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the-punforgiven · 1 year

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All My Tarnished In Elden Ring

2 of you said do it so I'm doing it lmao

My first character is Ari, they were my very first character and are currently my "main" character. They started out as a raw Strength Claymore-only build and just kinda stayed that way until after I'd beaten the final boss. My original intent was to have them do the rad Carian Sword stuff as a sort of spellsword/battlemage thing, and while they can do that now, I just kinda waited a little too long to spec them into INT so now they're just a friendly summon who's a tanky sword-wielding sword mage who can deal a casual 7453 damage with Carian Grandeur under the right circumstances (As for weapons since they're my Main character I've got a bunch of random shit I've leveled for hyper specific situations, but Claymore is still, as always, Old Reliable for them)

My second character is one named Bryndegaard, she's a VERY heavy Strength/Faith build that I like, accidentally made good lmao Turns out guard counters with the Great Mace do a lot of stance damage Her shield doesn't have an Ash of War on it, and her mace has Prayerful Strike, so even if someone does manage to hit her through it, her vigor is so good and Prayerful Strike is so strong that the damage is usually pretty negligible. She's my tank/healer build first and foremost, but I also have the Envoy's Longhorn levelled up for her just in case I need to absolutely decimate a large boss like Placidusax or Astel. The Longhorn also worked surprisingly well against Elden Beast, as turns out its 80% Holy Damage negation doesn't mean much if you output too much damage for it to matter

My third character's named Edge, Lord He was supposed to be my Spooky Scary Death Mage but tbh I haven't touched him in a while so right now he's just a really unoptimized scythe guy with like, Rancorcall and that's it. I tried to make him look like a black metal musician and I think I did really well, but he also looks so angy it's really funny to me fhdjksahfkxz

Fourth character is Vlad, he's my funny little Dracula Boy. He's not very good but I love him nonetheless. He's built around claws, bleed, and Lifesteal Fist, which I'm very glad was recently buffed because man, this guy was not great to play before that lmao Also I love how tiny his head looks with that cape it's really funny to me

5th character is Guano Gobbler. Very original. Do Not Steal. Idk man I wanted to get the Dung Eater ending at least once, and idk I didn't want to get it on anyone else. I did use the Dung Eater's facial presets for him, I just thought it'd be funny to make him bald too

6th character is the lovely Cap'n Rumguzzler. My entire thought process behind him was 'want pirate' and then I made one. I have no idea what build I was gonna make with him and as a result he fucking sucks but I love him anyway. He also has a cannon hidden in his back pocket or something (I am aware what his name is one letter away from, that just straight-up did not occur to me at all when I was first naming him)

7th character is my Gravity Boy, I don't like his name so you don't get to know it. I've decided he's not going to progress past Maliketh because I still want at least one character I can co-op with in Leyndel. He's exactly what he says on the tin, he's got a Zweihander with Waves of Darkness and he's got a bunch of gravity spells. Not much else to say tbh aside from that I really like how the purple of the gravity magic goes with his All Black Everything look tbh. It's just very aesthetically pleasing to me

8th character is The Legend Herself, 4PattyCheeseBurg. She's built with the express purpose of having the highest possible health achievable in game. Her first 85 levels were all in Vigor (She started out with 14). She only uses the Star Fist. Red Sun gets stuck in my head every time I play her. She's somehow the strongest character I've ever had for Colosseum battles. I've made people just straight-up avoid her completely for entire matches. Demigods fall before her. The earth itself shatters at her victories. She's so fun to play I love her

Her health bar looks like this btw.

9th character is, regrettably, RudolphReindeer. My friend wanted to do a funny holiday-themed run and he'd already claimed Santa, so this is the best I could come up with. You don't get to see his face up close because I hate it

10th is my sleep build, Eurythmics (Because, y'know, Sweet Dreams) idk what else to say about them aside from that they're here, they do sleep, I don't know what to do for their fashion, and they're Not Very Good

11th character is just this one, I've named her Sellsword because idk what else to do with her She's a Quality/Quality-Mage build and I just kinda use her for testing out all sorts of wacky shit trying to wrangle huge damage and big AoE's (Fun Fact: Hoarah Loux's Earthshaker is buffed by the Highland Axe, and the buff stacks if you have a second one, but for some reason it is not buffed by the Roar Talisman) I like making her dual wield stuff also

and the 12th (last) character is this one, She's a Quality build with a bit of arcane. With her I typically use either the Claymore, Marais Sword, or Eleonora's twinblade, and the Dragon Communion Seal in her off hand. Her damage is surprisingly good for me barely playing up her bleed potential, and for some reason she tends to get summoned by randos way more than my other builds, couldn't possibly imagine why She's in the Hoslow set here, but sometimes I switch it up and put her in the Briar armor (With the Vagabond legs/arms) instead. idk just kinda depends on mood but I think the Hoslow chest's red bits compliment her eyes idk

And that's it, that's all of them minus a few I started, got like 5 feet from Limgrave, and haven't touched since

Elden Ring 10/10 game, absolutely consumed my life 👍

#Pun's text Posts #Elden Ring #Tarnished #Tarnished oc

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swallowtail-ageha · 3 months

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Hey! Name 10 of your favourite Soulsborne characters! Doesn't have to be in any particular order, unless you want it to be!

SORRY FOR DELETING THE FIRST ONE AND MAKING YOU SEND THIS AGAIN

Also putting it under the cut because goood i love to get verbose and this shit is almost infinite for how long it got

Ok so *cracks knuckles*

1- Shanalotte

My precious girl!! My beloved!!! I have actually found most fromsoft level up maidens (bar her and melina) to be actually pretty lacking in both relevance and story so she was a nice breath of fresh air! Her lore intrigues me very much like. She was created *specifically* with the purpose of being kindling (or that's what the "created to break the curse" implies to me).

She's one of the most normal looking dragon-human hybrids but it's ALSO implied that she's internally way more fucked up and unstable than them because she was pretty much left to rot alone by aldia in the dragon aerie. She can teleport propelled by the power of a funky feather. She has an emo haircut. Her intentions might not be the kindest as they might seem as instead of lettingherself burn she cultivated SEVERAL undeads to reach the throne instead of taking the throne for herself and she ALWAYS knows what is really going but refuses to tell the Bearer of the Curse anything that aren't the barest informations.

Forever will be salty that due to executive meddling we lost the time travel plot and didn't manage to see her as a child

2-Ranni

I think one of the biggest improvements overall of elden ring's ending questlines compared to the ones in other soulsborne is that they gave us a quest from a scheming character that ACTUALLY explains you what your schemes entrail and lets you through bosses and additional questlines forge a deeper connection to the npcs and Ranni (and her questline) are the epitome of that.

Like i have soo much to say about the fact that her ending is basically the classical courtly love story with the maiden in the tower rescued by the brave knight where the tower guarded by the dragon can both be her rise who is guarded by Adula (whom fights you to death before you can go to Manus Celes and marry her) and the cave in the lake of rot which is guarded by Astel.

AND WHILE PEOPLE MISCHARACTERIZE HER AS COLD AND UNLOVING SHE IS SO FULL OF LOVE. She's yes scheming and willing to do evil acts to reach her goals but she LOVES Iji and Blaidd THEY WERE HER FAMILY BLAIDD WAS HER BROTHER EVEN IF HE WAS ENGINEERED TO BETRAY HER IF SHE WENT ASTRAY AND THEY BOTH KNEW IT BUT THEY LOVED EACH OTHER SO MUCH THAT BLAIDD OVERCAME FOR A WHILE HIS SHADOW'S INSTINCTS. She didn't want you to continue your services for her because she knew that iji and blaidd were doomed and didn't want you to end like them AND YET. AND YET. YOU TRAVERSED THE LAKE OF ROT FOR HER. YOU KILLED ALIENS AND GOD TO SAVE HER. SHE FIRST INTENDED TO GO AWAY WITH NO ONE FOLLOWING HER BUT YOU DECIDE TO DEPART WITH HER. NEVER LEAVING HER ALONE IN THE COLD AND EMPTY SPACE.

I am sorry for the all caps and incoherent rambling but i genuinely love ranni so much. Elden ring in general is very dear to me and her questline was one of the first ones i've ever done in a soulsborne game :3

3-Rykard

Ok i admit that while at first i only liked him for "funny snake" stuff the more i learned about him the more i liked him.

He's like Ranni in the sense that where he did commit many atrocities one of his most overlooked characteristics is how he loved.

He loved radahn so much that he had paintings of him all over his home. He loved tanith so much because he knew what he would become once fused with the snake and offered her a way out of the suffering that it might have caused her (but we know tanith didn't mind) and trusted her so much to let her lead volcano manor in his stead. He loved rennala so much that he left his own Special Torture Device around the academy to hurt whoever wanted to kill her. He loved ranni so much that he helped prepare her great plan and was willing to take the blame and challenge MALIKETH HIMSELF in order to protect her if the plan went wrong. And he loved radagon so much that him abandoning them to follow the GW literally caused him to react so badly that he decided to infiltrate it's ranks as a loyal inquisitor to destroy it from the inside in the way it would hurt the most (like burning the minor erdtree). Also he's bisexual. Miyazaki you might have removed the daedicar's woe item description but he remains bi in the heart of us rykardpilled

4-Tanith

Aside from being the canonically freakiest person in bed in the lands between the whole rykard-tanith-rya storyline makes me go RAAAAH "my greatest distress would be forgetting you" and then she goes on to ask you to unconsensually do to rya the same thing that rykard consensually asked her to do!! Because for her it's better to live a lie than to know the truth!! And the fact that this is likely caused by her feeling inadequate to be a mother (as cut dialogue shows)!!!

Also undying loyalty literally wanting to have someone live on through you by ingesting them... her obsession with rykard and what he represented preventing her to actually move on after he gets killed by the tarnished but also her love for him is one of the reasons WHY volcano manor still stands + the fact that rykard married her not out of pure lust but because he sawnin her a dignity befitting of a ruler AND HE WAS RIGHT.... Miyazaki. Martin. I love you.

5-Nashandra

Ok i might not have papers upon papers to write about her but she's one of my favourites in the sense that she hits the extremely specific archetype of extremely cunty woman who exploits manipulates others but that's because she's an eldritch abomination whose existance is extremely fragile and literally just wants To Live (the other character who fits this is Ma evilliouschronicles and she's like my fave character 5eva).

The concept of the daughters of manus is very cool and i feel like there's some significance in her sharing the "shan" in her name with shanalotte but only miyazaki knows.

I really want to know what her and vendrick's marriage looked like i KNOW they were freaky

6-Maria

MARIA MY BELOVED MARIA... I HAVE MANY THOUGHTS (TM) ABOUT HER and the main one is that to me she is like one of those protagonist from those late 19th/early 20th decadent novels but if they were a girl.

The thing that appeals to me the most about her is how much of an utter failure she was in both life and death like her arc is such a downwards spiral. I am not okay with cainhurst's hunting thecniques? Ok! Let's join the victorian equivalent of the scalp hunters from blood meridian! Oh shit oh no oh fuck i ended up committing genocide and eviscerating a pregnant god and now i am extremely traumatized well i'll try to redeem myself by joining the blood murdercult and by committing experiments based on the evisceration of said pregnant god to help advance humanity. All the experiments i led are for naught and only led to more suffering? At this point i can't handle it anymore every single good thing i did led to death and misery i'm gonna kill myself AT LEAST IN DEATH I CAN'T HARM ANYONE :) RIGHT? :) [cue her upholding the nightmare and its inhabitants suffering and then dying against the good hunter causing them to rampage through the hamlet again]

I think her biggest flaw in the end was to keep denying the fact that her actions slowly got more brutal because she wanted to think of herself as a good person until things snowballed so much that they got out of her control and couldnt do anything to prevent damage from happening. Rip my sweet angel corrado silla and alfonso nitti wouldve seen you as their long lost sister

7-Sulyvahn

HE LIVED HE SERVED CUNT HE DIED. There is something oddly poetic and horrifying about someone who came from a place designed to keep away those rejected by the gods being the responsible of the fall of the gods himself. AND YET none of this came from rightful vengeance or a sense of duty towards his fellow inhabitants of the painter. No. He didn't give a single shit about it and hated the place. He only did that because he was power hungry and skilled and had the possibility to do that.

I am also OBSESSED OBSESSED OBSESSED with the fact that it's implied that he has more than a few grievances with women and i like to think of him as a huge misogynistic creep in the way fanon gehrman is. He is so insidiously manipulative and backstabbing and needlessly cruel he is up there in the alley of my favourite nasty old men. He might or might not have had beef in the past with aldrich which led to aldrich kicking his ass earlier and weakening him enough to permit the ashen one to kill him. We love a villain whose downfall is caused by his constant backstabbing

8- Fauxefka

I know that she's very barebone as npcs go but i am soo fond of her she's my canon oc. There is soo much implied about her aside from the fact that miyazaki considers her one of the only heroic people in game like. She is from the choir (and might have stolen the umbilical cord from willem) while Iosefka who looks exactly like her is implied to have been a defector from mensis so academic beef might be one of the motives for turning her into an alien i have SO MANY THOUGHTS ABOUT THAT and if you send the suspicious beggar to her house he STILL turns into a celestial emissary which means she alone was strong enough to overpower him.

Also her voice gets me sooo <3333 and add that with the fact that she was brave enough to gobble down an umbilical cord without a single thought she's a lunatic but also probably the sanest person in yharnam and i'm here for it

9- Friede

Friede is another one in the halley of pathetic women like yass girl... doom a world where you found comfort in to ruin because you are so traumatized by your first death by burning that you refuse to let it happen again despite it being a good thing so she parallels nicely with gwyn.

Another thing that i found interesting is that aside from that she is ALSO motivated by love for the inhabitants of the painting but is willingly blind to the love wilhelm and yuria had for her

Side note but i found a really good wilhelm/friede fic where mid fuck she removes his ring that prevents him from looking like a beef jerky and muses that he'd never do that because he's too loyal for her and is happy of the power she has over him and that is sooo good i'll just incorporate it in my headcanons for her

10- Gwyndolin

I already joked about him being the joker for trans men but like. The tragedy of his story makes me go insane <3 Imagine being reviled by your father for literally every single part of your being. You have your older siblings. They are your father's favourites, THE golden children. And yet one by one they leave you all alone, one being kicked out and erased from history for siding with the enemy and the other flees as she always does whenever she encounters trouble. Your father who hates you throws himself into the first flame and leaves you alone with massive abandonment and gender issues and you spend literally every single moment of your life trying to continue his legacy even to the point of living in your father's tomb. You revile him and how he treated you especially regarding your gender so you try to be independent. To throw away your old identity he forced on you and finally live as a man and a king of your own right BUT you'll always be desperate for his love and will never separate from his shadow down to the bitter end. You raise what is your sibling or niece but also instead of actually making her independent you keep her naive and sheltered, every single place of power is purely symbolic.

And then the tree guy who works as your knight and whom you might or might not be fucking fucking overthrows you imprisons you and your sisterniece in the cathedral and feeds you alive to a guy whom you sent to his death by burning ages ago to continue the cycle your father started. Life really be like that sometimes.

So... here it is! I am sorry for how long it got lmaoo

#also i must specify #the list isnt in order i like them all on the same level #there are also other characters i love like l*urence mic*lash l*catiel or the dancer #i just dont rotate them in my mind as much as i do with them yknow #ask

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warsofasoiaf · 2 years

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Could you do a character analysis for Starscourge Radahn, like you did for Godrick the Grafted?

I've mentioned this before, Starscourge Radahn is my favorite boss fight in Elden Ring. It changes the formula significantly by making summoning a key part of the gameplay, and the lore fits in with it well, the Radahn Festival encourages participation of the greatest warriors of the Lands Between. Radahn serves as an excellent way to make a midpoint transition into a game. You have the convergence of multiple NPC's that the player will know and perhaps even be friendly with, like Alexander the Warrior Jar and Blaidd Half-Wolf, and kick off more questlines like introducing Jerren who would later show up during the Sellen questline, or Finger Maiden Therolina who was turned into a puppet by Seluvis. When you complete the quest, you are treated to a sky of shimmering comets, and a new area opens up in dramatically impressive fashion.

Radahn starts off the son of Radagon and Rennala, and so technically was only adopted by Marika. On the other hand, the dual nature of Radagon makes this tricky as to whether these three are biological children of Marika. While I'll save the big speculation for an actual analysis on Marika and/or Radagon, it's likely that the godly seed and power that created the demigods was present in Radagon's children with Rennala, so Radahn, Rykard, and Ranni were as much inheritors of Marika as was her children with Godfrey and her later union with Radagon that birthed Malenia and Miquella. Exactly how much of this Radahn knew is unclear, but we do know that Radahn was proud of both his father Radagon (naming his army the Redmane after the proud Red Lion and identifying Radagon's red hair as possessing "heroic implication") and Godfrey, the Lord of the Battlefield, who Radahn was said to be "captivated by." For a warrior, this was a mighty legacy to live up. Godfrey conquered the Giants and slew the Storm Lord in single combat, and Radagon subjugated the giants and brought Caria into the Golden Order through marriage. By the time Radahn was a man, there were no more enemies left in the Lands Between to earn a conquest worthy to live up to his father's. And so Radahn looked upwards to find a new foe.

When Radahn was young, he sought out an Alabaster Lord, a creature fallen from the heavens into the Lands Between. This setting actually deals a lot with space and celestial phenomena. The Erdtree itself came from space, a star with a beast that would later become the Elden Ring. You deal with bosses called the Fallingstar Beasts, which look like they may either grow into or be a member of the same species as Astel, Naturalborn of the Void. The Alabaster (and Onyx) Lords were said to have been "risen to life when a meteor struck long ago," so they are either another creature from the stars that came to the Lands Between in a meteor or alternatively were creatures brought to life by the magic of the meteors themselves, this purple gravity magic. Radahn took tutelage from this ancient creature with skin of stone so that he might conquer the stars, in what was called "the Starscourge Conflict." Using the power of gravity magic, Radahn arrested their movement to the Lands Between, halting those whose destiny was in the stars (like Lunar Witch Ranni) and stopping the meteorite impacts. The linking of these two is fascinating, if these meteorite impacts are destiny or if these are the tools of an Outer God perhaps like the Dark Moon of Nokstella (perhaps Astel was a summoning gone wrong or proved to be out of control). There was a second reason that Radahn learned gravity magic. As Radahn aged and gained more power, he grew in size, until he was too massive to ride his horse Leonard, allowing him to reduce his weight and allow Leonard to carry him into battle. Why Radahn is so massive compared to his siblings is not expressly stated. Given that Radagon is hinted to have had giant heritage, this could be an expression of that. Rykard and Ranni are difficult to compare, since Rykard is a giant snake and Ranni is now a doll, but at the very least Rykard's throne is pretty big like Radahn's. I've also seen it speculated that Radahn's immense size could have also been him engaging in dragon communion. We never see him use any dragon communion magic but he's definitely in a weakened state when we see him so he might just not remember enough to use it, or perhaps he's using his dragonflames internally to stave off the Scarlet Rot, but that's just idle speculation

Afterwards, we know that Radahn became the Red Lion General, though this is where knowing some history helps enhance your understanding of the setting. In the original Japanese, Radahn is entitled "Shogun," which is a name with far more connotations than a simple general. A shogun was in many ways a military dictator during Japan's feudal era. Given that Radahn seemed to have Caelid as his fief in the pre-Shattering times, Radahn was probably the commander of the Golden Order's armies and had his own personal army in Caelid. That they use the term "shogun" instead of the more generic lord common to western feudalism, coupled with Morgott's introductory fight cutscene where he sees the demigod thrones, each member likely had some special duty. During the Shattering, the opening cutscene shows Morgott grappling with Radahn, suggested that at some point, the Redmanes attempted to seize Leyendell from Morgott. Given that Radahn didn't become Elden Lord, he probably was unable to breach the walls, and so returned to Caelid to plan his next move. Interestingly, unlike most of the other demigods, Radahn doesn't appear to express a vision for the future. Miquella has his Haligtree, borne out of the failure of the Golden Order to rid Malenia of her Scarlet Rot. Mohg wishes to establish a new dynasty under the Formless Mother, the new patron of a new order. Radahn's ideas likely are much closer to the Golden Order and the Greater Will, eliminating the influence of the Outer Gods as we see when he conquers the stars. So it's possible that rather than expressing a different vision, Radahn represented becoming a new Elden Lord of the same vision, the same Golden Order. However, Radahn doesn't seem to express much in the way of piety the way Morgott internalizes the strictures of the Order (even the part where he, as an Omen, is a lesser being), so Radahn seems to be inherently more secular, wishing to be the warlord that Godfrey and Radagon were.

We don't know what happened in the rest of the Shattering from Radahn's perspective, all we know is the final battle, where Malenia with her Cleanrot Knights faced off against Radahn and his Redmanes, a conflict powerful and stalemated, one that you see still played out among the ghosts of the War-Dead Catacombs. Eventually, the opening cutscene plays out. Radahn permits Malenia to reattach her prosthesis, Malenia permits Radahn to summon his gravity magics, suggesting that this was a honorable duel between equals (perhaps a combat by champion to break the stalemate). The Battle of Aeonia ends with devastation - Malenia unleashed the great bloom of the Scarlet Rot, blighting Caelid. Radahn, at ground zero, was the most effected, and anyone weaker likely would have died. Yet Radahn, mighty and enhanced with his own shard of the Elden Ring, did not die. His Elden Ring shard went alight, burning to stop the rot, and it left him rot-crazed but still alive as his body was either burned to stop the rot or eaten by the slow progression of the disease. Malenia too, was not spared, unconscious and only spared by Cleanrot Knight Finlay to make the long trek back to the Haligtree. Why Malenia and Radahn fought is a mystery. The simplest explanation is that Malenia and Radahn were the last two players, with Godrick having been beaten by Malenia and Rykard beaten by Morgott in his bloody campaign. The winner of that conflict would challenge Morgott for the Elden Throne. However, Radahn's battleground is also directly over Mogh's Palace of Blood, it's possible that Malenia was searching for Miquella, and Radahn interpreted it as a move to attack his army and seize control of his shard. Whatever the reason, Caelid was destroyed, infested with Scarlet Rot and dinosaur dogs, while Malenia recovered at the base of the Haligtree, blighting the roots after she could no longer control the Rot.

I've mentioned before that FromSoft uses movesets to help sell a character's personality given how little it focuses on direct lore exposition. Radahn, as befits his status as a rot-crazed beast of war, is aggressive in a way that few other bosses ever are, aggressively firing arrows the size of tree trunks accelerated with gravity magic at you the second the game starts. He towers over the player, he swings his swords in wide arcs that can cut through several people at once (clever given how many you can summon to the party, a useful way to increase his lethality to those who go the summoning route while maintaining his danger to those who fight solo). He rockets across the arena on his lovable steed Leonard, wheeling around and performing what are essentially horseback handbrake turns. The moment is one of FromSoft's funniest visual gags this side of Alexander, the gigantic Radahn riding the tiny horse as a fun visual dichotomy. However, it's not just funny and sweet, it's also tragic. It's a little heartwarming that Radahn, the great and mighty warrior who conquered the stars, loves his little horsey so much that he mastered a school of magic just so he could continue to ride him. However, now his loving horse shares in the misery that is his existence, his flesh rotted and his muscles barely capable of pulling the withered husk that he now is along. Radahn's few greater thoughts are about Leonard, he pushes his horse into the dirt before he attacks. He'll consume the flesh of the fallen like an animal, but he still thinks of his horse with the few bits of higher thought functions he has left. Radahn is dying, and at the end of the day, more than the being the son of Radagon and Rennala, more than being the Conqueror of the Stars, Radahn is just a man utterly devoted to his horse.

All of that helps sell the setting. As evidenced by the previous paragraphs, Radahn is one of the most prominent of the demigods, capable of going toe-to-toe with Malenia and one who earned his reputation as a fearsome tactician, warrior, and wizard. That isn't "mid-game" boss material, he's got the chops to be an end-game boss. Yet the ravages of the Scarlet Rot bring him down in strength and menace. This isn't the Starscourge Shogun, this isn't the mighty leader of the Redmanes, this is a man that has been so blighted by Scarlet Rot that his feet have been worn down to nubs. This is a man who by all accounts should already be dead, yet his Great Rune keeps him alive, burning him eternally to stave off the rot from consuming him entirely. So, while it's a fun fight, there's a tragic note to it - this isn't a worthy battle between equals the way the Malenia/Radahn fight was in the opening trailer. This is a mercy killing of a man who died long ago. The falling stars are tears, marking the end of a man who spent this last stage of life in a living hell.

Thanks for the question, George.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

#elden ring #elden ring radahn #elden ring spoilers #character analysis

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callsignbaphomet · 1 year

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So C and I were having a conversation that somehow started with comics, then went on to books, videos games and then fell on Elden Ring. I've had epiphanies before, I've lived through them but I never FELT one before.

He was complaining telling me how Elden Beast is a disappointment of a final boss and he's got every right to his opinion but he's wrong lol. Nah, nah, I can see why people often complain about it, hell, at first I complained about it too but everything about it grew on me. The design, the music, the fight, the strategies I've gone through to beat it but then as we were talking he said something that felt like a light went off in my head.

He said, "I hate the design! It looks like some space larva!"

And I swear to the very gods I froze in that instant. I just froze.

Look, as much as I love Elden Beast nothing about its design screams From Software boss ESPECIALLY final boss. It looks nothing, in terms of aesthetic and look, to all the bosses and major enemies we find in the Lands Between. I'd dare say it even looks cute. Cute! Like a little space slug.

Now, I know we're all tense with anticipation on wether From Software and Bandai Namco will give us DLCs but...dude, we all know they're gonna give us DLCs! C'mon! Here's hoping we get to fight Miquella!

What is the Elden Beast was just in its larval form when we fought it?

"CJ, we killed it at the end of the game. What the fuck, dude?"

Okay, yeah, but what if there's more than one Elden Beast? What if the Elden Beast we fought is just a larva and there is something so much worse waiting for us? Something twice as powerful and twice as majestic and twice as scary? We even already have an enemy who we fight as a larva and then as its full grown version.

Astel, Naturalborn of the Void and Astel, Stars of Darkness.

See, early on in the game we get to fight an enemy called Fallingstar Beast (fantastic name tbh). There's two different versions of this enemy that we fight. As you progress further into the game you find different versions of these enemy which has led many of us to suspect that as the Fallingstar Beast gets older they change forms like so:

Fallingstar Beast > Full-grown Fallingstar Beast > Malformed Star > Astel

So the concept of creatures/aliens in Elden Ring going through growing stages isn't new. Now, I know I have ZERO evidence to back this up as it was just a feeling but I felt so strongly about this. Again, Elden Beast breaks the mold with how it looks compared to the other bosses and their designs. Look, the Greater Will is a messed up deity that most likely doesn't even trust its own mother if it has one so sending one beast and having a bunch hidden away just seems like a very it thing to do.

Fingers crossed for when the DLCs drop.

#Elden Ring #werewolf howls at dusk

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