The Redmanes Are Built Different - Elden Ring 

it's not out of respect, but I don't think I've killed one of them in a year. Caelid is very easy to run through and the only group of them I run past is the ones that fight the group of dogs as you approach the castle, and I always end up hanging out on that rock watching the melee and they nearly always win. These guys are just task driven, don't be their task and they don't even WANT to bother you, unlike other NPCs who are just not attacking you because they don't know you exist yet. The outcome is the same, but these guys don't feel as mindless in their constant fighting as the rest of the npc factions.

Malenia: "A little bit of leprosy never hurt anyone..."

That actually makes alot of sense, especially due to the presence of the noble sorcerers

Yes, it looks much more like a research project than a rescue relocation.

There is no hero or villain in this fight and I doubt From even intended us to take it that way. Think of GRRM's involvement too. Conflicts are not clear-cut and black and white. Radahn and Malenia fighting at all is tragic.

Personally I believe that by attacking Leyndell, Radahn was attempting to relieve pressure on Rykard's forces at the siege on volcano manor. Radahn's painting can be found in Volcano Manor which hints that Rykard views him favourably.

@@bluebird2217 I believe that when Marika shattered the Elden Ring, a lot of people gathered to attack Leyndell to get those precious golden runes that were raining upon the capital... Rykard forces. Radahn Forces, Godrick-Godefroy with their banished Knights and Trolls. They failed. Morgott Kicked their .sses.

I actually made a similar assumption in an old video i did about the confrontation, its probably somewhat outdated now but i think that really holds up as a possibility

Well, considering the "loss" in this case would mean dying to Radahn after suffering grievous injuries in ferocious mortal combat at the head of her own host, I can kind of see why Malenia's scarlet rot got out of hand. How much of a say Malenia had in the matter is debatable. It could be that she simply could no longer hold it at bay due to being so injured and about to die. As such, I doubt it was something she chose to deploy. More like something that just happened to unfold as she could no longer hold it back due to needing to put all that focus into the Radahn at hand. Ultimately, Malenia's scarlet bloom despite her efforts to hold it at bay would probably eventually have bloomed. Caelid just happened to be unfortunate enough to be where it went down. Despite only ever Radahn being able to give her trouble in battle, someone would eventually have come along and either pushed her so far, it would happen. Or just beat her like Radahn did so it would happen. No one can remain undefeated forever, after all. That or she would degrade and be eaten away by the Scarlet rot to the point of no longer being able to keep it at bay.

I was kinda half joking about the loss thing, I know she had a lot riding on that fight. But I do think she had some sort of idea about the bloom happening since her movements just prior to it were so specific. Her jumping on top of Radahn and stabbing not only him but herself too, either with the goal of poisoning him with her blood (since we see her blood run down the blade) or with the goal of triggering the bloom. But who knows what she intended, as I don't remember if anything in the game comments on her intent in that moment.

​​@@videocrowsnest5251 she stabbed herself with her sword specifically in the spot that held the unalloyed golden needle (notice that it's right where her prosthetic arm is, and Millicent puts the needle in the same spot, holding back the rot), breaking it and releasing the scarlet rot. I wouldn't characterize it as her being a sore loser about her loss record, but more that Radahn needed to be dead for Miquella's plans to advance.

It's not even entirely clear why she is fighting radahn. She defeated godrick and didn't take his rune, seems like she was just trying to conquer everything for miquella. And the game seems to hint that she intentionally broke her needle. Taking everything into account, radahn seems like mostly the neutral/good guy in the war because all he was really doing was holding back the stars from attacking the lands between.

@@MugenSaint Neutral/good with the caveat that Radahn doing this also halted the fates of many things/people. In essence, contributing to the deadlock, bad situation the Lands Between was put into. Not just the Carrian's had their fates held in stasis, and this does come with some bad implications. Because Radahn containing fate would also mean nobody who tried could do anything to improve things any, as their fate was also unmoving. Doomed to just waste away, unable to really do anything about anything. Saving Caelid from its fate only to give it an even worse fate via Scarlet rot is at least oddly ironic. Though, Radahn might have ended up doing more bad than good with this.

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Totally agree, confessor hood is also a good way to remove the jousting shield, it looks really cool with the gelmir, similar to wearing the redmane with the red hood, and as you said the blue hood with the cuckoo set. I wish more shit removed that damn mini shield tho

@@TheHonoredMadman Hello again! Excuse my tardiness..again. I haven't much to note( puppetry has indeed been used willingly by the Nox Maiden and Swordstress to serve beyond the limits of their lifespan, so you're even more correct. Also, I think the Redmanes aren't just burning the dogs for the sake of it; I think they're one of their only sources of food). Just a theory about the Redmanes' flame. " This Rune burns, to resist the encroachment of the Scarlet Rot. " Much has been said about Radahn's possible connection to the Fire Giants and the Flame Of Ruin through his father, Radagon. His growth in size is unlikely to have been a coincidence, and his Rune is imbued with fire in the same way Malenia's is with Rot, or Mohg's is with accursed blood. That still leaves the question of what that his soldiers are doing with it. The Flame Of Ruin, Fell God, among other names, seems to have been a sentient being; for instance, it trapped the Fire Giants into being it's keepers in exchange for the power to face Marika and Godfrey's armies, a Faustian bargain which, as we see with the last Fire Giant, involved them constantly sacrificing body and mind to recieve it's blessings. Only death gave them freedom. As such, one could argue in favour of the Flame Of Ruin being an Outer God in the same vein as the Scarlet Rot; a force immanent in the world, manifested in the powers of it's vessels and worshippers. This general rule is followed by the Outer Gods; Rot is " the death that begets life"; the Deathbirds were born of an envoy of an Outer God representing death in the times before the Erdtree; the Formless Mother is literally everywhere ( whenever you use her spells, you stab her). Most can agree on this. But then, you ask, how could the Redmanes be worshipping the Flame? Are they not loyal to Radahn's vision of following Godfrey's footsteps? Well, that would imply worship in the literal sense is required. As you may have guessed, it's a little more complicated than that. _ "Ekzykes, Dragon Communion Revenger, did not forget his hatred even as he succumbed to the scarlet rot." "The Land of Reeds has long been locked in a miserable civil war, during which time it has remained alienated from the cultures of its neighbors. Little wonder that the entire nation has succumbed to the blood-soaked madness. " _ This will be a very big stretch, but thankfully, it won't require a literal crossover to be believable, I think. Let's revisit Ashina for a minute. You remember the Sculptor's story; how he almost became Shura, but then was saved by Isshin. Instead, his negative karma and inability to let go of his resentment of the Interior Ministry forced him to another fate; becoming a vessel for the " Flames Of Hatred". What are they? Simple; according to the old hag in the building where you meet Isshin as the Tengu, it's exactly what it says in a tin; a force that manifests out of the mutual and abiding hatred created by war, manifesting in the form of flames. Becoming it's vessel, the Sculptor's hair turns red, and he becomes capable of harnessing fire with infinite applications. And yet, the Flames do not merely come from the events surrounding him; they come from the Sculptor's own deep-rooted hatred for those that have ruined his homeland. Apply that logic to Radahn, and the Redmanes. At first glance, the Scarlet Rot seems solely responsible for Radahn's fate, but as we see in the trailer, his Great Rune was already doing it's work. Was it not enough to cure him, or... Was it a source of his madness n and of itself? " The mad taint of their newfound strength triggered the Shattering." The Flames within Radahn and his soldiers burn for one reason, and it is not worship. It is their pure and utter hatred; their resolve and willingness to sacrifice everything to end the Rot and the one who brought it. Radahn isn't roaring emptily to the sky; he is blind with rage at the dishonorable end of his final battle, and he will not die until one gives him a fitting one.

I remember reading that somewhere as well but i couldnt find the description

​@@TheHonoredMadmanKenneth Haight talks about that. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6c5IJDT-emw.htmlsi=u1vAnO-f6LyKzYAV

I would absolutely love that

Also I don’t think Radahn killed the star creature, just held it back from crashing. If you go to the hole in Limgrave and toggle your map underground, it’s a blank area with the “undiscovered but eventually explorable area” texture. I think whatever crashed is the melting-horse-astel-boss-thing in the DLC trailer, and we have to kill it and bring some item from it to Miquella in the dynasty ruins to access the DLC, hence Radahn being a necessary fight to access it.

I personally believe she was trying to get to Mogwyn Palace as it lies directly under Caelid. She was trying to find Miquella. I love how its popular to hate on Malenia when she was just looking for brother. And it's tragic she has to fight her half-brother Radahn in order to do it.

When fighting the ravenmount assasin Yura also appears as a red phantom. I think Jerren was trying to kill Sellen using a Festering Bloody Finger, which can be used without being part of the Bloody Fingers.

Same here. It took me forever to get the leggings for aome reason but i used the same strategy. I even used the crow to kill the knight a couple times haha

@@TheHonoredMadman That's pretty cool. I usually just used the invisibility spell and then let my marrionettes spam arrows at the knight. The idea that people who do farming tips videos on how to get the set basically tells players to commit minecraft baffles me. There's a grace in walking distance, what the hell.

Ironically there is actually a DS game called Bleach: Dark Souls, but it released in 2007, was developed by Treasure, and is a 2D fighting game, so it's just a hilarious in hindsight title nowadays!

@@Solibrae I know right! One of my favourite bleach/dark souls trivia to mention to my friends

Yeah i wanna make a video covering all knights in the game but im waiting for dlc to include those new knights as well

@@TheHonoredMadman makes sense I'm sure there will be a few new knights in the dlc I wonder if messmer has any knights or followers like some of the other demigods

Auqatic ambience from donkey country and them the map music from dkc

Hyrule field night theme from twilight princess

@@TheHonoredMadman thanks for the reply! I was thinking it might be the underwater music from donkey Kong country.

Don't forget he's now a cannibal who can't speak.

In the intro or the first part? Intro is night hyrule field and first part is aquatic ambience from donkey kong country

@@TheHonoredMadman yes it was aquatic ambience, you have great taste in music and love all your vids

This is a great comment lmao