Elden Ring - Melina Sacrifice Scene (4K 60FPS) 

Somewhere up there she is looking down at us NO MAIDENS

playing in the chaos route. make her death questionable.

I’m not maidenless I got the witch ending. 😂😂😂

"Thank you. For guiding me here" "Goodbye" Me : YAMEROOOOOOOO!

Who need her when you can married her Witch counterpart

It was just cosplay homie

@@reesejohnson2788 but it still hurts anyway I still got ranni

@@Andy-jt2ww funny is not it? Both Melina and Ranni wanted to free so badly and you can save both. But only Melina would hate you

@@khususgabut5727 ok but my D is for ranni since I knew she lied saying that she was going to be my maiden but I'm no longer a maidenless thx to ranni lol

Well there is the theory that Ranni is Melina and if thats true then 🤷‍♂️

At least hewg and roderika stay, but who knows for how long the roundtable will survive, because i at one Point in the game roderika decides to stay with hewg... And even the volcano manor at one Point will be abondened if you killed rykard.

@@LeonardoStupidKenway in my game she left and hewg stayed how do you have it so she stays?

@@vicioussatire482 you gotta complete her quest.

As someone who just started playing elden ring and seeing them die or left the roundtable, i can confirmed i felt the same as you.

Same

err she didn't die duhh.

no, maidenless. no

@@boneknockgrit2695 huh? She definitely did.

yes but I have ranni

@@boneknockgrit2695 she died

Ah fyelt sooper sayd afta dat. Mah wafuh sniff sniff.

@@buffoonustroglodytus4688 fine words, Scotsman

That was the moment I realized what she was about to do and that there was nothing I or the Tarnished could do to stop it. 10/10 voice acting, would cry again.

Ye missed opportunity from the devs

You get a new cutscene with her at the end of the game

@@lost4945 Only if you still go for the frenzied flame. But if you remove it with the needle you won't get it. As enemyboat spotted pointed, the devs did not care if the player chosed a path were the player sacrifice himself to burn the tree, then remove the flame, then having an other ending.

Yeah I’m sure she still hates you anyways

I assume you taking away her life's purpose got her feeling some type of way regardless of if you didn't choose the psycho flame ending.

I mean... it was okay? The Story was not really all that deep. Nothing one could even consider emotional at best.

@@MrHardstylefever but the bosses, they are memorable

@@juju0K_ they are, a lot of the game is. But the story honestly is not. But that goes for most from software games for me. They are always the exact same thing. Once good world, now ruined world, you are one of many, but you are better than the rest, now go light some fires. That's it. Pretending that is an awesome storytelling is just fanboy talk

@@MrHardstylefever I agree

@@MrHardstylefever yeah. The story feels not that much awesome. But particular moment like these with some background music makes that moment emotional.

Because you were.

Just a warning, don't look at the R34 of this game if you don't want to be cursed!

@@blipblop1112 I second this. A lot of them aren't even good!

bro the game is fine art, no exaggeration. Videogames are art and Elden Ring is the evidence

Straight. No doubt anymore. Gaming has found it's Tolkien(s). First time in 30 years of Gaming, that I feel proud to be a fanboy. Who would have thought...thanks for this!

you know there is actually a way to save her without having the frenzy flame ending right?

@@masgondi1 but wouldn’t that make her hostile to you? Lore wise?

Maybe in the future dlc we can bring her back again like we did to Ranni after Ranni died killing the two fingers

@@raphaelcordero2900 pretty sure she said that she'd grant us destined death if we take up as the lord of frenzy flame. If we use miquella needle and choose elden lord instead, wouldn't it be different? Might be wrong tho idunno.

Too bad we can't move our characters during that cutscene. I honestly would have loved it if at least we could grab her hand as hers was approaching ours, to properly say goodbye.

Yep, just noticed that

Plin plon

It's also a motif used throughout the game, e.g. the main menu and final boss.

Yeah don’t think it’s an homage to that, it’s used everywhere in the game. Even the trailer.

It also sounds more like a guitar than a piano, there’s a twang to the notes

And the way she puts her hand out almost beckoning for us to take it added a little more emotional punch to the equation

Yes, she died lol. Giving you the stinky eye too.

@@Kopie0830 physically she died, spiritually she transcended. it's a souls themed world after all

@@HazDev56 Ain't there like... afterlife themed boss?

Like Sunbro, and both the Onion Bros, she has gone to the Sun.

@@Meshifuari yes there are. but they're in some kind of spiritual realms which still can be touched like the Dream and the Nightmare in Bloodborne. for Melina she is likely transcended into something much more higher, maybe close to how the Demigods or Lords died

the realistic ending

lmao

No pride?

Tarnished: than i am doing the dung eater ending! Melina: well.... Shit... *Burns*

😂😂😂

Damn

This could also explain why Melina could always been with us but at the same time she is distant. I believe maidens used to travel alongside their tarnished but in the end developing some connection only them would understand but because of that they do try to protect their maidens but in the end ultimately fail. Melina is being distant for a reason i believe it is not a flaw of design but rather it is her character to try to be distant so that burning her wouldn't hurt so much and so that we wouldn't end up like Vyke and or Bernahl. I really wish there is another cutscene after we burnt the tree, neutralise the flame of frenzy and become the elden lord.

Well noted, Vyke was the first one to discover you have to burn your maiden. He got tricked by Shabriri who didn't care about his maiden but he wanted the 3 fingers unleashed. And it makes total sense he did the entire road we did until fire giant, because all gods can be reborn if the rune of death isn't unleashed, which it wasn't, he never got to Maliketh. He truly is like us, and that's very cool. Although he got mad before he reached the Erdtree, we don't in the frenzied flame ending.

Vyke failed to inherit the flame because the 3 fingers touched him with his armor on

I believe, Vyke's maiden threw herself into the fire... but not to kindle it, just to kill herself. Or maybe she tried kindling but failed. It's unclear in the story.

@@VincentVanGirth bro you can't say that they were probably on antidepressants

At least it's one good stuff out of the 99999 depressing scenarios FromSoft created in Elden Ring.

@@george0287 Actually never took antidepressants. My meds were a bottle of whiskey and beer but thankfully I'm over that now haven't had a drink since 2019.

hopefully they work on their masterpiece so it's not a bugged piece of sh it

@@george0287 Even more important that they take them. Going off of antidepressants is a special kind of hell that I wouldn't wish on anyone.

(if only she appeared on screen more often, like how all other maidens/firekeepers in other Souls games are always available at the Hub for the player to interact with. I never really bonded with her because there is so little interaction with her. I think she should be available to summon at any grace, repeating the last dialogue she has.)

@@artyomnikulenko7096 exactly like if she appeared when we get to the graces and talked cuz in reality I can probably count on my fingers the amount of times I saw her during my playthrough

What? I think you talk to her about 10 times on your way. Isn't it enough?

Big baby

Yes, it's normal. Humans are social creatures, and we are wired to like interaction with other humans. Even if they are characters in a game. Even if the interaction is just an animation. Besides, Melina appears too little during the game. I wish we could summon her at every Grace.

@@artyomnikulenko7096 yeah I wish they made her appear riding with us on torrent or when exploring new stuff from time to time and say lore stuff or something like that she could've been so much better

No doubt. Only 333 runes but had to hold her hand one more time.

You can keep her from dying, but only by making her hate you and leave you anyway.

@@Antifinity yeah I did that by accident by letting my curiosity get the better of me. I genuinely felt like shit for a day or so when I realised there was nothing I could do to get her back - less so when I realised I'd have lost her anyway within a few hours of gameplay

this game is evil.. i liked blaidd, had to kill him. i liked the giant blacksmith, he killed himself. i got attached to melina and here i am, sitting alone at a bonfire, thinking about was it all worth it.

@@seanmacguire8148 You may wanna search for the guy who wrote this game's story that's what he likes to do.

OMG AERITH DIES?!

it was more than a friend to me

Yeah I felt devestated by the loss of the npc I only saw twice in the beginning of the game and who killed herself 80 hours later

@@buffoonustroglodytus4688 You can meet her several times before this moment and speak to her in a lot of sites of grace. I do agree that she could have been more present, but she was indeed there and she had a prominent role.

@@dinorex3464 yes she has a prominent role but she’s very underdeveloped and underutilized. Like there’s a couple glimpses into her character and she talks a tiny bit about her goal but it’s very cryptic and obtuse. The rest of her dialogue is literally just exposition that has very little to do with her as a character. I like her design and voice but there’s really nothing to her character that’ll make me emotionally invested in her. Makes this whole scene seem kind of silly.

The thing that killed me was the harp notes; Those first two are featured in Gwyn's famous "Plin-plin-plon", an emotional gutwrench they programmed into me. It also takes this entire act to the next level; for those that are experienced with their games, and who will, on the off chance, recognize those notes, we'll be instantly transported back to DkS1 and DkS3, to the acts of Kindling the Flame and the final fights with Gwyn, who kindled the flame out of desperation with his own soul, and to the Soul of Cinder, a amalgam of all those who kindled the flame before hand, including that scared old man. This is an act we've never been on the other side of. Our characters make that decision to be martyrs, the ones that do, but its an entirely different feeling being on the opposite end of the gun. To be the burned for, as opposed to the one who burns. Melina effectively plays the role of our chosen undead, our ashen one, or very plainly, our hero. We will be able to do what needs to be done with her sacrifice and give the world a new chance, with a new ruler, with destined death put back into place. It was her decision to make, and we will have to live with that. It is a worthy sacrifice by itself, without this context, without dragging other games into this, for just it's own contexts, but its those two notes, those two, missable notes, that sends this over the top for me. It is a very clever way of mirroring the context for those who'd recognize it.

Bravo Vince

That's actually very valid point. Why did she reach for Tarnished?

@@AlexCatableYeah, unless I’m missing something, that gesture really did look like a small display of affection. She even hesitates and stops her hand at the end. Honestly her realizing she’ll never see the tarnished again, and feeling a brief stab of emotion, only to suppress it really fits well with how she acts here.

​@Eternal_Placidity A lot people mistaken her seemingly lack of emotions and matter of fact way of stating things as a lack of personality. She's the most compassionate character in the game. The way she asks you to talk to Boc because it make him so happy and she likes seeing Boc happy. How she muses about having a mother while simultaneously talking about her own mother.

​@@TheRisky9 Yeah, I think her "lack" of emotions and matter-of-fact speech is just leftover from her years upon years of serving as a front line fighter and assassin when she held the Rune of Death. She's actually a good person under the surface, far more caring than the other demigods that were only obsessed with their own power and that of their siblings. There's even lore that seems to point toward Melina being the Gloam-Eyed Queen, the mentor and trainer of the Black Knife Assassins, so she knows how to encourage broken individuals and is able to genuinely care for them.

@@comictitan4509 She's also the most selfless. Throughout my first playthrough, I was waiting for her betrayal. But she never does. You can betray her though.

Whats the name?

@@goldengamerverse how do you mean?

@@WilleViberg i meant whats the name of the music

@@goldengamerverse I don't know. I've been trying to figure out but no luck so far.

@@WilleViberg someone uploaded the song "the burning of the erdtree ost"

Age of stars ending!

@@hyperDarklord13 No

@@hyperDarklord13 I wanted Melina not floppy hat

i was about to say that bro😢

Ranni is actually a literal doll made from string...

@@san-zangorn3721 if you play any of the Soul like games, that won’t matter how he will have an daughter with ranni, like we are talking about gods here that shape reality and you think about the old way of mortal sex looooll

@@RavenL1337 well Marika pregnate herself do I don't think Tarnished and Ranni will be having sex lol

@@san-zangorn3721 she isn't.... she put her soul into a doll

in lord of Chaos ending, it clearly our finger maiden also one of the most strongest god. honestly it look like she can't be kill. this sacrifice is more like her role here is end. when her true form still some where each, and only come here when the chaos lord born. then she will kill that lord.

Yeah, I wish we got to see her more. She is so absent that in my first playthrough I completely forgot she exists until she appeared again when I reached Altus. And sadly this scene wasn't as impactful for me, since I wasn't invested in her character at all. I wish that instead of being able to just level up yourself, you would have to summon at site of grace and level up with her and perhaps engage in a small talk of sorts. This way she would actually feel like your travel companion and made you invested in her character. Just look at Alexander, the guy is so sweet and jolly you can't help but love him. I wish Melina got the same treatment and appeared way more with actually meaningful dialogue to her character, instead of just parroting Marika's word in the churches.

How this isn't an actual secret ending I don't know

Melina: Wait, what needle? Tarnished: Miquella's needle. The one I got after I killed Malenia in battle. Melina: Malenia was my sister, you asshole. Get out.

@@AndreB23 haha, but she isnt

​​@@BazzableYes, she is, she is Marika's daughter, and Malenia, Miquella, Ranni, Rykard, Radahn, Mogh, and Morgott are her siblings. Remember that Marika and Radagon are the same person.

@@ThePalebloodHunter melina is not related to the golden order, she is a child of the black flame

Technically she can survive without you betraying her, if you use the golden needle to remove the frenzied flame.

The Toll Troll But she will not show up again anyways

@@axiemeisterl6645 At least you saved her.

@@axiemeisterl6645 but she's still alive

@@thetolltroll2019 I prefer the opposite, let her die then take the frenzied flame and rule uncontested. No destined death for this tarnished. She gets to achieve her life goal, I get to become an elder god and she can't attempt to kill me later, it's a win-win-win.

@Ornithocheirus I did! And all I got was getting my body burned, my flesh now taken by Shabriri and Melina wants to kill me lol

@Ornithocheirus I did that too, in another run! Haha

Reminds me of Lady Aribeth de Tylmarande from Neverwinter Nights

Down terrible

@@jayjuarez2753 just lonely man 😔

Maidenless behaviour

you marry ranni isnt that enought?^^

Man, perfect intro for Dark Souls 4 🤣

@@evelinodavidarevalo1692 Yup lol

She was not really our maiden though

@@givani30 Not an actual Finger Maiden, but a fine maiden nonetheless. I’d take that over simping over a possessed doll worshipping some shady moon god 😁

So taking the frenzied flame, burn the flame yourself because melina hates you for doing it (because you just literally took her all of her duty itself), then stab yourself with the miquella needle to undo the frenzied flame, and finally take the elden lord throne is the right thing to do afterall. Sadly no special ending for that

If you're talking about Vyke, that's not it at all, he burned himself with the frenzied flame so his maiden wouldn't have to sacrifice herself, but he got locked therefore couldn't burn the tree and become Elden Lord

@@personne2122 Pretty sure they're referencing Bernahl, the guy at the Warmasters Shack who then moves to Volcano Manor, his Maiden sacrificed herself and he couldn't handle it, his armor description says he was destined to become Elden Lord, until his Maiden sacrificed herself.

Cringe

@@Kyle-Marxluxia That’s the intention

It really is. It blows my expectations over and over as i travel through the story somehow. Idk how you can create something this good.

They are not. They're mirror images. Light and dark. the clue is in the blind eye. Melina's is on the left. Ranni's is on the right.

@@theo-jamesmoulton2000 hey that's still a win in my book, I can just imagine and pretend that ranni is Melina🙃

Three some is better than vanilla sex

They are not. Melina is more likely to be (related) to the Gloom-eyed Queen of the Godskin. The Queen was described to have dark blue eyes, which is Melina’s left eye color and she is said to be the original wielder of Destine Death, something that Melina is hinted to be related to

@@theoldone689 Yes, melina is born from the elden beast by marika (vassle of the greater will) to be replacement. Ranni is born from the moon (vassle of the stars) with the help of radagon and rennalas egg to bring about the age of stars and darkness. Which explains why ranni is empyrean (born from one god). Radagon and Marika are the same person so yes they are technically sisters. this game is hella confusing lol.

Fire punch?

I am pretty sure that there are multiple more endings besides the 3/4 ones that people have already found, I'm looking forward to seeing them on the internet

@@TimberlyPL you can find it in this account

There are 7 known endings so far. You can also light the flame your self and cure the Flame of Frenzy using Miquella's needle.

@@dannyb230894 yeah in this ending. her death her is questionable. it more like her true form is some kind of god that first take the role of observer. then take the role of hunter hunt down the next lord of chaos with her true power.

@@boneknockgrit2695 The thing is, even if Melina got to kill you, the Greater Will get replaced by the God of the Frenzied flame so yeah, that wouldn't change very much about the chaos you brought with you lmao

She burns it out of Love for Life. And because she believes in You. Feels like the reason for me at least.

Have you done the Sif boss fight after going through the DLC first and saving Sif when he was a puppy in Oolacile? Because you get a different cinematic at the start of the fight if you do and oh man is it tragic.

Fourth time for me: - last toast of Siegward and then ... you know what - I didn't play the game but I watched a playthrough, knew the backstop, so, the scene with Sif sniffing at the chosen undead, willing and howling had me fighting back tears - "Asen one. Hearest thou my voice still?" And now this: -"Thank you. For guiding me here".

Because in many theories out there, we fcking are. The world at the end? See the familiarity?

Literally every souls game has the same plot at the end of the day. Continue the cycle

😢

I found out, i can find frenzied flame to burn the golden tree, melina will hate me, but she dont need to die

shit, i quit bloodborne and let german cut off my head. i dont want to be a slug monster god in a nightmare.

@@TheRogueEmpire Well if you kill gehrman in BB he will wake up from the dream bruh.

@@rafsandomierz5313 Yeah, letting Gehrman free you is a happy ending for you, freeing Gehrman is a happy ending for him, becoming a squid is... majestic?

@@rafsandomierz5313 it won’t wake him up as he has no body he can wake up to. It will kill the last piece of consciousness that existed of him. But he obviously suffered a great deal so it basically a mercy kill.

Thorns block the way to the heart of the erdtree so we need the flame of the Giant's forge to burn them. No idea why we're sent to Farum Azula straight after tho.

@@D1ab0lical Interesting

@@D1ab0lical to get the tune of death to slay a god, because your objective is to kill marika from what I gather

@@D1ab0lical Our ultimate objective to become the Elden Lord involves killing Marika, since she is the one who is behind the shattering and would be opposed to us attempting to repair it. To be able to kill her, we need the Rune of Death as it is the only rune capable of allowing a mortal to kill a god.

@@MrZalgo-ml2iw So if we perchance get through the thorns we could achieve the end without her sacrifice

I'd say that's a huge stretch When we get Melina's Blade of Calling, it's description says "The power of its former owner, the kindling maiden, is still apparent. The one who walks alongside flame, Shall one day meet the road of Destined Death." Melina is the kindling maiden thanks to which we could reignite the Giant's Forge fire And thanks to the fact she walked alongside us until the Mountaintops of The Giants to sacrifice herself, we could go to Farum Azula, which allowed us to "meet the road of Destined Death" by killing Maliketh and unleashing the Rune of Death. So I'd say Melina is the "flame" she mentions herself

gigachad ending Hoes mad

... the trick is to get it on the first try. Without guides.

@Zucchini Tzatziki Such Tremendous Philosophy! The Way of Life, Soul of Fire!!! 🔥🔥🔥