The Rune of Death is not a Great Rune nor can you wield it since it starts affecting the world the moment you unbind, it it's the rawest form of one part of the usurped natural order of the world hidden inside Malekith.
Why was it called the Rune of Death? What exactly is Destined Death? Several times throughout history that black shadow was bound in several other things like the Blue Ghost Flame or Malekith as an example.
>no Lord of Blood/Miquella ending
>but a whole questline for a literal shiteater and a corpse fucker
If they sell it as DLC I'm gonna get mad. Miquella is probably the most important demigod character in the game considering his theoretical impact on the entire world. There's also weapons that you were supposed get from him etc. found via datamining.
Anyone knows a japanese wiki with all the item descriptions? I need to find the description of Deeproot Depths map fragment
It will be DLC, and (You) will give 14.99$(plus tip) if you want to see Miquella die at the end of a quest for no reason.
there's no lore in this stupid ass game.
>they didn't record a jp dub! therefore it was originally written in english!
just google it lol, everyone knows From writes the item descriptions and shit
just change your game to Japanese, it's very easy
>the time for unwavering faith in the order is over
She doesn't say unwavering, she says blind belief.
>In Marika's own words. 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 ye falter?
It doesn't imply distrust, it says she wanted to understand it more and become even more pious. Perhaps, yes when she understood it more she grew to distrust it, but not at that moment. So to answer your first question, I think she was tired of simply worshipping it, she wanted to understand, and as the game says "Golden Order fundamentalism is scholarship in all but name." Those dudes were literally inventing western society while worshipping a tree, but only Marika saw the Jew underneath. Goldmask confirmed for brainlet.
My theory is the Golden Order was created and tried to remove Death from the world because the Erd Tree was reaching it's natural end. Theres several items ingame that point towards the Erd Tree was fading just like with every life before Death was removed.
The GW was artificially trying to extend it's rule by it.
>Erd Tree Flower
>A dusky-yellow flower that has started to fade and wilt
>Blessing of the Erd Tree
>The Erdtree once flourished with abundance- yet it was only for a. fleeting moment. Such is c course of all life.
>Blessings of Boon
>Blessings once fell like tears from the Erdtree, and this incantation is but a lingering remnant of their power.
Sounds to me like a retreading of the first flame trying to artificially keep extending when it's time was over.
Interesting. I can't find nothing that says the Golden Order started after Marika killed the giants. Perhaps it started much later.
OK some new lore speculation as I'm bored of the black knives. Given the lore refers to primordial life coming from the crucible, and a crucible is a melting pot of materials, there's decent chance many beings in ER are artificial like the Albinaurics. Specifically they're mixed blood descendants of the original purely artificial material gods, who had "unalloyed" bloodlines
Tarnished are descended from gold, pretty self explanatory. The beast blood description also says it "glints with gold" and never rots or decays. This explains how tarnished can endlessly revive and why unalloyed gold cures scarlet rot, their half gold blood is eternal and their bodies cannot decay.
Nightfolk description says they originally had silver blood, and judging by her appearance Rennala is a Nightfolk. This would make a Ranni a nightfolk descendant too. While gold is eternal, silver represents rebirth. You can see the comparison with Ranni and Godwyn, ones body never decays and the other is reborn in a new artificial body
Ancient Dragons come from stone, the ancient smiting stones are made from ancient dragon lord scales
Numen are grey skinned and made from clay given Marika/Radagon shatter after the final battle. Lore says they come from another world, so probably fashioned by the GW himself as vessels or tools.
it probably started before
If you were to disregard the fact that the Erd Tree was dying, it would make sense why one would assume it started there since it was the only time in history that the Erd Tree was in mortal danger. The Golden Order removing death to protect the Erd Tree from being burned would superficially make sense in that context.
Would be neat if some user actually found an item hinting towards when the GO was actually created.
>This explains how tarnished can endlessly revive
why doesn't Gideon come back.... i miss that motherfucker like you wouldn't believe
reminder that there is normal death magic (black and white), godwyn death magic (black and gold) and destined death magic (black and red)
>Numen are grey skinned and made from clay given Marika/Radagon shatter after the final battle
I think that's just how gods/demigods die for real. Radahns legs and Rannis real body also look like Marika/Radagon.
>Miquella is probably the most important demigod character in the game considering his theoretical impact on the entire world.
Key word there is theoretical, as in its all in your head.
they have a numen parent
>steals souls from the Erd Tree and even Black Knife ghosts on his side
>made a needle capable of crushing any influence of outer gods
>was even trying to somehow bring Godwyns soul back
No he definitely has the most impact in this games setting
Destined Death is the source for all that death magic.
There was also Blue Flame Magic when Deathrite Birds where governors of death.
more evidence the erd tree was dying:
miquella was trying to make a backup tree
>crushing any influence of outer god
His needles suppress it, even the one the player uses from Millicent's quest just suppresses the FF. So if it breaks like how Malenia's did, guess what's going to happen
I don't think it was a backup, but a competitor.
The road to give Outer Gods the middle finger is long, no ones saying it's perfect but that little nigga had 500 IQ. Would have been interesting if there was hint of Miquella trying to find out how the ancient swordsman sealed the Rot God.
Autism
>how the ancient swordsman sealed the Rot God
It said it was done with the help of a fairy, whatever the fuck that is. But sealing them doesn't seem to stop them from influencing the world as we see it still in Malenia
>Why was it called the Rune of Death? What exactly is Destined Death?
FIND THE ALBINAURIC WOMAN
It really is weird, what were the effects of the God of Rot before being sealed? Where they capable of physically manifesting themselves on Elden Earth and fuck shit up?
My guess is actually the seal of the Rot God is deteriorating which resulted in Malenia getting Rot powers but that's just headcanon for now.
LA MALAFEMMENA ALBANESE
they didn't seem like the type to betray
>This explains how tarnished can endlessly revive
I don't believe respawning as a mechanic is actually a narrativelu incorporated phenomenon nor are multiplayer mechanics like they were in Dark Souls. Characters die and seem to stay dead or get cycled into reincarnation cycle that seems to be broken after the Shattering occured. The "immortality" that Marika created was just her removing death from the Elden Ring and letting people be born again.
Reposting my theory
Leyndell is already covered in a layer of ash before we get there because Recusant Bernahl's maiden burned herself at the forge (as his armor says) but she wasn't strong enough to fully burn the Erdtree and its thorns, so Bernahl started hating the GW and joined Rykard's gnostic cathar gang
Opinions?
reincarnation is never mentioned or implied anywhere
Miquella is built up as trying to defy the GW in his own way, cure he and his sister of their curses and create a more inclusive civilization with his own tree so demihumans and other abhumans had a place in society.
>#omenlivesmatter
Because it completes the circle.
It represents cyclical death and life.
Life begins and traces the ring, and when it reaches that point again dies and new life begins.
Without it there is no death.
Melania symbolically bridges the gap of the death rune with her body allowing life to continue eternally, ultimately halting the evolutionary process.
Each lord cycle represents an evolutionary strata of the animal kingdom.
Prior to the Human Lordship (built off the efforts of betrayed/domesticated simpler beast men), dragon/reptiles ruled (and a hidden transitive bird death god who is probably influencing Milena and Ranni as its two heads), and you can see in the most ancient of structures fish god imagery (and Godwyn devolving as he touches the crucible through his deathrot infecting the deepest roots of the tree).
Ranni wants Humans to evolve beyond this rather than be replaced, and forgoe religion into an age of cold uncaring enlightenment.
Melina's motivations are mysteriously suicidal or self-destructive at the whim of Merika, ending the blasphemy of the captured Death, but also vengeful against the Order maybe even nihilistic for creating it in the first place. Considering herself a part of Merika's will she also wishes to be destroyed with Merika's sin.
Damn am I bugging? Reincarnation is brought up in discussion so much that it seemed to be passed off as a fact. I know for a fact however that people's bodies after death are put in jars and offered to the Erdtree in the root catacombs. People's souls are seemingly absorbed by the roots and from there I assumed there was some rebirth that took place afterwards. Until the shattering fucked it up. If there's no concrete evidence then I'm dead wrong.
>Melania symbolically bridges
Merika
I hope we get more about the fairy, right now all we see of it is ij the Blue Dancer Charm in which it gives the flowing sword to the one who seals the Rot God. It couldn't have been long ago because he trains Malenia, but we see nothing about fairies
Welcome to GRRM
It'll be at least $25, more likely to be $30
The game states he left fundamenlism because it couldn't save his sister.
Yea Forums = The Greater Will
Vaati = The Golden Order
Its the dark soul
yeah tons and tons of evidence that souls go to the tree. no mention of why or what the tree with them or what souls did before the tree
Vaati is Gideon thinking he's ALLLL KNOWINGGG but doesn't know shit, we are the Goldmask who actually does know shit
>No Rykard ending where you devour everything in the lands between togetha as family
just get eaten and abandon the save file
But I want to play the rest of the game as a giant snake slithering around the lands between and fucking shit up
>Goldmask
This is a Ranni board, your ME3 ending is even less popular here than the Frenzied Flame. Keep seething lawcuck
goldmask autism power
he was talking about Goldmask the character, not his ending you paranoid tranni
>"Ancestral Dew Tear
>A single tear of Ancestral Dew, the source of life itself. Use it after resting at a site of grace to strengthen your Spectral Steed.
>The Crucible was the original source of life across the land.
>The first beings that came into existence were blessed with vibrant colors and elegant shapes. A celebration of life itself"
Omenbros win again
so Bernahl is basically just a Tarnished who gave up on the main quest and decided to just go pure invade? I like that
Reminder they scrapped the Malenia/Miquella cooking covenant in the DLC
Skeleman love Godwyn!
>See Tanith eating Rykard
>Take a bite out for yourself
>Nothing happens, guess Tanith is just batshit
>Finish the game
>No matter what ending you choose Rykard violently bursts out of your body and starts devouring the tree
>"A serpent never dies..."
And Goldmask is a literal retarded autist who doesn't understand the underlying problem in The Lands Between is the basis on which the Golden Order is found, not the emotions of their leaders
Someone explain the Prince of Death, did it originate with Godwyn or an entity that existed before taking over Godwyn