Elden Ring Lore - Radahn's Elite Forces: The Redmanes 

The leyndell forces came pretty close too, even if their focus was mostly on defense

@RadCut which would make sense why they repelled the redmanes but also the clean rot knights in numbers were pretty good too but I had the most trouble with lyndell knights

In game too, getting pancaked hurts

Carian Knights are the best. They destroyed the knights of the cuckoo, and fought Leyndell to a standstill. Also Moongrum beat your ass on your first play through 😂 he did the same to us all. No one beats the Parryin Carian.

@@elijahmontgomery4146I beat him first try with a buckler and misericorde since my first play through was trying to abuse crits (I gave up on crits in leyndell)

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They basically fight with regular gear vs cleanrots with blessed gear by Miquella, if not they would not have those light attacks.

Probably similar to Limgraves.

@@ongkhuongduy3498 I don't know, almost every area in the lands between has it's own "ecology" or individual aspect that separates them from one another. Probably due to the influence of some outer god or the type of magic that the people of said area use. So lets see: Caelid was ruled by Radahn, the son of Rennala a glintstone user and a master of gravity magic and is were onyx and alabaster lords teached gravity magic, Caelid had its own glintstone mines but also the church of dragon communion and that area were the giant dragon was, there were a lot of giant bones littering the place so the influence of the giant's Fell god may have been a factor before Malenia spread it around after her bloom, it had Selia where they studied nigth magic (so it probably had clear skies at night) and it had the eternal city beneah. I'm starting to think that it was the Lands Between's version of Australia.

@@agm5424 as a Australian, I can confirm my back yard looks similar to caelid

Caelid before rot was likely very arid. While the upper area near limgrave would have had grass, as well as the dragonbarrow due to the frequent rainfall, the lower half of Caelid was likely an arid landscape of stone, dry grasses, and sand. The Gael prison(forgetting actual name, one with all the cells with fire zombies) is a sandstone cave. Then the wailing dunes also exist past red mane castle and at a lower elevation than the more fertile dragonbarrow. Due to these facts, most of Caelid before the Aeonia was likely an arid landscape with fertile regions to the north, considering how the ghost at the rot view balcony laments the destruction of his home, it’s likely that caelid was beautiful in some sense. In my mind the closest thing I can imagine is Utah’s Arches National Park for a good reference.

Think of it like a rabbit, the geography is more important than the biome.

Ogha's description specifically mentions that.

Ogha's spirit ashes clarify that he was the first Redmane Knight (or at least the longest serving) and studied it alongside Radahn, note that it says he studied with him not that he was taught by him.

They’d easily sack the haligtree. They won the battle against malenia, the only reason it’s the way it is is because malenia used her cowardice flower thing. Radahn and the Redmanes wiped them on the battlefield. They also killed me more than the cleanrots did😂

@@noxealgaActually it’s been stated the cleanrot knights were defeating the redmanes. Though Malenia and Rahdahn were both in stalemate. Eventually the redmanes would be overwhelmed by the quality of the cleanrot knights

Even getting to the Haligtree is a whole challange, since they'd have to go all across the lands between and traverse the deadly snowy desert that is the Consecrated Snowfield. Then they'd have to maneuver down the tree itself, opposed by a small population of tough non-humans and Loretta. And finally their grinded down numbers would find themselves opposed by tougher non-humans, Cleanrots Knights and a fresh host of Miquellan lordsworns, the least numerous lordsworns, but also the toughest. The Redmanes are badasses but I really doubt they're pulling that off.

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or Crunchy?

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i know its a old comment but is the carian knight and the cuckoo knight the same faction?

@@firstya9994Carian knights and cuckoo knights are completely different. The Carians defeated the cuckoos in battle, now they reside in the Carian Manor. Cuckoo knights are strictly for the Academy.

@@noxealga i think i need to watch cuckoo knights lore

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Nah, Malenia is just a vessel, the rot isn't linked to her in that way. Once it's out it's out.

@@square-table-gaming fair enough. I'd think it might at least be weakened, considering she was the source, but there's no way of knowing how it really works. Our understanding of the rot is obviously incomplete, since we don't even know exactly what it is. realistically the best case scenario would probably be the influence of the rot slowing to something approaching a manageable level, and assuming we don't go for the "burn it all" ending, we can do something about it as elden lord (because idk about anyone else but that would be the first thing I'd be trying to deal with after the story ends)

Whole of Caelid is just f*cked. Not only above ground where the knights are trying their best to contain it but the underground is also completely infested with rot, aka lake of rot. It has gotten too deep to fix it without completely wiping Caelid off the map

I know im late i just want to say that Malenia might not even be dead

@@Psub950 less than a year isn't late XD

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Not really but we can probably assume it was a lot like limgrave for the most part. It does get deserty towards the coast, but aside from that it's fair to assume it was once lush

Depends on the kind of magic

We've definitely thought about diving into sellen. Toughest part is getting the footage for her.

I believe we can encounter 1 who does. They do not however have to prowess to utilize gravity magic with their bow.

Very true, but they can't utilize gravity magic with their bow.

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Hahahaha that's dedication

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Nah there’s no way. If you summon Ogha then he can solo her at base level by repeatedly sniping her😂

Technically we never see the knights faces. If you take the helmet off the character models there's nothing underneath. It seems like most commoners have gray, wrinkled faces, likely due to the removal of the rune of death and their advanced age.

I've always wondered why knight helmets do things like that. Intimidation maybe?

@@square-table-gaming I don't know, the head proportions look fine on the knights and when used by the player it just constricts around our faces

That's fair, there are other subtle differences in the armor but they're basically made with the same models.

@@square-table-gaming They all have the same helms with a couple of peices added to it just to make it look different. Plus I wish they made better animations for greatswords. They still feel the same as dark souls great swords animations.

That's what the video is about, the redmanes losing the battle and staying behind in Caelid to burn the spreading rot

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The only place in this video where we say theory is when we ask you to share your theories. Pretty sure that's a correct usage of the word.

The lore outright says the redmanes are preventing the spread of rot in Caelid. It wouldn't make sense for anyone else to have built the wall

Radahn lost to Morgott directly. There is artwork of him being stabbed through the shoulder and we know he retreated. It's likely if it were just a battle of armies the redmanes could have won, but that's based solely on the way they are described in-game. I don't believe we say anywhere that the redmanes were undefeated. Malenias goal was to stop radahn, not to kill him or take his rune. In that she succeeded and Radahn failed.

@@square-table-gaming Do we know that actually? The only indication was the illustration of the two in confrontation (I believe Radahn was holding back the staff with both hands, not that he was stabbed), but it never said Radahn lost in personal combat as next we see Radahn, he's fighting Malenia and both are unscathed (granted whenever the conflict took place). Nothing says Radahn was wounded, either, as that would be significant. Someone made a video as well pointing out the artwork was a depiction, not actual, as there were inconsistencies with the sizes of the two. Either way, we know Radahn's forces retreated and Morgott held off everyone. There wasn't anything saying Radahn's forces were undefeated, only Malenia's troops. It would seem see or her troops were more tactically inclined, not just strong and had some magical ability. The lore is strange in that it isn't clear what prior conflicts established these troops. One would think if Malenia had never been beaten, her troops could have handled the significant conflicts, yet that doesn't seem to be the case with opposition still coming from all sides. Was it said why the two fought? And I don't think the explanation makes sense given she pulled her trump card, cost her, her troops, and essentially the bloom killed Radahn slowly. If she were trying to halt his progress, a direct conflict wouldn't make sense. There are military maneuver's to slow an army, a duel is the complete opposite. So in that regard, the lore stating it a stalemate makes sense; he failed in whatever his goal was, and she failed if she only meant to stop him and destroyed the land and spread rot to both troops. It can only be deliberate choice of desperation as she knew the consequences of blooming, or she didn't care and did it, knowing the consequences.

It seems as though every castle is adorned with banished knight armor somewhere. You could see it as the standard armor for knights across the lands between, but it's most likely an easy use of a general asset for aesthetic purposes. I always hesitate to say that with any confidence though because of how thorough FromSoft is.

@@square-table-gaming Dang... Theres definitely somthn up with them though. They have that crucible horn and worship/hunt dragons also the only one we talk to seemed to at one point have commanded Misbegotten. Not sure who had the theory that the round table in Leyndel is Horah Loux's original seat of power after conquering Serosh but seeing as their gear is heavily featured there I suppose they were just the OG soldiers of Godfrey but then why pay homage to the crucible? Is that just the era Godfrey came up in?

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