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slavonicrhapsody · 2 days
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In this big world is there a place for someone as little as me?
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slavonicrhapsody · 3 days
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“Hear me, Daenerys Targaryen. The glass candles are burning.”
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ooh really good info, thanks for the addition!! yeah I decided not to use the thrones in the cutscene to try to construct an exact scale because I wanted to keep it to in-game characters and objects, rather than cutscenes and art… so I didn’t try to stick them into my scale diagram and instead used them as a loose determiner of height like you said haha. good to know for sure that the scale from the cutscene isn’t reliable!
super curious about the Godrick height post, and yes please tag me in it! I think having his height will also help put these guys’ heights into perspective!
how tall do you think the carian siblings were pre-shattering? i figure maybe rykard and radahn's great runes could've made them grow, but even ranni's body looks to be around 8ft tall, and then there's rennala of course. just wondering what others think about it
I did answer a similar question in the past but this time I’ll actually go more in-depth:
so I made this (admittedly loose) chart using stuff from the game to try to estimate Rykard and Ranni’s heights
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for Rykard the only thing we really have to go off of is his throne in Volcano Manor’s ruined audience chamber. as you can see he’d have to be pretty massive to sit his ass down in that chair so I scaled up my drawing accordingly to like the minimum height he’d have to be
then we have Ranni’s corpse to look at, but she’s kinda curled up on the ground so I tried to reconstruct her proportions standing up straight vs. the tarnished for scale. it looks like she was a really similar height to Blaidd which is super sweet!
for Radahn we unfortunately don’t have anything in-game that can help give us a solid pre-shattering height estimate… there is that one painting where he’s fighting Morgott, but I can’t really use a painting to get a reliable sense of scale.
we do have the demigod thrones to give us a vague idea of heights, though… Rykard and Radahn’s thrones seem to be a similar size, so that kind of confirms that Radahn was closer in height to his brother back in the day:
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Ranni’s throne on the left is also noticeably smaller:
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personally I imagine Radahn was always the tallest sibling, with Ranni being the shortest… I think her being small is fitting because Rennala calls her “little Ranni” :)
which is funny because compared to normal people they’re all enormous like Ranni is 8ft tall at minimum
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slavonicrhapsody · 3 days
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how tall do you think the carian siblings were pre-shattering? i figure maybe rykard and radahn's great runes could've made them grow, but even ranni's body looks to be around 8ft tall, and then there's rennala of course. just wondering what others think about it
I did answer a similar question in the past but this time I’ll actually go more in-depth:
so I made this (admittedly loose) chart using stuff from the game to try to estimate Rykard and Ranni’s heights
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for Rykard the only thing we really have to go off of is his throne in Volcano Manor’s ruined audience chamber. as you can see he’d have to be pretty massive to sit his ass down in that chair so I scaled up my drawing accordingly to like the minimum height he’d have to be
then we have Ranni’s corpse to look at, but she’s kinda curled up on the ground so I tried to reconstruct her proportions standing up straight vs. the tarnished for scale. it looks like she was a really similar height to Blaidd which is super sweet!
for Radahn we unfortunately don’t have anything in-game that can help give us a solid pre-shattering height estimate… there is that one painting where he’s fighting Morgott, but I can’t really use a painting to get a reliable sense of scale.
we do have the demigod thrones to give us a vague idea of heights, though… Rykard and Radahn’s thrones seem to be a similar size, so that kind of confirms that Radahn was closer in height to his brother back in the day:
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Ranni’s throne on the left is also noticeably smaller:
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personally I imagine Radahn was always the tallest sibling, with Ranni being the shortest… I think her being small is fitting because Rennala calls her “little Ranni” :)
which is funny because compared to normal people they’re all enormous like Ranni is 8ft tall at minimum
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slavonicrhapsody · 4 days
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im literally so bored and sick of working that i feel like im going braindead i need to make another controversial elden ring poll for enrichment but im out of ideas
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slavonicrhapsody · 4 days
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“Hear me, Daenerys Targaryen. The glass candles are burning.”
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slavonicrhapsody · 4 days
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"Have you ever…heard any strange sounds here at the manor? Something beyond the walls, like breathing, or slithering scales…"
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slavonicrhapsody · 5 days
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do you think rykard would get mad at someone if they called him ricky
you call him ricky and he puts you in this
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slavonicrhapsody · 5 days
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my blog theme has been exactly the same ever since I joined tumblr as an asoiaf fan I want to give it a makeover but I’m also nostalgic
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yeah I have no excuse for this
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slavonicrhapsody · 5 days
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daily reminder
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slavonicrhapsody · 6 days
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Rennala and Radagon's wolf
Not very original to do fanart of Rennala, but I love her. I like to think Radagon offered her many gifts to keep her inside the Academy, the wolf being part of it, keeping her company.
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slavonicrhapsody · 6 days
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hey, i was wondering if you had an opinion on why the carian children’s alliance fell apart during the shattering. between rykard having invented the abductor virgins that both ranni and radahn employ, and jerren stating that iji forged weapons for radahn’s army (if you talk to him about iji before the radahn festival while working for ranni), it seems the carians were helping each other out at the start. i have a few theories already, but i love your elden ring meta
first of all thank you!!
yeah I have a lot of thoughts about this. I think it ultimately comes down to the fact that their personal goals are entirely different and really don’t have anything to do with each other.
Radahn seems the most disconnected of the siblings in terms of his actions — judging by what we know, it doesn’t seem like a total upheaval of the current order was a priority for him as it was for his siblings. His specific motivations remain pretty opaque, but I believe, based on his obsession with Godfrey and all the references to honor and combat, that at his core he made the choices he did in order to prove his own strength and heroism.
I suspect this is why his halting of the stars hindered Ranni’s plans — he was never acting with her interests in mind. I doubt he was intentionally sabotaging her though, because there is no evidence of he and Ranni ever feuding. I’ve said this before, but the idea that Radahn’s halting of the stars is specifically holding Ranni back is a total afterthought to Iji… if Ranni were convinced Radahn bore her ill-will, killing him wouldve been her team’s objective years ago. Plus, Iji and Jerren are still amicable as you said. I think the situation is simply that, as Iji says, he and Jerren serve different masters with different priorities. The same goes for Radahn’s relationship with Rykard — I believe it’s implied Rykard tried to protect Radahn, but I don’t think this protection necessarily meant the two were working towards the same goals.
Rykard and Ranni are more complicated… I believe the Blasphemous Claw description implies that before the Night of the Black Knives, the two talked of a wider plan to “trespass” against the current world order: “Should the coming trespass one day transpire, they would serve as a last-resort foil, allowing Rykard to challenge Maliketh the Black Blade, the black beast of Destined Death.” Since there is evidence that these two did share plans with each other, it’s significant that they don’t really have anything to do with each other anymore.
I think this is due to the fact that though their goals were the same on paper — remove and usurp the current world order — their motivations and personalities are quite different.
Ranni is motivated by a desire to rid the world of godly influence because, as I believe, she owes her life’s misery to the gods’ meddling. She has no interest in ruling the Lands Between as a god-queen; rather, she intends for herself and her order to be “at great remove” from the goings on of the world. As god, she will be completely non-present.
Rykard very specifically does want to rule. He had great ambitions; his followers planned to serve him as their “worthy sovereign.” He despises being treated as a servant under the gods and having to fight for “miserly scraps” of power… he dedicated his life to destroying an order he believes is “suffocating,” asserting his own strength and authority in retaliation, operating under the philosophy of “the strong take.” At his core, Rykard’s goal was always the acquisition of power for his own benefit… and I believe this is why he ended up entangled with the Great Serpent, devouring and growing eternally, never satisfied… a caricature of greed and gluttony. Rykard’s personal goals essentially have nothing to do with Ranni’s far-reaching plans for a new order, and I think that’s why the two ended up on very different paths instead of working together.
I also think it’s interesting that Ranni and Rykard go about their plans in very different ways: Ranni prefers to work in the shadows and strike when the moment is right, keeping a cool head and a clear mind, trying to stay detached. She is said to have “cast aside” her great rune, probably because she distrusted its “mad taint.” Rykard on the other hand is rash and volatile, carrying out his treason in spectacularly public fashion. He is ruled by his ambition and hubris, clinging to the power afforded to him by his great rune.
In conclusion I don’t think there was ever a chance of the siblings all being on the same page — they’re each too different from one another with their own lofty goals and priorities, despite the love they might have for each other.
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slavonicrhapsody · 8 days
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