The allusions to Valhalla, the realm of shadow as an afterlife in general, and the presence of a character named Freya really helped validate my belief in Radahn's willingness to be Miquella's consort and the battle with Malenia being part of that vow. It genuinely recontextualizes the entire fight as Radahn being given a death in battle so he can be ushered into Valhalla by the Valkyries (Malenia and the Cleanrot knights)

@quelaag

14 күн бұрын

AGREED! Freyja's line: "Yes of course, I see, as the festival of war concluded, general Radahn's soul met an honorable end, but kindly Miquella wishes to revive it? which is fine by me, i know it would pain old Jerren but war has always suited general Radahn best. and certainly far more than any honorable death, endless war to invigorate the soul, as befits general Radahn, the Great Lion." makes me feel like the Festival of War was a celebration of Radhan's vow, and Malenia / Us killing him allowed him to transcend to godhood via a festival battle.

@lastlunarrun6418

13 күн бұрын

"As I awaited his return" feels different now

@veridis_qu0

13 күн бұрын

That was kinda my first thought but then what I don't understand is why Malenia needed to nuke all of caelid in the process. Is it because she couldn't beat Radahn otherwise?

@Donovaneagle2098

13 күн бұрын

It's further added by the fact that the Valkyries weren't glorified in most Norse texts, they were something to be fought against. Some older texts call them "corpse stealing witches". Some translations of Freyja also translate to "Lady of the Slain" though later translations make her name out to simply mean "Lady"

@GodWarsX

13 күн бұрын

Holy shit

12:10 Placidusax is also shown with his remaining heads held in a Spiral-like position while awaiting his god’s return.

@Oracle_Orhyn

13 күн бұрын

Makes me wonder that if the “God” that “fled”, in question, was actually the Greater Will. His heads are twisting in the same way Metyr’s two fingers are. And now that we know that Metyr is attempting to contact the Greater Will - which fled from her call too - it would make sense that Placidusax is trying to make contact.

@Kiloparsecs786

13 күн бұрын

Yeah that is what I was thinking as well.

@quelaag

13 күн бұрын

EVERYONES CELLPHONE IS BROKEN SOMEONE HELP

@Kiloparsecs786

13 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

@weebro55

13 күн бұрын

@@quelaag With the whole "fingers communicate by light", connection of faith/int, celestial entities and outer gods, and communication with the greater will being cut off: the item description "The hat of Count Ymir, High Priest. The circular design at the top represents the Greater Will and its lightless abyss, imparting increased intelligence and arcane to the wearer" supports the idea that the greater will went from visible light to invisible. Metyr has an attack that looks like a pulsar, a type of young neutron star that reliably pluses light like a signal. These neutron stars quickly (in a cosmic scale) stop rotating, and cool down to stop emitting light. The Greater Will may be a pulsar that just aged out of sight of the land between

This is why Quelaag is a must-follow if you're into souls/elden ring lore. No other lore content creator is doing this stuff, no one's coming at it from this kind of angle. Other creators are probably working on videos trying to hash out who Charo is - when that was never the point. Quelaag just gets it, man.

@2265Hello

13 күн бұрын

Quelaag and Tarnished Archeologist my go to souls lore tubers. Both do things that I wish more lore tubers did instead of just giving lore summaries.

It's starting to worry how you even sleep with all these things keeping you up at night.

@quelaag

13 күн бұрын

i dont

@pedromenezes3917

13 күн бұрын

@@quelaag Fun!

I know you will all walk away from this video with more questions and I PROMISE I'll go into everything more in depth as a publish more videos. I'm going to do them ROUGHLY in this order: - Rauh Regional Lore - Belurat / Bonny Village / Shaman Village Regional lore - Miquella and St Trina Video - Marika and Messmer video

@tangledfish

13 күн бұрын

Will there be a St Romina video? Is she perhaps Malenia's shadow? I'm really curious about her.

@Stuffystufferfield

13 күн бұрын

thank you

@quelaag

13 күн бұрын

@@tangledfish Yes there will be! I want to make sure I tackle those larger ones first :>

@hoflax24

13 күн бұрын

1hr long video analyzing the Dragon Priestess' (my beloved) pronunciation of Placidusax pls (Kidding, excellent video and I can't wait for the others!)

@johndavis29209

13 күн бұрын

Any timeline for the new crab lore? Genuinely crazy stuff.

Jerma reference 10/10 video

I like how you called the pillars the “J and B” pillars to prevent a repeat of what happened on stream, where everyone was asking about Queen Marikas BJ pillars

*starts break dancing as you’re breaking down lore*

"Babel" has the etymology of "God's Door" Bab-El. AKA Gate of Divinity Enir Ilim and Belurat also generally has some near-eastern inspired vibes. With the name "Enir Ilim" sounding vaguely Akkadian, or generally Semitic, but also Sumerian, "Enlil" or "Elohim"

@crown_clown

9 күн бұрын

I read on some reddit post that enir ilim can possibly mean "temple of a lord or god", which fits it pretty well.

@aramkaizer7903

9 күн бұрын

@@crown_clown Could make sense, I just assumed that the word was nonsense since I doubted FS would actually use some real Semitic word for it

12:10 On that note, the Relic Sword (made from Radagons spine) is also spiral-themed, and held up by the Elden Beast pointing towards the stars Anyway thought this was a great video despite the headache! Tbh as a fellow social worker with a day job your work ethic to make these after a 9-5 is lowkey inspiring

One cool thing I saw on Reddit - the shape of the blue and red groves of flowers in cerulean/charon looks like the twin birds when you look at it from the dragon

@MarsBo2

13 күн бұрын

🤯 woah

@allthe1

13 күн бұрын

Omg I'm running back to my PC I manna see that

@walkerbragg284

13 күн бұрын

The red and blue flowers also match the color scheme of the red&blue feathered brachsword talismans as well as the twinbird kite shield.

@dimosdimakopoulos3884

13 күн бұрын

One of my first speculations when reaching the blue and red fields was: "Blue and red make purple. In here we'll find the two halves of St. Trina". Still thinking that could be a nice touch. The red fields were a bit under-utilised...

@walkerbragg284

13 күн бұрын

@dimosdimakopoulos3884 my dream is that they release a mini dlc that expands on fissure depths. Something about the size of the Siofra River area. That leads to under the suppressing pillar, where all of our questions will be answered. That area seemed so big, but it turned out to be so small; it didn't even have a map. I'm also confused ass hell by this dlc, and need more lore.

I love your dives into the Helphen lore. Feels like an ancient culture that was there before even the Hornsent. Forgotten, but with whispers of it still around in the form of mariners and deathbirds. So damn cool, and it’s crazy how deep into the mythology FromSoft thought about.

@Grimsly3736

3 күн бұрын

I wonder how Ravenmount fits into that

quelaag you’re very inspiring to me in how well spoken you are and how well informed u are. never get discouraged

Hell yes!!!!

@augmentgear297

14 күн бұрын

i followed Gene here

one thing ive noticed its, in the base game, Miquella is supposed to be at the very base/bottom of a citadel, while in the dlc he is at the very top of one. its a nice parallel, maybe simbolizes his "rise"

I NEED your St Trina video. I am so fascinated by St. Trina that I'm basically Thiollier fr fr. The idea that she is Miquella's 'love' cast away, and she seems like she is genuinely a benevolent being (especially given the game's insinuation that she brought peace to the Merchants below Leyndell by singing them a lullaby). This also explains why Miquella becomes so cold and devoid of the concept of 'love' by the end (he can't tell the difference between forced subjugation of the heart vs actual love).

Ok, so the Mariner we fight in the Hidden Grave of Charo is likely Charo itself seeing as it drops a Cookbook that lets us craft an item that allows us to summon Those Who Live in Death. Cool stuff!

On why Mohg's body specifically - Omens are haunted by spirits, plausibly angry/vengeful Hornsent spirits, and I believe the JP text describes them as being particularly sensitive to spirits (struggling to find the source for this now, though). Also as you touch on, the Hornsent were the ones using if not constructing the gate prior, so using a Horned vessel certainly makes sense, with its association with the divine of the crucible and gate.

Oh my god it’s a Helphen video!!!!! Now I can shut up about my stupid helphen-tree theory. Never been so excited to be dead wrong.

@vishnugopakumar8807

14 күн бұрын

explain your theory? do you mean you think there's a helphentree similar to the erdtree and scadutree?

@angelus_lucifero

14 күн бұрын

I want to hear your stupid Helphen tree theory, because I've had a stupid Helphen tree theory for so long but I'm also not entirely convinced it's been put to rest yet

@angelus_lucifero

14 күн бұрын

Would it have anything to do with it looking like a conifer? Because I sure think it does

@curtisfarley6558

13 күн бұрын

In one statue, we see a woman who seems to be burning, pulling a tree like thing out a tree stump that's been grafted on. Didn't know what to make of that one. Symbolism of merica removing death?

@rabidporcupine0

13 күн бұрын

@@curtisfarley6558 Good ol' 'Merica, removing both death AND communism from the lands between...

On asceticism and suffering bringing connection to divinity - the bloodfiends in the DLC also find the Mother Of Truth in the "shadow" of their local tutelary dietty (hornsent asthetic religious leader) after being burned in the crusade. Notably too, the Hornsent ascetics ritually bloodlet (Curseblade description) as part of their attempt to become or invoke divine power.

The otherworld rebirth cycle reminded me of specific lore from Ireland, too. I remember a few tales where it's said that when faeries die, they are reborn in the human world, and vice versa. There's one story where a man takes a faerie wife, and she cries at births and laughs at funerals because of this.

Is anyone else seeing St. Trina and GEQ parallels? The “gloam” color itself seems to be a washed out purple, and a lot of Trina’s lore alludes to an eternal sleep. I wonder if Miquella was poised to repeat his mother’s mistakes in some way by sealing away death.

@quelaag

14 күн бұрын

Yes! I dont think St Trina is the GEQ, but I think she is transitioning into that role given the rotting putrescence and her soft lavender turning into "Velvet purple". Her new sword description gives some hints on that!

@tuckddd9

13 күн бұрын

@@quelaag yes I agree I think it’s more an allusion to the cyclical nature of things then “x is x”. That’s been the hardest part lol is trying to discern just how much Miquella’s ascension would mirror Marika’s, looking forward to your theories! Edit: lord I didn’t even know about that new sword 😂 thanks for the tip

@Zythryl

13 күн бұрын

Believe it or not, apparently the Putrescent Knight is named as "gloameyeknight" or something similar in the files. Granted, file labels are about as informative as cut content, but I found that to be fascinating, despite the many contradictions there would be if Trina was involved with the GEQ.

@liarwithagun

13 күн бұрын

@@Zythryl Well in ER, sleep is very, very, very closely related with death. If you think about it, death is just infinite sleep. Remember Fia as well. She literally goes to sleep with dead or dying nobles to transfer vitality to them. So it wouldn't surprise me if there is some symbolic or cyclical connection between the GEQ and Trina.

@ackbarreserve

13 күн бұрын

I firmly believe that St. Trina was the way the world had to rebalance the absence of true death, by the introduction of the closest thing possible: eternal sleep. That would explain all the correlations between sleep and death in this game (cough - hypnos and thanatos - cough), the gloam color and, in a way, why Miquella discarded both Trina and his Love in the fissure: the act of laying someone to rest, in all the various meaning such phrase can take, is an act of care and ultimately of love.

another example of boat burial in the lands between is found beneeth stormveil. Near the lesser Godwyn husk is found the remnants of small boats as well as gravestones and a scarab with a rancor spell.

Not sure what to conclude from it, but Morgott has a lot of connections to the Curseblades. Obviously they dress similarly and both have horns, but Morgott wields his cursed sword when we fight him, the curseblade mask boosts dexterity (which Morgott sword sword requires a lot of), and both jump around like maniacs in combat. What really stood out to me was the Curseblade mask description stating “causes the blessing of the Erdtree to become nauseating”, which none of the other hornsent helmets state, and Morgott literally begins retching during his fight. There might not be too much behind this aside from the obvious parallels, but haven’t seen anyone else make this observation yet

@beastren

13 күн бұрын

I WAS GONNA SAY!!!! also the idea of being ascetic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! morgott wears rags and deprives himself of like every sort of comfort or pleasure or desire and self flagellates, both emotionally and potentially physically. he is literally an ascetic... which is what the curseblades were also called.... i don't think he took practices directly from them or is actually connected to them, but it made me crazy bc it feels like an effect of generational trauma that he happens to parallel them

@arealhumanbean3058

13 күн бұрын

Omens have nightmares about "horned ancients" acording to Omen Killer set, which I believe means that they dream about the hornsent in general Maybe Morgott's dreams were particularly haunted by the curseblades, and even if subconsciously, he started mimicking their style

Its just a thought but I always wondered why Mogh announced his dynasty at his end as Moghwyn as if he knew what his role was within Miquella's plan was (obviously he was under his control but aware of the plan as Miquella's puppet) But I believe that he was under the impression that it would be his soul that would reside within a new host body more specifically his brothers Godwyn, hence Moghwyn. Its a stretch and I doubt this is the case but I think there is strong president for it.

I saw someone reference this in another video but the spiral imagery also harkens to DNA double helix 🧬 and the crucible ritual of having combatants fight to death and spill their primordial fluids (blood) in order to activate the Divine Gate. We see Marika walking on bloodied corpses in her ascension to Godhood. The divine gate is riddled with corpses. So it made me think of how did Miquella achieve this? Well he compelled a band of followers to come to the land of shadow. And upon having the bewitchment break, we all conveniently slaughter eachother in the sand pits right before Miquella ascends to godhood. So it makes you wonder if this was the motive for him bewitching all of these people for this sole purpose, and he knew they would fight one another upon regaining their memories

“oh wait ew stinky” HAHAHAHA cuteee

4:41 those boats are also beside the secret passage to abyssal woods! It’s a coffin like the ones between waterways below the lands between (and the coffin ships on cerulean coast), and I think that passage was used to ferry the burned ashes down into the abyssal woods. The dlc revealed that the frenzied flame melts away spirits, so this may be their attempt to halt the formation of those who live in death! It would go some way to explaining why D’s cape is decorated with two snakes when they’re typically considered enemies of the golden order

The spiral columns are a frequent element in baroque opera set design, which given the divine stage setting for the Lion dancer fight might be relevant. Also, I personally think the Formless Mother is supposed to represent a sort of liminal goddess of transgression and opening of forbidden paths to knowledge or other esoteric truth as much as one of violence and bloodshed, which makes Mohg's chamber as the entry into the shadowlands make a lot of sense, as well as perhaps explaining in part why his body is able to be transported there and Radahn's is not (assuming there's a reason beyond just the fact that it's wracked with scarlet rot.)

This video has everything, smooth ambience, BJ Pillars, even a Jeremy jumpscare, Lore is back baybeeey!

just wanna say i love the jerma tibia mariner voice clip. OH DUDE SICK BOAT ENCOUNTER

This video was such a joy. I'd already made the connection of the tibia mariner's boats in the shadow keep, but never thought the the keep might itself be the Helphen. Now I have the need to check each and everyone of its rooftops until I see the one depicted in the sword. Thank you, Quelaag.

The editing on this is great, loving the new format!!

Love that you used Charon imagery from the game Hades , such a beautiful art style. Great video quelaag

@quelaag

14 күн бұрын

My editor is the best! They chose most of the visual depictions but I love that interpretation of Charon too

Speaking of columns: the outer god heirloom (talisman) also reminds me of the Priestess tarot you mentioned. It seems to depict a tutelary deity posed in front of an archway with columns, except that there's something sinister about the background of the archway (looks like roots taking hold of it). Yeah, the Outer Gods seem to be able to manifest through feelings of extreme suffering, which is sort of Berserk-esque (shock!). Great video - already so much to revisit on my next jaunt to the Shadow Lands.

Enjoyed the ambient melodies that accompanied the lore dive. Fits the video well.

11:40 its fun that this is shown in mechanics too. miquella's incantations only require faith now and dont keep skeletons from resurrecting.

I love the idea that suffering allows to commune with outer gods. I found that it's weird that we get 2 instances of a burned down place and a "new" finding of a god. Romina is one example, but there is the sigil that boosts arcane, that also states they found in the burned corpse their new god. I believe that is linked to the formless mother, as the location is full of bloodherolds. Which to me is a nod to fromsoft's usual idea, that fire brings a new age, like in darksouls.

The line about the seduction and betrayal is actually ripped right out of berserk, it’s what Griffith did to the band of the hawk. He seduced them all in to help herald his dream and then of course, betrayed them. The scene of the gates of divinity being made of a literal mountain of bodies is berserk imagery in its finest as well as metaphorical to the idea of “the great rising upon a stair case of corpses” The seduction and the betrayal also harkens to Christian mythology, the snake seducing and then betraying Eve, I mean hell there’s even a tree involved 😅 I think Elden ring flipped the script though, I think Marika seduced the eternal serpent and then betrayed it after being traumatized by the genocide of her people. It would answer a lot of questions as to why messimer has snake aspects and why the serpent is supposedly “the enemy of the erdtree” I mean, even messimer’s fire, the eternal serpent lives in a volcano. It’s also clear Rykard knows about the lands of shadow from the virgin by that fort I can’t recall the name of. I’m working on my own theories regarding all this, but I think it’s all connected, the fell god, the dragons, the eternal serpent, the (new) abyssal serpent, the gloam eyed queen and marika. Oh and Melina too. I think both her and messimer are visages of marika’s bloody rise to the throne that came through, which is why both their “bad” eyes are sealed.

Your lore videos are the best! There is so much lore in this DLC it's crazy. Can't wait to see what you have next!

Babe wake up Quelaag talked about Helphen!

She’s so cute and smart 🥹🥰 Lovely stories with a beautiful voice. I’d never figure this lore out in my own.

@Eizengoldt

13 күн бұрын

She just like me fr

Melina is an alter ego to Messmer. Like st. Trina to Miquella, like Radagon to Marika. There. ER explained. Thank You, I'll be here all week.

It's fascinating to see someone explain fiction like this.

the jerma tibia mariner throwback really makes this video for me the lore is great too

13:47 I always thought Malenia stabbed herself to break Miquella's needle that's why we find it broken in Caelid where they fought.

You pointing out that the sealing tower marks the very centre of the lands between gave me a huge realisation. Looking at the map of the lands between, what is in the centre? Nothing. Just ocean. A big gap. If you filled in that ocean, you'd get a landmass with the Erdtree just off its northern shore. And sure enough the Shadowlands map is a single landmass, with the Scadutree just off its northern shore...

@mateuszsotys3912

3 күн бұрын

There is a post on reddit where someone overlayed both maps this very way (with the pillar between the divine towers). And well, it fits almost perfectly. After taking into the account that parts of the land may have crumbled after being separated (and a lot of time that passed) then we can safely assume that the Land of Shadow was in that gap

Another thing that you have mentioned before on stream is that the tower in Belurat and the spiral motif is very reminiscent of the Tower of Babel. In a lot of artistic depictions of the Tower of Babel it’s shown as a spiral; reaching towards heaven. That seems to be why spiral objects, like Metyr’s tail, are able to communicate with the outer gods.

Another instance of Divine Suffering is the Blood Fiends in the Land of Shadow. They saw the Formless Mother in the corpse of one of their kin during a great tragedy. It's also possible that the Blood Fiends are transformed Demi-Humans because they drop String and they get red eyes at night! So they may be a splinter of Demi-Humans who found the Formless Mother during divine suffering!

Amazing video and I love the format, can’t wait for the rest of the series

Really enjoy your videos. You do such a good job of picking up on these overlooked threads and details and tying them together in a compelling and engaging theory

This DLC has given me so so much to chew on theme-wise, the sheer amount of mothers and especially children reacting to being abandoned by their mothers and either being lost or resolving to become new mothers just kills me. Both Messmer and Miquella have this towards Marika, Metyr and Ymir have this towards the Greater Will, even Romina becomes a surrogate mother for the children of the scarlet rot. It's so insanely cohesive in building up what grace & kindness & night all mean and it contextualizes the thousand-year voyages (Miquella & Ranni) so much. Also, I'm still so thrown by the Blackflame sigil being *really close* to Metyr's face/main finger? It's absolutely buck wild. I don't think Metyr was the Gloam-Eyed Queen, but maybe it's like a Marika/Two Fingers situation with her guiding them. Also, like, the five-fingered hand??? Did Metyr do that??? It would explain why she's dysfunctional, she's not making proper five-fingered hands anymore, and it'd give a reasonably long timeframe for her to work and then be abandoned. I'm just like, chomping at the bit on this one. So much juicy stuff.

this is a lot! I like the shorter form videos since I get easily overwhelmed. thank u

Hey Quelaag, I absolutely enjoy your lore content. Its by far my favourite since you're kinda very close to how an art team usually works with all those references and brainstorming. I've been working in agencies exactly like you're doing in Miro to create concepts. You're analysing a piece of art as I've learned when I studied design, reading symbols and putting it into context. I'm a hardcore nerd for mythological stuff privately and a rather quiet lore enjoyer. But your historical/mythological/theological analysis are always astonishing and so much on point. What I want to say is: Your videos keep me up at night :) Keep up your awesome work!

This is the one. The production on this is so great and I can tell it took a lot of work. Fantastic!

You make some of the best lore content out there. Thanks so much! Can't wait to hear your continuing thoughts on the DLC lore!

Babe wake up new Quelaag lore has dropped

I love your style of covering the lore in these games, been waiting for this one!

The fates of the Carian royals (not just Carian Empyrians) is determined by the stars. The stars are "promising" that the fate of Raddahn is that of Miquella's consort, whether Raddahn likes it or not. He clearly doesn't, since he stops the stars and therefore his fate as Miquella's consort, so Miquella sends Malenia to kill him making all the star-stopping pointless.

This feels like a new era for your channel! Amazing video and excited for more

I love your videos; they're always so engaging and thought-provoking. Also, Signalis OST is amazing

OHHHHH THE HORNS OF THE CRUCIBLE MIGHT BE THE LINK THAT WAS REQUIRED TO BRING ANOTHER SOUL INTO THE BODY

@hush5717

13 күн бұрын

Since they’re heavily tied to evolution and constant change the omen might just be the perfect vessels

So edited, so charming. I'm always gonna watch any random lore video from Quel but I hope these tightly edited vids bring more people in. Like, there's good, good Soulslike stuff to be had here. It's worth the hr+ vids. Trust her.

I love your videos. They are my favorite way to consume Elden Ring lore, archaeology, architecture, and connections to history. Your voice is lovely and you have such a chill way of presenting things. I think people reading scripts gets old. I feel like you’re just chatting with me. You’re the best!

Regarding the suffering part, I think it's interesting that the lamenter is described as "the state of a denizen of paradise." The upside down buildings in Enir-Ilim also remind me of the Eternal Cities.

The tiny gremlin avatar to edit all around footage has made you so powerful

What an amazing treat of a video! =D Your curiosity and knowledge are very contagious. Now I just wanna do more research.

Maybe the suffering of those who were sacrificed to create the Divine Gate is what allows it to have those divine properties to begin with

Love the new fancy video style and your insights into Elden Ring lore - you're super knowledgeable about the historical context and I always learn so much about the real world as well as ER/Souls from your vids!

Great video! So excited to see what else you will share

Needlessly convoluted insomnia

I’ve been longing for a video from you eagerly ever since the dlc came out. Went in with the helphen great sword as my main weapon so this couldn’t have been a better topic

Chibi Quelaag and the editing in general were awesome Thanks for this + the content of the video

You are so pretty 😍 and your approach to the lore feels very grounded and well thought 😃

Queelag's videos keep me up at night(it's deep dead night here and storm rages outside)

i've seen your username in other videos and online in reference to lore but never checked you out before. i'm so glad i finally did!! i could listen to you talk about lore forever, if your videos were hours long i would continue to listen. time to go back and watch everything i've missed!!

just wanted to say the editing in this is great

The Divine Gate reminds me a lot of Rodin's masterpiece sculpture, the Gates of Hell. It's a big gate with depictions of Dante's Inferno. It's where the Thinker comes from. It's also interesting that the Gradham mentions sculpters a lot. That's probably a reference to the bodies that build the city. Also, the bodies at the Divine Gate appear to be the same kind of stone that Fractured Marika is at the end of the game. Assuming the bodies are Shaman bodies, this would make sense. A lot different than the red bodies seen in the trailer.

@JoeDower101

13 күн бұрын

The bodies in the divine gate have horns so they're Hornsent and not Shamans

@Oracle_Orhyn

13 күн бұрын

@@JoeDower101 no, they’re a mix. It seemed like a cultural practice where they would willing sacrifice their own people (Hornsent), but also use any foreigners whose flesh they’d deem as worthy of being able to meld flesh together (Shamans)

@BackwardsPancake

13 күн бұрын

The most interesting thing to me is how the inside of the gate forms Marika's rune. And how that rune is kind of similar to Metyr's microcosm-holding appendage. Perhaps it symbolizes contact with the Greater Will. Or, if the Greater Will really is gone/silent, perhaps it symbolizes drawing power from it/the plane in which it exists. The shape is also kind of like a funnel, after all.

Started watching you during streams of SOTE I love your video style! Time to binge your videos

the subtle jerma soundclip in there was nice and crispy

Ok so what is going on with Miquella mechanically? 1. He was in the tree in a cocoon. In the intro we see Mohg carrying the cocoon AND Miquella’s childlike body separately. 2. We find a corpse (Miquella’s?) in the cocoon in Mohgwyn palace. 3. Apparently Miquella was wandering around the realm of shadow in childlike form in the flesh discarding of his flesh, including St Trina separately. WHAT is going on here? This leads me to believe that is not Miquella’s corpse in the cocoon but I don’t know what it would be. Thoughts?

Que, the editing style is adorable!!!! fantastic vid as always!

Finally a channel that paints all of the esoteric and occult themes behind ER lore! YESSS!!! I found it cool that you mentioned the two pillars, as in a lot of Kabalistic guided dogmas and magic circles that come in touch with Hermeticism even, the foundations of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life is comprised of a Right Black Pillar of Severity and a Left White Pillar of Mercy (respectively represented by the letter J & B sometimes, which you depicted in the Tarot card, that should read 'Jachin' and 'Boaz', the main outter pillars of the Solomonic temple). Lastly there is also a third middle pillar representing the self / self-highness, thus the connection of the mundane with god.

That tower with the note that claims to be "the very center of the Lands Between" is my white whale of lore now because of the second part of the note: "All manners of Death wash up there, only to be suppresed." It refers to the Lands Between as the place where "All manners of Death wash up," at least at the time when the tower was built (which is presumably before removal of the DD from Elden Ring and before separation between TLB and Shadowrealm). It recontextualizes so much of the lore and certainly keeps me up at night.

@TheBlaringBlue

13 күн бұрын

Naw. "All manners of Death wash up here" where "here" refers to the land of shadow. It's explained in this very video. TLB is not where all manners of death wash up, TLS is.

@mr_jyggalag

13 күн бұрын

@@TheBlaringBlue why then does the first part of the sentence refer to the tower as the center of the Lands Between, if in the very next sentence it talks just about the Lands of Shadow without referring to it by name? If tower was built after the separation of TLB and the realm of shadow, it doesn't make sense to refer to itself as "the very center of the Lands Between." If it was built before separation, the second sentence should refer to the Lands Between as a place where "all manners of Death wash up."

@meep9873

13 күн бұрын

@@mr_jyggalagI agree with your assessment and it does indeed recontextualize many things. TLoS is or was part of TLB. It was “phased” out with the veil that Marika places over it. But yes at one point they were all on the same plain

@thanosmat

13 күн бұрын

@@TheBlaringBlue No. The message refers to the Lands Between not the Land of Shadows

@TheBlaringBlue

13 күн бұрын

@@mr_jyggalag you see any death “washing up” in TLB? You see any death washing up in TLS? This should answer your question

really enjoying the lil avatar guiding us through the video. really activates the attention span neurons

Love the new format! Great vid

Great video as always! Loved the editing in this one!

I love seeing new quelaag videos pop up and finding out what keeps her up at night

The editing is perfect for my adhd brain, thank you editor

I love your lil profile pic character and how they show up and do silly things in the video

Every day I am grateful for u and ur content

Quelaag, idk if you've heard anyone else say this (haven't caught up to your streams too), but Enir-Ilim gave off huge Tower of Babel vibes for me. Like, the hubris of people constructing a divine tower to reach Heaven in order to ascend to godhood, much like Miquella and Marika had done I'm not as well versed in other lore as you or your audience so I could be totally wrong, but I thought it was a neat allusion :)

This is why Elden Ring, to me, is the greatest From Software game: the lore! Thank you for making such an insightful video :) looking forward to more

I find myself speculating on the relationship between the Tower, beasts, divinity, and order: - Divine beast seems to be a lion, judging from the Belurat boss and the Divine Beast Warriors in Enir Ilim - Storm appears to be important, possibly part of divine power (or wrath), used by Belurat boss and Divine Beast Warriors in Enir Ilim - Serosh is a lion, white like the beast depicted by the Divine Beast Helm, and is associated with Stormveil - The thing in the trailer from which Marika plucks gold fabric doesn't look 100% like a white lion but could be close - Maliketh is a beast and, as Guranq, gives you a hammer that directly references Serosh This is still tin-foily, but I wonder if Marika's betrayal has something to do with stealing the life of the divine in the form of gold. If the gold is of the divine beasts, then perhaps using it as a fundamental component of the Elden Ring indirectly weaves the fate of beasts into Marika's order and maybe all forms of order governed by the Elden Ring (meaning, all endings in which we mend the ring). Still very undeveloped, but it feels like there's something here.

@spearsage

12 күн бұрын

It's not only lion. The first known divine beast was actually bird-shaped. Messmer's army kinda slaughter these beasts, and by the suggestion of some of his underlings, Messmer had their corpses kept in Shadow Keep's specimen room.

I absolutely love how the spiral imagery seems to have percolated down from the cosmos or the divine, through almost every aspect of life in The Lands Between. It reminds me of the Fibonacci sequence in real life, and how patterns, currents and symbols in nature are connected even when they don't appear to be, and in reality this is due to the underlying fabric of the structure of the universe (mathematics as we know it). The spiral seems to function in the same way in The Lands Between, a natural groove for energy to take. The fact that gazing upon the Primeval current also drives one mad with overwhelming insight and cosmic knowledge ties into this I think, the idea that trying to fully understand the true nature of the universe is too great for any one mind to comprehend.

oh my god 50 seconds in and you're already blowing my mind. How did I never make the connection between that massive gate and sealing off the two realms from each other?? It seems so obvious in retrospect but up until right now I was constantly wondering how the shadow realm and lands between were connected. That is connecting so many puzzle pieces in my head now. I always thought the trailer was showing her *opening* the gate to the lands between, but I had never considered it was the opposite.

I am so excited for more quelaag content Please ramble for multiple hours about Elden ring lore I must be fed

One thing I found interesting that isn't necessarily apparently until you defeat Gaius and view the Shadow Keep from the back, is that there appear to be at least 2 distinct architectural styles in the Keep's towers, with the area that is the Specimen Storehouse looks much older, like a medieval castle, while the parts that have all of the snake iconography and Messmer insignias appears to be almost gothic in design (I am not a huge architecture buff so I mainly know the distinctions from your other videos). The older-looking part is connected to the ruins of Rauh and has the Specimen Storehouse, so all the stuff in there makes me think that the Keep was at one point in time a Hornsent castle, which was eventually taken over by Messmer's forces who added the newer, gothic architecture with the flying buttresses. I also feel like that makes sense since that style of architecture in Elden Ring is linked to the Eternal Cities, which have connections to Marika as well. The DLC has if anything made the timeline EVEN MORE CONFUSING to me but this seems to make sense to me idk

the center of the faram elden ring, the fingerslayer blade and the radagon sword in elden beasts hand are spirals

@EveliaInfinity

13 күн бұрын

and the scadutree too

The only part ive been a bit confused on was did mohg and malenia get enchanted in a sense that they didny know miquella was even there? Felt like malenia was tricked into waiting at the haligtree after being used as a nuke and mohg got used as a blood uber