#dlc information

[edalwood]

kierannn

[aimlesspost]

i think my favorite new bit of lore from the dlc is that malenia apparently forgot that she's supposed to speak with psuedo-archaic english

guess radahn wasn't the only one whose brain was rotted in the battle of aeonia

[tlgtw]

Bits and pieces of the still incredibly written backstory of Elden Ring continue to poke out from the dogwater, as it were.

St. Trina, as we learn, was a specific aspect of Miquella that was made separate: In Miquella's words, St Trina was the embodiment of his 'love.' And when he abandoned St Trina, he abandoned that aspect of himself that made her.

This newly introduced example reveals to us what the nature of Radagon's exactly was, in turn.

Radagon, the 'other half' of Marika in the exact same way that St Trina had been for Miquella, we learn here, had *himself* been a specific singular aspect of Marika's emotions or feelings.

With St Trina having been made out of Miquella's 'love.'

You wonder, too, what Radagon should have been made from.

What aspect of herself did Marika separate into her second person, as called by her the "Loyal Dog of the Golden Order"? We know Radagon was created prior to the creation of the Golden Order itself, since he was involved in the invasion of Liurnia.

So at the same time as Marika was married to Godfrey, begetting Godwyn and Mogh and Morgott. Radagon was married to Renalla, begetting Rykard and Radahn and raising the potential successor of Marika--the Empyrean Ranni. He was given a massive amount of responsibility, the seeming crux of the Liurnian-Leyndell alliance that ended the Liurnian Wars that Marika's empire was losing, and he by every account was completely dedicated and successful; even weakening the strength of the Carian royal family by reducing their practicing of astrology.

All yet, when push came to shove: After Godwyn was assassinated and Marika sought to destroy the Elden Ring. It was Radagon who dropped everything he had and stepped in to stop her.

"Proudly" as his Golden Order Greatsword says,

Radagon divorced his first wife, married his 'original self,' begettedthe Twin Prodigies Miquella and Malenia as two more potential successors to Queen Marika, set up the brutal inquisition and censorship of the Age of Radagon headed by his own son Rykard, and was even involved with the very the development of Golden Order fundamentalism!

Radagon did so much fucking stuff! He was so damn proactive! So what exactly must he have been!?

That Marika initially separated from herself? And who went on to try and stop her very own plans when they turned against the wishes of the Greater Will??

This conflicting 'half' of her original person! That nonetheless was all this strongly willed on his own!?

What part of Marika COULD Radagon have originally been!?!?!?

And it's awesome. It's really really well-designed writing.

Frankly, even, it's genius. It's not anything revolutionary in terms of narrative devices or anything like that, but it's really elegant. It's really meaningful and concise, and it's really cool!!!

A lot of Elden Ring's base game is, or now maybe--was. (It having been the basis of my entire show on YouTube.)

But the actual story, instead of solely the backstory, of the DLC, unfortunately, is not!

You ever seen a boss item whose entire description was literally entirely the game just fucking QUOTING ITSELF?

Hyetta at Frenzied Flame Proscription: "Become their lord. Take their torment, despair. Their affliction. Every sin, every curse. And melt it all away. As the Lord of Chaos."

Ghost outside Church of Inhibition in Liurnia: "Ahh, Lord Vyke, it seems that you were no lord, after all."

Midras's Flame of Frenzy, from killing Midras, Lord of Frenzied Flame:

Or! Better yet, ANOTHER boss spell, whose entire description is dedicated to literally just acknowledging its fucking colour!!

Land of Shadows, from killing the Scadutree Avatar:

I definitely sure wish I still hadn't!!

In fact, I don't think the level of vacuousness from Shadow of the Erdtree's descriptions has ever been seen before!

Not even in Dark Souls 3!!

AUGH

[spirithunter-deathmark]

hey hey remember those screenshots from the dlc that was posted by the Famitsu article and one that was posted by Chikami when he was playing the dlc? Here's some rough translation of them!

this one reads," He's the detective's assistant. Hehe, isn't that cool?" (I don't recall Mashita ever agreeing to that Shou lol)

And this one reads, "As a new occult reporter, I won't leave this alone." So based on these to lines of dialogue there's two possible things going on here: we either have Moe setting the dlc premise up before it switches to Yashiki's pov again or we have Moe as our protagonist for the dlc!

[just-mebs]

I finally finished playing Outer Wilds and I'm like,, this game has completely crushed me

[mothsgotghosts]

I love knowing that Lilith is canonically a huge nerd. This woman, The Fire Hawk, Commander Lilith of The Crimson Raiders, is a gigantic nerd who loves ttrpgs and nerdy shows like the borderlands version of doctor who. And I love her for that.

[torchvic]

*me playing through pkmn violet so i can play the dlc again* hahahahaha! again!!!

[milliemuus]

I need to throw this out there before the trailer drops I think

[kulvefaggoth]

I've spent the last two days reading and watching everything i can abt the lore in the new elden ring dlc and let me tell you they were REALLY FUNNY with this i'm obsessed

Also dummied out content and headcanons have never been lore 😋

[tenojan-in-tevinter]

hilarious how much my hawke goes on and on about how blood magic is evil and blood mages suck and there's never a good enough reason to use blood magic. My guy. What was all that shit you did back in Kirkwall then huh? What did you do when you ran out of magic? I guess every time you pulled the blood up from corpses to keep yourself alive was just nothing then huh. Every time your enemies' blood boiled in their veins was just the wind I guess.

[lairmadness]

How about that Ogerpon

Please read the tags!

[zelreedsandwrites]

proposed fix-it headcanon because karlach deserved better

After karlach dies at the end of the game (and mind you I haven’t finished the game so details and probably a fanfic pending that) her body is destroyed/lost. The rest of the party must travel through Avernus to find her missing horn, which Wyll supposedly knows the location of, and return it to Halsin within ten days so that he can perform a Reincarnate spell with it. Of course the party succeeds, however down to the wire, and karlach is revived into a new body that zariel has never gotten the chance to corrupt— and she never will. Lots of sweet and spicy ensue and we all live happily ever after.

my personal headcanon is that she comes back as a winged variant tiefling, symbolizing a full metamorphosis into freedom and also because wings are cool and I like tieflings

[crowfeathers]

not going to doubt vaati’s original theory that this third figure hovering over malenia & miquella is godwyn before he died, considering he had very good relations with miquella

but I can’t help but wonder if maaaaybe that’s messmer, before he became blasphemous as hell / outcast from their family or something. I mean the statues of malenia & miquella alone together reflect both of these sudden disappearances, and while it could equally indicate godwyn, what was malenia’s own ties to godwyn? (no genuinely, if any exist I’m not aware) at least with messmer we could potentially confirm they’re all 100% immediate family siblings, thus they are this close in the statue.

plus I doubt any imagery of messmer would be present in leyndell at all; considering he’s blasphemous as Fuck I can’t help but think marika either sent him off to the land of shadow or she is using him as a pair of eyes there. anyways I wouldn’t doubt miquella still loved him. maybe that’s why messmer could be depicted here in the altruistic haligtree, and could also be part of why miquella is headed to the land of shadow. IDK it’s just a small theory, could easily still be godwyn since we don’t know if the twins ever met messmer at all

[guinea-pig-enthusiast]

The DLC had a perfect opportunity for Nemona and Carmine to meet and become secondary rivals to each other, but instead they left all our friends in Paldea like COWARDS

[goldensunset]

*hasn't watched the trailer and isn't currently planning to* dude i am sooooooo stoked for the indigo disk....

[mothsgotghosts]

Being homophobic and liking borderlands is crazy because how are you gonna be homophobic when you like the gay game. literally so many characters are confirmed queer TWO GUYS GET GAY MARRIED???