Elden ring

She unleashed the rot plague to save Miquella, who was held directly below her Aeonian bloom. And in the process trashed an enemy region (Caelid), not the Haligtree. Her bloom in the Haligtree was minimal and didn't unleash the catastrophic effects of her Caelid bloom.

Though yes, I'll grant you that she went against the purpose of the Haligtree in cucking the outer gods, but she valued Miquella above blooming and becoming a goddess of rot.

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>shitter who abuses moonveil+RoB
>fighting a shitter boss that abuses a healing mechanic and another dexfag weapon
pottery

During the shattering when Morgot kicks everyone out of the capital

whatever helps you rationalize your cheese strat, scrub.

Miquella wasn't kidnapped yet, Mohg wouldn't have been able to get past the entirety of the Haligtree army, let alone Malenia herself. If they knew Mohg did it and the whole army was there, they likely would have been able to trace Mohg to the teleporter in the snowfields and never had to fight on the surface of Caelid at all. Furthermore, the Scarlet Rot continued to spread from Malenia's comatose body, as well as from anyone who survived the retreat back home, tainting their homeland and killing the Haligtree.

>tfw no SFM of Malenia yet
Is her model just hard to animate or something?

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>save miquella
>after years of recovering never even tries again now that nothing is standing in her way
>spends the entire time until you find and beat her ass guarding the root where she thinks miquella is

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cope, simp
gimmick boss deserved to be cheesed

>Miquella wasn't kidnapped yet
There's no proof to this. It's pure conjecture. The whole "Mohg kidnapped Miquella when Malenia was in Caelid" is just a theory. There's strong circumstantial evidence to point Miquella was abducted first, then Malenia went to save him (location of the bloom, ignoring easy targets and going for Radahn)

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i think the ingame models aren't suitable for animations since everyone builds custom models instead

I have boluses

YWNBTG, and I will never validate your lack of skill.

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You're welcome.
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Now many thrusts can you last until the rot overtakes you?

The Haligtree dying was a result of Miquella being removed from the cocoon, the rot is just an unfortunate side effect of Malenia being returned home without Miquella's influence to contain it. Also what is the lore reason as to why Loretta or any of the soldiers not just go into her chambers and get her up to speed on what's going on?

>big tits
ruined

>"ill make my own erdtree with rotting and shotas"
burn it all down

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Malenia is a stupid boss who doesn't deserve respect
>inb4 nooo you didn't beat the ga-
don't care, didn't ask

How would Mohg, who even Gideon describes as a fool in over his head, have been able to best the entirety of the Haligtree forces and literally ripped Miquella out of the tree under Malenia's nose? How would they fail to track him right away if they had nothing else to do? I don't think Mohg was that capable, and Malenia did go on diversions in her war march, such as kicking Godrick's ass because he insulted her.

>off model trash
no thanks

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I just made it to the capitol and I'm level 92. Is that appropriate?

>strong evidence
such as?

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Rotbush

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>solves a captcha just to say he's a proud shitter
You did not beat the game. Go ahead, do another captcha, scrub.

The Haligtree's growth was stalled by Miquella's abduction, but the Scarlet Rot is what ultimately killed the Haligtree and tainted the land, while even having some of its lethal fungi present in the Consecrated Snowfields. Also, after the Caelid Scarlet Aeonia, Malenia apparently was in a coma. Even in the boss fight intro, we find her completely unconscious and, when she finally awakens, she remarks that she has been dreaming for ages.

Yeah, but there's a huge difficulty spike afterwards. I'd detour to Volcano Manor after the capitol if you haven't before going to the Mountain.

dunno, but I find it just as unbelievable that Malenia, of the isolationist Haligtree faction, randomly marched on a campaign to the other end of the map. Leaving her brother in a vulnerable state in the haligtree.
What I said above + the location of Malenia's bloom in Aeonia is directly above Mohgwyn palace.

>skip all dialog
>read none of the item descriptions
>just make a vague plot of my own and enjoy the atmosphere and vibe

This is how I always play souls games. It's not that I don't like stories (I read some fantasy, sci-fi and mystery books regularly), but I can't stand this ratio of 5% plot to 95% lore. If you want me to get invested into the story, give me a proper amount of clear plot, THEN I will get invested and work hard to decode the lore. Otherwise I couldn't care less.

Yes yes, well done Malenia, well done Malenia, however!

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i did do Volcano manor, last time played through the game i kept arriving to places underlevelled and i dont want that to happen again

Didn't Malenia go with Miquella to the haligtree though? I'm assuming that happened before the shattering.

yeah, you're talking to a coping radahnfag.

There's nothing that states that the rot killed the tree (although it doesn't help). Id you bring it up to Gideon he doesn't even mention it, only that Miquella's removal left it a husk. Miquella nourished the tree with his own blood after all, without it it'd be like any other plant without food or water

>talk about morgott
>simp starts sperging about radahn
but deflecting to morgott is the malenifag move

The ideal game narrative for me should have simple stories but complex characters. Plot driven stories do not work for vidya most of the time, but character driven stories do because of the way games are structured as interactive media.

Apparently most of demigods were in coalition to take over the capital, however Morgott whacked their asses. They started fighting among themselves later.

>>tries to steal her half-brother's great rune
>Lorelets still think Malenia's trying to yoink Radahn's great rune instead of the otherway around
Amusing.
>>because of this she can't protect her twin brother who gets kidnapped, raped and killed
>Miquella was stolen after she left
Source?
>resorts to nuking the entire continent with an AIDS bomb
Implying they didn't deserve it

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seethe and cope
I laugh knowing how many random people are watching her get violated by some weeb with a jar on his head

So she just...let Mohg take Miquella?

Malenia this
Radahn that
Means nothing to me. I killed that whole giant ass family.

I don't think Caelid deserved getting rotted at all, but I also don't know if it was intentional. She probably thought she was just taking out Radahn, not all of Caelid. We won't ever know, because we only get half the story in these games.

>The Haligtree's growth was stalled by Miquella's abduction, but the Scarlet Rot is what ultimately killed the Haligtree
Gideon tells you Miquella being stolen is what killed the tree. So you're making things up.

Who are you replying to?

Asking a general question.
Do you see a > in my post?

Gideon is also implied to be misinterpreting Marika's will. he can't imagine anyone wanting to get out of the God business, even though he'd never take it himself because it'd mean the end of his quest for knowledge.

as much as I love Elden Ring, I REALLY hope there isnt a sequel

>rotfag shit covers the world from the north to the south along the path she invaded caelid by
>redfag stuff is pretty much only in caelid
yeah radahn was totally the one attacking her to take her rune, he wasn't at all trying to kick the walking schizo timebomb out of his territory

Reminder. Horse trumps all.

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did you have a brainstroke? the guy in the original reply is a radahnfag who wrote radahn's life story and called it malenia's life story. Malenia was unlikely to be in the capital. She and Miquella didn't want anything to do with the GO

There's pretty much no hope of that. It was too successful. Remember, Dark Souls got 2 sequels despite not needing any.

I'm a Radahnfag but I literally can't stop jerking off to Malenia's ass, please send help.

>>Miquella was stolen after she left
>Source?
Source is Occam razor. If you consider that he was stolen while she was present at Haligtree, it adds lots of additional contradictory crap.
>Mohg assaulted Haligtree while Malenia was there, and moghed her
>Mohged her so hard she preferred to forget that this happened and pretend Miquella has left on his own instead
>She lies about being undefeated
or
>She was not there when Miquella was abducted, and has no idea what exactly happened

>tfw Rykard took like 20 tries at lvl 88
I don't think thats normal

Sekiro 2 should be next.

Literally the best character in the entire game!
Morgott bros, we simply can't stop winning

Were you using the Serpent-Hunter Great Spear?

>unleashing a plague that spreads indiscriminately
>even with the permaburning brick walls the rot is seeping through

she wouldn't have saved shit even if her retarded plan got her back Miquella, she cucked the world to the rot goddess sooner or later.

yes, shameful i know

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>Winged helm made of unalloyed gold.
>Worn by Malenia, Blade of Miquella.
>Malenia awaited Miquella at the foot of the husk.
This pretty much implies that Miquella was gone by the time she was brought back to the tree

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>Fighting for her brother
>By doing to the opposite side of continent and leaving him open for local boy molesting fruit to snatch
bruh

>every time i try to be a summon in co-op, i get a disconnection error when we're about to beat her
you know, people should just learn to get gud instead. her HP inflates too much in multiplayer anyway.

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radahnfags are like /pol/tards.
>hates niggers but secretly faps to interracial

I'm around 110 and still struggling against him. And yes I'm using the spear. His second phase feels easy but I can't learn it because I can never get past the first phase to even practice and learn the second. I'm struggling to resist the urge to just summon my mimic and double serpent-hunt his ass.

Miquella was watering the tree with his own blood. Being stolen would have begun killing the tree, but Malenia's rot would finish the job.

They're not isolationist, they have their own goals that can be fulfilled by getting all the Great Runes, even if only to ensure no one can ever continue the Erdtree system.

The rot is sapping the life out of things in the area, putrid enemies are everywhere, etc. Miquella's kidnapping started stalling the tree's growth, but the Scarlet Rot's plague is clearly ensu

>Read the lore
>Makes her look worse and worse
>"Malenia did nothing wrong"

Half the sentence got eaten. The Scarlet Rot's plague is clearly ensuring that the Haligtree ties beyond any recovery.

Has anyone considered that she went after Radahn to get the stars moving again? The eclipse plan wasn't working and that might have been why.

>They're not isolationist, they have their own goals that can be fulfilled by getting all the Great Runes, even if only to ensure no one can ever continue the Erdtree system.
They didn't want the great runes. This theory doesn't hold water because Malenia BTFO'd Godrick and didn't take his rune. And she ignored all the demigods with their runes on her way to Caelid.

Collecting runes wasn't part of the Miquella/Haligtree plan.

>Malenia
>Going for a great rune
>Walks past straight past Volcano manor and Leyndell
>Walks straight past Ranni and Rennalla in Liurnia of the Lakes
>Defeats Godrick to cross into Limgrave, doesn't steal his rune and forces him to swear obedience
>Goes into Caelid and fights Radahn for some reason
Versus
>Radahn
>Sieges the capital
>Forces Godrick to bunker in a super defensible castle to hide from him after he flees with the women in said siege
>Fights with Malenia for some reason
Something about your headcanon doesn't make any sense

Why is it so big?

Well, there still has to be a solid plot to hold all the characters together, but I get what you mean. Something like Hyperion comes to mind: all the pilgrims are on the same journey but they all have their own backstory and motivations that take center stage in the book. And in a way the reason I don't enjoy Lovecraft as much as other authors is because the human element is weak, you simply don't give a shit about any character (generic intellectual recluse number 298). What is cosmic horror without the human element to put things in perspective?

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Miquella is the FTH/INT demigod, so he would have been hampered by Radahn arresting the stars much like Ranni was. All we have at the moment are implications and datamined scripts, and I don't think we'll ever have clarification for why Malenia decided to march south, beat up and then spare Godrick, and then fight Radahn in Caelid.

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simping is a terrible mental issue

>beat up and then spare Godric
Couldn't bring herself to kill someone wearing a dress.

The Great Runes could help the Haligtree, along with preventing someone from succeeding Marika and rivaling the Haligtree. To ignore Godrick's Great Rune is bizarre, unless he somehow didn't even have a rune yet, but if Malenia is trying to rescue her brother, taking a detour to invade Stormveil over a mere insult is also a foolish action that doesn't suggest she was driven by urgency.

>some reason
>raving rot monster leads an army into your land and you tell her to piss off and she chimps out

quick rundown on this character?

>but if Malenia is trying to rescue her brother, taking a detour to invade Stormveil over a mere insult
It's not a detour. Stormveil blocks access to Limgrave. Malenia probably asked him to open the gates to pass through and he responded by acting high and mighty, and she had to take storm Stormveil to get through.

They call her Malenia, sword of the Mohgwyn Dynasty.

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>she's going for his great rune
>gets proven wrong
>well uhh let me cling to this other thing and not address anything else
Radahn was a bad dude.

hot tempered redhead obsessed with her little brother

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crazy vessel for an outer god
wants to fuck her perma-shota brother
ended up dooming an entire region of the world, and possibly the entire world with how rot spreads, because her ego got bruised

Ran away from Radahn, who lost to Morgott. Imagine being weaker than an Omen janny.

Thanks but I am going believe what the game tells me and not some shaky interpretations

>invades radahn's lands
>chimps out
>nukes the place because she had to put in a tiny bit of effort one time in a fight

>Ran away from Radahn
cope

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Stormveil can be circumvented, and Kenneth Haight speaks as if Malenia solely attacked Stormveil over Godrick insulting her.

>AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE FINLAY HE GOT BACK UP HELP ME

She couldn't beat Radahn, so she called in a biological nuke and still couldn't down him before falling into a coma, so her lesbian simp had to save her.

Okay, so you concede and I win. Nice.

She didn't lose to either of them.

If you get taken out of the battlefield on a stretcher while your opponent is still fighting your knights, that's a loss.

>who lost to Morgott
Again, you're thinking of Radahn

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The game gives no reason to believe that Mohg could have evaded and/or defeated the entire Haligtree army, Malenia included, if they were all at the Haligtree with Miquella. Also, why would they march to Caelid instead of trying to take ships if Caelid was their sole goal?

>nuuuuuuu wadahn iz bad y he not let malenia kill him!!!!!!
cope and seethe