The merchant's song in the cave of the frenzied flame is a beautiful melody. I wanted to do a little arrangement of it and I thought it paired nicely with the Lord of Frenzied Flame ending.
Hey all! I'm glad many of you are enjoying my arrangement of this beautiful melody from this fantastic game. As per some requests, I've uploaded a slightly extended version with no cutscene or dialogue here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FMlK1BvJMFc.html Enjoy!
One of the creepiest things about this is how the Tarnished moves around, arms spread, observing their hands, throwing back their head like they're laughing. Getting infected with Madness is painful, it's agonizing, your eyes turn to sludge and leak out the sockets, your brain burning from the fire in it, The Tarnished entire skull disintegrates, and the way they move makes it seem like they *enjoy it*
You are no longer the Tarnished at that point. Your body is inhabited by the Frenzied Flame himself, the outer god at odds with the Greater Will. Before you combust, the Frenzied Flame is taking a few moments to remember the feeling of flesh and blood, and seeing the world he is about to consume with his fire and madness. He has won.
@@digiquo8143 I think this is partially correct, in that the Tarnished at this point is no longer “Our” Tarnished. But I don’t think they are inhabited or possessed by the Frenzied Flame, as in a body controlled by an outside force line a puppet-I think it’s far worse than that. My theory is that almost all the Outer Gods take control over the bodies of their “chosen ones” to a certain extent. The Greater Will had control over Marika’s body and mind to the extent that its commands (destroy the giants, persecute the Omens, build a kingdom in my name, purge any other god’s influence by any means necessary) were like physical compulsions. Trying to disobey them would be like holding back a sneeze. She most likely could think clearly but had little to no means of resistance. Thus when she finally shattered the Elden Ring in a moment of rebellion, she was punished by breaking apart too. I think that is also why Ranni fought so hard and long to avoid being forcibly turned into Marika’s replacement. You can hear the fear and hatred in her voice when she talks about the idea of being controlled by the Greater Will. I think the Frenzied Flame is no different; in fact it’s worse. While the Greater Will may have heavily leaned on Marika to make her fulfill her role as its pawn, the Frenzied Flame outright takes over the mind of its host. The Tarnished isn’t dead or possessed, but his/her mind is so heavily altered by the Outer God of chaos that they truly enjoy the destruction and suffering their very existence brings to the Lands Between. In a way that gout of flame replacing their head is symbolic of their consumed mind and will.
This makes the ending go from a “lmao may chaos take the world” ending to a legitimately heart wrenching and emotional ending. Both sorrow for those afflicted by madness and for those who will be burned away by the chaos flame against their will. Fromsoft missed a great opportunity to play this song and then close it out with the horrific screams of the populace of the lands between like in the actual ending.
@@zerumsiru5204 I mean some still feel that pride when knowing the lore But know it's bittersweet, it is ultimately the best outcome, yet shows how dire the lands between are for this to be one of the best outcomes
@@latel4544 I mean, at best you just destroying Lands Between and at worst you exchange awl for soap. Life wasnt THAT bad before shattering and i very much doubt that Frenzied Flame will be kinder god than Greater Will
This is absolutely phenomenal. The way the the echoing, haunting piano gives way to the original, lonely string melody as Melina picks up Torrent's ring out of the ashes gives me chills. This deserves so many more views.
Oh my god, I'm so dumb. I thought she picked up the final, broken fragment of the Elden Ring or something, I didn't realize it was Torrent's :( That makes this ending hurt SO MUCH WORSE lol
@@manthacake7881 when I do it for the achievement I'm going to either skip the whole cutscene or, if that can't be done, muting the TV, getting up, and taking a shit so I don't have to watch
@@TheAnomaly00 well you just can meet the three fingers after melina burns herself at mountaintops of the giants, so you won't have this part of the cutscene
the sight of the Erdtree in ruins always gets me. this great entity, that not even the prophesied Flame of Ruin could fully burn, just completely melted away
@@plumbus7253 Erdtree parasite theory is made on misleading on a translation. Erdtree is a crucible, Greattree was a crucible, Crucible is GW's. Placidusax was GW's Elden Lord. GW made souls and life while FF is its other half trying to return everything into a primordial soup.
this feels like the warmest revenge could ever be. it's impartial, it's pure, it's like if you were dragging your worst enemy down with you but out of bitter love because, they too have suffered and you understand that. it's beautiful in the most tragic way
Let Chaos take the World. Let the nobleman lay with the man he trod. Let the mother lay with her hold. Let those who wept lay with those who wet their cheeks. Let those who sang lay with those who danced. Let those who danced lay with those who could not. Let those who felt eternal pain lay with those untouched by it. Let Chaos embrace peace. Let the ashes of those who came before mingle with the sleeping babe and those who have yet to come. Let those who burned lay with the kindling. Let the kindling lay with the sparks. Let it all burn.
Alright that's it, I'm gonna structure my lands between dnd campaign around the frenzied flame, wanna highlight the angle of sorrow that is the frenzy flame
I like to think that the Tarnished couldn't bear to burn the Torrent Whistle to ash. A gift from Melina and it is the last connection they have left between each other, and even after Melina rejects the Tarnished, it's still too painful to let go. Because even when everything is burnt away, the Lord of Frenzied Flame will remain, and the Gloam Eyed Queen Melina, will close the loop and return all things to One. And if you chose the Frenzied Flame ending to save Melina, then it will have all been for love.
definitely reframes the whole ending to better suit what would likely be the mindset of most characters who do it obviously there's some like edgy ones who just want to be the lord of Chaos, but most in universe supporters of the frenzied flame seem like people who just want it to stop, unfortunately, with the world in the state it is, by "it" these poor souls mean "everything" "Don't you understand? Nobody wants to go on." -King Allant XII, Demon's Souls
@Your local doujindealer That's the one cut content that made me disappointed as to why it was cut, it would've been an amazing build-up to Kale's character and his people's background leading to the Three Fingers and the Frenzied Flame
it's a shame they cut it, both for the frenzied flame plot, but also just because some of the voice lines for Kalé were some of the best in the entire game
Whenever a forest burns, all people see is a scar upon the land, and they are saddened. But look closer. Look at the ash upon the ground. Do you not see it? Amongst the ash are tiny, budding plants. Insignificant they may be, when here used to lie a forest - lush, vibrant, alive. But they are a reminder. A reminder that, no matter how long it may take, given enough time, even the worst scars will heal. So look again upon the ash, and do not feel sad. Feel elated that you look not upon a devastated earth, but a seedbed full of new life awaiting it’s time to bloom and grow, and become just as beautiful as the forest that once was.
That's basically Melina's main argument for not taking this ending. As bad as the Lands Between are, something better can rise out of it. In this ending there's no life left in the land. The ash is worthless without a seed to bloom out of it.
Man the Friedrich Nietzsche inspiration in this game is so gorgeous. Gaming is art. Nihilism and overcoming or succumbing to it... the very fabric of the tragedy of the human condition has never been explored in any medium better. This brought me to tears.
It's impressive how the flame of frenzy can be interpreted as the revenge of the putrid world ... And the saving and peace to it. A horrific act ... To prevent thousand more.
This was my second to last trophy.(before the platinum of course) It’s pretty fitting, considering I still wanted to fight all major bosses, like Malenia, or the Lichdragon, and generally every boss with a remembrance. Until DLC drops, I will not play through the game again. Final Level: 255 VIG: 52 MIN: 50 END: 40 STR: 33 DEX: 60 INT: 9 FTH: 70 ARC: 20 May chaos take the world
The perfect ending: you warn all your surviving friends you met on your journey. and send them to a distant land so they can continue to live. You slay the wretched order’s avatar and light the wicked tree ablaze. The crimes, the horror and the hypocrisy of the golden order come to an end. Avenged are the ones deemed impure. Revenge for the trolls who were betrayed, revenge for the vulgar abused for their size, revenge for the misbegotten forced into slavery and deemed evil for being mad about it, revenge for the caravan buried alive for a rumor, revenge for the omen thrown in the sewers for a birth defect and revenge for all oppressed and abused by the order
Yeah, there's no distant land to go too bud. Frenzied Flame consumes everything -- no more fractures, no more births. Melt it all away in the yellow chaos flame. May Chaos take the world.
This ending is only good based on perspective. In the eyes of the merchants this is likely the only way to release themselves of their pain and suffering. But in the eyes of those of higher authority, this is a nightmare. imo, this isn't nearly as bad of an ending as people make it out to be since, the world as a whole is entirely fucked as is, with discrimination being the least of all issues. Most of other endings don't fix or help resolve most of anything, Dung eaters literally does not but curse everyone, Fias ending allows the undead to exist among the living (which imo is bad because they dont seem to be sentient), and Goldmask ending only leads to a world with even more division. Honestly Elden Rings ending amount to pretty much more problems from proposed solutions.
This is honestly so suitable for the ending I can't stop re-watching it. The original feeling of the ending characterized you as almost a chaotic nihilist with no remorse, burning and blending everything into one. But with the addition of this arrangement alone, it clearly shows why anyone would choose to be the Lord of Frenzied Flame in the first place, with the merchants, and anyone across the lands between rejected and spurned by the golden order. This music makes you remember their pain and sorrow that started this all in an ending that's crazy but also depressing. Beautiful work man.
Honestly this would a been a far more interesting direction this ending could have gone with. Exploring the pain and suffering without going to the usual "it is bad to retaliate with all the build up sorrow so just try and get better cause we can't acknowledge your emotional outburst without admiting our own hand in its creation" since Hyetta made her feelings on the matter direct and clear; she wanted the hurt to stop. I honestly wanted more exploration on this side of the Frenzied Flame and fir Shabriri to be the red harring the Order uses to deny the plea of those who they hurt. To explore the sad, dreary, and pitiful feeling of Frenzy without just dismissing it as Evil Chaos but instead an oily tar that pooled due to negligence and ignorance waiting to burn the world that didn't want to acknowledge them or the accountability they have to admit to.
the merchants who were trapped for millennium inside the sewers.. rip those guys they must’ve been pretty miserable. especially by the 3 finger door. must’ve made them go insane or sum
Because nuking the entire planet is somehow not nihilist just because some people were hurt? That's just teenaged nihilism. Man you know I was discriminated against and suffered horribly, better go *kill literally everyone in the universe that isn't immune to death*. It's a beautiful piece and their suffering was wrong (if they weren't worshipping the frenzy prior, as their are hints to that.). But let's not pretend the frenzied ending doesn't characterize you as a chaotic nihilist with no remorse, you just are one. Portraying melting down all life and people as we know it is never not going to be psychopathic to the ultimate degree. Suffering doesn't justify genocide on a cosmic scale.
Fitting. The grief and pain of those accused of heresy and sentenced to be buried alive and die,now playing as the flame born from that pain has its revenge. By assuming they were heretics and would threaten the world Marika caused them to do that exact thing. A self fulfilling prophecy showing that treating people like monsters can often make them the monsters you thought or claimed they were.
Sharbriri tricked everyone into birthing the flame. As he was the first to interpret the words burned in stone by the fingers. He became chaos incarnate. And used the greater wills own flaws to fall such a prosperous, and eternal order. In the act of preserving their order they created their only demise. In many ways
“Those who gave me grapes howled without words. Saying they wished they were never born. Become their lord. Take their torment, despair. Their affliction. Every sin, every curse. And melt it all away. As the Lord of Chaos. No more fractures...no more birth...”
@@TheGraveKnight it isn't a "evil ending" its more of a "neutral-bad ending" because the Frenzied flame wants to end all hate, suffering and pain of the world and bring it all back to "zero" even if it costs all the good things of the world. (From what I've heard)
@@Crap_A.I_bird Fair, though the game very much paints it as the evil ending what with the sinister music and Melina stinger (not even poopoo man's ending gets that)
0:43 _Samson took hold of the two columns in the center, that supported the whole temple. He braced himself between the two columns. One column was at his right side and the other at his left side. Samson said, “Let me die with these Philistines!” Then he pushed as hard as he could, and the temple fell on him, and the rulers, and everyone in it._
@@acrazyweeb7225 Samson has been tortured, humiliated, and enslaved by his enemies the Philistines. This is a act of terrible injustice, spurned by a personal betrayal and a terrible grief at that. He prays, not for justice or mercy, but for strength-strength enough to grant him revenge against the world, even if it destroys him and everything around him. Let chaos take the world, in other words.
An eye for an eye, makes the whole world burn Fun fact: *Shabriri is the demon of blindness in Jewish lore. His name in Hebrew translates to mean "dazzling glare" or more literally, "breaker of the eyesight*
Personally I don't see this ending as vengeance against the Erdtree or justice being done. Adherents to the Frenzied Flame have come to the conclusion that the suffering within the world is so great that existence itself is not worth it. From their point of view, this is an act of compassion, a mercy killing.
I view it as a little bit of both; in our eyes, we’re destroying everything the golden order, marika and the greater will itself built up and made, perhaps out of hate towards the ones who stood back and did nothing, while also an act of compassion for those in pain. To some we are a destroying demon, to others we are an angel of mercy
- Doesn't want to sacrifice Melina - Embraced the Three Fingers - She gets mad and leaves, but that's ok we do it for her.. :( - Don't use her to burn the Elden Tree, use self instead. - Remove the Frenzied Flame with the Needle - Become Elden Lord
problem is when you burn the erd tree using the frenzied flame it means burning it all away an the life surrounding it. being the lord of the frenzied flame meaning you will burn away life itself all around the world. while melina's goal is to restart the cycle in hopes that maybe the people who will be alive in the next kalpa will do it right and better than we did. it's basically the same for ranni except her's without the influences of the gods
It feels not like the Lord of Frenzied Flame plunging the world into flames as everything burns down to nothing. It feels like a soothing end to all the pain, all the suffering the world and everything in it had to go through, like a mother embracing their child as their end comes by the face of a greater force against them. It's a comfortable end, to be embraced by the flames that settle the cries of those who suffered. This feels better than the original Lord of Frenzied Flame ending.
This really grants a different perspective from the harrowing, chilling ambience that the original ending sound scheme gives off. The musical addition grants a far more serein touch to this ending of suffering. Beautiful work!
There's a sort of wonder and child-like joy being conveyed with this music and the way the Tarnished is acting. The way the flame is revealed and how the Tarnished looks at it inquisitively.
@@thekillerpill23Before it was cut, the way you'd find the Flame of Frenzy was by meeting Kale. After you beat Godrick, if you returned to the church, you'd find a message telling you that he's moved on to sell his wares elsewhere. You keep meeting him, and learning more about the Merchants and how he's seeking the Great Caravan and how he wants you to come with him to find it, until you reach Leyndell. You follow him into the sewers, and meet him in the Frenzied Flame Prescription, opposite side of where you'd find Hyetta. He tells you that this was the Great Caravan, that they were sealed underground by the Golden Order, and that he tried to reach the Three Fingers himself but only got burned by them. After that, he hates you, and everyone else, for what was done to his people -- but, if you take up the Frenzied Flame, his hatred turns to reverence, and he thanks you -- and pleads with you -- to put an and to everything for him and for all the people who are forced to suffer and die in the lands between.
I have witnessed, fields of gold; Shimmering in the sun; I will take you to those highlands; Walk with me, hand in hand; We will march through treacherous marsh; Littered with corpses; We will stride forthwith, regardless; Bless-ed with your presence; True enough, hardships await; Darkness and the cold; Brandish your blade, and together; We will sing songs of steel; Cease your trembling my sweet plumb; Put your heart at ease; We have reached our destination; Prosperity for our team; Draft one or whatever. Please polish this shit.
I have seen the fields of gold Shining in the sun I will lead you to the highlands Journeying, all as one. We will march through treacherous marsh Sunken, cold, and grey We will stride, forthwith, regardless, Blessed to know the way True: 'tis sure, we must endure Darkness and despair Hold to blade and hold to brother Singing our song of prayer: "Cease your trembling, my sweet plumb, Put your heart at ease Hear the sound, our destination: Carried on highland breeze."
ahh.. beautiful. reminds me for my very first ending. - keep ranni's ring - use melina to burn erdtree. - becoming lord of frenzied flame. so i don't have melina's ending scene.
Wait that's smart AF, does it actually remove the Melina cutscene if you sacrifice her?? Although would it make sense lore wise considering the entire point of the character becoming the Lord of frenzy is to protect her or it's implied at least?
@@NateTheGreat368 Shabriri tells the player soon after they reach the mountaintops that there is another way of burning the erdtree without harming Melina, and tells you where the location of the flame is. The player can be swayed into the ending with the motivation to save Melina, but its not the 'entire point' as becoming the lord of chaos, well, destroys everything. In that scenario there would be no reason to save her.
I love the music but i think i noticed something crazy. The Frenzied Flame ending shows Melina walking to Torrent's whistle but it's sitting in a pile of ashes. What if the Lord Of Frenzy decided to take our body as its own and killed off the Tarnished it chose to reside inside. That's a big enough pile of ash to be a person
If you notice the background and area its in you can see that it's where we fought Radagon. That was burned was Radagons/Marikas body, and what Melina picks up is what remains of the Elden Ring.
I think you misunderstand something. The Lord of Frenzied Flame isn’t a person, it’s a title. It’s essentially the equivalent to “Elden Lord”, but for the Three Fingers, rather than the two.
Ita a real shame that the Kale/Merchants questline was cut from the final release of the game. I feel like we need to know more about the frenzy flame.
This arrangement feels like Elden Ring's End of Evangelion, almost. Both EOE and the Frenzy ending give me that same sense of incredible loss short-term for eternal, peaceful bliss long-term. Thank you for this; it's perfect
Such a fitting tune of revenge, specifically against the Erdtree for all it has opposed and oppressed, all those driven to madness or an early grave or victims of genocide. This isn't just the vengeance of the merchants we're seeing, this is the vengeance of *all* in opposition of the tree and it's dominance/tyranny. The ancestors and each fallen/eternal city, the deathbirds and those rejected by the tree and subsequently hunted, even the Fire Giants, who wanted nothing more than to see the Erdtree burn, and perhaps even places like Liurnia who had countless sorcerers slain in battle against Leyndell. A vengeance against all pain and agony brought by the conquest of the tree and all of it's followers, at last.
@@zna9297 This ending is literally full Anarchy. No more lies, no more truths, no more anything. You fend off for yourself and nobody will care if you get caught up in the flames of frenzied. Nobody will care about you being Destined to seek the Elden Ring. Nobody will care about a Will of God that was fighting itself with Radagon and Marika. Nobody will care about a world of ashes. It's not the true ending, nor the real ending. But a fitting ending to end all the opressing of Lords, Kings, Demigods and Gods. No will. Only... flames.
@@zna9297 I'm sure the people who where buried alive to die because people thought them to be against their god don't care that much about how the world's left after THEIR world has been extinguished. This is not justice, or a temper tantrum. This ending is the cause of so many wanting all the suffering to end, to wash away the pain and start anew. So it makes sense why so many relate with it (not that I think the cause justifies the methods)
So a temper tantrum? "I feel pain therefore nuking everything and everyone is justified." At best it's narcissistic desperation to the ultimate degree. Not caring about the 99% of life you are destroying, doing literally an infinite amount more pain and death than those that caused it to you. "Hey Hitler was bad! Let's outdo him buy nuking not the country, not the planet, the entire fabric of reality and everyone in it."
@@theworstcatholic7247 you sure don't consider all of that when rotting away with your whole family and relatives for something you have no say in. Using your example, I'm pretty sure that more than one jew who was about to be killed or starving would have liked Germany to burn down as a whole, but if u say that is a temper tantrum you should stop using the word entirely. This guys have had It worse than 99,9% villains in fiction have had it, yet we don't call every tragic villain revenge a temper tantrum do we?
Imagine arriving as a new tarnished to the shores of the lands between at the weeping peninsula. and you see that burning Erdtree in the distance and just like faint horrific screaming.
NGL this is one of my favorite endings and the last ending I needed to get before I got the “Elden Ring” Achievement. I couldn’t help but feel goosebumps crawling up my skin the entire time. Absolutely beautiful… in its own special way.
in a way this is the good ending, the scarlet rot, all the relived curses, all of those who were discarded by the erdtree for the simple crime of being born, the endless torment of those who live in death - plagued by godwyns defiled corps, all of them laid to rest. No more screams No more suffering No more murder or tyranny or objection by those who saw them selves to be pure and without plague All of it melted away
Honestly its funny, if this were dark souls i would see this as the best ending. Its bitter sweet, but with the state of that world it feels like mercy, just to stop the never ending pain. But with the lands between its really hard to say, i could see the pain of everyone wronged by the golden order, i can understand why they would want to burn it all. But at the same time, most of that order has fallen, and you can stand as elden lord now, maybe make things better. If theres even a chance of doing so then i think its worth trying, maybe Ranni's ending is a good compromise, but my feelings on her intentions are still unclear, especially with how manipulative she can be. Maybe the dlc will give us a new ending that i enjoy more, cant wait to see
"The screams...the suffering...the murder...the tyranny, and oppression. The foul rot, and the omen curse... it's all over now." The Lord of Flame hears a footstep behind him, and turns to see his former would-be maiden, readying a dagger coursing with Destined Death, a look of cold vengeance on her face. "No...not yet." The Fiery lord continues, falling to his knees. "Why? Why did you embrace the flame? Why did you commit such an atrocity? Leaving behind only the legacy of a scorched and dead world..." "Not for myself. Not for some mad fantasy of destruction...for a maiden born with a rotten body...for a once proud general gone mad, and feasting on friend and foe alike... For the lonely strum of an instrument, the last of a kindly people buried and left to rot...but most importantly..." The Lord of Frenzied Flame rose, and what would have been his eyes, met his soon to be executioner's, steam billowing from his fiery face. "I did it...for you."
Melina thrust the blade into the Lord of Flame’s chest. Yellow fire erupted from the wound, but the Lord of Chaos didn’t retaliate. The flames surrounding the pair died back; the raging inferno surrounding them faltered. “Melina…” The madman whispered, wrapping his arms around the maiden, “I love you, so much.” With those last words spoken, the Lord of Frenzied Flame collapsed into a pile of ash at Melina’s feet. “Farewell, Tarnished.” She whispered, as she returned the blade to its sheath. Surrounded by darkness and ash, Melina took a deep breath. Covering her face with her hood, Melina turned around and disappeared. There was nothing left for her here; no tarnished to guide, no Erdtree to burn. All that remained for her was eternal rest among the ashes.
O Chaos, O Buried Flame, Imprisoned for your Defiant Beauty Dance in the endless night Set ablaze this wretched nightmare Take the world Take the world.
Is it sin…To stand by ones beliefs? Is it heresy to hold tight to what we hold dear? Who is to judge what we put our faith in? Who is it to declare that their order is the perfect gold? And those who don’t, simply left to be borne of death? Or to continue suffering through an endless curse? Oh ye who glares up on the stars… Why are we allowed to live such suffering lives as such? Is such a fractured order worth continuing if others wroth from it? Perhaps…It is best to burn it all down…and Begin anew. Begin from nothing but ash once more....
The lord of frienzied flame ending doesn't amount to a simple restart of the world. It is the complete end to it all, complete destruction to everyone and everything forever. That life isn't worth the suffering that comes with it and therefore must be permanently extinguished
@@kelvinfahrenheit1107 remember that everything came from the One Great, by burning the Erdtree you are returning things to how they were once before, by melting everything back to the One Great. Sure it isn't a guaranteed restart but there's still chance of a new World arising once more.
@@HisRoyalMajestyKingofWeedshire oooooh fuck I want Elden Ring to be a prequel now Imagine if there was DLC to continue from the frenzied ending and the DLC ending ends with that quote.
I feel like this could make for a good ending dialogue for FF ending from Shabriri rather than the narrator “The fallen leaves tell a story no more… for there is no Tarnished to be Elden Lord. [More crazy sounding]With flames of madness, we cry aloud [starts laughing like a madman] *MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!”*
Finally, the flaws and curses of the Greater Will may be melted away. Finally, no more will be born, unwanted, scorned, only to suffer. Finally, all will be one, again.
In my opinion, the way the Lord of Frenzied Flame moves is more that of pure satisfaction. When considering the in-game lore, I assume this satisfaction stems from life melting away, sin and division becoming things of the past. All life being united under one form, The Frenzied Flame.
i got this ending just because i couldn't give up the falling puzzle that leads to its 'unlocking'. i was just looking for some loot. instead i found fire
