Elden Ring Lore | Gloam-Eyed Queen and The Godskins

The Gloam-Eyed Queen and her Godskin Apostles are one of the most intriguing mysteries in the lore. Who is she? What did she stand for? When did the God Hunt Happen? These are some of the ideas we will try and explain in this Elden Ring lore video.

Intro: 0:00
To Be Empyrean: 1:52
The Burning of the Erdtrees: 10:46
The Gloam-Eyed Queen: 23:00
Melina: 51:40
The Godskins: 1:01:05
The God Hunt: 1:22:39
Legacy of the Gloam-Eyed: 1:30:36

This is an extremely expansive video that not only looks at The Gloam-Eyed Queen but also covers the following subjects: The Godskin Apostles, Godskin Nobles, Godslayer Greatsword, Maliketh, Vargram, Melina, Gurranq, Marika, The Erdtree, The Shattering, Godwyn, The Black Flame, Flame of Ruin, War of the Giants, Golden Order, rune of death, vargram and more!

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[eugenialysa]

Thank you once again so-so much for commissioning me for this project! Your idea to build a location based on the Swaddling Cloth was fantastic and really inspiring and I had lots of fun working on both the renders and the thumbnail! 🌟

[alastor]

The Gloam Eyed Queen was meant to destroy Marika's Age of Plenty, but Marika defeated her and thus became known as the "Eternal" as her age was meant to know no end.

[TommasoFirmini]

A year after release, when most people have moved onto other games, this guys is still pumping out hour and a half long lore videos of top quality. This man is a godsend to the souls community 😂

[justinsamuel]

Thank you for everything you've created for this community over the past year!!! You are a YT treasure.

[Deucey-yjie]

To offer a suggestion for the number seven; there are three apostles and three nobles in the game, and above them their queen, a total of seven bodies. It’s up to interpretation if the true apostles under the queen were numerous enough to be considered an army, since you’d have to skin… a lot of gods to clothe an army of them. I personally believe that the amount of them we see in the game, and the fact that they resurrect one another through manipulation of death, that they were an undying army of six lead by the GEQ.

[SmoughTown]

Thank you everyone for watching my take on the Gloam-Eyed Queen. Please leave your thoughts below!

[Mikael_Ore]

A good thing to notice in the Melina Gloam Eyed Queen theory is that she had a natural enemy. Not only a rivalry between the golden order and hers, but also the one force of nature she prevents the tarnished from interacting with.

Melina is completely opposed to the 3 fingers, meaning that the blackflame and the frenzied flame are not only incompatible, but also enemies forces that have been clashing since the age of the first elden lord, Godfrey.

We know that the existence of frenzy flame dates back to the origin of life. But the fact that it was feared and hated by a candidate of the gloam eyed queen's identity and Marika herself.

[InfinityKrompt]

Marika and the Gloam-Eyed Queens runes are inverts of each other, which is actually mimicked by Malenia (Rune of Decay) and the cut Miquella rune (Rune of Abundance) so is it not possible that The Gloam-Eyed Queen wasn't some random Emperyian, but instead was Marika's sister? It seems like its common among all of the children that there are opposites. If Marika's rune gives eternal life, then her sister having the power to kill anything would make sense.

[gogauze]

Your shout outs to Tarnished Archeologist and Last Protagonist are what make this part of the community so wholesome. All 3 of ya'll do amazing work, and I'm glad that all of you openly draw from one other to get the best read on the story and lore the game has to offer.

[dantebeckwith]

I always assumed that Destined Death was the Great Rune of The Gloam Eyed Queen, and Maliketh received it after defeating her. Similar to how the tarnished is able to take and use the great runes in the game.

[rizadon]

1:36:23 interesting how Miquella's Needle sets the stage for the perfect Gloam-Eyed Queen ending. With the Forge activated and the Frenzied Flame subdued, she can reclaim Destined Death, burn down the Erdtree and slay Marika to become the new queen.

Excellent video SmoughTown.

[SaintHound]

I really like how you show respect to your fellow lore-tubers by mentioning their work and how their ideas inspire your own. A class act!

[jackhague]

To add to the Godslayer's Greatsword theory, I'm fairly confident that the sword's design (the helix shape, hollow blade, and shape of the hilt) was to physically carry the rune of death, and hence channel it's power. If you line the two up next to each other, the rune of death not only resembles the sword in shape, but fits inside the sword near perfectly.

[denharte]

Could the Beast Eye given by Gurranq be the Gloam Eyed Queen’s right eye? The color fits and the lines on the side of the item are a mirror to those of the claw mark on Melina’s left eye, and if Maliketh was the one to defeat her then he could very well have removed it during the scuffle. Its ability to sense Death fits the theme as well.

[T-Jack]

Now that we know Messmer exists I think this is the answer to who first burned the Erdtree and I suspect why Melina is burned. Only she could burn the tree properly "special kindeling" what if Messmer used Melina's body to burn the Erdtree first way back and that is why she is burned and bodiless in the in-game events.

[tarnishedarchaeologist]

Fantastic stuff, as always. You actually did a better job of explaining the Erdtree's first burning than we did! And how you synthesized it with GEQ lore is excellent. Kudos, my man.

[ultra]

technically, ranni only states that she, miquella, and malenia were the only _demigods_ who were Empyreans, but we have no reason to believe that there weren't non-demigod Empyreans at that time

[yellowmrslzlzshfksj]

An element that I noticed watching this video: Melina's eye shines with the light of grace.

In the Frenzied Flame ending cutscene, where the Erdtree is destroyed, her already-open eye is a dim, grey color - unlike the golden shine it has previously.

I'm unsure if this has gone un-noticed, or was simply not stated for other reasons, but it's neat.

[xihidden]

Coming back to this video I noticed, the sword designs are also inverted. While the gloam eyed queen’s gets progressively more unwoven, the relic sword becomes more compact. It reminds me of chaos and order, death and life.

[em__dash]

I've always been a contrarian on Melina being the GEQ (mostly because I was unsure of the thematic relevance or how to square the circle of her being both the GEQ and Marika's daughter), but you might have finally convinced me. Beautifully done video, as always