Elden Ring Lore - Sir Ansbach The All-Learning 

I like to let him get through his speech. Also having all the extra spells. Makes it at least a bit more interesting

The humble superiority of all-learning vs the smug narrow-mindedness of all-knowing. I think there's a good life lesson learned by contrasting the two.

@@chrisnatale5901 Exactly. Miyasaki is giving life lessons again. And good ones at that!

I love how you put them side by side, making it seem like ofnir is an uppity jerk who thinks he knows all but ansbach is a humble learner lol

SIR ANSBACH IS MEGA CHAD

"Pick Ranni, got it."

​@@rwberger6All you'll be doing is swapping one god for another. Perfect order ending is best. That seals off the lands between from the meddling of the fickel outer gods and allows men to set their own path.

@@WyattStrange​​⁠​⁠ This is the same ending of Ranni. In Age of Stars, Ranni prevents the influence of the other Outer Gods on the Lands Between and allows humans to have their own freedom. And as a bonus, we can marry Ranni, then not being a maidenless and having a fucking sword

@@Owlzeroxd Ranni's ending still serves a god that being the dark moon. In perfect order there are no gods only men.

@@WyattStrange But you use Marika's body to imbued the seal, so you still need a god to do it and I still havent found out if the perfect order protects the land from fallingstar beasts crashing into the lands and turning into Astels, if yes, then wont it also meant that sorceries will be abolished? Also if going by the subbed ending dialogue, it kinda paints the picture of Ranni leaving deep into space far away from anyone to be able to even touch the Rune.

I love Igon I wish to be 1% the hater igon is

@@Gold_scuttlecrab wake up extra early

Two total chads

And florrisaxx claiming us as they're lord rather than us proving ourselves

All the npcs did imo. Leda is presented as a kind and respectable knight, but she’s a pshycopath that’s willing to follow her lord’s mistakes to a fault. Hornsent is someone who seeks revenge for his people, even though his people are the ones that began the cycle of violence in the first place… there’s a bunch more

Dude, wtf you cooked with that last sentence. 🔥 🔥

That is so deep. Even more cuz I’m high as a 🪁 blowing in the wind

Vagabond ahh comment 😭

Peak storytelling ahh comment

Keen observation, and well put.

Ansbach also doesn't double-cross the player.

​@@Psychx_ instead he help not once but twice ...what a legend

Ansbach dug deep to discern Miquella's true plan. Gideon only assumed Marika's goal.

Not in the slightest, Gideon is a coward that never does any work himself, waiting for the player to slay demi-gods before learning anything from them. Ansbach had the runes to challenge the mightiest empyrrean himself, dared to dream his mortal blade could reach a demi-god.

@@witchBoi_Connor And the irony too is that Gideon from a player-stat perspective is actually kind of cracked, but his lack of real combat implementation makes his giga stats mostly irrelevant. Dude tries to fire off comet azures at point blank range with low poise. In comparison, Ansbach's combat kit isn't actually all that impressive, but he's so skilled that he elevates his modest arsenal into something that threatens gods and is proactive enough for that to matter.

That's an interesting juxtaposition, now that I see them together like that. Anyone professing to be all knowing is surely a fool. All-Learning though implies a healthy review and rectifications process.

@@u-mos8820 The whole point of Gideon's character was that he knew he was not All-Knowing but always sought out more knowledge which eventually doomed him. Gideon and Ansbach are very similar characters with them both falling into despair when tasked with fighting a god. The only difference was that Ansbach was able to gather his courage again most likely thanks to his oaths to Mohg and having us as an ally two things that Gideon lacked. Ansbach also never tried to become a lord but only tried to find the right one to serve which is probably representative of him knowing his limits.

The wisest men admit they do not know everything and there's always something new to learn.

I wouldn't even compare them. Gideon searches for secrets and magic for the sake of power. He's a thief dressed as a wizard. I can't even think of a character that shares his view on Marika. Ansbach is a true scholar, seeking knowledge and wisdom for the sake of each other and not being a primp about it.

virgin wouldn't be the guy with the anime photo??

Chilling

"General Radahn it is good to see you, after all this time. Those remains do not belong to you, Lord Mohg will have his dignity."

It may be why Miquella has 3.5 arms instead of 4 in the final battle.

i also use his scythe but only because i wanted an arcane scaling weapon for my Faith/Arc build

I use Bloody Helice in my right hand, with Reduvia and Bloodflame incantations catalyst in my left hand. I dress in Sanguine noble garments to honour and avenge Lord Mohg's Dynasty.

Let it rise and flow.....the true birth of his Dynasty!

​@@Meem-v02man you just gave me new idea for fresh cosplay playthrough

I was allways a believer Lord Mohg was enchanted ever since that start. I continue to serve the dynasty aswell.

Miquella the Miquellester

Miquella the tickla

​@@adolfpotatoler7624 XD

I really wish people would stop being so mean to miquella It's so rare we get femboy representation in a game this popular...

Ansbach, Igon, and Moore have to be the best NPCs. I’m glad I was right that Miquella was the real villain all along. Anyone who claims love and unification is often tyrannical at heart or in nature. Nothing else matters but “utopia” head-ahh.

Thus why he's titled as "all-learning", not "all-knowing". There is always, ALWAYS, more to learn, regardless your age. All knowing is just the hubris before your downfall, that you no longer feel the need to learn.

@@reyfox3631 Gideon never claimed to know everything in fact he was constantly trying to find more knowledge. The title of "All-Knowing" just represented his goal which of course is impossible to achieve similar to Ansbach honing his skills to kill a god, also an impossible goal from his perspective. Gideon and Ansbach are almost the same character, although I agree that Ansbach's character was better executed.

@@zacharyt.2694 The main difference between Gideon and Ansbach are approaches to learning and the result from that. Gideon is a bit of a worm who rarely does things himself, preferring to use minions and proxies to deliver to him knowledge second-hand. He's a book learner in every way down to his fighting style of staying away and slinging things at a distance without engaging directly. Ansbach in contrast goes out and learns via field work, doing the hard parts himself to gain firsthand knowledge. He's an experience-based learner in every way, which also results in having physical and martial prowess that mixes in melee and range rather than dumping all of his eggs into one or the other. This also ends up reflecting their personalities. Gideon via staying away from the hard parts as the leader figurehead has a "higher-than-thou" attitude where he finds that kind of work beneath him. Meanwhile Ansbach actually understands how difficult that work is and is much humbler and emphatic since he's gladly willing to pitch in for the difficult parts. They even both have a musclehead female friend who reflects this difference: Freyja respects Ansbach greatly despite him being a turbo nerd since he's also a respectful warrior, while Nepheli loses her respect for Gideon because he only uses his knowledge to excuse doing terrible things while throwing away everyone who becomes a slight inconvenience to him due to a sheer lack of respect for others. Though what is interesting is that Gideon isn't completely terrible, either. He does in a way care for Nepheli since he does go out of his way to thank the player for helping her out if we do so and he does get pissed at Seluvis' magic roofie for Nepheli if we reveal that scheme to him. It's just that he prioritizes his goals above his own humanity, which is a contrast to Ansbach who helps everyone else who needs it before helping himself. They have a similar surface-level knowledge seeking gimmick, but are 2 very different approaches to that gimmick.

gideon was a lazy, back-stabbing schemer and coward. he spies on you, slaughters the albinauric villages for a medallion and discards his adoptive daughter when she confronts him. gideon "a man cannot kill a god" ofnir wanted to become elden lord himself but pussies out at the end and actively fights against you. ansbach follows you in, casually banters with radahn and fights a god alongside you. the anti-hero to gideon's anti-villain and a true lord.

@@reyfox3631 he explains why it is all knowing, its just a title, doesn't matter. and sir ansbach is not called all learning in game as I could see

Add Alexander to that list and i fully agree

@@nobodycares743BROOOO, I FORGOT ALEXANDER!!!! Now the shame is with me

Diallos Hoslow ?

Dude mad he got his heart stolen by a man

@@goodguyT9NOOOOOO, I FORGOT HIM TOO!!!!! Damn, his redemption arc is so beautiful in the game

I wouldn't be so sure about that. All of Mohg's followers we meet in the base game make a point of senseless bloodlust and the item descriptions talking about what was done to the war doctors are pretty grim as well.

@@unbearable505 It's very likely that was all done under Miquella's influence too though. Considering their main goal is to "drench the bloody bedchamber" so Miquella can ascend to godhood is the very motive of the dynasty we know from the game. The war surgeons existed during the Shattering War and we know somewhere around that time, from the narrator in the beginning, Miquella probably bewitched Mohg to set off his plans. The war surgeons were perfect for bloodshed, so Miquella can "defile his body" to get to the Land's of Shadow, and out of the Greater Will's influence, that's why the bewitched version of Mohg probably abducted them and used them, so they can tame his blood, which might get out of control (?) if not kept in check and might make the charm less effective? Maybe that made Mohg easier to control, since it was still risky on Miquella's part, because Mohg had a very strong connection the Formless Mother and maybe she might have taken over again, if not the war surgeons spread his blood into new followers. At least that's my theory.

@@unbearable505compare Ansbach to any of the vile bloods you meet in base game. Ansbach is a Pureblood knight for a reason

Miqella most likely made Moghs cult turn into blood thirsty psychos so people would try to willingly end him

All that blood that they're they're trying to get a hold of in the first place is only to facilitate something Michelob once though meaning that it has to be something that Michaela caused. The whole point of being they do this for him meaning that it wouldn't make sense if he hadn't messed with them yet to cause that. The dynasty was unquestionably fucked with by him not just always bad and then used​@@unbearable505

"I HEREBY VOW, YOU WILL RUE THIS DAY!!"

"BEHOLD, A TRUE DRAKE WARRIOR AND I, IGON!!!"

It seems that having a certain about of strength allows you to partially or fully resist Miquella's charm. Radahn one of the most powerful demigods resisted his charm at first and needed to be slain and then reborn in order to be charmed. The player character most likely resisted his charm as well seeing as you must have slain at least two demigods including radahn to enter the dlc. Which if you are strong enough to do that then you're strong enough to resist. And ansbach is described in item descriptions as a truly fearsome warrior capable of harming an empyean, so he was probably strong enough not to fully be charmed.

While Miquella can shift people's affiliations and goals, he can't turn around their personality by 180 degrees. I rather believe that it was intrinsic to Sir Ansbach's nature to want to learn and gain a deeper understanding of everything.

Ansbach say it himself he fear miquella but having his heart stolen May make him love miquella but yet he still fears him. But his personnality May play too

@@Psychx_ But Miquella did. Before the spell of the tarnished is broken Ansbach constantly doubts himself and his combat abilities, but once the spell is broken he no longer doubted himself in combat.

He was. It’s just that Miquella‘s charm does, in fact, not steal your free will, as somehow the entire community believes. It just makes you love him, that’s all.

Judging by Ansbach not having blood eyes if you remove his helmet and the fact he was pretty much Mohgs right hand man, yet he did see Mohg bring miquella to the dynasty it seems Miquella caused many wierd things in the dynasty like injecting blood onto others.

Given that the explicit purpose of the dynasty’s murder operations in the present day is just “get blood for Miquella” raises so many questions about how evil they were originally

@@draw2death421 good note, I think we are meant to blame the enchantment too, in order to make sense of some of those things I think it’s clear Ansbach and Mohg were equally persuaded by Miquella and maybe Ansbach used to have the “blood eyes” but Miquella wiped him mostly clean of it, similar to how he enchants Freyja and cures most of her scarlet rot.

Knowledge vs. wisdom

gideon had way more wisdom than ansbach, the thing is ansbach is more humble than him. You just want to put gideon in a box, its not so simple, be less stupid.

@@user-dk2ip7mp1knah Gideon was a loser and a doomer who had to be spoon fed his information by the tarnished.

@@user-dk2ip7mp1k​​⁠nah Gideon was a loser and a doomer who had to be spoon fed his information by the tarnished.

@@user-dk2ip7mp1k​​⁠nah Gideon was a loser and a doomer who had to be spoon fed his information by the tarnished. He didn’t really accomplish much on his own aside from needlessly harming some albinaurics

I would have loved to have seen what the first generation of the Round Table was like. Seeing characters like Gideon, Ansbach, Vyke, Bernahl, Dolores, and possibly many others all interacting with each other before Morgott crashed the party.

​@@zacharyt.2694 also Vargram and Alberich

indeed it's a pity

We're so ans-bach 🔥

Probably ruthless but very caring and loyal to his followers- after all he talks about a dinasty and not a position for himself.

the only virgin here is you

he wouldn't be wrong to assume that, Miquella DID bewitch thousands upon thousands of players into believing he was a genuily good character, his power is soo terrifying it transcended reality

I took it more than mogh would have been a superior fighter had he been in control of his own thoughts.

​@@UnholyWrath3277 could be both.

@@sanguineregis5354 doubtful. We never interact with miquella until the dlc and he charms us in his boss fight implying that we weren't charmed to begin with. When he breaks his runes charm in shadow keep we don't change at all. Everyone else does. So while not explicitly impossible it's the significantly less likely answer

I think its more so implying we wouldnt rly fight if Mohg wasnt enchanted, as his story would be completely different

I botched EVERY questline. Except for maybe Moore (I told him to move on and be happy. Is that all of his quest?).

​@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem if you tell him be sad forever , he dies next to the kindred of rot next to a church and you get his armor and shield

The kindred of rot that don't attack you are part of his forager brood. Each one gives you a cookbook, but one is cold and needs to be warmed with a warming stone. Moore will give you a cookbook for warming it up and for finding all the kindred.

If the guy in the armor attacked you as an invader, it's because you killed a friendly pest. There are six of them in the DLC and all of them give you cook books when you talk to them.

I did every NPC questline except Thioller and holy shit that was a terrible decision. EVERY NPC that can possibly appear to fight you in the gank appeared for me while all I had to fend them off was Ansbach. Long story short, that’s the ONLY fight in all of Elden Ring I used my mimic tear for. I beat Consort Radahn with parrying (no summons/spirits) but Moore’s rot pots, Hornsent’s one-shot orb bs, and Dane’s bs infinite stamina? Yeah fuck that bs.

Miquella doesn't have a physical left arm, maybe it was ansbach that managed to cut it off?

I think this may be referring to opening the cocoon if that is indeed Miquella inside

​@@square-table-gaming I doubt it, Ansbach himself says that he tried to challange Miquella to free Mohg, how would he try to fight Miquella and get bewitched by him if Miquella wasnt even councious and stuck inside the cocoon? Also, I don't think Leda would point out his status and prowess as a warrior If all he did was merely open a cocoon. Somewhere between Mohg getting bewitched and Miquella entering the cocoon and therefore the land of shadows Ansbach fought, injured Miquella and got bewitched, at least thats how I understood it

​@@papzaire4269nah, one of the parts of himself he left at a cross was "his arm dextral".

​@@jfturle dextral is the right, sinistral is the left. But you are still correct there is a cross that says "here I abandon my arm sinistral"

Nah varre is a scrub level recruiter he's probably just that manipulative and uses kindness alongside killing your maiden to try and get u on his side

​@@UnholyWrath3277Varre's lore actually suggests he was pretty high up in the dynasty. He was the only surgeon that could actually understand Mohg's blood.

As far as I understand the rituals only started after Mohg got bewitched since he actually used the blood of the rituals on Miquella's cocoon

There are the bloodfiends who were a beaten down tribe (either from Messmer's crusade or the Hornsent) and how they took to worshiping the FM in that time.

Arguably Alexander’s ending was good because it’s what he wanted. He lived on his own terms and went the same way out.

Dragon GILF. She's been around since before Marika.

Enough internet for today

Nah anyone who has a florrisaxx summon is a freak. Bill Cosby wants his routine back.

I read this yesterday and it blew my mind: “There is a common misconception about the curse that afflicts Kindly Miquella. He is not cursed with eternal youth, but with nascency. This means that nothing he starts will ever come to fruition. His Haligtree never grew to rival the Erd Tree, he never cured his sister Malenia, he never revived Godwyn, and he never ushered in his age of compassion. His eternal youth is merely a symbol of his inability to complete anything.”

@@korye6324so us killing him was fated to happen. Damn

@@korye6324That would explain the “Nascent” butterflies how did we not connect this before!??!!?!?

@@korye6324 His nascency trait may not necessarily mean something bad, as it can also be interpreted that his works are for others to finish. There is a very strong indication that he suffers an inferiority complex and believes that might bring trust and only the powerful deserve to be followed, that being the reason why he bewitches his way out of most. How could he trust others if he never trusted himself to begin with? He got rid of everything that was "Miquella" because he only saw weakness in himself, always blind to the fact that his compassion was something genuine and many who followed him do so without any charm to begin with.

Can't blame Mohg for falling head over heels for the Prince of Femboys

​@@bagaboo4746That Empyrean bussy got Mohg nihiling all over 😩

@DanteThebengalobjectively? Based on what? Compare Ansbach, who is old enough to know radahn,to someone like varre. Ansbach is a pureblood from before Miquella interfered. Varre is a vile blood/invader like the reduvia dude and he comes from a time where Miquella was clearly manipulating mohg Bloodletting isn’t uncommon in real life. Neither is flagellation. It’s perfectly reasonable to assume mohg could’ve been a mostly harmless lord of blood before Miquella came along. Ansbach is an honorable and studious knight and he’s the kind of follower we know mohg used to inspire.

@DanteThebengal where exactly does it say that an un-bewitched mohg “liked” killing people? Cite a source on that. Also, Ansbach was a soldier. Obviously a soldier who is good at their job will gather renown, respect, and fear from their enemies. No, wearing a mask doesn’t make you evil, that’s childish. Solaire hides his face and he’s the most lovable npc of all time

@DanteThebengal nobody said he was harmless. He’s a fierce warrior. But he’s also honorable and respectable. Unlike Leda. Leda is crazy.

Excuse you? Gideon was already evil. Ansbach is arguably _Good_ Gideon

No no, this is good Gideon offnir

@@MichaelTheReadI think that’s the joke, since Gideon is already an evil pos, “evil Gideon” is one of the most loyal and knowledgeable npcs ever (Ansbach)

​​​@@square-table-gaming btw, my speculation is that the bloodyfingers were definitely commanded by miquella through Mogh to hunt down the tarnished for blood. "In that forsaken place, blood must spill, the blood of your fellows, the Erdtree faithfull". These words of Hornsent keep me pondering, what's the purpose of all of those blood for.

@@anhdunghisinh There's a so-called "suppressing pillar" in the DLC, where you can read "The very center of the Lands Between. All manners of death wash up here, only to be suppressed." So maybe all of the blood (which could be what houses the soul if we borrow that element form Dark Souls) was needed to facilitate a connection to the Lands of Shadow - together with Mohg's body that was already connected to the realm due to his crucible characteristics. Miquella's cocoon is directly below the boss arena in the swamp of aeonia where you fight comannder Niall btw. I think it's fair to assume that a truckload of people died there aswell during the battle of aeonia, so maybe that's why Malenia arrived with an army instead of just challenging Radahn to a 1vs1 duel: It was all part of Miquella's plan to create a traversible rift between the realms. For Marika to ascend to godhood, a sacrifice of similar magnitude was also needed, so that may be a mechanism fundamental to the world.

It's likely sealed to prevent anyone else from becoming a god. Marika seemingly wants her age to be eternal after all. Good questions! Im currently replaying the dlc to see if i missed anything and can learn anything new!

1 - probably marika so no one could reach the gates of divinity 3 - Miquella loses his ability to steal hearts when he discard his great rune but after ascending he has it back, so its safe to say that wasnt the only thing he got back after ascending.

@@bes7054 if marika sealed it. Then miquella enters enir ilim right after we burn the thorns? he revive radahn and become a god.. seems awfully quick for a great event like that I thought miquella was already inside enir ilim when we first arrive at the land of shadow

Perhaps it was sealed immediately after Marika ascended, maybe by planting the sacred tree we have to burn to access it, but the seal could be bypassed by becoming bodiless and "pure" in the manner Miquella uses?

1) Marika, I must assume. She's known for creating seals and it is she who originally ascended to godhood there. She didn't want anyone else repeating what she'd done and challenging her divinity. Also the seal is a tree. Which is very on brand for her. 2) Miquella definitely paid a visit to the Black Keep. He left a cross there. The question is whether he did so in secret... and if so... why? We know Messmer has a good relationship with the other demigods. Messmer is the firstborn. He was a big brother to them all. That said, Messmer is famously completely loyal to Marika. It's only at the moment of his death that he finally turns on her, releasing his pent up resentment at all the injustice and abuse she inflicted on him. Miquella most likely did not speak to Messmer as Miquella is planning on betraying the Golden Order. Tricky Miq likely feared a confrontation before his plans were in motion. Messmer would not be not an enemy to take lightly. It doesn't surprise me that Miq had a healthy respect for the dangerous nature of his older sibling. Still, I think with some choice words Miquella could have probably swayed Messmer to his side even without charm magic. Messmer was on the brink. His loyalty was fragile. Miq didn't risk it though. He got whatever he needed from the storehouse and skedaddled. 3) Whatever ritual allows an empyrean to ascend to godhood, it seems to require a great deal of sacrifice. We don't know the details but Marika's ascension was marked by the deaths of what looks like thousands of hornsent in the trailer. Perhaps she sidestepped some of what Miquella must do by offering other sacrifices. Miquella is shown during the in-game memory to not have multiple arms originally. He had two like a normal person. That's apparently something that happened when he becomes a god. Why does he gain another limb? Hard to say. It might be something related to the themes of real world alchemy and mysticism prevalent throughout the game. I'm afraid I'm not well read enough on the subject to understand the symbolism.

Fellow Tarnished, I wish you luck. Also, I recommend more fiber

you never left in the first place did ya?

Broooo eat some fiber

Dung ahead

I sure hope everything comes out all right !

Miquella is physically a child. He is mentally well past the point of a child

As the other reply said. That “childhood” might lead to childish behavior, but it is by all means an ETERNAL CURSE. Not a child in age at all and neither of mind in most aspects, since he crafted some of the coolest items with unalloyed gold and created his own miracles of the Circles (his symbol).