What is an Empyrean | Elden Ring Lore

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  @tarnished-detective · 4 months ago (edited) · pinned

  These are the brilliant creators referenced in the video. I highly recommend their content:<br><br>Tspooning - Flower Theory: The Hidden Guidance in Elden Ring<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLYgQcnQNPQ&amp;t=80">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NLYgQcnQNPQ&amp;t=80s&amp;pp=ygUXVHNwb29uaW5nIGZsb3dlciB0aGVvcnk%3D</a><br><br>Doubleback4ammo - Proof Radagon is Connected to Godwyn&apos;s Death in Elden Ring<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3xTmhTPOSs">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_3xTmhTPOSs</a><br><br>annekkipu - the REAL origins of Radagon (and I CAN prove it) | Elden Ring | annekkipu<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-09lYr-KaU&amp;t=26">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I-09lYr-KaU&amp;t=26s</a><br><br><a href="https://m.youtube.com/@DryleafEren">https://m.youtube.com/@DryleafEren</a><br><br>- - - - -<br>I am a lowly astrologer, standing on the fiery shoulders of these great sources:<br><br><a href="https://m.youtube.com/@StratekYT?ra=m">https://m.youtube.com/@StratekYT?ra=m</a><br><br>Portugal - portus Cale<br><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346992381_El_dibujo_de_aproximacion_en_Oporto_construyendo_la_imagen_de_la_ciudad">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346992381_El_dibujo_de_aproximacion_en_Oporto_construyendo_la_imagen_de_la_ciudad</a><br><br>pgp - ELDEN RING meeting Melina for the first time<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agj_E6bqq2k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agj_E6bqq2k</a><br><br>Sen - Elden Ring Sound Design - Saint Trina - Dialogue (+Cut Dialogue) <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06G9Jba8uiM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06G9Jba8uiM</a><br><br>Axes have a heavy into light TRUE COMBO (simple and consistent) <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqTjm9xaaZM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqTjm9xaaZM</a><br><br>IG - &nbsp;khombykwon<br><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR4qWxeCJuS/">https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR4qWxeCJuS/</a><br><br>Pickle Rick vs Rats | Rick and Morty | adult swim<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDCZz_8z2gk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDCZz_8z2gk</a><br><br><br>Inside: Ep. 6 - The Huddle <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yb3pgUSCO0&amp;t=1196">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yb3pgUSCO0&amp;t=1196s</a><br><br>Verna Felton - Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song) (Extended) (From &quot;Cinderella&quot;)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dv6pOGeuGs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dv6pOGeuGs</a><br><br>Jatsu - Mad TV - Arnold&apos;s Clone Movie<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcK-My1j9Hg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcK-My1j9Hg</a><br><br>Playtendo - God of War PS4 - Baldur Final Boss Fight &amp; Secret Ending<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JRc6x0yQx4">http://youtube.com/watch?v=8JRc6x0yQx4</a><br><br>TheHobbitLOTR <s>Game Of Thrones</s> Eddard Stark&apos;s Arrest<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8afaQFLSTH4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8afaQFLSTH4</a><br><br>The Senate TV - Anakin killing younglings - Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith[1080p]<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBbQg8r8tdc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBbQg8r8tdc</a><br><br><br>Collective Culture - I Am Your Father Scene [4k UltraHD] - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Fight Scene (2/2)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLheiLGZ1k8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLheiLGZ1k8</a><br><br>University of Oregon<br><a href="https://pages.uoregon.edu/jimbrau/astr123/Notes/Chapter27.html">https://pages.uoregon.edu/jimbrau/astr123/Notes/Chapter27.html</a><br><br><br>DiamondLobby - How to Get the Erudition Gesture in Elden Ring<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUMe8-Xf5rQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUMe8-Xf5rQ</a><br><br>BonfireVN - Skyboxes of the Night Lords<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rowAhHcfIS4&amp;list=RDrowAhHcfIS4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rowAhHcfIS4&amp;list=RDrowAhHcfIS4&amp;start_radio=1</a>

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  @falgalhutkinsmarzcal3962 · 4 months ago

  To quote Bill Hicks, &quot;Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.&quot;

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  @Acerdawn123 · 4 months ago

  its channels like these that really make an impact on understanding the games lore love you pointing out the animations its something that not many people talk about but really helps build connections

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  @tarnished-detective · 4 months ago (edited)

  Update. Update! UPDATE!!!<br>I don&apos;t think the Carians are albinurics. <br>I think the Carians are some iteration of Nox.<br>I linked the silver tear shield to the rippling pond, flattening them into a single clue. But rather, I think they are linked by chain of event. The silver drop CAUSES the rippling pond. I think the Nox created the albinurics, and I think we find blood-clots in Nokron. Also, they bleed different color blood. <br><br>Rennala might be very old, and her legs should have faded. And despite being a doll, the fact that Ranni walks nudged me toward my updated position. The Carians are some form of Nox, which can walk. But I still have a feeling that Renalla not walking as we meet her is part of the mystery.<br><br>While there are multiple Carian princesses, mentioned on different items, Rennala founded their line, meaning it’s just her and her sisters. It would be possible by either theory for the Carians to either replicate traditionally, or like the lifecycle that we see play out in Nokron; mimic tears becoming real boys. If the Nox are silver tear life, this might be how they spawn. And the further they get from their original rippling pond presents ever increasing defects. Their blood losing its color over time.<br><br>This would explain a lot, and why even though there are many Carian princesses, they multiply just like the beings in Nokron - in pools of silver. But the Carians are mysterious and I still think there might be more to the story. (Mystery of black hair)<br><br>Either way, this theory relies on them being silver tear beings, which might include the Nox as well as Albinurics. While I still have more to learn about silver reproduction, Ranni’s association with the egg makes me think she hatched from it, leaving the door while open for her to be a reincarnated clone.<br>Thanks so much for reading,<br>And I apologize for the confusion!💛🌳

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  @marcusmcclain3251 · 4 months ago

  I was so big-mad at the CK/Mistbegotton combo I didn&apos;t notice they had basically the same moveset.

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  @NeverUseAnApostrophe · 4 months ago

  Amazing work, yet again. The connections you made with Radagon are fantastic!

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  @Ordinary_regular-guy · 4 months ago

  I love your videos! The only man who gives a cohesive story. Most juat read descriptions but you read into their lives

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  @TSpooning · 4 months ago

  First off, the way you followed the flowers at the start. Brilliant 👏👏<br><br>All around a great analysis well presented. And I&apos;m here for Radagon Summer. I should be getting to him soon as well.

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  @metafractal · 4 months ago

  This is amazing. I&apos;m on board with this lore, this video was incredible.

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  @UrbanLeche · 4 months ago

  I’ve never thought to analyze the attack patterns of all these enemies. Loving your analysis

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  @jonathanpost5935 · 4 months ago

  I just realized isn&apos;t gold used in communication devices?

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  @hythan9198 · 4 months ago (edited)

  I love the animations! It&apos;s like everyone in universe really did share and learn from distinct teachers. Soldiers and beings who followed Godfrey or the Crucible stomp and roar to channel rune energy or divinity, embodying the chaotic power nature guides. Radagon also does a lighter stomp, but one empowered with gold, because he has forsaken the chaotic power inherent to nature, shunning those aspects, in favor of the purity of the ideal of Life Itself, the grace of gold.<br><br>The Misbegotten could perform the same moves because they may have been taught by the Crucible Knights, who would naturally be less hostile to the Misbegotten since they too have touched the Crucible in one of its aspects. <br><br>Good catch with Radagon and Rennala&apos;s ability to fly &apos;on the wind&apos; (I love that description for it. Reminds me of Marika&apos;s statues with a billowing cape behind her. Yet somehow the Carians seem more godlike by the day, even before Ranni. Heck, if Rennala had been born a demigod perhaps she&apos;d have been an Empyrean herself. There does seem to be this connection to divinity with the skies, naturally ofc, but in universe the sky itself doesn&apos;t get much focus, beyond being the place you look for the stars. Almost feels intentionally left out, like it&apos;d connect too much maybe. My mind goes to Farum Azula and the ancient dragons ability to take human form, and become earth and stormclouds. Caria does have a belfry that leads to Farum, perhaps they too are connected<br><br>OH FUCK THE WATCHDOG IS A BEASTMAN! Sorry lost myself for a moment but OMG you have no idea how long I&apos;ve been SEARCHING for anything on those things! I consider myself an obsessed scholar of this game but that. is. genius! Shoot that&apos;s why they use glintstone. The Carians and Farum were connected, just like Farum and the Forge of the Giants. Everything was once in harmony and linked together in a chain of relation, Causality, and Regression. That&apos;s why Fulgurblooms grow in catacombs in the Land of Shadow. Impure life becomes ghostflame and cursed spirits, pure life becomes golden, ascending into the sky as a bounty on the world. Grace, and lightning, righteous wrath, the &apos;edge of Order&apos;. Oml it all makes more sense now!<br><br>Oh no.. Marika taking the Elden Ring was the god equivalent of Godrick grafting a dragon head. Warped and twisted mimicry of bygone glory using the corpse of a dragon. Did Marika have the Nox kill Placi&apos;s god and make the Fingerslayer so she could ascend (and create the true ultimate weapon for &apos;The Plan^tm&apos;). Or maybe it was coincidence, but the Nox are known to have ties to Marika, but none of the Shaman are Nox, so the treason had to have been before that probably. I digress<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kg5aXYIPdo&amp;t=527">8:47</a>: Love this little animation. I have a hard time explaining this &apos;refining&apos; or &apos;concentrating&apos; of Golden Grace from the shamans. After you think on how deep the rabbit hole goes in this attempt at (and perhaps the only &apos;true&apos; success at) Divinity. Not only did they have to bring together the ideas they already had of the crucible and their attempts to become spirits themselves, they needed to be able to make contact with the beyond, which required the Fingers help (The Gate looks startlingly like an artificial Two-Finger if you think about it, humans made their own finger, like the Creation of Adam), then Marika had to make sure no other Empyreans, and that the Hornsent would actually honor their bargain, whatever it was.<br>Then even with the gate done they are shown tending to golden saplings in different states of growth, and they already knew of buds (Miquella&apos;s cut cutscene would have made Enir Ilim hit so hard too since then we&apos;d know how they grow in real time). Thinking of the Crucible as radiation, it&apos;s like the hornsent experimented on the buds, possibly with Marika&apos;s assistance, and she with the Fingers, creating the seed of &apos;primordial matter&apos;, which I feel like must be some organic version of gravel stone, since the Hornsent seem to somewhat misinterpret dragons as lions (roaring, flying, lightning, made of stone possibly), so they had to know of and reinvent the biology basically of an Ancient Dragon God and stick Metyr&apos;s sonar on it to create a tunnel into the Beyond.<br><br>And Marika literally tied it all together.<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kg5aXYIPdo&amp;t=896">14:56</a>: I struggle with the outer gods and the forces they represent, as well as humanity&apos;s efforts to become like them through massive societal scale alchemical endeavors (side tangent, how big of a spirit do you think the fire Giants could make if they &apos;read souls into the weapon by interpreting the wiggles that form in the molten metal&apos; on a full and intact Forge of the Giants?)<br>The rot for sure is implied to have once been more benevolent, as does the outer god of Death. The Fell God once seems to have not existed at all. I think the rot once had a place in the &apos;Order&apos; of the world, alongside the ancient dragons (I think the Rauh goddess was Placi&apos;s consort). Think the Harmonia from Nightreign, but less creepy. Or the same level of creepy (everdark version would be when the Formless Mother was created, and was &apos;taken on as an object of worship&apos;, introducing bloodshed, violence, murder, evil)<br>When discord was introduced, the harmony that kept the chaos of the Rot and the stagnancy of Order in balance was disrupted, and rot became corrupting, and Order became decoupled from life.<br>Perhaps as the original &apos;partner&apos; of Order, the Rot has some say in the process of godhood, similar to Malenia becoming a goddess without the Elden Ring or Gate, she just does it because she&apos;s the chosen one of the Rot

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