Sacrifice: Is it worth it? | Elden Ring Lore

The theme of autonomy is clear in Elden Ring, and is something that likely motivated the Ancestral Followers to leave mainstream society.

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Moonlighter OST - Onsen

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Hawkshaw.

[rainbowkrampus]

Marika's whole entire deal is striving for autonomy.
You can even think of the Lands Between as a struggle for autonomy. Something I've always questioned is "Between what?"
More and more I think the answer is, between life and death.

Through some means, people have built up entire civilizations on this relatively small rock in the middle of nowhere. All so that they can carve out a space where they can assert their own desire to keep a foot in both states of being. sacrificing much in order to commit to neither life nor death.

[rhymenoceros]

This is actually a very relevant theme in Japanese culture. Many Japanese today feel stifled by their culture but feel almost honored bound to maintain their current society. So much is expected of the individual in Japan, even from a young age. Many can see that it’s problematic but don’t speak out because it would be disruptive which a big no no in most Asian societies. This is why a lot of their games, tend to have incorporate subtle themes of societal rot, acceptance, cyclical events, and a sort of melancholic directionless. Remember many Japanese game devs were themselves seen as outcasts or disruptive to society which was why they got into the gaming business to begin with. Hence they are very aware of Japanese societies problems and often critique it in very subtle ways. We western audiences just don’t notice since we don’t live in that sort of collectivist culture.

[Jack-mekl]

I’d like to see one souls game where everything isn’t in ruins because there is phenomenal architecture everywhere and I just want to see what it originally looked like.

[KidArez]

You're right. All of 'em sacrificed something.
Tarnished be like: "I sacrifice every thing that has runes in to become my stepping stone to Elden Lord."

[ARealHumanGuy]

My dad, who never was interested in lore, still had a decent theory

The lands between were between life and death
It was like purgatory
And everything in purgatory resembled something living, or dead, like those who lived in death
And the tarnished were people who had done something bad, that “tarnished” their name and life
Becoming Elden Lord was the only way to redeem oneself, which is why all the Tarnished strived to become so.
I know it isn’t the case but a good theory for somebody who read like 2 item descriptions

[WaterFlame]

I think it depends on the person. A lot of people are willing to do unimaginable shit for the greater good of themselves and their people.

A wonderful example of this is the Pale King. He sacrificed so much in the fight against the Radiance and the Infection. Thousands of his own potential children were transformed into vessels and abandoned thereafter within an empty abyss for all eternity. "No cost too great." Those are the first and last "words" of dialogue that we see directly from him, using the Dream Nail. In the Pale King's eyes, no sacrifice is too much for the sake of his kingdom.

[Modest_Melodies]

It's crazy to me how like there's beings as powerful as Radagon, Maliketh and placidusax but they can be defeated by some crazy person with a club....

[SkiHigh]

I, too, have sacrificed much of my sanity to beat some bosses

[chinopivots]

I wouldn't really say the sacrifices in Elden Ring are much more consequential than the real world.
There are a lot of displaced peoples uprooted and crushed underfoot just so society can lie to itself about what deems to be normal and pretty

[Normal_cookielover]

And to become frenzied lord...




We have to sacrifice our maiden...and her trust...

[ILikeTheThingsIDo]

There's one thing I hope we can have with Shadow of the Erdtree.

If you go the exceptionally difficult route to save Melina from having to sacrifice herself, while also not becoming the lord of Frenzy by using Miquella's needle, I want an after credits scene of her. Some kind of closure, some kind of less than awful ending for her for doing all she could, and for us for finding a way to save her without melting the whole world.

Let us make the sacrifice of the burns we have to sustain to gain the power to burn the Erdtree ourselves in order to forgo her sacrifice.

She has literally done nothing wrong.

[ShadaOfAllThings]

reminder that a lot of the sacrifices people in Elden Ring made to keep society together were marginalized groups with practices the mainstream society rejected. One of my favorite examples of this was Daedicar, who is implied to be the mother of if not Boc and Rya then people like them. "You're Beautiful" may very well be an imitation of her words. She's implied to be a Mother of Monsters figure, but anything that could be her children are peoples who have been made to be slaves for a perceived lesser or impure nature.

[PilotAdventurer]

Sacrifice is theme for the Blood Star and the Briars of Sin. I hope the dlc gives more lore on the Blood Star.

[granthagen]

"I have given everything. My body. My mind. My soul. Everything in the name of liberation. Freedom. And it is not yet enough. And yet I perservere. For mine is an indomitable will, and I will keep giving until I am done"

[mangoman]

I hadn't thought about characters like that before

[brockbuttars]

Anyone notice the music is from ‘😅Moonlighter’. Highly recommend that game

[RoastTurtle]

Sacrifice without cost is meaningless. A good example of sacrifice is Odin. He sacrificed his eye to drink from the well of Urd and gained far-sight. He hung himself from Yggdrasil for nine days and nine nights to understand the realms and he sacrificed himself to himself to understand the runes, driving his spear Gungnir into himself.

Without sacrifice, it is a gift. One must be willing to sacrifice something in order to gain power

[samuraitashi]

One line: “Of a cold, dark place”

-My lady, AKA, the niece of Gael

I like to think that this is the painting she was talking about making even though it’s probably not true but I still like to think it.

[WildcardKiana]

Holy shit i recognize the Moonlighter ost

[decasp]

moonlighter theme hit’s different (or im wrong and this isnt a song from moonlighter)