Fantastic video! I can't wait for you to upload again. Your observation about Rennala's children representing different aspects of Rennala blew my mind. It makes so much sense, and I think we can do it with the other lineages. Morgott represents Godfrey's lordship as king. Mohg represents his savagery as a warrior. And Godrick represents his decline as tarnished. As far as the twin prodigies, they seem to represent the dual nature of Marika/Radagon. About Ensha, when I hear "lord of the lost and desperate", I think of Fia. And when I hear of gold bones belonging to a soulless king, I think of Godwyn. The game also suggests that Ensha isn't wearing his armor set; he IS the armor set. We are wearing his corpse! So the question remains: Who is he? And why does he serve Gideon?
It occurs to me that Elden Ring is doing some subtle work with colour theory that not everyone may recognize. It is common convention through Western art/animation/advertising history that yellow is the "happy" colour and blue is the "sad" colour. In Elden Ring, it is established blue is the colour of mind/magic and yellow is the colour of frenzy - so it is important to consider those emotions when those colours are used throughout the game. We are pre-disposed to think of blue as being associated with depression, but really I think it is more accurate that de-saturation of colour is an indication of despair. "Yellow" is more alike to manic depression and "gold" alike to keeping up a facade of enthusiasm/presentability to disguise depression and/or mania. Likewise, we are familiar with the current tradition that blue is the colour for boy children and red is the colour for girl children, at least in North American culture. But this was once the opposite - orangish-pink used to be the colour for boy children because of association with blood and vitality (and we still see this with red being associated with anger and aggression).
Have you watched Hawkshaw's 2 hour long video about the colors in Elden Ring? He goes through every single color talking about every association each color has in game. Spoiler the last colors are actually metals and damn there is really so much to be said about all of it.
Wow, I love this thought. Considering that Rennala represents this depression and clearly being associated with the blue magic….. and with her location being the heart of the child of the map really aligns. It also doesn’t take much of a leap to connect Shibriri to mania. Really cool and something we can explore further in this series
It does make a lot of sense that Rennala's children would have been intensely affected by Radagon's split with her as well, but I don't agree that Rykard became detached from everything and stopped letting anyone get close to him, in fact it's quite the opposite; in his own twisted way, he started his own "family" which everyone could take part in, and nobody could ever leave.
Fantastic video! I can't wait for you to upload again.
Your observation about Rennala's children representing different aspects of Rennala blew my mind. It makes so much sense, and I think we can do it with the other lineages.
Morgott represents Godfrey's lordship as king. Mohg represents his savagery as a warrior. And Godrick represents his decline as tarnished.
As far as the twin prodigies, they seem to represent the dual nature of Marika/Radagon.
About Ensha, when I hear "lord of the lost and desperate", I think of Fia. And when I hear of gold bones belonging to a soulless king, I think of Godwyn. The game also suggests that Ensha isn't wearing his armor set; he IS the armor set. We are wearing his corpse! So the question remains: Who is he? And why does he serve Gideon?
It occurs to me that Elden Ring is doing some subtle work with colour theory that not everyone may recognize. It is common convention through Western art/animation/advertising history that yellow is the "happy" colour and blue is the "sad" colour. In Elden Ring, it is established blue is the colour of mind/magic and yellow is the colour of frenzy - so it is important to consider those emotions when those colours are used throughout the game. We are pre-disposed to think of blue as being associated with depression, but really I think it is more accurate that de-saturation of colour is an indication of despair. "Yellow" is more alike to manic depression and "gold" alike to keeping up a facade of enthusiasm/presentability to disguise depression and/or mania.
Likewise, we are familiar with the current tradition that blue is the colour for boy children and red is the colour for girl children, at least in North American culture. But this was once the opposite - orangish-pink used to be the colour for boy children because of association with blood and vitality (and we still see this with red being associated with anger and aggression).
Have you watched Hawkshaw's 2 hour long video about the colors in Elden Ring? He goes through every single color talking about every association each color has in game.
Spoiler
the last colors are actually metals and damn there is really so much to be said about all of it.
Wow, I love this thought. Considering that Rennala represents this depression and clearly being associated with the blue magic….. and with her location being the heart of the child of the map really aligns. It also doesn’t take much of a leap to connect Shibriri to mania. Really cool and something we can explore further in this series
It does make a lot of sense that Rennala's children would have been intensely affected by Radagon's split with her as well, but I don't agree that Rykard became detached from everything and stopped letting anyone get close to him, in fact it's quite the opposite; in his own twisted way, he started his own "family" which everyone could take part in, and nobody could ever leave.