This Elden Ring Theory Changed My Mind

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  • @agtjake
    @agtjake2 ай бұрын

    Go sub to Tim! ► www.youtube.com/@timdiggity

  • @R_o_o_k_i_n_g_t_o_n

    @R_o_o_k_i_n_g_t_o_n

    2 ай бұрын

    i also think its actually a pretty solid idea even if i think that the og theory creator doesnt know enough about the lore to understand all the theories implications.

  • @R_o_o_k_i_n_g_t_o_n

    @R_o_o_k_i_n_g_t_o_n

    2 ай бұрын

    also i personally feel that melina is more akin to the marika, radagon situation with it being miquella was the original personality and melina/trina was her own person and perhaps the adult version of trina being so terrifying was actually the version of her we saw during the flame of frenzy ending and her purple eye isnt the gloam eye of the gloam eyed queen but the sleep magic within her AND that puts even more about 'her mother' into perspective as she would be talking as her purpose from 'her mother' actually techincally being to miquella and it was just to st. trina by proxy

  • @ostravamasterson4178

    @ostravamasterson4178

    2 ай бұрын

    Holly shet two replay now is my chance, Fia is Fortissax :D

  • @ostravamasterson4178

    @ostravamasterson4178

    2 ай бұрын

    Jake!!! Fia is Fortissax names shorten as dragon shorten into maidens item descriptions lanseax is Lanea

  • @codypatton2859

    @codypatton2859

    Ай бұрын

    Rya doesn't teleport you, they just skip the travel sequence because who wants to follow an NPC that insanely far?

  • @rexsybimatrimawahyu3292
    @rexsybimatrimawahyu32922 ай бұрын

    At this point Miquella is Miyazaki himself Hidetaka Miquellazaki.

  • @tasosplat3589

    @tasosplat3589

    2 ай бұрын

    Miquellaki*

  • @giovanniprovost

    @giovanniprovost

    2 ай бұрын

    @@tasosplat3589 St. Trina is in a sleep swamp, and is Miquella, and Miyazaki loves Swamps. Simple. Miquellaki.

  • @apolloisnotashirt

    @apolloisnotashirt

    2 ай бұрын

    best girl for real

  • @timdiggity
    @timdiggity2 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the support, Jake! And I’m glad you liked the upbeat jams. I need this DLC immediately

  • @IceFireGamingMinecraft

    @IceFireGamingMinecraft

    2 ай бұрын

    The man , the myth , the legend.

  • @zefft.f4010

    @zefft.f4010

    2 ай бұрын

    Music is good, maybe a little loud at times, though? Anyway, thanks for the theory, Tim, looking forward to whatever you're cooking up next.

  • @timdiggity

    @timdiggity

    2 ай бұрын

    @@zefft.f4010 Noted! I’m definitely lowering it a bit in my next video. Working on a Land of Shadow speculation video now!

  • @the1384

    @the1384

    2 ай бұрын

    Hi @timdiggity thanks for that great Video Please let me add some great Thinks to bring us all to more great Content. 1. St.Trina aka Melina alias Miquella is also the One who established the Maiden System and whom the Maidens drew their Power from similar to how the Godskins Channeled there Power from the Gloam-Eyed Queens Flame, the Maidens Channel there’s trough St.Trinas Flame aka Miquellas Torch. Melina was the Only one who had to look for a Flame, that is the purpose given to her. 2. Originally Torrent is from the Land of Shadows Miquella created him there. In the DLC Trailer someone said: I’m asking myself what “kind” Miquella was doing there. What he meant is what kind of creatures is Miquella creating in the Land of Shadows with the Help of Unalloyed Gold and all his Wisdom he gathered in the Lands Between. Fun Note: “Kind” means Child in German🫥 The Whistle is Made out of Unalloyed Gold and summons Torrent from the “Land of Shadows”. If the Crucible is really in the Land of Shadows that would explain alot. 3. Maidens are related to that Hand Gesture and someone in the Lands Between hunted them down. We don’t really know the Full Story about that Topic but I hope the DLC will give us those kind of answers. 4. Divesting thy Flesh - Yes Fromsoftware but with “What” and how “much” of it is something all of Marikas Children did, some willingly and others did not even had a Choice… I believe it’s a criteria if those Demigod children want to ascend. Gideon said that all of us should continue to struggle unto eternity because the Rune of Death was sealed and no one really died in the Lands Between because of Marika/Radagon. 5. I believe Melina/Miquella dislikes the Frenzied Flame because that was originally the Worst possible outcome for the Lands Between. Please consider that what happened or what we will find in the Land of Shadows is either older than the 2 or 3 Fingers established Existence and Working Mechanics or worse than the Frenzied Flame Ending because why wouldn’t Marika Hide something like that from the Lands. Maybe the Fingers and the Divine Towers are originally from the Land of Shadows. And in the Frenzied Flame Ending it looks like Melina is even stronger and threatens the Lord of Frenzied Flame. 6. The Black Knive Assassins are presumably Scions of the Eternal City and Godwyn is the Scion of the Golden Bough. Maybe his children or his personal Maidens who betrayed him. Maybe Maidens are all related to the Golden Lineage. I hope I could help the Community I have more but let’s Stop here Thanks

  • @ianthorpe1925

    @ianthorpe1925

    2 ай бұрын

    Where can I find this music? Can you share some names of the tracks? I was thinking maybe it is from Nier?

  • @Coast2CoastFlyin
    @Coast2CoastFlyin2 ай бұрын

    Messmer being the one in the egg instead of Miquella is reminiscent of the Cuckoo bird, which is an important symbol and hints at a deeper Carina connection

  • @cinderbones

    @cinderbones

    2 ай бұрын

    he just put some dude in there then?

  • @Coast2CoastFlyin

    @Coast2CoastFlyin

    2 ай бұрын

    Either Messemer or some as of right now unknown random guy. The body does closely resemble Morgott after we defeat him, who in turn resembles the guy in the paintings with Marika that we later see trying to remove a real nasty splinter from...his entire body. From the shoulders down, Morgotts corpse resembles the headless demigod bodies in the Mausoleums, so whoever is in the egg, they are a demigod of some sort

  • @nnnnnnnnn8888

    @nnnnnnnnn8888

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Coast2CoastFlyin i theorized long ago that the body morphed into an omen like creature because the omen blood of Mogh. and Maybe Mogh original body also looks like Morgott corpse when we defeat him

  • @monroerobbins7551

    @monroerobbins7551

    Ай бұрын

    I could kind of understand why people would think that, but I don’t think it’s the case for one reason: Miquella was kidnapped way after Messmer waged war. From what we see, the hidden war was long ago, and was right after the Golden Order was made. So, it’d be really confusing if Messmer waged war, then got possessed by Miquella somehow, and now he’s just a corpse in an egg.

  • @Josamateurhomebrew

    @Josamateurhomebrew

    Ай бұрын

    Exactly, it was a long time ago but what if he was "Born Anew"?

  • @Mario-SunshineGalaxy64
    @Mario-SunshineGalaxy642 ай бұрын

    Maybe the real Miquella was the friends we made (and got killed) along the way.

  • @Gameboy-2007-yt

    @Gameboy-2007-yt

    2 ай бұрын

    Lmao

  • @lwazinkasawe3887
    @lwazinkasawe38872 ай бұрын

    And you know what's wild? you know what they say, Sleep and Death are cousins.

  • @satorrotas93

    @satorrotas93

    2 ай бұрын

    Sleep is the “cousin” of death.

  • @themasquerader101

    @themasquerader101

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@satorrotas93in Jungian psychology (which is what Elden Ring is partially based on) sleep, or more specifically lucid dreaming and interpretation are used as tools to communicate with the unconscious aspects of yourself. This practice leads to shattering of the Persona/social mask that we all wear. As well as a confrontation with the Shadow which is the repressed and/or unacceptable aspects of ourself. It goes much deeper than this but that's a decent start.

  • @Gt_3v3n

    @Gt_3v3n

    2 ай бұрын

    ... but not one in the same. Even still, after hearing this I don't think they are tye same. It's more evidence for torrent being him then her

  • @joshkomo7870

    @joshkomo7870

    2 ай бұрын

    Gotta find that gold, man. It annoys me when people scoff at the pretty clear.philosphical themes in these games. Spot on. Bit of nietzchian "frenzy=nihilism / affirmation of life being a good thing"

  • @joshkomo7870

    @joshkomo7870

    2 ай бұрын

    as well (be but mainly yungian, yes)

  • @CoperliteConsumer
    @CoperliteConsumer2 ай бұрын

    The egg will grab us, then if we have collected the M's from all bosses that start with M, a giant M will apear, flip upside down and the screen will shake as we enter the WUMBO realm!

  • @krashdevaughn5360

    @krashdevaughn5360

    2 ай бұрын

    😭😭😭😭

  • @BigSteveLive

    @BigSteveLive

    2 ай бұрын

    *PEAK FICTION INTENSIFIES!!!*

  • @DirtSpud

    @DirtSpud

    Ай бұрын

    The all powerful demigod whose name strikes fear into the hearts of his adversaries, and his name is Mark. Fear him!

  • @DasBaumable
    @DasBaumable2 ай бұрын

    22:00 to add to your suspicion, the voice we all assume to be Miquella's says "touch THE withered arm" not "MY withered arm" - feels like one of those details Fromsoft like to hide in plain sight

  • @douglasmidvik5866

    @douglasmidvik5866

    Ай бұрын

    Holy macaroni

  • @paralam2175
    @paralam21752 ай бұрын

    The reason for Mohg saying "Dearest Miquella" to the corpse is that he was in the Shadow Realm together with Miquella but had to peace out when you showed up

  • @TheRealJohnux

    @TheRealJohnux

    2 ай бұрын

    Actually more believable than Melina being him.

  • @neilsaura-sacatropez9372
    @neilsaura-sacatropez93722 ай бұрын

    Imagine if this turns out to be true melina's "I'm no maiden" becomes literal lmao

  • @Augmenti8323

    @Augmenti8323

    Ай бұрын

    So all this time we would actually be Maidenless?

  • @PogiAmiga_Sesshomaru

    @PogiAmiga_Sesshomaru

    Ай бұрын

    Jokes on you I'm into that

  • @ryanleatigaga7596
    @ryanleatigaga75962 ай бұрын

    He's Miquella, He's Miquella, you're Miquella - I'M MIQUELLA! Are there any OTHER Miquellas I should know about?!

  • @breathair66

    @breathair66

    2 ай бұрын

    trump is miquella bro everytime he goes to sleep his second personality kicks in

  • @ReneAensland

    @ReneAensland

    2 ай бұрын

    *meows in miquella*

  • @jimb.598

    @jimb.598

    Ай бұрын

    Whoever is Miquella, please put me to sleep until the dlc is released. This wait feels like an eternity.

  • @Bobsteperous

    @Bobsteperous

    6 күн бұрын

    "Mroooooow..."

  • @EldenLadyBea
    @EldenLadyBeaАй бұрын

    Ranni, Melina, Gloom Eyed Queen, St. Trina, Messmer, Malenia...... omg, at this point my braincells cant even look at all the theories from those and think about it 💀

  • @littlefernfae
    @littlefernfae2 ай бұрын

    EUREKA!!! If Miquella and Melina are like two halves of the same being, like Radagon and Marika, then EACH half has its own alter ego! St. Trina is the alter ego of the Miquella half, and The Gloam Eyed Queen is the alter ego of the Melina half. BOOM!💥

  • @yerkkoo

    @yerkkoo

    2 ай бұрын

    Methamphetamine

  • @KevD720

    @KevD720

    2 ай бұрын

    Or st Trina is the gloam eyed queen

  • @mynameisurl1073

    @mynameisurl1073

    2 ай бұрын

    Didn't the gloam eyed queen exist well before the birth of Miquella and even before the elden beast landed in the lands between?

  • @alazarielanderson5367

    @alazarielanderson5367

    2 ай бұрын

    @@mynameisurl1073 Do we have any actual confirmation on when Micky and Malenia were born? Not that i can remember. I think the game wants us to be confused on this aspect, and personally i think the divine twins were born far before the Carian kids.

  • @kaylalitz1410

    @kaylalitz1410

    2 ай бұрын

    Ohhhhh I like this!!! Helps a lot with the alternatives, could also be like Greek gods and they're different names gods have been called over so much time!!

  • @samfish2550
    @samfish25502 ай бұрын

    Alternative weird entry idea, the hand grabs us and yoinks us into the egg.

  • @krimson4257

    @krimson4257

    Ай бұрын

    ds1 moment

  • @bethfinne3260
    @bethfinne32602 ай бұрын

    "Comely" is an old word for attractive or pretty. "She's a comely lass, and quite jolly"

  • @MATCHLESS789

    @MATCHLESS789

    2 ай бұрын

    Make sure to not confuse it him "homely" if you go around complimenting people.

  • @calpal6249
    @calpal62492 ай бұрын

    I always thought that it’s not Miquella inside the egg. My best guess is that it’s Messmer placed there as a decoy. Messmer is shown to have a thin almost spindled body type. Almost exactly like the arm. Perhaps his body is there while his spirit is in the land of shadow.

  • @Coast2CoastFlyin

    @Coast2CoastFlyin

    2 ай бұрын

    If you look closely, when Messmer stands tall in the trailer, his snakes flow behind him in a nearly identical form as Marika’s robes from her statue

  • @Moss_and_Such
    @Moss_and_Such2 ай бұрын

    “Comely” is def a GRRM contribution. Uses it all the time in ASOIAF

  • @buckyhurdle4776

    @buckyhurdle4776

    2 ай бұрын

    Comely lmao, not cumley. Trina is comely, I'm cumley

  • @Shibanobi

    @Shibanobi

    2 ай бұрын

    You either die comely or live long enough to be declared craven

  • @bobilly
    @bobilly2 ай бұрын

    13:45 I think you're trying to describe Astral Projection, which I could see. But "divesting of flesh" reminds me more of Ranni's actions

  • @seanslaysean7097
    @seanslaysean70972 ай бұрын

    8:30 From what I know, riding side-saddle was a common thing amongst women of nobility as it was thought to protect the hymen from rupturing. This further added to the idea of noble womanhood.

  • @kaylalitz1410

    @kaylalitz1410

    2 ай бұрын

    I mean it's definetly considered a more feminine thing to do, to the point where it was super obseen for males to do it. And women who had trouble or hated riding side saddle actually had a fake wooden leg they would poke out with their real one (while hiding the other under their dress) to appear as if riding side saddle to maintain femininity 😂

  • @RepellentJeff

    @RepellentJeff

    Ай бұрын

    It’s even simpler than that, man. It’s because it’s harder to sit in a saddle when you’re wearing robes/a dress instead of pants. That’s it.

  • @henrywilljb
    @henrywilljb2 ай бұрын

    I'm still in the camp that Melina is Messmer's alter ego, the one he divested himself of the first time he burned the entree, which is why she is also deadset on burning the erdtree as well. Both of them also have their left eye shut.

  • @hrawwr

    @hrawwr

    Ай бұрын

    but messmer has dragon comunion eyes

  • @theclaybeartravels3596

    @theclaybeartravels3596

    Ай бұрын

    ​@assgardiano Melinas right eye is yellow like the same color of the dragon eyes. However, Marika looks very differently than Radagon as well, yet they're the same person. However Marika and Radagon were also rhe Elden Beast, sooooo what if Melina, Messmer, Miquela and St Trina are the same person

  • @wkave

    @wkave

    Ай бұрын

    The finger maiden at the lake says that you "only need to grab it from the pot" (giant fire) to gain Mikela's approval, so he definitely wants the tree burned

  • @NPC3.14
    @NPC3.142 ай бұрын

    I like your theory about Mezmer being Miquella because somewhere in the game i remember reading or hearing how the people of the lands between all feel compelled to worship Miquella as if it were not their own will and this gets into the meaning of the word, Mesmerize, like the name of the new demigod You also mentioned the snake in the cocoon and this association with blood are both associated with the outer gods, the Night Mother and the Great Serpent In Morgotts monologue, he reveals his contempt when addressing the thrones, as if they were all in cahoots, within the shadow of the Erdtree, where the enemies of the Erd Tree reside and weave their plans. The serpent was also tied in with Rykard and these are all red phantom Coventry, so to speak. Also, before Morgott fight, you can summon Melina and she uses a couple of unique skills; the erd tree daggers like Margit/Morgott but also the Erd Tree healing spell. This would make sense that Melina is the shadow of Marika or maybe Ranni; being an assassin but also a proxy of the Erd Tree 2 finger assassins, but in Rannis case she rebelled. 1 more thing that comes to mind are the Baleful Shadows sent to assassinate the enemies of the 2 fingers/Erd Tree. So think of it as the shadows cast of the 2 fingers, with light from the Erdtree. This may also be what Goldmask is actually studying, the broken patterns of light and shadow are like a binary matrix code that he can interpret. It seems to me that every core story character may have a shadow double

  • @kaylalitz1410

    @kaylalitz1410

    2 ай бұрын

    Dude the light and shadow part of what your saying is so so cool. Honestly I never thought about that but like all the outer gods are kinda light sources if you think about it. The moon, the sun, the erdtree, the different fires associated with outer gods. All casting shadows when effecting an object. The fact there is so much shadow and light imagry feels important. Like the duality of it and the splitting of one thing into two also feels like a great explanation along with chemistry/ alchemy imagry for having like duality of chemicals or reactions. Or mixed metals being heated up and made unalloyed/it's untrained, original state in cruicibles. So much like whole imagry and it's divisions/dualities. Like the many combos of merika/radagon, melania/miquiella, the empyreans to their shadows, the erd tree and it's shadow realm. The goldmask comment you made also is so thought provoking!!

  • @bonfiremoments

    @bonfiremoments

    Ай бұрын

    awesome theory no joke

  • @Josamateurhomebrew

    @Josamateurhomebrew

    Ай бұрын

    Awesome. So Marika is basking in the light of the Erdtree/Greater Will, casting the Radagon shadow. What if in Miquella's quest to rid the world of the outer gods, he is shone on by the different "light sources", the Destined Death casting Melina, and the Moon casting St Trina (moon/night/sleep?), and the formless mother casting Messmer?

  • @jeezy3
    @jeezy3Ай бұрын

    We’ve come a long way from the Two Fingers being mushrooms to Melina being Messmer, Gloam Eyed Queen and St. Trina lol

  • @ArriamOfAstora
    @ArriamOfAstora2 ай бұрын

    Imo Marika/Radagon are "one being" with "two existences" possibly giving more weight to the Miquella/Melina theory

  • @TheRealJohnux

    @TheRealJohnux

    2 ай бұрын

    So Miquella isn't (but he Also is) Saint trina ,but we apparantly meet her in the dlc, and Melina is Miquella but also probably Saint trina, because that's one of the leading evidences for that, but she (melina) burns herself ,which makes it impossible for Melina to be her

  • @briannenurse4640
    @briannenurse46402 ай бұрын

    It's so lovely to see the atmosphere of collaboration and jolly co-operation that FromSoft has fostered in its fans. All the Soulsborne channels I watch credit each other, work together, shout each other out, put spotlights on new channels, etc. It's so nice!!

  • @eduardofernandez9173
    @eduardofernandez917314 күн бұрын

    The dlc kinda debunked this

  • @neatguy89
    @neatguy892 ай бұрын

    I think of it like a bunch of planes of existence sitting on top of each other and we're the only one inside all the realms

  • @nukeberzerk134
    @nukeberzerk1342 ай бұрын

    "i haven't looked at Melina's feet enough to know if those are her shoes" 😭😭😭

  • @2JOfficial
    @2JOfficial2 ай бұрын

    I was also convinced until I saw a new video yesterday that dismisses this theory and tries to prove that Miquella is actually Torrent. Miyazaki based him off a mythological God that can shape shift into an animal that looks a lot like Torrent along with other "evidence". People should watch that one too. Timdiggity also commented on it.

  • @arcstaff

    @arcstaff

    2 ай бұрын

    unfortunately we witness both miquella and melina riding torrent at some point in the game, concept art or game art.

  • @jojomacandrew

    @jojomacandrew

    2 ай бұрын

    And we can't forget that GRRM had a hand in the story. Any one of these characters could secretly be a horse

  • @molto7783

    @molto7783

    Ай бұрын

    Ti ston peo kanei o 2j edw

  • @nobby5378
    @nobby5378Ай бұрын

    The split theory kinda makes sense seeing that miquella is the empyrean child of radagon/marika especially with the gold/red hair theme both have

  • @Ben10Blader
    @Ben10Blader2 ай бұрын

    Let's also not forget about the "tri" in St. Trina, which could be hinting at the possibility of 3 beings in 1 (as opposed to 2 in 1 for Marika/Radagon). So I'd bet that it's either Miquella/Melina/Trina, or Miquella/Messmer/Trina as the 3 in 1.

  • @monroerobbins7551
    @monroerobbins7551Ай бұрын

    One thing, though, about the corpse in the egg being Messmer’s: Messmer was alive and waging wars long before Miquella was even alive, let alone before Miquella cocooned himself, and Messmer was most likely locked away in the Shadow Realm long before Miquella was around, so… I don’t see how a guy could be doing all this crazy stuff, only to end up a mummy in an egg while being called a different name. Reason for why I think this: in the story trailer, we see Messmer burning stuff down, and it’s said that after Marika made the Golden Order, a huge war broke out. We got a warmonger as Messmer, lining up real nice after Marika started the Golden Order, and after that, it’s presumed Messmer’s locked up because Marika wants to hide how the Erdtree was made. How would Messmer then end up in a cocoon, which ends up with Mogh? That’s a little bit all over the place, IMO.

  • @CitizensRegisterHere

    @CitizensRegisterHere

    Ай бұрын

    Miquella casts away his flesh to live in a spirit existence and remove himself from his curse of eternal childhood. Who’s to say Messemer from the shadow realm didn’t steal his body while it was empty? We know Ranni cast away her body but that was through destined death shenanigans so the body died permanently. Miquellas body could be a manipulated husk.

  • @BrassPetals3Voices
    @BrassPetals3Voices2 ай бұрын

    Crazy theory: GEQ is Marika’s Dark Moon (Numen) shadow self making GEQ-type traits pass down to her children along with their Father’s ancestry. Melina inherited Radagon fire + Gloam eye traits which emerged with the release of Death. Miquella inherited day/gold + slight Numen mind control ability (compel) while Trina inherited night/silver + slight Numen mind control and GEQ-lite ability (sleep). Godwyn was the Scion of the Golden bough but became the Prince of Death (switched aspects from light/life to gloam/death). I don’t think Marika could control her GEQ shadow self, so removed it and sealed it away to establish dominance over her own shadow self. I doubt she was counting on Ranni’s GEQ traits kicking in since Radagon fathered her and saw shattering the ring as the only way to keep her GEQ shadow self sealed off, thus sealing Melina’s eye as well. Melina is probably more the GEQ aspect’s daughter than the Marika aspect’s. The shapes of the Godslayer’s Sword and the Sacred Relic Sword to me hinted at opposite sides of the same whole. Maybe, anyway.

  • @CoffeeBrainzz
    @CoffeeBrainzz2 ай бұрын

    ANOTHER CONNECTION!!!!! If Miquella is Melina, who is St. Trina. It makes COMPLETE sense why Miquella was trying to revive/summon another Greater Being in Castle Sol! 🤯 He is very familiar with the Rot God AND Frenzy Flame, as well as how to summon AND repel ANY Outer Gods he wants. He learned to repel them through his needle as well as he learned that it requires ENORMOUS AND VAST amount of prayer/begging/sorrow/desire etc. whatever the feeling, it takes a vast amount of people to pray for a wish that baits and calls forth an Outer Being. So he tried to get the inhabitants of castle Sol to all wish for his Brothers revival and promised them salvation at the Haligtree to tempt their desires and make the prayers stronger, similarly as all the Merchants in the catacombs wished for revenge and summoning the Frenzy Flame…. However as the final ghost in the castle states…”Their Prayers Were Not Strong Enough..” and that’s probably because it was never THIER wish to begin with, they weren’t suffering like the Merchants or Mohg/Margott. It was a prayer given to them, it wasn’t their own. And so they were never able to summon any type of new Outer Will and Miquella had to move on to a new plan

  • @durkee8823
    @durkee8823Ай бұрын

    St Trina has the same nose as Mesmer.

  • @smortonmedia
    @smortonmediaАй бұрын

    At 15:56 the mentioning of St. Trina's Crystal Ball using sleep to calm those affected by the frenzy flame... makes so much sense as to why NOT ONLY Melina (or i guess aka Miquella) would show up to dissuade you from taking the path of frenzy flame... but WHY there's also a projection of Mohg protecting the secret entrance to the 3 fingers in the Cathedral of The Forsaken. My theory is that Mohg did not abduct Miquella. I think it was Miquella's plan to enlist (or bewitch) help from Mohg. If Melina is a bodiless projection of Miquella, it would make sense that there's a bewitched projection of Mohg as well guarding the 3 fingers. I think this is also why Malenia never says anything to the affect of "Where's Miquella gone? Who took him?" etc etc.. she's not looking for him ...instead she patiently awaits his return, as promised.

  • @zenith7128
    @zenith7128Ай бұрын

    I think what makes this so compelling to me is that miquelka’s parent, the ONLY parent he has, has the same exact power of creating another “varient” of themself, with the same “soul.” Like literally, radagon and marika are the same person, so miquella would have an incredibly high chance of having such power. I think makenia not having it could be explained by the meddling of the outer goddess of rot, rotting her abilities and magic as well as body and mind.

  • @mlgesus8362
    @mlgesus8362Ай бұрын

    To enter the shadow world, you dap up the long egg hand

  • @eldenringpvpenthusiast1710
    @eldenringpvpenthusiast17102 ай бұрын

    Yall remember how Mohg took Miquella before his tree finished? There are stone looking trees that are usually around ancestral followers and blue zappy spirits, that have the tops of them broken off. You cam see ancestral spirits emerge out of some trees, and it makes me think the zappy spirits do too. If Miquella, while sleeping, dreamed of helping his sister. He could be the blue fairy that helped her seal rot away, within her self. The different existences could be like how when fillianore wakes up, a different reality is shown. But in this case Miquella could be a different person as he sleeps. St Trina is known to have dissappear as quickly as she showed up. I think St Trina was Miquella's dream form that bewitched people with her dreamy appearance. If it was a fully grown spirit with full grown wings, it would explain why it's weird that Miquella cursed with youth, would have an older dream form. Thing is though, the frenzy eye looks like the same as the sleep status effect eye, but awake and pissed. The person obsessed with St Trina may have also been Miquella himself, obsessed with becoming his other self in a dream that actually happened. The briar set has a medallion on the chest of winged beings fighting a manticore. It has a head that looks like serosh, insect like wings and a big scorpion tail. It looks like it emerged from a crucified demon that can pop it's own head off and form a new body going from demon Medusa lady to manticore after ditching her crucified body, to be defeated by the winged beings that look like valkrye. Even the horse a guy is riding has wings, but I think this is the fairy defeating the manticore and sealing it away. It links like she is sheathing her sword around the still forming tendrils of the undying manticore, sealing it and herself away like a stonesword seal. I believe this was a secret story of St Miquella and the manticore. The manticore reforms out of red snakes, and whoever the fairy was sealed herself away with it. I think Miquella got corrupted by what she sealed away in his dream of helping his sister.

  • @bostonman121
    @bostonman121Ай бұрын

    Ronnie’s doll really looks like Melina and they both have one eye closed

  • @Vagab0nd711
    @Vagab0nd711Ай бұрын

    Another crazy thing I realized is after starting new game +2 is that there are miquella butterflies (nascent butterflies) around the very first area and at the breaking cliff wear you fall

  • @CrimsonUltrafox

    @CrimsonUltrafox

    Ай бұрын

    This will blow your mind...Varre kills our finger maiden in the beginning area and is waiting for us at "The First Steps". He and Melina are the only people who seem to know we're maidenless. How would he know unless he killed our maiden? Then consider that Varre serves Mohg who is seemingly under Miquella's enchantment as he know Miquella can beguile people quite easily. After wandering out sad and maidenless, Melina miraculously shows up and we feel compelled to follow her guidance since we don't have a finger maiden to guide us. In other words, Miquella has been puppeteering our journey the entire game.

  • @olivierdols5556
    @olivierdols5556Ай бұрын

    the amount of cooking is insane

  • @Thrasher-92
    @Thrasher-922 ай бұрын

    Fanfic in the purest state

  • @LeonardoPena-lj6xt
    @LeonardoPena-lj6xt2 ай бұрын

    Torrent believed in us as Melina was merely pretending...our first trip to the round table..why would she mentioned torrent there?

  • @adamkorzon2972
    @adamkorzon29722 ай бұрын

    22:05 is the same person wearing that helmet with crescent spike in the DLC the same robe and detailed embroidery on the collar that matches the lower half.Instantly spotted it.

  • @underratedking81miller33
    @underratedking81miller332 ай бұрын

    What's crazy is the ring on Melina's hand at 6:55 looks like the same ring on the hand inside the cocoon

  • @Raign999
    @Raign999Ай бұрын

    That background music is just energetic af

  • @theghosty99
    @theghosty992 ай бұрын

    FWIW, when you burn yourself as kindling with the Frenzied Flame, you fall into the giant flame brazier but still wake up in Farum Azula. So you could think of it like death and falling asleep are both entrypoints into FA, strengthening the connection between the two.

  • @Fightin_Mongoose
    @Fightin_MongooseАй бұрын

    When it’s said that he’s divested himself of his own body, I think it’s the same thing that Ranni did when she took over the doll, or the inverse of what happened to Godwyn. His physical body has died, but his soul is still out there somewhere inhabiting a new form. It would be interesting to see if they somehow connect Godwyn and Miquella into one being.

  • @LAWTZTubrer
    @LAWTZTubrerАй бұрын

    remembers me something that "VARRE" said, he said that MOGH still sleeping with the cacoon, i'ts means that MOGH need to sleep to acess the land of shadow?

  • @Valiant_Hermes
    @Valiant_Hermes2 ай бұрын

    You should definitely do more videos reacting to and/or analyzing other lore videos. Great video brother!

  • @lolardwtf
    @lolardwtf2 ай бұрын

    Would that mean the statue in Maliketh's arena is of Miquella? When Ranni give's us the bell we get the 3 wolves ashes as well.

  • @maidenlessjessofchaos4484
    @maidenlessjessofchaos44842 ай бұрын

    So glad you said the same thing I did about the side saddle 😂 we can be assholes together

  • @ElMasCaporo99
    @ElMasCaporo992 ай бұрын

    What is Mesmer is Godwyns twin? One represents all holly and the other all sinful. Both have a relationship with dragons (friendship and dragon comunion). Maybe Mesmer was left behind in the land of shadows similarly as the omen twins where hidden.

  • @ElMasCaporo99

    @ElMasCaporo99

    2 ай бұрын

    Another thing off topic. When it is said that the elden Beast became the elden ring means that the enden ring already existed and the beast fused with it to manipulate it. when you kill the beast, the ring remains.

  • @ElMasCaporo99

    @ElMasCaporo99

    2 ай бұрын

    Also, and finally, Marika won. To kill the beast you have to kill the current god and in the end of the game whe se that god, the one with the elden ring inside, is Radagon. Once the beast and Radagon die, the only thing remaining is Marikas body with the elden ring inside, forever, without demigods that can usurp her,a god eternal.

  • @gabemenges5552
    @gabemenges5552Ай бұрын

    My thing is the trailer says he absolved himself of his flesh and saint Trina

  • @treverse_
    @treverse_Ай бұрын

    Mikazaki really likes the Ship of Theseus problem

  • @amithyst
    @amithyst2 ай бұрын

    Miquilla being Melina makes the most sense to me of any unconfirmed theory I've heard. I mean, even without all of that, it makes sense to me that Miquilla would have a rebus just like Merika since he is the one highlighted as the most likely Empyrian to take her place.

  • @thetrendisdead
    @thetrendisdead2 ай бұрын

    Melina with fighting style she could of been one of the blackknight assisins lol

  • @finalbreath15
    @finalbreath152 ай бұрын

    I think melina could even be an aspect of marika as she was born at the foot of the erdtree. It all depends whether or not she was around during the shattering or if that was the point when she came to be.

  • @thenickfoxx
    @thenickfoxx2 ай бұрын

    Just dawned on me that the opening shot of the dlc trailer could in fact be Melina. Like the shot of that mysterious person's legs whilst the narrator talks about Miquella.

  • @DragonSlayer37
    @DragonSlayer372 ай бұрын

    The corpse in the cocoon is Cleanrot Knight Finlay. He was wounded badly after bringing Malenia back from Caelid and made the cocoon to heal himself. He was then taken after being mistaken for being Miquella. I have absolutely nothing to back this up, but it would be funny if it was true.

  • @hrawwr

    @hrawwr

    Ай бұрын

    She* Finlay was a woman

  • @DragonSlayer37

    @DragonSlayer37

    Ай бұрын

    @@hrawwr ah, my bad. I’m still learning the lore.

  • @flightdub6056
    @flightdub6056Ай бұрын

    Maybe it’s the case that Miquella, Melina and Messmer are all St. Trina? The ‘tri’ comes from the 3 aspects making it up. We have all the evidence here linking Miquella and Melina and St. Trina, but the etymology of the name Messmer has connotations of hypnosis and stuff, Messmer’s flame and eye markings could be linked to Melina’s burned and bodiless state and her own eye markings. Maybe St. Trina is the ‘tri’ amalgamation of Miquella and his forgotten aspects of Messmer and Melina, locked in the land of shadows, and he’s trying to regain his identity in the DLC. Perhaps when Messmer was sealed away in shame by Marika, he projected himself as Miquella to the Lands Between to be a more acceptable version of himself, one which could not age for some reason, and perhaps Miquella never even knew of this. Melina could have come later, representing the broken, burned, hidden away piece of Miquella’s identity and his link to Messmer that he can’t make fit. Perhaps she was only available to him when he is asleep, a subconscious, dream fuelled projection of his fragmented psyche birthed in a state of hypnosis, making her ‘St. Trina’ and linking to Messmer’s namesake, and hence, perhaps she only came to be when Miquella rested with the whole Mohg situation. It’s a bit hard to fit all of this in one comment, but I think it makes sense. Miquella is Messmer is Melina. Taken as a whole, they are St. Trina.

  • @lodxwn6794
    @lodxwn6794Ай бұрын

    What if everything we’ve seen so far is just the beginning/intro to the dlc. The unseen war and fighting Mesmer as the first boss after he grabs you from the cacoon. And then the rest of the dlc we just have no idea what’s gonna happen. That would be wild

  • @CharLacey
    @CharLacey2 ай бұрын

    The whistle she gives you to call torrent has clearly been crafted by miquella

  • @MATCHLESS789
    @MATCHLESS7892 ай бұрын

    13:50 as tarnished we are already divested of grace, and we were dead before we came back to Lands Between. Maybe that's enough.

  • @SinTheShadow
    @SinTheShadowАй бұрын

    maybe melina is part of the tree fused somehow, after maybe dealing with a attack with the frenzied flame by someone maybe like vyke. she probably was sealed up as she crossed paths with him. and that's probably why she would rather any ending besides the frenzy ending. maybe their stories intertwine somehow idk.

  • @AurisLTL
    @AurisLTLАй бұрын

    The moment he mentioned st. trina at the start it felt like something excessively obvious just clicked and everything he explained there after feels almost like no new revelation at all, it fits that well.

  • @AstralLaVista
    @AstralLaVista29 күн бұрын

    I have a feeling that the orange milquella is miquella once he fuses with mesmer

  • @Msosa654
    @Msosa654Ай бұрын

    Main point that got me interested is that Miquella's needle reverses the Frenzy Flame ending, in which Melina will "hunt you down" for.

  • @boblionia
    @boblionia2 ай бұрын

    The "different existences" Miyazaki is referring to is most likely refering to the Tolkein idea of seperate existences, where a single entity can split into multiple entities all with their own consciousness, ideals and goals but who are still technically the same person. An idea born from the holy trinity, which is as always extremely relevant in any Miyazaki game considering how he likes to base a lot of lore and themes around the history of the catholic church as well as his very tolkein style of fantasy. DS1, BB, DS3 and ER all have stories that spend a long time focusing on his versions of the catholic church. Just makes it a lot easier to understand how these very different people can be the same person and act differently at the same time.

  • @bryantorres3055
    @bryantorres3055Ай бұрын

    So miquella and milenia are like the D brothers? 2 minds, 2 bodies, 1 soul?

  • @marcelrodriguez7593
    @marcelrodriguez7593Ай бұрын

    Your idea that we die or take damage to get to the spirit world would explain why we need a new leveling system in the DLC

  • @amv062184
    @amv062184Ай бұрын

    Then you have the badass gloam eyed queen scene with Melina.

  • @dominikam2920
    @dominikam29202 ай бұрын

    It would be interesting to see us having to fight this cocoon corpse ONLY because Mohg has been infecting it with his blood. it seems weird to mention that fact without there being some sort of consequence.

  • @alektothefury2680
    @alektothefury2680Ай бұрын

    Late to the party but sudden epiphany! "St. Trina of the Cradlesong" - the honorific is quite unique in this world, calling to mind babies, specifically. The Gloam-Eyed Queen "swaddled" the Godskin Nobles. which is another term that is usually used in reference to the bundling of an infant as they're placed in a cradle. To further chase this rabbit trail, and falling in line with other theories, gloam or 'dusk' if you will, is the bridge of day into night; the time when most creatures begin to prepare for sleep (also note 'dusk' and 'dreams' are very closely linked in mythos and literature). So I see no issue with Melina being the Gloam-Eyed Queen, who is simultaneously an aspect of St. Trina. It's quite common for different titles to be given to people based on the perception of their interactions and the roles they play at a given time. As an add on diverging down another path, I've always thought that it is strange that Mohg's blood spells are fiery. Well, if he's using the blood of Mesmer the fiery effects would make a lot of sense to me. OH! And one more thing, but this one's probably pretty weak, but might as well mention it while tossing ideas around, it's an interesting parallel that Melina states she was born at the foot of the Erdtree and we clearly see the spot where Miquella's cocoon was torn...from the base of the Haligtree. And upon revisiting a picture reference of Malenia's arena, the face of the figure we see in the roots seems to have a marred left cheek. Love this game and community so much! Have a wonderful holiday to my American friends and a great weekend to the rest of the world!

  • @angelinanotjolie109
    @angelinanotjolie1092 ай бұрын

    The same letter part had me weak

  • @Shad0wmoses
    @Shad0wmosesАй бұрын

    all ive been saying since dlc was announced was i wish there was more of melina. i need to know more about her.

  • @noahmanteau4613
    @noahmanteau4613Ай бұрын

    the side saddle riding of torrent is a representation of miquellas fertility as side saddle was a means of riding a horse for royal women so as not to break their hymen and ruin their purity because the bouncing on regular riding could actually do that. So idk if melina being side saddle really has a meaning in this but is actually more evidence of melina being royalty prior to her body burning and becoming a spirit

  • @noahmanteau4613

    @noahmanteau4613

    Ай бұрын

    also i think melina is gloam eyed queens souls after messmer burned her body in the war

  • @SpeedeyFreaks
    @SpeedeyFreaks2 ай бұрын

    Miquella is gonna be our maiden in the shadow realms

  • @ravendelacour1917
    @ravendelacour1917Ай бұрын

    The idea of multiple manifestations of an entity existing for different reasons refers to a real life occult concept known as emenantions. Taken from anceint Judaic and Vedic concepts, it's the idea that divine beings will split off a reflection of themselves to fulfill specific purposes within the lower realms. In the same manner a human might have multiple characters within an MMO for different mission specific loadouts. The irony is both of those examples are known as avatars. :)

  • @siomaiwrapper5229
    @siomaiwrapper52292 ай бұрын

    I also have a theory that Boc is Miquella. I mean, have you seen these two in the same room?! Undeniable proof right there!

  • @ABrickinTime
    @ABrickinTime2 ай бұрын

    No one is talking about the location where you find the blade of calling. It seems like it was under guard and a place where Melina potentially was held. Do we have any other lore about this location or speculation/connections to Melina?

  • @joshuanaus4227
    @joshuanaus422722 күн бұрын

    Clearly mellina is just miquella and mellania kid 🤓

  • @ksh8114
    @ksh8114Ай бұрын

    Interesting that you @agtjake mentioned different "existences". We know for a fact that the Shadow Realm was once a place in the Lands Between that physically disconnected later. What if the Shattering was the reason why the Shadow Realm disconnected? It seems like everything there is stuck in a state the predates the Shattering whith dead Godwyn being very important. Maybe the Miquella's many identities are the results of the Shattering? Messmer seems to be an amalgamation of Sin while the Miquella seems to be an amalgamation of Virtues.

  • @CrimsonRayne
    @CrimsonRayne2 ай бұрын

    I wouldnt be surprised if theres a yugioh reference in the shadow realm

  • @Coast2CoastFlyin

    @Coast2CoastFlyin

    2 ай бұрын

    It’s all about Marika apparently, which is literally 1 letter different from the English anime dub name for Malik (also, Malik-eth). Fortissax arena looked like Bskura’s field card from battle city finals

  • @rezaganjizadeh4263
    @rezaganjizadeh42632 ай бұрын

    Bro is trying to explain the trinity

  • @NPC3.14
    @NPC3.142 ай бұрын

    "Finkle is Einhorn; Einhorn is Finkle"🐬

  • @Shadow_Sonata
    @Shadow_SonataАй бұрын

    Comely means "Pleasant to look at, attractive, pretty, etc." A somewhat mild way of saying beautiful. Can also mean agreeable.

  • @agnosticpanda6655
    @agnosticpanda6655Ай бұрын

    Elden Ring lore is often contradictory, generally way too vague and just not worth thinking too much about.

  • @coltondickson3509
    @coltondickson35092 ай бұрын

    One word "haligflame" or holy fire

  • @imissmyshots9735
    @imissmyshots9735Ай бұрын

    Maybe messmer was made by miquella to burn the scarlet rot on melania?

  • @unculturedbastard2892

    @unculturedbastard2892

    Ай бұрын

    I don't think so , he was child of marika and radagon

  • @gyt3r562
    @gyt3r5622 ай бұрын

    if in dlc you are supposed to go after miquellas footsteps maybe itll finally explain miyazakis obsession with feet

  • @seiz209
    @seiz2092 ай бұрын

    Jake! Hi. I discovered something I haven’t seen anyone bring up about the DLC. Not a revelation but the sleeping character in the sleep swamp I think is the skeleton horse boss we see later in the trailer. If you notice, the scenery is exactly the same but from a right side perspective. I don’t think that character is saint trina and I also don’t know what the hell that thing is lol take care man! Just thought I’d point that out!

  • @seiz209

    @seiz209

    2 ай бұрын

    I’d also like to add that the head of the creature looks like a crystal ball and in some cut content of the base game Saint Trina also has a crystal ball. in Sekiro Dubi’s recreation video, Saint Trina’s crystal ball looks extremely similar! Something to check out!

  • @Dev_Six
    @Dev_SixАй бұрын

    I think I got an aneurysm from this

  • @jteneb
    @jteneb7 күн бұрын

    Wait, but if Melina is the spirit of a tree, how do you explain that I got the hots for her, if she is a tree?

  • @zevrotheknight4934
    @zevrotheknight4934Ай бұрын

    And this is why I love Soulsbourne lore

  • @dessh2o
    @dessh2o2 ай бұрын

    5:32 this could be true, but how would we be able to go to Farum Azula from the Four Belfries? How would that be a dream, and does that mean the other Belfries are also dreams/halucinations?

  • @Lena-de2ws
    @Lena-de2wsАй бұрын

    3:30 Messmer's face is more similiar to St. Trina's face than Melina though......

  • @eliojasael5077
    @eliojasael5077Ай бұрын

    u can see in a poster that miquella is in torrent

  • @LishyCards
    @LishyCardsАй бұрын

    My brain hurts now

  • @jonnyf9049
    @jonnyf90492 ай бұрын

    I still like the idea with the cocoon in the pelvis bone and that growing statw

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