Elden Ring Lore - The Disgraced Knights of Godrick

This is it, our final video on the standard knights of the Lands Between. Learn the story of Godrick's army and how they went from golden knights to pitiful outcasts.

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[MaximillionPegasusJ.Crawford]

I think Godrick ist very well aware, that his Knights only serve him because of his bloodline. He doesnt trust them and thats probably why theyre not allowed in the castle. He hired these Exiled Soldiers, gave them a new home AMD cool Windpowers and thats why theyre loyal. Same case with the banished Knights.

[bradw]

The Knights of Godrick get to live in Limgrave, that alone is reason enough to stay loyal to Godrick when compared to where other armies have to live.

[zenebean]

The Soldier of Godrick must have been sent to away from the castle to ensure he never saw the weakness of his master. Else he might have made his own attempt at claiming the Great Rune, and Godrick could never have withstanded him.
also I just love all the artwork for these, this one really gives the right "clinically depressed" vibes

[antonironstag]

You forgot to mention the Godrick Knight at Fort Haight. Perhaps he chose to serve a different master; the Formless Mother

[Doktor_Lutscher]

SOLDIER OF GOD, RICK!

THE TRUE AND RIGHTFUL HEIR OF THE ELDEN THRONE, BASK IN HIS MIGHT!

[ironbadger]

Im doing a RP run of Elden Ring as a Knight of Godrick who, after realizing that Nepheli is no mere warrior, rebels against Godrick to bring the Golden Lineage back to its former glory and once again enter Leyndell.

[sirapple]

The godrick knights would've made for an excellent story about regaining their honor.

The knight forces in this game have always been one of my favorite parts of this game, they always had some of the most interesting lore in the game

[mycoffeequest]

What might further add to their shame is when you kill Goderick himself. Although likely relieved, the knights might also think to themselves "we couldn't even defend our lord. What right do we have to serve any other?" Broken and lordless, I imagine morale would be pretty low. Their only redemption is likely through Nepheli. Under her rulership, Nepheli's knights can prosper again. And if she really is the daughter of Godfrey, then serving under her lineage would bring honor back to their ranks. Hope for them isn't lost. Now, if Nepheli is killed, made into a puppet, or is simply never allow to rise as lord to Limgrave, their outlook might not be so rosy then.

[mrman]

One thing to note is how the placement of his knights is an analogy for grafting. He plucks away the knights who belong to the castle, replacing them with knights from another place, quite litterally sawing off his own knights, grafting the banished knights on.

[Cricket]

Hah, i'm laughing just imagining godrick using the mimic veil and just running with the fleeing crowd as an armor rack 😂😂😂

[Sparkbomber]

I think they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. Godrick fears them I think. Before the grafting probably even Boc could've beaten him easily... but Godrick never shed his fear. Hence only mercs who don't know his weakness are defending the castle.

[underplague]

At least they can feel better knowing that beings beyond their universe view them as the most iconic "generic" knights of the game, if only because they're the base versions

[Reemus]

Gotta say, despite all their problems Godricks forces are the most lively army in the Lands between, every other force is seemingly just the local army unchanged since the shattering-wars, or the haligtree who are just a bunch of overleveld sadbois waiting for their senpai to save them.

arguably godricks ability to compromise and "innovate" makes him the only Lord with any growth-potential, but sadly he has not enough of those "god-genes" to win.

[kendrickrochelanzot]

At long last. I have been waiting for someone to make a lore on the Godrick faction for so long. The hype is real!

His whole army is grafted when you think about it. Exiled, banished, his own army, and kaiden sellswords.

[BestWayKilla]

I sorta formulated an interesting theory as to the purpose and motivation for the Godrick Soldiers and Knights based on the available information and state of affairs at the start of the game. Given that they're not allowed within Stormveil, it can be assumed that Godrick doesn't particularly trust or think too highly of his army, preferring instead to be defended by Exiles and Banished Knights. At most, the soldiers still guard the approach to the front gates of the castle, but as far as we know, the entirety of his army could very well have been out of communication with their lord for years, cut off or barred from receiving any orders, with the only potential comings and goings in Stormveil being new prisoners like Roderika and her group brought in to be grafted. In the absence of any orders from their sovereign, Godrick's army has essentially been left to their own devices down south, completely abandoned and possibly even forgotten about by the very man whose symbol they wear. I imagine that, bereft of any other purpose, and with a delusional lord content to barricade himself into a castle beyond their reach, the Godrick Knights took it upon themselves to impose some semblance of order onto the chaotic mess that is Limgrave (and the Weeping Peninsula, to a lesser extent), patrolling its roads and keeping the demi-humans in check. Who knows, we can reasonably expect that, after Godrick's slaying at the hands of the Tarnished, Stormveil was reopened, since some new occupants arrive there in the meantime, and, with their apathetic lord now dead, the remnants of Godrick's army might decide to swear allegiance to their new lord, Nepheli Loux, Warrior, and her minister the great Kenneth Haight, and actually have a sense of purpose again.

[aranthur]

In Marika's own words. The Erdtree governs all. The choice is thine. Become one with the Order. Or divest thyself of it. To wallow at the fringes; a powerless upstart.

[gabrielrussell]

Alternative take: The Banished Knights are holding Godrick hostage on behalf of Malenia since we know some work for Niall. The Godrick Knights are defending their lord as closely as they can.

[Zarouph]

What I’m curious about is Edgars death dialogue, for he says “Please forgive me, Lord Godrick”. For a man who seemed to have been hated by most of limgrave/stormveil. To put in this dialogue is a bit strange no? Is it the fact that Godrick sent his knights to try and repel the rebellion? Is it because Godrick was good to Edgar?

[law_boii]

I love the fact that you cover subjects others might consider not too important, but I’m absolutely enthralled by the lore of the different knights, warriors, and lordships

[jamesnorman]

I felt that the Soldiers/Knights of Godrick not being deployed inside Stormveil itself was due to two different reasons:

A: Godrick was more interested in Grafting himself to gain power so he was sending as many of his men out as possible to seek out new Tarnished victims for the Grafting procedure.
B: He just doesn't have enough manpower to cover the whole of Limgrave/Weeping Peninsula and Stormveil. It's a sizeable portion of land, but with the soldier sbeing formed from what was left of the army that fled the capital, chances are it's just a fraction of what Godrick left with initially, the rest being captured or killed during their escape.

But I supposed the shame of them being allied with the weakest demigod of them all and a known coward is a pretty bitter pill to swallow. And Godrick's disgusting nature keeps them away too: so the only people Godrick can find to man the castle itself are exiles and banished knights, with literally nowhere else to go.