Elden Ring Lore To Sleep To

Settle down, tuck in, and dream of the Land of Shadow.
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Miyazaki Interview Narration
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Shadow of the Erdtree Prologue Narration
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Stranded Soul Narration
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Marika Narration
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Special Appearance & Theory by @Banuune

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Translated Famitsu Article:

Full translation of the Famitsu interview with Miyazaki for Shadow of the Erdtree
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NotPrecursor Theory

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What you missed in the Shadow of the Erdtree picture #eldenring #eldenringedit #eldenringdlc #elderingdlcnews #fyp #foryou #foryoupage

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@VaatiVidya Trailer Analysis

TheBloodMakesUsHuman Sun Realm Speculation

The Sun Realm
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Mr Elden Thing Map Speculation

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— Crunchy (@MrEldenThing) February 21, 2024

ZyoidaX Map Speculation

Elden Ring DLC map speculation with attached reference images done solely by me, I just had to do it
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@Ziostorm Tweet:

Theory: The Roundtable Hold is veiled just as the Land of Shadows is.
Where Marika stores her “pawns” such as Hewg, imprisoned by her to forge a godslaying weapon. Why we need Melina to take us there-a place between realms, a reconstruction of the Fortified Manor beyond sight. pic.twitter.com/OZYrNe6DbH

— Ziostorm (@Ziostorm1) March 3, 2024

Nameless Singer’s Speculation

The Erdtree is a Tree of Memories. This explains why there are two versions of the Roundtable Hold and why one burns when the Erdtree burns.
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This episode is for the curious, join me as we navigate the Lore of Elden Ring: parallels between the disciplined order of Rome and Queen Marika’s Reign in The Lands Between. Shadow of the Erdtree is right around the corner! In this episode, we explore how these ancient concepts are reborn in the Elden Rings lore, design, and overarching themes.
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(it was too long for the description which is already like 4200 characters XD)

once upon a time a star fell from the Eternal Heavens bearing a magical golden Relic a powerful Eternal goddess sealed the ruinous flame her forgotten child bearing another very special mysterious flame settle down Tuck in and dream name of the land of Shadow the land of Shadow a place obscured by the Earth tree where the goddess Mara first set foot a land purged in an unsung Battle Set Ablaze By mesmer’s Flame it was to this land that mad departed divesting himself of his flesh his strength his lineage of all things [Music] golden the giant tree looks like the her tree being suffocated by death route there is this Theory I really like by a tick tocker not precursor this is actually in fact the H this idea was also mentioned later in vati video’s trailer analysis called the hin the hin steeple States great sword patterned after the black steeple of the hin the lampwood which guides the dead of the Living World the lamp light is similar to Grace in appearance only it is said that it can only be seen by those who have met their death in battle according to the root reson item description the roots of the great tree were once linked to those of the her tree or so they say and it is for this reason the catacombs are built around the great tree roots death rout on the night of the dire plot the stolen Rune of death enabled the first death of a demigod later the Rune of death spread across the lands between through the underground roots of the great tree sprouting in the form of death root map of deep root depths at the very depths of the earth tre’s Majestic Roots lies the source of anel and the suur rivers here too Begins the network of the great trees roots that spread throughout the lands between I see this map as saying the Earth trees Roots begin here and so do the great trees so you know all the trees are depicted with roots okay so well if this is because it is reflective of the health of both parts of the tree like this is the shadow tree and this is the her tree the great tree is both the her tree and the shadow tree when they were once physically connected well if Mika’s Halo tree is somewhat a model for what the great tree used to be there’s the golden tree and the shadow tree but they were once one thing some think it is only referring to the her tree but that was before there was two trees according to the famitsu article Miyazaki States due to something Story related the worlds became physically separated her tree refers to the golden tree that appears in the main title so directly interpreting this the DLC title means the shadow of this golden tree in the concept art that was shown in February of 2023 it is this shadow of the earth tree that looms tall in the left background ground and we also call this the shadow tree so the DLC takes place not in the lands between but the shadowlands of which the shadow tree is a symbol also there is another small hidden meaning in the title we hope you will figure this out when playing the game so here are our first major pieces of context one this tree is called the shadow tree two the land of Shadow and the lands between were once physically connected three a plot point in the story physically separates the land of Shadow and the lands between I think that something has to do with phula and the Elden ring in malus boss chamber see I always thought it was strange how death route popped up in the most random places sure it’s spreading through the great Roots but like how it doesn’t really make sense it would make sense that the great tree is the only thing to connect the worlds together a few details to note here mizaki talks about the small meaning in the title The main thing I have noticed upon the trailer and the title releasing is that it looks like the roots are feeding into each other on the o there’s also the medallion for the lip of red which depicts Roots reaching far below the Divine Towers the words shadow of the earth tree are more shattered than the words Elden ring according to an interview Miaki did with Edge boss encounter the rings that you’re looking at in the logo are not so much represent ation of those factions as you put it but more a representation of the law of the world the rules and the order is the vessel of the Elden ring carrier of its Vision a God in truth but after the elen Rings shattering she was imprisoned in the earth tree maybe since the Elden ring is reflective of the fundamental laws of the world then the Elden ring depicted in Fula was broken off from the main Elden ring and this is also what separated the golden tree from the shadow tree maybe the now Shadow tree is actually the real Earth tree as Maxi mentioned shattering the Elder ring also shattered the Earth tree it could be that this is the reason we see the Earth tree part in the shadow tree tilted as if it’s about to fall over it is also possible that the let’s call it helic tree part is holding up the Earth tree here instead of strangling it this would mean that the UR Trey we see in the lands between is indeed as theorized by so many an illusion but that’s just the theory going back to the fitsu article also one other main pillar of the DLC story is the history of this Shadow land and the history of Queen America fitsu so there have been many details just revealed please let me ask more you just mentioned Queen America’s history does this mean that the DLC takes place in the past no it takes place in the same time as the main title the setting is not in the distant past or future the shadowlands in Queen America’s past will be told in the same manner as the shattering was in the main title that is in fact Mika and it is he who traveled to the land of Shadow and it’s the players who will be tracing his path and following in his footsteps trying to see what he’s going to do there another axis of the story is Queen Merica and what she did in the land of Shadow and what led Mika to follow her there in fact the Land of Shadows is the place where America became a God and the golden tree was born okay so Miyazaki gives us more important context here four this takes place in a parallel time with the lands between not the future future not the past five echo of Queen America will reveal more of America’s past most likely six America ascended to godhood in the land of Shadow seven the golden tree the Earth tree was born in the land of Shadow here’s what we know about the birth of the ER tree according to the sword monument in the mountain tops of the Giants the war against the Giants Champions battle trolls betray fire vanquished the era of the her tree begins smithing Stone 8 thought to have been used to hone the weapons of the champions of the war against the Giants at the birth of the UR tree why does going to the mountain tops and Wrecking the Giants begin the era of the UR tree the remembrance of the fire giant States the fire giant is a survivor of the war against the Giants upon realizing that the Flames of the forge would never die Queen Amica marked him with a curse oh trifling giant May thou tend thy flame for eternity in Mar’s own words put the giant to the sword and confine the flame at top the mount let a new Epoch begin an Epoch glistening with life brandish the Elden ring for the age of the ER tree when the earth tree flourished even the demigods could not Stave off its effects despite their nigh godhood and finally Bandit pointed out that the Elden ring is the source of the her tree which somehow I missed so naturally perhaps then the Elden ring being shattered led to the Earth tree itself becoming also shattered eight Queen amica’s actions led Micha to follow her the superior incantation of the fire monks Serge o flame States the Giant’s flame is the flame of Ruin capable of burning the her tree and so following the war of the Giants is it ruinous Blaze was sealed and the Guardians were appointed to watch over it the blaze was sealed H I wonder where they could have put a giant basket of ruinous fire I mean I seriously do not know how no one is talking about this but like I think that America banished the flame of Ruin to the shadow realm I’m sending you to the shadow realm perhaps this is how the world of Shadow was created in the first place yes the shadowlands in which the DLC takes place are sundered from the lands between where the main story takes place it has been removed from and hidden from the outside world and this Veil is a symbol of that ther to break apart or in two separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space huh split apart okay nine the shadow world is split apart from the lands between 10 the veil is symbolic of the Land of Shadows that is hidden from the lands between the Church of manelis or as I lovingly refer to it Church of hand is visible in the trailer when the tarnish goes to the Moonlight altar in the game it’s kind of weird almost otherworldly here is also one of the places I knows the moon overlaps with the her tree where the moon eclipses the her tree and reveals Ronnie’s Dark Moon so like maybe there’s certain areas of overlap between the lands between and the shadow World maybe these areas will provide additional context to what’s happening let us turn our attention back to the veil America’s Mischief is an item that I’ve puzzled over for a long time I always thought this was used to trick renala into falling in love as rala was one of America’s last adversaries though I think that vati is the one that brought this disjointed idea to life the veil effect looks similar to the sky and the veil here when godri was hounded from Lindell the Royal Capital this was one of the multitude of treasures he took with him also known as America’s Mischief the narrator in this item description seems to be alluding to what’s going on here maybe this item was merely a joke or a poke at what America did in land of Shadow this is America’s Mischief another thing to solidify this idea is America’s bed chamber which everyone and their mother and their neighbor and God has pointed out Bandit pointed out that it reminds him of the concealing Veil which makes sense give America’s connection with the Newman Newman the Newman are said to have come from outside the lands between and are in fact of the same stock as Queen America herself the black knives were Newman the Newman are said to be descendants of aai which means spirit world underworld next world so the Newman could be descendants of the people from The Shadow World another incantation this Veil reminded me of was darkness incantation of the two fingers servants who once served as assassins of the Round Table hold the Assassins themselves were once tarnished who had strayed from the guidance and they pursued their Duty in the darkness that is without Grace divesting himself of his flesh his strength has lineage of all things golden so these things are likely connected in the trailer there are two different shots of the Shadow tree in the first one it is more sickly and blackened covered in that Veil now a shadow World obviously has something to do with the eclipse right there are three items associated with the eclipse the eclipse shle story sword and Treasure of Castle soul that depicts an eclipse Sun drained of color Eclipse Crest heater Shield the sun in Eclipse is said to be the symbol of a Wandering mle where the soless demigods Slumber Eclipse Crest Great Shield the eclipse Sun drained of color is the protective star of a soulless demigod it aids the maum Knights by keeping destined death at Bay there are clear ties between the eclipse and the soulless demigods so I wonder if it won’t just be Mesmer but more demigods if you’re interested in a deeper dive on Mesmer I highly recommend checking out SM Town’s lore breakdown I’m not going to elaborate on Mur here because that would lead to an utter derailment of speculation any back to the eclipse there are two different stranded Souls who talk about the eclipse oh great son frigid son of Soul surrender yourself to the eclipse Grant life to the soulless Bones the sun has not been swallowed our prayers were lacking your comrade remains soulless I will never set my eyes upon it now Your Divine Halo tree so something needs to swallow the sun does the sun being swallowed mean the sun is an eclipse in other words it looks like mlet did some kind of magic something which has an effect on the tree being some kind of alchemical stuff that quaa zorm and many others have crackpot alchemical theories on by now I’m sure of it [Music] the sun is usually swallowed by a moon in an eclipse an eclipse cannot happen if the stars are not in motion the Stars alter the fate of the caran royal family and the fate of your mistress Rani but long ago General radan challenged the swirling constellations and in a crushing Victory arrested their Cycles star scorge heirloom the Mightiest Hero of the demigods confronted the falling stars alone and thus did he crush them his Conquest sealing the fate of the stars now he is the force that repulses the Stars if General radan were to Die the Stars would resume their movement Ron has to be dead for the tarnish to enter the world of Shadow so the fate of the stars is important to both the Land of Shadows itself and micha’s journey is dependent on it as well which on a side note is this Ron like you know like like you know how Mo and morgot have like two forms like is it is this what’s happening here like it’s that’s for Dawn right the eclipse is incredibly significant to micho’s character Arc his motivations are twofold bring Godwin a true death and cure melenia Scarlet Rod somehow the eclipse would bring about some change within Mika and that would allow him to reach his goals and perhaps even godhood there is a sign that appears as an in-game message in the sainted hero’s grave Shadow bathes in light and knows weakness an eclipse is essentially standing in the shadow and looking up at a light source is this the way in which Micha will bring about an eclipse so a shadow is typically cast from a light source being blocked by a physical object right however what’s confusing is that there isn’t really a sun present per se just the urgery there is a little sun on the sun dial on the corner of the map which everybody on Twitter is going crazy over right now and the sun realm shield shield of Honor depicting a city crowned by the sun it has seen better days much like the wear upon the shield the seed of the sun is long faded away this can be farmed from the skeletons near their hermit Merchant Shack in ala’s Plateau some have speculated that this could be a reference to to an Orlando as an Easter egg an Easter egg okay so if you know one thing about me you know that anything in the game is up for grabs to speculate about right I have heard it proposed a few times that this universe is tied to Dark Souls and bloodborne in more ways than one I’m on the first Dark Souls right now and I’m still just learning the lore so all right hear me out Soul of Light claimed by Gwyn is the Lord of sunlight the item description for the crown of the Dark Sun States crown of the dark sun gwindel protector of the Forsaken city of an Orlando this crown of the Gods demands Faith immeasurable of its wearer but is imbued with the dark moon power that enhances all magic the image of the sun manifests gwindel and’s deep Adoration of the sun Kyle I can hear your keyboard just hold on and let me cook Gwyn had some kids right and the first one the mysterious one the one removed from history that yall puzzle over that kid according to the soul of the nameless King the nameless King was once the dragon slang God of War before he sacrificed everything to Ally himself with the ancient dragons ju can you just wait a second according to the Ring of the firstborn Lord Gwynn’s firstborn who inherited the sunlight once wore this ancient ring boost the strength of Miracles Lord Gwynn’s firstborn was a God of War but his foolishness led to the loss of the animals and resending of his defin status today even his name is not known the firstborn kid of Gwyn the unnamed one inherited the sunlight and allied with the ancient dragons that is so funny and quirky there’s this guy named Godwin that just so happened to also fight and then an ally with the dragons shut up and a lady is depicted standing next to a tall guy and a crown in Fair moua which like also look in the middle of this Crown look what is that that kind of looks like the eye of the fire giant right and the symbol that we have seen repeated over and over and over again eight circles around what looks like a star all right I get all right all right all right I get it all right I get it dark souls and Elder ring don’t connect all right no fun allowed I got it fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine all right then I got an in Universe explanation since you can’t handle a crackpot Theory it could also be this place here in this shot of this land maybe America head the seat of the sun here in the land of Shadow that’s boring let’s go a little more speculative this place definitely fits the description of the seat of the sun I really love the way that this redditor put it you/ the blood makes this human posted 2 years ago my speculation is that the seed of the sun may actually be foua it is dropped by skeleton Warriors in the crumbling City in the sky and skeletons located next to ruins of foua found across the land and those who live in death and the corruption of destined death is also present there too furthermore foua literally floats in the sky closest to the Sun and is perpetually in daylight even if it is nighttime mechanically speaking it is also an ancient civilization and city that has long faded away slowly crumbling since time and Memorial I think it fits surprisingly well as the sun realm of antiquity though obviously Castle soul and its prior Kingdom may have an in world connection to the shield too I don’t think this redditor is too far off base either cuz like if we assume that this is the seat of the sun then maybe it got disconnected from Land of Shadow everyone’s always assumed that’s either come from kalid around the beastial satum or the capital including myself however my best friend and homie bonon who uh recently became Elden Lord notice that this part of the building looks almost exactly the same as Fula it’s always in sunlight after all there’s a bridge to nowhere it’s blackened and broken off cast Into Darkness opposite of what Fair Missoula is death rout also seems to be present at this structure which is also crumbling it also has similar towers and architecture down to these pillars on the bottom matching up to the pillars on the top in the shot and the trailer the overall structure in the shape match it would make more sense that Fula being from the land of Shadow somehow puts it in a Perpetual storm Beyond Time like some kind of Rift in the SpaceTime Continuum I speculate that the Elden ring and malus boss chamber was once combined with the the Elden ring that was inside America she shattered the Elden ring which shattered these two worlds phula was never meant to be part of this world when lands between were physically separated foua was split from this place right here America was probably the one to physically separate these lands but then the question becomes why would she do this was it for survival of her race was it for a vicious form of tyrannical power or was she hiding this land from something [Music] else okay so let’s take a moment to focus on the overall structure of this world since the launch of the trailer I’ve done a ton of mockups of how this world is structured first things first the Landa Shadow is likely in the space between all the Divine Towers right where that mysterious little cloud is as many of you know Divine Towers make a hexagon so it is speculated by many that this is more than likely where that huge hun land a little bit bigger than limb grave would be located there’s this one which is an interesting way of visualizing the world and this is how I thought of the land of Shadow initially until I saw a map reconstruction there is user Zod who constructed a diagram by carefully analyzing the structures and land masses in the background I find this to be incredibly accurate and helpful for establishing our bearings as you can see by this little bump in the land the Lander Shadow is most likely not mirrored then while Gathering footage I noticed the beams coming from the earth Tree in a different light I think these beams are part of the veil concealing the land of Shadow imagine the ls between stacked directly on top of the land of shadow this seems to be accurate and it would line up with my speculation about verula and I think the veil is what would have SED faula from this structure tgtw and I were having a private discussion in Discord when the trailer came out and she mentioned a thought about the lands between being memories for the her tree which has lived in my head rentree since she suggested it what happened going back and forth over and over is that o in the title if the shadow tree is truly stacked on top of their tree then how would it connect it could be faula but it just doesn’t seem to fit with geography then it dawned on me while looking at this post by zorm about the round table hold it clicked if you look at the icon for the sight of Grace at the round table it’s so obvious the round table hold could be the top of the veil connecting the two worlds this seems to fit way too perfectly so I began researching and found a post by nameless singer on redddit about igil which is the official name of the world tree in Norse mythology shout out to ratat Tasker in the igil podcast Smo and ratat Tasker talk about some really interesting stuff in the most recent one back to igil it’s seriously incredible how nameless singer pinpointed this concept and what it could mean for The Story 2 years ago I’ll give you their tldr both the Norse world tree and the ER tree are trees of memory into which the lives Fates and remembrances of the individuals are hee our dropped runes look like tiny her tree sprouts because they are made of the same substance this Golden Light there are a set of Concepts that are roughly equivalent Souls equal runes equal remembrances equal memories equal gold equal Grace equal life equal substance the UR Trey is made of we encounter two versions of the Round Table hold the one in Lindell is the present day version the one melan takes us to is a memory of the past I highly recommend reading their whole post because there’s a whole lot of interesting crackpot details I left out and there’s one thing I know in my time of learning zeld Delora as well a Kami in human form cannot contain a massive amount of Supernatural power so perhaps it was never America in control Elden Stars it is said that long ago the greater will sent a golden star bearing a beast into the lands between which would later become the Elden ring the Elden Beast became the Elden ring only imperian are able to house the Elden ring as its vessel now consider this if a tarnish chooses one of The Mending endings the choice of how the tarnish men’s the Rune is reflected by the her tree so the Elden Beast is the Elden ring and I think that the Elden ring is also the her tree there is likely connection between the bell of calling and the shadow World Bell of calling a bell capable of summoning various Spirits from Ashen remains and this is exactly what the Elden Beast is able to do this goes a step further remember how Miyazaki mentioned that there was a secret in the title if you merely look at the full figure of the Elden Beast it is almost instantly apparent how how much of a striking resemblance it has to both the her tree and the shadow tree one side of the Elden Beast is shrouded in darkness while the tail looks like a miniature of the her tree what if the her tree and the shadow tree are two parts of the same hole that hole is the Elden Beast the sun has not been swallowed notice how there’s a gash across the midsection of the Elden Beast the curse mark the curse mark Godwin and Ronnie share was a hint his injury likely came from the Rune of death being stolen from the Elden ring I think that the Rune of death is a curse mark for the Elden beast and I think The Mending Rune tells a miniature story of the Elden BEAST’s full story this could mean that the shadow tree is a reflection of the earth tree bearing the curse that gave the Elden beast power Amica would have never been in control once she became a vessel for the Elden ring queen Marica was driven to the brink ragon America’s soral solemn Duty weighs upon the one beholden not unlike the gnawing curse from which there is no Deliverance this becomes apparent when fighting the Elden Beast this thing flies up and casts a veil of light with a ring the same as America’s bed chamber the same as the mimic Veil the same as the land of Shadow meaning it could be the Elden Beast controlling America as a puppet the Elden Beast cast multiple rings that have similar veils are these meant to be other worlds the Land of Shadows where the upcoming DLC is set is not just a separate realm but a critical piece of the world’s history and the cycle of the Ury and the eldering the speculation around the flame of Ruin America’s manipulation of the shadows and the significance of the eclipse in micha’s Ambitions all Point toward a complex interplay between the Divine and the natural and the cosmic forces at work in the games Universe in conclusion the idea that the land of Shadow might house the flame of Ruin thereby playing a pivotal role in both past calamities and potential restoration or further destruction of the earth tree as a layer of depth and history to the lands between as we look forward to exploring the Land of Shadows in the DLC let us Ponder the complexities of this world that Miyazaki and his team have created where every shadow hides a story and every light casts a shadow quote this golden order is something that the Elden ring may have once represented but not directly it’s more about how you apply those rules and how you enforce them on the physical world and what effects they have on it so it’s more the influence of these demigods that existed a long time before and how they applied these concepts of order and discipline that’s what’s being represented by the Elden ring and these overlapping intersecting rings RS hitaka mizaki so it’s more about how the demigods applied order and discipline since obviously the base game is more focused on order than naturally perhaps the DLC will be focused around the theme of discipline I don’t know about you but discipline seems to fit the vibe of Mesmer first off Mesmer addresses Amica as if she’s physically present in the space mother what thou truly lordship s in one so B of light this gives off the feeling that Mesmer feels a little betrayed right if we apply the notion of discipline to the sentiment then perhaps it’s mesmer’s job to discipline and to punish to punish [Music] us now tarnish archaeologists first pointed out the Stark similarity between the eternal cities and the real world Eternal cities of Rome Rome had three major cities Alexandria Rome and Athens the Romans favored the most brutal of punishments often they had Enslaved the people to build structures to the Romans sacrifice was necessary to appease the gods if you were a deor or a thief and could hold a weapon then you could be sent to the Coliseum to serve your sentence one of the first things done when indoctrinated into gladiatorial combat is a a ripe Whi whip a leather whip not originally used for combat but as an instrument of pain every surface of a grand entrance in Roman architecture has something carved into it rollers stories folklore laws regulations were all carved so it’s no surprise to see whipping depicted in a relief in the grand entrance of the Coliseum there’s a relief of a lion on the floor which matches very closely with the design on the ceiling in Florence cathedral which I’ll come back around to the dualist helm bronze Helm decorated with innumerable snakes worn by Gladiators who were driven from the Coliseum the wear it becomes slightly easier to Target for foes the snake is viewed as a traitor to the UR tree and the audience delighted in seeing these bronze Effigies beaten and battered according to the collector thres and thian gladiatorial helmets derived from earlier enemies of the Roman Empire who continued to appear after the Emperor Augustus and I think it’s easy to see that these are the spiration it goes deeper though there’s this whole ancient religion around snakes serpent God’s curved sword curved sword fashioned in the image of an ancient serpent deity and Tool of a forgotten religion practiced on Mount gmir forly used to offer up sacrifices in marica’s own words hear me demigods my children beloved make of thyselves that which he desire be it a lord be it a God but should he fail to become art at all you will be forsaken amounting only to sacrifices so we have a few themes going on here pain punishment and sacrifice maybe a little bit of humiliation for fun the beaten and the punished were snakes so I wonder what that says about mesmer’s character if we lean a little deeper into the idea of snakes and deities both Greece and Rome have their own Gods that use snakes as a symbol for different themes we’ve all seen the medical symbol before right that symbol comes from the staff of escalus which is held by the great God of healing and medicine esus this often gets confused with the VVS this guy was one of the first Roman gods to be born wielding either arrows lightning bolts or a pilum which is like a spear it is speculated that the vies may have been an ill omened counterpart of Jupiter the great god of the sky and thunder I mentioned igdrasil in the last episode and something I learned from this channel called Norse magic and beliefs is that the fates of men are Hune into the wood of the tree also there’s a snake that nods at the roots in the underworld called nidhog schneir Odin’s horse is a slippery little horse guy in Norse mythology which couldn’t help but remind me of another slippery little guy given that Mesmer is one of the demigods with a lot of snake symbology I wonder if he is in some way deriving power from the death rout here if this is indeed death rot that is there’s another influential snake statue called the Lacon group made between 40 to 20 BC according to the digital sculpture project the statue depicts a Trojan in struggle with two serpents as a priest of a doomed City this guy right here was supposed to be guarding the gate the serpents were said to be sent by the gods so as to not reveal what the Trojan Horse is hiding so God sent the snakes to kill this [Music] guy the coliseums of ancient Rome held gladiatorial combat for entertainment Gladiators were typically debtors slaves and traitors Gladiators were basically the hottest celebrities if you were good at it it’s easy to see the likeness that the coliseums and Lindell share with the largest ones built in Rome’s Capital now looking at the brick on the coliseums the brick is not aligned in fact it looks rebuilt from some other structure so I began looking for historical influences in actual coliseums but with no luck but then look kid I found it I found the portra in Trier Germany the port Negra meaning black gate or black door was was built out of gray sandstone in 170 ad previously known as the Mars gate and never had construction completed some of the stones from this gate were taken in use for other buildings after they were no longer used as Gates that is iron and Lead were used as mortar and some of it was even broken out of the walls for reuse which can be seen by the left side of the gate another part that matches the coliseums is the upper part of the Divine Bridges pillar design Stone type and proportions are consistent with these structures what’s more is that the reliefs of what tarnish archaeologist speculates to be the great tree are also on the Divine Bridges there is an addition of the sainted statues these statues are found beneath Stormville and in the catacombs all throughout the lands between the main connection is the prominent display of the quattra foil on the reliefs this Quadra foil design is also stamped on the highways connecting the Eternal cities [Music] the Florence cathedral is definitely an inspiration around the designs in both the Eternal cities and this building in the DLC they have these windows that are not decorated and they appear to be black from the outside much like the ones in the Eternal cities which also seems to have coliseums built within these corresponding regions and the string courses of the Florence cathedral are reminiscent of the building in the DLC along with the color and the shapes of the roofs axe Talisman The Lord who led the Long March bore an Axe and his loyal Warriors honored him by wielding axes of their own making them very effective at dealing decisive blows dualist great ax great ax designed for gladiatorial combat used by duelas who were exiled from the Coliseum the Romans were surrounded by enemies both to the north and to the South to the north were the Gaelic the Germanic and the bronic tribes these tribes collectively made up the peoples of Gul to the South were the Punic peoples also known as as carthaginians and sometimes called the Western Phoenicians what is recorded about these peoples was written by the Romans and the Romans were not fond of the people from Gaul or the carthaginians many others have pointed out the nautical Celtic inspiration such as smot toown quag and tarish archaeologist however I personally found a lot of influence with understanding the clan of hu and the story surrounding it the Celtics came in wrecked Rome and offered to leave for a large amount of silver they lived to the north of Rome and readily abused their neighbors and it was not a good time the peoples of Gaul were mostly depicted as Barbarians in what little is written by the Romans the Romans saw themselves as morally superior to the people of Gaul the peoples of Gul were taller and a lot stronger than the Romans like imagine a giant bronny guy like godre coming down and slaughtering an entire Village then demanding that you pay him and due to subdivisions in the gelic tribes it made a lot easier for Caesar to steamroll them Caesar killed and enslaved a third of the population of Gaul Phoenician equals Punic equals treacherous now if I say Punic you say treacherous Punic treacherous Punic treacherous very good because we’re all definitely pro- Roman here right the Romans would raise Legions to fight Punic you didn’t say it that time these wars where the Romans would almost instantly die to Hannibal who was Party Rocking Around Italy skipio the older a Roman defeated Hannibal a carthaginian and the Second Punic treacherous good job war and took part of the Phoenician Empire which is modern day Spain skipio Jr took Carthage by force Burning It To The Ground H seems familiar set Ablaze By mesmer’s Flame ah yes maybe that’s why this made Carthage a shadow and the people could not wage war without Roman consent does this seem familiar in marus own words my Lord and thy Warriors I divest each of thee of thy Grace With Thine Eyes dimmed ye will be driven from the lands between ye will wage war in a land afar where ye will live and die in Spain but the is silent is a tower called the leaning tower of zeroa also known as Tori noeva new Tower this Tower was built in 1504 during the reign of the Catholic monarchs and was a symbol for the city this Tower inspired the goat Santa Maria la which is also located in Spain both of these towers are affiliated with the Roman Catholic church and both seem to have inspired the design of the Divine Towers here’s another thing about the Romans according to the Encyclopedia of britanica they believe that the wind’s Direction could foretell the future which is interesting with how the wind blows in a lot of the cut scenes of the demigod children from the time of the trailer I kept wondering why these pillars twist like that in the background I thought what an odd design Choice it seemed to be specifically referencing something so went on Pinterest typed in spiral pillar and scrolled till I found this the arch Basilica of St John ladin founded in 324 ad the arch dices serves as seat of the pope of Rome now I know what you’re thinking MOX this doesn’t look like this place in the trailer you’re right but the cloy attached to the monastery does these spiral pillars fit nicely as an inspiration the designs on the pillars are done with a cosmatesque which means highly decorated inlaid mosaic tile the spiral pattern may also be the St Peter’s Baldin which looks like the Baldin blessing and the spiral pillars in the main field of the land of shadow the Greeks laid around a lot did math poetry art talked a lot about their thoughts about thoughts the MN Palace can be likened to the Parthenon which is a temple in the Athenian Acropolis Greece this Temple was dedicated in the 5ifth century BC to the goddess Athena once again this was first spotted by tarnish archaeologist and I can’t recommend their stuff enough because I wouldn’t have even glanced at the subject if it wasn’t for them the paron was a treasury for the athan’s Empire the temple honored the goddess of wisdom and War Athena represented by this Monumental statue within the Acropolis there is a snake on the inside of the shield and it was actually pretty difficult to track down the origins of the snake but I found it the snake is said to represent Aros and the story behind this is very interesting the Smith God tried to raise Athena and in his failed attempt the seen that fell to the Earth became the snake Athena wanted to raise the snake in secret so she put it in a box and gave it to three daughters this is why the snake is hidden behind the shield tempted by curiosity the sisters either saw a half-human serpent or a serpent coiled around an infant either way they went insane and threw themselves from the Acropolis mother would thou truly lordship sanction in one so B of light this snake arthus later became became the king of Athens it’s interesting to note that the ancestral Spirits are also inside of various temples in the region when we interact with these Spirits we are taken somewhere else perhaps maybe a dream Regal ancestral Spirits ancestral Spirits exist as a phenomenon beyond the purview of the archery life Sprouts from Death as it does from birth such is the way of the living [Music] mikola is here in one of these temples beyond the influence of the UR tree this somewhat implies michas need to be here in this specific Temple I suppose now would be the best time to bring up the structure that looks similar to the Parthenon in the shadow of the earth tree this one’s the top of what looks like a Divine Tower connected by what looks like more the Giants pillars but here is just so off-putting like yes kind of looks like the paron but you see the rounded archways between the pillars that’s an arcade it’s a Roman thing kind of weird right it also looks like it has an area for a facade which is emphasized in Roman architecture I think that this would be considered like an acropolis according to metaton putting a temple top of pillar is a very Roman thing to do both temples of Hera the Basilica and the Temple of Neptune vibe from this mysterious little Acropolis as well this looks incredibly Byzantine also known as the Eastern Roman Empire it appears to be built in the ionic Style with similarities to the monasteries of Daphne and Greece the Tower of winds and Athens is the oldest octagonal Tower which is still standing today this very well could be the inspiration for the Divine Towers which to me just doesn’t fit aesthetically it’s easy to see the likeness that the carens would have to the Greeks stargazers who share knowledge and were a star worshipping Empire sounds like the astronomers to me then it is no surprise to see the proximity between old and the caran academy helenistic culture took over Rome they admired their sculpture and aesthetic style and it has slowly been adopted into the Roman Empire its influence even later permeated leadership which definitely reminds me of the marriage between renal and ragon Charlamagne founded the Great kinian Empire also one of his portrait Bears a striking resemblance to rikard look he’s got the drip right there this guy owned elephants and expanded his Empire for some # sick trade roots and on a side note Napoleon’s Conquest Daddy was charag the Charlamagne Tower really could represent the Divine Towers I mean look at these windows the towers are both octogonal in shape and clearly they got similar Vibes man and this guy Charlamagne lived in [Music] aen aen was the third largest place of pilgrimage in Europe and a religious Center for worship raria was almost clearly inspired by the aen cathedral built around 796 ad 32 pillars were brought from Rome and the slabs of marble from Jerusalem to the aen cathedral in aen Germany the the cathedral was built on the remains of the Roman thermal complex and on the site of the marenian chapel the marenian was a rolling family first being mentioned when fighting with the Romans in Gaul this thermal complex clearly mirrors the lake of rock containing the archaic helenistic Roman inspired rooms beneath the aen cathedral was based on the Basilica of San vital in Rena Italy and has the same color palette and was decorated with gold similar to phula one of the myths surrounding the church is the legend of the devil and the Wolf it is said that the devil lost his thumb upon slamming the door shut and is still within one of these Lin heads on the door it’s only fitting then that Vari takes our finger from nearby R lucaria especially given that Vari leads the tarnish to mwin Dynasty inspired by the Temple of Solomon the Aken Cathedral is meant to represent the creation and the Perfection of a divine order Charlemagne contracted skilled workers to preserve the Roman ruins underneath built on top a church that was both Baroque and Gothic the Imperial Palace is connected with the church and it was seen as two sides of the same coin that is a chamber for those ruling Earthly Affairs and a chamber for the Divine [Music] ruler the aen cathedral holds masterpieces of odwin Art The Shrine of the Virgin Mary was completed in 1238 the four Great relics of aen are kept within the shrine one the dress Mary gave birth to the Second Son of God two the swaddling clothes of baby Jesus three the loin cloth that Christ wore on the cross and four the cloth on which St John the Baptist’s head was placed there are countless other Treasures though the cross of ler is a jeweled cross a Crux Gada dating back to 1,000 ad gold rock crystals gem enamel is considered to be quote an important Monument of Imperial ideology and was made in a transition period between the otwin and the Romanesque art periods this reminds me of the earth tree seal but more so of the golden order seal item description a formless sacred seal depicting a ceremonial observation of order enhances golden order fundamentalist incantations fundamentalism is scholarship in all but name and a funny little thing about the center of this cross it kind of looks like the ragon icon which just so happens to also be found within Ray lucaria a legendary Talisman depicting the Elden Lord ragon as the husband of rala of Kia the red-haired rigan studied sorcery and as the husband of Queen America he studied incantations thus did the hero aspire to be complete reliquary of the arm of blessed Charlemagne and it is said that Charlemagne’s bones are contained within it and the valkyrie prosthesis seems to be inspired by this treasure golden prse is once used by the one armed Valkyrie a Masterwork of craftsmanship with practice and skill it can be used as proficiently as a real arm when Malay maray lord of the Shaded Castle embraced this prois he claimed to feel the presence of his personal goddess fucking weirdo one can’t help but draw comparisons between America and Julius Caesar years of military conquest and triumphs made America the one in charge it’s not exactly the same story but the major beats still linger protection of the her Trey in the beginning everything was in opposition to the UR Tre but through countless victories and War it became the embodiment of order taking out Pompei the great gave Caesar power just as taking out the Giants gave America her power Julius Caesar became a dictator for an unlimited amount of time the same as America became Queen America the Eternal in America’s own words the Earth tree governs all the choice is thine become one with the order or divest thyself of it to wallow at the fringes a powerless upstart and obviously the conspiracy against Julius Caesar resembles the Knight of the black knives Godwin’s friendship with fortox is what gave rise to the Ancient Dragon Cult it’s got to make you wonder what is the conspiracy that the Knox committed the Finger Slayer Blade the hidden treasure of the Eternal City of noon a blade said to have been born of a corpse this Blood dren fetish is proof of high treason committed by the Eternal City and symbolizes its downfall cannot be wielded by those without a fate but it is said to be able to harm the greater will and its vassals which like straight up that looks like the sacred Relic sword right like everybody’s NOS this right sword rought from the remains of a God who should have lived a life eternal thoughts on what it pretends are many and varied some think it the mark of a great sin or the sign of great Devastation some think of it as the end of an age while others think of it as the [Music] beginning could have been part of America’s corpse or perhaps even part of Godwin’s corpse maybe it was born from the Twin bird regardless what was he used for what is it supposed to mean one of qu’s videos she mentioned that this could have been used to kill all the fingers to top the Divine Towers now as many of you have noted Mesmer the Impaler could have been the one to impale Mar America this is almost a secondary beat as it was speculated that Brutus who participated in the conspiracy was an illegitimate child of Julius Caesar If This Were a similar story beat this would imply that Mesmer was convinced to impale America by someone could it have been the greater will ordering Godwin to die against what America wanted or did Ragan fed up with America’s bullshit convince Mesmer to impale America these scenarios are of course only relying on the similarities and story beats to Julius Caesar the assassination of julus Caesar broke Rome apart into a series of Civil Wars this calls to mind how the shattering created a power struggle for the demigod [Music] [Music] children I’m a classically trained artist subtle flex and I couldn’t help but Ponder this pose that Mesmer strikes posing an art is very important for conveying this stature of a subject mesmer’s power POS is just so dang curious see the classical Greeks typically stand with their weight shifted on one leg or the other lots of Instagram models and beige moms do it to look thin and cute this pose is known as contraposto this was later adopted by the Romans as seen in depictions of Julius Caesar okay see how all of his weight is stacked on top of one leg this is why mesmer’s pose is just so off-putting to me so I thought a little hard and I dug a little more and I remembered oh yeah almost every depiction of great Egyptian deities have specifically this pose left leg forward and right leg behind but the weight is equally distributed between both legs Baroque architecture and art was a response to the Protestant Reformation from the Catholic church and boy did it clap see it helps when people can see what they’re worshiping they like pictures and colors the primary colors adorned everything much of the architecture depicted religious figures Baro domes were uniquely painted to be seen from the correct perspective from the ground movement emotion historical depictions drama and extreme realism were vigorously applied to nearly every possible surface especially to the altars the prologue is told through paintings which are similar to the historical paintings that emerged in early realistic art depictions many of the paintings in the game both collected and found naturally in the environment and Elden ring are reminiscent of this extremely real realistic art style this is where some of the greatest painters of History emerged verir ruin kajio Karachi pusen gesi Vasquez and my personal favorite artist of all time rembrand which sidebar Charlie and I had a few hours leaving the Netherlands and we didn’t know what to do so we had a choice a museum or a palace I chose a museum we ended up in the house of rembrand I I forgot that he was from the Netherlands and seeing those paintings of close was Unreal the contrast between light and dark most of the light would only illuminate one part of the subject and these paintings of this period flexed extreme realism instability was conveyed through a symmetry stories could be deduced in each painting through the symbols used by the artist and the allegorical characters depicted and this had a strong influence on Italian architecture which obviously Rome is a huge influence in Elden ring [Music] thanks to commentary Douglas Ferrera I began searching for ancient lighthouses the Empire on which the Sun never sets is a particular term for territories that were so gosh Dar huge that one part of the territory was always in sunlight the Alexandria depicted in Antiquity is the inspiration behind Fair Missoula in Antiquity this major port in Alexandria was a strategically chosen Island it was both accessible by water and difficult to breach I feel like I’ve heard someone else mention this in a video and I haven’t been able to find it so if I’m retreading old territory that’s why this city in Alexandria is surrounded by walls the longest ramp parts in the western world that had to be able to resist impact from being impaled the city could choose to be open or closed a highway cuts the city in two on either side of the island is the Gate of the Moon and that of the Sun in one of the temples within Alexandria is a statue of carapus allegedly carapus was invented as new God that United Greeks and Egyptians by combining Osiris Egyptian god of death and Hades great god of the underworld this new God promises rebirth after death Alexandria was the center of Mediterranean trade and Melting Pot of the Known World Trade was naturally a part of the port which made the people there rich in more ways than one trade was their true religion imagine this great walled archaic City on the ocean and it’s constantly battered by shipwrecks the whole dang Shore is just pieces of ships so tmy made a plan the island of pharoh was chosen for a lighthouse they had to build a highway on a sandbar over the water the road was built on the axis of the world and in Norse mythology the axis Mundy manifests a tree as a path to ascend or descend into other Realms Tommy wanted a symbol for power of the dynasty over nature The Towering Lighthouse was made from Whit stone that hardens on contact with water using metal for Mortar day and night there was a fire constantly being burned in a huge Fraser the lighthouse was a fire tower lit for 17 centuries until an earthquake collapsed it if this is truly the inspiration behind foua it would align nicely with prior speculations made by tarnish archaeologist about kalid somewhat representing Alexandria that is if Fula was connected to the beastial sanctum I’ve gone back and forth about this place so many times after the lighthouse collapsed into the water with assuredly no return a new lith house was constructed on top of the land it once stood on if this was truly fair moua then it would indeed make sense that a whole new Temple would be constructed on top of this land then the map the monkey K reconstructed is very convincing as well so I just like need answers the little figures depicted in Fula is another point of contention for me while doing all this research on ancient Roman stuff I came across this medieval Alabaster version and child which was likely made around around 1350 ad in the Midlands of Britain this was given to the British museum in 2017 the pose of the figures is an excellent match the Virgin is missing the bouquet and the hand is more covered by her robe but nearly everything else is identical it’s actually a pretty cheeky way of hiding who this might be depicting the most notable thing to me is the depiction on the chest of the Virgin it looks a lot like the sword of the glow my queen and a part of the Elden ring and malakis bosan so with the evidence available I think it would be safe to assume that this woman holding a child could be the Glide Queen Melina is the kindling and Mesmer is the flame hopping back over to Norse mythology vener is a creature with a brother yand vener spent much of his time among the gods you need to leave what if I don’t want to fenri got real mad and plotted to remove the gods from existence only to get decked himself according to the Encyclopedia of branica on F quote he was gagged with his sword and destined to lie bound to a rock until the Ragnarok doomsday when he would break his bonds and fall upon the gods according to one version of The Myth thenen reer will devour the Sun and and in the Ragnarok he will fight against the chief god Odin and swallow him the guy who killed Fen reer survived for some reason when I think of the demigod children being tied to a rock I think of Mesmer being trapped in this land of Shadow waiting the flame of Ruin was sealed right there’s the sigil on the back of the collector’s edition I’ve been just staring at it is this meant to be the seal on the flame of Ruin okay so here’s the thing there’s this fire on one side and the circle on the other the circle is the exact shape that’s on the table in the round table hold this side could represent the lands between on the other side is the fire this is mesmer’s flame meaning he possesses it this half could represent the land of Shadow as a whole down the middle is a staff with something twirled around it and I think that this is meant to represent the veil between the worlds this entire sigil is held together by a circle I have a video about Melina being a God imperian child of America and there’s this one detail that I did not mention because I did not notice it until very late into the editing process she wears a pendant that kind of looks like one of the great runes and if you were to kind of push the pendant together then it would look like the ring around the sigil some of the assets were further data Mind by Securo duie and everyone should take a minute and subscribe to their Channel because they are doing amazing work for the community they dug up some of the acid names from melan which were translated by aano the translations are very curious quote encounter with my daughter Amica the flame of amica’s cloak daughter America appears this almost certainly confirms that Melina would be the child America but encounter is America encountering Melina is Melina actually America can Amica embody Melina sometimes just like how Sheri does maybe America needed the tarnish to die so that they would lose their memories to death everyone around the block has speculated about Mesmer being the third child born in The Brood with melenia and Mika but I don’t think so I think that Mesmer and Melina are twins I think that both of them were meant to hold the seal in the flame of Ruin perhaps the only person who could truly be kindled is Melina because there’s always been something really mysterious about the scene the bond between Melina and Mesmer would allow us to burn the her tree and brandish to the Elden ring Melina is the kindling and Mesmer is the flame two birds with one [Music] stone if the Republic represented the Knox perhaps they plotted the assassination of the gline queen and the twinbird in one Fell Swoop according to SM Town’s favorite lore item the aloric blood clot the thick coagulated blood of the Albin orics Albin orics are the life forms made by human hands thus many believe them to live imp pure lives Untouched by the Earth tre’s Grace according to Ted in medieval times Alchemists tried to transform lead into gold hypothetically gold can be made though it’s incredibly expensive Ive and costly to reproduce and would take about a bazillion years to make like a gram in a particle accelerator The Knocks were trying to make a God and this is confirmed by the mimic teers mimic teers are the result of an attempt by the Eternal City to forge a lord in the real world gold is extraterrestrial it forms in a supernova and according to Ted Ed it’s the remnants of the Supernova that showered Earth in Gold Elden Stars it is said the long go the greater will sent a golden star bearing a beast into lands between which would later become the Elden ring in amica’s own words hark brave warriors hark my Lord Godfrey we commend your Deeds guidance hath delivered ye through each ordeal to the place ye stand put the Giants to the sword and confine the flame at top the mount let a new epoch begin an Epoch glistening with life brandish the Elden ring for the age of the ER tree from the Encyclopedia of Britannica the Imperial Epoch the final forms of Roman paganism after the prolonged horrors of Civil War had ended 30 BCE the Victorious Octavian the adoptive son of the dictator Caesar and founder of the Imperial regime or principate decided correctly that the ancient religion was far from dead and that the restoration of all its forms would respond to a strong popular instinctive belief that the disasters of the past Generations had been due to the neglect of religious duties this aligns nicely with Shinto culture as well which requires a shrin maiden to venerate certain Kami at temples typically Kami of physical phenomena like Thunder Wind Fire and so forth must be a teased by the people or they do bad things like floods severe storms and earthquakes going back to the Encyclopedia of branica Octavian himself took the name Augustus a term indicating a claim to reverence this did not make him a God in his lifetime but combined with the insertion of his Newman I guess we turn shouldn’t be too surprised Newman is defined as Divinity divine presence or Divine will and his genius originally the procreative power that enables a family to be carried on into certain Cults it prepared the way for his prous deification just as Caesar had been deified before him both were deified by the states because they seem to have given Rome gifts worthy of a God I speculate that the NOS were the ones who summon down the Elden Beast for its gold to make an eternal God to create America I don’t think that America wanted follow the plan the noox laid out which Echoes really nicely with what happened to a republic kind of it backfired on them so I’ve been going back and forth for a while about the themes of death the respawn mechanic and the world of Shadow the Sea of fog Primal current also has a strong influence with the ocean ocean stuff sea stuff something the ancient Celtics who traveled the Seas believed in was the veil between the physical and spiritual World during samine which is around Halloween the veil is at its thinnest starts with the belief in the other world and the veil being thin between this world and the other the veil is more of a concept than a thing it’s metaphor the festival to start the year the first fire was lit at claa all fires had to be extinguished in Halloween because fire could attract evil spirits so The Druids here had to settle the spirits and carry out the ceremony that made all well for the coming year and when they had completed they lit a fire to symble that all was when after thinking about the round table hold since the last video I believe that the veil originates from the round table hold Charlie Bon and I just can’t get over the fact that the grace at the table looks like a person like that’s just like a little coffin or something perhaps the veil just like the mimic Veil comes from the top of amica’s head and nobody ever talks about this that there’s more runes at the Lost table of Grace than the whole Elden ring has [Music] gold meant the presence of God on Earth I mean it literally comes from space right I needed to know more about this Veil there isn’t a ton of information on early Norse mythology but then bonon dug up this article the origin of the veil Between Worlds by Matt Ain quote the idea of the veil refers to the veil of nature personified as the goddess traditionally the goddess was referred to as Isis Artemis Diana of Ephesus or Athena the idea seems to originate from the classical GRE Roman authors Plutarch and procus the concept was that the goddess fail was the natural world that we can see while the goddess unveiled was the pronatural world that was hidden from our perception the Mysteries however it was the name of the Goddess the same world just separated by a veil of Illusion this idea continued to gain popularity from the 17th to the 19th century when the idea of unveiling this figure inspired the occult knowledge I don’t know about you but this vessel don’t look super Lively to me if you haven’t noticed America’s not home like at all not to mention literal darkness and the Elder ring itself kind of puppet the body so maybe America is the one in the round table holding the veil eternally suspended in a memory in other words the veil comes from America and perhaps it’s even our job to unveil [Music] her in conclusion our Deep dive into the parallels between Elden ring and ancient Rome alongside myths and architecture reveals a profound impact historical elements have on shaping the game’s world and narratives the themes of order discipline and moral complexities faced by the characters Echo the struggles and stories of our own world’s past as we’ve explored the connections between the lands between and the ancient civilizations of Rome Greece and Alexandria it’s clear that Elden ring is more than just a game it’s a canvas where history and mythology Blends seamlessly with fantasy this journey through Elden Rings Echoes of the past not only enriches our gameplay experience but invites us to ponder the lessons of history and the universal challenges of power identity and Destiny whether through the Grandeur of its architecture or the depths of its lore Elder ring invites us to explore a world where every detail has a story rooted in the very fabric of human [Music] history thank you to my channel members if you’d like to support the channel then you can do so by becoming a channel member or becoming a patron on patreon and thank you so much for watching I’ll see you in the next one [Music] [Music]