Queen Marika - A Deconstruction of Villainy

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  @VictorIV0310 · 2 years ago

  “What’s your favourite spell, Marika?”<br><br>“A spell to create a field of flowers.”

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  @EmissaryOfStuff · 2 years ago (edited)

  It was pretty crazy, beating Metyr, reading all the descriptions and realizing that Marika was probably lied to her whole life, especially while she was vulnerable due to the trauma inflicted by the Hornsent.<br><br>Goes to show what an important theme cycles of violence and abuse are in Elden Ring.

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  @nickytheanimal2413 · 2 years ago

  Marika was never in contact or even working for the greater will is my fave part. The fingers literally just made it up for her

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  @inasilentway9835 · 2 years ago

  It&apos;s crazy how many people overlook that Marika&apos;s shattering of the Elden Ring was essentially a suicide attempt. I believe this is what returned Grace to the Tarnished as well, hoping for them to bring an answer to her sorrow.

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  @athelise · 2 years ago

  Also, one more thing, Miquella&apos;s curse is that of nascence, not necessarily youth. He&apos;s cursed that all of his ambitions never reach their full potential: unalloyed gold, the haligtree, even his own epoch.

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  @devidrachan · 2 years ago (edited)

  What if Radagon was truly in love with Renala. It caused him pain when Marika forced him to abandon his beloved family, but being her other half, didn&apos;t have a choice. Seeing how it tore her family apart grew Rannis resentment of the golden order and anything tied to it. Once Marika decided to destroy her order, Radagon was pissed, because he probably felt betrayed. He had abandoned everything for absolutely nothing, and in revenge, decided to force Marika to maintain the status quo, so as for his personal sacrifices not to be in vain.

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  @tristanneal9552 · 2 years ago

  I think it&apos;s quite clear what Marika found when she set aside blind faith and searched the depths of the Golden Order. Ymir spells it out for us:<br><br>&quot;The conceits – the hypocrisy – of the world built upon the Erdtree. The follies of men. Their bitter suffering. Is there no hope for redemption? The answer, sadly, is clear. There never was any hope. They were each of them defective. Unhinged, from the start. Marika herself. And the fingers that guided her. And this is what troubles me. No matter our efforts, if the roots are rotten, …then we have little recourse.&quot;<br><br>Marika discovers Metyr had been abandoned by the Greater Will long ago, and her Godhood and order were not in fact guided by some omnipotent higher power. This discovery causes a crisis of faith for her.

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  @Walmbat · 2 years ago

  The way I prefer to read Marika is as a deeply tragic villain, who fell into being an abominable tyrant due to the trauma she underwent in her past. Her initial actions were born of vengeance to lash out at the ones who victimized her and her people, and then at the ones she saw as cursing the family she managed to scrape together in the wake of it all. From there, she tried and failed to create what she considered a better world, due to how her trauma shaped her perceptions and reactions to those like the Omen and the Misbegotten. Finally, at the very end, with no idea how to change it, how to fix it, how to put the pieces back together… she sought to end it all, just to escape the pain – and we all know how that ended.

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  @Esty568 · 2 years ago

  I do think, she was the one success of the Hornsent’s melding-ritual. She first became their Saint. The one they were trying so desperatelly to create. Marika proceeded to be that Saint and made the Hornsent to show her the way to become a god. The moment she stood before the Gate of Divinity, she revealed her rage and killed the Hornsent as brutally as she could to avenge her people. “The Seduction and the Betrayal.”

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  @apolonier11 · 2 years ago

  St. Trina reminds me of how in dreams, in real life, you can&apos;t yell, say anything or make sounds. She tries to enunciate every part of her words and she&apos;ll never be any stronger or awake...

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  @texasshiva · 2 years ago (edited)

  I think Marika&apos;s comment about wallowing at the fringes is directed at Miquella. The Haligtree is literally at the fringes. And his ambitions are of a fundamentally powerless upstart. He took advantage of the existing family feud to further his ambitions and charmed powerful people to balance his powerlessness. I think she saw how her Order was flawed and abusable and decided to destroy it. And she saw that Miquella was terrifying.

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  @innocuousalias6632 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I think her dialogue to her children was a prophecy, a warning to them that they were cursed (just like her) and if they didn&apos;t fight their way out of it they would fall to ruin (just like her). Becoming a lord or god is not the final step in avoiding Marika&apos;s fate but so long as people would seek divine power her children would be targets unless they had the strength of a god. Whether its the golden order, the hornsent or whomever came before the people were always seeking divine power and sacrificing others to get to that power.

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