expect them. I think it's worse when it comes from nowhere just because "it's profound to be nihilistic, you know?" or some crap like that (also, it is not any more profound that writing good "happy" stories by any measure)
I feel Tolkien, for example, is profound and also is generally optimistic: despite some of his characters meeting tragic ends, he makes it clear that evil at the end will always fight in vain and lose. And that, even in death, good will stand tall.
Anyone else think boc and zoraya have a ton in common? Both were treated as abominations by their peers, had loving mothers (adopted or otherwise), and had hearts of gold.
I'd argue that Thop's ending was happy (or at least bittersweet) too, after all, he managed to prove everyone doubting him wrong by creating his magic.
Honestly the ending paragraph of brightness from triumph is honestly why I enjoy the 40k universe. I am no fan of Grimm darkness, but seeing light in such a Grimm setting makes it that much more brighter.
YES I'm right there with you on that. 40k, Souls games, and other series like Darkest Dungeon and Resident Evil always catch my attention because I love seeing when characters triumph against all odds
Zoraya is one of the sweetest characters I've ever encountered I'm ngl, I still adore her even on my 5th playthrough and now that I know she can have a happy ending I'm going to be constantly giving her that ending.
The most frustrating thing about UA-cam is that it took almost a year for them to recommend this video to me. I watch similar videos regularly and this is the first time I’ve come across your channel. Great work.
Fun fact, Zorayas is named after a character from Night’s Master by Tanith Lee, a super underrated book! It’s therefore likely that Lady Tanith is named after Lee herself. Lee’s Zorayas is nothing like this one, though.
There is actually another happy end, at least what I would call a happy and that is the pot bairns quest. While there is the sad ending where his village dies and he mourns diallos's death, if you skip diallos's quest you can also give him the Alexander innards and he will leave the with a new passion, to become a warrior jar and everyone in the village lives.
I believe Alexander's ending is sad yet good. He completed his dream to fight someone very strong and while player easily defeats him, for him it was a great honour to fall from the Tarnished one's hand
i legit almost shed a tear when sellen got turned into that ball. I felt so bad, like knowing that if i hadnt talked with her she would never have suffered such a cruel fate.
I never tell Sellen about lusat . And just help her reach lucaria. Once that's done even telling her about lusat doesn't turn her into that.... thing... So It's a happy ending!!
@@ArcNine9Angel You need to find Sellen's new body before telling her about Lusat. Her old body was actually locked up by Jerren at Weeping Peninsula, after you get there and retract her "soul" from her old body, find Seluvis's hidden cellar at Ranni's Rise and put her "soul" into her new body located in that cellar. After that go back the Weeping Peninsula and talk to Jerren, it will trigger the event at academy library where you either help Sellen to defeat Jerren or help Jerren to kill her. Pick Sellen and she'll be in the library right after the invasion ends.
Happy for who though? The PC preventing her from achieving her goals of persuing the primal current isn't happy imo. Spoiler: Her turning into a graven school is probably the first step in ascending into the seed of a star, her magnum opus. Plus she's been doing it to many others which is what got her locked up, so if there's a negative from her doing it to herself it's karmic justice. Sure she might hatch into an eldritch bug but it's her decision, why she chose to continue living rather than simply be trapped.
@@hayuseen6683 I believe she failed with whatever goal she had. Lets put all together: she is standing at the centre of throne room in academy, pushing Renalla back - saying that her way would be the future of the academy, leading to the bright future. But when you see her as a sphere, Renalla is back at the centre. And in her first dialogue with you, she clearly sounds as if she failed, that she don't even want to speak about it. Well, at least she survived really. Not the worst fate.
Thank you for the great video! I think Sellen is also a good ending, as long as you don’t find the sorcerer in the cave (Lusat?) ; she remains Lady of Raya Lucaria and Renala stays in timeout. If you don’t kill Blaid, then Iji does not die either, which I guess it is good too.
Sellen was fishy, I sided with Jerren. He knew Iji and Ranni, and was organizing the Radahn festival. A true lad. To me it sounded like the Caryan Royals forbid the study of the primeval current for valid reasons and Sellen was stepping into dangerous ground, plus she knew Seluvis (even if she didnt like it much) so it was a red flag to me.
@@makoUnderground as much as i can agree with this, the jerren armor set is drippy + sellen coddled me my entire gameplay and i loved it, but jerren has to die for the pussy, he’ll understand im sure
@@makoUnderground good instinct, having now learned that the primeval sorcery studies have lead to the mass graves of sorcery students, not always by will, fuck sellen, and selivus as well, they are quite literally the "mad scientist" embodiment in this game, very smart but far too egotistical in their own goals to understand the harm they've brought to others.
Irina has the best ending if you do not meet with her father or go past the outskirt of Stormveil to meet Hyetta. She will stay on the side of the road, bleeding and yelling forever, yet the goblins 10 feet away cannot attack her. OK now let us be honest to ourselves and do not pretend it is an "ending" what would happen if we shelved or failed a quest line.
I believe that Devin, the second D, deserves a mention as well. Though his brother, Darian, is killed by the witch Fia, if you give Devin the Twinned Set he will be able to kill Fia after you kill Fortisaxx. Not only does Devin avenge his brother by killing Fia, but he also completes their mission by making sure Fia could not have an heir with Godwyn.
He doesn't actually kill Fia, Fia dies when she gives birth to the death rune (which is the "heir" she was intending to make). If you don't give him the armor until after you get the mending rune, Fia's still a dead body there. He just comes up and stomps a dead body lol.
Might be the fact that the game usually ends with the player sitting on a throne. And the golden color pallette. Also, the world feels less cynical than Dark Souls. Elden Ring doesnt have the same air of pointlessness. We're altering or destroying the order of the world, not ending life and death as we know it.
OMG i have over 260 hours in Elden Ring and had thought id seen it all and done it all BUT I was wrong I had no idea about the use of the Pate with Boc...Brilliant thanks
I really wish they'd actually let us go back and put her spirit to rest with Lobo, removing the ashes from your inventory but granting her request which I'd ultimately feel a lot better about.. Still a good ending but I wish we could go and put her with Lobo.
Millicent got what she wanted in the end, but it was rather heartbreaking for the player. So in a weird way she got her happy ending too, and the tarnished got a very depressing rest of their day. Edit: Apparently someone posted something similar to this elsewhere in the comments and I didn't notice it before I wrote the comment. Sorry about that.
It suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks in this video that Latenna's voice actor also voices Shadowheart in Baldur's Gate 3. Haven't played Elden Ring in a long while, and I've been playing the BG3 early access on and off recently. Never occurred to me before hearing her lines all at once again.
I think their deaths are a good thing, a major theme in the soulsbourne is life isn’t supposed to go on forever and so these NPC dying is good and somewhat merciful in a rotting/hollowing world. Tragic yes but compared to some others we come across? Their deaths are not all bad.
The real happiest ending here was Kalé, he got to sit in the Church of Elleh for the entire game in blissful ignorance of the genocide against his people because his questline was never implemented
In that case every merchant got the happy ending 😆
@@laurelie9008 you....kill random non hostile npcs to test equipment when theres respawning enemies?
@@laurelie9008 what a loser
@@mikea3098 sadly a lot of people do that. Even to the ones that are nice or are pleading for you to buy something so they can eat
Search for Kale's secret cut dialogue, he was suppost to have a quest where you (the player) would take him to the catacombs beneath leyndell and show him the fate of his people....
And he wasn't happy about it.
I'm not sure why FromSoft decided to cut his quest, it offers valuable background on the history of the Caravan.
I've known Zoraya for like five minutes but if anyone hurts her I will intentionally get the frenzied flame ending so the entire planet suffers.
I was like that when my boy ijin died and master hewg lost his memory
I guess only the lands between have that kind of fate, not the entire world
I'm willing to invade people over knowing they were mean to her.
@@unforgiven1889 rip master hewgway 😢
@@somethingmemorable5707 you know my pain then the world should definitely burn away
Big Boggart can have a pretty good ending if you never let the dung eater free. He gets to cook up lots of fresh crab
You know I've been playing the game on stream and I made it a personal mission to kill Dung Eater as soon as I found his real body, and everyone yelled at me like "oh if you just do his quest you get to kill him" and I insisted no, I want to kill him as soon as possible, I'm not indulging him or his quest. So I killed him in the cell.
Come to find out, if I had let him out, he would have killed this guy, and Boiled Crab is literally the only buff item I have made regular use of the ENTIRE game, it's helped me through so much of the late game, and if I'd let Dung Eater out I'd be SOL X3
@@CloudyObsession when blackguard dies he drops his bell bearing meaning you can still buy crab
@@iainkilcar7463 Enh I'd rather leave the guy responsible for one of my biggest tools in late-game alive anyway
Unfortunately for boggart, dung eaters puppet is actually pretty good, and there's nothing more satisfying than hearing that filth whimper as he realizes he's never going to get to hurt anyone ever again.
You can still have a good ending for him even if you free the Dung Eater. Just don't talk to him after you get Rya's necklace. That way, when you're invaded by Dung Eater, you'll only see some dead guy tied on a chair.
I would argue Seluvis' ending is a happy one. Most unlikeable character ends up dead isn't bad in my book.
He is a big creep too
I dont think he is truely dead. Considering his pose is very similar to some in his basement I believe he got the very fitting punishment of being turned into a puppet. Shame we can't summon him though.
If you seek around, you can infer who Seluvis truly was. Also that he isn't coming back
@rambo171993 who would that be?
@MegaProudAlbanian who is pidia
Zorayas calling you HER champion will always warm my heart
RANNI WHAT?
RANNI WHO???
ZORAYAS IS THE BEST THATS TRUE!!
Rya/Zorayas's champion thats nice
We are all Zorayas champion. All.
The jellyfish quest is the most wholesome thing I've seen in any fromsoft game
and the time it takes to get to that point makes it even better.
It was actually kind of cool, not sure how much I would consider it a quest though.
Its heart breaking too, I seen somewhere that they were actual sisters and that their grave could be found somewhere around where you bring them together
Totally agreed
As Wholesome as you can get from two little girls souls trapped in a jellyfish.
The sad part about Boc's quest is that the corpse you pick up the 'you're beatuiful' Pate is most likely his Mum. It even has a different accent from the rest of the clay whistles, more Northern and feminine.
sobbing. this is heartbreaking
Maybe, but in the same way, that means you deliver her final wish, to ensure her child finally loves himself, as she loved him.
That’s a happy ending in it of itself, given he already believed her dead, meaning the other Demi humans must have given her such a cruel fate as they separated the two, robbing them of everything.
In her final moments, all she wished was for her child to finally be happy. You grant that wish by delivering her final words to her son.
I’d say that’s a happy ending. He doesn’t need to know she perished terribly, he just needed to remember she loved him, that she thought he was beautiful, and that’s what mattered.
Northern? Northern what?
@@kilambrown4302 English
@@Norinia as a matter of fact boc hears her mother's voice when you use it, which means she probably carve the Prattling Pate herself. But that's my speculation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think Roderika scores highest as "Crestfallen archetype that genuinely turns things around and finds her own value, but is unwilling to compromise her honor and gratitude by leaving Hewg to die alone." We never do find out what happens to them, but even if they died, Roderika still made something meaningful of her life, like her men knew she would.
I mean, the erdtree stops burning after we get an ending. Maybe the round-table stopped burning, too? Maybe? Please.
@@alfalldoot6715 I want Hewg and Roderick to be safe so this is my new head canon
@@ginjaninja-sv6ozEven so, Hewg will eventually die from Dementia, assuming that we restored the Elden Ring with all of its runes, including Destined Death. Roderika would be alone in the Round Table Hold, to watch Hewg slowly succumb to his affliction.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 I mean, yeah, Hewg is royally fucked because of his dementia, but as Elden Lord, player character surely can at least undo his shackles so him and Roderika are free to leave Roundtable. Let the old man have his final moments of freedom.
@@yogsoggoth Didn't Roderika or the Hag near the fingers say that his mind was only falling apart because it was linked to the Erdtree? You only see him lose it when the tree starts burning but since the endings (except for Frenzied Flame and possibly Ranni's ending) show the tree back to normal, wouldn't that mean he would be restored?
Someone made a small comic of Zorayas journey where she hid inside a bush, asking Boc to fix her cape. Boc called her out to come out and sit with him near the fire but Zorayas afraid her appearance will scare him. Boc insisted so she appeared. Boc just asked for her cape which to her surprise, Boc didn't even question her appearance. They had a lovely night dancing near the fire with her cape fixed and Boc made a new friend.
This is canon, I refuse to accept any alternative
Where did you find It ?
soy
I like to think that Zorayas ended up bumping into Big Bogart, and in a gesture of kindness, gives him her necklace as she has no use for it anymore. To repay in kind, he gives her some of his boiled prawn and they just sit together to have a snack before she sets off on her journey again.
Bro wtf, I'mma cry in the corner
Didn't saw anyone talk about my dear Roderika. She was basically suicidal but then found a new purpose as a spirit tuner.
ello. aw yew ere foh spiwit chooning
@@GuiltlessGear
didnt she stay in the burning rountable while her teacher who was getting dementia stayed with her. not exactly a happy ending
@@sudanesegamer7886considering she was just gonna die alone in a shack in the middle of nowhere. Her being with her master in his final moments is rather good
The roundtable is a projection tied to the state of the erdtree and marika, in most endings you make the tree *not* burn up anymore so logically so would the roundtable. Hewg is...still not gonna be doing too hot though...@@sudanesegamer7886
Giving Zorayas the potion is worse than killing her, she's now alone in the manor because everyone left, alone and not knowing who she truly is.
well all her siblings are still around
@@apal1329 the bright side
@@apal1329 Yeah but they don’t like her I believe she said snakes and humans think she is weird Abomination of magic
@@HumanB312 oh wow, really? :(
I thought at least they would be kind to her
Tannith is still there, just let her finish her meal and she'll be back
Is her house after all is not like she can't go chat with mommy
Latenna is capable of mounting the giant wolf enemies you find in the snowfields, allowing her to fight at her full potential. It's an amazing detail.
Say what?
@@ongka2000 If summuned near wolves, the spirit can call and mount the random wolves running in the Consecrated Snowfields and use them to move pretty fast
@@felixcote1697 lore wise its actually pretty cool, i forget exactly how it works but its actually the wolves calling her to ride them instead of the other way around
It is likely a bug since all the albinauric archers have a trigger to make wolves come to them so that they can mount them, rather than having a special interraction with specific wolf enemies, so it's most likely just something leftover from Latennas base mechanics as an albinauric archer.
@@vergil8833 | While it's definitely the result of shared code, it's absolutely NOT a bug. Fromsoft loves obscure details like that, especially when it requires little additional effort.
I’m tempted to say Alexander deserves a mention too since he kinda accepts his death and goes down fighting like he wanted.
he did get a half-mention at the end.
yeah because for him it's a win/win fight no matter what, succeed and become stronger or die as a true champion that he is
His ending was perfect. He got to see the Radahn Festival, fight one of the mightiest beings in the land, and had an honorable duel with his battle companion--a legend.
Alexander was limited by a fragile body and knew that he couldn't become any stronger, but found a true warrior to inherit his strength and carry on his legacy. For a jar, there is no greater honor.
Alexander has the fighting spirit of an Ork.
I'm pretty sure Alexander started to go a bit crazy after putting the scarlet rotted warriors in himself after the Radahn fight
Alexander, Jar-bairn, and Diallos's connected questlines are sad with very slight amounts of hope shining through here and there. Alexander reaches what he considered to be his peak and wanted his duel of fates with you, the only warrior he seems to admire. Diallos, even though he fails to defend the village, manages to redeem himself in his own mind before the end. And Jar-bairn, despite the clear trauma inducing event he witnesses, choose to move forward and aspire to be the warrior he knows Alexander to be (Hopefully, he doesn't get stuck in as many holes).
Hopefully we’ll see a grown Jar-Bairn in the future, coz!
Alexander has a happy ending imo, he dies in fulfillment of his goals, and no matter how the duel goes the winner gets stronger (Alexander consumes us making him stronger, or he gives us the shard with some flesh attached) and their legacy lives through the victor
Diallos didn't fail. Sure, almost all the jars died. But his sacrifice saved and inspired Jar-Bairn.
Boc really is best boy. He doesn’t ask for much besides a little love and a simple needle. In return, he treats you with the utmost respect and undying loyalty.
Millicent's ending (yes, the one where she dies) isn't unhappy at all. She goes out fighting, on her own terms, rather than becoming another vehicle for the Rot Kindred/Gowry's machinations. She chose freedom, even if it meant an agonising death, rather than becoming a pawn in an insane attempt to create another Malenia. Big respect for my personal favourite NPC.
While it is a tale of going out on her own terms, by no means is it a happy one.
There's a theory that millicent was supposed to be Malenias daughter, which makes it a bit more tragic itself
A better ending would be one where she just eats a bolus...
She's afterall The PRIDE OF MALENIA.
The aspect that held off Rot until Radhan. Millicent rejecting Rot wasn't a surprise to me at all.
Also gives Malenia her Needle back
Zoraya is a sweet sweet girl.
She deserves far better.
The Lord of Sneks ending when??
I wonder if she could survive the larval tear? better ending she becomes my maiden in sickness and in health.
To be honest, i think she looks better in her snakeform.
@@laharlkent the only one who can "survive" the rebirthing process is the holder of the rune of rebirth... so only you.
@@boneman-calciumenjoyer8290 I didn't know I was so special, Thx🥰
I think there's really two kinds of character deaths in souls quests.
There's those characters who die in fullfillment of their goals with no regrets, such as Siegward of Catarina or Ironfist Alexander, and there are those whose lifes are just tragically cut short by ill fate, like Greirat the Thief or Irina.
As far as I'm concerned, a fullfilling death can still be viewed as a good ending in its own right from a narrative perspective whereas a sudden and unexpected Death just feels like getting sucker-punched.
I would absolutely have to agree. I think its very important to make the distinction between characters who make us sad because they deserved better and had a sad story, or characters who succeed but die in the end. I don't think anyone can argue that Alexander didnt completely succeed in his goal of becoming stronger. He goes out with a warriors death and has no regrets. If you visit all of his locations in the world and understand the basic lore of the warrior jars, Alexander pretty closely follows the path laid out by the hero's journey
Poor Greirat, when I heard him say that Lothric was a death trap but that he was certain he could traverse it, I knew deep down he wouldn't return. But his last words, still had some hope within them, as he was happy that we let him continue to steal instead of letting him rot in safety.
Dont forget the npcs who just plain suck. Elden ring has more of these than most. Where the quest has very little to what you do. One thing I will never give dk3 crap about again is the way the player has agency in deciding what happens to them. Though by coincidence most of the happy ending quest in elden ring are ones that involve a lot of agency to the player. At least in this video. Though I will say something this game does really badly over some other ones is actually giving a concrete ending to these good quest. There is no patches at the end of the world as he helps you reveal the illusion and all that. No seigward dying in his sleep after succeeding in his mission. No Hawkwood who has grown past his cowardice and challenges you to a duel to determine his fate for power.
Like zoryas just walks off screen after, bock as a npc still doesn't really change. Meanwhile latenna goal is so out there and beyond comprehension in terms of what is actually accomplished that it really doesn't feel much has been done.
Dk feels like as a whole the npc quest in this game feel worse the more you do them as many complete themselves. (Alexander the one with the best loot not only has many bugs with it but also doesn't need any player inpute to get done
Then there comes Patches
We take what little happiness we can get in the world of Souls
7:44 Literally _everybody_ makes the Snake Eater joke about this ladder, and it _still_ never gets old.
Dont forget my boy Kenneth, dude straight up loses his castle and yet still manages to worm his way into being royal advisor of Limgrave
Nepheli literally becomes the ruler of storm veil. I'd call that a pretty good ending.
@@simonparadis1773 no if you don’t give it to her. You can still play the quest
Idk because she doesn't have a husband to rule it with aka me
good catch. Although i was never able to trigger the last stages of this quest, it was so buggy and probably still is, i always lose track of her after the albanauric village
@@simonparadis1773 what Phumin said, plus it’s not even Ranni’s quest, it’s Selivus’ quest
ruler of what? a bunch of dead hollow
I really like Boc. Someone who actually appreciates and shows me respect while everyone else just calls me a low born and tries to kill me.
I just love how out of all the NPCs we encounter in the whole world of Elden Ring, the only other NPC Melina even acknowledges and cares about is Boc. It's so cute.
@@enterusername6953 apparently there was some cut content for your Mimic Tear being an NPC companion. Melina has dialogue lines where she talks to it. And the mimic has lines as well
But heeey, you can always oneshot combo their asses and show everyone by becoming Elden Lord
To my knowledge literally only Boc and Hewg call you lord. Simply showing these two outcasts kindness and some help is enough to warrant loyalty.
@@stormlordeternal7663 Zorayas calls you her Champion, which is the next best thing to Lord. Godfrey also deems you worthy of being a Lord when you defeat him, and even uses the term "Tarnished" with nothing but genuine respect and and likeness. Out of all of the characters, none made me feel proud to be called Tarnished than Godfrey did.
Zorayas' quest was just the most heart wrenching because she's such a sweet girl. Killing her or making her forget is both hurtful to your soul. Kill her but you don't feel anything but just numbness and giving her the potion is only a hollow happiness. Walking away and refusing to do either and making her realize people can a will love her unconditionally is and that she must set out to do what is best for herself is the sweetest and most fulfilling thing you could feel.
Dont kill and you can ignore her
So kind.
So uncompromising.
My champion
imagine if in a land far out from the strange sea that surrounds these lands there come atles are a power, massive she serpent who guards her new home with fury.
Everything about Volcano Manor is amazing, from the dysfunctional family vibes, the assassinations on behalf of Tanith, and of course Rya's adorable ass and her questline. Genuinely the best area in the game hands down
I cannot tell you how relieved I was that there was a way to keep Boc alive.
He's just the sweetest lil bean and I loved him a lot, and I'm glad they gave you a way to make him feel happy in his own skin and not feel ashamed of himself.
Just popped in here to say that Zorayas deserves all the happiness in the world.
easily
yes idc but who ever choose to kill her must rot in caelid
Best girl
I really like Thops’s ending. Its him accomplishing what he’s worked his entire life for and proving everybody who called him stupid wrong. He basically discovers an entirely new school of magic and then dies from contentment.
no clearly he was bludgeoned to death by books
He was murdered. You can see his hands are tied on his body.
@@deadlyapple8333 While you may be correct, WHY COULDNT WE HAVE LIVED THE BEAUTIFUL LIE!!!
man created a barrier fit to challenge a god
@@beardfistthegoldenone7273 because we're adults bro. You can't go out spreading lies intentionally it's part of your responsibility as a human
Zorays' ending when she leaves and names the Tarnished as her champion has me thinking... Since she is by all means the child of a demigod, wouldn't that make her a demigod by default? I mean the other demigods received their power when their parent married a God. Maybe she will inherit that power and become a powerful friend/foe in the next game.
I guess that’s what she’ll find out in her journey🧐
she's gonna pull that wierd meat sword out of her gullet and throw a bunch of skulls at you like her dear old pa
She's adopted, so she doesn't have any holy/powerful blood flowing through her veins. Miyazaki isn't big on sequels anyway. Dark Souls was the odd on one out. He normally does one-offs like Demon's Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro. We might not even get an Elden Ring 2.
She’s adopted, the empiryan criteria is totally up to the grace of the fingers, she’s not related
@@hanfei6871 The blasphemy of her creation means she is also outside of the grace of the Outer Will. She isnt part of its cycle.
To me the funny thing about Zorayas is that, albeit she is perfect and can do no wrong, I'm convinced she rigged the whole thing with Boggart on purpose and was just trying to get him killed.
She's a scout for Tanith and the Recusants. She is looking for "tarnished warriors who are willing to murder, if needed, for a righteous cause". So we find her doing the whole damsel in distress routine in the middle of Liurnia. When she talks to you, it's all "woe is me, can some brave courageous soul save me? But look.... it just MAAAAAAYYY involve a tiny bit of murdering. A dreadful bandit has stolen my precious thing"....
So you go see about that and while Boggart DOES seem fairly unequivocally a bandit, he's also a pretty small time petty crime type of guy, from what we can tell in the game. He boasts about how he tricked the dumb girl and made away with her necklace, which he then offers to sell you back. As you get closer to him, you see he's got a lot of posturing but, ultimately, seems to be a far cry from the malice of so many characters we meet. We know he was in prison, he stole from a "witless vulnerable girl" but he never attempted to harm her, what he stole from her is just jewellery, he can be easily reasoned with.... He just seems to be trying his best in a cruel world that cast him aside.
And then we go back to Zorayas and she just assumes we murdered him. Since we have no qualms about murdering people for the right cause "you know what, you could really join my faction of heroes that just happen to murder a lot", and then presents us with the next step on the test.
But Lady Tanith and the Recusants now only have the manpower, they know what they're doing. Zorayas is never given a bodyguard on these scouting missions for explicitly dangerous people, for one. She talks to you, priming you for killing and just assumes you did it. That you would negotiate with Boggart or try to find an amicable solution is something she distracts you from because she is testing you as a candidate for the Recusants. It's hard to tell if she approached Boggart for that reason as well or if he was bait from the get go since Patches is proof that Tanith isn't looking TOO closely at who she brings in. But really... I just can't look at that without thinking Boggart was the mark all along. HE got tricked into stealing the pendant so he'd serve as a test for whoever would be willing to murder him to recover it
Imo its true that the pendant theft was a set up
But Zorayas is not the one who set it up, Patches did.
@@nickelakon5369 Patches? I dunno, feels like a bit of a stretch because that questline progresses like that even if you just instantly murder him in Limgrave, at which point he MIGHT never meet Rya?
It kind of IS a Patches thing to do, but I don't know.... don't quite see it fitting myself at this point
@@VileLasagnaIf you talk to Patches before you get the necklace back, he insists that you talk to Raya and says that she probably needs help and it might be worth it for us.. suspious don't you think?
@@eneasyou OIC... hmm... maybe? But it could also be that he heard Rya and then just decided to not bite. We know he knows OF her but he also makes it to the Volcano Manor all on his own as you can follow him into Mt Gelmir and he knows about the Abductor in Raya Lucaria (maybe that's how HE gets to Altus?)...
This is an extremely cogent perspective about the Volcano Manor - despite Rya's sweet temperament and supposed helplessness, she was part of a vicious House that hunted down other Tarnished. Some of the most helpful NPCs, like Tragoth the Bull Goat, Old Knight Istvan, and a few others are chosen by the Tarnished to be murdered.
In fact, the Tragoth's bio specifically says "Tragoth is a famed knight of assistance. Countless Tarnished, facing adversity in the Lands Between, have survived thanks only to the Great Horned One's aid"
Volcano Manor isn't assassinating 'baddies' who 'deserve' to die, but rather the most helpful warriors to advance their own agenda. Rya is culpable in all of this, and her making Boggart the MARK complete makes sense in context of what Volcano Manor's goals are.
Rya's snake form is actually cute and her storyline is a tearjerker indeed. I wish there is a sequel and we can meet her again to talk and hang out.
Rya is the purest thing that has come out from the lands between and we must protect her at all costs
Ahem. Roderika. Millicent
Them as well. But millicent doesn't need protecting. She tough as nails. Still wife though.
Rod will always be the GOAT
AND RYA SHOULD'VE CAME TO THE ROUNDTABLE HOLD WITH THE TARNISHED!!!
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I mean, Hewg's tale has a happy ending in my opinion. He did smith a weapon to kill a god, despite him no longer having the memory of doing so. It's terrible that he gets amnesia before you face Radagon and the Elden Beast. Yet once I beat the game I knew he had done it correctly and that was enough for my heart. It actually made the final boss more epic too, I wasn't just doing it to sit atop the throne anymore; it was to see Hewg's tale come to fruition and to spit in the face of Gideon who thought the feat would be impossible.
It's still tragic because he loses all memories of Roderika, the closest thing to a friend and family he ever had
It saddens me that i couldnt tell him that i killed the god using the weapon he upgraded for me.
Man the feels I got when he called me his Elden Lord in the dialog you get between burning the Erd tree and defeating Maliketh.
Bro i legit wouldn't have become elden lord if it weren't for master hewg upgrading my two great swords
Should have had the option to give him a +10 or +25 weapon to make him remember, even if for a moment.
Technically, Blackguard can have a happy ending. If you progress the Dung Eater's quest to the stage where he ties himself up on a chair in the sewer gaol BEFORE blackguard moves to his spot by the crabs outside the capital, you can prevent him from being killed by the Dung Eater. You could also kill the Dung Eater outright without doing any part of his quest and still save him, but doing that locks you out of getting his mending rune entirely.
Blackguard never has any special dialogue as far as I've noticed, but I much prefer to buy crab from him as opposed to his bell bearing.
You can get the Dung Eater puppet summon if you put a hold on the Ranni's quest and feed Seluvis's potion to him in the sewer when he's tied to a chair, but that requires you to trigger Dung Eater's invasion event first and that means you can't trigger Blackguard's event as well if you want him alive. Turns out I just accidently saved him by trying to get the Dung Eater puppet.
Let's keep our seafood bro alive.
You can also do his Dung Eater's full questline without Blackguard dying in the Outer Mort. Before you release the Dung Eater out of his cell, go to Blackguard and make him aggressive to you (hit him). When he's aggressive, Dung Eater can invade you without killing Blackguard. Once you defeat invading Dung Eater, use a celestial dew at the church to absolve your sins. Blackguard will be friendly again. Now Blackguard can cook all the crabs he likes and Dung Eater can do his poop thing. Both of them alive.
Jar Bairn picking up Alexander’s legacy is one of the best endings for a character in a souls game ever
To do a good ending for Boggart do this:
Buy Rya's necklace from him - then talk to him again and buy some stuff
Later talk to the Dung Eater at the Roundtable Hold; later when you have a Seedbed Curse, he tasks you to free him
Then get to the moat near the capital, talk to Boggart and buy some stuff again from him
At this point he tells you about the horror of the Dung Eater
Now aggro Boggart to attack you - and then flee
Free the Dung Eater, then get back to the Roundtable hold, where you will find a message of the Dung Eater, that he is comming for you
Now get back to the moat and do not get close to Boggart - he is still mad at you at this point
But if you didn't aggro him before, then now he would dying and the Dung Eater invades you...
If however Boggart is still mad at you, then he lives, while he can even watch you to trample Dung Eater
After this just get to the Curch of Vows and get absolution - now you can go back and enjoy another freshly cooked prawn meal with Boggart - he will survive
Nepheli can be Queen of Limgrave if you do her quest, and don't give Seluvis' potion to her
In this case Kenneth and Gostoc will be at her side in Stormveil Throne room - if you did Kenneth's quest before till he laments he has to find a new lord
Or just wait to by the prawns from Boggart in Liurnia until after you do that part of the Dung Eater's questline. This locks you out of getting one Seedbed Curse, but you only need five to complete Dung Eater's questline and there are six in the game. The last two are both in Elphael, so you have to get that far anyway to get enough Seedbed Curses anyway.
Only npc named gostoc i kill because he stile my 20% - 30% rune💀
@@Nazgûl77777-Č̣ i did the same my first playthrough but after that i just started going through the main gate and let him live, had no reason to kill him when he hadnt stolen from me or locked me in a dark room with a strong ass knight
I'm so glad we are allowed to not only save Boc but basically gain the most loyal and endearing follower possible in any Soulsborne game. Usually with these games this means these sort of characters' quests end in inevitable misery and depression... but it's like Miyazaki finally allowed us to finally save a truly innocent and endearing charcter can even incorporate Boc into our role-playing. Imagine just making a character just to befriend Boc and your Tarnished goal is to become Elden Lord just so you and Boc can chill in peace and be friends, like that's actually awesome and wholesome goal and worth fighting for
Boc was the First Dude I met and I Just Love him so yes friend I will become elden Lord and then eat sweets with you in a scenic Spot yessir and I'm Happy He doesn't die
I'm still mad that we couldn't help the Oedon Chapel Dweller in Bloodborne.
@@skydonkey9515 I'm still mad the only way to save Greirat is to not complete his quest.
@@diegosaez4885 right?, it's like fromsoft likes to watch us develop these bonds and shatter our hearts into millions of pieces lol
Im surprised you didn't include nepheli quest
Imo she got the best ending in the game
She becam queen of limgrave and has you and the goofy kenneth at her side
you better become the leader of something if your dad is the Elden Lord
@@huneylove5 eh I don't think hoarah loux is her father
I like to think They're from the same tribe
@@zora508 Her full name is literally Nepheli Loux.
@@MrTalithan And he said there from the same tribe, tribes share last names a lot of the time, but even then she could also just be a distant relative not his direct daughter how many people in your family share the last name with you? I'm assuming your not all brother and sisters.
@@MrTalithan Just because she's called that, doesn't mean she is his kid. It could be the same with Gostoc, who in cut content, says he's the son of Godrick. Who's to say what's the truth/lie?
Patches ending is pretty good too. After the volcano manor u can find him at the shaded castle and he "dies" but if u go back to the first cave where you find him with the highway men then u can do his boss fight again and when u hit him he'll recognize you and yield. It's really cute in a way
Fuck patches, piece of shit deserves getting game-ended.
@Hugh Mann did he kick u off the cliff too?
@@14ndCounting and threw me off a bridge.
patches is goated
Patches got alot of development in this game, i really liked it.
You nailed it on the head dead on at the end. I absolutely love bleak settings exactly for the reason you described. When a world is filled with tragedy, the happy moments end up being unforgettable.
"Oh, I guess she's dead." - Every enemy watching me charge headfirst at them with joyful naïveté, knowing full well where my quest ends.
Am I the only one that thinks a panicked Boc turned himself into a tree and then forgot he did it? Demi humans seem to have this ability naturally. Boc is also located right in the middle of an area where there's nothing but enemies in every direction or the way is blocked by a ravine. "I forgot, some clod turned me into a tree." he was talking about himself.
He was referring to one of the other beastmen, one of the shamans (who are the ones that do that disguise).
Not trying to be rude at all, I just thought Boc got a curse put upon him? I could be wrong
@@KainYusanagi people like to think so hard that they ignore what's in front of them
ngl I accidentally killed him because I didn't have the right controls loaded, thought I was interacting and....dead
@@zoddsonofthor5576 you monster 😡
I’d say thops has a happy ending, he proved them all wrong. That spell actually states that it was worthy of a new conspectus
well, the description says that. whether or not it's actually that good is...up to debate.
@@gremlinman9724 true, but usually item descriptions don’t lie
@@colorgreen8728 but i mean it is just a ash of war but is a spell that consumes fp. And is kind of just a diwngrade to carian retaliation
@@namethefifth7315 it’s a lot better at pure defense than carian retaliation, the spell is
@@gremlinman9724 the ingame spell being meh is one thing, but the way I understand it is that Thops found a way of protection against glintstone, which seems kinda nice to have if you look at what became of Azur and Lusat.
I like to imagine Zorayas, Boc and Jar Bairn going on an adventure together to seek the answers they want, with maybe Patches acting rude but going because he cares about Zoraya.
I think it's in character for him.
The true reward to their questing was none other than... jolly cooperation!
That's a weird dnd party
I like to imagine PAtches adopts Rya reluctantly out of Tanith's memory. He'll be a unprepared father but it's a wholesome thought.
I want a TV show of that XD.
@@minespatch
The idea of Patches trying to teach zorayas how to be a thief like him, and failing cuz shes too nice is adorable lmao
Rya is such a pure soul in such a terrible place/world/realm/universe, I'd bet if we *could* accompany her on her journey rather than becoming the (Elden) Lord, we'd all do it in a heartbeat.
That Socrates and Plato meme there with the quotes was fantastic. Was a philosophy major and that hits so hard, my guy. well done
I got the final ending of Zorayas's quest. Killing her or removing her memories both sounded terrible. A pity you don't get to actually say goodbye, but she seems happier and that's what mattered.
The quest might continue in a DLC.
Thops had an ok ending. His contemporaries will never understand but future generations would come to know that he had invented an entirely new school of magic, one that nullifies glintstones with ease.
mhm well said
i always found myself subconsciously avoiding character quests. I just knew that in a fromsoft game there aren't many quests that don't end in death. really the only one that i did willfully finish was raya's. all the others i either finished without knowingly advancing them or avoided finishing. atleast there are a few good ones that give you a sense of a "good ending" not just existential dread. "i have been feeding this poor blind woman other people's eyes in hopes she becomes no longer blind" like c'mon fromsoft like really.
The first time I arrived in the Ashen Capital and saw that utter wasteland, I immediately began to panic, warped just outside of the capital, and BOOKED it to where Boc was. The whole time I was just ranting "No, no no no, this isn't fair! You can take anyone else from me - Millicent, Diallos, Fia, even Melina - BUT YOU CAN'T HAVE HIM!!"
Words cannot express my relief when I found him safe and sound where I'd left him. I legit almost cried (in fact, knowing me, I probably did cry a little), he's one of if not the purest soul FromSoft has ever given us, and I would've been utterly devastated if he had gotten caught up in the aftermath of the runaround the Greater Will had given me. He deserves so much better than that.
Man my first run 150 hours and i’ve searched every corner yet still missed so much.
Whats dumb about bocs quest is that there isnt a way to make him meet Kenneth…who wants to freakin talk to demihumans
People are already mentioning Nepheli having a happy ending, so I'd just like to add that both Kenneth Haight AND Gostoc piggy-back on Nepheli and get happy endings too by making her their ruler. Three happy NPCs in one quest, right there.
A case could be made that Shabriri gets a happy ending when you do the Frenzied Flame ending, or really, as soon as you accept the Frenzied Flame. He'll leave Yura's armor set for you, and the last you'll see of him is if you summon him for Hoarah Loux. Additionally, Hyetta was pretty stoked to burn up via the Frenzied Flame. Lady was bonkers.
Gowry gets a happy ending when we choose to kill Millicent. It's what he wanted. (although ultimately not a happy ending for him if we then kill Malenia, seeing as that apparently negates the possibility for Millicent to be reborn a 'crimson valkyrie').
Jerren gets a happy ending if you side with him against Sellen. She's been a thorn in the Carian Royal Family's side since before Radahn froze the stars. He and Iji have wanted Sellen dead for a while.
Yeah. Kenneth Haight can finally become a duke again and act as an advisor to a competent ruler who cares for her kingdom, and Gostoc can finally serve a master that treats him well. Both benefits greatly from having Nepheli replace a delusional madman like Godrick as the ruler of Limgrave.
Maybe a hot take here, but I am of the opinion that Thops gets a good ending.
You make his day by learning his sorceries, you make his day by giving him a glintstone key and despite being dead at the end he's found cradling his own custom sorcery.
A sorcery that would literally birth a new conspectus in the academy at that.
He can feel happy in the afterlife knowing he proved the burger king mascot mfs wrong.
He's certainly no bluntstone
@@MothDax I can get on board with that. But we'll never know what his last moments were like, so here's hoping he was happy!
@@kajus I'd assume it leans more towards a happy end because his work area is still very much clean and tidy, nothings been knocked around, theres no blood spilled and I'm pretty sure hurling magic star stones at people with your staff would cause at least somewhat of a wound.
So hooray for Thops! He showed hogwarts whats what
I wish that her questline ending was that she turned into a scarlet rot butterfly or atleast something nice. But no she dies of the rot and nothing ends well for my favorite npc.
The voice actors in Elden Ring are really so good, they bring so much life to these characters.
they speak
so slowly
shatner
would
be bored
@@tsm688Solaire of Astora
Aldia and Vendrick in DS2 are peak Va. Especially Aldia is actually interesting to listen to when knowing about all the light and dark shennigans of DS1.
I hope the dlc brings more endings. Like having your trusted compatriots standing next to the Elden throne as your royal guard or something.
for real! the last line of the erdtree trailer "will you walk with us?" - if i cant clap messmers ass with jar boy at my side i'm revolting!
I simply love the thumbnail.
Also the fungal waste OST choice, I just wanna say great job all around!
1:30 interestingly enough, the only characters in the game that can use mimicry without the veil are the demi humans, it's a cool note that even they have their own small branch of magic
Honorable mention to Nepheli’s quest. Becoming the new ruler of Limgrave and Stormveil Castle and being free to become and arbiter of peace and justice is a great ending all things considered. Plus now she has the pleasure of interacting with THE GREAT KENNETH, SERVANT OF TRUE ORDER AND REPUDIATOR OF THE FALSE!
Don’t forget Jarbairn, who receives Alexander’s Innards if you’ve been doing your job, and Nepheli Loux, who becomes Lord of Stormveil, also if you’re doing your job correctly.
Ironfist Alexander’s ending is a bittersweet one but also leaves on a positive note. The entirety of his journey he carved his own path into being a great warrior, unbound by anyone or any faction
I really like your ending note. Silence is music, for it is the silence that give weight to the notes that break it.
Rya is so freaking dorky and everyone loves her
What i don't like is about most bad ending quests is how they just die offscreen like Thops.
Shit be lame as fr fr
To be fair I don't think it would be entertaining to watch a dude who wanted to prove all of his peers wrong be beaten to death by masked people with books
@@phantasmalphoenix2990 The real reason he dies off screen would be because if we could arrive to see him getting beaten by a bunch of nerds, we'd kick their ass and possibly save his life, which would be problematic if he's supposed to die. And if we watch him die in front of us with no way for us to save him, that's more frustrating than sad, it would have "I couldn't protect him, this is bullshit" energy rather than "why do all my friends die?" energy.
the ending of house hoslo is by far the most dramatic one.
depending on your last sentences to diallos its either the sadest ending or the happiest.
Miyazaki has said that he is more of a pessimist and it shows. Sometimes I think it goes a bit too far (I don't think the world is so terrible, honestly, at least in our countries), but the downer stories fit the game and you kinda expect them. I think it's worse when it comes from nowhere just because "it's profound to be nihilistic, you know?" or some crap like that (also, it is not any more profound that writing good "happy" stories by any measure)
I feel Tolkien, for example, is profound and also is generally optimistic: despite some of his characters meeting tragic ends, he makes it clear that evil at the end will always fight in vain and lose. And that, even in death, good will stand tall.
I want to give sweet Rya a hug. Poor girl has been through much she didn’t deserve.
Anyone else think boc and zoraya have a ton in common? Both were treated as abominations by their peers, had loving mothers (adopted or otherwise), and had hearts of gold.
don't remind me how I missed Boc in the cave the first time and only decided to see if I can finish his quest when it was already too late...
Boc was too sweet for the lands between
I'd argue that Thop's ending was happy (or at least bittersweet) too, after all, he managed to prove everyone doubting him wrong by creating his magic.
Honestly the ending paragraph of brightness from triumph is honestly why I enjoy the 40k universe. I am no fan of Grimm darkness, but seeing light in such a Grimm setting makes it that much more brighter.
YES I'm right there with you on that. 40k, Souls games, and other series like Darkest Dungeon and Resident Evil always catch my attention because I love seeing when characters triumph against all odds
Zorayas' quest reminded me of Pascal from Nier Automata. I may not be the only one as you played Ashes to Dreams during her segment
Nice work!
Playing Ashes of Dreams while talking about happy endings is certainly a choice.
Zoraya is one of the sweetest characters I've ever encountered I'm ngl, I still adore her even on my 5th playthrough and now that I know she can have a happy ending I'm going to be constantly giving her that ending.
I will NEVER let Boc turn human and die
There should be a way to fight Gideon early, that would be kinda cool
Well randomizers are kinda an option, but I'll tell ya he's only easy at the endgame, early on he's a true monster
@@shnurple If you let him finish his monologue, he can be pretty difficult as well especially if you've done all optional Gideon bosses.
The most frustrating thing about UA-cam is that it took almost a year for them to recommend this video to me.
I watch similar videos regularly and this is the first time I’ve come across your channel.
Great work.
Fun fact, Zorayas is named after a character from Night’s Master by Tanith Lee, a super underrated book! It’s therefore likely that Lady Tanith is named after Lee herself. Lee’s Zorayas is nothing like this one, though.
The little edits make me laugh so much. Just little meme bits sprinkled in, so funny. Loving these vids, keep em coming!
There is actually another happy end, at least what I would call a happy and that is the pot bairns quest. While there is the sad ending where his village dies and he mourns diallos's death, if you skip diallos's quest you can also give him the Alexander innards and he will leave the with a new passion, to become a warrior jar and everyone in the village lives.
When you introduced Raya I honestly expected her to be wearing a headset and holding a scattergun after hearing the introduction music
I believe Alexander's ending is sad yet good. He completed his dream to fight someone very strong and while player easily defeats him, for him it was a great honour to fall from the Tarnished one's hand
i legit almost shed a tear when sellen got turned into that ball. I felt so bad, like knowing that if i hadnt talked with her she would never have suffered such a cruel fate.
She was the goat
I never tell Sellen about lusat . And just help her reach lucaria. Once that's done even telling her about lusat doesn't turn her into that.... thing...
So It's a happy ending!!
I didn't know it was even possible to get her to Raya Lucaria withouth telling her about Lusat
Okay I'm interested in knowing how to do this, just where in the progression do you get her to the academy without Lusat?
@@ArcNine9Angel You need to find Sellen's new body before telling her about Lusat. Her old body was actually locked up by Jerren at Weeping Peninsula, after you get there and retract her "soul" from her old body, find Seluvis's hidden cellar at Ranni's Rise and put her "soul" into her new body located in that cellar. After that go back the Weeping Peninsula and talk to Jerren, it will trigger the event at academy library where you either help Sellen to defeat Jerren or help Jerren to kill her. Pick Sellen and she'll be in the library right after the invasion ends.
Happy for who though? The PC preventing her from achieving her goals of persuing the primal current isn't happy imo.
Spoiler: Her turning into a graven school is probably the first step in ascending into the seed of a star, her magnum opus. Plus she's been doing it to many others which is what got her locked up, so if there's a negative from her doing it to herself it's karmic justice. Sure she might hatch into an eldritch bug but it's her decision, why she chose to continue living rather than simply be trapped.
@@hayuseen6683 I believe she failed with whatever goal she had. Lets put all together: she is standing at the centre of throne room in academy, pushing Renalla back - saying that her way would be the future of the academy, leading to the bright future. But when you see her as a sphere, Renalla is back at the centre. And in her first dialogue with you, she clearly sounds as if she failed, that she don't even want to speak about it. Well, at least she survived really. Not the worst fate.
Thank you for the great video! I think Sellen is also a good ending, as long as you don’t find the sorcerer in the cave (Lusat?) ; she remains Lady of Raya Lucaria and Renala stays in timeout. If you don’t kill Blaid, then Iji does not die either, which I guess it is good too.
"Their endings are good if you skip parts of it and never finish their quests."
That's what you said but with more words.
Sellen was fishy, I sided with Jerren. He knew Iji and Ranni, and was organizing the Radahn festival. A true lad. To me it sounded like the Caryan Royals forbid the study of the primeval current for valid reasons and Sellen was stepping into dangerous ground, plus she knew Seluvis (even if she didnt like it much) so it was a red flag to me.
@@makoUnderground as much as i can agree with this, the jerren armor set is drippy + sellen coddled me my entire gameplay and i loved it, but jerren has to die for the pussy, he’ll understand im sure
@@makoUnderground good instinct, having now learned that the primeval sorcery studies have lead to the mass graves of sorcery students, not always by will, fuck sellen, and selivus as well, they are quite literally the "mad scientist" embodiment in this game, very smart but far too egotistical in their own goals to understand the harm they've brought to others.
Irina has the best ending if you do not meet with her father or go past the outskirt of Stormveil to meet Hyetta. She will stay on the side of the road, bleeding and yelling forever, yet the goblins 10 feet away cannot attack her.
OK now let us be honest to ourselves and do not pretend it is an "ending" what would happen if we shelved or failed a quest line.
I believe that Devin, the second D, deserves a mention as well. Though his brother, Darian, is killed by the witch Fia, if you give Devin the Twinned Set he will be able to kill Fia after you kill Fortisaxx. Not only does Devin avenge his brother by killing Fia, but he also completes their mission by making sure Fia could not have an heir with Godwyn.
k but then i killed him for killing fia
not happy ending
He doesn't actually kill Fia, Fia dies when she gives birth to the death rune (which is the "heir" she was intending to make). If you don't give him the armor until after you get the mending rune, Fia's still a dead body there. He just comes up and stomps a dead body lol.
@@ShadeStormXD Cringe.
@@cheftroyardee7982youre cringe
He never gets a happy ending bc i always drop his ass after he kills fia AND disrespects my boy godwyn
You can find Latenna and her wolf in the DLC. No dialogue, nothing, but perhaps that is where we truly lay her and her wolf friend to rest.
Alexander, my ally, my opponent, my friend, but most importantly, warrior. Rest In Peace, you fought well.
Amazing use of Meet the Medic's soundtrack.
Also, I sort of feel like ER feels a little more... hopeful, than the other Souls games. Is that just me?
Might be the fact that the game usually ends with the player sitting on a throne. And the golden color pallette.
Also, the world feels less cynical than Dark Souls. Elden Ring doesnt have the same air of pointlessness. We're altering or destroying the order of the world, not ending life and death as we know it.
dark souls is a game about continuing a stagnant cycle. fearing change.
elden ring is a game about breaking the cycle. a new beginning.
Boc's happy ending always makes me cry
OMG i have over 260 hours in Elden Ring and had thought id seen it all and done it all BUT I was wrong I had no idea about the use of the Pate with Boc...Brilliant thanks
Zorayas needs a hug, debuff free
if miyazaki doesn’t make a spin-off of rayas quest to find herself, and the tarnished helps her out, i’m gonna throw a fit
I loved latenna as summon. She can tans and ride the giant wolves. It glitches at times but so cool even still
youre one of my favorite content creators currently please keep up the amazing work
1:39 " Small, violent and british "
Miyazaki loves the "meaning in suffering" trope
I really wish they'd actually let us go back and put her spirit to rest with Lobo, removing the ashes from your inventory but granting her request which I'd ultimately feel a lot better about.. Still a good ending but I wish we could go and put her with Lobo.
She even asks to be with her fallen faithful friend lobo, and i tried various things to see if i could but failed
Millicent got what she wanted in the end, but it was rather heartbreaking for the player. So in a weird way she got her happy ending too, and the tarnished got a very depressing rest of their day.
Edit: Apparently someone posted something similar to this elsewhere in the comments and I didn't notice it before I wrote the comment. Sorry about that.
The only happy ending off the top of my mind involves what those four blue hands can do.
It suddenly hit me like a ton of bricks in this video that Latenna's voice actor also voices Shadowheart in Baldur's Gate 3. Haven't played Elden Ring in a long while, and I've been playing the BG3 early access on and off recently. Never occurred to me before hearing her lines all at once again.
I'm just letting you know that I'll subscribe to your channel thanks to that spit in the face at 4:38, that part killed me.
I think their deaths are a good thing, a major theme in the soulsbourne is life isn’t supposed to go on forever and so these NPC dying is good and somewhat merciful in a rotting/hollowing world. Tragic yes but compared to some others we come across? Their deaths are not all bad.