Elden Ring - Song of Despair (Remix of Frenzied Flame Merchant) 

finally🙏

Hell ya

can't believe I just found out by accident. Anyways I am extremely happy to have this on Spotify thanks Roe!

I wish it was more apparent tho, it's really easy to miss but yeah still pretty cool

@@baimer5588agreed

@@baimer5588 what timestamp is it at in the official ost?

​​​@@Blizzzful 3:35 - 3:55. The notes are more dissonant and sound kind of twisted and wrong, fitting with Midra's presence.

The moment I heard this again I got reminded of midra

Despair, spite and an unspeakable weariness. 😢

Burn it all away in the yellow chaos flame.... May chaos take the world... You can almost hear him fighting the urge to spit in anger between the two lines

Bro was the base game Igon and he never even got a chance to shine.

Damn, to think one of your comments got forgotten about. It feels like this was around your height in popularity. Weird to see happen, but nice to see you here lol.

no way, the man himself 🤩

The legend himself (kotows)

May Chaos Take the World

Its him🍲

Absolutel CHILLZ my guy

And thr voice acting is so good auugh I wish they bring it back with the dlc or an update

Yap

That line delivery had me choking up dude

The soundtrack really made it that much more impactful hitting your soul. Divest yourself of everything. Please, a Frenzied flame to melt away the curse’s suffering and despair. And the order entire. May chaos take the world. May chaos take the world.

Probably exactly why they removed it.

Lord of chaos is probably one of worst and most selfish endings as of now (the nomads seem to be victims in the current version) Making them supporters of the frenzied flame instead of victims wouldn't really change much, unless the flame of frenzy got a completely different meaning

@@ungratefulingrate1268 what’s selfish about it? If anything, it’s as selfless as possible, looking beyond your own sense of accomplishment, your own opportunity to rule, to give the world the ending it deserves, rather than selfishly gobbling up your own slice of mindless perpetuation-flavored pie

@@marinusjohn6642 The rotten perpetuation we see in game is just a consequence of marika's inability to be a proper god. Normally the ages go on just fine, as we can observe many times. Frenzied folks want everything to end, because they feel like it shouldn't go on. Thing is, anyone is free to take their own life, instead of dragging everyone down. Also the GW split from the one great once, it could happen again

@@ungratefulingrate1268 I feel as though, even if it is but a reset, it plays into the cyclical nature of worlds created by Miyazaki, a larger theme across his works. Maybe it isn’t ethically the best solution, nor a final one, but narratively it is very satisfying, reflecting the end of all misery, the possibility to start all over, while also tying into the theme of cycles that Miyazaki seems to love almost as much as swamps and decay and… womens feet…

I was shocked to see those corpses but if Kale's questline wasnt cut, those corpses wouldve hit hard

Hopefully and this is a big amount of hope. They will add his quest line to the upcoming dlc. If not then we'll just find another way to tell his story.

Imo it fucked with the ambiguity of the merchants a bit too much, but the dialogue did make it cool. We still don't actually know in game if the merchants were originally worshippers or not, or if they were driven to chaos

also was the only real explanation for why everyone wants to kill you. they're all infected with some sort of madness- vengeance, obsession with Miquella, religious fervor for the golden order, despair, rot, what have you. a curse of madness would have explained alot of the game's worse moments, and would have made the ambition to rise beyond it that much more profound

It's nuts to think they cut this side quest out of all of the ones in the game. This one is by far one of the most emotional and sad of the bunch. It definitely should have even been one of the main ones considering the Frenzied Flame is insanely important to the lore.

At last all things, great and small, will come to an end. So the Question remains. Are they truly mad? Or have they only accepted this Fate, this path with no return long before we did?

Sounds like philosophical foppery to me to question “why go on”.

@@WhiskeyPatriot exactly, thats the beauty of it.

Yeah, went straight down the flame ending when I saw this with no second thoughts

That’s why I think the frenzied flame ending is the true ending.

Beautiful poem, enhanced only by Alex's rendition of the song. Kudos

May chaos take the world!

MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!!!

You wrote this??? Very cool. Also, I like it is ABAB and not the usual AABB rhyming scheme.

May chaos take the world ...

Marika Is basically the worst villain of the game

Golden Order jars and Hornsent jars serve entirely different purposes. One type carries corpses, the other live victims. One type feeds the tree of life, the other is little more than an execution device. One type is afforded relative freedom, the other lives in prison. There are many things to say about the Golden Order and Marika, but their use of the jars is surprisingly healthy, given their history.

​@@an0N1M921I wouldn't go that far. I'd say Miquella would have been the worst, had he succeeded, and that the interim is assured by Radagon. I'd even put Marika below the Dung Eater, who himself is roughly equal to Goldmask. Entirely because, eventually, she shattered the Elden Ring, and with it the Golden Order.

@@draghettis6524 I disagree. Miquella's Age would have been illusory, but in a place like the Lands Between even a false paradise is better than the hell that came before. Marika's Age was bliss for a select few people, as was the age of the Crucible. 'Radagon's' age, after the Shattering, was miserable for everybody. We don't know what it was like during the Age of the Dragons. Dungeater's Age would have been the Broken Order of Marika, except now everyone is an Omen. This might end the discrimination, but with the DLC we can actually say that the Omens ARE a curse, which tracks since it can be a painful existence for those inflicted by it. Those horns aren't just aesthetic -- they can be very painful. Fia's ending is the single worst one, in my opinion. It's literally turning the Lands Between into a Zombie Apocalypse, where the souls of those who die remain in their rotting corpses to Live in Death. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad once everyone was dead and zombified, might get used to it in the long term, but no. No no no. I don't like it. Goldmask's has the best chance of actually fixing things, but we don't know exactly what it was that he fixed. It's considered to be one of the best, but we don't know. Ranni's is the best ending, as it takes the Elden Ring away from the Lands Between to give the people a chance to either fix shit themselves, or succumb to it. But, then again, even if she does manage to remove all the influences of the Outer Gods there's still Godwyn to deal with and his deathroot. Honestly, so long as Godwyn is a factor, I'll always choose the Frenzied Flame because there's no other ending that can guarantee his death. His corpse, and it's effects on everything around him, is just so inherently repugnant to me that I can't be comfortable with any other ending that might have a chance of him and his curse being in it. It's literally a 'Kill it with fire' thing for me.

@@atlasgraham154 I put much more weight on its permanence than on its illusory nature, and that's why I put Frenzied Flame at the bottom ( though, ironically, it is possibly less permanent than Age of Compassion, if Melina is left alive ) And tbf, there's a chance burning the Erdtree is sufficient to halt the spread of the Deathroot. After all, the roots and the rest of the tree are integral to each other's survival. And I wouldn't go as far about the Age of the Duskborn. Especially since, if they work like Godwyn, Those Who Live in Death have their souls destroyed, like they were for everyone upon death before Marika removed Destined Death from the Elden Ring ( also another point, if the Ring is discarded, does true death return to the world ? It was its intervention that removed it, after all. ) Goldmask's main issue with the GO is Marika being able to on a whim declare what is holy or not, also extended to the changing of gods over time. So he saught permanence, but in the way opposite to Miquella's ( and arguably by doing pretty much what every other Order before him did, aka try to ensure its survival until the end of eternity )

You know...I kinda see it. Even the three fingers wishes to be burned away by the frenzied flame and after it does leaves it's desperate hope for cleansing to you. It's almost like it's a final breath that's also a sigh of relief.

It sees in us its last, best hope at its end game victory. I find it funny that it just leans into the chaos dice roll where we could just as easily fail as succeed, but it's the three fingers last shot so fuck it. Truly, chaos shall take the world!!!

Props to you too for making kickass scenes

Thanks a lot Mispap! You did an amazing job as well, I bet I could score something incredible to something you made too.

@@alex-roe ​ Even though I’d absolutely love to, I don’t think I’d be able to commission anything atm, but id absolutely love to collab for a music video for one of your tracks if you’d ever be interested.

@@mispap1 Who are you?

@@Graddg Its Mispap1

Clinging to life? Clinging to life is all you can do. There literally is no death.

@@bungiecrimes7247, I know. My point was, most seem to have given out and appear dead, whilst some still cling to their violins and to this haunting melody.

@Joske Vermeulen, don't give up. Invest in a few good summoning ashes, and use them in battle, if you need. They're good at attracting attention from bosses, so you can do your thing. This game is a masterpiece!

@@joskevermeulen3271 Just become a tank with the heavy giant stars weapon using wild strikes ash of war, Also get consecutive attack buffs.

​@@joskevermeulen3271did you meet the bear or is it something else

Re watching that scene with these emotions in mind really changed the feelings of the scene. I always interpreted the clawing at the ground like you walked in and found the god of violence. The way the floor is burning specifically looks like the fires from forgings weapons.. the three fingers movement when they stop and really notice you, it’s like a snake right before it devours. The way it arcs back first before reaching for you.. it always seems so predatory and primal to me. And the scene of it grasping on to you, marking you.. the whole thing can be read the way you’ve presented or in a much more nefarious way lol I’m glad I was able to see it in a much softer light

@@AllCloudsAreBunnies to me it always looked like painful desperation,waiting and writhing in pain until it can finally fulfil its purpose and die

​@@the_dennator7723while to me it makes me think it's writing

Have you heard of the Great Caravan? ...I see, more's the pity. Well, even we had a place to call home, once. The Great Caravan, they called it, but it's been lost to us for ages. I've been searching for it as long as I can remember.

@Ben Luttenberger don't be.

Especially when you know the context and story behind what it was made for. The emotion it evokes, it's tragically and despairingly beautiful

I feel the same when a song evokes emotion so well like this one.

Doubt he'll have enough strength for that. But him tapping into the frenzy and getting aggro at you if you don't follow the three fongers but return to him anyway could be one of the endings to his questline.

As cool as it sounds it would have been a little too similar to Gael fighting you for to claim your Dark Soul in my opinion

@@clementbeziat7198 idk i feel like the motivations are different enough. Gael kind of planned for himself to go crazy, and have you steal the dark soul to deliver to the painter. His motivation was a desire to make a new world because the old world was dead/dying. Kale's is to burn the world out of revenge for his people

I think him going mad with frenzy and you killing him at the way end after you succeed in getting the blessing of the fingers would have been a good ending. Like the end of Ahnri's quest when you find Him/Her by the grave of the other eaten orphans

He’d make a better final boss than the Elden Beast did, that’s for sure.

That’s a very mature way of looking at it

"Merely"

@@szalyn8849 yep. It's a word. Congrats 👍

@@yosemitesam7.62 yikes

This song and this moment evoke something so visceral, so profoundly dark, and unfortunately, so real. I think of a film like Grave of the Fireflies and how it shows the brutal, agonizing consequences of war. That film holds nothing back from the viewer and it’s quite difficult to watch, but sometimes that’s what people need to see to understand the importance of a situation. War, conflict, death, they happen all the time and often for senseless reasons. Media like this is a reminder that we can do better as human beings and not allow history to repeat itself.

I call bs on the part where u sat next to the merchant for hours

That's how you experience this game. That's how a real emotional and beautiful understanding of this games story is formed in your mind. When you just sit down and stop running around and killing enemies, but simply sit and think. May Chaos take the world.

Good luck with the story 🙂

Fr

The Chaos ending is like sterilizing the Earth for all time because the Holocaust happened. It's utterly depraved madness.

Where do you hear that?

It's the lullaby of St. Trina (Miquella). Trina sang it to the merchants to let them sleep soundly because their curse from the Frenzied Flame melded their minds together. When they try to sleep they are tormented because their thoughts are always connected to the others, so they can't rest at all. However, St. Trina's lullaby allows them to sleep "alone" with their own minds. The Song of Despair is them still trying to play the lullaby even though it's been so long they've forgotten the words.

*MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!*

Kalé delivers it much better than Shabriri. Really hope they restore his questlien with the DLC, since St. Trina had a connection to the merchants and tried to help them. Imagine Miquella finding out his momdad did this among other atrocities. No wonder he got fed up with the Golden Order.

Truly a masterpiece of a game it's sooo good the beauty, the sadness everything it's all perfection

If anything it just makes me hate shabiri more for what he did to the merchants.

I couldn't agree more

Actually, you could still save melina by visiting the 3 fingers, set yourself on fire, and then stab yourself with miquella's needle ( or how do you spell his name ) in the dragons arena to cure yourself of it. I did the exact same thing, and then did Ranni's ending.

I was on the same road as you, but I chose to burn it all away, the work of the golden order had caused too much pain in too many, and so, pain, regret, despair, melt it all away in the yellow chaos flame. Melina, I’m sorry. But this was all for you.

fortunately, you can make her hate you and leave without burning the world

My boy, please touch some grass.

@@D.H.1082 Thank you, however I keep the grounds at the apartments that I work at. So I do, in fact, touch grass every day :)

Well, if you think about it. It's a good ending from the players perspective. But in the game, it's one of the bad endings.

The world and that tree had it coming.

yeah, just you bro. it's a need for chaos that comes with order.