Elden Ring's Lore Explained! by VattiVidya | REACTION

the only way that makes sense is if radagon was always america and fell in love with her that's crazy the id right there that's from ember her stop how's it going people jack here wait for another video so eldon ring eldon ring is fun a bit hard in the beginning but as you get further into the game it gets easier but one thing that doesn't get easier with time is definitely the law it is complex and i don't even understand the half of it i get certain things such as m equals r america equals rather gone basically given to you in the game but there are a lot of other things that are obscure to me which is why today i'm bringing you a video by one of my favorite youtubers that is vati vija who has been i guess just like my version of baldur mode into the source franchise that introduced me to a lot of the lore of yeah the souls like games thanks to vati so much for allowing me to react to this please go and subscribe to his channel and or follow the link here with that said let's dive into this now story doesn't begin in the lands between it begins in the cosmos far away with an outer god called the greater will there are a lot of outer gods mentioned in elden ring you can think of these kind of like the great ones of bloodborne they are distant beings they're all powerful and they're quite unknowable by design but many of these outer gods want to make their presence felt in the world to this end it sent a golden star hurtling towards the lands between the elden star's 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 lands on behalf of their overlord obviously this is fitting in this case because the elden beast occupied the lands 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 elderly ring itself the elden 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 the 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 better between things then there's the law of regression that states that all things eternally learn to converge and return to their roots fittingly then the elden ring is housed within the erd tree which towers over the lands between but it's very important to stress that life in the lands between did not begin with the erd tree the elden ring or the elden beast no 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 the gods yeah there was even an old great tree the giants before the erd tree and this is where a huge twist regarding the erd tree comes in so there are incantations in the game called aspects of the crucible according to their descriptions these are manifestations of the urge oh the crucible nights and i quote they are an aspect of the primordial crucible where all life was once blended together that's crazy because you oh god free godfrey was leading the crucible knights and they are channeling another power than the one that was given to them by america which is fun i see but how could all life be blended together in the odd tree if the earth tree appeared after life existed well there can only be one answer right that the erd 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 advances related to the crucible are the omen the misbegotten and the crucible knights and all three of them would be shunned enslaved or imprisoned that's what happens to the omen twins morgan margaret and also i'd rather say more god jesus okay but then how they were his children or their children how come they have been affected because oh god free that may be out of his line okay those who speak for the erd 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 of order in america's own words the urgery 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 so in a way are interpreted by the finger language these are creepy undying old crones that you would have found throughout the lands between they pass down the wisdom of the two fingers or at least they used to your fingers please your fingers i can't read them most of them appear to have lost their purpose and 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 benediction 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 yeah and my point 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 cosmos 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 their fingers will again offer their guidance but thousands if not tens of thousands of moons must first pass okay so here's the thing i i dread to sometimes want to rationalize or apply common knowledge that we have in our world in some games right 40 have those pre-established mechanics but like the multitude of things obviously here we know that the the magic and all the faith that are driving some of these characters whether we are talking about on the lunar side right and or the golden side it's like sun and moon stuff so either we're talking about america or ranala's side so some were driven by the arcane say magic but some for faith but all of these were powers that were harnessed from the cosmos so it kind of makes sense that this primordial force that is the the greater will if it lies in the cosmos it will take some time for it to actually arrive and communicate as well it takes some time you know like travel it's crazy um yeah it's kind of beautiful but at the same time just disturbing no matter for me but you how will you ever manage the weight 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 rings law and there's a reason she's at the center she's essentially the equivalent of gwyn from dark souls except the comparison 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 use in the character selection screen newman come from outside the lands between and are supposed descendants of denizens of another world long lived but seldom born at some point america was chosen as an emperian what is an empirian chosen by the fingers as a candidate for godhood as an emperian america received the aid of a shadow to do her bidding what is a shadow it's a wolf shadow bound to its imperium by the two fingers luna princess rani is another example with a shadow bound beast you would have met blythe these creatures are the empyrean's very own shadow they are completely loyal to their needs and by definition incapable of treachery america's shadow was a beast called malakath every empyrean 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 ruin 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 roofs death metal at some point maybe when she was chosen as a god america plucked the rune of death from the elden ring she gave the rune of death to malakath 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 also commanding total control of death through her shadow who could deliver so america the aspect of me that wants to sympathize with her for her being like in the quest of trying to understand this power that had been bestowed upon her but like she made some weird ass decisions like what is the point of removing death right and then to be able to control it for yourself yes still later on which i hope is going to explain setting your husband out without his grace to wander the earth so that he can become better like why didn't you just do that in the first place it all kind of makes me think of the like kind of like christian dichotomy that we sometimes see in like a lot of biblically inspired stories where like a lot of the acts that were done were like highly unnecessary well at least in my opinion but that's just her win now some of you might be asking if death is removed from the lands between how come i can kill this dog first 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 or its soul returning to the urge but malekith okay to be completely low accurate then when you fight him and he kills you wouldn't it mean that you overcame death or at least to some extent since he has the the rule of death perhaps is the fact that it's not complete since ronnie stole a rune from it that's what it gets explained to the very beginning of the video of the video game actually i'd rather say so she stole the shard and i suppose that him wanting you to give him death roots all the time is his reasoning for having it restituted or reconstructed but i would assume that him striking you with destined death and killing you would have meant like permadeath you having to recreate a character that would be evil that would be very source like but luckily they didn't do that 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 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 oak tree and 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 however some spirits never return to the earth tree and they rise within death as corpses or skeletons instead a hollow place is violated from the urgery returned live within death so this sick was the new order huh 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 golden [Music] plucked order the golden order upon its creation specifically this was america's golden order wow not only did she become a god and a vessel for the elden ring she became renowned as america the eternal eternal for her removal of destined death it was a huge part of her character she created golden age 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 it's it's beautiful how the scenery itself of lindell kind of illustrates that right you have a marble like construct reflecting the sun as well as the light of the earth just glistening in the distance it's just just one block of white just to illustrate that here is no darkness there was war with the stormlord who likely ruled over stormvale and there was a war with the giants who were masters of aflame that could burn the erd 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 grip sort of similar to how the greater will needed an empirian to enforce its will america herself needed someone to wage war so there was to be a husband a consort an elden lord the man chosen was horaloo 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 horuleu took the beast regent surosh upon his back you'll notice this is another example of a beast being given by the purpose of serving order thus in this moment he went from being horuleu warrior to godfrey the first elden lord consort to queen america and a certified demigod godfrey and america had three demigod children together there was god when the golden who you saw being killed in the opening trailer oh there were always the reviled omen twins morgot who guards the old tree and moog who became lord of blood was another demi-god child but he actually wasn't 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 i say 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 storm lord and more to defend their age he be bodied brave warriors hark my lord godfrey we commend your deeds guidance hath delivered ye through each ordeal to the place ye stand put the giants to the sword and confine the flame atop the mount let a new epoch begin an epoch glistening with life brandish the elden ring for the age of the earth tree the ode tree would go on to be largely seen as a blessing for all of those in the lands between especially those close to it in lane del the capital city of the ode 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 burials 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 fel god was killed by america herself the ancient dragons broke down the walls of lane del but met fierce retaliation however i think the house of the eard tree encountered the most trouble against the land to their south west 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 lobsters these damn things it's [ __ ] actually it was probably because of the carrier knights who according to their weapons were able to wield sorcerous battle skills and despite numbering fewer than 20 this power what okay look i i don't think that the the boss that we got to encounter before ronaldo was that difficult to deal with but obviously like in comparison to the crucible knights i don't feel like this guy's really i'm not i'm not sure about this lore wise damn this emo p made them a match for even the champions of gold in battle but then again the conflict was not between the crucible knights and the carrion these enchanted knights were anointed by the lunar queen a young astrologer who went on to establish the house of carrier as royalty in this land with her bewitching lunar magic she won over the academy of raja lucaria where glimstone 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 turtle's 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 okay america is insane and when he met lady ranala renald home renault from west 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 rinala the order of the urgery 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 yeah 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 density for luna magic radan who took after his father radagon and would go on to master gravitational magic and reichard who pioneered new hex sorceries and would go on to feed himself to a great serpent jesus 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 i declare mine 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 you falter and it's at this point that we should talk about america's motivations her characteristics 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 queen markers i hope foreign [Music] for lord godfrey his struggle ended at the end of his campaigns according to his armor he led the war against the giants face 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 to grace 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 ye will wage war in a land afar where ye 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 brandish the elden ring grow strong in the face of death warriors of my lord lord godfrey soon after she found a new husband either that or a new husband was found for her and this is the craziest one the first elden lord was hounded from the lands between radigan left rinala to return to the oak tree capital becoming queen america's second husband and king consort please explain this one to me of second elden lord the mystery endures to this day as to why lord radican would cast lady ranala aside and moreover why a mere champion would be chosen for the seat of elden lord the artist whatever the case created the part of this union radagon's prior three children with ranala became step-children granted grace thanks to their new family tree rinalda was broken by this and so was her country leonia the queen's set reads when ranala 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 radigan's betrayal and rinala's poor judgment leonia struggled with civil war with the academy of raja lucario on one side and the carrion royals on the other and it's here during the age of the earth tree that luna princess rani daughter of ranala and radagon stole a fragment of the rune of da ha it happened during the golden age of the erd tree long before the shattering of the elden ring someone stole a fragment of the rune of death from malakath the black blade as mentioned previously malakath 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 godwin the gold that was the first recorded death of a demigod in all history and it became the catalyst soon the elder wanted to see him 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 you see what i mean i want to like her as a character but she has done some weird things 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 elden ring had been broken into runes some great and some small you know it's said that lord radican harboured a secret a famed sculptor of the earth tree capital was once summoned to render lord ratigan's likeness in giant stature when he glimpsed the skeleton in ralligan'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 o radican lil hound of the golden order that yet to become me so she had the ability to see in the future i guess it's like some sort of precognition that 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 elder 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 demigods are each and all the direct offspring of queens how can this be yeah radagon married ronald and had those demi-god children the only way that makes sense is if radagon was always america and and yeah he married her which is messed up like she left her she left the capital pretended to be the guy went and fought against ranala fell in love with her that's crazy the idea right there that's from ember her stop personalities seduce ranala 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 rings 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 laws 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 regress together so i have a theory that forcing these two beings that represent these concepts together would have corrected america's devious such a cool design but even so she was imprisoned in the odd tree for the crime of the shattering america's trespass demanded a heavy sentence but even in shackles she remains a god and a vision's vessel the conjoined radagon and america even had two demigod children of their own mykola and millennia these two children were born afflicted 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 elden 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 20 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 there are four to collect the first one you'll get is inspired by dark souls then eldon ring then sakura 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 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 eldon 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 wow quite the law dump was i mean elder ring is deep that's why seth in his video said that there's going to be enough content for uh lower channels in the upcoming in the upcoming years because there's a lot in there and of course this is a game that is going to have plenty of dlcs so yeah look forward to that but thanks again to vati for making this awesome video of course also if you want to take part in the community that he has in eldon ring so to find out more law related stuff you can always use the code name seekers i believe so to to join so that said though thank you so much for watching this video of course if you liked it you know what to do hit that like and or subscribe button to see more and i wish you all to have a wonderful day see you guys in the next one [Music] you

Channel: The Chill Zone

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Keywords: Gaming, Elden Ring, Video Game lore, Explained

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Length: 35min 49sec (2149 seconds)

Published: Mon May 09 2022