Elden Ring: All Endings Explained 

Siphioning the rune arcs out of other timelines in order to materialize a new Elden ring of the exact same nature in a world where one already exists is a pretty bad ass ending tbh.

@@bloodyhelice4284 they need to make this a legit ending

Yeah, that would be called the Age of Maidenlessness.

An Age Of War

@@aben1466 caused by... A GOD OF WAR. KRATOS

The ending of the simp

Don't you technically become Marika's consort in other endings too as her Elden Lord?

@@hest9750 Yes

I mean marika could pull an uno reverse card in the bed. Or so they say the hunter becomes the hunted.

@@silverdragon9504 In all honesty it depends on what kinda woman you vibe with. Marika, a dominant chick with experience of two prior Elden Lords and gigachads of their own who you'd call mommy, also the literal mommy of Ranni. Or Ranni, the daughter who might be pretty intelligent but probably romantically dumb who'd call you Daddy (or mommy). This game is indeed pretty deep. I prefer to melt everyone into me and make everything one burning fireball though.

Everything could’ve been solved if everyone just had gotten along, especially if Radahn and Malenia didn’t fight eachother, but hey, at least I got some sweet loot out of it. Jesus died for you, have a wonderful day!

​@@Devout214you're fucking weird to reply to an 8 month old comment in a video about God being killed and replaced its an odd place to bring up your religion

@@Devout214Literally everything bad has one epicenter being an egoistic witch

@@justinh9674 except for the tarnished, that went pretty good

​@@Devout214god dont exist bud

Frenzied Flame could become the canon ending seeing as the previous person to try it is on the cover of the game.

Honestly I'm pursuing the frenzied flame ending as retribution for the Great Caravan and what the Golden Order did to them

@@brokeeboii7879 Frenzied Flame ending is very interesting because of that detail. The outcry of the martyred bringing a cleansing fire unto the world. I still have no idea what to make of Melina being revealed as Death in only that ending though. In what end are we serving Death in the other endings that she only betrays us in this case?

@@nonsansdroit3800 I thought it was us who betrayed her, not the other way around. She actively warns you against using the Frenzied Flame and begs you to spare the Lands Between

@@pancakes8670 She's the one who approaches us and swears herself to us. And the warnings she gives don't make sense with what is revealed, since she is either Death or someone who ministers Death. Why would she care if we incinerate everyone?

lol imagine you become lord of dragon, turning into a dragon yourself. the light of the erd tree is gone, the land is covered in mist. nothing but gray crags, archtrees, and everlasting dragons.

woah really? I wore a blindfold the whole game and then got the frenzied flame lmao. What happens to your eyes? Also this video is incredible thank you so much for gathering all the info pertaining to the endings, elden beast, marika, radagon, and dung eater and omens from the descriptions! I've been trying to write some stuff down in preparation for a script myself and this video helped a ton.

@@Lysergiik they turn red once you get some dragon incantations. i actually did and my guys eyes were made to be yellow, but after a bit i noticed they were bright red with the whites of his eyes turned black. confused the hell out of me til i looked it up. i didn't like the red so i just went into the character creator again and there is an option in the "eyes" to turn off any eye changes at the bottom. i wish there was an ending pertaining to the dragons, would be cool.

@@leeeschaton4192 new npc questlines fixed in the latest patch! no idea if it has anything to do with this but that's exciting!

"Dragon worship has captured the hearts and minds of warriors across the lands for many ages. Perhaps such warriors are attracted to doctrines of few words."

This might be one of the coldest gaming moments of all time

wait you can summon her 😭

my brother did this twice ☠

@@baileybenner7566he is referring to how you must use Ranni's summon sign after beating the Elden Beast or else the Age of Stars ending will not initiate

I did that the first time round following a guide dohhhh got Ranni’s the second time round

Corhyn also doesnt know that Goldmask has the Rune of Perfect Order. And likely sacrificed himself to make it.

The circle around merika when we mend the rune I symbolizes our separation from outer god or greater will due to them been no better than us anymore

@@SerUG1 actually its more likely it prevents marika from meddling with the ring

@@colorpg152 Mending Rune of Order means that the Greater Will can act through everyday Humans rather than through Gods. In this case, every human now has the capability to draw upon a small bit of the Greater Will if they so choose. It's a throwback to how Martin Luther and the protestant movement stated that you didn't have to follow strict Catholic Fundamentalism in order to be saved as Jesus never mentioned any of the rituals established by Roman Catholicism. Goldmask is akin to Martin Luther, tearing at a strict sect of fundamentalism in order to strip power away from what was essentially a corrupt ecclesiarchy where men placed themselves in the position of God by saying they spoke for God. There's a lot of parallel between what is depicted in game as Golden Order Fundamentalism and Catholic Fundamentalism. They even had an inquisition, just look at the confessors. Rykard was a "ruthless justiciar" which essentially means he spearheaded the inquisitorial approach of the confessors. You even find the confessor set at Mt. Gelmir. No one ever said that the Greater Will was malevolent. People just assumed that it was because they know it's an outside force tampering with the world. Yet, at the same time, it's cardinal archetype "order" is neither good nor bad.

@@VultureXV where did anyone get the idea that the greater will is a outer god? or even a god? or even from the outside? as far as i'm aware the lore points to him being in fact the true creator of the world, also outer means outside the order because they were removed not outer as in lovecraftian, people got misled into thinking Marika and Ranni are heroes(despite being villains) and bought into the nonsensical parasite tree theory that is just the plot of aquarion, sounds to me like the numens/nox which are connected to both of the girls are the real reason everything is going bonkers, they are a reference to numenorians from lord of the ring

same

Each of Miquella's needles seems to work for a specific Outer God. I assume he just hadn't figured out the Greater Will one before Mohgyn time.

@@deadshot1995 What’s your source for this because I’m sure the original needle in Millicent was designed to stave off the outer god responsible for Scarlet Rot which is different from the outer god responsible for the flame of frenzy

@@Abawhani Unalloyed Gold Needle staves off the Rot God. You give it to Malenia’s flower and she gives you Miquella’s Needle, which looks different and works on the Flame of Frenzy.

Sí, es una pena. Este juego salió incompleto y tiene muchas cosas malas...

So Goldmask really got to know all the secrets of the universe?

GOATmask

This right here is why I like and went for the order ending. While yes the fan I one is freeing it also includes loneliness, even touch is without meaning in her world. The order ending instead restores the world fully to what it was before the gods effed everything up, and removes them from control.

He got the age of dusk ending wrong. He states they reinstate death but really age of duskborn talks about making everything immortal not making death whole but stealing death... I guess the elden lord is then the only one who can completely kill with the rune of death. And some arts like the black knife rune of death slash can still kill.

@@dumbass6314 she legit tells you this of you talk to her in her chambers grace when you finish her questline

Makes sense since otherwise the resolution to this kind of scenario would be restoring the death rune to its proper place rather than forging a new one from its fragments

@@emeraldpichu1 Yeah, I thought that what was happening too, but the ending cutscene being all dour and grey made me re-look at the descriptions and listen to the dialogue. As well as to research exactly what "Those Who Live in Death" actually is.

wait so ppl can die again now and being immortal is normal now?

@@zachoshark Being *Undead* is normal. It seems like we were already "immortal" before, in that we couldn't die, due to the Rune of Destined Death being locked away by Marika and Maliketh. Hence why "Those Who Live in Death" are prosecuted and hunted, as they have Died but are Living in Death i.e Necromancers and Living Skeletons being Undead. Now, with the Rune of Death released with Maliketh's death, and the Cursemarks/Mending Rune of the Death-Prince added to the Golden Order - "embed the principle of life within Death into Order" -, it means that not only can we die again, but if we come back as an Undead, that's considered a "normal" part of 'reality'.

@@thomaschitham3487 ohhh it make sense now. So its a dark souls thing. Dying is normal but undead is also normal

Thank God we don't have a Casaca.... DAMN YOU, GRIFFITH!

Two Fingers plus Three Fingers equals Godhand is such a goofy idea that I now 100 percent unironically unquestionably believe. Way to put it together like that.

Make sense

Imagine playing through the game but you have a casca like character that you have drag along with you, and she can’t die, obviously lol

@@juanvaldes3208 hmmm, like Melina? 👀

Bro wanna become dragonborn

Fun fact:magma wyrms(the fat dragons with a sword) are humans who practiced too much dragon magic, if you buy all 3 dragon heads incantations that spit elements and the one that screams, you will get dragon eyes meaning the process of turning into a magma wyrm already started

the frenzied flame ending is literally molding everything back to how it originally was

And then a thousand years later you finally wake up in a cart along with some prisoners.

When I first started playing elden ring the first ending I'd heard about was the frenzied flame ending, but I'd only heard the name and didn't know what it was about. Then when I killed my first dragon and came back to Yura with the heart was all like "If you eat that you'll go mad with power and one day inevitably turn into a dragon yourself" so I assumed that was the frenzied flame ending and made sure not to touch the dragon communion. I was honestly surprised when I realized all dragon incantations did was change the color of your eyes, the way they talked it up I imagined leaning too heavily into it would make you go insane

That’s why ranni ending is the proper ending. It’s only a problem because the English translation of ranni’s ending changed how it sounds it’s happening

@@dijone11mus1 Ranni is Evil and a tyranical Hyprocrite. Nothing proper.

@@dijone11mus1 whats the original language of elden ring ?

@@ZeroRarity4842 Japanese

@@dijone11mus1 So what exactly is different?

wait which one fia ending?

I look at Ranni's ending as a rejection of everything and her saying to "leave the soil and separate everything from each other making sight, emotion, faith and touch impossible" as extremely naive. As she might be a solitary being and her solution is to abandon all of it and go back to a more primitive solitary life free from the troubles she has seen with only her closest allies in tow. I like Fias ending more and look at it as an acceptance of the flawed Age and let it run its course so a new cycle can begin without that curse of immortality.

@@CKR99 age of duskborn

@@Elcheekclap the wiki and items state the dark moon is another outer god. Doesnt seem like shes rejecting all outer wills and choosing freedom from it, just to become a patron to a god that she hopes will free her and the world from emotions and senses. The cold moon god.

@@mrloboto Cold moon god is there before other outer gods come play

yea joining one would be quite cool

I would love to see what the Mohgwyn dynasty would bring to the lands between

TOGETHAAAAAA WE WILL DEVOUR

​@@alexgd1056 THE VERY GOOOOODS

The Godrick ending, where he finally becomes Golden. 🥹

Isn't that a good thing?

@@velocityhdmi8140 the ending is good yes the problems is the translations apparently wrong so a lot of people misunderstood the ending as a evil ending

@@ghostlyswat12 i don't belive ending is good or bad - getting rid of bad things and emotions entirely might be not the best thing. It makes one less human.

@@fifibqg2662 that’s due to the bad translation if I remember correctly she wants to get rid of bad emotions

@@ghostlyswat12 it makes no diffrence. Taking away bad emotion is not certainly a good thing. Is it good is up to personal interpretatnion.

so it removes not only the greater will but free will? like no one can go outside of their preordained path? that sounds kind of shitty honestly, even it assures absolute power as Elden Lord.

@@eureka0521 Yeah. When I was writting it down I was thinking that Elden Ring only governs the fundamental rules of reality, lile life goes into death and such, not rulling over people's fate. But if it does, then yeah, it locks everyone and everything, which sucks

@@eureka0521 in a way, you always walk your destined path. You thinking you strayed away from your supposed destiny, doesnt really guarrantee that this new path wasnt your true destiny all along. So its not really a bad aspect of the ending.

@@eureka0521 It puts the parental controls on the Elden Ring and throws away the password. People like Marika can't alter it like with removing the rune of death or shatter it entirely.

@@eureka0521 dosent sound shitty if everything happens to be perfect

Is that stone allow us to fight the dark blade and seeing the erdtree in crimson ?

@@cspcchcody i believe you are reffering to the blasphemous claw which is dropped from bernhard in crumbling farum azula before the maliketh fight

Dragon smithing stones are used for your weapons final upgrade

Ok I just wanted to fuck a blue witch

I agree. Although I’m choosing her ending only because I deserve a happy ending after sacrificing the homie Melina and having to endure the bullshit the demigods have put you through.

Nah i regret that on my first one i had to marry a slag whos been with millions of tarnished age of frcature i got last i become my own lord and ruler of the world

I did her entire quest and then chose Age of perfect order. Ranni is just annoyed people control her and hates the people who left her mother catatonic, I don't agree with her philosophy and I don't think she would be a genuine consort as she loves power and control.

I truly don’t see why people don’t like Rannis ending, it’s the true good ending the fascist theocracy is gone and it’s hold on the lands between is gone, the greater will is all but demolished and if anyone tries to mess with this world they have ranni and the tarnished to look towards, this is basically like our world, we feel lonely but in actuality there’s a good looking over us It really doesn’t help the fact that mistranslations make her look like she’s just marika 2.0

Link? Not asking out of doubt, but wanting to know more.

Translation errors? From English into English?

@@British_Rogue FromSoftware is a japanese studio, and GRRM's ideas were only a backbone. At best it'd be from Japanese to English (which happens frequently in Souls games) but its possible that some of it even went from English to Japanese, and back to English. Not sure why you thought that the devs only worked in English

@@British_Rogue this game was made by japanese people.

@@British_Rogue Do you think other countries don't exist? All "Souls" games are Japanese ya dolt

I think this is the true ending.

If everyone has a maiden, are they even maidens anymore?

@@WhoThisMonkey yes. Yes they are

@@WhoThisMonkey welp... Malenia your first false maiden had mission to kill you so good luck with that.

@@loiloi8030 *Melina

Imagine becoming Elden Lord and being in charge of doing something about the fucking rot. No way.

@@EnzoJunkie kill malenia lol

@@pain002 ah yes that's totally gonna fix Caelid and make the lake of rot banish into oblivion.

Great idea

I agree. Its the "Ok" ending

That makes a lot of sense

i always thought this was obvious hands have five fingers after all

Frenzied flame is 100% the higher power.

I see them as two parts of a continuous process and the Greater Will tried to cheat the system and failed.

@THAT GUY I mean if you look at the Leaked age of absolute ending you combine the 2 fingers and the 3 fingers it doesn't seem to far from the truth.

What did they mean by this? KEK

Pure cohencidence

@@bbking006 They were based.

@@hhjhj393 Is the thing about the Dwemer simply that they CHIM'd a little too hard? For those unaware about deep TES lore, the entire world is a dream. We don't know much about the dreamer, but it is known that if you fundamentally understand the nature of the world, that you are just a figment of the imagination of someone or something magnitudes greater than you, then you can basically do what lucid dreamers can do and be functionally a god. That's how the Tribunal of Morrowind ascended and is called CHIM However, the procedure is dangerous since - if you grok too well the nature of your existance - you understand that you aren't real and thus, your godlike powers make this realisation a fact and erase you from Nirn. And from my limited understanding, **THAT** is what happened to the dwemers. I am open to corrections if I got anything wrong

I mean, they were persecuted and sentenced to death for nothing. They were filled with despair and i guess they wished for the world without any injustice, a world of frenzied flame. Or maybe they just so happened to be sealed near three fingers

except the girl translating the three fingers said: ''all that's borrowed must be returned'', so nothing is gonna grow afterwards, its most likely the end of the world, where all its lifeforce is returned to a ''god''. seems like the 2nd to worst ending to me, only after the dung eater one, where everyone experienced torment forever...

@@michielderpya yup, it's basically like what happens at the end of neon genesis evangelion from what I understand. Everything is burned and melded together and then returned from where it came from. Basically just ending the world

...except the age of fire was a metaphor, more than a literal thing? The age of fire was just like a prosperous, normal world where life and death are working just fine. Not a blazing hellscape.

@@chaosssssss_ Not quite. The Frenzied Flame is a means to return to The Crucible in which all life stemmed and all shared the same heart. The Frenzied Flame ending seems bleak and horrible but it's nothing more than the cauterization of the pox that is the Golden Order. The Golden Order is a parasite on the world from an Outer God that infected the land and uprooted what was working just fine before.

Yeah but the chaos flame ending means the world burns eternally, there is not a chance for anything new to grow, everything will be constantly consumed by chaos forever.

I am pretty sure at some point I remember Melina referring to Ranni as her mother.

@@elidionjw She mention her mother inside the Erdtree which possibly she is the daughter of Marika or not and some people thinking that Melina and Ranni are the same person. But as for me she’s still a mystery in this game.

Also melina is associated with flames and ranni is associated with ice so there's another duality there

@@kraken1651 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HxfOBvfj3fs.html watch this, it is a pretty detailed theory and rn I believe to the the best one, suggesting that melina is the gloam queen, and also ranni’s former teacher

@@simont390 ranni only Got The ice Thing from her teacher, The snowy crone/renna.

I wish we could side with Gideon as an ending

@@floppaquest4916 Eww no he had all those Albinaurics killed he's an asshole

If you listen very carefully to Gideon, he literally tells you: "You've received the wisdom of the Two Fingers, have you not? Then, just as promised, I bid you welcome, as a true member of the Roundtable. I am known as Gideon Ofnir. As a Tarnished who wishes to stand before the Elden Ring and become Elden Lord, I am accumulating knowledge. To be all-knowing. You now belong to a select group of fellows. As such, I ask that you remain constant." He wants to become Elden Lord. He literally tells you his ambition is exactly the same as your ambition. If you did Nepheli's quest line it is clear he uses people for pawns. During/after her quest at the Village of the Albinaurics is when Ensha invades you. He also tells you again after Ensha attacks you: "Oh, my apologies for that nasty business. Ensha got rather ahead of himself, it seems. As his master, I'd like to express my regret. But now, Ensha is slain and gone. Finished, forever more." At this point, it should be very obvious that EVERY Tarnished is playing a game of Highlander, because there can be only one. It is very clear at this point Gideon is NOT our friend, and we just took Ensha's place after offing him. The actual plot twist however happens when you fight him: "Ahh, I knew you'd come. To stand before the Elden Ring. To become Elden Lord. What a sad state of affairs. I commend your spirit, but alas, none shall take the throne. Queen Marika has high hopes for us. That we continue to struggle. Unto eternity." The twist is that he rejected the idea of becoming Elden Lord, and is actively hindering any Tarnished from doing so, as Gideon is working for Marika the entire time, and not the Two Fingers.

The age of absolute is an april fool's joke

@@Alex-cq1zr Actually, no it's not. The sound files exist, but the actual event is gone

Yeah there are a few outer god's, pretty much every demigod seems to be worshipping one, so maybe these godhand (heh) are betting on their own champions as a dick messuring contest. So far we know about the moon from rennala, the one rykard and mohg worship (forgot what they were called), the stars, the two fingers and the three fingers which we don't know much of. Fuck i want them to expand all of this lore on them

Nah astel has been there awhile. His lore basically states that he's what destroyed the city of nokstella.

The god that Mogh serve is a different god from the greater being. The moon is also a different god, this is revealed in the heirloom you get from looting Ranni's corpse in Luirnia divine tower.

@@anomitas the fingers arent gods. They're vassals of the gods. Two fingers is vassal of Greater Will and three fingers is vassal of Frenzied Flame. Rykard wants to eat gods, doesnt serve one, although he gives himself to the god eating serpent. Mohg serves the Formless Mother.

@@maysilversi8253 thanks for clarifying

Marika didn’t remove death. It actually was Ranni who killed her brother and “cheated” death and the cause of the whole natural order going out of control, Which is the famous Godwyn that we see but don’t know who exactly he is. That also was the reason why Marika/Radagon went back to the Erdtree trying too fix the problem but the damage was done which also caused the demigods to go power mad as well. The Age of the duskborn also turns Godwyn into a god of death as well. If anything, Age of the Duskborn is more a neutral ending rather than a good or bad. Also, this doesn’t mean you’re allowing ghosts, skeletons, & zombies too exist in the natural order, all this ending does is remove immortality from the cycle.

@@AlextheGreat647 didn't marika betray maliketh by imparting the rune of death upon him so that her family could be immortal? as far as i remember marika actually did remove death, but ranni then stole it from maliketh and used it to kill godwyn because she hated the greater will

@@gandalfos I don’t know what exact connection maliketh has with Marika. Only thing I know is that Ranni was the one that started this whole issue due to the fact that her age of stars kept on getting delayed because Marika (and the others) didn’t want to lose power nor have their age move on. How Ranni managed too “steal/cheat” death is also not known yet, maybe in future dlc will have that answer. We also don’t know why she killed Godwyn nor their relationship they had together as siblings.

@@AlextheGreat647 Completely Incorrect. Marika removed the death rune from the Elden Ring because she didn't like the idea of dying, and then he gave it to his half-brother Maliketh. Ranni on the other hand hated the idea of being an Empyrean and a successor to Marika and basically a pawn to the greater will and the two fingers, hence why she stole the death rune from Maliketh not to "cheat" death but to literally kill herself(Her body that is). As for Godwyn, it is not yet confirmed who ordered to kill him, so we can't say it's Ranni for sure. It could be that the Black Knife Assassins have their own motive or probably the Godskin. Lastly Marika wasn't trying to fix the mess she literally made it worst by shattering the Elden Ring.

@@vaultboy3706 Ranni was the one that ordered the assassin of Godwyn. If you do Roderic quest line, he basically tells you it was her that orchestrated the ritual for the black knife assassins, imbuing their blades with a portion of the fragment from the rune of death. Why she decided to kill her brother, there’s no concrete evidence on their relationship, except that Godwyn was the first god to die. Again, she did cheat death. Hence why she’s still alive, even though she burned her original body, however, if you do Roderick’s quest line, you get to question her about her original body, which she refuses to tell the player anything despite her saying she “discarded it and left it in the past”. And yes, Marikas way of “fixing” the problem was her causing the shattering. If you read a little bit more about Marika, she shattered the ring while Radagon tried to repair it. Unfortunately, that “repair” didn’t workout at all. As for Maliketh being Marikas half brother, I am not so sure of that, but I don’t really know much about Maliketh save for him being the keeper of the rune of death. Everything else you said about Ranni hating the fingers, and hating being a successor is true though. But she clearly states they’ve delayed her age of stars.

But is that good overall?

@@NautilusSSN571 that's yours to decide 🙂

I just want to watch the world burn

by kneeling to a weird ass puppet with weird ass ideas simpy boy

I've always hated encouraging a "cycle". Such philosophy is awful.

As much as I want ranni’s ending to be as it seems. It is probably not. It’s implied through descriptions and other pieces of lore that she killed Godwyn. Think about it they died at the same time and one lost their soul, the other their body. Godwyn had to be killed so her soul can live on. Not only that we have the stars. Sure the Greater will was bad, but now since Radhan is dead other Gods make the lands between vulnerable. Radhan’s teacher was an abalaster meaning he came from a meteor he most likely told Radahn about what’s out there and that’s why he held the stars in place. And the game tells us what the stars are. They are beings, Astel being one of them. Ranni definitely is not what she seems like. But that’s just speculation.

...isn't what you're refering to more fit to frenzied flame?

@@yemeniwarcriminal8426 yeah in more lore we find that it was most likely Marika who started everything, most likely having a hand in ranní and godwyns deaths to what extent we don't know, but there's a lot of dialogue that she has with you, that pretty much tells you she and her order will take more of a neutral deity that just watches, the stars being alive is definitely a way for more primitive minds to understand that aliens exist in their world like astel or the void beast since you can find two versions of astel maybe they're more creations of other beings

@@papasweed.dispenseria5977 And since the Greater Will is gone, nothing can tell human what is heretic and what is not, we can found a way to deal with the thing beyond the stars, what Radahn did was robing us of our free will, he put us in stagnation to be mind control by a god that eat our souls, that is what i think.

have you checked this yet?

@@kpopbests8643 I did this in my play-through, but nothing different happened sadly.

@@HexenDarkside By "future" I meant DLC. Because, yeah, she doesn't show up again if you do this.

@@diesal_one it's possible but I doubt FromSoftware would lock some DLC stuff behind the possibility of not having Melina sacrifice herself, as that would leave some players out of content unless they move to a new game to save her.

Hope they add her as a boss battle in DLC if you did the frenzied flame ending

A thing to note: The Elden beast is order incarnate. (Source: its remembrance. Or possibly one of the weapons you get from it but I'm pretty sure it's the Elden beasts remembrance.

And if you use the frenzied flame to save Melina, then use the needle to remove it, you get extra dialogue with her, and maybe you get to summon her in at least one of those big fights in the capitol after the erdtree burned.

Thanks for the awesome content. Just Keep doin what you want to do. And I wish you all the good luck.

There is another resolution to this game. You use the power and influence of the Frenzied flame outer god to burn yourself as fuel saving Melina then using the needle to stop the curse of the Frenzied Flame giving you back the choice of the other endings. Somehow she (melina) does not appear again to talk to the player after you burn the tree. I haven't found a way though. Melina and Ranni appear to be two halves of the same being with one same goal. My only problem with the age of the stars ending is that Ranni/Melina (Radagon/Marika see? RM) act as your own personal Greater Will. So it makes me think, Did you really have a choice?

i think age of stars and ranni's voicelines have very bad mistranslations, there's an article that just addressed it

Arguably you become her maiden

@@spiddledonk1695 how the tables have turned lmao

Facts

Doubt it. Greek mythology is a good analogy as the greek pantheon has gods with flaws, moods, opinions. Basically humans but stronger. The perfect Order simply creates one god with one singular purpose and an unchanging opinion. It's safer to assume it enforces _current_ opinions than it is to create new opinions. Which means the Golden Order goes full jerusalem with everything they have against omen/misbegotten/albis to create the perfect society of only humans.

@@clemenscohn7371 Goldmask was against the persecution of Those Who Live in Death and presumably other groups the Golden Order targeted as well. He didn't believe in absolute evil.

@@deadshot1995 Can you direct me to a source?

@@clemenscohn7371 Order Healing Incantation description.

@@deadshot1995 Not really. That _specifically_ mentions undead and not everything else. And unless my english is bad, it does not dispute the notion of undead being evil. Quite the contrary.

It could be an ending that reverses that tho. Like the description says, for every curse, a cursed blessing. It could be a reversal of sorts. Of course, the spirits are feeling pain, but that could be chocked up to how the spirits are still technically under the original order. And since they can't take part of that order anymore, they are feeling pain. Like how the ones who live in death feel. By doing this ending, you could be bringing the whole order down to replace with the curse order, which would then make it so that curses are actually good things. That could make pain feel good to everything. It's sick, sure, but it doesn't mean it could be all bad for eternity.

@@battlecubes4762 "Curses" were propaganda of the Order. "Curses" were the natural state of the world. Omen and the Crucible Knights are directly linked via the Crucible, which existed before the Erdtree. The Golden ORder is _literally_ a bunch of nazis.

Thanks so much! I'm glad it was a useful vid and happy to hear the kind words

That's all bullshit.

chinese can't make good theories for shit. even porn groups about ranni have better theories.

@@goldenrider2068 How is that bullshit? It’s a very well-constructed theory supported with logic and reasoning.

@@goldenrider2068 why tho, even the buildings and bosses in the under world looks just so bloodborne, and the frenzied fire at the end game looks just like darksouls fire.

@@Luis-mq5ey the hate is too real

Bro dung eater is based and as for the Frenzied flame, i too would sacrifice the world for my maiden

Dung eater is just evil madness, it has sense in it's own confined logically that makes no sense when you take it out of bounds and put it in real terms. And the frenzied flame is the same. Just start over, how original and what a good solution to a problem

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What's the correct phrasing?

@@sboisbiu_2825 Search this on youtube if you want to see the correct translations and explanations: Huge ELDEN RING Discovery, RANNI’S MISTRANSLATIONS It's very good!

This! I almost wrote this myself but yeah go check out the video about the correct translations. I feel like that with the translation its the best possible ending

@@Luna832 Kind of want them to think about adding in with a patch the more accurate translation sometime.

Ranni mentions sight, emotion, touch and faith beoming impossibilities and to go into darkness with fear and lonliness.......how lovely

Thanks so much!

Pulled a hacking eren yeager on the world

Best ending imo

Where did you see this information? It makes sense cuz I was curious how or why gold mask died but where did this get explained or hinted at?

@@argonaught Check all Corhyn dialogs after u find golden mask body. It is only but implied he pushed Golden Mask.

@@i3looi2 if thats the case, then why do you still find the rune of order on his body? If corhynn wanted to sabotage goldmask, why not finish things?

No

^ VERY important. When Ranni explains the Age of Stars to you in english, she's basically saying the exact opposite of what she means. More people need to know this.

I really appreciate it

It effectively means almost the exact opposite of the english version. She essentially intends to push her order out into the stars to essentially block outer gods from interacting with the lands between at all. The "fear, doubt, and loneliness" was describing her own path taking her out into the void to guard the land against them, which is why she was so insistent on doing it alone until you convince her to let you join her

Yeah it's like "Lost". At the end there is nothing and all the talking is useless because everybody can make up their own stuff and nothing is really "true"

@@stevejurgens9985 thats every fromsofts game for you. Dark souls for example has some decade Old Mysteries, that still haven't been solved.

@@LeonardoStupidKenway You can also make the same argument about "Lost" but the actual Author nver thought about this so you can make up you own stuff there is nothing which is really true

Link?

@@voidgivenfocus ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sS08xpL0m8U.html&ab_channel=Ziostorm

Source?

I still dont consider it unambiguously good. Since she wants to free everyone from faith and despair could mean just ending the world completly. But then again, english is not my first language, so i very well might be mistaken.

@@kaiderhai86 My wording was a little off, I guess. What I meant, that in regards to Fromsoft games, the ending is unambiguously meant as a good ending. It has its drawbacks, but it is overall a peaceful one.

You probably think relinking the flame in DS1/3 is a "good" ending too

​@@MadLuigi Unironically yes for Ds1 and it's complicated for Ds3. Whatever you think about the futility of prolonging these ages, the evidence has always been that they're good for the people in them. People have minds, can live fulfilling lives, have families and form functioning societies. Whereas all we've ever seen from the 'dark' is horrors and madness. Renewing the world of fire in Ds1 is unironically the best ending, because even if the fire will fade once more one day, you've given people centuries of normality, maybe even millenia. Now in Ds3 yes it's probably not even a year by the looks of the flame after that end, and it's doubtful if much of an effect was even had, but in the end it's not like that ending could do much more damage, and gives people a little more time with their sanity. Elden ring is even more black and white. There's no reason that the golden ages can't carry on forever, that people shouldn't be allowed to carry on and have relatively normal lives without having to worry about some cthulu star monster turning them into a squid or a fire lord burning their souls. There's absolutely no reason at all that anyone should choose any ending other than the Order endings.

@@disasterdisaster581 I think you completely missed the state of the world in these games. People are not living fulfilling lives, most of them are mindless, hollow zombies suffering from stagnation. The themes of harm from needless prolonging and stagnation are made painfully explicit in the Ashes of Ariandel DLC, basically a microcosm of the message of these games. The true ending to DS3 is unquestionably letting the fire fade, ending the curse Gwyn had brought about. And i think there's good evidence that a similar choice should be made in ER

@@MadLuigi Your problem is that you compare dark souls with elden ring but the two games have completely different themes.

@@riccardonero843 I really don't think they do. There is plenty different about them, but FromSoft is consistent in their themes of stagnation, decay, and revival

Frenzied flame is part of the greater will. Two fingers and three fingers are just two aspects of the greater will. Because the greater will sees sin, curse, etc. it thinks every birthed being is a failure. So he wants the mc to burn it all down and make it one again.

Remember, we had to commit a cardinal sin to even enter the erdtree in the first place. Its like Gideon says, the tarnished were never meant to succeed, only to defeat the demigods and gather their runes to break the stalemate of the Shattering. Its only after we force our way in, defeat Radagon (who still serves the order), and the manifestation of the Elden Ring itself that the Greater Will relents, because at that point we've destroyed the current Lord and proven ourselves as the only fitting successor.

I think the five tarnished in the intro all are working towards their visions of how the shattering should end. Fia, Goldmask, and Dung Eater use runes to mend the Elden Ring in a way that suits their vision. Hoarah Loux, the alter ego of Godfrey, wants to reclaim his throne as Elden Lord. Gideon, who figured out Marika's grand plan, wants to prevent anyone from becoming Elden Lord and maintain the status quo.

Hourah Loux is basically normal ending, since he is only there to prove everyone who wants to be the next lord, and only those who are strong enough to take him down can be the new Lord. Gideon Ofnir is a no-ending game, he doesnt want to someone break the actual way of the things, with the Greater Will controlling the world. Since he is known as the All Knowing, and he kinda know everything not just by his imagination but searching every knowledge, even he use us to know more about the world.

Its possible to burn yourself and then stop being the lord of frenzy flame. Its kinda complicated. So, you need to get miquellas needle. You have to complete millicents questline. At The end of the questline, you need to assist her in battle against her Sisters, instead of betraying her. There will be a choice. After Talking to her after assisting her and reloading the area, you will find her dead. Collect the unnalloyed Gold needle from her body. Then you need to beat malenia, you can do this before even starting her quest though. After beating her, a lotus flower shoudl be there after defeating her. Interract with the lotus flower using the unnalloyed Gold needle and you will get miquellas needle. It will allow you to free yourself from the kindling of the frenzied flame, but it can only be used in placidusax Boss Arena. Reasons? I dunno. And there you go. Use it and no more world burning. She still won't come back though. I know i am late af and y po know how to do it, but i don't care.

It was butchered by the translator due to some misunderstanding of Japanese sentence structure

In the soulsborn games it is a theme , you are usually a pawn in someone else's board

Thanks so much! Im really glad you enjoyed it that much

@@MadLuigi I really did, I'm so invested in Elden Ring thus in its lore so I'm TRULY thankful that there are amazing content creators like you that give us a clearer idea of it, thank you🙏

Thts basically how we are irl

You did not watch the video, nor did you read any item descriptions, or listen to her dialogue while doing her questline. It is very obvious that she wants to do that even with the "mistranslation."