Theological Themes and Narrative Archetypes in Elden Ring: An Analysis

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• CR

  @creedencequestions · 1 year ago · pinned

  THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN UPDATED, EXPANDED, AND REMASTERED: &nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LvyYv6OVVU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LvyYv6OVVU</a>

• IA

  @iamdoom9810 · 2 years ago

  When comparing Miquella to Jesus in Shadow of the Erdtree, my main takeaway was that sacrifice is pointless without love. And because Miquella lacked love, all that he did was only done to glorify himself, or in other words he tried to &quot;save himself.&quot;

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• BO

  @bodextroushamstring949 · 2 years ago

  “Order and Chaos, Perpetuity and Endings, Life and Death, Omens and Signs, Light and Darkness, Fire and Ice, Blood and Ritual, Family and Power, Heights and Depths, Good and Evil, Ancient and New and everything that, well, Lands Between” ✍️🔥🔥🔥🔥

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• JU

  @justkubz · 2 years ago

  I don&apos;t think that Liurnia is sinking, and would actually argue that it&apos;s being or has been lifted in some way. We can infer this not only from the landacape, which displays rock formations unnaturally jutting out of the ground, but also from its name &quot;Liurnia of the Lakes&quot;. We surprisingly find no lakes, rather Liurnia is more classified as a marsh or swampland, with very shallow water throughout, leading many to speculate as to what caused this change in the terrain. Awesome video, you can tell a lot of time and effort was put into this!

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• AL

  @alchemicalalek7535 · 2 years ago

  Always wanted to do a more theological video essay on Elden Ring! Brilliantly done!

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• MI

  @Mikkel.Desidia · 2 years ago

  Its awesome that this game can be interpreted in so many ways, judeoChristian, alchemical, nordic, lovecraftian, etc etv

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• NI

  @nickoliekeyov746 · 2 years ago

  I realize it’s kind of ‘out there’ as a theory but I think scarlet rot is kind of a distant metaphor for radiation. It’s a lot more damaging than poison and comes from space and deep underground. I also think Caelid could be an allegory for the suffering that the atomic bombs inflicted on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, those weapons were destructive on such a scale that it twisted the landscape and mutated the cells. There’s so many destroyed and crumbling buildings filled with burning staggering bodies. I don’t think it’s meant to be explicit or even maybe conscious though.

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• CO

  @Conceptualization777 · 2 years ago

  Probably the best Elden Ring Video I&apos;ve seen in a long time, you capture the gravity as to why i cherish this game so dearly, beyond just a difficult boss run game that many seem to see it as.<br>Everything is both physically and thematically layered with intention. <br>The way Miyazaki&apos;s work strangely reflect the nature of reality with a theologically inspired framework while displaying why and what becomes of life&apos;s structure based on either polarity nature seems to allow form from, has yet to be executed in a subtle way thats almost flawless for me, at least as a game that utilises the medium to its greatest extent. <br><br>I wish to see more of your perspective on Fromsoft games, &nbsp;not enough people acknowledge this aspect of what makes them truly timeless.

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• IN

  @InvasionEnjoyer · 2 years ago

  I really enjoy the long format video

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• YU

  @yuri_lace · 2 years ago

  fantastic video for my cup of coffee this morning

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• MA

  @ManFromThePits · 2 years ago

  An important thing to remember when analyzing themes in FromSoft games is that symbols don&apos;t always mean the same thing, in game, as in other works, or typical culture. &nbsp;As a prime example, Light and Darkness in the Dark Souls trilogy don&apos;t represent good and evil, so much as the Divine and the Human. &nbsp;Darkness is generally stated to represent Humanity itself. &nbsp;So when looking for Christian themes, I recommend discerning what the symbols mean in-context. &nbsp;I&apos;m still interested in what you have to say, but I suspect we&apos;ll have some different interpretations of the themes!

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• DJ

  @DJYungHoxha · 2 years ago

  Finally some good fucking lore content again. Everyone is so wrapped up in attempting to create a fully functioning, diegetic canon that can be neatly summarised in a Wiki, that everyone forgets to think about what it all actually MEANS. What the inspirations are, what the point of all of it is. I always thought the inspiration taken from Norse mythology was vastly overstated, to be honest. Judeo-Christian themes are so much stronger here than any others, and while Norse mythology clearly serves as a reference point for a lot of aesthetic choices, thematically it seems much more concerned with a solid mix of the aforementioned Judeo-Christian tradition, Japanese traditional mythology (as well as Japanese buddhism) and modern, existentialist philosophy a la Sartre, Camus and maybe even some of the older stuff like Kierkegaard.<br><br>Some small piece of constructive criticism: I really wish that you would&apos;ve edited out all of the mouth-clicking sound and long pauses you take between breaths. It&apos;s sadly kinda distracting from what you&apos;re actually saying, and the mouth-clicking is some sort of anti-ASMR that makes listening a lot harder. No shade meant by this, just maybe something to watch out for for your next upload

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