Elden Ring Lore | Radagon of the Golden Order

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  @SmoughTown · 3 years ago · pinned

  Thank you everyone for checking out my video on the Champion!<br><br>Let me know your thoughts below

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• TU

  @TuffCatTV · 2 years ago

  Miquella: &quot;so how come i never see you and mom in the same room together&quot;<br>Radagon: &quot;haha i&apos;ll tell you when you&apos;re older&quot;<br>Miquella, cursed with eternal youth: &quot;...&quot;

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• GA

  @gabriellecollier8127 · 3 years ago

  Marika: You&apos;re not a God, plus ratio, plus you&apos;re a dog, plus I&apos;m shattering the Elden Ring.

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• JA

  @jamescannon4186 · 3 years ago

  Absolutely loved realizing the main theme of Elden Ring also happened to be Radagons very theme. It made my jaw drop realizing he truly was the center of it all.

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• DA

  @daniell1483 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Radagon is such a mysterious person. I&apos;m personally of the opinion that he is purely created from Marika. It reminds me a lot of how Athena supposedly arose out of Zeus&apos; mind fully formed, so he called her his daughter. With all the parallels between Marika and Athena, I think Radagon is this same idea at play, but the roles reversed. A male divine persona arose out of Marika&apos;s mind, possibly to serve her purposes as a tool in addition to being her husband.

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• TI

  @titaniumteddybear · 3 years ago

  If Radagon was a &quot;simple laborer&quot; then he couldn&apos;t have bound the Royal Houses together through marriage. You&apos;re 100% right.

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• IG

  @igorengel7801 · 3 years ago

  It&apos;s also interresting to look at Radagon from an alchemical lens further than the rebus - the traditional four stages of Magnum Opus seem to parallel Radagon&apos;s journey:<br><br>- Starting from Marika, the mercury, the Nigredo, Radagon is formed<br>- His marriage to Renalla, the lunar queen has mutltiple parallels to Albedo, which is associated with purification (consider the Celestial Dew ritual), the moon, and the feminine<br>- Citrinitas, the transition from silver to gold corresponds to Radagon&apos;s return to the golden order, his marriage to Marika. It is also associated with abandonment of the lunar light.<br>- Radagon never reach Rubedo stage, and it is what Marika is mocking in the bedchamber speech - they never reach their final union, never become a single being, Radagon never becomes god.<br><br>It gets kinda complicated because, I don&apos;t think alchemy usually considers two different feminine parts, but Radagon has Marika and Renalla playing this role at different parts of the journey, but it does seem like there&apos;s a correspondance. &apos;hero aspires to be complete&apos; is also a very alchemical phrase.

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• MI

  @miomio6890 · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwRJpdSCKo8&amp;t=1196">19:56</a> On Radagon&apos;s importance: if he is created after the war with the giants,Radagon would have had years to accrue military esteem and status. Even if he didn&apos;t, if he was appointed to be the leader of the campaign, the head of the host by Marika, that would&apos;ve been enough (if he were a champion before the War this would&apos;ve been easier). That he&apos;s in the same position as Rennala assumes that their social rank was also similar. By this point Radagon could&apos;ve made quite a name for himself serving the FO.

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• LI

  @Littlelostmusic · 3 years ago

  For the hammer you described in the beginning - I always thought it might be referring to Hewg as the labourer who rebelled. And that him rebelling was what resulted in Marika “cursing” him (seems to be a thing she can do based on what we know of the last fire giant). Of course, Marika had other motives for what happened with Hewg.

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  @jessetroy7761 · 3 years ago

  I think it’s really interesting how Radagon and Marika sort of started out with similar or same views, but as time went on and Marika began to rebel more against the Greater Will Radagon didn’t, which really shows how different they were even though they shared a body. And also how Radagon can be considered an antagonist in the way he protects an order that is clearly crumbling, and how he seals the erdtree with the thorns, and how he may have deceived Gideon into trying to stop us when he tried to gaze into marikas will, but instead found Radagons. All very compelling, great video as always!

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• DA

  @darkarchonisme · 3 years ago

  Marika&apos;s nox association also ties her to the mercury queen concept very firmly

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  @INVICTVS_REX · 3 years ago

  My theory on Radagon’s origin has always centered around Marika’s slaying of the Fell God of the giants. I always speculated that perhaps a fraction or sliver of the Fell God’s essence attached itself to Marika in retaliation, forming a new identity within her. But that’s just my theory, it may be easily disproved.

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