Elden Ring Lore - Sir Gideon Ofnir, The All Assuming 

… with a bucket of KFC.

Santa Loux, chieftain of the north pole The ever brilliant Jingle mask Fia, the christmas tree companion The loathsome coal eater AND SIR GIDEON OFNIR, THE ALL GIVING

Only to Christians tho...

He definitely gave his all on that albunaric village!

@@AirSoftFattyIsMyDaddy Yes. Everyone can have their own thing, but you can join in without being Christian. To be honest, Christmas has more pagan roots than being about Jesus Christ. I hope you have a Merry Christmas!

I wouldn’t say he’s powerful. I’m on ng+ 8 and I can one shot him 😂

@@matthewmclean9607 he THOUGHT he was more powerful, more smart, more knowledgeable.

hes powerful, and hes fast, but precision beats power, and timing beats speed.

Assuming he didn't know the truth about Marika and Radagon this would make sense!

@@square-table-gaming it would seem like he did not know since even goldmask could not fathom why radagon was named as the one god along with marika until you discover it. so it seems like he is also under that lie

The issue that I have with assuming Gid (who is shown to be a competent scholar and spy master throughout the game) is simply wrong about Marika's plans is that there are two potential motives for Marika and both can be interpreted where Gid is 'mostly right'. Maraki's motivation is to be 'eternal' ... in this case Gid is completely right as in order to be truly and forever immortal the realm has to stay in its present state, the Greater Will can't be allowed the opportunity to announce any more potential heirs and the Tarnished by and large play a destabilizing role to prevent anyone from gaining the throne. ... In this case Gid's only mistake is not understanding the plot armor being the PC in a video game provides the Tarnished of No Renown. Marika's motivation is to strike a blow against the Greater Will itself by having the Tarnish slay her and truly destroying the Elden Ring and its cycles of Gods and Divine Trees. ... In this case Gid's mistake is assuming that a God can not truly be slain, although he is only partially wrong given that in the two cases where Maraki is truly slain the the Elden Ring isn't restored another God takes her place, either Ranni or the Frenzy Flame.

​@@mlmii1933 I think its the last one. I do believe Marika secretly want change. Anything than the enternal existence. She show rebellion against the greater will and seems as ling as the player seems bringing change to the world she willign to keep it alive by the grace. Even if the player go with the frenzy flame she dont mind and that's the only case when she can see the player intention. Every other ending is the players decision so if the player eventually decide to restore the golden order and set the greater will back on top is something she couldn't predict and for her that's considered as a bad ending.

Surprising they didn't have him play differently in later playthrough +s where he starts using summons against you too, but it's always the ones you have leveled up yourself the most.

@@theblocksays gideon the all spamming with a mimic tear

Melina is a reskinned Black Knife Assassin. Just makes her connection to Marika even clearer.

@@diegoidepersia Certainly be a way to punish players who relied on that too much, now you fight TWO Gideons LOL.

@@diegoidepersia Na lets let him summom a drganon like rennala.

He would become odin

The chaos of order as it were

We talk about her in the 3rd episode of the tarnished files, super interesting character. I honestly wonder if selivus is the reason Gideon knows to look in the albinauric village for the haligtree medallion. There's a strong theory about selivus being a puppet of pidia's that's worth exploring.

@@square-table-gaming Speaking of that theory, you are almost certainly aware of this already, but just in case you're not, SmoughTown did a whole video exploring this theory at great length. It's called "Is Seluvis Pidia's Puppet?". It could probably serve as an invaluable piece of content in your research of the subject.

​@@abrb1989 while i like the theory for fun reasons, i don't beleive it. People say when selevus dies so does pida, but pida dies after selevus, at least for me. I even watched pida die while rocking selevus's armor for kicks. I think it more likey that they're just friends, but pida couldn't control puppets anymore once selevus bites the big one.

​@@Cman04092But what about their voice?

Almost definitely the strongest tarnished he’s met

No that sounds like some manipulator shit he's saying to appear as if he cares. You don't cast out a family member because they disagree with slaughter and then pretend like you care for them. Just no. Ofnir doesn't have a caring bone in his body. By any means necessary, people are expandable. But of course he'll change the tune of his song to better his demeanor.

@@DaxterL Sure that's possible, but she's not there to hear it so it would be kind of pointless. And honestly, a dude disowning his adoptive daughter is like the least messed up thing going on in the lands between.

Iunno to me it came off as him thanking us for giving her something to do so she stops sulking in the roundtable. He even apologises to the tarnished on behalf of nepheli, because he thinks she's a burden to us as much as she was to him, so i don't think "care" is the rght word for the feelings he has for her.

He then says "Sorry. For the time you had to waste". He's just an asshole

Knowing gideon this is some subtle way of saying "thanks, dickhead"

They were likely runes from long dead demigods

Nah, it's totally intentional, we all chase our tails and get it wrong, just like Gideon hahahaha

@@square-table-gaming on a more serious note, who is the God we slay in the final fight? Radagon (as a representation of Marika) or the Elden Beast?

@@rrm1903 Elden beast

@@square-table-gaming so now that probably answers a question I've had: what Gideon figured that made him so hesitant? He somehow learned that we had to kill EB. Which according to Hewg is precisely what Marika intended, but yet again Gideon says Marika doesn't want us to... This is pointless isn't it? I'll never get a grasp on this game.

@@rrm1903 I think that's what Radagon wants. Marika wants the tarnished to succeed in killing the elden beast and Radagon wants the opposite with gideon misinterpretting Radagon's will as Marika's.

Oh God you're right. HUGE oversight. Thankfully a fairly unintrusive edit.

Another lore channel has talked about this theory but I need more convincing, as every scarab has a different symbol, only one of them truly looks like the eye from Gideon's surcoat

@@square-table-gaming really? I’ve never noticed that. I’ll look closer the next time I’m scrambling to smush one - or I might just have some common sense and use a monocular. 😂

Love that concept

Ensha jumping the gun is like killing the merchants for their bell bearings

thats the dung eater. he runs around doing depraved and violent stuff for little to no apparent reason. his ending is pointlessly destructive and he does nothing but ruin everyones lives. hes the real player character

Gideon would start with the Pendant in DS1

haha nice one Matan

honestly, i doubt godfrey would have commanded gideon to stall any tarnished claimants. Godfrey was probably itching for a good fight when he came back to the lands between. Gideon probably just figured that's he'd have to fight both the tarnished player and godfrey for the throne and chose us first, because i did not believe we were stronger than godfrey at this point.

@@SophiaLilithUwU Because he is a great warrior who enjoys a battle does not mean he lacks a sense of priority nor the advisory command of Serosh. The world is on the brink of ending I doubt he is thinking about tossing hands for fun especially with the Elden Ring 20 feet away. As weak sauce as Gideon is, and knowns he is, there is no way he genuinely believed he was gonna fight us off and then fight Godfrey. If anything Gideon would have tried to trick us into working together since we are already listening to him. He'd have us go double team Godfrey and then he'd just stab us in the back. Not to mention, Godfrey was right at the door with it's last barrier removed it wouldn't make sense for Gideon (second closest contender to the door) to turn around stand in a pose and wait, give a discouraging speech, and pick a fight with 3rd place. The only reason Godfrey gives us any attention is because we killed his son.

@@Writh811 Before the battle against godfrey, morgotts body turns into guidance of grace and points godfrey directly to us. So even if the path into the erdtree is open, it seems important for godfreys personal journey to duke it out with us, after all he could just get up and enter the elden ring to have his audience with marika. So honestly the "we are not important to godfrey" doesnt fly with me. He even acknowledges how "long and hard" we fought. He clearly respects us. Godfrey believes a crown is earned with strenght. It's inconceivable to me that he would ignore the other most powerful competitors and make the race for the elden ring a race of speed and time where he wins by the technicality of "i touched it first" rather than by a test of strength and battle prowess.

@@SophiaLilithUwU I don't think we are gonna convince each other at this point lol. I would just say, yeah we were important because we killed his son and no other reason. His fight with us has nothing to do with the Elden Ring, we murdered his little boy (Serosh roars the tears Godfrey won't shed in that cutscene) and the last act of Morgott was to point the finger at his killer. Godfrey's talks of how long and hard we fought is vaguely applied, he attributes the struggle of all tarnished to the one before him. Any tarnished that walked up at that point could be assumed to have fought long and hard since they are there. Godfrey has no reason/way to know we personally fought long and hard. But he does know we fought and killed his boy. If we are so important to him beyond that what was going to be his next action if we didn't show up and events were allowed to proceed. Even if we were alive, quit the quest, and were just farting around in Jarberg after lighting the tree up. The logical answer is just walk into the Erdtree because that is what is most important at the moment. Otherwise if he was such no-think-battle-lord why hasn't he been stomping around the Lands Between until the end? What demi-gods did he bring low to get there? As far as we know Godfrey was still in the regular world beyond the fog until somehow the world became aware the Erdtree was burning and he courted a fight he knew he could lose just to show up in time to still have a say in the next Era. Weirdly there aren't very many answers beyond this one that don't make him look like he wasn't hiding in the cupboard until the thorns on the Erdtree were cleared. Which would not be very Godfrey by either of our definitions. I hope you had/have a happy holiday!

Much appreciated!

I honestly believe that unique ash of war is one of the most stylish attacks in the entire game

Maybe one day!

Thank you! Always excited to hear from new viewers

Merry Christmas Wolfie, thanks for being a fan!

old character haha, also I've got to swap point around a lot in order to be able to cast the correct spells for each video

There's a whole cut quest for malenia, vyke, benharl, and even miquella

@@brendanmuller7301 malenia missions turned out later to be millicent missions others yes they got cut

Happy holidays!

So what Enia says is that the fingers expect as much from us as they do young Gideon. That doesn't necessarily mean he was selected to be the next Elden Lord, just that he may hold 2 great runes. Likely taken from demigods now long dead.

@@square-table-gaming True, but supposedly Bernahl and Vyke do the same, that's why I find this mention very interesting, it's very specific.

He really wasn't though, it was all a ruse to have her do his bidding

@@square-table-gaming the way Nepheli is so affected by the Gideons betrayal, makes me think maybe he wasn’t always all consumed with getting his way. Great vids! Love em all!

@@georgeavant314 a lot people that come out of abusive relationships have very mixed feelings on their abusers. It's entirely possible that gideon put on an affable front for her to make her like him. We don't know what their relationship actually looked like before.

I can’t help but think it was Dolores or Vyke. But it’s been a very long time since I came to that conclusion and don’t remember why.

It was! Oversight on our end. We made an edit to address this but RU-vid takes forever to post edits.

@@square-table-gaming No prob, thought it was me for a second! Its insane how much these games have going on in them. I'm still watching lore vids on Bloodbourne, I have no doubt that I'll be watching lore vids on Elden Ring for years to come as well!

@square-table-gaming looks like you've got these garbage bots trying to impersonate you.

@@MarcusJGrey thanks for the heads up. Keeps happening. Thankfully you can block them from the channel and it'll wipe all of those comments

Marry Chrysler!

@@square-table-gaming 😂😂😂

The Royal Greatsword, Blaidd's weapon