Lore of the Main Bosses in Elden Ring's DLC

Here is the lore of every main Bosses in Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree! Yay its finally here!

Thank you to all the reddit threads and YouTube videos that helped with research I apologize if I miss any credits, I'll try and link all of the ones that I used. Also thanks to Hell_Flame705 who helped a bunch with the research and writing.

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0:00 - Messmer the Impaler
1:57 - Divine Beast Dancing Lion
2:59 - Romina Saint of the Bud
3:46 - Rellana Twin Moon Knight
4:24 - Commander Gaius
5:10 - Putrescent Knight
5:47 - Metyr Mother of Fingers
7:21 - Bayle The Dread
8:18 - Scadutree Avatar
8:56 - Midra Lord of Frenzied Flame
10:24 - Radahn Consort of Miquella

[blackmist]

Just imagine how mad Radahn have to be, he resisted literally rotting from inside out just to not be slave to Miquella and then you kill him making him slave, then coming to litreally hell and just killing him again

[TheMineA]

Greater will really said fuck this shit I'm out. Then Metyr, Placidusax & Marika all went insane lmfao.

[MichaelTheRead]

Back in my day, the Lordvessel was a giant bowl, and we carried it ALL THE BLOODY WAY to firelink shrine! THE LONG WAY 'round! Things were different back then, I tell ya. Kids these days with their divine gates and their great runes...

[Emma_Banks]

Miquella being kinda evil and manipulative was pretty obvious especially with how everyone was gassing him up to be the “kindest” demigod.

[Persie]

Radhan:"Refuse.."🗿


Miquella:"Damn..We need a new plan.."

[unnoticed]

Boggart suggested the two fingers and the greater will were broken and he was absolutely right

[kuma]

Bruh we all are villains and victims in these games. Except maybe Boc

[Shadowdragon_TV]

Its crazy if you really think about it, the possibility that Marika was actually the hero. The two fingers practically formed their own Golden Order under the false pretense of it still following the Greater Will. What if Marika realized this and she revolted? She realized it was all a lie.

[alfalldoot]

If you think about it, Bayle started the entire game. If he hadn't fought Placidussax and grievously wounded him Placidussax and his God would probably still be in power and would easily be able to quell Marika's early armies.

[Cyynapse]

i like how marikas first selfcest baby came out as THAT and she was still like "yknow what let me try that again"

[thiagoguilhermedeoliveira]

I fail to feel any sympathy for the horn people in the shadow realm. The ones above are actually victims of Marika, but the ones in the shadow lands are monsters.

[Jm-kisu]

midra pulling that sword out of his head, with his neck extending is such a gruesome spectacle

[Michael-ibky]

was really expecting Godwyn to be brought back somehow, instead of Radhann. would have matched the whole "Eclipse" bit from the main game

[rannithewitch]

one more thing about gaius, he probably has a wife, after killing him, theres a house after the fog where there is a albinauric woman riding a wolf, that if you kill, she drops gaius leggings if i remember correctly

[ironiccaesar]

The fact that radahn saw Messmer and Gaius as elder Brothers and the Commander beign One of the eldest scholars of the alabaster lord, could change the order in which marikas children were born:
W/Godfrey: Godwyn, morgott, mohg
W/radagon: messmer, melina, malenia, miquella
W/rennala: radahn, ranni, rykard
This order Is also reflected by morgott, during his intro cutscene.

However, even if the "AS" Is ambiguous, this could explain how Radahn's aunt, Rellana, sided with messmer.
While the war against the Giants Is about to end, Radagon, One of the Champions of the erdtree during this war, could have started the First liurnian war. At the same time, the union between Marika and radagon starts to take Place while Godfrey Is banished. In this situation the four "pathenogenetic" sons were Born.
Each of em Is cursed at birth:
Messmer - Serpent and Fire
Melina - Destined death and Fire
(Lets notice that both have their Powers sealed in the eyes)
Malenia - Scarlet rot
Miquella - eternal childhood

Talking of metyr, i think that Ymir has a good point: since she's unable to communicate with the Greater Will, the 2 fingers She births are faulty, hence theyre unable to interpret the correct messages of the outer God. This way each empyrean After Marika will NEVER act according to the GW's Plan and even Marika starts to drift from It. However, only through this problem, these beings aquired the free will, something that no other outer God follower has.

[seljuzgaming]

It's funny how tarnished doesn't take any sides and kills everybody 😂

[cb-]

Godwyn was underutilized in the base game and DLC. i was hopeful he would be part of it. You can find another corpse of his in the shadow realm

[frenchy_boi]

When I interacted with Ansbach in the Storehouse, as soon as he said that Mogh's body had "disappeared" I knew something was off about Miquella

[o]

One detail that nudged Messmer into my shortlist of favorites was how his comment after defeating us changes between phases.

It went from a, somewhat cocky, ”those stripped of the grace of gold shall all meet death, in the embrace of Messmers flame” to the more demoralized ”o lightless creature, embrace thyne oblivion, as shall i” when he defeats us after giving into his curse and becoming ”as lightless” as us.

I found it tragically wholesome or wholesomely tragic, not sure which one.

[espenmykl]

A nice bit of attention to detail: you cant get Gaius's pants when you go to the round table hold to get his equipment from the Finger reader Lady. Makes sense since he is an albunauric and has no legs