Elden Ring Lore Explained Reaction

foreign welcome back to definitely not definitive I'm Ken and I'm back and we're just a wacky couple in love loves doing some reaction videos together yes we do and so we're checking out uh some Elden ring lore um so it's a game that we've done some reactions on getting really interested in but you know we're just having a dive uh we haven't dove into it yet just because there's there's a lot going on there and it's uh it's a long game yeah I've heard that uh it's not for the faint yeah I've also heard that um the from software games a lot of times like you know uh the lore in it is something that you kind of like piece together um you know through Reading different artifacts and weapons and you know journals and and whatnot so it's not very straightforward so it doesn't feel like this can be like too much like a spoiler really they're just gonna hype us up a little bit more and uh it's by a channel that we want to check out uh because they have some great film software lore videos and uh you know prepare to cry series that we want to check out so vatavidia I think is the name of the channel um I mean I know the name I know what the channel is but I just don't know you know the pronunciation of the name pronunciations are not a strong suit no definitely not um are you ready yeah I'm excited for this yeah I love a lore video the story doesn't begin in the Cosmos far away with an outer God called the greater will there are a lot of outer Gods mentioned in Elder ring you can think of these kind of like these sounds of bloodborne they're distant beings they're all powerful and they're quite unknowable by Design but many of these alcohols want to make their presence felt in the world the greater will maybe most of all to this end it sent a golden star hurtling towards the lands between the olden Stars incantation tells us that this golden star was bearing a beast an Elden Beast the olden remembrance calls it a vassal beast of the greater will if you didn't know a vassal is someone who holds land on behalf of their Overlord obviously this is fitting in this case because the Elden Beast occupied the lens between on behalf of the greater will and was a living incarnation of the concept of order as such this Beast would later become the Elden ring the olden ring itself is made up of Runes of power some great some small that together represent a sort of logic for the world to follow thus the Elden ring represents order the true nature of this order is a subject of constant debate and research undergone by fundamentalists but two of the key fundamentals are the laws of causality and regression you can think of the law of causality as cause and effect where actions have consequences and those consequences are new causes that Branch out into Infinity these are the relationships between things then there's the law of regression that states that all things eternally yearn to converge and return to their Roots fittingly then the Elden ring is housed within the urge tree which Towers over the lands between it's very important to stress that life in the lands between did not begin with the herd tree the Elden ring or the eldenbeast know the lands between were occupied well before the greater will came there were other beings here there were other factions here there were other gods here and there was even another great tree here before the urge tree and this is where a huge twist regarding the urge tree comes in so there are incantations in the game called aspects of The Crucible according to their descriptions these are manifestations of the erdtree's Primal vital energies and I quote they are an aspect of the primordial Crucible where all life was once Blended together but how could all life be Blended together in the urge tree if the Earth tree appeared after life existed well there can only be one answer right that the old tree is a parasite and it took over a tree that existed here before this ancient tree was called the Great tree so the great tree was almost certainly the location of this primordial Crucible and it must have been a very powerful primordial Force for the greater will to have commandeered it might even be the reason the lands between is important to the greater will in the first place it also explains why spells and enemies related to the great trees Crucible would eventually be looked down upon for example the not Talisman is fashioned from a knotted Vestige of The Crucible and it was considered a signifier of the Divine in ancient times but is now increasingly disdained as an impurity as civilization has advanced enemies related to The Crucible are the omen the Miss begotten and The Crucible Knights and all three of them would be shunned enslaved or imprisoned those who speak for the urge tree don't want you to know its roots so to speak according to the spell protection of the old tree in the beginning everything was in opposition to the Earth tree but through countless victories in war it became the embodiment Border in America's own words the Earth tree governs all the choice is thine become one with the order or divest thyself of it to wallow at the fringes a powerless upstart but the greater will needed more than a big tree it needed loyal agents in the lands between to this end it has the two fingers who are its envoys the two fingers heirloom has a weird picture of them but it reads of course fingers cannot speak yet these are eloquent persistently they wriggle spelling out mysteries in the air thus did we gain the words the words of our faith these words are interpreted by the finger readers these are the undying old Crohn's that you would have found throughout the lands between they passed down the wisdom of the two fingers or at least they used to your fingers please your fingers I can read them most of them appear to have lost their purpose they're desperate to read your fingers and tell you annoying riddles since their two fingers are likely dead and yes of course there are multiple sets of two fingers you would have found their corpses on the tops of the Divine Towers atop these towers you loot the fingers in order to activate the true power of a great Rune specifically though you are giving men addiction back to your great Rune you're taking a blessing back from the two dead fingers essentially this is just one of many blessings that the two fingers can bestow and my point is kind of that the two fingers clearly have more than just influence they have real power on some level the greater will needs these powerful envoys and agents because while it's obviously incredibly powerful it does seem limited by a few things first is space the greater will didn't come to the lands between itself it sent an Elden Beast to do its bidding instead second is time there is a moment later in the game where your pair of two fingers goes still because they're forced to commune with the greater will for guidance when they are finished the fingers will again offer their guidance about a thousands if not tens of thousands of moons must first pass no matter for me but you how will you ever manage to wait so the greater will needs a physical manifestation of order it needs envoys to convey its will but what it also needs is a god introducing America the Eternal I have this utterly enormous mind map of Elden Ring's law oh my God there's a reason she's at the center she's essentially the equivalent of Gwyn from Dark Souls except unlike Gwyn America didn't just crawl out of the dark and find power to an extent it seems like she earned it we don't know much about her Origins except that she is of the Newman Race which is actually An Origin that you can choose in the character selection screen Newman come from outside the lands between and our supposed descendants of denizens of another world long-lived but seldom born at some point America was chosen as an empyrean what is an imperian well an imperian is a being chosen by the fingers as a candidate for godhood as an empirion America received the aid of a shadow to do her bidding so what is a shadow well it's a wolf Shadow bound to its Imperium by the two fingers Luna princess Rani is another example of an empyrean with a shadow-bound beast you would have met Blythe these creatures are the imperian's very own shadow they are completely loyal to their needs and by definition incapable of treachery America's Shadow was a beast called malacath every Imperium uses their shadow in different ways but America's sole need of her Shadow was as a vessel to lock away destined death so what is destined death well according to Enya it's the Rune of death the rule of death goes by two names the other is destined death we mentioned earlier that the Elden ring is made up of runes and at some point maybe when she was chosen as a god Marica plucked the root of death from the Elden ring she gave the Rune of death to malacath her totally loyal Shadow Who Bore a Black Blade imbued with this Rune it's kind of Genius really in a single act she removed the concept of death from the lands between while also commanding total control of death through her Shadow who could deliver it at her win damn that's some power no some of you might be asking if death is removed from the lands between how come I can kill this dog first off a shame on you second from a law point of view that dog isn't really dead it's simply in the process of its spirit for its Soul returning to the urge tree catacomb dungeons for example are specifically constructed near the roots of the great tree for this reason so that the Earth tree can reabsorb their ashes back into it this process replaced the concept of a death that you were destined to have but this random Spirit outside of a catacomb dungeon says it best [Applause] as another example of this Theory when you kill a major boss you receive a remembrance of them these are spirits and they are hewn into the old tree in this way thanks to the Earth trees Grace their Spirits are immortalized in a sense this new form of death also explains what's happening when you summon Spirits from Ash and return to the Earth tree however some Spirits never returned to the Earth tree and they rise within death as corpses or skeletons instead [Applause] so this was the New Order and it's important to stress that it was in this moment when the Rune of death was removed when destined death was taken this is when order became the golden order the Forbidden Shadow plucked from the golden altar upon its creation specifically this was America's golden order so not only did she become a God and a vessel for the Eldon ring she became renowned as Marika the Eternal for her removal of destined death it was a huge part of her character and her reign as well however America had more than just death to conquer she had Wars to fight as the world was occupied by many forces that could threaten her golden order there was war with the stormlord who likely ruled over Stormville and there was a war with the Giants who were masters of a flame that could burn the urge tree there was war with the ancient Dragons Who incidentally had stones that could twist time and thus slay a God and finally there was war brewing with the carrion royalty who had previously obeyed laws which contravened the golden order thus sort of similar to how the greater will needed an imperian to enforce its will America herself needed someone to wage war so there was to be a husband a consort an Elden Lord the chosen was horalu a ferocious Warrior who became known as the lord of the battlefield his crown was warranted with strength and while it was for this strength that America married him he was also required to take a vow to conduct himself as a lord to suppress the ceaseless lust for battle that raged within horalu took the Beast Regent sarosh upon his back you'll notice this is another example of a beast being given for the purpose of serving order thus In This Moment he went from being horalu Warrior to Godfrey the first golden Lord consort to Queen America and a certified demigod Godfrey and America had three demigod children together there was Godwin the golden who you saw being killed in the opening trailer and there were also the reviled Omen twins morgot who guards the Earth tree and Moog who became Lord of blood you might think that godric was another demigod child but he actually instead he was probably descended from Godwin anyway we'll talk about the demigods more in detail in another video so subscribe for that but for now just know that Godfrey and his offspring were the first demigods henceforth known as the golden lineage in his Wars Godfrey LED his 16 Crucible Knights into battle who were named so for they fought with the primordial powers of the earth tree their incantations were aspects of The Crucible itself and they likely fought Giants dragons the stormlord and more to usher in their age the age of the Earth Tree in America's own words hark brave warriors Park my Lord Godfrey we commend your Deeds guidance hath delivered you through each ordeal to the place ye stand push the Giants to the sword and confine the flame Atop The Mount let a new Epoch begin an Epoch glistening with life brandish the Eldon ring for the age of the Earth tree the entry would go on to be largely seen as a blessing for all of those in the lands between especially those close to it in Langdale the capital city of the oak tree the tree bestowed blessings for example the Dew that dropped from its branches were like Jewels it loomed overhead as a constant reminder of order and its roots reached far and wide relieving many of the burden of death in fact ERD tree burial was one of the highest honors a hero could receive one by one the previous factions of the world fell the Giants were put to the sword and their fell God was killed by Marika herself the ancient dragons Broke Down the Walls of Langdale but met Fierce retaliation however I think the house of the earth tree encountered the most trouble against the land to their Southwest Leonia here the house of the Moon repelled their offensives time and time again and I mean that literally because there was not just one but two wars fought here and in both of these there was no victory for the golden nor for the moon and I suspect it was probably because of these last days these damn things can snipe you from like a mile away and it's bullsh actually it was probably because of the carrion Knights who according to their weapons were able to wield sorceress battle skills and despite numbering fewer than 20 this power made them a match for even the champions of gold in battle these Enchanted Knights were anointed by the lunar Queen a young astrologer who went on to establish the house of caria as royalty in this land with her bewitching lunar magic she won over the Academy of Raya lucaria where glenstone's sorcery was studied and United the carrion royal family and the Learned Scholars of Raya lucaria defended their home from the golden aggressors at the head of this great Golden Army was radagon Lord Radigan was a great champion possessed of flowing red locks he came to these lands at the head of a great golden host when he met lady ranala in battle these two Champions clashed fell in love and joined their houses radican once cleansed himself with Celestial Dew repented his Territorial aggressions and swore his love to ronalda order of the earth tree and the fate of the moon were conjoined and all the wounds of War forgiven you might think it's strange that the greater will would permit this Union but it's not too odd all things considered as with most from software games sorcery and Faith are just two sides of the same coin and both of these Powers stem from the cosmos radagon and ranala were known to have three children together Luna princess Rani who inherited her mother's propensity for lunar magic radon who took after his father radagon and would go on to master gravitational magic or reichardt who pioneered new hex sorceries and would go on to feed himself to a Great Serpent oh my God it follows that at some point after this America began to Harbor doubts doubts about the golden order that she had had a hand in creating in America's own words I declare my intent to search the depths of the golden order through understanding of the proper way our faith our Grace is increased those Blissful early days of blind belief are long past my comrades why must he falter and it's at this point that we should talk about America's motivations her character this is surely going to be one of those huge points of debate in the coming years but for now my working theory is that she wanted to discover the truth behind order and the truth behind the greater will and she believed that bonds had to be broken so that they could be better understood she believed that there was great meaning to be found in hardship green America has high hopes for us that we continue to struggle onto eternity the Lord Godfrey his struggle ended at the end of his campaigns according to his armor he led the war against the Giants faced the storm Lord alone and then there came a moment when his last worthy enemy fell and it was then as the story is told that the Hue of Lord Godfrey's eyes faded in truth he was robbed of his grace then America sent him away my Lord and thy Warriors I divest each of thee of thy Grace With Thine Eyes dimmed ye will be driven from the lands between he will wage war in a land afar [Music] where you will live and die this became known as the Long March of the tarnished as Godfrey and his tarnished descendants walked away from the lands between but Queen America absolutely had a plan here that Lord Godfrey and his descendants would one day return stronger having struggled outside of Grace then after thy death I will give back what I once claimed return to the lands between wage war and brandished the Eldon ring grow strong in the face of death Warriors of my lord lord Godfrey soon after she found a new husband neither that or a new husband was found for her when Godfrey first Elden Lord was hounded from the lands between Radigan left renala to return to the Earth tree capital coming queen America's second husband and King consort taking the title of second Eldon Lord the mystery endures to this day as to why Lord Radigan would cast lady Ronaldo aside or over why a mere Champion would be chosen for the seat of golden Lord whatever the case as a part of this Union radagon's prior three children with rinala became demigod stepchildren granted Grace thanks to their new family tree Ronaldo was broken by this and so was her country Leonia the queen set reads when ronalda head of both the Academy of Raya lucaria and the carrion royal family lost her husband radagon her heart went along with him and then those at the Academy realized that ranala was no champion after all in the wake of radagon's betrayal and Ronaldo's poor judgment Leonia struggled with civil war with the Academy of Raya lucaria on one side and carrion Royals on the other and it's here during the age of the urge tree that Luna princess Rani daughter of Ronaldo and radagon stole a fragment of the Rune of death it happened during the golden age of the Earth tree long before the shattering of the Eldon ring someone stole a fragment of the Rune of Death From malacath the Black Blade as mentioned previously malacath was America's Shadow and he had sealed destined death in a Black Blade then a fragment only a fragment of this Rune of death was stolen and once this happened malakath went a step further in protecting destined death he bound the blade within his own flesh such that none might rob death ever again it was too late however this fragment of the Rune of death was used immediately that night to kill a demigod America's own son that was the first recorded death of a demigod in all history and it became the Catalyst soon the Elden ring was smashed and thus sprang forth the war known as the shattering now there is a lot of really credible evidence that America was behind this plot to have a fragment of the Rune of death stolen there's also a ton of evidence that America is behind the entirety of your tarnished Quest but we'll talk about that in another video for now all you really need to know in terms of the timeline at least is this after the marriage of America and radagon and after a fragment of the Rune of death was stolen America went on to shatter the Elden ring and radagon attempted to repair it to no avail the olden ring had been broken into runes some great and some small we know it's said that Lord Radigan harbored a secret a famed sculptor of the earth tree Capital was once summoned to render Lord radican's likeness in Giant stature when he glimpsed the skeleton in raleighan's closet and as such it said the great statue Harbors his secret too of course the huge twist in Elden ring is that radagon is America or depending on what you believe he became her for she knew it was going to happen in America's own words oh radican little hound of the golden order that yet to become me the art yet to become a God let us be shattered both mine other self you can tell when from software is keeping something a little bit open-ended and of everything in Eldon Ring's law this will also go on to be one of the biggest unknowns as we move forward for example the wording Thou Art yet to become me reinforces that America and radagon were two separate entities before the shattering however in contrast there is also evidence that radagon was always part of America for example Enya says that the Demi chords are each and all the direct offspring of Queen America but how can this be if radagon married Ronaldo and had those demigod children the only way that makes sense is if radagon was always America and he just went over there to seduce renala long ago I'll present more concrete theories in the future but on this matter the most important thing is what do you think well you can figure out a ton of Elden Ring's story not all of it is open to interpretation certain things are and this is one of them and your interpretation is a big part of what makes this story special at any rate the union of radagon and America seems to be a union of two fundamental opposing laws of the golden order we mentioned these laws earlier actually there's the law of causality and America is an agent of cause and effect and there's the law of regression as radagon is a character who aspires to be complete and progress together so I have a theory that forcing these two beings that represent these Concepts together would have corrected America's deviance but even so she was imprisoned in the urge tree for the crime of the shattering Malika's trespass demanded a heavy sentence but even in shackles she remains a God and a Visions vessel the conjoined radagon and Marika even had two demigod children of their their own mikola and Millennia these two children were born Afflicted mikola was cursed with eternal childhood and Millennia harbored a horrific rot within even so these two children were both chosen as imperians they were immensely sacred beings and eligible to inherit godhood from the greater will perhaps the greater will was just desperate to find a worthy successor and indeed in the shattering War to come many would try to claim the shards of the Eldon ring and they would try to take the throne including of course the tarnished who returned from their long march at long last which we'll talk about in the next main lore video I should probably also mention here that if you become a patron you'll see upcoming lore videos early as that's one of the rewards you get if you pledge to the three dollar tier and if you think my channel really adds a lot of value to the souls games for you to the point where you pledge twenty dollars then in this new tier you'll receive a new mug every three months that has a unique design on it to do with the games by from software therefore to collect the first one you'll get is inspired by Dark Souls then Elden ring then sakuro and finally bloodborne and they all have fantastic art that I worked on with an amazing artist named chu but anyway I figured this is the right place to end this video because the information here is going to be overwhelming I bet it probably was too overwhelming you know it took me ages to commit these names and the relationships they had with other characters to memory so I hope you guys are doing all right one thing that helped me a lot was that we designed an enormous mind map with pretty much all of Elden Ring's law all of its item descriptions all of its dialogues all of the relationships between characters that we can think of we added all of this together and it helped a ton in learning about the story and visualizing it all and one day I will make this asset available to you all because I think after doing it I think this is the quintessential way to piece together the story and I think giving you guys this asset eventually will make that accessible for people so I'm really excited about that I want to thank Absa and zard for accepting the paid task of helping me put all the raw data into this mind map so that I could better understand everything I want to thank Parry God for fulfilling all of my footage requests and creating so many cinematic scenes for this video and for you all to enjoy and I last of all want to thank John Devlin for the incredible thumbnail and of course thank you for watching there are some really exciting things ahead and I actually believe this might be the best story that from software I've ever put together I just think not only are there so many amazing item descriptions but so many of them are impactful there are so many moments where you piece together the story and have like a Eureka moment and I'm enjoying it so much but now I'm gonna go and play the game a little bit because I've been editing this video for too long so see you next time alright so that uh that was really well done and I like how the end there he was talking about how like it's okay like if you like if this was a lot to take in um as far as the lore goes and everything just because like yeah I mean the names are are that you know aren't familiar names to to take in and um and trying to like you know it's decipher like okay who who was who um I think overall I like like the fact that like the idea that America sort of um banished her like first husband I'm gonna banish you like make you stronger I was like like I like the idea that you need to to suffer a little bit in life that's the part that you like the part that I like but like it's it's what makes things worth it like you know just being given something if you're just like given everything like it's not doesn't mean as much as when you earn it I think is the is what I took away from it and she wanted you know she wanted people to earn it interesting what about you what'd you think um jury's out on America for me it struck me as very high and mighty of her to be like I'm gonna go send your way to suffer to make you better it struck me as very much not a partnership as kind of condescending and I'm gonna banish you and your soldiers and your Offspring and you guys are gonna go and and I'm gonna tell you that you're gonna go and you're gonna suffer and you're gonna die really I mean you're gonna come back stronger but I'm going to keep that part to myself I don't know I am I'm not sure about her I I found that to be very just very high and mighty in a way that set her above everybody right down to her her husband and her children and everything and so um well she kind of was above everyone she was in control of death itself she's basically controlled you know life and death she's arrogant I didn't say she was yeah I didn't say she was she she's the best person like she's not gonna win you know a wife of the year for for sure and then you know I mean she obviously was very full of herself if she like married herself and then like fused with herself yeah and I I think that's my reputation but my theory is that she is radagon and like that was a sort of alter ego of hers that she was playing around with because they made it seem like such a wonderful love story radagon and I mean raniera or my merger that with Game of Thrones character names I think your main version of The Game of Thrones game but I can't remember her name right now but it was another R name it was radagon and yeah someone said like you know what if I almost feel like so when we watch some sometimes uh different videos um we'll give people like like little nicknames like because we won't learn their names really like um I think uh my jimbu or whatever we call it fat Kirby and uh fat Kirby and Dragon Ball Ray and Rachel I think should be like the two names for like the radagon and her uh goddess right she was yeah you can make something of that yeah okay so she's a moon goddess okay because the moon goddess and you know we got a gun okay but I just found that very I don't know very um very sad that idea that she had this great love between the moon goddess and radagon and then he just up and one day he's like no peace I'm leaving I'm gonna go marry this other chick so I think in my mind that I like it better if like he was always a part of her type of thing because it's makes it a little bit more Justified than just being like I'm not gonna love you anymore I'm gonna go with the new chick and what makes it better for her that she was always just kind of like a pawn and then he was that America separated her herself somehow and um was like okay I want to see what it's like to be to be a husband I guess maybe that's that's I think that's what she did she separate herself she's like I want to see what it's like to be a husband she's like okay now I know what the best kind of husband would be so new you know current husband you gotta leave because now I can have a better husband which is me and I know how to treat me better than you treat me so you go you go off and you become tarnished and you can you know you're you and your descendants will be will be better for it I'm doing this for you all right it's it's you know it's not it's not you it's me I feel like there's also a way to Circle this bag to like wellness and self-help like if you're not getting the dates you want or something start dating yourself and like taking yourself out there you go yeah that's basically what America did she just had the benefit of actually becoming a fully fledged top man with long red hair or two physically do that with and she shattered that you know she shattered the Elden ring because she thought that the ring that was like on her finger at the marriage there was holding her down um so she wanted to be free from it and so she shattered that ring that's what hey America did it all right I'm banished all right in this story so I'm America no interesting I also liked in this uh how uh vati video I'm gonna say your name I'm very sorry uh the Creator was used where he got the information from down below like you know it's like okay this was this was pulled from this source and um how he you know how he pieced it all together it's just like you know sort of backing it up it was his um yeah yeah okay there you go that's what I was looking for it was this bibliography you know as he was it you know in the video which I thought was pretty cool I liked it when he broke up it a little bit with some some humor it wasn't like so much you know it's not a Max or a video or whatever but I did like you know breaking up the little humor in there when he was talking about the missile that he could hit you from a mile away which is [ __ ] I thought that was a good moment uh because you know you you needed that a little bit or when he made the um the two fingers then he did a little air quotes that was good too that was good y'all thought you thought about this video down below in the comments and uh you know we talked about earlier that we thought that this wasn't going to be like you know a huge spoiler since we you know get all the information like from the game and whatnot but then he told me like you know the the big twist in Elder ring we we found out about it but you know it it is what it is and uh it's the game's been out a long long time now so you know just like you can't can't avoid spoilers thanks so much for checking out our reaction for Elder Rings lore explain by about to video but just keep in mind that our reaction is definitely not definitive

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Published: Thu Dec 08 2022