Elden Ring Lore | The Flame of Frenzy

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  @SmoughTown · 3 years ago · pinned

  Thanks to everyone for supporting this video, let me know your thoughts below

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  @JDMmike420 · 3 years ago

  I am also very intrigued by the fact that the "fingers" of the Greater Will were only Two Fingers, which by themselves cannot interfere because they cannot grasp. But the "fingers" of the Frenzied Flame are Three Fingers and they can grasp and interfere. It's an idea that's been running through my head since my first encounter with the Three Fingers.

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  @LordDoom10 · 3 years ago

  I'm surprised you never brought up the soldiers on the mountain leading to Volcano Manor. As they too are afflicted with Frenzy, possibly from how horrible the fighting was against Rykard's forces.

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  @leyrua · 3 years ago

  You know, if they had kept Kale's questline, I would have absolutely gone with the frenzied flame ending. Because I kept RPing going back to that crumbling church to visit my first friend in the lands between. I would have burned the world for my boy.

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• LO

  @LordDoom10 · 3 years ago

  Kale's voice actor really did a great job with his cut dialogue.

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• NI

  @nightowlmystic9387 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Two things I would like to mention about Shabirri and Vyke. Shabirri is easily one of the best manipulators. I mean who can resist that upturn flirtatious smile. He looks trustworthy, right? Also Vyke probably couldn’t become lord because he didn’t strip off his armor which means that he could only partially contained the flame.

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• YA

  @yael4171 · 3 years ago

  Frenzied Flame is definitely second favorite ending, the final scene where you turn around with your face turned into a lord of the rings looking thing just gave me chills.

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  @aidenmclaughlin1076 · 3 years ago

  I love listening to the merchants play, especially with that ambiance.

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• IR

  @irongolem123 · 3 years ago

  Great ideas all around. There's just one significant detail I would have liked to explore: the nomadic merchants all have a five-fingered hand on the bow of their instruments. I think this may hint at what their "heretical beliefs" are. The followers of the Golden Order revere the Two Fingers, as a sign of order. Whereas the Three Fingers are a sign of chaos. And order and chaos both allegedly came from the One Great, so they're two halves of the whole. I think the five fingered hand of the nomadic merchants hints that they may have recognized this, and rather than embracing order and shunning chaos, their beliefs were essentially dualistic. Thus, Shabriri (or whoever) accusing them of heresy is kind of like the Christian persecution of the Manichaeans. Their belief in balance was deliberately misconstrued into devil worship.

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• LA

  @lavastage1132 · 3 years ago (edited)

  (cw: talk of suicide)<br>Personally I found the story line of the Frenzied Flame to be deeply emotionally compelling. It&apos;s reminiscent of the distortion of logic that leads to suicide, when one is suffering so much and so deeply they wish for something, anything to make it stop, even if it means death. Feeling that it is better than continuing to exist in agony in its own twisted form of hope. Its all so gut wrenchingly real that I couldn&apos;t help but sympathize and feel moved by it.<br><br>I also really like how the game frames and encourages you to accept the frenzied flame. When you encounter the Frenzied Flame Proscription, you are greeted with a horrific and frankly enraging sight of the Great Caravan entombed and yet still alive, punctuated by one playing a somber melody unique to the area. Then, with Kale&apos;s cut questline, you would find him despairing at the fate of his people (props to the VA by the way, he really sells the emotion). With all of that presented, you just might on impulse open the door to the three fingers, whether out of rage at the world of grace or sympathy for the merchant&apos;s plight. Of course by then its too late. Even if you come to your senses and regret your choice, you are locked in to the path of self destruction with only one arduous way to escape it.<br><br>On one final note, I also love how the game makes the player doff their armor, &quot;divesting themselves of everything&quot; before the doors to the three fingers will open. Its an excellent metaphor for whom the frenzied flame manifests in: those who have lost everything.

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  @FookinIsh · 3 years ago

  The eyes are said to be the window to the soul. Like you said, we use our eyes to see and take in all the pain and suffering that we go through, but it&apos;s also possible for others to see that same pain and suffering when we look each other in the eyes. When we&apos;re sad or in pain we either look to each other for comfort, or we look away keep it to ourselves. We can see despair as well, when we look into someone&apos;s eyes and see that they don&apos;t see us, or that they see through us, or see nothing at all.

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  @jeftecoutinho · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m starting to like the idea of the outer gods being kami because it explains how the outer gods apparently aren&apos;t bound by space. They can appear wherever they want because they are aspects of life itself, not just beings.

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