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Also idk if someone already mentioned this but I would like to point out that there is a ghost infront of the church of pilgrimage that mentions something about an 'unwanted child"
Pure and radiant… he wields love to shrive clean the hearts of men
Messmer is obviously inspired by Zahhak Serpent King from Persian mythology
Amazing as always!
Merika will be a boss fight..I hope
Bro this just way nerf with new update 😂 😅 secretly makes it to where you have to go to dlc be strong enough to beat main game boss now capitalism everyone buys both double win our runes claimed 🤡 and radagon just waiting to beat ur ass after the game dones too
They just want to bring us pain that will last
Or hear me out comey azure still beams everything since its long to do 😂
It is possible Radagon isn't Messmers father
19:50
Dog, there's no way you just mention that in passing when you've never covered that in other videos or provided evidence. There's no way YOU think that marika "disguised" herself. That's the simplest way you can possibly interpret "Marika is Radagon". That's so dissapointing man. You make high quality videos but thats an absolutely terrible interpretation with tons of evidence to the contrary. Marika literally speaks to Radagon!!! What do you mean "disguise"? She isn't talking to her own disguise.
I'm all for different interpretations, but when you are a huge bastion of what the lore is as a creator, you cannot have interpretations that insanely unsupported.
I think the drapes look like Ranni's robe
Marika wasn't with Godfrey forever. Who's to say Radagon and Marika were a thing before they met? I think messmer is marikas first child from eons ago that she has "forsaken". She is known for doing that to her most loyal.
I want to inhale your essence
I kinda have my own theory that stems from the Butterfly theory. So, the 3 butterflies represent the e Demigods, Miquella, Melania and Messmer.
But, for some reason, Messmer doesn't ever show up in the base game. He could have ties to the Impaler's Catacombs in the Weeping Peninsula, but that still doesn't explain why he was completely absent. But I think it's a lot simpler to explain than people seem to realise:
Miquella and Melania aren't twins. They're triplets, their third brother being Messmer.
And it would explain a lot about Messmer. He talks fondly of Marika, yet his whole aesthetic goes against everything the Golden Order stands for. 3 of anything is considered a bad omen in the tenants of the Golden Order, thanks to the Three Fingers, so Radagon disowning a child of triplets makes perfect sense. But, that begs the question of why Messmer? Which is something that I also think is pretty simple to determine. Miyazaki has already said that Messmer is on par, in his strength, as the other Demigods. But he never said he was on par with the Empereans, those we know to be Miquella, Melania and Ranni. So Messmer would've been cast aside simply for being the weakest of the triplets. That's not to say he's weak, just that he's weaker than the Empereans, like all the other Demigods are.
And that's what I think's going on with Messmer.
38:15 my husband and I were also wondering if the woman in the painting is possibly pregnant, since she's holding her hand over her belly?
What if the shadow tree was the original erdtree maybe that's why Marika left there to make a erdtree in lands between and Messmer destroyed everything in the land of shadow couldn't thrive so Marika banish all memory of the land of shadow including her unknown son well my fellow tarnished stay 💪🛡⚔🏹🔫
I love that there's bedsheets hanging from the sky. It makes me think im in Miquella's little dream world. E: omg its a veil
Im so excited for this DLC. I find that fromsoft DLC are when the story and lore really click – Artorias of the Abyss, the crowns from DS2, the Hunter's Nightmare where all when the lore of a game really hit me. So excited for this
I have a very bad feeling about Miquella. I swear, manipulating everyone to love and die for you… scary.
Dang Vaati: those are some sexy, swoll arms. 😎❤️
All I think of when I watch the trailer is ,crucible,serpents,giant,dragons and demigod lore
I could also add to the butterfly theory that at the cliff of the chapel of anticipation at the beginning of the game, there are nascent butterflies. If they symbolize miquella, perhaps he was already guiding us then to meet torrent.
this is a bit of a crackpot theory but I reckon the theory about melina being the third sibling isn't wrong, just not the full picture. I reckon Messma and Melina are the same person. just different aspects, like Radagon/Marika and Miquella/St Trina. If they're an offspring of Marika/Radagon then this makes sense, considering themselves being two aspects of the same being, along with one of their offspring having this same thing already too. Both Messma and Melina have similar themes going on with fire, and we don't know the full picture with her and who she calls mother. We also don't fully know her motives yet as far as I'm aware, so it does seem to loosely work
Vati is the matpat of elden ring. Turns a 3 minute trailer into a 40 minute theory video
DAMMIT! I was so ready to be overpowered and ready to beat down this guy like the red headed step child he is, and now with the power scaling thing I am going into this as a Elden Bitch instead of an Elden Lord. frigginMiyazakialwaysthinkingaheadmumblegrumble
Light changes its path when travelling through water…..so the God rays from the erd tree will bend when travelling through water…..the shadow lands are the lands between the divine towers /appear underwater.