"A Crown Is Warranted With Strength" 

Never skip leg day- sun tzu

Godfrey went bonk ooga booga

A crown is warranted with STRENGTH 🗿

Godfrey is like All-might.

I felt the same, this character was masterfully done. Strength befits a crown, awesome line

My first play through I thought it was reversed, telling us that he was our next opponent. But after seeing this video it’s really cool how we were his boss fight essentially.

That sounds like it make a lot of sense man wtf??

That… that makes a lotta sense… huh.

Nice

But why specifically did Marika do all of this. Multiple times in trailers and gameplay does it say that "Marika was pushed to the brink," after the night of the black knives. It was then she shattered the elden ring in reaction to Godwyn's death, presumably her first or second born (counting Mohg and Morgott as both first-born for twins). Perhaps her faith was waning in the greater will for a while and she planned to tactfully dismantle the elden ring. But in a fit of grief and rage, shattered it, leaving Radagon to desperately fix it, with no luck.

Queen Marika: You just activated my trap card.

Unless you're Soldier of God, Rick

Bring me the horizon - can you feel my heart starts playing

In a world full of Joffreys, be Tyrion

@@orfeaskritikos9031 in a world of Joffreys, be a TYWIN.

In a world of Gideons, be a Dung Eater.

Holy shit I never noticed that, and it makes so much sense as well

Doesn't the grace lead to the Giant's Forge, though? If so, this idea doesn't really make that much sense imho.

No it makes sense before we burn the ertree grace still guide because it seek us out to fight dangerous opposite hence forth the last giant but once we defeated the giant and burn the ertree the greater will realize our turn intention stop us from completely burning the ertree which the catalyst would be the ruin of death also know as destined death

This is why when we fight Godfrey grace doesn’t point us to him it is instead grace is pointing to us to Godfrey we are now the threat basically we became a boss in Elden Ring without knowing it

Grace doesn't guide anymore if all the grace are activated in an area

After you burn the erdtree grace doesn’t guide you anymore

It wasn't grace, its the grace(or ashes) of Morgott going towards you. We have become Morgott's challenger once again but since he is dead, Godfrey will take his son's challenge, perhaps the only thing Godfrey could atleast do for his son

Marika was mad the gods Kim’s killed her kin, I think these are the demigods they killed and used in their cloaks

"If yes become nothing, ye shall be forsaken" Dude it sounds like she buried their entire existences inside the mausoleums because they didn't do anything of note.

I thought that piece of dialogue was in regards to Marika's children. basically telling them, as long as they accomplish something, they won't be forsaken and not amount to just sacrifices. because what exactly did marika sacrifice for the tarnished? After all, a big part of the tarnished is the fact that they got strong, despite losing the guidance of grace. meaning, they cut off. they were on their own.

no buddy you got it all wrong, demigods are whats in those masoleums , they are direct offspring of queen marika just that, when they call someone a shardbearer it means they hold a piece of the elden ring or a great rune- that could be anyone like rennala, maliketh , godrick

I don’t think they are specifically shard bearers, they were demigods that were killed on the night of black knives. Since the shattering happened after the night of black knives they can’t have been given a great rune if they were dead.

I had no idea!

Did you know Godfrey has the properties of both rubber and gum?

Did you know Godfrey was- "Hoarah Loux... WARRIORRRR"

Did you know he taught it to the crucible knights too?

Im all for a strength build I like to tack on some faith aswell

@@chickenwarriorr what is strength without faith

Strength build with falling star beast jaw is how I finally beat malenia.

@@lesterparker1594 Falling Star Beast Jaw? Isn't that an Int weapon? Int is just blue dex HEATHEN

@@chickenwarriorr it scales with int and str. Scales with strength better than int. I was using a int/str build so I could use it. It requires like 35 str and 20 int to use. It made malenia fight into a joke.

Storm Lord beat Godfrey?

@Midnight Train nah if you read Godfreys armor it says once he defeated the storm lord his eyes dimmed k owing he had no more worthy fights ahead of him. So after he bear the storm lord he became tarnished and was banished by marika

Some people have noticed that Placidusax should have 5 heads, but 3 have been severed, along with the tip of his tail. Must have been a hell of A fight.

I think she will be in convalescence for a long time, but that eventually she will regenerate. She _is_ the Elden Ring after all. By repairing it, we repair her. It may take a long time, however. If what Mr Martin told us about the length of the Shattering War is true, her body has been slowly falling to pieces for 5,000 years.

I totally agree, my interpretation is that Marika realized that the Elden Beast and the Erdtree are parasites, sent by the Greater Will to feed on the life force of the Lands Between, and she was their puppet for too long. The golden order was a front for all of this, to keep up the façade... She then shattered the Elden Ring as a means of weakening the Greater Will's grip on the Lands Between, and set in motion the reformation of the Elden Ring free of the greater will's influence. Remember, the Greater Will corrupted the Elden Ring at the very beginning by removing the destined death aspect from it

@@andyknightwarden9746 where can you find what he said? Doesn’t matter if canon or not cool world building

@Luminousreign in an interview on TV recently he said the game was set in the game universe's present and he was responsible for writing what happened 5000 years ago that destroyed it all.

I 100% agree, I think she banished Godfrey to protect him and his followers. And after realizing how the Greater Will wants to control everything, slowly planned how to destroy the Elden Ring and Elden Beast. Ranni also wanted to be free of the Greater Will's influence, and who wouldn't, we see how it strives to decimate anything who poses even the smallest challenge. It portrays itself as the embodiment of order but comes to destroy everything which isn't to it's liking.

How does Castle Morne set off a chain reaction?

@@dogattac By going to Castle Morne properly (Irena's questline), you met Edgar. And by doing his quest, he falls to chaos and you get a grape. Plus the theory that Hyetta took Irena's body. There's nothing there for the Grace to guide you to, but there is for the Three Fingers. (Ps. I use the word guide loosely since you can do whatever you want in Elden Ring)

@@ChaoticNakka the only real problem is, we have no lore telling us, if the three fingers can influence the greater will's grace. I think your explanation might be thinking too deep into it, and it's simply the guidance of grace showing us a path to become stronger. because obviously grace to some extend is aware of us, but it's only guidance. not fate or determined path. we don't have to go to castle morne. as an example, guidance of grace also points us into the direction of Ranni, which is kind of weird, when you consider her path is to free the Lands Between from the grip of the greater will. she wants to usher in the age of stars, after all. so I wouldn't say that the three fingers influenced the guidance of grace, or else that would also mean somehow Ranni can influence it too, but she makes it obvious meeting us the second time, that she is surprised by our sudden appearance in the carian manor. It would also mean that other forces besides the greater will has influence over the guidance of grace. and so far I don't think any kind of lore suggest that is possible, but maybe I am mistaken and there is and I haven't heard of it simply. but guidance of grace pointing us to several paths, that we don't need to tread, such as Ranni's path or the path to fight Radahn in Caelid, does suggest, that the guidance of grace, even if we might not do something that is needed or even goes against it, it will lead us down that path. it could also ultimately lead to the idea that whatever ending we chose, the greater will actually wanted it to happen and dlc, or more likely an elden ring 2, if miyazaki is down for it, might show us how the world has evolved after.

@@DatAsianGuy That's one thing I love about these games so much, they leave it open for people to theorize! For me, I think it points to Ranni and Radahn because they are (and were in Ranni's case) Shardbarers. The Grace leads to challenges, like how the Grace pointed to us during the Godfrey cut scene. In Ranni's case, it could be us being guided to assist her in starting her Age of Stars (best ending in my opinion, gotta love the wifey

​@@DatAsianGuyyou're the one obviously thinking to deep. It's a game mechanics that leads you to important objectives that you might want to achieve rannis a demigod regardless it makes more sense that grace would go to her instead of the castle. Btw the greater will isn't omnicent it wouldn't know the full plans of ranni

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Not completely, there's a theory Marika actually banished Godfrey and his people because she was planning to overthrow/get rid of the influence of the Greater Will and banning the Tarnished from the lands between was part of that plan So she intended him and his people to come back, she didn't discard him if we believe this theory

In the opening cutscene, it looks like he's been impaled by many swords and spheres. He could have been overwhelmed by numbers. He also, to me, looks hung up. Crucified in a way.

@@agtjake well he is impaled by many Blades but i dont understand how can he be overwhelm by numbers whem he can create earthquakes with his hands

I mean maybe he was weak or smth

I mean shit we defeat him don’t we? Then again our character is made to be legendary

@@pituvir2618pretty sure that the badlands are just ppl continuously fighting against each other the entire time without rest. Given that even godfrey the strongest of all that even radagon simped over would tire himself out. Luckily we fought Godfrey when he was an old men otherwise we probably wouldn’t have made it. Even the axe itself suggests that Godfrey definitely isn’t at his prime than

Agreed

I’ve thought Marika was the Elden Ring for a while but I never really saw anyone else say it too

@@JimMcC36912 I mean it makes sense. when we finally see her at the end, she is broken, crumbling. just like the elden ring at this point. broken and shattered.

well, to be fair, he took on a more royal persona when he had serosh with him. probably that changed his persona from simple warrior to regal lord.

Apparently he got two shards of the Elden Ring, my question is whose and HOW??

@sasaki999pro the demigods we see in game are not the only ones. We only need a several of the shards to restore the elden ring, not all of them and we know from the wandering mausoleums that there are more demigods. It stands to reason some lesser demigods were probably killed by vyke.

@@vasylpark2149 but what happened to their shards of the elden ring? were the picked up by the current demigods we know of. or is it possible, that those shards simply have been "lost" or that those shards while important, are not integral to restore the elden ring.

@@DatAsianGuy I'd say both? some speculate the Ranni's shard is engraved in the moon, if that is true why wouldn't it be that other shards are lost or missing.

@@vasylpark2149 I think the fact that you invade other people's worlds via PvP or the VM questline says it all, actually. It's DS1 timeline shenanigans all over again. Vyke killed two Shardbearers, same as us, possibly even the same ones. But when he gets locked away in a Gaol, he's unable to complete his timeline, and so his isn't the canon timeline that fixes the world. That gives us and our timeline a chance.

Also, the white stuff on the roof is not the painting fading off. It's the ashes of the previous burning of the erdtree.

Ranni was a shard bearer but she throw it away

I don't think the guidance of grace is so strictly tied to shardbearers: it leads us to many other places, such as castle Morne in the weeping peninsula

@@charlieglynn8527 supposedly, its that white symbol on the gigantic Moon

@@samuele7098 considering Godfrey was in the characters footsteps and all he did was go around 1v1ing bosses as a tool, I imagine the guidance of grace literally takes the tarnished to fight and clear out the lands much like Godfrey did in order to be strong enough to beat the elden beast

Vyke is living proof of this. Vyke had two Runes. The literal only Runes he could've had, had it not been the same Runes as us, would be RANNI and MIQUELLA. No, there's 0 chance that he had either. I think Vyke had to have killed the same shardbearers as us. Otherwise, Godrick would NOT be alive right now.

He held on to too much. He couldn't get over the past, which I'd submit disqualifies him from prime Chadhood.

damn I never thought of this, it relatable!

Godfrey definitely reminds me of Gwyn

I noticed that while editing. I'm looking more into it, but can't really find much. The sword is pierced through him almost exactly like Marika.

From what we understand so far, Serosh bites down on Godfrey to calm his "ceaseless lust for battle"

@@agtjake Ahh i understand know, thank you!

Godfrey originally came from the Bad land, whatever lurk in that land are built different, and also based on the way he died, it was likely in a war and multiple warriors might had overwhelmed him, one on one vs Godfrey is suicide and his enemies should know it too.

@@LeiCal69 Godfrey is battlethirsty , so who ever kill him at the moment do not satisfied his hunger for battle at all . Maybe he he just let those warrior kill him instead since his purpose of living is gone . Until he is ressurrected upon hearing there is a tarnish ( us) could maybe revive his battle thirst once more . And he was right , we are worthy to be fought in his strongest form .

Because we took the rune of death

It is the soul of cinders theme from dark souls 3, specifically the second phase