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Our story doesn't begin in the Lands Between.
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It begins in the cosmos, far away, with an outer god called the Greater Will.
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There are a lot of outer gods mentioned in Elden Ring.
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You can think of these kind of like the Great Ones of Bloodborne.
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They're distant beings, they're all -powerful, and they're quite unknowable by design.
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But many of these outer gods want to make their presence felt in the world.
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The Greater Will, maybe most of all.
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To this end, it sent a Golden Star hurtling towards the Lands Between.
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The Elden Star's incantation tells us that this
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Golden Star was bearing a beast, an Elden Beast.
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The Elden Remembrance calls it a Vassal Beast of the Greater Will.
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If you didn't know, a vassal is someone who holds land on behalf of their overlord.
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Obviously, this is fitting in this case, because the Elden Beast occupied the Lands Between on behalf of the Greater Will,
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and was a living incarnation of the concept of order.
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As such, this beast would later become the Elden Ring.
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The Elden Ring itself is made up of runes of power,
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some great, some small, that together represent a sort of logic for the world to follow.
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Thus, the Elden Ring represents order.
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The true nature of this order is a subject of constant debate and research undergone by fundamentalists.
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But two of the key fundamentals are the laws of causality and regression.
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You can think of the law of causality as cause and effect,
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where actions have consequences, and those consequences are new causes that branch out into infinity.
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These are the relationships between things.
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Then there's the law of regression that states that all things eternally yearn to converge and return to their roots.
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Fittingly, the Elden Ring is housed within the Erdtree, which towers over the Lands Between.
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But it's very important to stress that life in the Lands Between did not begin with the Erdtree, the Elden Ring, or the Elden Beast.
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No, the Lands Between were occupied well before the Greater Will came.
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There were other beings here.
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There were other factions here.
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There were other another great tree here, before the Erd Tree.
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And this is where a huge twist regarding the Erd Tree comes in.
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So there are incantations in the game called Aspects of the Crucible.
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According to their descriptions, these are manifestations of the Erd Tree's primal vital energies.
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And I quote, they are an aspect of the primordial crucible where all life was once blended together.
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But how could all life be blended together in the Erd Tree if the Erd Tree appeared after life existed?
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There can only be one answer, right?
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That the Erd Tree is a parasite, and it took over a tree that existed here before.
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This ancient tree was called the Great Tree.
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So the Great Tree was almost certainly the location of this primordial crucible,
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and it must have been a very powerful primordial force for the Greater Will to have commandeered.
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It might even be the reason
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The Lands Between is important to the Greater Will in the first place.
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It also explains why spells and enemies related to the Great Tree's Crucible would eventually be looked down upon.
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For example, the Knot Talisman is fashioned from a knotted vestige of the Crucible, and it was considered a signifier of the Divine in ancient times,
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but is now increasingly disdained as an impurity as civilization has advanced.
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Enemies related to the Crucible are the Omen, the Misbegotten, and the Crucible Knights, and all three of them would be shunned, enslaved, or imprisoned.
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Those who speak for the Erdtree don't want you to know its roots, so to speak.
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According to the spell, protection of the Erdtree, in the beginning everything was in opposition to the Erdtree, but through countless victories in war,
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it became the embodiment of order.
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In Marika's own words, the earth tree governs all.
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The choice is thine.
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Become one with the order, or divest thyself of it.
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To wallow at the fringes, a powerless upstart.
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But the greater will needed more than a big tree, it needed loyal agents in the lands between.
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To this end, it has the Two Fingers, who are its envoys.
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The Two Fingers' heirloom has a weird picture of them, but it reads, Of course, fingers cannot speak, yet these are eloquent.
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Persistently they wriggle, spelling out mysteries in the air.
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Thus did we gain the words, the words of our faith.
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These words are interpreted by the finger readers.
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These are the undying old crones that you would have found throughout the Lands Between.
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They pass down the wisdom of the two fingers.
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Or at least, they used to.
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Your fingers.
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Please, your fingers.
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I can't read them.
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Most of them appear to have lost their purpose, and they're desperate to read your fingers and tell you annoying riddles,
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since their two fingers are likely dead.
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And yes, of course, there are multiple sets of two fingers.
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You would have found their corpses on the tops of the Divine Towers.
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Atop these towers, you loot the fingers in order to activate the true power of a great rune.
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Specifically, you are giving benediction back to your great rune.
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You're taking a blessing back from the two dead fingers.
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This is just one of many blessings that the two fingers can bestow.
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And my point is that the two fingers clearly have more than just influence.
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They have real power on some level.
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The Greater Will needs these powerful envoys and agents because while it's obviously incredibly powerful, it does seem limited by a few things.
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First is space.
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The Greater Will didn't come to the lands between itself.
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It sent an Elden Beast to do its bidding instead.
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Second is time.
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There is a moment later in the game where your pair of two fingers go still
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because they're forced to commune with the Greater Will for guidance.
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When they are finished, the fingers will again offer their guidance.
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But thousands, if not tens of thousands of moons must first pass, no matter for me.
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But you, how will you ever manage the weight?
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So the greater will needs a physical manifestation of order.
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It needs envoys to convey its will, but what it also needs is a god.
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Introducing Marika the Eternal.
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I have this utterly enormous mind map of Elden Ring's lore, and there's a reason she's at the center.
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She's essentially the equivalent of Gwyn from Dark Souls.
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Except unlike Gwyn, Marika didn't just crawl out of the dark and find power.
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To an extent, it seems like she earned it.
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But we don't know much about her origins, except that she is of the Numen race,
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which is actually an origin that you can choose in the character selection screen.
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Numen come from outside the lands between, and are supposed descendants of denizens of another world.
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Long lived, but seldom born.
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At some point, Marika was chosen as an Empyrean.
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What is an Empyrean?
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An Empyrean is a being chosen by the fingers, as a candidate for godhood.
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As an Empyrean, Marika received the aid of a shadow to do her bidding.
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So what is a shadow?
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Well, it's a wolf, shadowbound to its Empyrean by the two fingers.
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Lunar Princess Rani is another example of an Empyrean with a shadowbound beast.
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You would have met Blythe.
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These creatures are the Empyrean's very own shadow.
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They are completely loyal to their needs and, by definition, incapable of treachery.
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Marika's shadow was a beast called Malaketh.
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Every Empyrean uses their shadow in different ways, but Marika's sole need of her shadow was as a vessel to lock away destined death.
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So what is destined death?
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Well, according to Enya, it's the rune of death.
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The rune of death goes by two names.
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The other is destined death.
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We mentioned earlier that the Elden Ring is made up of runes, and at some point, maybe when she was chosen as a god,
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Marika plucked the Rune of Death from the Elden Ring.
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She gave the Rune of Death to Malekith, her totally loyal shadow, who bore a black blade imbued with this rune.
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It's kind of genius, really.
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In a single act, she removed the concept of death from the Lands Between, while also commanding total control of death through her shadow,
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who could deliver it at her whim.
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Now, some of you might be asking, if death is removed from the Lands Between, how come I can kill this dog?
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First off, shame on you.
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Second, from a lore point of view, that dog isn't really dead.
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It's simply in the process of its spirit or soul returning to the Erd Tree.
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Catacomb dungeons, for example, are specifically constructed near the roots of the Great Tree for this reason,
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so that the Erd Tree can reabsorb their ashes back into it.
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This process replaced the concept of a death that you were destined to have.
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But this random spirit outside of a catacomb dungeon says it best.
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As another example of this theory, when you kill a major boss, you receive a remembrance of them.
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These are spirits, and they are hewn into the Erdtree.
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In this way, thanks to the Erdtree's grace, their spirits are immortalized, in a sense.
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This new form of death also explains what's happening when you summon spirits from ash and return to the Erd Tree.
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However, some spirits never return to the Erd Tree and they rise within death as corpses or skeletons instead.
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So this was the new order.
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And it's important to stress that it was in this moment, when the Rune of Death was removed, When Destin Death was taken,
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this is when Order became the Golden Order.
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The forbidden shadow plucked from the Golden Order upon its creation.
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Specifically, this was Marika's Golden Order.
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So not only did she become a god and a vessel for the Elden Ring,
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she became renowned as Marika the Eternal for her removal of Destin Death.
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It was a huge part of her character and her reign as well.
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However, Marika had more than just death to conquer, she had wars to fight,
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as the world was occupied by many forces that could threaten her golden order.
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There was war with the Stormlord, who likely ruled over Stormvale, and there was a war with the Giants,
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who were masters of a flame that could burn the Erdtree, there was war with the ancient dragons,
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who incidentally had stones that could twist time and thus slay a god, and finally there was war brewing with the Carrion royalty,
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who had previously obeyed laws which contravened the Golden Order.
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Thus, similar to how the Greater Will needed an Empyrean to enforce its will, Marika needed someone to wage war.
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So, there was to be a husband, a consort, an Elden Lord.
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The man chosen was Hora Lu, a ferocious warrior who became known as the Lord of the Battlefield.
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His crown was warranted with strength, and while it was for this strength that Marika married him,
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he was also required to take a vow to conduct himself as a lord.
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To suppress the ceaseless lust for battle that raged within, Horolu took the Beast Regent Sorosh upon his back.
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You'll notice this is another example of a beast being given for the purpose of serving order.
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Thus, in this moment, he went from being Horolu, warrior, to Godfrey, the first Elden Lord,
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consort to Queen Marika, and a certified demigod.
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Godfrey and Marika had three demigod children together.
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There was Godwin the Golden, who you saw being killed in the opening trailer, and there were also the reviled Omen twins.
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Morgoth, who guards the Erdtree, and Moog, who became
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Lord of Blood.
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You might think that Godric was another demigod child, but he actually wasn't.
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Instead, he was probably descended from Godwin.
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Anyway, we'll talk about the demigods more in detail in another video, so subscribe for that.
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But for now, just know that Godfrey and his offspring were the first demigods, henceforth known as the Golden Lineage.
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In his wars, Godfrey led his 16 Crucible Knights into battle, who were named so for they fought with the primordial powers of the Erdtree.
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Their incantations were aspects of the Crucible itself, and they likely fought giants,
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dragons, the Stormlord, and more to usher in their age, the age of the Erdtree.
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In Marica's own words, Hark, brave warriors.
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Hark, my lord Godfrey.
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We commend your deeds.
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Guidance hath delivered ye through each ordeal to the place ye stand.
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Put the giants to the sword and confine the flame atop the mount.
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Let a new epoch begin, an epoch glistening with life.
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Brandish the Elden Ring for the age of the Erdtree.
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The Erdtree would go on to be largely seen as a blessing for all of those in the lands between,
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especially those close to it in Lainedell, the capital city of the Erdtree.
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The tree bestowed blessings.
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For example, the dew that dropped from its branches were like jewels.
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It loomed overhead as a constant reminder of order and its roots reached far and wide, relieving many of the burden of death.
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In fact, Erdtree burial was one of the highest honors a hero could receive.
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One by one, the previous factions of the world fell.
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The giants were put to the sword and their Fel God was killed by Marika herself.
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The ancient dragons broke down the walls of Laendell but met fierce retaliation.
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However, I think the House of the Erdtree encountered the most trouble against the land to their southwest, Lyonia.
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Here the House of the Moon repelled their offensives time and time again.
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And I mean that literally, because there was not just one
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But two wars fought here, and in both of these, there was no victory for the Golden nor for the Moon.
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And I suspect it was probably because of these lobsters.
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These damn things can snipe you from like a mile away, and it's bullsh - Actually, it was probably because of the Carrion Knights,
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who, according to their weapons, were able to wield sorceress battle skills, and despite numbering fewer than 20,
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this power made them a match for even the champions of gold in battle.
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These enchanted knights were anointed by the Lunar Queen, a young astrologer who went on to establish the House of Caria as royalty in this land.
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With her bewitching lunar magic, she won over the Academy of Raya Lucaria, where glintstone sorcery was studied, and united.
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The Carian royal family and the learned scholars of Raya Lucaria defended their home from the Golden Aggressors.
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At the head of this great golden army was Radagon.
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Lord Radagon was a great champion, possessed of flowing red locks.
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He came to these lands at the head of a great golden host, when he met
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Lady Rinala in battle.
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These two champions clashed, fell in love, and joined their houses.
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Radagon once cleansed himself with Celestial Dew, repented his territorial aggressions, and swore his love to Rinala.
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The order of the Erdry and the fate of the moon were conjoined, and all the wounds of war forgiven.
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You might think it's strange that the greater will would permit this union, but it's not too odd, all things considered.
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As with most
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From Software games, sorcery and faith are just two sides of the same coin, and both of these powers stem from the cosmos.
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Radagon and Rinala were known to have three children together.
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Lunar Princess Rani, who inherited her mother's propensity for lunar magic.
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Radan, who took after his father Radagon and would go on to master gravitational magic.
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And Rikard, who pioneered new hex sorceries and would go on to feed himself to a great serpent.
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It follows that at some point after this, Marika began to harbor doubts.
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Doubts about the Golden Order that she had had a hand in creating.
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In Marika's own words, I declare mine intent to search the depths of the Golden Order through understanding of the proper way.
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Our faith, our grace is increased.
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Those blissful early days of blind belief are long past.
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My comrades, why must ye falter?
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And it's at this point that we should talk about Marika's motivations, her character.
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This is surely going to be one of those huge points of debate in the coming years.
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But for now, my working theory is that she wanted to discover the truth behind order
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and the truth behind the greater will and she believed
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that bonds had to be broken so that they could be better understood.
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She believed that there was great meaning to be found in hardship.
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Queen Marquez, high hopes for us that we continue to struggle.
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Unto eternity.
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For Lord Godfrey, his struggle ended at the end of his campaigns.
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According to his armor, he led the war against the Giants, faced the Storm Lord alone and then there came a moment
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when his last worthy enemy fell and it was then as the story is told
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that the hue of lord godfrey's eyes faded in truth
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he was robbed of his grace then marica sent him away my lord
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and thy warriors i divest each of thee of thy grace with thine eyes dimmed
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Ye will be driven from the lands between.
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Ye will wage war in a land afar,
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where ye will live and die." This became known as the Long March of the Tarnished,
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as Godfrey and his tarnished descendants walked away from the lands between.
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But Queen Marica absolutely had a plan here,
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that Lord godfrey and his descendants would one day return stronger having struggled outside of grace then
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after thy death i will give back what i once claimed return to the lands between wage war
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and brandish the elden ring grow strong in the face of death warriors of my lord lord godfrey
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Soon after, she found a new husband.
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Either that, or a new husband was found for her.
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When Godfrey, First Elden Lord, was hounded from the lands between, Radigan left Rinala to return to the Erdtree capital,
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becoming Queen Marika's second husband and king consort, taking the title of Second Elden Lord.
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The mystery endures to this day as to why
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Lord Radagon would cast
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Lady Rinala aside, and moreover, why a mere champion would be chosen for the seat of Elden Lord.
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Whatever the case, as a part of this union, Radagon's prior three children with Rinala became demigod stepchildren,
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granted grace thanks to their new family tree.
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Rinala was broken by this, and so was her country, Leornia.
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The queen's set reads, When Rinala, head of both the Academy of Raya Lucaria and the Carrion royal family,
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lost her husband Radagon, her heart went along with him.
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And then those at the academy realized that Rinala was no champion after all.
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In the wake of Radagon's betrayal and Rinala's poor judgment, Leonia struggled with civil war,
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with the Academy of Raya Lucaria on one side and the Carrion Royals on the other.
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And it's here, during the Age of the Erd Tree, that Lunar Princess Rani, daughter of Rinala and Radagon,
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stole a fragment of the Rune of Death.
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It happened during the Golden Age of the Erd Tree, long before the shattering of the Elden Ring.
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Someone stole a fragment of the rune of death from Maleketh, the Black Blade.
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As mentioned previously, Maleketh was Marika's shadow, and he had sealed
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Destined Death in a black blade.
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Then a fragment, only a fragment, of this rune of death was stolen.
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And once this happened, Maleketh went a step further in protecting Destined Death.
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He bound the blade within his own flesh such that none might rob death ever again.
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It was too late, however.
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This fragment of the Rune of Death was used immediately that night to kill a demigod, Marika's own son, Godwin the God.
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That was the first recorded death of a demigod in all history, and it became the catalyst.
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Soon, the Elden Ring was smashed and thus sprang forth the war known as the Shattering.
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Now, there is a lot of really credible evidence
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that Marika was behind this plot to have a fragment of the Rune of Death stolen.
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There's also a ton of evidence that Marika is behind the entirety of your tarnished quest, but we'll talk about that in another video for now.
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All you really need to know, in terms of the timeline at least, is this.
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After the marriage of Marika and Radagon, and after a fragment of the Rune of Death was stolen, Marika went on to shatter the Elden Ring,
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and Radagon attempted to repair it.
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To no avail.
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The Elden Ring had been broken into ruins, some great and some small.
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You know, it's said that
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Lord Radagon harbored a secret.
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A famed sculptor of the Erdtree capital was once summoned to render
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Lord Radagon's likeness in giant statue, when he glimpsed the skeleton in Radagon's closet.
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And as such, it's said, the great statue harbors his secret too." Of course,
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the huge twist in Elden Ring is that Radagon is Marika.
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Or, depending on what you believe, he became her.
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For she knew it was going to happen.
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In Marika's own words, O Radigan, Leal Hound of the Golden Order, Thou art yet to become me,
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Thou art yet to become a god.
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Let us be shattered, both mine other self.
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You can tell when From Software is keeping something a little bit open -ended, and of everything in Elden Ring's lore,
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this will also go on to be one of the biggest unknowns as we move forward.
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For example, the wording, Thou art yet to become me, reinforces that Marika and Radagon were two separate entities before the Shattering.
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However, in contrast, there is also evidence that Radagon was always part of Marika.
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For example, Enya says that, The demigods are each and all the direct offspring of Queen Marika.
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But how can this be if Radagon married Rinala and had those demigod children?
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The only way that makes sense is if Radagon was always Marika
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and he just went over there to seduce Renala long ago.
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I'll present more concrete theories in the future, but on this matter, the most important thing is, what do you think?
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While you can figure out a ton of Elden Ring's story, not all of it is open to interpretation.
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Certain things are, and this is one of them.
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And your interpretation is a big part of what makes this story special.
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At any rate, the union of Radagon and Marica seems to be a union of two fundamental opposing laws of the Golden Order.
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We mentioned these laws earlier, actually.
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There's the law of causality, and Marica is an agent of cause and effect.
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And there's the law of regression, as Radagon is a character who aspires to be complete and regress together.
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So I have a theory that forcing these two beings that represent these concepts together would have corrected Marika's deviance.
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But even so, she was imprisoned in the Erdtree for the crime of the shattering.
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Marika's trespass demanded a heavy sentence, but even in shackles, she remains a god and the
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The conjoined Radagon and Marika even had two demigod children of their own, Mickela and Melenia.
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These two children were born afflicted.
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Mickela was cursed with eternal childhood, and Melenia harbored a horrific rot within.
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Even so, these two children were both chosen as Empyreans.
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They were immensely sacred beings, and eligible to inherit godhood from the Greater Will.
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Perhaps the Greater Will was just desperate to find a worthy successor, and indeed in the shattering war to come,
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many would try to claim the Shards of the Elden Ring, and they would try to take the throne, including of course the Tarnished,
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who returned from their long march at long last, which we'll talk about in the next main lore video.
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I should probably also mention here that if you become a patron, you'll see upcoming lore videos early,
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as that's of the rewards you get if you pledge to the $3 tier. And
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if you think my channel really adds a lot of value
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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
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that has a unique design on it to do with the games by FromSoftware.
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There are four to collect.
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The first one you'll get is inspired by Dark Souls, then Elden Ring, then Sekiro, and finally Bloodborne.
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And they all have fantastic art that I worked on with an amazing artist named Chu.
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But anyway, I figured this is the right place to end this video, because the information here is going to be overwhelming.
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I bet it probably was too overwhelming, you know?
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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 alright.
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One thing that helped me a lot was
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that we designed an enormous mind map with pretty much all of Elden Ring's lore.
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All of its item descriptions, all of its dialogues, all of the relationships between characters that we can think of.
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We added all of this together and it helped a ton in learning about the story and visualizing it all.
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And one day I will make this asset available to you all because I think after doing it,
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I think this is the quintessential way to piece together the story.
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And I think giving you guys this asset eventually will make that accessible for people.
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So I'm really excited about that.
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I want to thank Absa
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and Zard for accepting the paid task of helping me put all the raw data into this mind map
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so that I could better understand everything.
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I want to thank Parigod for fulfilling all of my footage requests
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and creating so many cinematic scenes for this video and for you all to enjoy.
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And I last of all want to thank John Devlin for the incredible thumbnail.
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And of course, thank you for watching.
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There are some really exciting things ahead
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and I actually believe this might be the best story that FromSoftware have ever put together.
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I just think not only are there so many amazing item descriptions, but so many of them are impactful.
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There are so many moments where you piece together the story
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and have like a Eureka moment and I'm enjoying it so much.
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But now I'm gonna go and play the game a little bit because I've been editing this video for too long.
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So, see you next time.

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warrior 名詞/ˈwɔɹi.ɚ/戰士 /戰士, 武士
knight 名詞/ˈnaɪ̯t/騎士 /騎士, 大俠 /大俠
blade 名詞/bleɪd/刃, 刀身
blessing 名詞/ˈblɛs.ɪŋ/祝福
wage 名詞/weɪd͡ʒ/工資 /工資, 薪金
dragon 名詞/ˈdɹæɡən/лун, 龍 /龍
guidance 名詞/ˈɡaɪdəns/指導 /指導
vessel 名詞/ˈvɛsəl/船隻 /船隻, 船
twist 動詞/twɪst/扭, 搓
loyal 形容詞/ˈlɔɪəl/忠誠 /忠誠, 忠貞 /忠貞

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞釋義
break down 動詞壞了 /壞了, 出故障
figure out 動詞弄清楚
give back 動詞還 /還, 交還 /交還
put together 動詞拼合, 組合 /組合
take over 動詞接管, 接手

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構,並附上影片中的原話:

結構影片中的用法
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼,而不是誰做的is made · is housed · were occupied
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事has advanced · have ever put
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物someone who holds · Those who speak

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 27 次縮略和弱讀形式,例如 they're, you'll, didn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

  • “th” 音: worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, throne /θɹəʊ̯n/, southwest /saʊθˈwɛst/
  • “sh” 和 “zh” 音: shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/, faction /ˈfæk.ʃən/, contrast /kənˈt(ʃ)ɹæst/
  • 長單詞——注意重音位置: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/, eligible /ˈɛl.ɪ.d͡ʒɪ.bəl/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音:

  • /v/ — 不要讀成 /w/,上齒輕觸下唇: vessel /ˈvɛsəl/, divine /dɪˈvaɪn/, discover /dɪˈskʌvə/, vital /ˈvaɪtəl/, removal /ɹɪˈmuː.vəl/
  • 詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚,後面不要加母音: beast /biːst/, destined /ˈdɛstɪnd/, fragment /ˈfɹæɡmənt/, knight /ˈnaɪ̯t/, blade /bleɪd/
  • /r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: lore /loɹ/, royalty /ˈɹɔɪəlti/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, removal /ɹɪˈmuː.vəl/, trailer /ˈtɹeɪlɚ/

如何用這段影片練習

  1. 先完整聽一遍影片,不要開口,記下不認識的單詞。
  2. 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀,熟練之後再回到正常速度。
  3. 錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比,特別注意 shadow, beast, fragment 這類單詞。

什麼是跟讀法?

跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧,最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓,並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大:您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同,跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性,語調,節奏,連讀,聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。

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