The Elden Ring Family Tree is a MESS | Elden Ring Lore

DLC Spoiler-Free :)
How many children does Marika have? Who is related to who? When did all this happen? Explaining the Elden Ring family tree and the timeline as a refresher or intro! Whatever you want this LORE FOR.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:27 Marika
01:25 Marika and Godfrey
02:37 War and Birth
04:01 The Omen Children
06:32 The Golden Child
07:30 Liurnian Wars
08:36 The Tarnished
10:19 Marika and Radagon
12:20 Night of the Black Knives
13:42 The Shattering
15:33 Radagon is Marika
17:42 Was Radagon always Marika?
21:16 DLC Speculations
23:39 Thumbnail Art & Outro

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Thumbnail art by MsLee.

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[miss_chalice]

Hi, everyone! Today's video is a bit different from my usual style, more chatting and less editing. If you like this format, please let me know! (And no, it's totally not because I was cramming DLC prep 😈)

[toddhoward]

This will act as a nice "Previously on Elden Ring" right before the DLC drops.

Perfect timing

[Aluzio]

Imagine the sculptor carving away, then out of no where Radagon begins going from T-pose to Praise the Sun mid session

[theredknight]

Most sane family tree made by GRR martin.

LMAO

[hitbycars]

I like how Malenia got Radagon's hair and Miquella got Marika's

[MrElmo]

I want to say, an insight I pulled from Morgott and how he perceived his father can be seen visually in the Lords Apparition fight before Morgott. See as you fight a projection of Godfrey, you’ll notice Serosh absent and the music playing a holier than thou version of Godfrey’s music. I get a sense that it’s very intentional to show how Morgott viewed his father. As a protector, strong and noble, not cursed by the burden of lordship nor any traits of his brutal animalistic self. Morgot loved his father dearly but hates the savagery the tarnished represent.

[Argamep]

Nice, some entertainment for the DLC waiting room.

[chrisdepountis]

The dlc gives a lot of context about Marika's motives, her, seemingly, irrational hatred of the crucible and her and Radagon's union, or rather reunion.

[Zephy_Sky]

Best combination of any youtube channel.

Asmr-Elden ring lore

[Arkayjiya]

I think Radagon was always Marika because from a storytelling perspective, it's just more impactful and make the story unveil better, it feels like the story was written with that flow in mind.

First there's the position of the reveal: it is placed at a point that indicates it's meant to explain the main mystery that has been bugging anyone who has been reading the dialogue until this point in the story: Why were three unrelated-children demi-gods too? They could have become demi-gods once the fusion happen but why would that retroactively make Radagon a god all along and if it didn't, why would it make his children demi-gods? It's more convoluted to explain if Radagon fused later and it's more impactful story-wise if they've always been so and if the revelation is there to explain this mystery.

From a History's perspective too, what was Marika's main issue? War. What couldn't she do despite being a God? Officially participate in either war, she had to stay put despite clearly being a creature of initiative. So it make sense in that way too that she would separate her being into two, also explains why his appearance which had to be different from Marika, resemble Marika's previous enemies. She wanted a strong warrior, she based him on the ones she fought. (edit: and as someone points out below, it can also serves another purpose which is for a character who has doubts toward the golden order, to excise the part that's loyal to it from herself. If that's true, that would also indicate her doubts are much older than Godwyn's death).

Radagon should have little importance on his own. But he suddenly appears, wins a war, when he doesn't he conveniently seduces the enemy and *learn their powers so that he can combine them to his own*, he has a great rune for some reason even before he wed Marika, he's obsessed with similar topics that Marika is (even if he seems to arrive at a different conclusion thanks to having his own personality), and for some reason she fuses with him after marrying him. Why? On the other hand, if Radagon was always Marika, it would make complete sense why she'd want to reabsorb him once he's outlived his usefulness and gave him the final two (maybe three) children. Sadly for her he became an independent being and he cannot completely be reabsorbed, leading to him being an annoyance to her plans and able to be used as a prison after he fails to repair the Elden Ring. Marika couldn't completely suppress Radagon when she was in control, but neither will Radagon be able to completely supress her when he's given control by the Elden Beast or its outer god. Hence the taunting.

And there's even the hint from turtle pope, the way he phrases it, he talks about a secret that's inherent to Radagon, saying stuff like "Why did he abandon Rennala (if the answer was just "because he's loyal to Marika, Miriel wouldn't present it as a mystery), why he was a mere champion chosen as consort? (Once again, if the answer was just "she likes champions, she married Godfrey after all", Miriel wouldn't be presenting this as a mystery, storytelling conventions tell us there's more to it than that so he has no reason to ask those questions that other than implying that there's something weird about Radagon from the beginning, or at least from before he left Rennala). The whole story makes so much more sense if Radagon has always been Marika imo, although maybe everything I just said will be contradicted by the DLC, I've stayed away from spoilers so I wouldn't know until next hour xD

[JohnDWJ]

Something just occurred to me about Rennalla effectively losing her mind after Radagon left her.
It is said by Enia that all the demigods are of Marika, and there is much debate about Radagon’s origin and if he came from Marika or was joined with her at some point.
Whatever the case, when he left Rennalla he may very well have revealed that he was also Marika to her.
THAT would likely break anyone’s mind.

[minhsonpham]

My heacanon for why Marika's body is completely mangled with a red spear pierced through while there is a massive wound on the Elden Beast's abdomen is because when the Elden Beast showed up to punish Marika, she did not submit without a fight and managed to injure the Elden Beast before getting caught by the Elden Beast's grabbing skill and turned into a porcupine

[michaelgambier-taylor]

Mesmer being cursed with an inner snake. Radahn cursed with gigantism. Radagon trying to repair the ring with his trellis addition. Miquella and St. Trina. Other Demi Gods in the wandering tombs. Shabriri and the frenzied flame meddling in the Shadow Lands. Lots of other subplots to weave in : )

[AndrewStonerock]

The cut scene with Marika shattering the ring goes back and fourth between Marika trying to smash it and Radagon trying to hammer it back into shape. This leads me to believe that They could go back and fourth when ever they wanted.

[nickcageisbestspider-man]

The opening sentence of this video was everyone's initial reaction to seeing the intro cinematic for the first time.

[timdaley]

Been here since you did your video on Roderika. It’s just evident you put so MUCH WORK into these videos and that you prioritize their quality.

[elliottwitt]

The addition of all the lore sources is awesome

[AXELEMASTER]

Amazing narration!
I LOVE that you cited the sources, really well done vid

[EmeraldPynk]

I just want you to know that your channel and your Elden Ring lore are pretty much the only lore content on YouTube I get excited for when I see you've uploaded. I like you're style. 😊

[AjaxOutlaw]

Been watching you ever since your YT was created! Cool to see the growth of your confidence and the quality of the videos! Always look forward to these 😎