History of Caria and Raya Lucaria | Elden Ring Lore

History of Glintstone, Raya Lucaria, the Carian royal family, and the Carian Enchanted Knights.

[Ydigisek]

Has anyone thought about if the stars "disappeared" due to light pollution from the erd tree? The stars might not actually be gone but simply not visable, thus being conquered.

[ianwilliams]

This is turning out to be very grand and mysterious. For some reason I keep getting visions of the Duke's Archives in DS1, imagining the libraries of Raya Lucaria. Something like Baldur's Gate and other classics. A feeling of a chill running up the spine, a sense that one is encountering a level of craft and love of detail to history that is about to blow all other games out of the water. Elden Ring will be an interactive novel, more than a game.

Thank you very much for elucidating this info. I didn't play the CNT or read much afterwards. This information is a precious distillation.

[qwertuiop]

Idk why but your take on this really reminds me of the emergence of science and it's conflicts with the Catholic church in the past. Just the way how the Carians essentially had great power and slowly lost it's authority and influence due to the surging Raya Lucarian academy. Kind of how the Catholic church slowly lost it's foothold and power due to the Age of Enlightenment. The motif of loss of ancient and primordial powers due to new and emerging powers is certainly a theme that can be seen throughout the whole game. This side of the story feels like just a small snippet of what is likely to be a recurring motif for what's left to be discovered about Elden Ring's history. Overall, this is probably my favourite video I've seen about this topic. Very thorough and well explained. Great job!

[KaylaHall-bbzf]

All these years of people studying the lore of the Dark Souls games and Bloodborne has me excited because this is my first FromSoft game that I will be playing at launch. I really look forward to seeing all the cool secrets and characters in this game.

[channarosenblatt]

Really a great summary of past lore prior to the Shattering. Many points still unanswered and still open, but we are getting much closer. Thank you.

[DavidStavis]

You're a fantastic addition to the community, Ratatoskr!

[AWanderingSwordsman]

Definitely interesting. It kind of seems like the real mysteries of the world are about the cosmic era and the lunar queen and how that era came to an end and the runes that are the elden ring were created. It's also worth noting that general radahn is the very last piece of info we get chronologically. Him fighting the girl with the prosthetic arm is the last event that leads to the current state of the world that we play through so it's entirely possible radahn didn't conquer the stars until after the academy had come and gone.

Radahn himself is quite interesting because he is tied to gravity magic and his incantations literally bring down meteors. It's possible he was able to use gravity to rip the stars from the sky directly. It's also entirely possible that the stars of elden ring are not giant balls of burning gas many light years away but instead glowing stones floating in the sky.

Another possibility is that before the erdtree there was another great tree that grew into the sky and that it's fruits were the stars in the night sky. Golden amber from the erd tree and glintstone from the sap of the lunar tree.

Honestly theres too many possibilities at this point but I'm quit excited to find the answers. I hope we get to face off against both marika and the lunar queen. I wonder if Melina could be the lunar queen robbed of her memories belonging to the lunar tree where merika is the maiden of the erd tree, literally born of it, and able to convert it's power to runes.

[Kriosaivak]

Huh, I’d completely misunderstood the reference to amber, and the connection to the amulet. When Selene mentioned the life in amber, I assumed she was referencing how bugs and other small animals could be trapped in amber and be preserved for centuries.

[ahengaming]

Guys, the Elden Ring CNT was datamined and everything has been leaked on 4chan so Please BE AWARE OF SPOILERS!!

[RumbolDongle]

I've been hyper fixating on Elden Ring discussion a lot recently, but I've never subscribed to any of those Dark Souls channels. My interest in games is how people react to, play with, and interpret their contents, not purely the games themselves. So after hearing how insightful and unique your views and takes on Elden ring and other games were, I couldn't help but subscribe. While Elden Ring is definitely an interest I'll follow intently, but probably never play unless the modding scene is good, I know that I'll enjoy this gem of a channel's content regardless of the topic you take on in the future.

[minsharp]

You earned my sub, hopefully you will upload more content like this!

[ELDENLORD]

For me outside of the stuff having to do with the Golden Order the Raya Lucaria stuff was the next thing that had my interest. I even picked Enchanted Knight for my CNT play through. Thank you for this well done video. You get a sub from me.

[jakesteel]

I feel it might be a bit like blood borne with gods from the star defending

[magmat]

the conflict between the academy and the royal family eventually went hot, because Iji tells us to stay away from the family manor due to the magical protections, protections that destroyed the Knights of the Cuckoo (Academy soldiers) when they tried to assault it after sacking the ruins next to Iji.

[snapfrostzz]

I like how he thinks he knew about the story of this topic without playing the game 3 months ago

[ezopp]

This is so deep, Alexa play Kingsfield IV - Dark Reality

[gilvanneto]

I think what is even more mysterious is the relation between the Carian Royal Family and Marika's Family.

[gregorius]

To me glinstone is a reference to the fact that everything is born from the stars. If you go back far enough all matter came from the stars so it would make sense that there would be some sort of primordial energy that taps into this current. Everything started as helium and hydrogen billions of years ago and as time went on, more complex elements were created which eventually led to starts, planets, systems, galaxies which eventual led to life.

[cmoneytheman]

I just found of this game last year and its coming already a person would think only took a year to make

[trippleoseven]

The giant blacksmith dude near carian castle has info on what happened during the carian vs lucarian war. Fyi. Some interesting tidbits of lore up for offer there.