Queen Marika - Paintings, Statues, and Fractured Body

#eldenring
Don’t pay too much attention to the fanmade model at the end; I just wanted to share it, even though it’s not quite like the original.

[smiley.dmcallistor]

"Ah, I knew they'd come"

- Bonfire making this video

[fallatiuso]

It's funny how in all her statues she's already in a crucified pose like we find her at the end, depicted as naught but a slave to the golden order from the start.
Except for the ones in the shadowed land, and the stakes, where she is depicted as free. Even powerful. There she stands proud, not hanged in the air by the wrists, head low; Subservient.

[BonnieNakagawa]

Bonfire knew what they were doing when they made the thumbnail

[ishkajules]

0:37 Literally just realised one braid is longer than the other because she cut one off to offer to the Grandmother.

(It'd be cool if Marika in the Erdtree reacted slightly if you approached while having the Braid equipped).

[doom]

Probably the most fascinating and complicated character From has ever made. We got so much about her in the dlc, way more than I think anyone was expecting, yet there’s still so much we don’t know. You could write a 5 novel series about her just to get down everything.

[wapasikawinelena]

I felt like Marika's real face has a lot of similarities with Radagon's face as a boss. Radagon is literally Marika's male form. That's why the anime girl in the finale looks very strange in video.

[booglywoogly]

'I can fix her' feels applicable here

[patrickkinnear]

She was literally a jar. Her innards were the elden ring.

[triela]

Only Fromsoftware would be able to make a character only talked about and seen through statues one of the most compelling people in the entire game. I genuinely believe things are less cut and dry with Marika than it ever was with Gwyn. Between the dialogue with Melina that can seem contradictary and the reveals in the DLC about her past. Marika is such a fascinating character that deserves a case study.

[kylegivens]

Always standing at attention for Queen Marika.

[JustaSmilingHedgehog]

Crazy how her second braid never grew back.

[danielcasillasarechiga]

Queen Marika just reaffirms one of the oldest facts in this world: "Warcrimes are okay if you're hot"

[MitridatedCarbon]

that pose in the lands of shadows is the rune of death, or at least mimicks it, and is the same pose of the shamans, both their corpses and their new jar forms. also love that her new pose with her rune has her head being pushed down. her godhood has subjugated her. another detail, slightly not pertaining the video, is that we can hear part of the elden beast lietmotif in the stone coffin fissure. the harp notes, just as in the shaman village there more parts of the ost, as well as in the abyssal woods.

[Akatsukileader]

Land of Shadow pose: Power
Lands Between pose: Powerless

[alternamasaki]

i feel like it would have been more fitting to use the "realistic marika mod" model instead of the nsfw version which is overly sexualized. that one had her facial features most closely matched to what she was actually going to look like.

[daruddock]

The most complex character they've ever made. Even people who think they have worked out her whole story aren't sure if she was every justified or redeemable. Brilliant!

[MatiasEA]

While holding respect for the work of the artist that made the last model, that I thinks its aimed to a more erotic intent, I think that would be great to see a model accurate to the in game depictons and lore of Marika

[Roxmiia]

Can someone make a model that looks as much like the statues as possible? Instead of making Marika someone with a body that she doesn't have

[Floodsye]

Absolute power and deep trauma corrupted what could've once been a peaceful woman into a twisted, paranoid, power hungry tyrant. Though, I love FromSoft's story crafting since nothing is ever quite so simple. Just like real life. You can feel sympathy for her plight as a slave to Greater Will and Elden Beast despite knowing the crimes she's committed being unforgivable, just as the crimes of the Hornsent to her people were so very old ago. I really REALLY hope FromSoft doesn't abandon the Elden Ring Universe since I think there's so many stories yet to be told, I'd love to see a prequel set in the eons before the present, perhaps at the time of the ancient dragons or in the lead up to the Age of Marika's order, where the Hornsent are in full power and perhaps we'd hear tell of a small rebellion started by a fierce and uncompromising Shaman woman.

[gangzilla]

The last one is a NSFW model made for NSFW videos