Your four most recent videos in the last month have all popped up in my algorithm, and I've enjoyed what you have to say. Always love to hear new voices talk about this game's fantastic lore. Just subscribed, can't wait to hear what you think of SOTE.
I will say, you are right about Marika sending away the Tarnished to die away from the Erd Tree, but that's not all of it. Marika isn't nearly as fallible as your assumptions about her foresight make seem. Her plan works perfectly, exactly as intended in all but one aspect (providing you as the Tarnished beat the game of course). I feel the DLC will support this statement: Marika is a ridiculously powerful being, not necessarily in physical capability, but in manipulation and planning. She came from mortality to the literal epitome of mastery in the Lands Between. She wanted free of the Greater Will from times before the Erd Tree and planned this exact series of events. She never feared needing an army for Leyndell, the Tarnished were treated the way they were because 1) Your reason, and 2) She no longer needed an army but foresaw an event where she would need a person touched by grace and then dying outside the Erd Tree's reach. All Tarnished that return are outside of the Erd Tree's reach, which is why we can be resurrected, and why Godrick can use our limbs, he uses Grace to animate them as Marika does us. Even the Night of Black Knives was part of her plan and she was likely a participant, though I think her ONE misstep was not expecting Ranni to shed herself of her Empyrian flesh. I do not believe deathroot was intended and may be the only gap in her plan. I don't think she shattered the Elden Ring over something as simple as her demigod child dying, she uses everyone coldly and calculatingly, and her golden child son was no exception. In order to free herself from the Greater Will, she needed to kill the Elden Beast. Everything that has happened is setup for this and positioning her to return to full power. Destined Death would need eventually to be released in order for this to happen, which is why Ranni was given the fragment that she made into her gift for Rykard. Only a faithful Tarnished, once imbued with Grace and ready to be again would have the relentless determination to rise and fight again and again through impossible odds. So they needed to die across the fog. Marika needed a body for the Elden Beast to turn into a weapon, and she didn't want it to be hers, so she consumed a mimic like the cut Asimi questline and that is Radagon, and she always intended him to be turned into a weapon by the Greater Will as a substitute for the mistress of this entire plan. Even the distribution of Great Runes was to make sure the Tarnished would be able to gather enough power to challenge all who stood in the way of killing the Elden Beast, and remaking the Elden Ring. Even the existence of Melina was part of Marika's plan, transforming the essence of the Gloam Eyed Queen fed to the Erd Tree (which then Marika was in control of the flowing of blessings, including births) and Melina was then born at the foot (in the basins you see in Leyndell) of the Erd Tree and doesn't exactly know what it is like to have a biological mother as Marika treated her as a tool and not a person, like everything else. In nearly every case, the Tarnished completes Marika's will, killing the Elden Beast and remaking the Elden Ring. The only flaw in her plan is Ranni, and the lunar princess's ending is the one time Marika fails, because she didn't foresee it. Literally the only thing she didn't.
"Forefathers one and all, bare witness" being said as a decendant of Godefroy has now grafted the modern dragon onto him might be a call out to Godefroy's love of the ancient dragon. Its not only his forefathers watching but the ancient dragons as well.
Here's the best i can do: We know Godrick the Grafted lacks integrity and has a weak sense of personal identity. We know he's obsessed with the idea of ancestry and doing right by emulating those who came before him. We know that there is nothing random about the process of grafting. (You put one arm here... and one leg here... and one arm on that other arm just like so... etc). It is entirely plausible that Godefroy doesn't look like Godrick; rather, Godrick looks like Godefroy because he knew what Godefroy looked like, and he grafted body parts to himself purposefully to resemble Godefroy as closely as possible. There. That's my best, most shameless Godefroy model reuse cope. And yet, even coping this hard, there's no way to account for them having the same axe. 😭😭
The sword monument about the first defense of Leyndell is not about the dragons, that has its own sword monument near what I think is called Stormcaller Church...
Can i be part of ur plan? 😘
Your four most recent videos in the last month have all popped up in my algorithm, and I've enjoyed what you have to say. Always love to hear new voices talk about this game's fantastic lore. Just subscribed, can't wait to hear what you think of SOTE.
I will say, you are right about Marika sending away the Tarnished to die away from the Erd Tree, but that's not all of it.
Marika isn't nearly as fallible as your assumptions about her foresight make seem. Her plan works perfectly, exactly as intended in all but one aspect (providing you as the Tarnished beat the game of course).
I feel the DLC will support this statement: Marika is a ridiculously powerful being, not necessarily in physical capability, but in manipulation and planning. She came from mortality to the literal epitome of mastery in the Lands Between.
She wanted free of the Greater Will from times before the Erd Tree and planned this exact series of events.
She never feared needing an army for Leyndell, the Tarnished were treated the way they were because 1) Your reason, and 2) She no longer needed an army but foresaw an event where she would need a person touched by grace and then dying outside the Erd Tree's reach. All Tarnished that return are outside of the Erd Tree's reach, which is why we can be resurrected, and why Godrick can use our limbs, he uses Grace to animate them as Marika does us.
Even the Night of Black Knives was part of her plan and she was likely a participant, though I think her ONE misstep was not expecting Ranni to shed herself of her Empyrian flesh. I do not believe deathroot was intended and may be the only gap in her plan.
I don't think she shattered the Elden Ring over something as simple as her demigod child dying, she uses everyone coldly and calculatingly, and her golden child son was no exception.
In order to free herself from the Greater Will, she needed to kill the Elden Beast. Everything that has happened is setup for this and positioning her to return to full power.
Destined Death would need eventually to be released in order for this to happen, which is why Ranni was given the fragment that she made into her gift for Rykard.
Only a faithful Tarnished, once imbued with Grace and ready to be again would have the relentless determination to rise and fight again and again through impossible odds. So they needed to die across the fog.
Marika needed a body for the Elden Beast to turn into a weapon, and she didn't want it to be hers, so she consumed a mimic like the cut Asimi questline and that is Radagon, and she always intended him to be turned into a weapon by the Greater Will as a substitute for the mistress of this entire plan.
Even the distribution of Great Runes was to make sure the Tarnished would be able to gather enough power to challenge all who stood in the way of killing the Elden Beast, and remaking the Elden Ring.
Even the existence of Melina was part of Marika's plan, transforming the essence of the Gloam Eyed Queen fed to the Erd Tree (which then Marika was in control of the flowing of blessings, including births) and Melina was then born at the foot (in the basins you see in Leyndell) of the Erd Tree and doesn't exactly know what it is like to have a biological mother as Marika treated her as a tool and not a person, like everything else.
In nearly every case, the Tarnished completes Marika's will, killing the Elden Beast and remaking the Elden Ring.
The only flaw in her plan is Ranni, and the lunar princess's ending is the one time Marika fails, because she didn't foresee it. Literally the only thing she didn't.
Frenzy flame is the only ending that destroys Marika plans
"Forefathers one and all, bare witness" being said as a decendant of Godefroy has now grafted the modern dragon onto him might be a call out to Godefroy's love of the ancient dragon. Its not only his forefathers watching but the ancient dragons as well.
Oh right, never really though about the tarnishing as a protective measure against Erdtree burial.
Why does everyone simply believe Melina when she says, "in Marikas own words"? By what right do we automatically believe what she says?
Beasts are human
Here's the best i can do: We know Godrick the Grafted lacks integrity and has a weak sense of personal identity. We know he's obsessed with the idea of ancestry and doing right by emulating those who came before him. We know that there is nothing random about the process of grafting. (You put one arm here... and one leg here... and one arm on that other arm just like so... etc). It is entirely plausible that Godefroy doesn't look like Godrick; rather, Godrick looks like Godefroy because he knew what Godefroy looked like, and he grafted body parts to himself purposefully to resemble Godefroy as closely as possible.
There. That's my best, most shameless Godefroy model reuse cope. And yet, even coping this hard, there's no way to account for them having the same axe. 😭😭
I too love marikas plains... oh you said plans nevermind.
Keep it up tarnished, I truly see no reason why you won't have a successful channel.
The sword monument about the first defense of Leyndell is not about the dragons, that has its own sword monument near what I think is called Stormcaller Church...
So the first defense was definitely during the Shattering
Holy smokes. This is AMAZING !!!