The Fire & Blood of the Erdtree | Elden Ring Lore & Theory

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A mathematical genius - David Celeste
The Illusion of Choice - Hanna Lindgren
Back to Earth - Bonnie Grace
Midst of Life - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
For Lorne - Anders Schill Paulsen
The Sunken Library - Trevor Kowalski
Gift of the Pen - David Celeste
Hymn to the Rising Sun - Golden Anchor
A Web of Lies - August Wilhelmsson
Druid Lands - Jo Wandrini
Dissemination - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
Follow the Falcon - David Celeste
Melancholic Reflection - Magnus Ludvigsson
*Eventide - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen

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Tarnished archeology has some pretty developed thoughts about the statues

[AHumanJusticar]

Thanks for watching my video! Here are some timestamps to help navigate through it.

0:00 - 0:33 Intro
0:33 - 2:13 Church of Vows
2:13 - 5:37 Rennala & The Nox Swordstress
5:38 - 8:17 Radagon & the Statue holding fire
8:17 - 11:35 Champion & Scholar
11:35 - 15:26 The Flame of the Erdtree
15:27 - 18:17 The Primordial Crucible
18:18 - 21:46 Remnants of the Flame
21:46 - 24:36 The Fire Monks
24:36 - 26:14 The Fire Giants
26:15 - 29:30 Messmer's Flame
29:30 - 32:29 Blood & the Haligtree
32:30 - 34:10 The Blood Star
34:12 - 35:15 Outro

[JackisaMimic]

Radagon held a torch to light the way, a sword to stay the path, and a book to find the truth, and so have you!

Happy we came to the same conclusion about the necessity of blood needed for trees!

As well as your connection to the missing eyes and your Grace is a Lie video, one of the best theory videos out there.

Really enjoyed your chapter on Messmer, the connection to his flame to the candletree roots. Excellent video as always.

I wanted to add that I have theorized that Messmer's Flame may be the other half of Destined Death, where Maliketh's flame can kill the Demigods and Gods, Messmer's Flame can kill those without Grace, the Tarnished and so forth. I only base it on the transcript from the first trailer.

Also, for Raddy, at the Minor Erdtree Church, the first time you get the dialogue in "Marika's Own Words" you get the Outer Order gesture. And beneath the Minor Erdtree Church is the Sealed Tunnel. Go take a trip to the Sealed Tunnel's boss room and tell me what you notice :P

[KtheKind]

From Nokstella to YOUR MAMA’S HOUSE!!!

[jeffpritchard]

I have a couple of thoughts after watching this video.

1. Before the arrival of the Erdtree, the Shadow lands and the Lands Between were still conjoined together. Meaning that Marika, Godfrey and his Crucible knights, Messmer and the Omen and the Numen and everyone were all living together and interacting with each other upon a single giant landmass. This means that Messmer's purging war against the Crucible and Godfrey's assault on the Fire Giants could very well have been happening at the same time.

2. After fighting Mogh again yesterday I came away with the distinct vibe that he is doing Miquella's bidding. St. Trina is said to visit people in their dreams and give them compelling visions. I think what happened is that Miquella realized the Haligtree was failing and that while slumbering in his Haligtree cocoon, he paid a visit to Mogh in his dreams in the form of St. Trina and bewitched him.

[scott_chocolate]

Aaaahhh! (giddy excitement, not outrage) Before I continue watching I had to comment because @7:45 you mention the statue that I've been obsessed with since well before discovering it my first playthrough in the Church of Vows.

You won't find it anywhere in the Lands Between. You will find it in Lothric and the Painted World of Ariandel in Dark Souls 3!
Not a similar statue, it's identical. It's a reused asset. An easter egg of some sort.

I've been obsessed with it because I believe it is a significant piece of evidence indicating the fluid identity and motives of a prominent yet mysterious goddess in Dark Souls.

That they put this particular statue here in the Lands Between in a building of layered and changing identities where characters of changing identities performed world-shaping ceremonies...
Well, I think it's an easter egg that indicates changing identities. And I also take it as a wink from Miyazaki that I'm totes right that Velka is Caitha.

Ok! Now to continue watching! I'm so psyched you pointed this statue out!

[siegemaximo]

“Fire and Blood” in relation to Elden ring makes me think of the Omen, who have burning blood.
Mohg, the one who takes Miquella, being both an Omen and connected to a blood focused Outer God is pretty interesting given the context of this video.

Really good video btw. Glad it came up in my recommended.

[david]

Ooooo getting your shit recommended to people into lore now! We dig when the algorithm brings out gem channels, keep up the great work!

[AuUntaris]

The idea of an original Fire that all flames are derived from is, in fact, lit.

[PhalisoBringerOfDoom]

My prediction for the formal name of Mesmer's flame? The Flame of Ambition

[fflipfflop]

Finally someone else noticed that statue behind Miriel! I also didn't find a single other one of those in the entire game. It keeps me up at night.

[titaniumteddybear]

I have an interesting theory: the misshapen Erdtree that we see in the DLC trailer isn't dripping gold at all: it's siphoning it up. We see other objects seeming to float upwards towards the tree. I think it's sucking up all the "gold" i.e. life force of all the people Messmer is killing and probably then funnelling it to the real Erdtree.

[ScumMageInfa]

I came here after my analytics said half the traffic to my video came from this video, and im glad i did!

I absolutely love the video! I had totally forgotten about the nox statue in the church of vows!

Ive personally been fiending over the carpets in different locations, its very interesting, to say the least!

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[GrimmWitchands]

Those statues are the statues of the saints, or at least that's what they are called in the game because the grace that is next to the first place where we meet Alexander is called: "Bridge of the Saints" and that bridge has the statues of the hooded men.

[hillbillypowpow]

I love the ties between Elden Ring and ASoIAF so much. I think the most prevelant and obvious connection are all the false identities, but there's so much thematic parallel

[Michijere]

I could listen to your voice, lore or not. It’s relaxing and pleasant. They should put you on the sleep app

[geohawk]

I can't believe your channel was JUST recommended to me! You made a great video and I love your voice.

[HoneyDoll]

omg new justicar video!
very interesting theories and the messmer's flame thing was a really cool find

[zackdoom]

I feel like the fact it says “ancient erdtree incantation” shows the fact theres been either another tree under it or marika burnt the old one to build this one

[dbfzato-]

great video! that bit about turning the candle shield upside down 🤯 i recently realised the statutes of radigon seem to have gold hair, crown and double helix, as the marica ones are gray with gold on the crown and in patches on the veil, but not the hair, it might be just to signify its red but obviously propaga made it seem gold, just seems odd with there normal obsessive colour coding lol

this unalloyed gold thing makes me think that marikas order is clearly alloyed, normally gold is alloyed with silver or nickel (silver color) its either she is silver and gold (18k gold or less) or copper and gold (tumbanga) super yellowish gold, kinda like whats on the roofs of leyndell and death lightning

if you mix gold, silver and copper together you get rose gold

google tells me this about mixing gold and silver

:The naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver is commonly known as electrum. Its colour depends on the ratio of gold and silver in the mix: a whitish alloy appears below 50 per cent gold, turning to greenish yellow as the amount of gold increases, and bright yellow at around 85 per cent gold.

greenish kinda like the sap in miquellas swords!

the white one i'm pretty sure is white gold, i think as marika has ties to the numen, who has ties to the nox, who has ties to the carians (silver) i think she is the white gold one, or possibly the gloam eyed queen as she tied to white ghost flame

can't wait for this dlc, i won't spoil anything but seems is a big revelation that supports my theory 😁