100% Blind Reaction to EVERY Elden Ring Demigod's Lore... 

When you realize that elden ring at its core its basically a family fighting over loot after someone dies and then you (the distant relative) wrecks them up and gets everything

6:48 placidussax remembrance does state that he was Elden Lord before the Erdtree

48:28 The reason why she needed to defeat Radahn is because he was holding back the stars. Miquella and Malenia had a close relationship with Godwyn and so when he died this caused both of them to try and resurrect him via what is referred to as the Eclipse. However the Eclipse failed most likely because of Radahn and so while Miquella was embedded into the tree Malenia went on to march across The lands between and fight Radahn not just for her fate but also Miquella and Godwyn. I don't think she intended to bloom but that it happened in a moment of sheer desperation. She passed out afterwards and was carried all the way across The lands between to the Haligtree by one badass knight called Finlay. Unfortunately by the time she arrived Jeffery Mohgstein already kidnapped Miquella.

Doesn't question Radahn holding back constellations, but a blind swordsman sealing away a god is mindblowing to him😂

Miquella’s whole thing is that he seems to not need or want an outer god. That’s the whole point of the unalloyed gold.

If Nux saw the Marika mod he would've known Marika is also best girl

47:00 "not a willing vessel" indeed she's not. You need to look closely at her design, but she's lost both legs, one arm and her eyes to the rot. so yes, the Malenia you fight in-game is BLIND!

The word disaster literally means bad star. It means this because we believed that any bad thing that happened was caused by a bad star opposed to that something that caused the bad thing to happen.

I would definetly recommend watching Vaati's videos on the frenzied flame and age of the stars ending as they are the most unique and interesting endings, and possibly the parts of Elden Ring that are the most philosophical

With how much he yaps about HP Lovecraft, I'm just waiting for him to delve on Bloodborne.

12:50 Slight correction, the Crucible is native to the Lands Between. It was the closest thing this game has to a true point of origin. All life began in the Crucible. If anything, the Crucible is a native god to the Lands Between. One that was replaced and cast aside. Forgotten.

0:56 “Malenia is best girl.” While showing Melina. The names are stupid similar but that sounds like a skill issue.

I like how Nux is just being more and more Warhammer pilled

Nux I dare you to consume ALL the lore and character lore of Westeros!

Placidusax was the Elden Lord before the Golden Order. And when you enter the arena he looks like he's trying to contact the greater will in a similar fashion as the Roundtable's Two Fingers.

Bro I forgot how much vaati sounds like mynameisbyf, and SPEAKING OF LORE, Nux might like the Destiny lore.

6:02 Now I'm wondering if there were dragon maids during that time. 🤔 🐉

Radahn: *halts the stars, sealing off Liurnia from their guidance and studies and weakening them exponentially, and dooming them to in-fighting.* Radahn’s fans: Hell yeah! He did a great thing right there!

6:08 it scares me just how much of a scolar of the 34th rule you are nux-a-lore. It scares me to my core.

45:54 fan theories over the identity of the blind swords usually revolve around Isshen the Sword Saint from Sekiro.

There are three instances I can recall off the top of my head where moon gods weren't feminine. One was the Egyptian moon god Konshu, the Japanese moon god Tsukuyomi, and the Norse moon god Mani.

Rani: Why did the stars stop moving? Radan: 🎶I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROOOOOAAAAACHING🎶

Was not expecting a Maimonides reference. Nux showing that his lore knowledge goes deeper.

NPC coming to Shadow of the Erdtree. Lord Nuxalore - The Scholar of Stories

The Next lore dive should be the world of darkness believe me the setting is most wild shit ever they manage to make vampires actually interesting

How did nux just found out that plaxidixac was an elden lord without looking at the lore

Can't wait for your Elder Scrolls lore dive.

one thing i'm still curious about is how the hell did Mohg kidnap miquella when malenia was right there? Am i supposed to believe he tiptoed in, cut out a tree chunk and dragged it back without her noticing when she wakes up just by us walking in.

... ya the DLC is out and Nux actually predicted a plot twist on minute 52... so props to you man 👏👏👏

Ultimately, Ranni was just doing what Marika wanted. To be released from the Greater Will.

What is also really cool is how intelligence and faith looks at the powers of the cosmos. Sorcerers/astrologers view it in a more scientific way: you have the moons, meteors, the primeval current. Faith users on the other hand give these cosmic forces names and revere them as Gods.

"My inner Warhammer is comin out - I wanna purge the heretics right now." 😂

Can't believe NUX played the DLC before any of us and called Miquella like that at 52:10 FRFR pre-gamed not just pre-watched

Nux putting together the Pacidusax was an Elden Lord was pretty peak ngl

one thing i thin vaati forgets in this video about the omen is that the omen have other souls/people in there blood. thats why they probably cant sleep and also probably why they are born outside of grace. yes it may onlt be a curse in the context of the golden order but who wants other lifeforms inside you and horns everywere. it must be exhausting and and annoying. i think when they sleep the see the other people/spirits that dwell inside them. and the crucible is the ORIGIN of all life in the world (i think) not a outer god.

There is some lore indicating that Melania fought Radahn specifically to resume the movement of the stars. Miqeulla was trying to resurrect Godwyn's soul, and it required a solar eclipse to complete.

An interesting thing is that the story takes heavy inspiration not just from Lovecraft and Berserk, but also Celtic and Norse myth. The demigods are surprisingly similar to the Tuathé de Danann of Celtic myth, which makes sense since this Divine lineage began when the Erdtree sprouted and took root in the Lands Between. Befitting as Radagon is similar to the Dagda, Father of the Tuathé, and Marika is similar to his consort, The Morrigan. Fia, Ranni and Melina are reminiscent of the Three Princesses from the Ireland founding myth: Eriu, Banbha, and Fódla. Here, each of these three "queens" represent their own domain of The Forgotten Lands: The Stars, The Golden Order, and Those that Live in Death. Hoarah Loux is significantly similar to the Ulster hero, CúChulainn. While Loux uses an Axe and Cu uses a Spear and Sword, They're both powerful wrestlers and fighter kings who become significantly stronger when angered. A symbol that is used by the Golden Order, constantly, is the Treyarch or Triquestra; the loops representing a cycle of Birth, Life and Death. The Erdtree is mainly based on the World Tree, Yggdrasil, but I kinda see some of the Celtic great oak tree in there, minus being fed by a holy river like the Danube. Ranni herself might be a link to a princess named Rhiannon, a woman known to be the goddess of horses. And Ranni also happens to be fairly acquainted with Torrent. Not enough? One version of Rhiannon is named "Macha," who is one of the three goddesses of Death (like Ranni, Renna and Rennala) Malenia has a good mix of a few of these references. --She's obviously a Valkyrie in design, bearing holy armor and wings along her feminine figure. --her fiery red hair and disposition for War bears resemblance to Scathach, a celtic War goddess from the Orkneys known for training CúChúlainn. --her arm is likely a reference to Nuada, aka Nuada Silverhand, who was the Tuathe that led combat against the Formore. Speaking of which: The Omen and Demihumans seem ti resemble the Formore, who inhabited the Island alongside the Fir Bolg, the humans that they warred with before the Fir Bolg themselves fought the Tuathe De Danann. (Btw, the Sword of Eochaid is named after a Fir Bolg, Eochaid, who would become High King of Ireland.) With the Fell God in the Fire Goant being similar to Balor with that one giant eye. Although, I think I can safely say we should all be very gappy we did not get to FIGHT Balor himself, or we'd never finish the game. The Roundtable, Gideon and Tarnished all bear resemblance to Arthurian Knights. They are warriors who have died in service to their lord, resurrected to continue their service in their land's time of great strife, and bare holy destiny by their god's will. I could list more, but that'd probably be an hour or half-hour long read. These are kinda the ones I noticed firsthand. Also, "Blaidd" is Welsh for Wolf.

You forget an important fact. Before ue fought you, Radahn fought Malenia and forced her to use her rot powers AND retreat, WHILE holding back the stars AND keeping himself from crushing his horse. Guy is beyond broken in the verse.

53:49 I think I have an answer to Nux's question what order does Miquella want? and I believe that it is an order of purity in order where no outer God can interfere with the lives of man you can see this when he so diligently tries to expunge the outer God of rot within his sister she does not want this she does not want to become a goddess of rot or bring upon an age of rot but many others in the lands between suffer the same fate she does The Omen and the Misbegotten are born with horns wings and tails that they did not ask for but were touched by an outer God still trying to cling on what little power they have left from an era long forgotten also Miquella when he goes into his alter ego St Trina he goes into the depths of Leyndell and calms the frenzied flame madness within the merchants by singing them to sleep It is quite ironic that he wants an order of purity but has the power to control the minds of others he has the power to compel affection whether he does this on purpose or not or whether his followers follow him through devotion loyalty or just brainwashing we still do not know but whatever the case I believe he wants everything to be in abundance weather benevolent or benign all things should flourish and grow without influence and I believe this is what he wants in his unalloyed golden order Or maybe he's just Griffith Maybe he wants to ascend to outer God and and become his own orders outer God to stop the meddling of other gods all will be answered in the DLC just............9 more days

Metal band mascots have lore too Like Eddie from iron maiden

I don't often comment on things, but I just wanted to thank you for the hours upon hours of content, Nux. I have you on while I'm working my day job and you bring a lot of laughter to my days. LOVE the lore deep dives you've been getting into- esp 40k and now Elden RIng. You excel at providing truly insightful analysis with your trademark wit that is just so engaging and thought-provoking. I know you said Dark Souls is on the docket in time- make sure to check out Vaatividya's Prepare to Cry series for that one. Oof. Lore that will hit you right in the GUT. Anyways, thank you, my guy, for being exactly who you are. Never change, sir. 💛

Mogh-lester ended up being the Mogh-lested. (DLC ENDING IS DAMN SAD)

The dragons being mostly dead before the story starts also happens in the dark souls lore they are also defeated by lightning there are so many parallels that people like to make theories about how all the from soft games are connected in lore just very far apart on the timeline also dark souls is heavily inspired by berserk

I think it makes more sense if the moons or the stars WEREN'T an outer god or another. In the age of stars ending, Ranni explains that this new age will lead people to loneliness, to mystery, to the unknown, shit like. She talks about how it is like the cold, dark night that encompasses all. I think the themes make so much sense if what Ranni is actually doing there is banishing the Greater Will and not replacing it with anything. Such that people are not ordained by fate anymore. You are not shackled to a predetermined life or system, but instead it is all a big unknown, a mystery, if you will. Like our world? Like she is transforming a world where people don't have to think for themselves because everything is preordained into one where the future is unknowable. That would make it scary and lonely for the people of the lands between, but it would be the norm for us here in the real world.

Miquella and Malenia Backstories are my favourite inspirations of Elden Ring.

well... The Moghlester has now become the Miqlested

34:42 though there are exceptions, like Egyptian mythology, Sumerian mythology... And also Japan, with Sun Goddess Amaterasu (giving life equating to giving birth apparently, but I could be putting it in a way that's drastically reductionist) who the mythology states to be a direct ancestor of Japan's imperial bloodline. As a weeb I thought you'd know that one in particular. Also, check out Okami and its sequel. You'll have fun, especially if you look up the inspirations behind the various characters.

Mohg is innocent. I will not accept this slander!!!! 16:54

Keep up the good work nux you make great vids 👍

Love these long videos while I’m just chillin at work

and now we know that there is a third brother to two malineia and mekila it is mesmir the impalaer and i thought it was the one that helped the tarnished but no i guess .

ELDEN RING, O, ELDEN RING, O, ELDEN RING, O, ELDEN RING

Oh fuck, how did he know I was going to be watching the VOD? He's consumed too much lore, he must be stopped before he becomes too powerful.

I like to think that the Marika and radagon being the same person is kinda like they were originally one person, but Marika created Radagon as another form before she decided that the golden order was bad. And since Radagon was not as powerful as Marika he was more influenced by the Greater will, so when the greater will commanded him to he left renalla and joined Marika, they sired the two cursed children and then when the shattering started the greater will forced radagon to wound and restrain Marika while attempting to reforge the elden ring

By the way we got new lore on Miquella - St. Trina was confirmed to be the embodiment of Miquella's eternal youth, and is the "poison" within his body - even though you could say it's not poison at all, or at least not in the usual way.

27:10 Ranni is the eldest child?! Her little brothers became a big fuckoff snake and an absolute unit! That’s hilarious. That ruins my theory that Marika recalled Radagon once she learned that he can sire Empyreans that could potentially replace her.

7:30 Margit is a master of illusions and the weaker Margit, Mohg and Morgott are basically his shadow clones. 30:45 Go in game, wait until night, and look up. Two moons. One on each side of the tree, light and dark.

I have two theories, technically three. I do believe that Melina is the daughter of Marika and Radagon. Messmer, in the DLC is a son of Marika, with red hair, a name that begins with "M," is an older brother figure to Radahn, and has a curse, that of a serpent of flame. His father has to be Radagon and his twin sister is Melina!!! But for him to be a son of Merika and a big brother to Radahn. He would have needed to be born before Radagon west to war with the Carian royals. While Merika was still married to Godfrey. Which then makes me think of the other children of Marika and Godfrey. Godwyn, Mohg, and Morgott. Their names dont quite match. Mohg ans Morgott have names that start with "M" are cursed like Malenia and Miquella just this time with the omen instead of youth or rot and Mohg and Morgott are twins. What if Mohg and Morgott are not children of Godfrey but children of Radagon. Godfrey just thinks they are his. Meaning there are a total of three sets of twins sired by Marika and Radagon. Two pairs of which were born before the two were married. Before Radagon went to Caria. Marika was going to kill Mohg and Morgott when they were born because of the Omen. Godfrey wouldnt let her because he thought they were his own sons. Makes sense that Marika would be resentful over over this defiance and be much more secretive with her next illegitimate children

About Radahn holding back the stars, it's a little easier to understand when you realize stars in Elden Ring are completely different from the ones in real life. What Radahn was doing wasn't holding literal celestial bodies or anything, he was instead making a barrier of sorts between the Lands Between and the stars/outer beings by isolating the world from the sky. Imagine the universe is inside a bubble and the stars are the outside of it, what Radahn did was kinda like insulation that bubble. Worth noting that the stars and the Outer Gods are similar, and there are connections between the two, but they're not necessarily directly connected. The Elden Beast is a star that acts as a vessel to an outer god, and the Moons, which are intrinsically tied to the stars, act very similarly to how Outer Gods do. There's also the eclipse, which has some more complicated stuff I won't go into now, but relates to both gods and stars too. But at the same time, the Greater Will is the only god that's ever directly tied to stars in the game's text from what I remember, and Radahn's actions didn't seem to affect the God of Rot or Flame of Frenzy in any way, implying they have nothing to do with the stars. So it's all pretty vague when it comes to if and how those concepts connect.

Can’t wait for him to watch every Vaati video

Yes!!! I’ve been waiting for this

Nux pleaaaasssseeee see the video on frenzy flame lore, its so fucking good and would be right up your alley

Elden Ring lore and Hollow Knight lore are my favorites in gaming

Corrections, the greater will is the creator of order and all life, he is superior to the outher gods, he doesn’t give a f**k of what kind of order is in place, he only whants some kind of order. Be it the golden order, the order of Rot or whatever, he doesn’t care.

34:24 Fun Fact: The Moon is actually a masculine symbol in Norse (Mani), Japanese (Tsukuyomi) and Egyptian (Khonsu) myths, while the Sun is feminine in Norse (Sol/Sunna) and Japanese (Amaterasu) myths. 🙃

Japanese Ranni: I want free will for all and will make sure outer gods stop meddling with the Lands Between. English Ranni: I WILL TAKE THE EMOTIONS AWAY FROM ALL AND PLUNGE THE WORLD INTO DARKNESS

"Fathers day I got my dad a......let's not talk about it 🙁"" 😅😅😅 I love you're sense of humor!!

47:53 the TRUE Chad Elden Ring player knows Rya is best girl.

Nux needs to watch the sorcery videos. It explains some cool stuff about the Cosmos.

0:57 naw, millicent 1:35 MITOSIS THEORY works great for this too 4:12 wait for it 5:53 yes this is it 6:47 the most ancient one, most likely, while the rune was the great crucible most likely 7:30 illusions, Mohgs one was to trick Margit into thinking he was still down there, Morgott so the people wouldn't notice they were ruled by an omen 9:35 even more mysterious why it seems to affect the dung eater as well 10:26 not exactly, they were the face of whatever is directly haunting them in their dreams for the purpose of pure horror. 47:53 not really, when she aeonian bloomed in the battle with radahn the rot god sunk more of its claws into her, taking away pieces of her, Millicent is the will that malenia lost upon the battle with radahn, the other ones are other pieces. Is she their parent, kind of but not really 47:57 naw, millicent

I have watch all the lore but seeing nux take always interesting

Radahn is so cool.

4:15 so because of Grandsax most of the dragons are dead. (Sorry i don't know how the name is spelled.)

Baldermort!!! Watch one of his videos! Blood Angels would be a good one or the iron warriors

Are you going to continue the Guilded Guy reactions?

You think the dragons had it bad wait into you hear about the omens and the merchants.

51:20 it could be that he didn't want any influence and just to become god by himself

If i remember right, Placidusax was either essentially an elden lordor he was replaced by Marika as the god of the world, though i may be ENTIRELY incorrect

Nux i hope you watch all of Vaati's Elden Ring lore collection.. there are some all time great videos, especially The Lord of Frenzied Flame; also, "The Lore of Elden Ring is Rotten" and the other more serious deep dives into specific characters are super based and well-done

Nux: Godwyn was the only good guy in Elden Ring Radan: He murdered all of the dragons. I literally learnt gravity magic so I wouldn't crush my horse.

Ngl i still really want nux to react to the elder scrolls lore

He should do "biggest flexes in Elden Ring" XD

Don’t forget the most secretive daughter of marika….melanoma

The moon is interesting. A full moon is just the moon reflecting the light of the sun in full, while the new moon / “dark” moon is the moon being eclipsed by the earth blocking its light. The sun seems to be connected to the Erdtree. Makes you think.

Also what vaati's video of the age of star, malenia and miquella really like them and miquella explains a lot, miquella seems like a mix between thorfinn and griffith and that somehow works

38:00 fairly certain the Great Serpent is not an Outer God, given we can actually fight it and do not get the 'God Slain' message I doubt it is even the Vassal of one, most likely it is some sort of lesser deity from the pre erdtree age like the Regal Ancestor Spirits

Hey Nux, why did you ever stop doing the Yugioh pogression series? Just watched the series and it seems like you and Briggs planned on doing more.

It’d be cool if one day you reacted to Elder Scrolls lore, a bunch of videos on different parts of the lore

Gonna be a lot of new lore once the dlc comes out

Also here's a theory for the timeline marika and radagan were originally one person and that as radagon was the more loyal to the golden order, I assume her was responsible for the wars and racism. Marika couldn't really oppose due to radagon having the backing of the greater will but radagon had to separate due to the plan to manipulate rennala and stayed for a while so the kids grew up. Marika was hating being a puppet of the greater will and wanting to understand more conspired with ranni to plan the black knives. So marika banishes Godfrey so he can retake the position later and tries to conspire but the greater will sensing a betrayal had radagon come back and them re-fusing causes the twins. Ranni does the plan to set her own plan in motion to break away from the greater will but killing her body and marika knowing its now or never causes the shattering.

"Doesn't he look like Griffith from a specific angle" dude just gave the biggest dlc spoiler even before it was out

to quote Ansbach "Miquella is a monster, wielding love as a weapon - there's nothing more terrifying." And indeed despite appearing kind and compassionate, Miquella is probably the most terrifying character in all of Elden Ring - as his vision for his "Age of Kindness" and "Age of Compassion" is to basically mind control every single being in the world and force them to love him, destroying everything he doesn't like or feels like it doesn't fit his idea of this Age of Compassion he wishes to enforce. He's basically a tyrant - wit the goal of World Domination using forced love and mind control. Which is also why the final boss of the dlc is so incredibly tragic...

its more likely that the smoldering butterflies are Mesmer's instead of Melina's now that the dlc is coming out, since he calls Marika mother in the trailer

MAJOR DLC SPOILER WARNING Wow, Nux's jokes about the possibility of Miquella being like Griffith sure aged well

there is no other god, the crucible still under the dominion of of the golden order as in the outer god. they just weren’t included in merikas new age of the erdtree. if anything they’re the originals them and the ancient dragons

That stuff about the moon has been in From's games since at least Dark Souls 1. Gwyndolyn, Gwyn's son was male but raised as a woman because he had affinity with lunar magic.

“Join the Lewd King as family…. TOGETHA, we’ll vore the very lore” - Nux….. maybe….. most likely

57:30 A fourth butterfly has been confirmed from those that played the DLC at the media tour. It's a charred, black one - Something that lines up pretty well with Messmer's whole deal. So, based on what we know right now, the Smoldering Butterfly falls back to Melina who I hope we get way more information on since - even though she's basically the whole reason our character does _anything_ - we still know next to nothing about her. I mean, we STILL don't know why Melina's body was burned up before the story began which is, like, the _entire_ inciting incident for how our character gets saved from being a maidenless piece of garbage. The inclusion of a fourth butterfly also solidifies the whole "butterfly theory" to begin with. It wasn't necessarily shaky in the first place, but one _could_ make an argument for just plain coincidence. Now that all three children of Marika and Radagon have them (I'm sorta assuming Messmer is one of those considering, y'know, red hair..has a statue of Marika holding a baby in his throne room..literally refers to his mother sanctioning us as Elden Lord...etc.), I think it's pretty safe to say Melina is a fourth child in some way. Maybe not an empyrean like Miquella and Malenia, but definitely related.

I'm glad you mentioned Griffith. I thought the same thing

Video 5 of asking The Lore God to Consume Vita Carnis >:D