Elden Ring - Streamers Reaction to Radahn Consort of Miquella Part 1 (My Gameplay at the End) 

Level 150 on NG+7????? Bro, go farm sum runes

I chose to stay at that level for pvp reasons, you could argue that I can start another playthrough for just that, but then I would have to get all the gear and everything again and I just really can’t be bothered 😂😂😂

Honestly bro, that’s the only way to do it without going mad. I surrender to shield poke too lmao

@@FXRain Fair enough

imma keep it a buck... that's a corny ass way to do it. instead of learning the fight and skillfully beating it. Its not impossible at all. i beat it with double curved sword build with med load and full defensive talismans + damage negation physick. At +15 fragment upgrades.

I thought I miss read that shit 😭😭

I seriously was sitting like why is everyone so shocked as if this wasn't basically thrown in your face and explained from the NPC story lines but I guess ppl just wanted to rush through the DLC for the right to say first I guess 🤷‍♂️

​@@lionheartnick664This is why I prefer watching youtubers who mainly play souls games with these games. They'll usually explore everything and not try to speedrun it.

I was surprised that it straight up looked like radahn considering it’s technically mohgs body. I was expecting mohg with gravity attacks or radahn with leftover horns or something like that

@@alexactable3009 I guess a god can alter a body's looks

Miquella's idea of courtship is pretty damn complicated Also: does Radahn even get a say in this or is he just a mind controlled thrall?

It’s left ambiguous if he is being brainwashed by his half-brother or not. But i like to believe he is being manipulated by Miquella.

​@@deltastudio9726 I, too, think Miquella not brainwashed but took advantage of both Radahn's kindness (as in an item description), offering an irresistible future of a gentler world, and his allure and charisma

Why would he send Malenia to kill him only to then revive him? It makes no sense. Why moghs body specifically too?

I thought Radahn refused to be his consort so Malenia went after him to punish him/force him to keep the promise of being Miquellas consort.

@DepressedWolverine "I'm sorry Radahn but you've left me with no choice but to greatshield+thrusting weapon you."

Don’t hate Radahn, it’s miquella’s fault

Miquella/Ranni: I'm gonna become a God Radahn: Nah 🗿[Holds stars] [Blueballs Miquella] Malenia/Blaidd: 🤬

Yeah it's not like the character has a new design, move set, and features at least five different characters attacks. Radahns gravity Godfrey's earth stomps Radagons ring of light Mohgs blood flame Miquellas magic

@RampidWarthogStudios I can't tell if you're agreeing with me or not

@@Solar-fg8eg sorry. Lmao. Yeah I'm agreeing with you

we are complaining because my boy deserves his rest and we are his fanboys

@@Solar-fg8eg Yeah he is pretty much a different person his whole move-set is different from the base game one, i guess they just wanted to find something to complain about.

At this point Kai must be some sort of masoquits like come on bro.

I'm genuinely a good explorer when it comes to from soft games but the place they Ansbach in for his second step is really easy to miss honestly, its a side path that I thought led back to where I was before

Yeah I got lucky finding him, but that was honsetly the only real headscratcher part of his quest, the rest was pretty easy.

Mohg needs his dignity back!

​@@shadixytjust read the player messages

He says they're doing something with Mohg and Radahn. You don't know when or how there'll be a payoff, so it's still a surprise when it happens.

Same as Mohg's fight 😅

@@randommortal3383fun fact if u didn’t know this, this radahn is actually mohg, mohg dies and so has radahn, and miquella actually put radahns soul into mohgs body and now we he have prime radahn again, that’s why u get to see radahn using the blood and fire as mohg had in his fight lol

@@xeqly he even has little omen horns on his armor.

@@randommortal3383 I don't think its on his armor, but actually on his body, since his physical is mohg's.

​@@xeqlythat was my first thought, but i don't get why he became bigger. Mogh was mush shorter then this Radahn

This actually makes sense it makes all the pieces of the story click together

Godwyn might be in another dlc if they make another one

He did not refuse to honor his promise, he never promised to become his consort to begin with.

@@dgrant3062 godwyn was killed by destined death and the first demi-god to be killed his soul can't come back plus this is the last dlc

It makes sense if you look at Miquella like Griffith

Took Kai 200+ lawl

You're banned. Mods ban him!

Since Caseoh is a multiversal threat, this means Radahn isn't just doing it for our universe, but for all of them. A true hero.

@@TheStraightestWhitest Mad Respect for the Goat!

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Wdym? Enlighten me

⁠​⁠@@FlakingboiMiquella charmed mohg to rid of his physical body for his dynasty, not realizing that It was so Miquella could take Rahdan’s soul and put it into Mohg’s. That’s why Ansbach is a summon at the end if you keep him alive, it’s a battle to kill Rahdan for good and kill Mohg’s body. We see that this is a possibility for demigods due to Godwyn and Ranni’s new forms. Seems this is something only they can do.

people are like "lore in shambles". Have they all forgotten the lore where Queen Marika removed the Rune of Death from the Elden Ring and therefore traditional death doesn't exist under the Erdtree's rule anymore?

@@Flakingboi Sir Ansbach was working under Mohg. He was looking for a reason why Miquella was taking Mohg’s body. Turns out he was using the body as a vessel to revive Radahn

@@DatAsianGuy Very true, although it seems only demi gods can separate soul and body. This ends up being a continuous cycle in elden ring😭

And mohg lol… cause that’s his body

@@lukeyost7566 plus the Miquella arm I guess

We all didn't think that because I think we all thought that just had to do with radahn holding back the stars, thus holding back peoples fate or whatever.

21 hour just to cut off a third of his HP. This dude has the firmest scull in the world to beat a wall with his head for so long, this is nuts.

​@@Sargatas some players just suck

​@@Sargataswell, it actually took me 10 hours to beat him using rolls only so i can't blame him to much XD

@@user-ic1zj6ve6x I spent 8 hours in total on him: 5,5 with a big sword only, I almost killed him in an hour, but screwed up in the end and couldn't reach the same result again. The next day I took a parry and killed him in 2,5 hours (I had to learn it from scratch because I never used parry in these games besides Gwin). I couln't handle him without parries... But 21 hours on the first phase, bro...second phase is 3x stronger, his ass is getting fried there🤕

He's probably relieved that the same guy who put him down from scarlet rot is also here to put him down from being forced into being some weird twink's husband. Radahn just wants his forever-nap.

Does stopping the stars hold back Miquella’s fate?

@@kolbra4170the Carian Royal Family fates were tied to the stars, that Rennala Relanna Ranni Rykhard and Radhan. The lore of Radhan holeing back the stars was to protect Sellia, town of Sorcery from being destroyed, it is where he learned his gravity magic to be able to ride his horse and eventually used the same gravity magic to hold back the stars, to avert a meteor from destroying Sellia. By holding the stars back he inadvertently halted Ranni’s fate, but by extension his fate as well, was it really protecting Sellia his only reason to hold back the stars, or did he actually know by holding the stars he’d be holding back his and his family’s fates as well? Now that is the speculation territory.

Mohg was never mohglester445, he was indeed mohglested though. My boy did nothing wrong! Miquella charmed him and controlled his actions! 😭

This is my theory as well. Hard to believe he was willing when Malenia had to destroy the entirety of Caelid just to set things in motion. The description on his new armor set could be taken as threatening, after all. Makes me wonder if the festival was just a front by Miquella to finally put him down so his soul could finally be claimed, all the while working with charmed Mohg to get himself to the gate so he could at least be ready. I like how St. Trina straight up tells us to stop him as well, although out of love for Miquella of course, but still. Hard to be a decent ruler if you've shed that portion of yourself, I should think.

Mind control is not how Miquella works. He compels affection. He's not puppeteering anyone. What he does is compel love for him to the point they want to help him or serve him. That's much more powerful than just simple mind fucking.

😂 did most people even know about that?

Right they definitely told us. And yet the amount of claims of bad writing is crazy.

@@theprisonerofthegoldenhead4030 Synthetic Man can't stop crying about bad writing for example. His entire chat is braindead too.

Just becuase they said it in a side quest, doesn’t make it good writing. Turning radahn, from the coolest, most powerful demigod, into a gay servant, of a child femboy is not good writing. Not to mention miquella is his half brother. Whoever wrote the story needs to have their hard drive checked.

​@@HahahMamamanGeorge RR Martin, co-wroted this. And yes its psiquo, but in the ancient times the royal families married whithin themselfs to maintain the power. And they are writhing about a medieval society, is stupid of yourself implaying because of that, that they need to be investigated

I was gonna say ... so nobody talked to Ansbach and got the Secret Rite Scroll, apparently lol

I did all of the quests but I still missed it

I didn't talk with every Npc, but I did manage to give the scroll to Ansbach. Even if I would miss it the final boss would still be my favorit souls boss.

Now that i fought him, yeah i didnt wanna see prime radahn Hes beating my ass rn.

​@@pakee2352 lmaooo feels. He's quite that guy.

debatable whether he's full power considering he isn't in his own body, he's using mohg's

​@@lebron73 Hes in His Prime If anything Hes stronger than His Former Prime

People didn't do his quest, I guess

@@1wayroad935 yeah that's true I guess, but it's a really neat bit of lore that I didn't do justice

Miquella the 'kind' is just like his mother.

Book nerd over here

some people really be jumping from boss to boss without exploration and interaction with npcs smh

​@@Mugetsu2021bro speed ran th game😂

Where did you find this?

@@deno2397the npc that is subordinate of mogh literally told the player just before we fight Radahn and again when he is summoned to fight Radahn

I mean even if he was the first option, it confirms that Godwyn is perma-dead soul-wise

When I replayed the dlc again (I needed a different build to take on him and I had save data backup) I ended up doing side quests this time and yeah the game outright tells you it’d be radahn if you did the ansbach quest

​​@@luciferthemasterblade739 yeah but maybe people like me did not now the order of things and that lighting the shadowtree would be a no return point for many npcs

Kinda wish she didn’t tbh

@@Xmannn001don’t wanna be that guy but miquella is a boy

@@kianamelen8626😭😭😂😂

​@@kianamelen8626 Miquella is now a God. Pretty sure "he" is also a "she". Like his mother/father. You think two men will make children? Dream on.

@dadevi he left his female side under ground (St trina). So yes, this form of Miquella, strictly speaking, is male.

Hopefully this prime radahan doesn't get butchered like the base game 😂

@@kkio8258base game Radahn had his shit hitboxes fixed and that’s it. He’s the same fight but without the hitbox jank…

Facts, he said "Y'all can figure out how this works with the lore, I just want Prime Radahn..."

Lol complained about not fighting a prime lorian or a prime artorias in dark souls, this introduction was gold. 😂

@@soulsenthusiasts1015 They also massively nerfed his damage and aggression. You can literally just check the ini files while fighting him if you're on PC and have it on disk. Revert it back to 1.01, and then compare it to the latest patch. His aggression value was equal to the DLC bosses currently, higher than Maliketh, higher even than second phase Malenia. It's currently lower than Godrick's. And the damage of his meteors, the ones he summons in the second phase, you should check those out too. At 40 vigor in NG, they one shot me on 1.01. But on the current patch, I can survive all four of them. And his weapon damage is about the same. His overhead slam brings the same character down to 10% HP from 100% at 1.01. But on the current patch, it takes away around 45%. People saying it was just the hitboxes haven't tested it themselves. BjornTheBear did a video of pre nerf Radahn against all bosses. He could literally compete with endgame bosses. Made it razor close with Godfrey, beat Radagon. With the right RNG he can beat Rykard and Elden Beast. Meanwhile current patch Radahn barely beats Morgott, and only because of his meteor phase transition being a crutch since it wasn't nerfed. But he loses to everything after that because his aggression has been nerfed so badly that all bosses melt him before he even phase transitions due to taking ten seconds in between reaching 50% health, enhancing his blades, going for the mandatory overhead slam, and then finally jumping up. He's almost always dead before he gets to do it. Radahn was nerfed into the ground. Even his hitboxes weren't "fixed", just nerfed. You can now stand at his legs and never get hit. What a waste of a beautiful boss. I'm glad the DLC redeemed him.

Dude I was thinking the same thing. If players took any time at all the explore and talk to all npcs this “reveal” would have been known to you once you give the latter from Ansbach to Freyja and she explicitly states “Oh Miquella is reviving Radahn. I’m all for it”

As I said in another comment, this information was seriously feed to you on a silver platter but these streamers just mash buttons past dialog and wanna rush the the finish as if they are all in a race to claim first, really fucking weird if ya ask me 🤷‍♂️

@@lionheartnick664 Yup, I had a blast figuring stuff out and using the telescope to see and mark things in the distance to remember to come back. There’s a sense of accomplishment for it

@@Halo0115 totally agree, I've read so much item description tryna gain knowledge on the lore of the area because I wanted to gather as much info as I could on my first playthrough, finding out so much info from the items excited me so much to keep finding more and learning even more of the lore behind the land of shadows and its inhabitants, idk what it is about others that just wanna rush rush rush, mash mash mash just to get the end and look dumbfounded at things that were seriously staring then right in the face lmfaoo

The red aura was because Radahn was enraged, but then his wounds was cured by Miquella that's why the gold e aura, it may have been interesting to see what would happen if Miquella didn't helped him.

Radahn never made that promise tho that was only miquella who wanted him to be his consort. Radahn conquered the stars to stop miquellas fate from happening.

How??

@@simowiess4871 too much explanation, when lore videos about the dlc start coming out watch them and you'll learn, the short of it is that he was under Miquella's charm spell and all this time he was not acting on his own free will

@@antoniohristov8729 ah thanks bro 👍

@@simowiess4871 miquellas too cute to resist

Biggest plot twist of the year frfr

I think you meant screaming and not... uuuhhh

@@lanilnt2120 I said what I said

Have you ever read berserk?

@riul07king7 Aggy's just a lil guy. His last two braincells are dedicated to Parky and Margit parry timings respectively.

honestly, everything in this dlc points towards this end, even if you miss those. literally every boss, if not some random sidestory oriented one, points towards radahn. dancing LION, fat animal riding gravity user, messmer himself (hair, family relations,...). i expected the endboss to be miquella, but wasnt surprised to meet radahn at least somewhere

Make sure to wash behind your ears

@@dasilent15 What does that mean? English is not my native language btw

it took him 200deaths just to get the cinematic which isn't even half hp, this guy is pretty bad ngl

Miquella: oh and also here like 20 orbital lasers

Also gonna give you light speed attacks and clones because why not. Man, I wish we could be Miquella's consort if that's what he brings to the table 😂

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Nah dude, nah.

Turned out miquella wasn't so kind in the end

But how is radahn a live we killed him in one epic battle, and mogh had an completely different law in the main game …

One _slight_ addendum to your statement: We aren't Ranni's consort as in champion, though we are her champion and she values our skills, we are actually her consort as in married. Lorewise, to become Elden Lord you have to be married to the current God. Plus, you put an oath ring on her finger, and she gives you the Darkmoon Blade. A blade which is *only* given to marriage partners as per Carian tradition. Rennala gave one to Radagon, Ranni gives one to us. Also if you head to her chair after her ending she calls you her "Dear Consort Eternal." "Dear" being a very common endearing term for one's spouse. After Ranni's ending we are no longer Maidenless, we are Maidenful.

i’m still so confused, so Miquella is Radahns brother? as well as being Malenias brother? are they all related? 😭😭

@@simonglaser4862 it’s not actually Radahn it’s Radahns souls in Mohgs body

@@lewism2725 yes all the demig gods / empyreans are related either by being sons Dan’s daughters from Marika/Rad or Rad/Renalla or Marika/we don’t know yet I don’t know who Messemers father is to be honest

You infact do not want to get in-between that you will die

This ain’t his prime his prime better

​@@ABLAZEEXPO this is his new Prime His Prime was against Base malenia where He stalemated Base malenia and than got Hit by the bloom now its Prime radahn with much more Powers (mohg and miquella)

For real 20 hours just to get to his second phase for the first time is insane.

Personally I don’t mind a femboy twink being obsessed over me

He just wants to go back to feeding oats to Leonard in the afterlife.

Feel you. Malenia with no spirit ashes took me like an 1 1/2 hours~, and I felt like I was getting progressively better at her fight (even evade her waterfowl step), but 2nd phase radahn idk even hours later. His first phase is cake (even with parrying). Feel like I could parry his 2nd phase, but that's easier said then done, with how relentless he is....though been seeing the shield cheese...might have to at this point

@@CUBSfan7364exactly and you can take advantage of Malenias low poise and could interrupt her attacks. Not a whole lot you can do against Radahn besides dodge every attack perfectly which is way harder than it sounds 😂

I thought the same when I saw this second phase lol

Loooots of recycled content from DS that I noticed. Mostly from DS3, but even the whole palace where Radahn and Miquella are at look and sound a lot like Anor Londo. Rellana is literally a remixed version of the Dancer. Gaius and his dumbass boar fight almost exactly like Vordt but without any frost damage. Miquella looks, sounds, and acts just like Lothric while Radahn plays the role of the silent, mindless bodyguard; like Lorian. Kinda wish they could’ve had a bit more original ideas, but I wasn’t *too* disappointed. Still a cool ass DLC.

@UceyJuceyJey exactly what i felt. this dlc feels like a tribute to ds3 literally every time i pay attention to things it reminds me of it

@@UceyJuceyJey Just because Rellana got two elemental swords, doesn't mean she's a "remixed version" of Dancer.

@@UceyJuceyJey Rellana would've been pontiff the fuck you smoking?

Also love how no one acknowledges the Omen Horns on his arms as a Nod to being Mohgs body and all.

@@drc9374also Miquella is shown to have 4 arms, like Ranni…ALSO, if you die to his grab attack you get the “let us go together” emote…THATS WHAT RANNI SAYS AT THE AGE OF STARS ENDING…MIQUELLA=RANNI?!????!!

@Salvador-312 I think it's more a nod to the fact that Godhood is no good. Ranni isn't a good person (caused Deathblight, the death of Godwyn, is tied to a weird moon entity, planned to have Rykard kill Maliketh if the night of black knives went sideways (because she doesn't trust Radahn who was taught by an alabaster lord who's from space and probably told him some truth about the outer gods, gods and the stars and on the whole is very "the ends justify the means". Also he's missing an arm because he left one behind at one of the crosses.

​@@Salvador-312what the fuck are you smoking

@@Salvador-312 NANI?!?!

He uses moves from Godfrey, Mohg, and even some similar to Radagon/Elden beast.

His biggest inspiration was Godfrey after all.

Given his hairstyle, how some parts of his armour look, and the fact that he has a sprit on his back, Radahn is pretty much a de-aged Godfrey from a purely aesthetic point of view

Nah. All of his powers come from Miquella, especially in the second phase. The fight in the first phase is purely him, and that fight is boring as hell compared to Malenia.

@@shreksmeatballs9435doesn’t all of malenias powers come from the rot? I haven’t played Elden ring or know much about it but it looks super cool

Tbf Malenia was injured too

I'd been theorizing ever since Shadows of the Erdtree was announced that Mohg's body vanishing (notably he was the only demigod that left neither a body or some other change to the world (Radahn causing the meteor strike, Malenia leaving the flowers)) meant that he might still be alive and would return for another fight in the DLC. I felt like the biggest bit of evidence was that the Mohg the Omen illusion fight in the sewers didn't vanish after killing Mohg the Lord of Blood whilst both of the Margit illusions vanish if you kill Morgott looks like I was half right... at least we're fighting Mohg's body but yeah, people's reactions of confusion to seeing Radahn here made it quite clear that they had certainly not been doing Ansbach's questline

Doesn't even require all npc or all quest, just the quest of Freyja and Ansbach in library

​@@premexu2852Yep

yeah and the whole entire lore of the game makes complete sense after this, like everything clicked - the shattering, the great rune war, everything clicks after this

@@frostkanalas People saying it's just creating more questions are braindead. Literally all of it makes sense now. Why Malenia fought Radahn, why Mohg kidnapped Miquella, what Miquella's plans were. Hour long lore videos speculating about it, and they just give it to us. And then it's still not good enough 😂 I'm so done with people. Gaming isn't dead. People's brains are. Sure most games are trash nowadays, but people have become so bitter, so content to hate, that the good is just thrown in with the bad and shit on.

@@TheStraightestWhitest yeah like miquella charmed malenia and mogh, mogh got charmed to kidnap miquella so he can put miquella in that cocoon to leave his mortal body and then eventually use mogh's body to put radahns soul into it so he can ascend to godhood but at first Radahn refused to accept miquella and thats why malenia was sent to Radahn and even though they stalemated, malenia wouldnt have nuked him if not for miquella charm - like the whole entire wars and everythign makes perfect sense now

@@frostkanalas Exactly.

Me: Radahn, blink twice if you're in danger Radahn: 👀 - 👀 -

​@@discipleofdagon8195Radahn I know you can't talk, but growl at me if he doesn't let you choose dinner 🐺

It was Mohg's corpse, not Radahn

Stole both Mohg's and Radahn's corpse. Phase 1 he's just kind of a lifeless puppet but when you see the red aura come out it's Radahn re-awakening only to get enthralled by the master manipulator Miquella. What we fight in truth is a puppet with Radahn's soul in Mohg's corpse that's why you see the omen horns all over his body in the cutscenes and also if you do the Ansbach questline and summon him in for the fight he mentions "General Radahn. A pleasure to see you, after all this time. But those remains do not belong to you. Lord Mohg will have his dignity." . In the end Miquella is the biggest villain we've ever seen and it's all because he doesn't even need to fight!

30h in into 50h in LMAO bro took 20h to only get to phase 2

And spending over 20 hours 😆

21 Hrs as well lol

Omg lol 😂😂

Thank god we didn't or malenia would be torture. Imagine how fucked up it would be if we had to fight prime malenia and rafahn side by side like orstein and smough

​​@@galaxyvulture6649dude we already fought prime melenia lol. It was her scarlet god form where she was in her strongest form

@@galaxyvulture6649 We already fought prime Malenia

@@PlanckSkill Well I was wrong then. Also the second part of my comment mentioned fighting radahn and malenia at the same time. That would go crazy.

@@galaxyvulture6649 true but no thanks haha. Imagine radahn in the distance with his bow and melania in front of your face with her unending attacks

That's what had me over here rolling lol, he didn't get nowhere after 200 deaths 😂

For real 389 to 565 😂😂

look at the hour difference too, 31 to 52 xD

20...TWENTY fucking hours holy lmao.

he stopped after a few attemots and fought a bunch of side bosses instead, thats why it took so long and why there's so many deaths lol

Indeed, unfortunate that the fight itself is bullshit

Bro took a little less time than me to reach the second phase as I took to beat the whole boss🤣😭

hes still fighting him 💀

@@mapleleaf4058 bro...this is sad😬 How many time has past?

and is now close 1k deaths

But why radahn of all people?

@@user-qz6xf4uo1v according to what little lore I have at the moment radahn was always miquellas consort but the battle between malenia and radahn was due to miquella manipulating them combined with mohg yoinking miquella essentially if miquella is marikas replacement then radahn is basically in Godfrey’s role

@@user-qz6xf4uo1v he's strong

@@user-qz6xf4uo1vMiquella wanted Radahn to be his consort but Radahn declined, so when Mohg and Radahn both died, Miquella took Mohgs Body and shaped it into Radahn now that he had the chance to make him his consort. The slash he does with the bloodflame is proof of this

@@360logan yeah basically what you said

Also very fitting how Radahn idolized to other consorts in the game, being Godfrey and Radagon, and ended up being one himself in the end

@@TheArtistDT plus, Radahn is using Mogh’s body…which means Bleed weapons and magic dose double the damage to him

justice for my boy Mohg! He was framed!!!

@@DatAsianGuy The mohglester was mohglested :(

We all thought that he was gay, a pedophile, but it turns out he was framed. Now I feel sorry for him :(

Mohg beat the allegations

Same soul, different body

Same soul, different bodies. But even so, it doesn't come close to the original Radahn prime

​@@Follower_of_Havelprett much I said consort radahn is what prime radahn in lore could be he basically the strongest and very kind demigod poor radahn has to shit that he doesn't wanted

It's either Prime Radahn or an even more powerful version. We also don't know if Radahn is being brainwashed or mind controlled, or is simply honoring the part of a vow he made with Miquella. I suspect that it's a vow that Radahn never thought Miquella would be able to keep, or at least it's an agreement between them that Radahn isn't totally happy with, since he says nothing.

@@bbluva20 I only assume the former as at least according to what we know about Radahn, while he shares the same goal as Miquella, he prefers a different method. Halting the stars does two things, it prevents the influence of Outer Gods _outside_ the Lands Between, and protects the Carian royal family from their fate as it is guided by the stars. But conquering the stars was only a temporary measure. If he had plotted with Miquella to become God and Consort without the need of the Elden Ring, he never would’ve attacked Leyndell or needed his Great Rune. If he possessed a Great Rune and attacked Leyndell, his goal would’ve been the Erdtree. Miquella’s goal is become a god without either the Elden Ring OR the Erdtree. While he might have sympathized with Miquella’s goal for an Age of Compassion which drove away the Outer Gods permanently, and believed his wish innocent and just. He never would’ve fought Malenia or Morgott if he didn’t agree with Miquella’s plan. Radahn vs Malenia is either something instigated by Miquella or spearheaded by Malenia alone out of envy, as Radahn was already in his prime, so inflicting him with the Scarlet Rot would go against Miquella’s desire as he would have needed Radahn at his strongest to combat the Outer Gods, which again, he managed to accomplish as he was. The only way Miquella could “obtain” Radahn and make him strong enough to still inact his plan close to his prime was to fuse his soul with the corpse of the recently deceased Mohg. Only in the process of the creation of this new incarnation can Miquella achieve both obtaining Radahn who rejected him, and fulfill the secret rite. What really cements this argument is Malenia fight with Radahn and unleashing the Scarlet Aeonia. Even if Radahn initially agreed to Miquella’s plan, part of the rite of ascension in the divine gateway was “the *soul* of the chosen lord”, meaning Miquella would’ve had to have killed Radahn. So Malenia’s fight, which occurred before Miquella traveled to the Realm of Shadows where he discovered the Secret Rite Scroll, must imply that Radahn resisted Miquella’s plan. He couldn’t have gone to the Realm of Shadows and then ordered Malenia to kill him for his soul, as he could only travel to the Realm of Shadows once he was taken by Mohg, which occurred during the Battle of Aeonia, as Malenia returns to the Haligtree now an empty husk. If Miquella’s staged kidnapping DID happen before Malenia’s march to Caelid, and Malenia believed Radahn had taken him and marched to Caelid to “take him back”, that would mean that by some method, Miquella would have to have been “kidnapped” by Mohg and Ansbach while under the security of Malenia and the Cleanrot Knights. Which would’ve been highly unlikely, and even if they did manage that, Malenia would have to have completely jumped to conclusions and believe Radahn and the Redmanes of all people would have kidnapped Miquella. Which is less unlikely. TL;DR Miquella’s ascension to godhood required Radahn’s death and a vessel according to the Secret Rite Scroll, a fact he would only learn once he reached the Realm of Shadows. The fact that Radahn fights Malenia would imply resistance to Miquella’s plan, as even if he wanted to “die honorably” he resists the Scarlet Rot, and definitely would not have approved betraying everyone, Ohga, Jerren, etc., by letting Malenia unleash the Scarlet Aeonia and destroying Caelid; as even in his insanity, he doesn’t betray Leonard. So he does not approve of Miquella’s plan and even resists it by trying to fight Malenia, whom he granted an honorable duel as she was conflicted abandoning the Unalloyed Gold Needle and embracing the rot to defeat Radahn. As the needle was originally in her arm, and we see her adjusting her prosthetic before their duel which was probably when she resolved herself and broke the needle. And Miquella is able to fulfill his wish without Radahn’s consent by putting his soul in the only usable demigod body that has also been corrupted by his charm, trapping Radahn’s soul in a charmed body. (This part is pure speculation) It’s only during our fight with Radahn do we see a bit of his true personality and rage leak out as the red aura around him is immediately drowned out by Miquella’s golden aura as he intervenes with duel to control Radahn directly, which is supported by the fact that during his grab attack he brings you to Miquella, instead of fighting you directly in your duel, as if ordered by Miquella to do so. Radahn is Miquella’s trump card, but with Leda and the others, he is now his ONLY card, and his enemy is the one person who can actually be a threat to him and defeat Radahn.

Radahn needed to die. It is obvious only the dead can travel to the Land of Shadow after it got disconnected. Miquella "divested himself of his flesh", Mogh and Radahn both had to die for their body and soul to be brought over and everyone else in there is either native to the place or a Tarnished, and going by the opening cinematic, the tarnished are all dead, reviced by Marika's Grace

It would be very interesting to fight that enraged form of Radahn in the cutscene before Miquella intervenes and heals him.

If you like to fight the same dude again and again and again, come on get a life not nobody wants to fight the same shit, it makes 0 sense why we need to fight him again 😂

@@simonglaser4862 the fight is completely different. If you have fought him and beat him you would know that. Theres a few moves that are similar but ramped up and added apon but 90% of his moveset if not more is completely new and unique. So your point has no merit at all. Also the lore makes perfect sense if you follow it, Miquella compelled Malenia to fight Radahn and kill him ( as shown in his armors lore) in order to free his soul. He compelled Mohg to kidnap him in order to access the Shadow Realm and used Mohgs body as a vessel to bring a mindless prime Radahn back to serve as his Consort. Same way Marika needed Godfrey as a consort ans the same way Ranni needed us as a consort. If it makes no sense to you then thats on you either no paying attention to npc dialouge or your just a bit slow.

​@@simonglaser4862 bro didn't understand shit from the story

@@simonglaser4862 it makes perfect sense why we fight “Radhan”, if only you payed attention to the Npc’s as stated literally in the first comment. Absolute id!ot😂

matter of fact no, i did not. i don't give a shit about the miscellaneous npc quests bruh i just wanna play the game and get the lore as it goes with bosses.

You have to do the Ansbach quest to understand, some just haven't finished it

yeah the ansbach and freya quest in the shadowcastle makes it very very clear what is going on in the tower.

The only time anything is said about it is during Freyja and Asnbachs quest which are missable, for a while it lead on that it was going to be Mohg

@@Loretic42069 dawg the only other rune bearer you had to kill to get into the dlc was Radahn, and while the quest is missable they’re literally always exactly where you’re going so if you miss it that’s on you

nah, it was predictable if youre familiar enough w berserk. Miquella is straight up on some anti christ manipulation in this dlc, griffith is the same way in berserk, being the embodiment of that archetype(?) perfectly id argue. What wasnt predictable was that radahn being chosen to be his consort by...? Who knows, doesnt seem like radahn wanted anything to do w it tho

@@mfspectacular I mean Radahn being the consort makes sense. He was the strongest Demi God. Also, he isn’t an empyrean and wasn’t already taken by another outer god like Malenia. Who else would be the consort? Not Godwyn as he is taken by another god already.

@@mfspectacular if you just watched the DLC trailers and started playing on the release without knowing nothing, you're not walking around the game predicting everything, it doesn't have to deal with knowing berserk or not, that's something people came up with after seeing the final boss fight, before that a bunch of people believed that Messmer or even Godwyn ( that was impossible ) would appear. It was very well written and done, and everything on the beginning of the DLC led us to believe we would help Miquella until we are not. 10/10 boss fight. Miquella probably just chose Radahn because he was the strongest of the demi gods, he looked up to Godfrey, he could control even the starts and put an pause on Ranni's fate, dude was not know as the mightiest demi god for no reason. 10/10 boss fight.

@@poseidon3342 youre not following me. The only unpredictable thing im talking about is literally just radahn as the final boss, which i dont mind. He's meant to mirror godfrey- literally a godfrey stan, who also appears outta nowhere at the end. If anything im bummed he didnt drop the swords & go hand to hand 😂 Miquella has always mirrored griffith tho. Even before the dlc the bits of lore available made it clear he had anti christ levels of manipulation- just like griffith. the dlc just solidlifies that w the scale both share, theyre literal gods in their series. Also like griffith, he doesnt take no for an answer- evident in how he had to use mogh & basically soul trap radahn in his body. Radahn's refusal go join miquella & the shattering is 1for1 a parrelel to guts leaving the hawks & the eclipse- the absolute hellscape that followed. Either way idk why youd think we'd actually help miquella. The only concrete thing w our tarnished is, as hewg put it; to slay the demigods & their god. The only ones we dont are godwyn, ranni & melina. All technically dead, or atleast no body w melina. Just talking the dlc for a sec, i fw the pace of it both gameplay & story wise. Messmer is basically maliketh & melina rolled into 1, & w the latter it's fitting as theyre siblings. He's been abandoned & betrayed, yet he's also keeping something stowed away only his death can release. Gameplay wise, it's the final boss rush for the base game w fire giant (&melina's kindling) & mailketh, the npc fight, godfrey, & then radagon/marika. The dlc matches that w messer acting as the beginning of the last act I didnt mean to go off on an essay man, im sorry if this was a long read. Idc if it's too early, this is a 10/10 dlc imo. Tied up alot of loose ends from the base game, while leaving enough in the air to still ponder as you replay it all

@@MtS1900 godwyn being taken by an outer god? Did i miss something? He was murdered & both how he was killed & buried had unforseen consequences

Took you 8 hours? Lol

@@ShamirBRO what?

​​@@ShamirBRO "ToOK you 8 hOuRs??" Stfu idiot. Acting like there aren't streamers who took even longer.

​@@SomeRandom296dudes being a troll

@@SomeRandom296 fucker prob used summons and some cheese ass crusher shit

It's Miquella that making him stronger so not really is peak

​@@genjigirac7553It's both, Radahn can stop the stars in the sky, Miquella is basically spamming light beams when he attacks

@@genjigirac7553 well Radahn here isnt some big dumb brute flailing, this is Radahn without rot brain, the fighting style is different hence he is fresh and peeeeeaaaak

@@jctasen1793it would explain why he does lions claw in this non-rot infested version of Radhan. He has more cognitive abilities and functioning. Even if the first phase is a mixture of lingering pieces of Mohgs soul and Radhan taking control over Moghs desecrated body.

@@jctasen1793 yeah, my point was : Phase 1 : Peak Radahn Phasze 2 : Peak Radahn with Miquella

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And still we are not fighting him at his peak when he defeated the stars and became Starscourge Radahn. We are fighting the younger version Miquella fell in love with

​@@DrTolisLmfao, the fact Radahn is Miquella's half brother from Radagon's side, and he just wants him to be his husband, game is game, bussy bandit radahn

Yeah this is easly the hardest fight From did, atleast for me, Radahn from dlc makes Malenia look like a joke

Except that Gael is an actual fun and fair boss unlike radahn.

@@koayuoofair? Fromsoftware have never been fair. These games are literally tailored for you to lose countless times in unfair situations until you build your skill and muscle memory to beat the game lol. This was an amazing fight regardless of difficulty and fairness.

@@EnterrUserrthere’s nothing “unfair” about fromsoft games lmfao. the whole reason they’re fun is because they’re super difficult but every boss has the ability to be learned and completed hitless. very difficult yet fair at the same time, but this boss goes against that logic because one of his sword combos is legitimately a frame trap that can’t be avoided with just rolling, like, let’s say, every single other attack in the game

@@EnterrUserr lmao I remember a time when people called FromSoft games “hard but fair,” now we have you here saying FromSoft games have never been fair. You can’t make this shit up

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