The Curse of House Marais | Elden Ring DLC Lore 

I was trying to figure out what the heck flashed across my screen lol. I kept rewinding and trying to pause on it. Glad you did it right.

@@aarondonnelly2344 "get load of this simp" ... is what it says. No way you were catching that on pause, it's a single frame. You can use the period button to move frame by frame on YT btw.

@@u-mos8820gentlemen and a scholar.

@@u-mos8820I did the same thing haha

Took me 5+ tries of pausing to get that one. Haha

He's a _" Rotussy "_ worshipper. In his defense, Malenia must have been quite hot once even if clap-clap with her might have been always dangerous.

@@LawfulBasedI think it's more like "we both have the clap, it's perfect!"

​​@@kimlee6643"i have herpes, She has some AIDs I ask for twerks and just desserts For my diseased spade! And now I sure I need no cure I just want to clap the cheeks of a diseased gurl" -Head of House Marais

​@@LawfulBased I think it's pretty much hinted that both Ranni and Malenia looked like Milicent, and were as tall as Radagon.

Bruh. That 5 finger fire pie tho

da fuq was that lol

Get a load of this simp😏

Lol saw that too

If you’re gonna put a subliminal frame in your video, you’re gonna have to be okay with how you sound at 0.25 speed 😂😂

Wait, the puppet girl? Finger maiden therolina Polite bow girl

Polite bow girl

Polite bow girl

Yeah

Probably why the fight is mandatory for the DLC.

Go play dark souls

@@DavidSmith-ul7vxI have. Even though they all were amazing in their own, nothing has been as grand and incredible as Elden Ring. I hope we get more games in the Elden Ring universe

@@ExtremetiesI truly wish I didn’t use a walkthrough when playing dark souls 3 for the first time. I didn’t use one for Elden ring and that was the best most immersive first playthrough of any game I’ve ever played. But I agree with you while dark souls has incredibly deep lore and environmental story telling, Elden ring is truly an adventure game and the best one I’ve played by far only breath of the wild comes close.

Would really recommend the recent god of wars, I feel like that’s gonna be controversial here especially because I think they’re harder (at least on higher difficulties). They have different strengths despite being kinda similar. If they could combine god of war story with the general rest of Elden Ring it’d be game over. But either way probably a solid chance you’ve already played anyway

I agree this is a generational game once every 20 years

You also see Tanith as related to Eochaid? Glad I'm not the only one. Tanith was a dancer and Eochaid was well known for being the "land of dancing blades". Wouldn't it be interesting if there was a trait of Red Hair that actually came from Eochaid? If you ask me, Patches gave one of the largest pieces of evidence for what the culture in Eochaid is like... "Daddy Ambition is head over heels for Lady Blasphemy." Rykard fell in love with Tanith and that is how he fell to "blasphemy." Tanith is one of the primary causes for the reason Rykard took to Eiglay. This is (in my honest opinion) related to the Red/Gold dichotomy that is absolutely everywhere once you see it. Red - Destruction, vitality, consumption (Dragon Communion Seal) Gold - Growth, restoration, preservation (Erdtree Seal) Red - Serpent Worship (Shadow Lands) Gold - Tree Worship (Higher Plane, where you fight the Elden Beast) The "Lands Between" is literally the land between this Red/Gold war and will shift between Red and Gold normally. Before it was time of Red through the Fell God, before that it was Gold with the rise of beasts and dragons. This is why Dragon Communion is blasphemous, "blasphemy" to the realm of Gold is the "Consumption" of power from one to another. You feed on dragon hearts to gain the their power (spells). Your eyes turn into that of a serpent's (yellow slits). It is the faith of the Serpent. Recusants are also "worship" of this as Bernahl states, "To take power and make it his own."

Definitely, the theme of cursed nobility carries through as well.

Is it just me or does the hair on the Marais mask look an AWFUL lot like Godfrey's hair

King Baldwin IV- there was never any historical evidence to support the idea that he ever wore a mask, but man he looks cool in that movie

Honestly I doubt that, it’s likely just gonna add more stuff. It will explain how Marika/the erdtree came about tho

Eiochaad is barely mentioned, and gives the impression that it’s a foreign land like the land of reeds.

10/10 show dude 🥲

Executioners swords were indeed that shape, historically.

...that's what execution swords look like traditionally... They don't have a tip because they don't need a tip. They aren't used for fighting so there's no need for a point to penetrate armor, it's also so big and heavy so that the blade fully slices through with a single swing to be more humane and not require several repeated and gruesome swings as the neck bone isn't easy to get through, it becomes fairly obvious if you ever have need to remove a deers head. Sorry bud it all checks out. If you'd like an example of why a typical sword isn't cut out for cutting off heads watch the GoT clip where Theon Greyjoy tried to behead what's his ass with a regular sword and has to swing over and over again looking like a fool.

This comment is so goddamn goofy. Guy has no idea what he’s talking about lmao

I did some research and ya'll are absolutely right. My bad, thanks for educating me.

What do you mean ? Explain 😢

@@Diabeticninja90 I've been examining various recipes, seeking patterns while puzzling over the eclipse imagery. Many of the ritual pots and perfumes seem to correlate with major events, like the Uplifting of Radagon or the Bloodboil of Hoarah Loux. Some of the depraved recipes feel like they can metaphorically reveal key events in the old legends Marais was obsessed with.

I'll go ahead and offer the version of the story as I see it: Long ago, ages before the War of the Giants, there was a wise, undying god of unalloyed gold. Ensha, the Sun King. He was warm and generous like sunlight. He had exceptional poise and vitality. But his lust was his downfall. He eventually fell for the flowery empyrean from Dominula, Miranda the man-eater, who tricked him with a poisoned kiss and ate his flesh. However, his royal remains clutched so tight that she had to sever her own arm to escape. The sun was eclipsed as the god was drained of color and became soulless, its former flame becoming black-gold. And in the gloam of the twilight, Miranda gained the Rune of Death and arose as the Godslaying Queen with her new Black Flame. The opaline tears and Morgott's recanted blood suggest the flame originally had shifting colors like a black opal before Maliketh sealed its power and likewise drained its color. The Royal Revenants are a haunting echo of this event, spitting poison and thrashing wildly, as are Miranda flowers. The old king's influence yet remains in the form of the Jars and the Turtles, including a trend for innuendos. And the Ironjar recipe suggests a part of his body was 'poached' by Marika in order to harden the Erdtree, and this depraved act manifested later as the black-gold of the Omen-horn curse, with nightmares of smirking elders. I'm not completely certain who the woman in the painting is, because it wouldn't be Miranda from this context. But I like the suggestion that the black-haired woman is Rennala's mother, being the former daughter of the Sun would explain her unique power over the Full Moon and why the Carians weren't considered royalty before her. My story might be totally off the mark in some places, but I think there's enough here to glue the intended story together.

Ever notice how the hair is strikingly similar to Godfrey's hair?

I wouldn't be surprised, From has been referencing The King in Yellow since Demon's Souls with the Old Monk and Dark Souls with Xanthous King Jeremiah. Clearly one of their favorite sources of inspiration.

@@adamblue2980 maybe the dude with the rune stabbed through his head is an inverse of that, the yellow in king😂

Not everything is cosmic horror 😷

@@dlwf11111 Good observation 👍

The head of the Marais family invented and crafted Malenias prosthetics there, which is why you can get an arm for Millicent at the castle, the guy also... Fornicated with the prosthetics cause hes just built like that.

Miquella created Malenia’s prosthesis. The same prosthetics are shown in the shaded castle. Connect the dots

@@WinterLight00 Miquella designed them, Marleigh made them. Don't be a twat if you're not going to even be fully accurate.

Well he is a noble after all

We absolutely need more lore on the great kenneth haight. We also need him to knight us, which he promised but never does. There are more elden lords than there are knights in service of the great kenneth haight

Malenia was born after house Marias

@@christopherlyndsay8611 since when?

@@mattb6616 the Marais’ fascination with Malenia was recent, only starting in this generation. “he eventually found his own personal goddess” implies Malenia wasn’t around earlier. And a spirit near the castle claims House Marais fell because of his infatuation with Malenia, which implies house Marais was around beforehand.

Well yes and no , there are a lot of revelations with each dlc but since the dlc is generally more focused, only certain stories and characters will be explored and there are a lot of story threads that won't be touched at all . Also just as much as the dlc reveals , it will also new give new questions and mysteries

There is a chance. From what we've been told explicitly we will get more lore on Marika and how she became a god. Also we'll see why Messmer was all but erased from the lore we find in game. So the lore being dumped was always there, they just never put it in the first game. I'm so stoked to see what we learn, cause there will be new info for sure

Think of approaching a fromsoft dlc as approaching a Fromsoft game. When you analyse and decipher a From game, there will of course be answers, but for the most part there is always stuff left up to interpretation (especially in the case of Dark Souls). DLCs follow this same logic. You will have more answers on the core themes and concepts (the Elden Ring, Crucible, Erdtree, Marika), but they will leave the more “unimportant” details up to interpretation possibly (Gloam Queen, glintstone, land of reeds, etc) Another thing to prepare for: They often give you confirming details on a character, but those confirming details will bring about MORE questions. E.G - expect a plot twist like Marika and Godwyn consented to his death, trying to make him the consensual King of the Dead, but ranni ruined the plan - making him an undead corpse… obviously this won’t happen, but just expect answers which reveal more questions😂

George: Made the entire backstory and lore as well as wrote 90% of the script as a whole. Miyazaki: Wrote the modern day contemporary part of the story as the player character will encounter.

That’s what I’m hoping, would be a massive missed opportunity if they didn’t. GRRMs world building is always fun to read

Zerolenny possibly?

Yeah that’s my uncle. Unfortunately he had to close his channel because he could not stop fiddle my diddle

Who? Pretty sure it’s still Rykard

@@christopherlyndsay8611 he's wearing a mask from the Marais, look closer ..he's either Ghiza before u say it's bc it's where he spawns ..look over the lit chimmey

@@christopherlyndsay8611It's my profile pic now Can't be really sure it's Rykard! Why he wud be wearing the Marais Robe and a Mask? besides looks at the mask with Beard! It's the only mask like that in the entire game Maybe he's previous lord of House Marais or their eldest

@@LecroixMystique00 that’s very interesting, imo I think it’s likely Ghiza who was the torturer in the Manor, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he originated from the Marais

The hair on the Marais mask looks almost exactly like Godfrey's hair

Nope, just chuck testa

Practically identical (tentecal) fckin white hair both of them? For sure they are related

The tale of house hoslow is told in…eh… shit I forget

I think you’re crazy but who am I.

Was not seeing the connection before, but i see now what you mean with the "naming convention". On your note, perhaps The Lands Between is a land between the land of shadow and land of... what? Reed? Light? Only Miyazaki knows.

Not crazy, just stupid

Personally I don’t think The Land of Reeds was anything but a reference to Sekiro

I never expected patches would be a simp. A thief and a bastard, yes, but a simp? Just when I thought he reached rock bottom he started digging

Lmfao pissed off because you ain’t doing it huh someone needs a bottle of milk stf

Wym? He literally put “DLC” in the thumbnail as bait.

Hey it’s that time. That’s what this wait is all about 😭😭😭 give my boy a pass

this is like me going into a library, walking up to the librarian and criticising the cover of a random ass book that I found, that I was never planning to read.

@@AaMo59MAH BOI

definitely middle earth

Definitely mickey mouse clubhouse