i love the narrator for the game's intro, especially the part where he goes "bandit guy" "gold guy" "lady who sleeps with the dead" "guy who eats poop" "AND SIR GIDEON OFNIR, THE ALL-KNOWING"
Since I've played through most of the game, I think the emphasis is :spoilers:....or just because there is a slow buildup and Gideon just happens to be the crescendo
@@cavelordsnowwolf3055 how can he not be the most badass he killed the entire race of gaints won the war against the dragons and killed the dragon lord after Serosh weakened him he is the chiefton of the badlands one of the worst places mentioned in the lore he is the og and he is respectful towards us and not just talking smag
Demingods are the ones, that hold runes from the Elden Ring, and must be defeated to collect them back and rebuild the order. Tarnished are the "choosen ones", which are capable of challenging demigods and change the fate of the stagnating world. These 5 introduced in the end of trailer are somehow more like your competitors in pursuit of Elden Lord title, but all of them with different goal. Its up to you, if you choose to help to accomplish their vision, or take your own.
The lore is intentionally obscure, but encourages players to dig up every piece of lore from item descriptions (which have a few lines of lore included) to environmental storytelling. It makes FromSoft games very engaging
Playing Elden Ring really does feel like you're traveling a war-ravaged world, where the battle isn't over but is petering out because the number of available soldiers are dwindling. where you can't really find many friends because potential friends are either hiding or dead. It isn't entirely hopeless, but there's a very forlorn feeling as you look at the ruins and wonder what this place must have looked like before the Shattering. Elden Ring feels very atmospheric and *real* in a way I haven't seen in a pretty long time, while still allowing a suspension of disbelief that comes with the fantasy theme. I'm 80-ish hours in and only defeated 2 story bosses because I'm having too much fun exploring the map. Definitely recommended, especially since I personally think ER and Sekiro are the easiest (i.e. beginner-friendly) games fromsoft has created.
@@GirlofCulture I understand, and I guess I can't really argue against that cause I'm not new to these games. But I hope you're able to get the hang of it eventually. If not, then it's fine. It's not for everyone
I agree my first game and I love it and beat it 2 times. I think they could get it as long as they do some side stuff cuz that’s what I did A lot of and got through pretty good
Godwyn is actually Marika's son. His father is Godfrey , the first elden lord ,who became the first tarnished after Marika dumped him. Godwyn was the first demigod to die but he didn't die completely. His soul died but his body remained alive and mutated into a giant mess(which is why you can see his eye move after he dies in the trailer). Also before he died he was an absolute bro with a dragon named Fortissax
And that same dragon tried to fight back against Destined Death itself for his friend, only to fall to its corruption. Even then Fortissax still fights on in a nightmare.
The opening actually does a really good job of subverting expectations of the viewer, even if they're Soulsborne fans who are familiar with the formula. Typically the strongest delivery in the cutscenes denotes the bosses you'll be facing on your journey (which it kind of does in a round about way here), but for the most part they're introducing your "companions" and others like you who can conqueror the demi-gods. On the flip side they use the more somber part of the cutscene to flash intros of every single Demi-God in the game (Living, dead, "friendly", or boss) with the exception of Godrick so you sort gloss over them the first time around. After play through the game once though and fighting all of these literal gods, each image in the first part of the trailer has so much more going on with the context and show the events that have made the world of Elden Ring into what it is currently. Absolutely phenomenal story telling from George and the Fromsoft team.
@Dank Waifu Why would you do that though? Discovering the lore is just as fun and satisfying as discovering the world. You can always read up on stuff you missed or didn't understand afterwards.
The flower blossom that the red haired valkyrie (Malenia) uses at 3:43 is a beautiful but incredibly sinister spell called Scarlet Aeonia. The effects it causes are very brutal and this is a defining moment for the world in particular.
Man the intro always gives me chills. Video games are no longer a Children’s things only, these are masterpieces that I wish every adult could experience
Over 320 hours in, still can't stop playing.. the story, the characters, the world and the gameplay are just brilliant. Definitely (and definitive) allready my game of the year..
The lore of Elden Ring will certainly leave you with more questions than answers but I think that kind of obscurity adds to its charm. You're reactions were as cool as always and I can't wait for the next one and if I could make a suggestion check out What If The Emperor of Mankind Got A Text-To-Speech Device, it's hilarious.
The thing is, George R.R. Martin actually wrote out the full backstory of the game, but Fromsoft decided not to publish it so people can have their own theories and interpretations of certain characters and events. Everything in the game is directly based off that backstory though.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames haha good luck with that. Dark souls came out 11 years ago and we never did get anything like that. What we did get in later games was some questions answered but they made even more questions. This is actually good and preferable for these kinds of games. Most of the story can be deduced from the game yet it will forever have the mystique that the game had 11 years ago. This also made me think about the world much more deeply than i have ever thought about another fantasy game. The story is not about solving a puzzle and seeing if you guessed the correct answer. Its about telling your own story about the world you inhabit.
Godwyn the Golden was one of her demigod children. Along with Malenia the Severed with the metal arm you saw fighting Radhan. The other names ran off at the end are other Tarnished that are raised with your character that you interact with.
7:24 The ones called "Tarnished" which the narrator (I think he's the Tarnished from 7:14) just talked about aren't the children of the missing goddess Marika the Eternal. Her children can be seen more at the beginning of the intro. Your character being a Tarnished, most of the Tarnished are kind of you allies.
vaatividya has a(imo)great lore video for Elden ring but it does have a lot of spoilers if y’all plan on playing it. But another way to look at it is basically “something/one” shattered the Elden ring,the queen is missing, her children started fighting over the most powerful pieces of the ring but none became the winners/the new elden lord, so now “something” is guiding the tarnished(you& those characters name did the intro)to try to do what the Demi god children couldnt and become the new Elden lord
The woman named Malenia who has the prosthetic arm (she is blind and only has one arm, so cool!) was the one who had the fiery flower bloom. It was her last resort to beat Radahn, though it ended up with him being corrupted by the scarlet bloom that she spread, and her being rendered unconscious and having to be whisked away to safety by one of her knights. She is also the hardest boss in the game, and many say of all the Soulsborne games.
Love the channel you guys, and don't worry about not understanding, one of the great things about the game is that you figure out the story as you go along. It's not told to you specifically because you're just a wanderer, but if you pay enough attention and read the descriptions of all the items you pick up, you get more filled in as to how everyone is related and how everything happened. A lot of it is still up in the air and up for interpretation but one of the best parts of the game is the discussions within the community about what *you* think happened.
It’s cool that the game gets to be kind of put together by the community and interpreted and pieces together in a collective fashion. Seems to be a more and more popular way of doing things 🙂
"I heard tell of a tarnished hurtling about atop a spectral steed" with her accent is perfection. But honestly, all the voiceacting in the game is amazing. From Gideon to Blaidd, from Malenia to Latenna. Hell, even the memed on Rykard is great!
5:56, 6:53 All of the people the narrator is talking about in this intro and even himself are people who you will (or can, a lot are hidden) encounter or find by playing the game, btw.
The demigods have the shards of the Elden Ring, and they initially wanted them all so that one of them could become Elden Lord. But in their war over the shards none of them won, none of them became Elden Lord. That caused the Greater Will to abandon them and awaken the Tarnished so that the tarnished could be guided by grace (lights in the sky) which leads them to the shards of the Elden Ring so that maybe one of them can succeed and become Elden Lord where all the Demigods failed. The rest I typed here is spoilery if thats a worry, though most players probably don't know half of this even after finishing the game. Passive storytelling does that. But I'll say you don't have to be too afraid of Elden Ring. Banging ones head against the bosses is an aquired taste so don't worry about the skill thing, the game has plenty of options to make it more streamlined. You could even summon viewers for whatever boss is too much of a problem and they'll be more than happy to show off whatever weapon or spell they have to trivialize any boss in the game. But back to explaining. The messed up part about it is that the Tarnished were initially cast out by the Greater Will, thats why they're called Tarnished. The first person who was cast out was actually the first Elden Lord himself, Godfrey, father of Godwyn the Golden. He apparently had served his purpose as Queen Marikas consort when he defeated the giants, so they cast him out and he was then named Horah Loux. So now it is kinda messed up that the Greater Will calls them all back just because all their other subjects failed. The Two Fingers (agents of the Greater Will which is a god) are in other words just using the Tarnished for their own gain, likely to banish them again once they've served their purpose. That can lead you to some interesting choices in the game. Do you follow the Greater Will or do you choose a different path. All the demigods are Queen Marikas children or later descendants, children she had with 2 different consorts. The first consort was Godfrey the first Elden Lord. They had Gowdyn the Golden, Mogh the Blood Lord, and Morgott the Omen King. The demigod called Godrick seems to be a descendant of Godwyn the Golden. Queen Marika then had a couple more children with the second Elden Lord called Radagon of the Golden Order. They had Miquella and Malenia. But their children were cursed. Miquella whos a boy was cursed to forever be a child, but despite that he's supposedly the most powerful of the demigods. Malenia is his sister, shes the red haired valkyrie with the metal arm in the trailers. Her curse was the scarlet rot which now covers large potions of the land after her fight with Radahn. Onto the next 3 demigods whom were the offspring of Radagon of the Golden Order and the Carian Queen Rennala. First is Scarscourge Radahn, the giant guy who controls gravity. Then it's Ranni the Witch whos the big hat two-faced blue witch from the trailers, and lastly Praetor Rykard the Lord of Blasphemy. You might have noticed that I said they were all the offspring of Queen Marika yet three of them are born to Rennala and Radagon. Thats because at some point Radagon and Queen Marika merged into one. You can even see this in the trailers. The person whos hitting the Elden Ring sometimes look feminine with boobs and all, but suddenly they look like a buff man with no bra. We don't actually know the details of this, we just know that Marika shattered the Elden Ring and that Radagon tried to repair it. How and why they're merged is a bit vague. But thats why Radagons children he had with Rennala are considered offspring of Marika and are therefore demigods. How Miquella and Malenia re born to the same entity is a bit unclear. Were they born before they merged? Who knows but this might be why they're so power yet both cursed. Theres alot more like the Godskin Apostles and their Dusk Eyed Queen. Shabriri and Frenzied Flame, the god of Chaos. The Blood Goddess. The fact that Godwyn the Golden became the god of death after his soul died and he is now being worshipped by Fia the Deathbed Companion whom now tries to birth him anew. Theres so much more, so I expect multiple DLCs.
Man the combining of two characters to create different children but still the same parents is weird 🤯 Lot going on here and we appreciate you trying to help us make sense of it all 🙂
No spoilers below, but there are vague suggestions on what to look for as you explore. Elden Ring is difficult and where you should be going and how you go about things is not obvious at all. There are certain secrets that I would have never known about if my friends hadn't told me; Walls/floors that you have to hit for them to open secret passages, hidden caverns on the sides of cliffs, questlines from side characters that talk about vague missions... It's difficult. There are ways to make the game easier by just over-leveling for bosses or using meta-builds that are strong, but having a blind first playthrough can be fun in its own way. Every big story boss has a cinematic and the side characters & environment build the world atmosphere. The game grows on you slowly. Dying to a boss for 3 hours is aggravating, but finally winning against something you've been frustrated with because you earned the win by learning how they move, when to dodge, when to attack, when to block, etc. it makes for a huge feeling of success, like you've overcome a giant challenge. Not every boss is going to take 3 hours though, some you may beat on the first or second try, but there are a few that are extremely difficult. Some are difficult to certain builds while easy to other builds, so try changing your approach and what weapons you use and you could have a lot more fun using the 31 different weapon types the game has to offer. Don't force yourself to stick to using any 1 weapon, better weapons that are more your style will appear and make sure to look at what they do in their description, certain weapons have special abilities and drastically change how they're used. Don't feel rushed to make progress, take your time, explore, and try to find a way for you to enjoy the game. If a boss is too difficult, LEAVE, go explore other areas, level up, get a better weapon, and then go back and crush them! Good luck, have fun.
Pretty cool as always ! Elden Ring's lore leave the player in the fog, just as all the Fromsoftware's past games. But you get pieces of lore ingame trough dialogues and object's descriptions, wich is super cool imo. It would be great to see your react on every boss intro, some of them are super cool and their design is always on point !
If you're considering checking this game out, do it. Its a masterpiece. FromSoft has broken new ground with this game. I swear if anyone says crap about "breath of the wild" I'll laugh. That game feels like they released it halfway through development compared to Elden Ring, and I say that as a lifelong LoZ fan.
Radahns whole story, design and fight is.....peak. He legit inspired awe in me. Even with the silly bit with his horse. I would actually LOVE if FromSoft ever creates a game where we meet the legends of it at their heights. PS: I messed it up the first time and wrote Radagon. T_T
It is hard to see but in the first trailer radahn (the huge guy) is actually riding a horse. He didn’t want to abandon his friend so he learned gravitation magic so his horse could still support him. Without spoiling, when you fight him, radahn animation show him protecting his horse with his armor when he use big move.
3:49 "Malenia, Blade of Miquella” is a demi-god and needs to bloom 3 times to become a full god or in other words (I think) the goddess of rot. In this fight she blooms for the second time. When you should play the game, please read all of your item descriptions because they really tell and elaborate on the story of this game, if you want to really understand it. Some of this info also comes from the item descriptions. “Fromsoftware” often tells their games stories this way, which not many games do. It's like a huge puzzle which you have to find and figure out the pieces of while playing the game, exploring and doing NPC quests.
if youre interested in the lore, there is a great video about it called "Elden Ring's Lore: Explained!" by: VaatiVidya which currently has 4million views and is really well made
Everybody gangsta until you realize that the Frenzied Flame burning everything is preferable than encountering the Dung Eater. To sum him up, he's a twisted fuck that "defiles" his kills and curses them and passes it along for generations. And he's no push-over, I may or may not know from some sort of enslaving.
The giant red thing that appeared is actually a flower. Malenia, the girl with the golden arm prosthetic is a flowery rot goddes, and in the fight that flower is what ended the battle between her and Radahn (giant twin sword guy) in a tie.
Fun Fact: The flower is a legit spell in the game called Aeonian Bloom and the player can cast it too! As the boss move though it´s an instant kill basically if one stays near it when it blooms like it did there.
The few mentioned after he said "Tarnished" are notable Tarnished figures we will come across who all have some sort of different roll in things, but are each significant for their own thing. In Elden Ring they'll outright share with us what they're after and wish to do in visiting them enough, so we're honestly left with few questions of that nature of the game, so instead, most of the real mysteries lie in beforehand, and to some Queen Marika's family tree in detail even after it's explained a few times. To be fair, the before hand timelines aren't the easiest to piece together as the aftermath since we actually live through part of that and get to decide the results of. But to explain what a Tarnished is (if interested). Queen Marika and those of demigod/other gods are considered Empyrean race, and those of blood ties/marriage ties to Marika/Radagon get to be deemed demigod as their heritage and abilities and blood can be of most comparable by nature, even if rather thinner in direct lineage poses disadvantages. Could also argue they were those who held Great Runes of the Elden Ring. But those human whom served under of Hoarah Loux, after one of their greatest wars would see their grace had been lost, and they would have left the Lands Between to distant locations past the fog of our presented known world. In the aftermath of all the conflicts in the Lands Between, the calls of Tarnished visitors had begun in order for the sake of the Greater Will, some were still within the lands and had never left, and some would be taking their own initiative of establishment before we get there. Tarnished visitors would have a Finger Maiden to aid them on their journey to tackle the most wildly accepted initially given task to all Tarnished, seek the Elden Ring and restore it to the greater will with enough Great Rune Shards held by the demigods. Anything more specific than that would be either an actual spoiler or be debatable. It's tbh the history that's the most difficult to fully get right, but a selective few characters set certain details right and more to speculation, while clarifying what it is that they intend to do or want us to do.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Some people can see grace and rest at them like ourselves, then some lost the ability to see it and the ability to consider it a thing of their importance. We get contextual clues that it has to do with their interests in serving with or toward the greater will of grace.
The lore/story of FromSoftware games are always obtuse, the cut scenes don't explain much, you need to go into item descriptions to really get into the details and understand the relationships. Even then, it can still be confusing. I highly recommend watching Vaati Vidya lore explanation videos for the entire FromSoftware catalog. He is excellent at explaining the lore and stories. I've played all the games, put 150 hours into Elden Ring and still missed so much that he explained. Last point, I love the game and highly recommend it but it definitely is a particular type of game that not everyone enjoys and that is okay if you don't vibe with it. Looking forward to seeing how your experience goes!
While I love Vaati's videos it's important to keep in mind that some of the things he says are his own interpretations. They could be true, but other interpretations are just as valid.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames also, make sure that you guys come back to the series in some form after a few more months, each time one of these games comes out, the lord is never set in stone. That’s because with the release of DLC’s and the finding of lore that contradicts what we used to know changes our perspective and we even find new facts. VattiVidya is still probably top 3 creators to watch on this but what he says right now is 100% not set in stone as I’ve found different evidence and some other creators as well that are different than what he says, which is fine, we’re all stil trying to figure things out :)
Elden Ring is very similar to a concept we have in our philosophy, called "Logos" In a oversimplified explanation, Logos are all the rules and laws that govern the universe Now imagine if someone had the power to control Logos, that's Marika, now imagine she for some reason decided to completely corrupt the Logos So everything we know about the way our universe works simply does not apply anymore all of a sudden That's what the Elden Ring story is all about
Trust me, if you go into this game and try to understand the story, you will most likely only end up understanding fragments of it. This is the way that Fromsoft make their games. I highly recommend listening to some lore videos after you beat it (that is if you play it) and I recommend Vaatividya's lore video, it doesn't go into everything but he's planning on making more to explain the story more thoroughly. Vaati is also the main person that people go to to understand the story of souls games.
Malenia ( fake arm sword lady ) is one of the harder bosses in the game. And she is the cause of a plague in the game. She fought general radahn (big guy with two swords) since she never has been beaten and wanted to try fighting him as he is really strong. She couldn't win this time. So Since she has never known defeat she didn't want to lose to radahn so she jumped on him and stabbed herself. Using the scarlet aeonia ( red flower ) to unleash the scarlet rot. Radahn was too strong to die from it but it drove him (mostly) insane. Malenia was weakened from that attack and was taken away to safety by one of her cleanrot knights. The scarlet rot ended up consuming the part of the continent known as caelid. So yeah... malenia was a battle nut and when she wasn't winning became a terrorist. And apparently even when he was crazy radahn was holding back the stars with his gravity magic. So he could've been next to impossible to beat in the game if he didn't hold back even while 99% crazy
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames for me it's tied between her and the phase 2 of the end boss. She is mainly very difficult for strong but really fast attacks and healing on every hit she does. The end boss part 1 is hard hitting but part 2 is both hard hitting and he runs to the other side of the boss room constantly. Add in the fact it's immune to most debuffs like bleed and frost and it's hard
If you want to know as much lore as possible, there's a certain youtuber, who discovered each and every piece of relevant story piece, for something as small as an Maiden seeking to become a Firekeeper, to something as big as the story of Artorias, the Abysswalker. Vaatividya, he's spent lots of time on EVERY fromsoft game and learning their lore, definitely recommend giving him a watch, if you don't mind the heavy spoilers.
Since really the gameplay seems to be more the focus than the story and even those that have played it haven’t understood story it seems like this is the one time where spoilers would be okay 🙂
Funny thing about G.R.R. Martin is that Myazaki told him to write the characters and the world so Myazaki could twist and break the characters to their worse. The serpent dude that you saw in the trailer for exemple is Praetor Rykard, he was known as a kind and benevolent ruler...but the shard of the Elden Ring he was given to drove him mad with power....so he fed himself to the big snake so that he could never die and devour the gods TOGETHAAA!!
Ok, so to explain the story, an explanation of the family is probably also needed. Names are very important as they practically give you the family lines. First is the Golden line, as i will dub it. Godfrey (not mentioned in trailers) and Queen Marika had Godwyn The Golden and Godrick The Grafted, Godfrey and Marika had children outside Godfrey though. Morgott and Mohg which are cursed from birth to become Omens, The Loathsome Dung Eater is the one who curses others to be born Omens, and no, he does not actually eat dung. He is just a generally horrible person who does unspeakable things to bodies to curse their rebirth. Then there is the children of Radagon (not mentioned in trailers) and Rennala had Ranni (narrator in the first trailer), Rykard, The Lord of Blasphemy (guy whose head is being eaten by a snake) , and Radahn, Conqueror of the Stars. And finally Marika and Radagon. They had Malenia, Blade of Miquela/The Severed, and Miquela. Now its time for the actual story, the Tarnished are undead who are forsaken by the Erdtree, which is the life source of The Lands Between. With the disappearance of Queen Marika there is a power scramble for the throne and godship. Some of the demigods are Shardbearers, who hold the shards of the Elden Ring, which is a tap for unknowable power. But The Lands Between are broken, shattered, and difficult to put back together. Outer Gods have their own agenda's for The Lands Between and how it should be run, Outer Gods are gods from outside The Lands Between that still have sizable influence on The Lands Between. There are a LOT of Outer Gods within the universe, i'll only explain the bigger, more important ones. There is The Greater Will, which is the creator of The Elden Ring in a roundabout way and the most influential Outer God. Then there is The Frenzied Flame, which is a source of great madness and insanity. It is a malevolent force hell bent on the destruction of The Lands Between. There are others, like The Formless Mother, or The Sealed God of Scarlet Rot, but they arent as important. Our tarnished is following lost grace, which i believe is a guide from The Greater Will, although unconfirmed. There is a lot more to go into but im tired lol.
Haha, we’d be tired too after explaining all of that! Appreciate you giving us the family trees to go off of and some names for them to help remember like the Golden family tree 🙂
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames np, i dug deep to find the connections lol. im trying not to spoil anything though because there are some big realizations throughout that alter the family tree i set up in one way or another.
Btw, this game has a lot of parallels to old school alchemy. There's even a video about it called "Elden Ring is an Allegory for Alchemy" by Ziostorm on UA-cam. I can recommend watching that one too, but it includes some story spoilers from the game, which you'll have to find and figure out on your own, like a big puzzle in-game.
Godwyn the golden, was marikas firstborn son, the king was a guy named godfrey dont worry about him, youll learn plenty of him if you play the game. The people shown and mentioned before Hoarah Loux are all part of marikhas family, everyone after that is a tarnished like your charakter, they are mostly non-hostile towards you and they all have a different vision for how the world should be and its up to you to achieve your own vision or to help them achieve theirs.
You're correct. The names that the narrator mentions aren't the demigods, no. But the people that it shows before showing the different Tarnished are the demigods, the girl in white (whom you also saw in the story trailer), the guy who was fighting off a red haired guy (Morgott and Radahn), and of course, Malenia, who you've no doubt seen in a lot of promo imagery. If you don't want spoiler, please don't read further (I mean it, I'm putting some pretty big spoilers here): [ANOTHER MAJOR SPOILER ALERT]: The Tarnished here are actually very crucial to the story. Of which the most crucial is Hoarah Loux; or as her wife Marika would call him: Godfrey. Actually, what happened was that Hoarah Loux became an Elden Lord, but he was driven by his immense rage and bloodlust. So to suppress his rage and emotions, he was given Serosh, the Lion on his back that would keep his emotions in check and prevent him from being too brutal. And thus the brutal, merciless Hoarah Loux became the regal, ferocious Godfrey. And the demigods you see...they're all Godfrey and Marika's children. Some are Radagon and Rennala's children, who classified as demigods too as Radagon would later on become the second Elden Lord. Which is why now Ranni, Radahn and Rykard too hold the power of demigods.
I've been playing Elden Ring, haven't beat it yet(I spend alot of time just looking around), only ever played a small bit of Dark Souls 2 so definitely new experience for me. Definitely an interesting land to explore, when not fighting monsters and fallen demigods the lands between feel oddly....serene, despite knowing that the world has just been slowly dying since the Shattering.
Godwyn was Queen Marika's favorite son and he was the first slain by the Black Knife assassin's. In her grief she shattered the Elden Ring but her husband the Elden Lord Radagon attempted to repair it. Thus most of the Demigods are fighting for the runes they got from their parents. Each Demigod is quite a great character with their own values and it's not a simple good and evil fight between them. My personal favorite is Ranni who is the blue doll lady with four arms and she is the reason this whole shattering happened because she didn't want to rule a land that was twisted and under the influence of The Greater Will , but each demigod can be a favorite. The two demigods you see fighting are Malenia and Radahn in a fight that basically destroyed a sixth of the continent known as Caelid. The community absolutely loves Radahn since he is like the gigachad leader with a loving heart also his fight is spectacular. On the other side is Malenia who is an amazing character who became strong even when cursed with scarlet rot (Think of it like ultimate space poison) to protect her brother (Miquella) who was cursed to be a child forever, but has dedicated his life and vast knowledge to cure her. She is also the hardest fight in the game so people hate her. There are others such as Mohg, Morgott, Rykard, Godrick, and of course Miquella whom all have their own tales and goals which range from noble to pretty messed up. The lore is much deeper than just the demigods as The Greater Will is not the only outer god with it's eyes on The Lands Between. If you wish to learn more then I highly recommend Vaatividya's Elden Ring Explained video
@@shonoworld8284 sort of. Some demigods comes from Marika and Godfrey (the first elden lord). Radagon was married to Renalla (not a goddess but a powerful sorceress, heads both the carian royal family and the magic academy.) Radagon broke off from Renalla and went married Marika, becoming the queen consort and essentially becoming the second elden lord. Radagon and and renalla children are considered step demi god after the fact. Theres a whole lot more to it but you gotta play the game so i dont spoil too much.
The ones at the end aren't the demigods. They're tarnished like us that rose up (also like us) to become elden lord to restore the lands in between. Except in-game they're useless npc's that we can interact with, and depending on which one we interact with we can become elden lord and follow in their footsteps to create the world that they want. For example if you interact with the dung eater and do his quest, you get the worst possible ending when you become the elden lord because the world he wants to make sucks balls lol
I don't play many games these days. I just find it hard to get into one and have trouble enjoying them like I used to. But I got sucked right into Elden Ring. It's such a beautiful game.
That happens. We hadn’t been playing games consistently for awhile before starting this channel and have gotten back into it. Which is okay because now we have a ton of games to play and catch up on 🤗🙂
Godwyn was the first of Queen Marikas children (of which there are 5) and the first Demigod to ever die. It's not entirely sure what exactly happened, but it's speculated that Marikas grief over the death of Godwyn is what caused her to destroy the elden ring which led to the runes being claimed & the great war known as "the shattering" being fought amongst the remaining demi-gods for the power to claim the runes & become the new elden lord. The last 2 lords remaining were Malenia (the chick who you saw get her arm cut off) and radahn (big dude that cut her). However their fight was at best a tie, malenia went into a deep sleep & Radahn was rotted & lost his mind. With no one to become elden lord remaining the tarnished were risen in the hopes that one of them may make the claim.
“He’s got some crazy hair.” Nope. That was malenia. A prophecy says that whenever she nears defeat the rot inside her will bloom causing what is essentially a nuclear blast of rot that will coat the land and cause everything to decay. And once she blooms for a third time she will become a goddess
@@Retheraq Neither of them were "good" or "bad", that's pretty reductivist. They were two agents with their own motives in a protracted nationwide civil war. Radahn may have been on the defensive during this fight but he was still a shardbearer fighting for power, and he had been on the offensive before. Just because he was an honourable guy who loved his horse doesn't make him "good" and anyone who fights him "bad". Yes, Malenia unleashing the scarlet rot caused a cataclysm, but it may not have been intentional on her part. It's a curse she was born with, she's an unwilling vessel for a destructive Outer God; having to continuously fight her own nature while brought to the brink in physical combat may have been too much to handle.
Here are the demigods encountered in Elden Ring that must be defeated: First, there are the empyrean twins, Malenia the Severed and Miquilla (though only Malenia is shown to fight you), there is Morgott the Omen King who has dubbed himself the guardian of the Erdtree (the tree of life in the Lands-Between), Godrick the Grafted (Godwyn's accursed descendent) who looks like a patchwork Frankenstein monstrosity, Mohg, the Lord of Blood (Morgott's twin brother who is madly in love with his half-brother Miquilla), the giant General Radahn, Conqueror of the Stars (quite literally), and Praetor Rykard who is also known as the God-Eating Serpent. The only demigod who is technically your ally is Ranni the Snow Witch, formerly known as Lunar Princess Ranni, who becomes both your guide and later your consort.
Something (as somebody who hasnt delved too deep into the story, despite spending many many hours in the game) that stood out to me, is the fact that this Elden Ring, which is a golden ring, both Shattered, and Tarnished, which are 2 things that Gold is incapable of without impurities. Suggests to me, that there is an impurity in this godly golden ring. Gold DOES NOT tarnish, without impurities (in the real world) and it also cannot shatter without impurities. Tells me that from the level of gods and lower, there is corruptions. Which suggests a corrupt system, from beginning to end.
If you take a solid gold ring, and hit it with a hammer, it may break in one or two spots, but it will not shatter. But the golden elden ring shattered into many pieces. To me, this suggests impurity from the ground up. False idols.
If you're ever struggling with one of the Soulsborne games, and you don't care about bragging rights and just want an awesome story, Magic is the way to go Magic is the in-game easy-mode, especially for Elden Ring, also get some summons in, there is no shame!
Big Disagree, melee is easy mode - I think it just goes to show that everything is individual preference. I have a really hard time beating any bosses with magic because they don't give you chances to cast any spells, I usually fall back on stabbing. Just try to beat Malenia (Blade of Miquella, who has never known defeat) with magic... Elden Ring is the first game in the series where I truly believe I can do anything and it will be cool and fun, and also effective, though.
@@mixmatched2342 Even if so, the spells make a Mage build in this game extra OP... And if ya still disagree, at least we can all agree, they look badass! (Looking at you, moon)
The people listed at the end of the intro were other tarnished that you will meet during your journey. Most of them want to become the next elden lord but a few of them have different motives. Godwyn was the son of Queen Marika and Godfrey. After he was Caesared by the black knife assassins Marika shattered the elden ring. After the elden ring was shattered the demigods started fighting to steal each other's great runes so they could gain power.
I am amazed with how vast the map of this game is. I literally spent 100+ hours during my first playthrough and at the second playthrough i fought 4 bosses that i didn't even knew that existed. Everyone should play this game. It's phenomenal.
The large dude with 2 swords is General Radahn also known as Starscourge Radahn and nicknamed Conqueror of the Stars for is mastery of gravity magic that allows him to hold back the stars Also his horse is named Leonard and do to his size he learn gravity magic so he could still keep his dearest friend
Contrary to his name loathsome dung eater is really loathsome. Some spoilers so be warned. When marika removed what essentially is permanent death in the lands between. Everyone is able to be reincarnated into the same body. What loathsome dung eater does is he interferes with that. He "defiles" the dead body and puts a curse on them which turns them into omens( they look like morgot/margit) when they reincarnate. The more loathsome part is that he just doesnt curse just the body. He curses their entire bloodline so everyone in the family and their kids become one. And he specifically states he just wants to do it for no reason other than to sow chaos and strife
You're confusing the night cavalry with the black knife assassins. Black knife assassins were all women that killed Godwyn the night cavalry are just soldiers of the Omen king. Margit tells you to be scared of the night because of the night cavalry.
i like how he calls the Tarnished Forsaken, clearly he's been into Dark Souls a lot, like when we call souls to the runes or bonfire to the sights of grace XD Also, the Tarnished are more like the Immortals in the series version with Duncan Mcloud instead of the original movies version: fate calls them to become a Lord but that doesn't mean everyone wants it
If u re interested into the story of Elden Ring i recomend to react to the story videos of VaatiyVidya, I agree that everything is confusing, thats cause of the (pretty amazing) storytellign of the game. In the Cinematic u saw everyone of Marikas Children. Godwyn, with the sliced back. They guy laying down the crown on the throne, the creepy big guy carrying something is Mohg and what he was carrying was Malenias twin brother Miquella. Malenia herself, the women with the severed arm and the big guy, Radahn. And last but never ever forgotten the blue girl with 4 arms is Ranni (Love her x) ).
Well Marika had a lot more kids that weren't shown, but they're not very relevent to the plot. Like Rosus who is just going, "Shit I left the tomb door open and all the dead got out, better light the tarnished signal to get them reburied" and that's his whole contribution to the plot. Or all the other demigods the godskin apostles killed offscreen.
Ooooh Elden Ring!! The lore for this game is great and at times insane. That's Miyazaki for you I guess. Still waiting for more lore videos so I can fully understand this amazing world.
@@jagore1258 I feel like there's just enough to know what you are meant to be doing: You are a tarnished who is trying to become the Elden Lord to mend the Elden Ring. From there it really is up to you to understand what this world is and how it became what it is. I did feel that It was easier to understand as I was playing than the other Soul games.
Like most From Software games, the story is much more hidden, though Elden Ring's story is more in the forefront and less hidden. Apparently, Georg R. R. Martin created the world/lore before the shattering of the Elden Ring, and From Software took it from there. Can't wait for you to play this and get into the lore and the game!
Also none of the names mentioned In the opening sequence are not the demi gods at all. Godwyn, Radahn, Ranni, Rykard, Morgott, Mohg, Malenia, Miquella are the demi gods
No problem. I love your videos. I love how your wife is always really shocked by violence and gore and your eyes just widen like coooool! Hahaha. It makes me happy to see you both enjoying things.
In this world, the gods can only act through proxies, they cannot act directly. So The Greater Will (basically god) chose Marika. She married Godfrey the chief of the basically Mongolians of the world, and used them to conquer all the Lands Between. But then with the lands at peace, you don't need the warlord anymore, so she robbed them of their divine grace and banished them as Tarnished out of the Lands Between. And wanting eternal peace, she went to the Elden Ring. The Elden Ring is the laws of the universe. Marika took out the rune of Destined Death, the law that makes everything die eventually, and hid it. That way, everyone could live in peace forever. But someone found where she hid it, and made weapons from it that could kill even the immortals, and started by killing her favorite son, Godwyn the Golden. Then went to hunt all her other demigod children from both of her husbands, and her 2nd husband's ex wife. So Marika smashed the whole Ring in her grief, basically undoing the laws of physics and time, and everything in the Lands Between. The Greater Will did not like her going against it's wishes and undoing it's laws of the universe, so it dragged her out of the world to punish her. All the demigods then fought to collect the shards to try and put the world back the way they think it should be. Each demigod, and some other folks, and even some other gods that couldn't do anything while the ring was in tact start vying to put the ring back together with minor changes to make themselves more powerful, or their ideologies correct. So Marika gives grace back to the Tarnished and calls them back through the fog, to put the Elden Ring back together and free her from her punishment. And I don't really even think that's spoilers since it's all backstory before the game even starts.
To explain some things despite being so late Godwyn is dead but his body is still alive ageing General radahn and malenias battle had no victor but it is widely said radahn won due to malenia pretty much using a cheat code to beat him. That is what that giant lotus flower was. It destroyed radahns brain causing him to become a feral animal
The "crazy hair" is the Scarlet/Crimson Rot, literally the essence of an Elder God. (and not a friendly one) In addition to the intrigue and corruption of the Elden Lords, this being has some design for the Lands Between and the effects of its presence are not pleasant to mortal or god alike. There is no resolute quest, just like the other games. The world exists and you are free to damn or redeem it at your whim. There is no right or wrong or black or white. Some Lords may aid you, some may betray you, some literally cannot move out of the past, and some simply wish the future to literally burn forever. The story also isn't done. Several Lords and quests are still unseen and unsaid, and there are parts of the map that seem unfinished, waiting for their part in the story to be finished.
Don't be dissuaded by the difficulty, because it is dynamic. Just go somewhere else whenever you find a roadblock, and come back later. Dying is part of the game, and destroying a dragon that is an icon of strength should not be an easy feat. Margit the fell Omen is the first boss that gives players trouble, but he is as hard as he should be. Some people call him a casual-filter and complain he is too hard for a first boss. The reality is that he is not the first boss. He is just the one that is easiest to reach. He will tell you to lay your foolish ambitions to rest as he mow you down like grass. He is one of Marika's children, and he is badass.
Elden Ring, like all the Souls games before it, tells its story with the items and environment. You will need to read everything you come across in the game to understand the story. Also, with its open world aspect giving you way more options to tackling the difficult fights compared to previous Souls games, it's a great game for newcomers to the genre.
You guys should do a reaction to the bosses in bloodborne! I never owned a ps4/5 to play but I know about a boss that I absolutely love and feel you guys would too!
i love the narrator for the game's intro, especially the part where he goes
"bandit guy"
"gold guy"
"lady who sleeps with the dead"
"guy who eats poop"
"AND SIR GIDEON OFNIR, THE ALL-KNOWING"
Guy who eats poop 😂
the narrator is gideon I think so it makes sense he would hype himself up :D
Since I've played through most of the game, I think the emphasis is :spoilers:....or just because there is a slow buildup and Gideon just happens to be the crescendo
Normal Ending
Gold Order Ending
Duskborn Ending
Oh Shit Ending
The guy who contribute nothing to ending
@@Ildun Gideon is no ending. "That we continue to struggle. Unto eternity."
Truly fitting that Hoarah Loux was the 1st of the Tarnished to be mentioned by the Narrator
Well he is the very first tarnished and the most badass of them all
@@_Chaosnight_ Second most badass. After all our tarnished exist.
Nope he was the most badass. He even complimented you for fighting.
@@cavelordsnowwolf3055 how can he not be the most badass he killed the entire race of gaints won the war against the dragons and killed the dragon lord after Serosh weakened him he is the chiefton of the badlands one of the worst places mentioned in the lore he is the og and he is respectful towards us and not just talking smag
@@_Chaosnight_ true
Demingods are the ones, that hold runes from the Elden Ring, and must be defeated to collect them back and rebuild the order. Tarnished are the "choosen ones", which are capable of challenging demigods and change the fate of the stagnating world. These 5 introduced in the end of trailer are somehow more like your competitors in pursuit of Elden Lord title, but all of them with different goal. Its up to you, if you choose to help to accomplish their vision, or take your own.
Thanks for the quick breakdown! Feels like this is a good summary of the basic plot 🙂
In a way but not so much. Since you can't help Horah Loux at all. Or Sir Gideon.
@@RG-df2lr there 1 ending to similar to loux story
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Tarnished are less chosen and more a banished group of people being called back by the greater will to fix its fuck ups.
The lore is intentionally obscure, but encourages players to dig up every piece of lore from item descriptions (which have a few lines of lore included) to environmental storytelling. It makes FromSoft games very engaging
It’s a unique way to tell the story 🙂🧐🤓
Playing Elden Ring really does feel like you're traveling a war-ravaged world, where the battle isn't over but is petering out because the number of available soldiers are dwindling. where you can't really find many friends because potential friends are either hiding or dead. It isn't entirely hopeless, but there's a very forlorn feeling as you look at the ruins and wonder what this place must have looked like before the Shattering. Elden Ring feels very atmospheric and *real* in a way I haven't seen in a pretty long time, while still allowing a suspension of disbelief that comes with the fantasy theme. I'm 80-ish hours in and only defeated 2 story bosses because I'm having too much fun exploring the map. Definitely recommended, especially since I personally think ER and Sekiro are the easiest (i.e. beginner-friendly) games fromsoft has created.
Sekiro is one we still need to check out to complete the fromsoftware franchise. At least our first glances at them 🙂
Don't be afraid to start Elden Ring without much experience on these types of games. It's a great game for newcomers to get into the franchise.
@@GirlofCulture I understand, and I guess I can't really argue against that cause I'm not new to these games. But I hope you're able to get the hang of it eventually. If not, then it's fine. It's not for everyone
I agree my first game and I love it and beat it 2 times. I think they could get it as long as they do some side stuff cuz that’s what I did A lot of and got through pretty good
I literally never played with any of the souls games before and elden ring immediately made me want to know more about them, it's such a good game
I second this, as a Souls and Blood veteran myself
@@GirlofCulture people just have different opinions elden ring is easily one of the best/ fav game of all time
Godwyn is actually Marika's son. His father is Godfrey , the first elden lord ,who became the first tarnished after Marika dumped him. Godwyn was the first demigod to die but he didn't die completely. His soul died but his body remained alive and mutated into a giant mess(which is why you can see his eye move after he dies in the trailer). Also before he died he was an absolute bro with a dragon named Fortissax
And that same dragon tried to fight back against Destined Death itself for his friend, only to fall to its corruption. Even then Fortissax still fights on in a nightmare.
Thanks for the extra info on Godwyn 🙂
The first Elden Lord is the Dragonlord.
The opening actually does a really good job of subverting expectations of the viewer, even if they're Soulsborne fans who are familiar with the formula. Typically the strongest delivery in the cutscenes denotes the bosses you'll be facing on your journey (which it kind of does in a round about way here), but for the most part they're introducing your "companions" and others like you who can conqueror the demi-gods. On the flip side they use the more somber part of the cutscene to flash intros of every single Demi-God in the game (Living, dead, "friendly", or boss) with the exception of Godrick so you sort gloss over them the first time around. After play through the game once though and fighting all of these literal gods, each image in the first part of the trailer has so much more going on with the context and show the events that have made the world of Elden Ring into what it is currently.
Absolutely phenomenal story telling from George and the Fromsoft team.
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Recommend watching lore videos to explain the story, it's perfectly fine because there isn't really any spoilers to the story
Uh no, there's some big ass spoilers. There's just a ton of lore before the spoilers even come up.
Vaati is calling
@Dank Waifu Yeah but in a game about exploring, getting the lore first reduces it.
Play it once, then look stuff up later.
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@Dank Waifu Why would you do that though? Discovering the lore is just as fun and satisfying as discovering the world. You can always read up on stuff you missed or didn't understand afterwards.
The flower blossom that the red haired valkyrie (Malenia) uses at 3:43 is a beautiful but incredibly sinister spell called Scarlet Aeonia. The effects it causes are very brutal and this is a defining moment for the world in particular.
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Man the intro always gives me chills. Video games are no longer a Children’s things only, these are masterpieces that I wish every adult could experience
Very true. They have come a long way. It’s like video games grew up with those that fist started playing it regularly. Kinda like the Simpsons 😇
Over 320 hours in, still can't stop playing.. the story, the characters, the world and the gameplay are just brilliant. Definitely (and definitive) allready my game of the year..
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The lore of Elden Ring will certainly leave you with more questions than answers but I think that kind of obscurity adds to its charm. You're reactions were as cool as always and I can't wait for the next one and if I could make a suggestion check out What If The Emperor of Mankind Got A Text-To-Speech Device, it's hilarious.
Ah yes. On our 40k list for sure 🙂
ive played through the game. 170 hours in. i still have difficulty grasping all the lore.
The thing is, George R.R. Martin actually wrote out the full backstory of the game, but Fromsoft decided not to publish it so people can have their own theories and interpretations of certain characters and events. Everything in the game is directly based off that backstory though.
Hopefully someday they do publish the backstory so people get to see how correct their interpretations were 🙂
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames haha good luck with that. Dark souls came out 11 years ago and we never did get anything like that. What we did get in later games was some questions answered but they made even more questions.
This is actually good and preferable for these kinds of games. Most of the story can be deduced from the game yet it will forever have the mystique that the game had 11 years ago. This also made me think about the world much more deeply than i have ever thought about another fantasy game.
The story is not about solving a puzzle and seeing if you guessed the correct answer. Its about telling your own story about the world you inhabit.
@@illliiiiillliii6265 except when elden ring has a very cut and dry story and you are more a detective on what happened when.
Godwyn the Golden was one of her demigod children. Along with Malenia the Severed with the metal arm you saw fighting Radhan. The other names ran off at the end are other Tarnished that are raised with your character that you interact with.
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7:24 The ones called "Tarnished" which the narrator (I think he's the Tarnished from 7:14) just talked about aren't the children of the missing goddess Marika the Eternal. Her children can be seen more at the beginning of the intro. Your character being a Tarnished, most of the Tarnished are kind of you allies.
vaatividya has a(imo)great lore video for Elden ring but it does have a lot of spoilers if y’all plan on playing it. But another way to look at it is basically “something/one” shattered the Elden ring,the queen is missing, her children started fighting over the most powerful pieces of the ring but none became the winners/the new elden lord, so now “something” is guiding the tarnished(you& those characters name did the intro)to try to do what the Demi god children couldnt and become the new Elden lord
Also godwyn the Golden was one of the queens children and the first one to die,
Thanks for giving us the basics of the story 🙂
The woman named Malenia who has the prosthetic arm (she is blind and only has one arm, so cool!) was the one who had the fiery flower bloom. It was her last resort to beat Radahn, though it ended up with him being corrupted by the scarlet bloom that she spread, and her being rendered unconscious and having to be whisked away to safety by one of her knights. She is also the hardest boss in the game, and many say of all the Soulsborne games.
Will keep that in mind if we end up playing 😯
Love the channel you guys, and don't worry about not understanding, one of the great things about the game is that you figure out the story as you go along. It's not told to you specifically because you're just a wanderer, but if you pay enough attention and read the descriptions of all the items you pick up, you get more filled in as to how everyone is related and how everything happened. A lot of it is still up in the air and up for interpretation but one of the best parts of the game is the discussions within the community about what *you* think happened.
It’s cool that the game gets to be kind of put together by the community and interpreted and pieces together in a collective fashion. Seems to be a more and more popular way of doing things 🙂
Ranni's voice is perfect.
Ranni is made entirely of rope, and the voice still makes her Waifu #1
"I heard tell of a tarnished hurtling about atop a spectral steed" with her accent is perfection. But honestly, all the voiceacting in the game is amazing. From Gideon to Blaidd, from Malenia to Latenna. Hell, even the memed on Rykard is great!
@@DeutscherDummer "Now we can devour the gods TOGETHA!"
5:56, 6:53 All of the people the narrator is talking about in this intro and even himself are people who you will (or can, a lot are hidden) encounter or find by playing the game, btw.
That’s cool that they are all on game 😊
Such an amazing game, the story is one of the best that Fromsoft has ever written too! GRRM had a very positive influence on them.
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The demigods have the shards of the Elden Ring, and they initially wanted them all so that one of them could become Elden Lord. But in their war over the shards none of them won, none of them became Elden Lord. That caused the Greater Will to abandon them and awaken the Tarnished so that the tarnished could be guided by grace (lights in the sky) which leads them to the shards of the Elden Ring so that maybe one of them can succeed and become Elden Lord where all the Demigods failed.
The rest I typed here is spoilery if thats a worry, though most players probably don't know half of this even after finishing the game. Passive storytelling does that. But I'll say you don't have to be too afraid of Elden Ring. Banging ones head against the bosses is an aquired taste so don't worry about the skill thing, the game has plenty of options to make it more streamlined. You could even summon viewers for whatever boss is too much of a problem and they'll be more than happy to show off whatever weapon or spell they have to trivialize any boss in the game.
But back to explaining. The messed up part about it is that the Tarnished were initially cast out by the Greater Will, thats why they're called Tarnished. The first person who was cast out was actually the first Elden Lord himself, Godfrey, father of Godwyn the Golden. He apparently had served his purpose as Queen Marikas consort when he defeated the giants, so they cast him out and he was then named Horah Loux. So now it is kinda messed up that the Greater Will calls them all back just because all their other subjects failed. The Two Fingers (agents of the Greater Will which is a god) are in other words just using the Tarnished for their own gain, likely to banish them again once they've served their purpose. That can lead you to some interesting choices in the game. Do you follow the Greater Will or do you choose a different path.
All the demigods are Queen Marikas children or later descendants, children she had with 2 different consorts. The first consort was Godfrey the first Elden Lord. They had Gowdyn the Golden, Mogh the Blood Lord, and Morgott the Omen King. The demigod called Godrick seems to be a descendant of Godwyn the Golden. Queen Marika then had a couple more children with the second Elden Lord called Radagon of the Golden Order. They had Miquella and Malenia. But their children were cursed. Miquella whos a boy was cursed to forever be a child, but despite that he's supposedly the most powerful of the demigods. Malenia is his sister, shes the red haired valkyrie with the metal arm in the trailers. Her curse was the scarlet rot which now covers large potions of the land after her fight with Radahn. Onto the next 3 demigods whom were the offspring of Radagon of the Golden Order and the Carian Queen Rennala. First is Scarscourge Radahn, the giant guy who controls gravity. Then it's Ranni the Witch whos the big hat two-faced blue witch from the trailers, and lastly Praetor Rykard the Lord of Blasphemy.
You might have noticed that I said they were all the offspring of Queen Marika yet three of them are born to Rennala and Radagon. Thats because at some point Radagon and Queen Marika merged into one. You can even see this in the trailers. The person whos hitting the Elden Ring sometimes look feminine with boobs and all, but suddenly they look like a buff man with no bra. We don't actually know the details of this, we just know that Marika shattered the Elden Ring and that Radagon tried to repair it. How and why they're merged is a bit vague. But thats why Radagons children he had with Rennala are considered offspring of Marika and are therefore demigods.
How Miquella and Malenia re born to the same entity is a bit unclear. Were they born before they merged? Who knows but this might be why they're so power yet both cursed.
Theres alot more like the Godskin Apostles and their Dusk Eyed Queen. Shabriri and Frenzied Flame, the god of Chaos. The Blood Goddess. The fact that Godwyn the Golden became the god of death after his soul died and he is now being worshipped by Fia the Deathbed Companion whom now tries to birth him anew. Theres so much more, so I expect multiple DLCs.
Man the combining of two characters to create different children but still the same parents is weird 🤯 Lot going on here and we appreciate you trying to help us make sense of it all 🙂
Man, after hundreds of hours and finishing the game multiple times, the opening is still so damn good.
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No spoilers below, but there are vague suggestions on what to look for as you explore.
Elden Ring is difficult and where you should be going and how you go about things is not obvious at all. There are certain secrets that I would have never known about if my friends hadn't told me; Walls/floors that you have to hit for them to open secret passages, hidden caverns on the sides of cliffs, questlines from side characters that talk about vague missions... It's difficult. There are ways to make the game easier by just over-leveling for bosses or using meta-builds that are strong, but having a blind first playthrough can be fun in its own way. Every big story boss has a cinematic and the side characters & environment build the world atmosphere.
The game grows on you slowly. Dying to a boss for 3 hours is aggravating, but finally winning against something you've been frustrated with because you earned the win by learning how they move, when to dodge, when to attack, when to block, etc. it makes for a huge feeling of success, like you've overcome a giant challenge. Not every boss is going to take 3 hours though, some you may beat on the first or second try, but there are a few that are extremely difficult. Some are difficult to certain builds while easy to other builds, so try changing your approach and what weapons you use and you could have a lot more fun using the 31 different weapon types the game has to offer. Don't force yourself to stick to using any 1 weapon, better weapons that are more your style will appear and make sure to look at what they do in their description, certain weapons have special abilities and drastically change how they're used.
Don't feel rushed to make progress, take your time, explore, and try to find a way for you to enjoy the game. If a boss is too difficult, LEAVE, go explore other areas, level up, get a better weapon, and then go back and crush them! Good luck, have fun.
Really appreciate your guide to the game. Super helpful and inspiring us to play and try it 🙂😀
Pretty cool as always ! Elden Ring's lore leave the player in the fog, just as all the Fromsoftware's past games. But you get pieces of lore ingame trough dialogues and object's descriptions, wich is super cool imo. It would be great to see your react on every boss intro, some of them are super cool and their design is always on point !
If we don’t end up playing the game then we will react to the boss intros 🙂
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Nice ! It's a hell of a trip and I will check for both !
If you're considering checking this game out, do it. Its a masterpiece. FromSoft has broken new ground with this game.
I swear if anyone says crap about "breath of the wild" I'll laugh. That game feels like they released it halfway through development compared to Elden Ring, and I say that as a lifelong LoZ fan.
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Radahns whole story, design and fight is.....peak. He legit inspired awe in me. Even with the silly bit with his horse.
I would actually LOVE if FromSoft ever creates a game where we meet the legends of it at their heights.
PS: I messed it up the first time and wrote Radagon. T_T
Do you mean Radahn? And while Radahn is cool none of them hold a candle to Hoarah Loux who is easily the best character in the game.
@@philbox3productions ....T_T well now...yes. I messed that up. Thx for pointing it out to me.
Radahn is such a Gigachad and I love him for it
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It is hard to see but in the first trailer radahn (the huge guy) is actually riding a horse. He didn’t want to abandon his friend so he learned gravitation magic so his horse could still support him. Without spoiling, when you fight him, radahn animation show him protecting his horse with his armor when he use big move.
radahan sounds like someone after our own heart being so protective of his horse 🙂
Yeah, his whole boss fight is pretty much to put him out of his misery.
No matter what level you become, no matter what bosses you defeat, those bears will still check you.
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Wild how much you guys knew about the lore, great effort guys!
Thanks! It’s fun trying to piece together the craziness 😂😊
“THE LOATHSOME DUNG EATER!”
Both of you: 🤨
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3:49 "Malenia, Blade of Miquella” is a demi-god and needs to bloom 3 times to become a full god or in other words (I think) the goddess of rot. In this fight she blooms for the second time. When you should play the game, please read all of your item descriptions because they really tell and elaborate on the story of this game, if you want to really understand it. Some of this info also comes from the item descriptions. “Fromsoftware” often tells their games stories this way, which not many games do. It's like a huge puzzle which you have to find and figure out the pieces of while playing the game, exploring and doing NPC quests.
Appreciate the tips to learn more from items 🙂
I have been waiting for this one!
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if youre interested in the lore, there is a great video about it called "Elden Ring's Lore: Explained!" by: VaatiVidya which currently has 4million views and is really well made
I recommend that video, too!
Thanks for the specific vid rec 😀
Everybody gangsta until you realize that the Frenzied Flame burning everything is preferable than encountering the Dung Eater. To sum him up, he's a twisted fuck that "defiles" his kills and curses them and passes it along for generations. And he's no push-over, I may or may not know from some sort of enslaving.
Well at least the dung eater is living up to his name 😱
The giant red thing that appeared is actually a flower. Malenia, the girl with the golden arm prosthetic is a flowery rot goddes, and in the fight that flower is what ended the battle between her and Radahn (giant twin sword guy) in a tie.
Fun Fact: The flower is a legit spell in the game called Aeonian Bloom and the player can cast it too! As the boss move though it´s an instant kill basically if one stays near it when it blooms like it did there.
Will make sure to get that spell 😀
About that, there is this red-haired lady that one has to beat should one want that flower spell of hers.
The few mentioned after he said "Tarnished" are notable Tarnished figures we will come across who all have some sort of different roll in things, but are each significant for their own thing. In Elden Ring they'll outright share with us what they're after and wish to do in visiting them enough, so we're honestly left with few questions of that nature of the game, so instead, most of the real mysteries lie in beforehand, and to some Queen Marika's family tree in detail even after it's explained a few times. To be fair, the before hand timelines aren't the easiest to piece together as the aftermath since we actually live through part of that and get to decide the results of.
But to explain what a Tarnished is (if interested). Queen Marika and those of demigod/other gods are considered Empyrean race, and those of blood ties/marriage ties to Marika/Radagon get to be deemed demigod as their heritage and abilities and blood can be of most comparable by nature, even if rather thinner in direct lineage poses disadvantages. Could also argue they were those who held Great Runes of the Elden Ring. But those human whom served under of Hoarah Loux, after one of their greatest wars would see their grace had been lost, and they would have left the Lands Between to distant locations past the fog of our presented known world. In the aftermath of all the conflicts in the Lands Between, the calls of Tarnished visitors had begun in order for the sake of the Greater Will, some were still within the lands and had never left, and some would be taking their own initiative of establishment before we get there. Tarnished visitors would have a Finger Maiden to aid them on their journey to tackle the most wildly accepted initially given task to all Tarnished, seek the Elden Ring and restore it to the greater will with enough Great Rune Shards held by the demigods. Anything more specific than that would be either an actual spoiler or be debatable. It's tbh the history that's the most difficult to fully get right, but a selective few characters set certain details right and more to speculation, while clarifying what it is that they intend to do or want us to do.
Thanks for helping explain the tarnished better to us 😀 Not sure we still fully understand it but it helps grasp it better for sure 🙂
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Some people can see grace and rest at them like ourselves, then some lost the ability to see it and the ability to consider it a thing of their importance. We get contextual clues that it has to do with their interests in serving with or toward the greater will of grace.
The lore/story of FromSoftware games are always obtuse, the cut scenes don't explain much, you need to go into item descriptions to really get into the details and understand the relationships. Even then, it can still be confusing. I highly recommend watching Vaati Vidya lore explanation videos for the entire FromSoftware catalog. He is excellent at explaining the lore and stories. I've played all the games, put 150 hours into Elden Ring and still missed so much that he explained. Last point, I love the game and highly recommend it but it definitely is a particular type of game that not everyone enjoys and that is okay if you don't vibe with it. Looking forward to seeing how your experience goes!
Thanks for the info and support 😊🤗🥳
While I love Vaati's videos it's important to keep in mind that some of the things he says are his own interpretations. They could be true, but other interpretations are just as valid.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames also, make sure that you guys come back to the series in some form after a few more months, each time one of these games comes out, the lord is never set in stone. That’s because with the release of DLC’s and the finding of lore that contradicts what we used to know changes our perspective and we even find new facts. VattiVidya is still probably top 3 creators to watch on this but what he says right now is 100% not set in stone as I’ve found different evidence and some other creators as well that are different than what he says, which is fine, we’re all stil trying to figure things out :)
Elden Ring is very similar to a concept we have in our philosophy, called "Logos"
In a oversimplified explanation, Logos are all the rules and laws that govern the universe
Now imagine if someone had the power to control Logos, that's Marika, now imagine she for some reason decided to completely corrupt the Logos
So everything we know about the way our universe works simply does not apply anymore all of a sudden
That's what the Elden Ring story is all about
A different way to present it then has been explained. Appreciate that 🙂
Very fun to go back and watch the trailers and actually know what all of the characters are talking about
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Your faces when it showed dung eaters part lmao
🤢 dung eaters 😝
Trust me, if you go into this game and try to understand the story, you will most likely only end up understanding fragments of it. This is the way that Fromsoft make their games. I highly recommend listening to some lore videos after you beat it (that is if you play it) and I recommend Vaatividya's lore video, it doesn't go into everything but he's planning on making more to explain the story more thoroughly. Vaati is also the main person that people go to to understand the story of souls games.
For sure want to check out some Vaati vids at some point 🙂
Malenia ( fake arm sword lady ) is one of the harder bosses in the game. And she is the cause of a plague in the game. She fought general radahn (big guy with two swords) since she never has been beaten and wanted to try fighting him as he is really strong. She couldn't win this time. So Since she has never known defeat she didn't want to lose to radahn so she jumped on him and stabbed herself. Using the scarlet aeonia ( red flower ) to unleash the scarlet rot. Radahn was too strong to die from it but it drove him (mostly) insane. Malenia was weakened from that attack and was taken away to safety by one of her cleanrot knights. The scarlet rot ended up consuming the part of the continent known as caelid. So yeah... malenia was a battle nut and when she wasn't winning became a terrorist. And apparently even when he was crazy radahn was holding back the stars with his gravity magic. So he could've been next to impossible to beat in the game if he didn't hold back even while 99% crazy
Heard Malenia was hardest in this game and maybe one of the harder boss battles in any souls series game 😯
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames for me it's tied between her and the phase 2 of the end boss. She is mainly very difficult for strong but really fast attacks and healing on every hit she does. The end boss part 1 is hard hitting but part 2 is both hard hitting and he runs to the other side of the boss room constantly. Add in the fact it's immune to most debuffs like bleed and frost and it's hard
She's not really hard at all. Take away one move and she's pretty simple. But yeah, Malenia was under the outergod of rot
If you want to know as much lore as possible, there's a certain youtuber, who discovered each and every piece of relevant story piece, for something as small as an Maiden seeking to become a Firekeeper, to something as big as the story of Artorias, the Abysswalker.
Vaatividya, he's spent lots of time on EVERY fromsoft game and learning their lore, definitely recommend giving him a watch, if you don't mind the heavy spoilers.
Since really the gameplay seems to be more the focus than the story and even those that have played it haven’t understood story it seems like this is the one time where spoilers would be okay 🙂
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames He's got an entire series called "Prepare to Cry", This is how most Dark Souls games are, it's about each NPC's story.
Funny thing about G.R.R. Martin is that Myazaki told him to write the characters and the world so Myazaki could twist and break the characters to their worse. The serpent dude that you saw in the trailer for exemple is Praetor Rykard, he was known as a kind and benevolent ruler...but the shard of the Elden Ring he was given to drove him mad with power....so he fed himself to the big snake so that he could never die and devour the gods TOGETHAAA!!
Ok, so to explain the story, an explanation of the family is probably also needed. Names are very important as they practically give you the family lines. First is the Golden line, as i will dub it. Godfrey (not mentioned in trailers) and Queen Marika had Godwyn The Golden and Godrick The Grafted, Godfrey and Marika had children outside Godfrey though. Morgott and Mohg which are cursed from birth to become Omens, The Loathsome Dung Eater is the one who curses others to be born Omens, and no, he does not actually eat dung. He is just a generally horrible person who does unspeakable things to bodies to curse their rebirth. Then there is the children of Radagon (not mentioned in trailers) and Rennala had Ranni (narrator in the first trailer), Rykard, The Lord of Blasphemy (guy whose head is being eaten by a snake) , and Radahn, Conqueror of the Stars. And finally Marika and Radagon. They had Malenia, Blade of Miquela/The Severed, and Miquela.
Now its time for the actual story, the Tarnished are undead who are forsaken by the Erdtree, which is the life source of The Lands Between. With the disappearance of Queen Marika there is a power scramble for the throne and godship. Some of the demigods are Shardbearers, who hold the shards of the Elden Ring, which is a tap for unknowable power. But The Lands Between are broken, shattered, and difficult to put back together. Outer Gods have their own agenda's for The Lands Between and how it should be run, Outer Gods are gods from outside The Lands Between that still have sizable influence on The Lands Between. There are a LOT of Outer Gods within the universe, i'll only explain the bigger, more important ones. There is The Greater Will, which is the creator of The Elden Ring in a roundabout way and the most influential Outer God. Then there is The Frenzied Flame, which is a source of great madness and insanity. It is a malevolent force hell bent on the destruction of The Lands Between. There are others, like The Formless Mother, or The Sealed God of Scarlet Rot, but they arent as important. Our tarnished is following lost grace, which i believe is a guide from The Greater Will, although unconfirmed. There is a lot more to go into but im tired lol.
Haha, we’d be tired too after explaining all of that! Appreciate you giving us the family trees to go off of and some names for them to help remember like the Golden family tree 🙂
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames np, i dug deep to find the connections lol. im trying not to spoil anything though because there are some big realizations throughout that alter the family tree i set up in one way or another.
I'm so happy to see this, you guys have great reactions.
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoy them 🥳🥳
Btw, this game has a lot of parallels to old school alchemy. There's even a video about it called "Elden Ring is an Allegory for Alchemy" by Ziostorm on UA-cam. I can recommend watching that one too, but it includes some story spoilers from the game, which you'll have to find and figure out on your own, like a big puzzle in-game.
Godwyn the golden, was marikas firstborn son, the king was a guy named godfrey dont worry about him, youll learn plenty of him if you play the game.
The people shown and mentioned before Hoarah Loux are all part of marikhas family, everyone after that is a tarnished like your charakter, they are mostly non-hostile towards you and they all have a different vision for how the world should be and its up to you to achieve your own vision or to help them achieve theirs.
Thanks for giving us more info on this 🙂
You're correct. The names that the narrator mentions aren't the demigods, no. But the people that it shows before showing the different Tarnished are the demigods, the girl in white (whom you also saw in the story trailer), the guy who was fighting off a red haired guy (Morgott and Radahn), and of course, Malenia, who you've no doubt seen in a lot of promo imagery.
If you don't want spoiler, please don't read further (I mean it, I'm putting some pretty big spoilers here):
[ANOTHER MAJOR SPOILER ALERT]:
The Tarnished here are actually very crucial to the story. Of which the most crucial is Hoarah Loux; or as her wife Marika would call him: Godfrey. Actually, what happened was that Hoarah Loux became an Elden Lord, but he was driven by his immense rage and bloodlust. So to suppress his rage and emotions, he was given Serosh, the Lion on his back that would keep his emotions in check and prevent him from being too brutal. And thus the brutal, merciless Hoarah Loux became the regal, ferocious Godfrey. And the demigods you see...they're all Godfrey and Marika's children. Some are Radagon and Rennala's children, who classified as demigods too as Radagon would later on become the second Elden Lord. Which is why now Ranni, Radahn and Rykard too hold the power of demigods.
Thanks for the spoiler alert. We are still planning on playing this at some point 😅
the game has a very deep lore to it and its really rewarding to discover it all as you play.
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Btw radahn the big guy is most probably the most wholesome of the demigods
Dude eats people tbh.
Noted 😇
The real shit is Rick, Soldier of God.
I've been playing Elden Ring, haven't beat it yet(I spend alot of time just looking around), only ever played a small bit of Dark Souls 2 so definitely new experience for me. Definitely an interesting land to explore, when not fighting monsters and fallen demigods the lands between feel oddly....serene, despite knowing that the world has just been slowly dying since the Shattering.
Appreciate the review of your experience so far 🙂
Godwyn was Queen Marika's favorite son and he was the first slain by the Black Knife assassin's. In her grief she shattered the Elden Ring but her husband the Elden Lord Radagon attempted to repair it. Thus most of the Demigods are fighting for the runes they got from their parents. Each Demigod is quite a great character with their own values and it's not a simple good and evil fight between them.
My personal favorite is Ranni who is the blue doll lady with four arms and she is the reason this whole shattering happened because she didn't want to rule a land that was twisted and under the influence of The Greater Will , but each demigod can be a favorite.
The two demigods you see fighting are Malenia and Radahn in a fight that basically destroyed a sixth of the continent known as Caelid.
The community absolutely loves Radahn since he is like the gigachad leader with a loving heart also his fight is spectacular. On the other side is Malenia who is an amazing character who became strong even when cursed with scarlet rot (Think of it like ultimate space poison) to protect her brother (Miquella) who was cursed to be a child forever, but has dedicated his life and vast knowledge to cure her. She is also the hardest fight in the game so people hate her.
There are others such as Mohg, Morgott, Rykard, Godrick, and of course Miquella whom all have their own tales and goals which range from noble to pretty messed up.
The lore is much deeper than just the demigods as The Greater Will is not the only outer god with it's eyes on The Lands Between.
If you wish to learn more then I highly recommend Vaatividya's Elden Ring Explained video
Thanks for giving us some more info on the characters in this game! So much going on 😯🤩🤯
So are all the demigods siblings
@@shonoworld8284 sort of. Some demigods comes from Marika and Godfrey (the first elden lord). Radagon was married to Renalla (not a goddess but a powerful sorceress, heads both the carian royal family and the magic academy.) Radagon broke off from Renalla and went married Marika, becoming the queen consort and essentially becoming the second elden lord. Radagon and and renalla children are considered step demi god after the fact. Theres a whole lot more to it but you gotta play the game so i dont spoil too much.
@@managarn8038 yea I’m currently playing the game right now I was just curious thanks for informing me
The ones at the end aren't the demigods. They're tarnished like us that rose up (also like us) to become elden lord to restore the lands in between. Except in-game they're useless npc's that we can interact with, and depending on which one we interact with we can become elden lord and follow in their footsteps to create the world that they want. For example if you interact with the dung eater and do his quest, you get the worst possible ending when you become the elden lord because the world he wants to make sucks balls lol
Haha, well that’s what you get with a dung eater 😂
I don't play many games these days. I just find it hard to get into one and have trouble enjoying them like I used to. But I got sucked right into Elden Ring. It's such a beautiful game.
That happens. We hadn’t been playing games consistently for awhile before starting this channel and have gotten back into it. Which is okay because now we have a ton of games to play and catch up on 🤗🙂
I love Kens intros. they are so funny and makes me smile.
Aww. Thanks! ☺️🤗🥳😀
I thought my dog was barking but it was in your video. 🤣😂
Haha, sorry about that 🤗 🐶
I’m new to these games and elden ring was a blast for me.
Good to know a rookie to these games loved it 😀🤩😎🤟🥳
Godwyn was the first of Queen Marikas children (of which there are 5) and the first Demigod to ever die. It's not entirely sure what exactly happened, but it's speculated that Marikas grief over the death of Godwyn is what caused her to destroy the elden ring which led to the runes being claimed & the great war known as "the shattering" being fought amongst the remaining demi-gods for the power to claim the runes & become the new elden lord. The last 2 lords remaining were Malenia (the chick who you saw get her arm cut off) and radahn (big dude that cut her). However their fight was at best a tie, malenia went into a deep sleep & Radahn was rotted & lost his mind. With no one to become elden lord remaining the tarnished were risen in the hopes that one of them may make the claim.
“He’s got some crazy hair.” Nope. That was malenia. A prophecy says that whenever she nears defeat the rot inside her will bloom causing what is essentially a nuclear blast of rot that will coat the land and cause everything to decay. And once she blooms for a third time she will become a goddess
She is the bad guy. Radahn (the giant) was the good guy. Things are not usually how they look in From Software games.
You can't say Melania (blade of Miquella) without saying , "Blade of Miquella" afterwards. It's the law.
@@acrab6527 Should also add that she never knew defeat.
@@Retheraq Neither of them were "good" or "bad", that's pretty reductivist. They were two agents with their own motives in a protracted nationwide civil war. Radahn may have been on the defensive during this fight but he was still a shardbearer fighting for power, and he had been on the offensive before. Just because he was an honourable guy who loved his horse doesn't make him "good" and anyone who fights him "bad". Yes, Malenia unleashing the scarlet rot caused a cataclysm, but it may not have been intentional on her part. It's a curse she was born with, she's an unwilling vessel for a destructive Outer God; having to continuously fight her own nature while brought to the brink in physical combat may have been too much to handle.
@@Retheraq There's no good guys among demigods. Cease this pointless Radahn simpage.
Here are the demigods encountered in Elden Ring that must be defeated: First, there are the empyrean twins, Malenia the Severed and Miquilla (though only Malenia is shown to fight you), there is Morgott the Omen King who has dubbed himself the guardian of the Erdtree (the tree of life in the Lands-Between), Godrick the Grafted (Godwyn's accursed descendent) who looks like a patchwork Frankenstein monstrosity, Mohg, the Lord of Blood (Morgott's twin brother who is madly in love with his half-brother Miquilla), the giant General Radahn, Conqueror of the Stars (quite literally), and Praetor Rykard who is also known as the God-Eating Serpent. The only demigod who is technically your ally is Ranni the Snow Witch, formerly known as Lunar Princess Ranni, who becomes both your guide and later your consort.
Thanks for letting us know the demigods we gotta take down 💪
The Narrator really poured all that he got into delivering those lines
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**legendary characters**
**a guy who eats poop**
**a final legendary character as if nothing weird was said**
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Definitely play it. It's challenging all the way through unless you over level but you soon get the feel of it
I would probably be that player that just waits to level up until being an absolute boss killer 😂🤗
People are down so bad for Ranni, the four armed blue lady. Tbf, she’s a huge badass and has big dom energy so I kinda get it.
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The game has been a true masterpiece for me. Wish I can grease my memory and play the game blind again .
Bet you’ll get a different experience on your second run. Try doing it a different way going a different direction 🤔🤗😀
Something (as somebody who hasnt delved too deep into the story, despite spending many many hours in the game) that stood out to me, is the fact that this Elden Ring, which is a golden ring, both Shattered, and Tarnished, which are 2 things that Gold is incapable of without impurities. Suggests to me, that there is an impurity in this godly golden ring. Gold DOES NOT tarnish, without impurities (in the real world) and it also cannot shatter without impurities. Tells me that from the level of gods and lower, there is corruptions. Which suggests a corrupt system, from beginning to end.
If you take a solid gold ring, and hit it with a hammer, it may break in one or two spots, but it will not shatter. But the golden elden ring shattered into many pieces. To me, this suggests impurity from the ground up. False idols.
Nice spot 🧐😀
Really gotta check out some of the amazing lore video's that people have uploaded.
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Now you are done with the elden ring trailers, you know what that means? Time for some Elden ring lore videos xD
They gotta play the game first
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If you're ever struggling with one of the Soulsborne games, and you don't care about bragging rights and just want an awesome story, Magic is the way to go
Magic is the in-game easy-mode, especially for Elden Ring, also get some summons in, there is no shame!
Good to know because I am naturally drawn to magic in games and building up those skills 😊
Big Disagree, melee is easy mode - I think it just goes to show that everything is individual preference. I have a really hard time beating any bosses with magic because they don't give you chances to cast any spells, I usually fall back on stabbing. Just try to beat Malenia (Blade of Miquella, who has never known defeat) with magic... Elden Ring is the first game in the series where I truly believe I can do anything and it will be cool and fun, and also effective, though.
@@mixmatched2342 Even if so, the spells make a Mage build in this game extra OP... And if ya still disagree, at least we can all agree, they look badass!
(Looking at you, moon)
The people listed at the end of the intro were other tarnished that you will meet during your journey. Most of them want to become the next elden lord but a few of them have different motives. Godwyn was the son of Queen Marika and Godfrey. After he was Caesared by the black knife assassins Marika shattered the elden ring. After the elden ring was shattered the demigods started fighting to steal each other's great runes so they could gain power.
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You guys should do a reaction to all boss intros and 2nd phases of the fight!!! It would be awesome!!
I am amazed with how vast the map of this game is. I literally spent 100+ hours during my first playthrough and at the second playthrough i fought 4 bosses that i didn't even knew that existed. Everyone should play this game. It's phenomenal.
That’s cool that you discovered 4 new bosses on the second playthrough 😯🤩
It took me 196 hours to beat every boss and 100% of the game. To say it's huge is an understatement.
wish you every success and all the best in your future activities.
Thanks! ☺️🤗🥳
The large dude with 2 swords is General Radahn also known as Starscourge Radahn and nicknamed Conqueror of the Stars for is mastery of gravity magic that allows him to hold back the stars
Also his horse is named Leonard and do to his size he learn gravity magic so he could still keep his dearest friend
Aww. That’s cool he learned magic to keep his horse by him 😊
Contrary to his name loathsome dung eater is really loathsome. Some spoilers so be warned.
When marika removed what essentially is permanent death in the lands between. Everyone is able to be reincarnated into the same body. What loathsome dung eater does is he interferes with that. He "defiles" the dead body and puts a curse on them which turns them into omens( they look like morgot/margit) when they reincarnate. The more loathsome part is that he just doesnt curse just the body. He curses their entire bloodline so everyone in the family and their kids become one. And he specifically states he just wants to do it for no reason other than to sow chaos and strife
Never trust a dung eater 🤢
11:16 This whole ring thing is way more abstract in this game than you might think.
Appreciate all the info on the game you’ve been providing Firecat! 😀
Night cavalry are not female.
You're confusing the night cavalry with the black knife assassins. Black knife assassins were all women that killed Godwyn the night cavalry are just soldiers of the Omen king. Margit tells you to be scared of the night because of the night cavalry.
Sorry guys, changed my mistake.
You should react to every intro and 2nd phase for every boss there all cool and interesting
If we don’t play the game we will check them out 😀
you guys 100% need to watch all the boss cutscenes.
If we don’t play it we for sure will check it out 😀
And Sir Gideon Ofnir, The All-Noing!
i like how he calls the Tarnished Forsaken, clearly he's been into Dark Souls a lot, like when we call souls to the runes or bonfire to the sights of grace XD
Also, the Tarnished are more like the Immortals in the series version with Duncan Mcloud instead of the original movies version: fate calls them to become a Lord but that doesn't mean everyone wants it
If u re interested into the story of Elden Ring i recomend to react to the story videos of VaatiyVidya, I agree that everything is confusing, thats cause of the (pretty amazing) storytellign of the game. In the Cinematic u saw everyone of Marikas Children. Godwyn, with the sliced back. They guy laying down the crown on the throne, the creepy big guy carrying something is Mohg and what he was carrying was Malenias twin brother Miquella. Malenia herself, the women with the severed arm and the big guy, Radahn. And last but never ever forgotten the blue girl with 4 arms is Ranni (Love her x) ).
Well Marika had a lot more kids that weren't shown, but they're not very relevent to the plot. Like Rosus who is just going, "Shit I left the tomb door open and all the dead got out, better light the tarnished signal to get them reburied" and that's his whole contribution to the plot. Or all the other demigods the godskin apostles killed offscreen.
Thanks for the info and channel rec. Vaati seems to be the go to channel 🙂
Ooooh Elden Ring!!
The lore for this game is great and at times insane. That's Miyazaki for you I guess. Still waiting for more lore videos so I can fully understand this amazing world.
Its great but confusing as hell at first. The game gives you next to zero context for what anything is or means until you dive in and dig. ha
@@jagore1258 I feel like there's just enough to know what you are meant to be doing: You are a tarnished who is trying to become the Elden Lord to mend the Elden Ring. From there it really is up to you to understand what this world is and how it became what it is.
I did feel that It was easier to understand as I was playing than the other Soul games.
Great but insane works for us 🤪😁
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames It is quite a lot of work! Wish you both the best haha
I'll be waiting for you to play it...don't be afraid to try it...
Thanks Mr P 😊
Like most From Software games, the story is much more hidden, though Elden Ring's story is more in the forefront and less hidden.
Apparently, Georg R. R. Martin created the world/lore before the shattering of the Elden Ring, and From Software took it from there.
Can't wait for you to play this and get into the lore and the game!
Thanks for letting us know where George RR Martin fire into the story telling here 🙂
Also none of the names mentioned In the opening sequence are not the demi gods at all.
Godwyn, Radahn, Ranni, Rykard, Morgott, Mohg, Malenia, Miquella are the demi gods
Thanks! 🙂
No problem. I love your videos. I love how your wife is always really shocked by violence and gore and your eyes just widen like coooool! Hahaha. It makes me happy to see you both enjoying things.
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames it was your Dead By Daylight reactions that got me into watching you guys but now I love it.
I have huge chunk of hours poured in already lol
Nice 😁😎🤟
In this world, the gods can only act through proxies, they cannot act directly. So The Greater Will (basically god) chose Marika. She married Godfrey the chief of the basically Mongolians of the world, and used them to conquer all the Lands Between.
But then with the lands at peace, you don't need the warlord anymore, so she robbed them of their divine grace and banished them as Tarnished out of the Lands Between. And wanting eternal peace, she went to the Elden Ring.
The Elden Ring is the laws of the universe. Marika took out the rune of Destined Death, the law that makes everything die eventually, and hid it. That way, everyone could live in peace forever.
But someone found where she hid it, and made weapons from it that could kill even the immortals, and started by killing her favorite son, Godwyn the Golden. Then went to hunt all her other demigod children from both of her husbands, and her 2nd husband's ex wife.
So Marika smashed the whole Ring in her grief, basically undoing the laws of physics and time, and everything in the Lands Between. The Greater Will did not like her going against it's wishes and undoing it's laws of the universe, so it dragged her out of the world to punish her.
All the demigods then fought to collect the shards to try and put the world back the way they think it should be. Each demigod, and some other folks, and even some other gods that couldn't do anything while the ring was in tact start vying to put the ring back together with minor changes to make themselves more powerful, or their ideologies correct.
So Marika gives grace back to the Tarnished and calls them back through the fog, to put the Elden Ring back together and free her from her punishment.
And I don't really even think that's spoilers since it's all backstory before the game even starts.
Thanks for giving us some more backstory for the game 😀
To explain some things despite being so late
Godwyn is dead but his body is still alive ageing
General radahn and malenias battle had no victor but it is widely said radahn won due to malenia pretty much using a cheat code to beat him. That is what that giant lotus flower was. It destroyed radahns brain causing him to become a feral animal
The "crazy hair" is the Scarlet/Crimson Rot, literally the essence of an Elder God. (and not a friendly one) In addition to the intrigue and corruption of the Elden Lords, this being has some design for the Lands Between and the effects of its presence are not pleasant to mortal or god alike.
There is no resolute quest, just like the other games. The world exists and you are free to damn or redeem it at your whim. There is no right or wrong or black or white. Some Lords may aid you, some may betray you, some literally cannot move out of the past, and some simply wish the future to literally burn forever.
The story also isn't done. Several Lords and quests are still unseen and unsaid, and there are parts of the map that seem unfinished, waiting for their part in the story to be finished.
Hmm. So will there be dlc content for this to add to the story then 🤔
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames The track record for From is usually two pretty hefty sized DLCs.
Don't be dissuaded by the difficulty, because it is dynamic. Just go somewhere else whenever you find a roadblock, and come back later. Dying is part of the game, and destroying a dragon that is an icon of strength should not be an easy feat.
Margit the fell Omen is the first boss that gives players trouble, but he is as hard as he should be. Some people call him a casual-filter and complain he is too hard for a first boss. The reality is that he is not the first boss. He is just the one that is easiest to reach. He will tell you to lay your foolish ambitions to rest as he mow you down like grass. He is one of Marika's children, and he is badass.
Thanks for the advice 😀
Elden Ring, like all the Souls games before it, tells its story with the items and environment. You will need to read everything you come across in the game to understand the story. Also, with its open world aspect giving you way more options to tackling the difficult fights compared to previous Souls games, it's a great game for newcomers to the genre.
Yeah we’ve heard of you can’t bear something after awhile just move on and come back to it when you are stronger 🙂
You guys should do a reaction to the bosses in bloodborne! I never owned a ps4/5 to play but I know about a boss that I absolutely love and feel you guys would too!
If we don’t end up playing that then we for sure will 🙂
Listening to Ranni narrate the Shattering ,"and so we inhabit a fractured world...", Like she isn't the one responsible for all of this. 😮💨
I hope you guys get to play this great game!
Someday 🙂🤩
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames lol, take your time, I love the game but it can be a bit rage inducing.Lmao
Dudes be afraid to moan in their girls ear and I'm over here like "Sir Gideon Ofnir.. THE ALL KNOWING!"
😂
You should react to a full lore dive
Will probably check out Vattis vid on it 🙂