#Mohg is a fucking nightmare

[art-from-within]

Mohg is giving Morgott a make over…..

[bitchfitch]

I hate researching anything to do with elden ring bc it exposes me to so many people doing backflips to deny that the plot of the story... is the plot of the story.

long ass lore ramble below the cut. but tldr. Miquella is a grown ass man and Mohgs plan is dumb as shit bc he is going to get turned into a soot stain .2 seconds after miqy wakes up,

Like. Ok. there's this queen, Marika, simplifying some things here, but she's the human embodiment/avatar of this God™, to the point we can just call her a goddess so I don't have to explain what the fuck is going on with the Greater Will.

As queen her second in command is the Elden Lord. at the time of the game, there has been 2 Elden Lords¹. Her first husband, and her second husband. As the player, your goal is to become the Elden Lord.

When you get all the way to the end of the game you you marry Marika. Becoming her third Elden Lord. (alternatively you can marry a different woman, Ranni, who's goal is to become a goddess herself and replace Marika as god-queen, so you'll be her Elden Lord instead.)

so we can all agree that Elden Lord as a title, is the title of whoever is married to the god-monarch, right?

and so when a character says they want to be Elden Lord, under the golden order, they intend to marry the god-monarch that is the only way, they know of, to be Elden Lord.

So when the demigods went to war over who was going to be Elden Lord, not king or queen, elden lord, they were fighting to marry Marika. Who is the mother, father (don't ask), or both (don't ask, again) of all the demigods.

which is where my pet peeve comes in. Mohg, my favorite idiot clown, doesn't want to marry Marika. he wants nothing to do with his Mother who dropped him and his twin down a sewer.

Instead Mohg wants to marry one of the empyreans.

Ranni you remember her, Miquella, and Malenia are the empyreans², Ranni is MIA, Malenia is scary, and Miquella is conveniently comatose because he is actively attempting to make the transition from empyrean to God™ and then God-Monarch³ after he kills his momdad⁴. Marika.

which Is To Say. it makes me bonkers when people act like Mohg is the odd man out here. Like He's the weird one for wanting to marry a member of his own family. That's the normal part of his plan! the part that's weird and stupid is he is presuming Miquella won't fucking obliterate him the second he wakes up. He saw the competition for (basically) the corpse of his mom, and said Fuck that, and decided to test his luck with this actively ticking down bomb.

"no people think he's weird for wanting to marry Miquella because Miquella is a child!⁶" no he's not. Miquella and Malenia. are twins. a thing about twins is, they are always roughly the same age. If one of these is an adult so is the other.

¹ there was another elden lord, a dragon who's name I'm not going to try to spell, before the age of Marika and her shit family. no one cares about him. he is included as an asterisk for the pedants.

² Miquella and Malenia are Empyreans by blood bc they're the people Marika is both mother and father too. They have no human half like everyone else. Ranni (Marika is her dad) is an empyrean because she killed her human body and kept her god soul. this asterisk is bc God is this a dumb ass family tree that's annoying and confusing to think about.

³ I've intentionally left Radagon out of as much of this explanation as possible. I do not want to explain Marika making a second her who is a man, so he could go marry this human queen to ensure an alliance with her, father a few problems, and then divorce her to go marry Marika, who he is, and then father two more problems. ⁵

[⁵ Maybe three? Personally I'm pretty sure Melina is a Millicent type situation where she doesn't have a father, unlike the twins who's father and mother are the same person but not in a way that makes sense. but I don't think there's any in game confirmation either way]

⁴ Miquella might be a trans girl? Elden Ring is weird about gender, but that's why I'm still using Monarch instead of king in case she decides to come out and be Queen Trina. Personally I think it would be cool if she was gender fluid but that's a Different Post.

⁶ The man is old enough to start a cult, become a God™, command armies, and send his sister to go fight their shit half brother and permanently destroy part of their continents eco system. Literally. he is Just Short. "he's cursed to be eternally young!" how has that manifested outside of him being scrawny and mildly weaker than the outer gods? He uses people thinking he's a kid to his advantage! He knows how people perceive him as weak despite Malenia herself calling him the scariest of all the demigods for his ability to make people love him and drive people insane. He's a grown ass man and you're falling for the same trick Mohg did and everyone agrees, that guys a fucking idiot.

⁷ I didn't know where to put the three fingers and their ending, but They're an option too. Honestly. I've got suspicions about them and their connection to miq but Not Going There

[anglerfishenthusiast]

my favorite things about elden ring are a dlc that isnt out yet and everything related to the frenzied flame. good spread

[sapphic-scylla]

I mean I had to do this eventually. I won’t rank all of them because there are SO many, but here is the Top 20. Enjoy!

Top 20 Best From Software Boss Fights In Order

Malenia, Blade of Miquella- She wins. I can’t help but to put her here for a myriad of reasons. Aesthetic, difficulty, arena, moveset, rewards, the practice you need? She makes me happy for reasons the rest of this community will NEVER understand.

Sister Friede & Father Ariandel- The most stressful stamina fight you will EVER do in these games. Three consecutive boss fights that were all built to test how well you can manage your own healing with different strategies tailored to each section. Friede still scares me to this day and I love her for it.

Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower- Probably the easiest boss fight I’ll put on this list, but frankly, this fight is glorious. Truly, such an entertaining fight and yet she still keeps me on my toes.

Darkeater Midir- I still maintain this as the ONLY perfect dragon fight in all of FromSoft’s entire menagerie. No one else even holds a candle to this legend. Not Fortissax, not Kalameet, not Placidusax. Midir takes their crown without even a contest.

Knight Artorias- This man STILL kicks my ass. DS1 didn’t really age well in terms of difficulty, but Artorias still demonstrates to this day that his greatsword can find its way down my throat easier than most bosses.

Slave Knight Gael- Truly one of the more satisfying wins on this list. I always feel accomplished when I beat this man at the end of DS3 and his entire story is probably one of the better lore entries in the Souls Narrative.

Dancer of the Boreal Valley- My favorite base game boss bar none. Aesthetic and difficulty and the best outfit in the game.

Sword Saint Isshin- Truly a gorgeous fight. Scale plus difficulty AND a great ending to Sekiro.

Ornstein and Smough- No explanation needed. The original gank fight and nothing has ever come close since.

Orphan of Kos- I shouldn’t like this scrawny heathen, but fuck if he’s not one of two reasons I crawl my ass back through this game time and again.

Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy-Dude says 15 words the entire game and his voice lines have been etched into my skull. Plus, his fight is cinematic as hell and he gives me serotonin.

Demon Princes-The closest FromSoft came to matching O&S in gank fights. Unique mechanic and the bosses’ design was actually super dope. Entertaining every time.

Genichiro- This man taught me how to play Sekiro single-handedly by kicking the shit out of me until I understood. Easy fight now, but he needed to be included.

Gravelord Nito- I don’t have an explanation for this one. I shouldn’t like him, but here we are.

Mohg, Lord of Blood- Very creative boss fight and his music is dope. An underrated yet VERY satisfying boss fight to win if you take him down by yourself.

Radagon of the Golden Order- Checks all of the boxes in my humble opinion. He also has great lore and his physical design is incredible to look at. Plus I gotta respect the dude for putting his hammer through my skull. Every. Single. Time.

Guardian Ape- This fucker forced me to play like Dark Souls in Sekiro. After all that work learning from Genichiro, this punk had the audacity to make me relearn everything. Respect.

Quelaag- You know why she’s here. Don’t act like you don’t. We love her and we respect her.

The Nameless King- Hours of work paid off when I learned to beat this dude. My level of play skyrocketed when I learned how to beat this guy. Everything became so much easier after I learned how to successfully kick this guy’s ass on command and I’ll forever respect him for it.

Owl (Father)- An ADHD nightmare, but one of the more satisfying victories in Sekiro. He also is a good punching bag to empty out the disdain I carry for my own father and my father can’t even throw shuriken.

[jarognieva]

Jara!

For the ask game, what's you favorite boss fight in every game you played?

Heyyy Fan!!! ❤️

For now I played only Bloodborne, Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3 (I began to play Sekiro and DS1 but shortly after them Lies of P took all of my attention so I'll finish them later. It's not like they're worse or better, just the rumours calling this game "Bloodborne 2" were perfect bait for me xD).

Okay sooo soulsborne games made me realise that I'm masochist so the hardest fights are my favourites xD In Bloodborne it's Orphan of Kos - he's so poor little baby screaming of pain and grief... I would hug him but ughh it's soulsborne so I must kill him (xD) to release his soul from the nightmare. And I totally love the most "powerful" moment of the fight - when Kos hear his scream and defends him (I mean when she do this thing with bolt) even if she's "dead" (ok I know it's not like she's exactly dead...). She's true mom-goddes 🥺❤️

Honorable mention: Maria, Micolash

Dark Souls 3 - Slave Knight Gael. I love everything about him, the fight, the lore. The whole atmosphere of fight at the very end of the world!

Honorable mention: Sister Friede, Midir, the Dancer

Elden Ring - Malenia! I can't count how many attempts it took me to win but it was... A LOT. Her ability to heal herself with every hit, her strength, her skills, her second phase... Yes, I was irritated with all of this at the very beginning but after some time I was like... She's fucking GODDESS, what did I expect? XD

Honorable mention: Mohg, Radagon + Elden Beast, Placidussax

Link for asks here x

[theslowesthnery]

Ok, so I remembered an old cartoon I watched called "Mitten" (about a little girl who pretended her red mitten was a puppy, and she saw it as a real living puppy while her mom only saw a mitten), and. Ideas.

Imagine Mohg insisting that his little newborn formless baby is right there, and he is taking care of it and talking to it and playing and absolutely doting upon it, and he can SWEAR he can FEEL it, he KNOWS it is there, it simply MUST be. He can hear it coo, he can even maybe sort of see it on a good day. It is a true, it is a real bundle of joy and love. He is so, so happy. He loves it so much.

Everyone else just sees an empty cradle, hands wrapped around cloth wrapped around nothing. No presence. No sounds. Everyone else sees him as a delusional omen, and his baby as fiction, a piece of a fairytale too good to happen to someone like him.

Bad ending: there's the creeping doubt, the growing unease that slowly erode away the happiness. His chest feels hollow. His hearing plays tricks on him, and sometimes he has to really listen in to hear his baby. Mohg keeps fighting off the erroneous thoughts, he shouldn't doubt this miracle, but... what if? What if his nightmares are real, and he does not just dream of waking next to an empty crib?..

Good ending: yep, the baby is actually a real little formless baby, everyone collectively goes "WHAT THE FUCK", Mohg loves his weird little baby like a good dad he is :)

ANON STOP TRYING TO MAKE ME CRY

the worst part is that if it is indeed a false pregnancy, those things eventually pass, so mohg would definitely "come to his senses" at some point and realize that there is no child, that he just imagined it. and no matter how much he might then objectively know that there never was a baby, his love for it was fully real, and while his people are glad that their lord has come to his senses, he himself just feels like he just lost a child.

[bloodrosebriars]

exorcism | gemini ii | mohg | 1021

tw: descriptive gore

He’s sick of it — sick of it, sick of it, sick of it. The constant pain. The constant headaches. The constant burn. The constant reminder of who and what he is. He’s sick of the symbolism, and sick of the twist. He’s sick of the purpose, and sick of the means. He’s sick of the sensation, and sick of its end.

Now he finally understands how Morgott felt.

He remembers the sound of a working wire saw, but he has never heard it so close. The terrifying snicker-snack that once haunted his nightmares — the first time he was scared of blood; the first time he was scared of his brother — now echoing, echoing, echoing directly in the walls of his skull.

First, there’s a layer of horn.

His hands burn as they grip the sharpened instrument, muscles strained and shaking and hot. His fear, his anxiety, his guilt, his regret, all gathered together in the church of his sweating palms, blistering with the sermon of fire beneath his skin.

Last, there’s a layer of bone.

The same hands that once took Morgott into his arms and held him close and called him a damned, damned idiot. The same hands that once bandaged his wounds using torn cloth from Mohg’s own clothes, mopping up blood and applying delicate pressure, praying for clots and dreading crimson flow. The same hands that once preened and polished the same horns he now so viciously destroys — pampered with oils and powders and perfumes; buffed and waxed like a prized horse’s hooves; praised and touched and revered like the rack of a golden stag.

And right in the middle, there’s a layer of fire.

The saw cuts the quick in one fast flash, and out from the wound bursts flame. He winces, he whines, his hands convulse and his shoulders tense. The blade is embedded deep into the horn — the dreaded claw — sparks glinting off its well-whetted blade, reflecting oranges in the darkness.

He regrets this already.

He just wants it gone.

Hands reach for the rope saw once more, and he doubles over as it jostles the vein.

It’s a process he’s just barely begun.

Next is a layer of skin.

Pain is a blessing, he echoes himself from the past, for it reminds us that we are alive. It makes pleasure all the more beautiful. It makes love and sex worthwhile. It is good fortune, it is gratuity, it is something we all must respect. Pain is a pleasurable mistress. Pain is what keeps us alive.

He’s so fucking stupid.

What a goddamn joke.

The saw snicker-snacks, and he clenches his teeth like a man shot and dying. He understands now why the Omenkillers prefer this method of execution. He understands now why babes cry before they die. Left, then right, then left, then right, the blade saws through that layer of horn, that layer of skin, that layer of magma that drips down his wrists…

He’s whimpering like a babe by the time he reaches bone.

It’s so hard — just so fucking hard. He can feel it vibrating in his skull — can feel each motion rattle his teeth. Can feel the horn jostling in his eye. Can feel the whole thing growing looser. Panic sets in like a friend come to visit, and he feels sick enough to vomit in his hands. He wants it to end. He wants it to be over. How did Morgott do this five, ten times? How could anyone call this epiphany?

He can’t stop. He can’t stop. He can’t stop. He tugs again, and again, and again, and again…

Bone splinters, cracks, and he’s sick of this fucking saw.

Hands brace themselves against the flame-charred wall, and he bashes his face forward like a ram. The horn splinters. Fire spits. He cries out in pain. He does it again. Horn and fire and skin and bone, all shattering, all splintering, all splitting, all spitting. There’s a horrid crack, followed by a horrid yell. A horrid tear, followed by a horrid gurgle. A horrid split, followed by a horrified realisation.

It’s broken — the whole damn thing, it’s broken.

Claws are desperate as he, woozy and weak, grabs at the once-twisted horn — its splintered split and flame-drenched maw — takes hold, grits his teeth, and turns.

He can feel it within what must be his brain — his sinuses, his teeth, his cheek and jaw. The twisting of the horn, rearranging the contents of his skull, like the hands of a clock turning from six to three. He can hear it both inside and out — the wetness of insides, all blood and flesh and fire, stirring and tearing with the tuning of this clock’s cruel dial. He twists, he yanks, he snaps, he pulls…

He hadn’t heard the door open. He hadn’t heard Morgott scream his name. He hadn’t heard his footsteps approach in a sprint. He hadn’t meant to spray him with molten blood as the horn was finally wrenched free from his pus-drooling eyesocket.

He hadn’t meant for anyone else to see.

Or maybe he did, the egotistical bastard.

Hah. Some things never change.

Some things never change.

“Some things never change…

“Hah… hah….h-hah…”

His hands hit the ground, and so does the skin, bone, and horn. His head lowers as he wretches and gags. His stomach convulses. His eye leaks flame. And Morgott’s arms are wrapped around him like a security blanket, the old man’s face streaming tears.

And that’s the real punchline to this whole joke. After all, how many times had Morgott told him to trim his horns? How many times did he try to cut this one in particular? How many times did he warn him this would happen? How many times did he cut off his own?

It’s funny — hilarious, even — that the old man would cry in this moment. Isn’t this what he wanted?

And Mohg laughs at the universe’s pun — gags, coughs, and laughs some more — as the sparks of his blood paint his face in reds.

The horn turns to ash at his claws.

And Morgott finally understands how Mohg felt.

[orphanedsource]

Does Mohg ever get nightmares? If so, what do you think they're about?

is this regarding my au hehe uh i think all mohgs mental damages come out while hes awake and then he sleeps like a fucking rock. like hes just boldly saying the most appaling things full confidence and consequently he has never remembered a single dream hes ever had. his worldview is warped and unchallenged bc hes intimidating and also varre isnt gonna be the one to say anything.

[squaretablehold]

The Hunter’s Moon

Hunter wanders into the mausoleum while Mohg is out with his twin and everyone else is somewhat distracted, once again glancing about and taking in the compound. The false sky hangs heavy and close here, and they long to reach out and touch it. That cruel cosmic dream. It looks so sweet.

They don't, focusing back in on what they came here to do. Hunter crouches down and starts scraping the stone with a crooked metal tool. They etch three runes into the floor and pull out a festering boody finger when finished. They smear the second and third rune with the rotting ooze from within the finger then discard it. A nick on the blade of their rapier opens their palm enough for them to stain the first and second with their own blood.

At first nothing happens, but then Hunter scowls down at their little ritual.

"C'mon I know you can hear me," they hiss at the empty structure.

Sure enough, as if in response, the bloody runes begin to glow and smolder with bloodflame.

"That's better. Now why don't you and I have a little heart to heart shall we, partake in communion as it were? I've got a few questions I wanna ask." Hunter sneers at the bloody light. It roils and bubbles in response, attempting to send gouts of flame but held in parley by the center rune.

"Yeah that's what I thought. I take it you know what I am then." There's a pop halfway between a viscous bubble and burning crackle.

"And you know I killed Mergo and The Paleblood Moon." Hunter's voice drips with sadistic pride, baring teeth more sharp and plentiful than they ought to be. A threatening sizzle answers their cruel gloat, and they laugh.

"One of those you oughta be happy about really, but I guess you're more just jealous huh, that she has an heir and you don't?" At this a tongue of crimson flame lashes out towards Hunter, causing them to flinch back instinctually. They answer with a growl and squeeze their palm over the ritual. More of their blood trickles onto the floor, banking the fire and bubbling.

"Fucking try it! I'll cut your little dynasty to shreds!" Hunter pauses to give a humorless laugh, "Or maybe I'll just bring my Moon down and let them rip themselves apart, hmm? Can't have a proper hunt without beasts can you?"

The bloodrite on the ground gives no response this time and Hunter just glowers at it, their bluff called.

"Look, I don't know if you're Oedon, or his mother, or his estranged fucking wife, and frankly I don't care. You know who and what I am and you know I didn't spend my second childhood idle. Oh no! I've been doing some voice training of my own, so you better take what I'm about to say to heart. Back. Off. This world has enough fucking problems without you and your bloody meddling. I am going to find you one day, but it'll be all the quicker if you stick around here and keep searching for your damn surrogate." The blood flickers, looking almost like laughter, causing Hunter to slam their palm down into the flame and push, causing shards of jagged crystallized blood to shoot up from around their hand and liquefy again over the flames.

"Don't underestimate me! I may be young, infantile to you even, but do not forget that I am the perfect weapon forged by one of your own kin. I wield myself now, and I will kill you. This is your last chance to hide. Hide away and maybe I won't find you, might even get bored and stop looking. Keep your damn nightmare to yourself and I might not catch your scent." Hunter gives a low chuckle at that. "I mean how do you think I found this place after all? Whatever child you're trying to birth has already started Dreaming, and if I can't lock them away safely I'll put them down as surely as I did The Orphan, Mergo, and Arianna's babe. I won't let you or anything else forge another Nightmare."

The blood tries to lick and burn at their hand but bound by their inscription and drowned in Hunter’s own blood all it can do is smoulder harmlessly.

"Consider yourself warned," Hunter sneers at the ground, slashing across the etching to end the effects of the runes. They sigh and sit back on their heels, pulling out a bandage to wrap around their palm. Once finished they pick their tool back up again and carefully scrape the stone until the runes they carved are completely unrecognizable.

Knees protesting, Hunter stands once their work is finished and gives one last look around, staring at the altar and at what is, to the best of their knowledge, nothing more than a bloody corpse.

[death-stranded]

What's your favourite Elden Ring boss?

I’m going to be a bit controversial and say that on the whole I don’t really like most of the bosses in Elden Ring… 😱 But that’s another conversation haha.

I want to say Malenia but I haven’t yet managed to beat her solo. I’ve defeated her twice so far just through brute forcing it with a spirit summon, so I still feel like I haven’t had the authentic experience yet. We’ll see how I get on in my no summons run and I might come back to this! 😅

In answer to the question I think I might go with Mohg, Lord of Blood. The character is gross as fuck, but I love everything about the aesthetic and he has a really sick move-set of blood and fire attacks which are challenging but not quite the bullshit-level of other bosses in the game.

I’d potentially consider Maliketh, the Black Blade mainly due to his awesome design: huge sword, fashion armour set, gorgeous attack effects, sexy fur beast… But his move-set is utter bollocks trying to even land a hit on him, so this fight is more of a nightmare 💀 I’m actually dreading facing him in my current solo run.

Thanks for asking!!

[eldritchtouched]

Theory- Miquella and Mohg were working together

Hold your butts. This idea originally came to me after exploring the Haligtree and Elphael and realizing the strange implications of the world design, then going deeper. World design is a massive thing in the Soulsborne genre, where how something is constructed or shown in the world is important.

My theory is borne of that, mixed in with questions whose answers make more sense to me if Miquella and Mohg were working together than if something else was happening.

Point one- the Haligtree is a nightmare to get to, and more of a nightmare yet to get through Elphael, let alone without being noticed

It’s a massive pain to get to the Haligtree.

In order for the player to get to the Haligtree at all, you need two pieces of a secret Grand Lift medallion. These pieces are found in the Forbidden Lands, in Castle Sol, past Commander O’Nial, and the Village of the Albinurics in Liurnia. You then need to make it through the Consecrated Snowfields, past the Evergaol puzzle guarded by multiple Black Knife assassins, to make it to the teleporter to even get up to the Haligtree proper. 

Now, even if you assume for simplicity’s sake that Mohg somehow knew how to get past all of that without the medallions and flew up there, it’s still a massive trek and requires going through Leyndell, which has been locked down since Radahn attempted to take the city and the gate to the necessary lift was sealed by Morgott.

From there, to get to the roots of the Haligtree, you have to go through the entirety of Elphael. It is one of the hardest places to get to in the entire game, only beaten out by Crumbling Farum Azula and the inside of the Erdtree for lore reason. 

Despite this, literally nobody seems to have noticed a massive fuck-off Omen man show up and kidnap Miquella. Even if you go with the teleporter in the Consecrated Snowfields, that teleporter is one way- to the Mohgwyn Palace grounds, and would still require Mohg to have to travel the whole of Elphael and the Haligtree there and back. 

On top of that, Gideon’s network of spies didn’t know where Mohg and Miquella went, meaning there wasn’t any information they could glean to figure out where they were. You have to tell him where they are and can only do it after triggering Mohg’s boss fight. Even Varre never names Miquella directly, only “Luminary Mohg,” when talking to to the player. (The Bloody Finger invaders are giving blood to Miquella’s cocoon on Mohg’s orders to help his ascension. It is very likely policy not to mention Miquella directly- only one or two descriptions allude to Miquella as ‘the Divinity.’)

Point Two- Pretty much everyone who knows him believes Miquella is gone of his own volition

Malenia’s dialogue makes it fairly clear she believes Miquella is gone of his own volition, talking about awaiting his return. The same goes with the description of her helm, that she expects Miquella to keep his promise and return. The Haligtree Soldier ashes also describe the reason some of the soldiers exploding being them hoping to guide Miquella with the light it gives off. They fully expect him to come back some day, and that he is not necessarily at the Haligtree anymore. (Those suicide soldiers are on the exterior of Elphael.)

Malenia’s stuff also implies that her reason for fighting Radahn was not because of Miquella. A common theory is that she went after Radahn because she believed he was taken, since the battlefield is above the Mohgwyn palace grounds, but this makes no sense when bearing in mind that Malenia seems to think he is gone of his own accord and instead waits for him to return. If she thought he was taken, after she awoke, she seems like the type to... you know, go after her brother instead of just assuming he would come back instead.

On top of all of that, Miquella’s followers are absolute goddamn fanatics for him. The Haligtree soldier ashes will suicide rush your enemies, and several of the soldiers in Elphael will charge at you in a suicide rush because you aren’t supposed to be there. That the soldiers and knights of the Haligtree are only found in the tree itself. There are none elsewhere in the world at all that might be trying to search for Miquella southward is telling. 

I say “pretty much” because Gideon’s dialogue is different, talking about Mohg being a lunatic, but Gideon’s also a pretentious asshole (comes with a territory of calling yourself ”all-knowing”) who slaughters a village of innocents to try to find a way to Miquella. (And the implications of his actions and dialogue are... weird in relation to Miquella, including sending Ensha to steal half the secret medallion from you after he failed to retrieve it because of said slaughtered village.) I also acknowledge I may have missed a hidden NPC or NPCs somewhere because it is a big game.

Point Three- Logic problems (or, how the hell did Mohg know where to grab Miquella and what he was doing?)

This is a pretty obvious question, but should be said. How did Mohg know where to go in the Haligtree to find Miquella? Why did he know anything about Miquella’s plan to ascend into a proper god? (Trying to ascend someone into godhood who isn’t already doing so would probably bite you in the ass even more than anything else.)

These questions make absolutely no sense if you believe that he did so on his own, separately. But they make infinitely more sense if they were working together.

Miquella is a planner and a thinker who does a lot of experimental blood magic, between how he crafted his needles to keep Scarlet Rot at bay and managing to grow a tree the size of a skyscraper with his blood, to gathering a following.  Miquella seems to play a lot close to the chest as well, since he made many of these moves without others’ input. And his followers, while fanatical, do not seem to question Miquella’s decisions. Why would Mohg know the details of where to find Miquella, if even his own followers and sister seem to be muddled on the details and what to expect of the matter?

Incidentally, that Gideon couldn’t find them and only if you tell him does he learn could also be important. That may have been the plan to begin with- that Miquella didn’t want people throwing themselves at him while he was incredibly vulnerable. The Shattering happened just before and the Lands Between were in chaos, with the demigods and their followers and so on going to war over the shards of the Elden Ring and trying to become Elden Lord. In that chaos, even if he did not wish to have the Elden Ring, it would be entirely logical for him to “go off the grid.” It’d be safer to find someone who would have the ability to hide him and protect him, instead of in the one place where everyone would assume he would be. 

And, unlike the other demigods, Mohg was essentially a virtual unknown, since he and Morgott were thrown in the sewers as children and intended to be imprisoned for eternity, instead of being openly raised in a court.

Point Four- Sacramental Buds and the implications of their placement

Sacramental buds are an exceedingly rare item in the game and very useful, offering the ability to make the bolus that cures Scarlet Rot and the Bewitching Branch. They are heavily implied to be grown of Miquella’s blood. But there are a few spots in the game where you can find many of them. The first is at the Church of the Plague in Caelid where you find Millicent, the second is by the statue of Malenia and Miquella where you find the Amber Starlight on the Altus Plateau, and the third is at the Writheblood Ruins in the Altus Plateau. 

The last is curious, as the Writheblood Ruins have a Sanguine Noble and a Dynasty weapon- the Bloody Helice. It is also the only place in the game you can farm them.

Point Five- Parallelism in the Palace grounds

If you go through the Mohgwyn Palace grounds, you will eventually come across a bunch of Albinurics. It’s a somewhat infamous farming spot, since a decent chunk of them are sleeping, while the others act as guards. Ultimately, this mirrors what you find later- you show up and Mohg, acting as a guard to Miquella, who will stab you for... you know, showing up unannounced where you’re not supposed to be, while Miquella slumbers.

You are ultimately an interloper. You are on the grounds either not as a part of the knighthood, or long before you’re supposed to have shown up. Many writers use parallelism to draw attention to ideas and, in this case, you’re basically showing up and killing the guard and the sleeper for your own power. (No doubt, if the game let you interact with Miquella’s cocoon, a decent chunk of players would have just tried to stab Miquella.)

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some post game headcanons

MAJOR SPOILERS but these are some things about Marika, Radagon, and several other characters in my post game for Fyra.

Fyra spends a painstaking week slowly gathering and repairing Marika and Radadon’s shattered body, and though it would never be whole again, it is in the best shape it has been in a long time. I imagine after this, marika and radagoon both look like a piece of Kintsugi, thier cracks melded together with gold. Some pieces will always be missing, but for now they are repaired as best as can be.

Marika warms up to Fyra a lot faster then Radagon does. Fyra is sympathetic to Marika’s pains and ultimately helps her bring Godwyn his destined full death, returning him to the erdtree to allow his soul to finally be at rest, heal, and be reborn again. 

Radagon takes longer, as he is a fundimentalist and the things this new, perfected golden order says is blashemy, but he warms up when Fyra helps him, Marika, and Malenia take Miquella back from Mohg, returning him to his tree so he may be cleansed of the horrors Mohg inflicted on him.

Because it takes so long for Radagon to warm of to Fyra, the first born chid of the elden lord is born from her adviiser consort, Gideon Ofnir.  Their daughter is named Lyra and takes after Gideon in terms of looks. SHr was a fussy baby for her first few months of life, and the only thing that could make her sleep soundly was falling asleep in Gideons arm as he read some borning old book outloud.

Neither of them are particularly fond of Gideon. He’s a bit rude, a know-it-all, and is very self confident that Fyra loves him the most. but Marika is fond of the daugher he and Fyra have. SHe will often just kneel in the gardens and watch Lyra dig for worms and bugs that all go into a little terrerium on Gideon’s desk to keep him company. Radagon is a little more awkward with the girl but he tries his best.

WHen Radagon/Marika do finally consumate their union to Fyra, she gives birth to a boy with gold hair.  I have firmly decided that this first child is infact Godwyn reborn, cause we need some happy stuff, though the wounds on his soul linger and he has terrible nightmares as a child Ranni, Blaidd, and Iji are all still around, and though Ranni is angered her destiny is once again denied her, she is at least pleased a little that this new age is destined to be a good one. though she does wish to one day have her age of stars. Seluvis is dead cause fuck him lol.

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Me thinking grinding Rykard for rune arcs would be easy since the game gives you a weapon to kill him vs the past seven people i who shoot weak magic and get killed/used katannas and got killed within a minute

ive been trying to give people the benefit of the doubt since elden ring is fromsofts most popular new game by a wide fucking margin and thus theres a ton of newcomers playing.....but holy fuck the frustration ive felt sunbroing has been immeasurable. from people dying to mohgs blood curse to people immediately dying in malenias second phase, its been a nightmare

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mohg bingo

Thanks anon, for torturing me with Mohg. From this ask!

Anon I am a Maliketh simp, why are you doing me like that. Will anons ask me every character but him to the bitter end? x'D

Mohg is pretty interesting though! He's a fine choice.

Most of my interest in Mohg is through fanfics that explore his relationship with Morgott, and then that one excellent one shot of Miquella birthing as a sort of horror nightmare, and killing him without ever dropping a word. It was great.

But yeah, he and his formless mother are also on the mysterious side, as well as his past in the sewers of Leyndell, hence the wasted potential, didn't get enough screen time, and not having much to say. Most of what I know about him is from fanon.

He's definitely horrible, but I don't hate him for it. He's got a cool outfit and weapon, but he looks too horrible for me to coin the "soooo cool" box.

As for the fans doing him dirty, it's obviously about the abduction of Miquella that had people label him the P-word. Like. I get it. Miquella looked like a small child in that one illustration. But he isn't currently. It seems that Mohg took him to nurture him into a god, and currently he looks adult at last, and fucking horrifying. I don't think beauty standards ever enter the mix. Mohg may want to be his consort, but it's couched as a political move. It's also a future-thing, and it's canon that by then Miquella will look absolutely nothing like in that one image. Basically I think it was a lot of fans screaming wolf and rolling in easy indignation. It put me off talking about Mohg and Miquella for a long time. I still don't really care for them tbh, but enjoyed some good fics with him in them.

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2-for-1 hc of the day courtesy of some convos with a miquella mun pal of mine:

obviously mohg’s relationship with the formless mother is gonna become. strained. if/when miquella hatches and inevitably peaces tf out. both because mohg is gonna be questioning her promises and because he’s gonna have significantly less of a connection to her and her power because he has no more access to things like the blood dimension(tm), OR, even more drastically, like in my miq mun pal’s hcs, miq actually directly severs his tie to the mother upon hatching. needless to say things are gonna be bad and eventually he’s gonna lose all connection to the mother and her power one way or another

so two hcs

1. mohg’s blood has still been blessed with fire and he is still capable of performing blood magic even without the mother’s presence, it’s just. the power is now completely internal rather than external. no more clawing and stabbing the mother and drawing fire and blood from her form. he has to do it to himself

picture his boss fight, but with each subsequent nihil, he stabs his trident into his own chest rather than the sky. he can still summon fire through his claws, but he has to do it to himself. he can still imbue his trident with blood energy, but he has to maim himself. he doesn’t have the physical resilience of a god, so he doesn’t do it often. but when worse comes to worst, he is just as much a force to be reckoned with as he ever was in a fight

kind of painfully, ironically symbolic, considering he relied so much on an outer god for everything, only to in the end become his own god and source of power. if only he knew his own strength beforehand; maybe none of this would have had to happen. alas.

2. the blood dimension still technically exists, even with miquella no longer tied to the mother. it just is in ruins. the mansion, the mountains, the orchards, everything is burned and crumbled and destroyed. all the masks who were still there when miq escapes are trapped and doomed to perish within the hellscape. it’s a fucking nightmare. and its all within miquella’s mother-tainted blood whether he realises it or not. let’s pray miq allows mohg entry to the dimension one more time if only to save the surviving masks. or else the dude’s gonna have a lot of death and decay trapped within him, no matter how much blood he barfs up. (although the image of him casually barfing mother blood only to barf up an entire white mask is kind of gruesomely hysterical lbh. maybe a few can be saved in this way. let’s hope)

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