100% Blind Reaction To ELDEN RING's Full Timeline & Lore... 

Honestly, going all the way back to Vaati is like going to the origin of all narrated lore vids on this whole platform. He’s the og, he’s the one who first made it big through lore deep dives. It’s all top tier shit with him. Voicing included

The fact that at 22 seconds after release nux already had 1 view and Charlie 0 means that Nux is on path to world domination

Bloodborne is basically souls mixed with London and lovecraft

This man went straight to Vaati. Someone knew to tell him what’s good

My understanding of Destined Death is that it is the concept of Death as the inevitable, irrefutable, and irreversible end of things; you die and you don't get to come back because you effectively cease to exist in the mortal realm. Marika's goal wasn't to remove Death from the world, but instead to control it so that death was only permanent when she decided it needed to be so, more importantly through controlling Destined Death meant that she could prevent it from being imposed upon her and she would be truly immortal. The complication with this is that although Marika bound the Rune of Death, most things cannot return from death without some force to call them back, which is what Grace is; the lingering power of Marika and the Elden Ring guiding the Tarnished back to the land of the living, and when Grace fades from a Tarnished, their death becomes a semi-permanent thing. And there's another problem; Ranni stealing a fragment of the Rune of Death and using it to forge the Black Knives. The Black Knives individually are able to either inflict Destined Death upon the soul or the body, which is what happened to Godwyn and Ranni during the Night of the Black Knives; Godwyn experienced soul-death and lives on as the soulless, undying, and potentially mindless Prince of Death, constantly perpetuating the Deathroot and through it Those Who Live In Death, i.e. the soulless undead, while Ranni managed to slay her Empyrean body, breaking her connection to the Two Fingers and the Greater Will and allowing her to exist as a being of pure spirit animating a doll. These fragments existing in the world mean that Destined Death is still freed, but only Maliketh and the Tarnished who slays him and claims the Rune of Death can wield it as an absolute and reliably enforceable concept.

If i am remembering it correctly, Marika was cursed by the fire giants, and to prevent her from being fully cursed, she split a portion of herself off to contain the curse and that portion became Radegon. Its why he has red hair like the fire giants and he passed it to his children.

Nux: Mentions ponies at the end for a lore video. The bronies climbing outta the fucking walls: "Take my money!"

Sekiro also made by From Software does some awesome stuff from Japanese myth and history. For example the Corrupted Monk boss was based a warrior monk who became immortal by accident. Her dad and friends found a fish by the river and during the process of cooking it the fish had a human face and spoke. This scared the crap out of everyone so they didn't eat it and decided to toss it away, but for some reason instead of burying it right there the dad took it home to throw it away later, only for his daughter to find it and eat it. They both freak out at first but there were little to no effects and everything was fairly normal. Then decades pass and everyone in her life grew old and died while she stayed the same. While her husband died at 80 she still looked 20. Also the ministry a faction that's mentioned throughout the game and doesn't show up until the end is loosely based of the Tokugawa clan, a real samurai clan that still technically exists.

SmoughTown has a video summarizing the entire timeline and lore for people trying to get into it before dlc. Its 2.5 hours, so long as shit, but its a pretty digestable and easily accessed summary. I'm a Vaati absolutist tho, if I don't have my own opinion I'm married to I'm going with whatever Vaati says

Radagon has always been Marika. Vaati has since changed his stance and leaned heavily into this theory. It is the accepted version of events amongst the community and the only one that makes actual sense. This video was still relatively fresh after the game was released.

That's actually a solid question, why is it that Malenia and Miquella are Empyreans without shadow-bound beast??

Elden Ring is not just a big map, is a big map full of history, acient history. Which you are part of, just a fragment of what this game could offer. And knowing just a bit of it, makes the game even better, because it is always there, just you weren't looking in the right places. For me this game will be the game of the decade, is hard to surpass something so unique as Elden Ring, truly a modern masterpiece.

Nux! Finish what's on your plate! I'm all for the lore devouring, but damn you for all the suspense you're building on all the other lore your starting! Appreciate your content fam

You sweet summer child nux you are just tripping in to this rabbit hole

23:52 After reading "THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD", it's my head-canon that Elden Ring summons draw the inspiration from .HP.L.'s book.

The DLC kinda explains how Radogan and Marika are the same person and two different entities at the same time. Miquella on his journey to godhood that mirrors Marikas has to shatter his own being and leave to pieces of himself behind, which you use to follow his steps through the DLC. This is both a physical and spiritual process, and one of the fragments he leaves behind, his love, manifests as a separate entity, the goddess of sleep and dreams that wants to rejoin with the original self to prevent him from attaining the burden of godhood. Just like with Marika, the original represents causality, while the fragment left behind represents regression.

55:14 noticing s staggering amout of parallels between elden rings deities and those of 40k

Nux I'm very glad you did this one

I really like how you geeked out over this, SAME 🤙🏾

This guys videos are great, watch the rest of them. All wonderful lore put out in a great way.

40:43 at the beginning of the Godfrey fight you can see a trail pf grace form him to you... indicating youre both tarnished being guided by grace to face each other for the title of lord and lead a new order... Thats all the greater will wants..

I've been playing elden ring this past week for the first time, currently on the final boss after 40 hours, it's been so fun

EVERYONE is talking about elden ring right now and I’m here for it

Down the From Software rabbit hole, eh? Vaati's Armored Core Lore when?

Hey Nux! After this i HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY Recommend watching the Tarnished Archeologist's videos on Elden Ring. They reveal so much lore about the world that moat never acknowledge.

39:33 She had the nerve to attempt to dig deeper and faster into the outer gods intent than anyone previous. If one considers previous fromsoft lore, this makes sense as someone attempting to get ahead of these gods as they conduct their cycle. Attempting to assume their intent and observe it in action

I love that no vtuber can talk about Elden ring without mentioning Bao's thirst for the Wolfman.

1:20 You're close. Most souls games (the exceptions being Bloodborne and Sekiro) are more derivative of Conan The Barbarian which was written by Robert E. Howard, HP Lovecraft's contemporary and penpal. Howard and Lovecraft even included references to each others work in their stories.

First Warhammer and now Elden Ring? Nux is going to have a lot to cover.

"Dude, these fingers... From behind..." Nux 2024

So glad Nux watching Vaati, the main dude for Souls lore

Marika hating the greater will and then being betrayed by radagon who was obsessively following the greater will caused many issues

Finally! I was hoping for him to do VaatiVidya videos.

Vaati actually has done hiur long videos on the different endings and the characters in each storyline.

I really appreciate these Videos, not just for the Information, but how well Narrated they are, He’s such a good Storyteller.

One of my favorite games to the point that I sought out the lore in game myself before watching VaatiVidya

26:23 she was just hanging around.

Watched all of the ending videos Vaati made and they are ALL incredible. Though if you want to start with the more...disturbing ones, and fitting of Lovecraft's themes , Frenzy Flame takes the cake, followed by the Dung eater one... (Though age of stars remains my fav... My boi blaidd 😢 💔)

31:15 tbf, each of these beliefs systems manifested in a very literal way

Wait... going with the chessboard analogy, Empyreans are literally the Pawn pieces since if you can get them to the end of the board, you can trade for/upgrade to a stronger chess piece, including Queens which can do almost anything a lesser piece can do...

50:46 That's a big reason why I love FromSoft games, they aren't just a "difficult boss game" for me, they are a mystery, the mystery of where the hell we are to begin with, exploring the world and what's around every corner, the mystery of the story and piecing it together, even the boss fights are a mystery, what do they do and how do I beat them. In most games a boss is there to be beaten, but in Elden Ring you need to know the boss and its moves to beat it, unless you are a filthy mage(I'm joking)

Being a god in a higher dimension would be much like an artist sitting with a drawing. He can't enter the page, but he can write, draw, create, erase.

Radagon is essentially the part that follows the Golden Will, and Marika is the part that is defied against the Golden Will after knowing its true self.

I hope he also does the endings. Those videos are incredible and some of my favorites.

10:00 no one ever said that the Golden Order was about Justice, I think that is also a reason Marika may have turned her back on it. Like, what was the point in everything she was doing? It was really ever justified very well.

Remember the last chapter of berserk by kentaro(chapter 364)? In the last panel we see that Griffith is the moonlight boy and in that way i think that marika is radagon.

There is a theory that Melina is the daughter of Marika and Radagon as except for Malenia and Miquella they seem to come in sets of three (Godwyn, Mohg and Morgott, Ranni, Radahn and Rykard and then Mallenia and Miquella) That could also explain why she knows so much about Marika and is so invested in you becoming Elden Lord. That's also somewhat substantiated through the collectible butterflies, burning ones, rotting ones and ephemeral ones each supposedly standing for Melina, Malenia and Miquella respectively. Also makes kind of sense because aside from Godwyn, Morgot and Mohg the other sets all have the same first letter in their name which could be explained by the Ohmen Twins having been shunned and locked away beneath Leyndell. I overall like this theory a lot but I don't know if there is any more evidence or if it just sounds nice.

Cant wait for nux to tackle the 6hr long lore video of armored core 6

Just imagine when we make Nux tackle Metal Gear or Kingdom Hearts…..

I want to point out that some of the information in this video comes from popular theories back from when it was made. Today we know some of these theories where wrong by considering jp descriptions wich lost some meaning with localization (for example, all that thing of the Great tree and Erdtree is wrong, as in jp they used them interchangebly as synonims, meaning there is no parasite and tree was alwais the same) . And now that the dlc came out, even more of those therioes where further proved wrong. Keep that in mind if you wish to consume all lore.

Without any shadow of a doubt, vaati and smoughtown are 2 of the best, most consistent in quality loretubers for fromsoft. I know there's lots more, but i mainly watch these two. Ya gotta appreciate the sheer amount of work and dedication poured into every one of their videos

There is some theory as to why Marika and Radagon seem so different too each other although they are the same being. Could be Miyazakis interpretation of joining of male and female characteristics into one being. Which comes from some occultism. I would recommend watching Max derrats videos on fear and hunger. Where he goes into the philosophy of the games and their occult meanings. I would also recommend watching tarnished archaeologists since he dives into the architectural discoveries and their connections to real world stuff to explain parts of elden ring that never gets mentioned.

Nuxalore discovering how well woven and intricate fromsoft lore is, bloodborne will blow his mind

I'm working on leveling up my build for the DLC that will be a crucible knight build and I named him "Recusant Knight" because to heck with the Golden Order!

nux definitely being the guy to put a mimic helmet on his head

I came here because of the thumbnail and the lore.🤩

Emperyan is a title given to Demi-Gods who have the ability to become a god/vessal for the greater will. It was a name created by the Two Fingers think of it like Prince/Princess they are the next in line to become king/queen or in this case a vessal for the greater will... it just so happens all Emperyans attract other outer gods because of there natural strength who try to Seduce in Moghs case or outright force them in Malenias case to become vessals for them lol Also shadows are given to Emperyans by the Two Fingers as there own personalized body gaurd that are connected directly to there soul so if the two fingers don't like you, you wont get a shadow and if you have a shadow a betray the two fingerd they have the power to make the shadow turn hostile..

15:10 actually azatoth is the creator of the verse if I’m not wrong as the whole verse is just his dream, idk, I just read somewhere something like this.

Miyazaki and Martin: *Create a beautiful world full of near perfect storytelling and amazingly complex characters* Me, The Foul Tarnished: That's a pretty tree. IMMA KILL IT

I’ll be waiting for the day Nux does a Halo video

~32:00 Extreme order is IT from "A Wrinkle in Time", or Big Brother from "1984"

This makes me want to give another run at elden ring. Last time I only made it to Goodrich the grafted.

24:33 supposedly, each outer god in elden ring can also be connected to a planet in the solar system. For example, the fell god is Jupiter because of the way his eye is one of jupiters poles. The greater will is outside even that framework.

a theory going around is that she is either Miquella other persona, ranni's twin or even ranni herself. I mean she has her eye covered just like ranni

I think you should watch all his lore playlist and then Prepare To Cry. The DLC trailer videos are also great

For the two people being one thing. It could be that they were always two beings before the shattering and after it the rune of time made it so they were always one? Seeing how the rune of death changed the world on such a drastic scale when removed

My own theory about radagon and marica is that it's a similar thing to the npc D and his brother, where they share a soul but have 2 bodies, but in merica and radagons case it's kind of the reverse, 2 souls 1 body.

The line are Golden 11:39 - 37:44 - 45:53

Radagon is Marika and MARIKA IS AIZEN/KENJAKU 48:10

It might be wrong but my head canon was always that Miquella's "shadow" instead of being a wolf, was Malenia.

VaatyVidya dark souls 1 prepare to cry series is a must watch

You have to react to the timeline of trench Crusade believe me it’s awesome it’s like Warhammer 40 K but Catholic

please more elden ring lore deep dive i love it

26:11 she speaks through melina on multiple occasions

I remember there was a piece of lore that Radagon was a part of the elden ring of which Marika became and she had separated him to help fill in for Godfrey and also be her hand in the world per the greater will but used that to her advantage and plans

Please make a video on the 5 hour armored core 6 lore video

I NEED MORE OF THESE

We need Nux diving into Elder Scrolls lore

Day 2 of asking Nux to react to the Middle Earth lore timeline

The rune of death was all ranni, stole a piece of the rune of death, used it to kill Godwin’s soul(while he body lived and kill her body(while her soul lived on in a puppet) freeing herself of her “empreyean flesh” and the influence of the greater will. However, her fate was still bound by the stars which is why we’re sent to kill Radahn.

I belive Radagon and Marika is kinda like (Hell's paradise) if you have seen the anime or manga. Sort term the "God" split imself into 7 parts and all seven can change between male and female. So i think in the beging sence ones blond and one has red hair due to a curse Marika accully made a 2nd self with diffrent values and onec she breaks the elden ring Radagon re fuses with Marika to stop her and refix the elden ring. Cause even in the end we fight Radagon but the corpse left is Marika when u win the fight

Oh man Themis guys videos are like a documentary watch all of them! Particularly the dragons lore

Damn you now I can't edge it away.

from my understanding markia and radagon are two bodies one soul each with a will of their own

My god, I can’t believe I never thought about it. Must do dark souls. Must do dark souls. Must do dark souls.

ARISE NOW YE BILLIES, YE EGGBOIZ, WHO YET FLEX, THE CALL OF LONG LOST MEMES SPEAK TO US ALL, BECOME THE LORD OF TWIGGO!!!!!!!

I agree with SmougTown that the Greater Will is not an outer god. It is the creator god

The eyes being a bit far apart is funny

Interesting fact, main characters of the story/shard bearers etc represent the zodiac, like Radahn is Sargitarius, Marika/Radagon is Gemini, Milenia is Scorpion ETC. Their faith is in the stars after all :D

0:46 I was not ready for something I should've expected, every single one? dam laddy how you obtain any levels due to missing a Madien my g?

Check out the gloom-eyed queen lore, and answer us ‘Is she a Snake?”

I'm an Nuxanor vessel...I'm proud

There's nothing indicating the moons are Outer Gods. This doesn't mean that they aren't gods though. Ranni's whole shtick is that she wants to be free from Outer Gods' influence because she doesn't want to be a puppet(haha) of the Golden Order to replace Marika. She then takes it a step further and doesn't want any beings in The Lands Between to be controlled. How she's doing this requires her to take a solitary journey, of which our Tarnished can alleviate by becoming her consort.

"we are pawns to be pushed around by cosmic entities" which is why ranni's ending is the best, where you tell all the outer gods to go fuck off and leave the lands to their own devices.

What everyone here fails to see is that nux is attempting to consume all lore in his ascension to godhood as a keeper of fables

nuxanor has gone live alerts are going crazy on kick

Nux should react to Elder Scrolls Lore. His brain would fry trying to understand that acid trip of a setting

LETS GOOOOO ELDEN RING LORE BABY WOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! 💪🏼💪🏼

I love how Elden Ring seems to take place in a world where abstract concepts are made manifest in their own reality, and all interact (or not) as though people or at least non-immaterial.

I'm really enjoying the Warhammer 40k lore, good to keep variation but wanted to voice my support