Ten Things We Still Don't Know About Queen Marika

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  @AlanAlberti-gt4tm · 2 years ago

  Maybe Queen Marika is the friends we made along the way

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• KI

  @kingfisher-soars · 2 years ago

  Just realizing how heavily Roderika parallels Marika. I mean the grafting and the Shaman jars, the spirit tuning, the hair, the relationship with Hewg...

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• AB

  @abrogee · 2 years ago (edited)

  St Trina's death is alot like a flower in nature with her being removed from the body of Miquella like a flower being plucked from it's roots, it's slowly wilting and withering away.

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• MA

  @MarcellusMaize · 2 years ago

  I love the idea that Marika herself was just a successful jar saint. It explains why she was able to rise to such a prominent position in the hornsent civilization despite her not being one of them, they probably viewed her as their ultimate achievement of creating their own divine beings (we know that the hornsent were an extremely proud and arrogant people). Only for her to pull an eclipse on them at the top of the gate of divinity and ascend to true godhood by way of slaughtering the people who put her in that position out of revenge. <br><br>This would also explain why the hornsent considered what Marika did a “betrayal” they genuinely thought they were doing Marika and the shamans a favor by subjecting them to this awful ritual. Really chilling stuff.

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• MI

  @MinecraftMartin · 2 years ago

  Interesting to talk about translations from Japanese.<br><br>If George RR Martin wrote the foundation of Elden Ring initially, that means Elden Ring was written in English, translated into Japanese, FromSoftware writes what happened next, then the notes in game are translated back to English.<br><br>If you&apos;ve ever done an exercise of translating from one language, then back to another, then back again, you&apos;ll know how crazy a concept can sound in the end lol

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• PE

  @PerfectTheCircle · 2 years ago (edited)

  My favorite two Radagon theories: 1) Radagon was melded into Marika during a jar saint ritual. 2) Much like Miquella and St. Trina, Radagon was always a part of Marika, but she then cast him away because she saw him as detrimental to her apotheosis. Later again they merged (voluntarily or not).

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• J-

  @j-plarouche9959 · 2 years ago

  for the St-Trina&apos;s parallel. When we kill MIquella&apos;s soul, St-Trina dies. They can exist separately but they are indeed one and the same and different character at the same time.

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• CP

  @CPTWIGHT · 2 years ago

  Always here for another Fatbrett video

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• BI

  @BitterSteel69 · 2 years ago

  Thank god… we had a lore drought for a minute there.

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• AR

  @Art3Onyx-2 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnVB6ppMURM&amp;t=550">9:10</a> I’ve always held the headcanon that the Black Knives were betrayed. By Ranni or Marika or even both, then they simply all splintered and chose their own allegiances. Some of them stuck with Marika, while other chose to attempt revenge, some even simply wander with no true purpose.

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• VI

  @vincentlorusso689 · 2 years ago

  I wish there was just a brief flashback cutscene of Marika&apos;s last trip to the Shaman Village when you grab the Minor Erdtree incantation or the Golden Braid. I wouldn&apos;t even need dialogue or a view of her face. I get why they didn&apos;t do it, though.

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• DO

  @Douge11 · 2 years ago

  I believe that the main reason that Marika sought death is because of how the fingers and metyr are broken. If they had already lost connection to the greater will by the time Marika was chosen, the last message must have been something like “select and empyrean and create a god” and the fingers have been repeating that ever since. But rather than divesting herself like Miquella, she bonded herself to the elden ring to acquire godhood, so when more empyreans are chosen, it flies in the face of what she was told by her two fingers, and fundamentally upsets the foundation of her godhood and her belief in her own divinity. She ultimately decided she was functionally imprisoned and sought death. Coincidentally, Ranni’s plans exposed the flaws of her order, so she shattered herself to create turmoil from witch Ranni could arise as the new god and allow marika’s death, but Radagon and Radahn ruined that. So she still wants Ranni to succeed her, despite Ranni killing godwyn, as it’s her best chance of actually dying

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