The Secrets of Metyr the Mother of Fingers | Elden Ring DLC Lore Explained 

Aliens. That is now my new explanation for everything in Elden Ring. Aliens

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Fighting kid named finger wasn't what I expected in the dlc

Metyr and shaman village were the main highlights of the dlc lore-wise.

There's also the scary implication that if Metyr and the Fingers were cut off from the Greater Will that everything they told Marika and us the player has been nothing but stuff they made up. All the suffering and terrible things that have happened in the Lands Between might be the end result of alien fingers thinking "Uh, yeah sure let's go with that."

Friend: whats the lore of elden ring? Me: well, ancient astronaut theorists believe...

Waltuh... Put your finger slayer blade away Waltuh...

The Nox wounding the Mother of the Fingers with the Finger Slayer Blade. Now there's a cool theory.

I like the idea that she had a difficult birth that caused the wound. Maybe it was the birth of the three fingers?

A thought that came to my mind is what if Ranni was referring to Metyr when she said "I would not be controlled by that thing." since in the DLC we now know that the Two fingers are pretty much nothing but glorified radios, Count Ymir saying that Marika and the Two Fingers were corrupt from the start also implies that Metyr was the one deciding the Empyreans during the age of the Erdtree, and she was just lying about doing the bidding of the Greater Will. Is this a Sulyvahn situation where arguably the main villain of the entire game was this random creature?

I think what Ymir was implying by saying that everything was broken from the very start is that Metyr was already broken and therefore abandoned by the Greater Will prior to the Fingers meeting Marika. Meaning the Two Fingers never spoke to the Greater Will and therefore Marika cannot claim to be doing the Greater Will's bidding. It's all part of ER's general theme of "false prophets" and how divinity is used as a tool in the service of mortal conceits

This means that the guy that sell us crab was right when he said “I think whatever it is has been broken for a long time “

I think Metyr was forced to bow to the Elden Beast. The Elden Beast remembrance is the only other description which speaks of the Greater Will sending a star and I think we're meant to connect it to that. What seems plausible to me is that the Fingers, abandoned by the Greater Will, guided Marika to use the Gate of Divinity to commune with the Greater Will. This summoned the Elden Beast, which, as the Elden Beast remembrance says, became the Elden Ring, which Marika became the vessel of. Marika, whose village is next to the Finger ruins, would be motivated to do this because her people were being oppressed by the Hornsent. I think there is a lot of circumstantial evidence which supports this view.

There was also a brief moment where Ymir was cradling a small finger creeper like a baby and said something like “Hush Yuri…soon” something like that I can’t remember exactly

Until the DLC came out, I was convinced that the finger creepers were something like magically reanimated and grafted together giant's hands. It fit so well with where we find them in the base game.

Metyr's face looks like the symbol that appears when the Godskins use their Black Flame magic..

Ymir being a glintstone sorcerer is an interesting fact. I'm pretty sure he is the one represented in the inverted statue Ranni gives us. His knowledge of the fingers coming from the study of the stars also means that other sorcerers could have similar knowledge. From the main game we know there's some overlap between Astrologers, Nox and Carian. So, my theory is that, the reason why the academy and the Carians were in opposition to the Erdtree, it's because they know the true origins of the two fingers and knew those were broken by the Nox when they hurted Metyr long ago. This also explains why Ranni refuses to be "controlled" by them. She knows the true, and she won't let those broken things guide her or define her new age. Now that I mentioned Ranni, I think there's a very cool parallel between her and Miquella, in that they both had to renounce their flesh to become gods.

Metyr's tail is spiral. Spirals are everywhere in this DLC dude.

So for a few weeks I've been putting this out there but we can see the Greater Will. When you get Ymir's High Priest hat its description reads: "The hat of Count Ymir, High Priest. The circular design at the top represents the Greater Will and its lightless abyss." We understand that Metyr used the Microcosm to communicate with the Greater Will. If you look at the center of the Microcosm (you can look at the Fleeting Microcosm spell icon as well for a stable image) you can see an Abyssal Sphere at the center. It's not just an empty space, the sphere is defined. You can see it on the staff of the Great Beyond as well. The Microcosm spell seems to be like a window into space or like a "Zoom" call. This leads me to believe the Black Moon that once hung over the Eternal Cities was likely an effigy of the Greater Will. If you look close, the Nox are ridiculously theistic. In the core game all Nox enemies have a role in their religion be they maidens (priestess) the swordstress who protect them or the male monks. If I was to go on a lore speculative walk with these thoughts I would say the pre-banished Nox attacked Metyr. Why, I'm not sure but if I were make something up I would say they felt she wasn't doing a good job or it could be a response to supporting Marika. They couldn't kill her but they wounded her, the last thing the Greater Will did in the Lands was banish the Nox underground while destroying their Black Moon effigy before being permanently cut off. (This all feeds into my post DLC understanding of Ranni's storyline and why the Black Knives turn on her and what her ending means. But I won't sidetrack any further.)

I wonder if the stringy stuff marika offered at the gate of divinity in the trailer came from metyr. The thing she pulled it from had a similarly colored flesh, and maybe thats what the fingerslayer blade was used for, to cut open metyr and pull out that stringy rune thing.

The lore of Metyr might also lend some insight as to the condition of the cursed empyreans. We know that one major goal of the Fingers and Metyr is to produce empyreans so that new vassal gods of the Greater Will can be created and the Order could spread. But more empyreans and more gods at the same time mean the GW will have to send more Elden Beasts that would inhabit said empyreans. This is where it gets interesting, the Fingers chose the empyreans and would tell Metyr that new empyreans are going to be born or are already born. Metyr would reach out to the GW in order to request for more Elden Beasts to be sent. Metyr broadcasted this message in space to the GW, but we now know GW has stopped responding, but this does not mean the message cannot be interpreted by other beings. Other Outer Gods. Malenia, Miquella, Messmer, Melina - all of them are seemingly cursed. Metyr requested GW for Elden Beasts to be sent for these empyreans, but the message only managed to reach other Outer Gods. Malenia cursed by the Outer God of Rot, Miquella by whichever God represents nascency, Messmer by the abyssal serpent, Melina something to do with the GEQ. Metyr tried to expand the Golden Order but did the opposite by attracting other Outer Gods instead. This would also explain the presence of other Outer Gods in the realm of shadow - the Formless Mother and Rot God seem to have a strong presence here.

8:30 I’d like to think it **IS** the Greater Will she feels resentment towards. Since we only discover these feelings after she dies, I liken it to Messmer. He laid a curse on Marika in his death dialogue, probably a final revelation of sorts, but up until then, he had similarly been completely loyal to her and remained in Shadow Keep even after her abandonment.

Miyazaki is the greater will.....

Fun fact: you get unique dialogue from Ymir if you blow the horn behind shadow keep first, then speak to Ymir and he'll give you the second map while explaining you did the wrong one then rest at the sight grace and make sure Ymir is outside then go down below and fight Anna and see the last horn, go back up and rest at the sight of grace (or teleport) Then speak to Jolan and tell her you killed the other knight, afterwards speak to Ymir and he will basically tell you not to be scared of the basement You can basically only get one chance to get this unique dialogue

A detail I find very interesting is that her face is a fingerprint in the same shape as the Godskin spell sign. What's the connection between Metyr and the Godskins? A related tangent: I find it interesting that there are empyreans chosen by the fingers. The purpose of an empyrean is to become a god, but why is that necessary if they already have one in Queen Marika? I suspect that Queen Marika was never meant to be an eternal deity of the Lands Between. The rise of other empyreans chosen by the fingers suggests that. The two empyreans seeking to become gods, Miquella and Ranni, both describe their reign as a thousand year voyage, as if they know they aren't meant to rule forever. Maybe the real betrayal of Queen Marika was to try and consolidate her position for eternity. Perhaps the fingers and Queen Marika were always plotting against each other. Also, empyreans are specifically chosen by the fingers, not the Outer Gods as some suggest. Ranni made a conscious choice to associate with the Dark Moon and Miquella seems to have no intrinsic Outer God affiliation at all (probably the GW). Only Malenia was cursed with the presence of an Outer God within her, but her situation is more similar to that of Messmer, and possibly Melina, as well as Mohg and Morgott to a lesser extent. Another thing I find interesting is that the Elden Ring doesn't seem necessary for godhood. Ranni's ending has little to do with it iirc and there's nothing that suggests that with Miquella. He instead seems to receive a circlet, which, interestingly, boosts Golden Order incantations.

I think the reason that Metyr was abandoned was much more simple. The Greater Will simply didn’t need her anymore. I believe that Metyr was replaced by the Elden Beast as the Greater Will’s representative in The Lands Between, and left Metyr and the fingers to fend for themselves. Basically I’m saying that the fingers have only been doing what they THOUGHT the Greater Will wanted, but in reality Metyr was just winging it giving the fingers what she believed that the Greater Will would want in this situation.

Not only is Metyr's design so alien yet organic, the theme song that plays is just *chef's kiss* SO GOOD.

I kinda felt like an idiot for never connecting the finger creepers and two fingers until encountering Metyr. I think a lot of people assumed the finger creepers were connected to Rykard due to their presence around areas connected to the Carians.

Thank you, Ziostorm! Your level- headed but enthusiastic approach to further understanding this game always enriches my day when a video drops! Like your style.

My theory is that the Greater Will never communicated anything and is just the unconscious primal force of creation in the Elden Ring-verse. Metyr was just delusionally looking for a purpose in life and Marika's thirst for revenge against the hornsent gave her a means to obtain one. I also believe the Fingerslayer Blade was used to kill a Two Finger and that this Two Finger was subsequently possessed by the Frenzied Flame to become the Three Fingers as the Frenzied Flame is incapable of creating anything and therefore has to repurpose already existing things, like it does with Shabriri and Hyetta.

Any one notice that there are three finger related locations in the DLC, two above ground and one below, also Metyr has three giant fingers, one being her head and the other two being behind her in a spiral summoning the microcosm, references to the three fingers while not being mentioned in text are present in the design and visual regarding metyr! Maybe she also birthed the three fingers but abandoned them after they sought the frenzied flame

I assumed Metyr’s resentment was primarily about becoming secondary and subservient to the Elden Beast and the new order. It seems likely that Marika’s ascension not only turned out poorly for the Hornsent, but also the Fingers. They expected a fresh start with a new god under their guidance, but were replaced by a new ‘falling star’. The fingers cling to power by claiming exclusive communication to the Greater Will, but in reality they’re almost completely superfluous beyond their lingering power to arbitrarily choose and manipulate Empyreans. I really like the idea about the Nox and Fingerslayer Blade as well, but it’s very difficult to place this chronologically and we’ll probably never know enough to confidently assume this.

Maybe the wound on the mother of fingers is from the cinematic and that’s where Marika takes the rune arc that she is seen using at the gate of divinity?

That finger weapon in the base game said to to be from an ancestor of the finger creepers is 100 merytle maybe the finger slayer blade was used to wound her at one point

The answer to why Metyr is broken and abandoned is in the Abyssal Woods: Divided Falls. There are five waterfalls, three grouped together, and then two a ways away. Lusat's vision of the primeval current was the last moments of a great star cluster, a sight which broke his mind and created Stars of Ruin- twelve shooting stars that pursue their target. The Three Fingers tell us through Hyetta that the Greater Will once made a mistake, and then came fractures, then births. Metyr's kowtow move spreads out FIVE rays, much like Radagon's signature move. All this to say: Metyr was sent to the Lands Between not as a two-finger entity, but five, a whole hand. The hand of god. But she collided with something in the journey, or perhaps was attacked by Astels, and by the time she landed, she was the broken, misshapen thing we see now, able only to birth Two Fingers, while all her attempts to recreate her original form come out as the Fingercreepers. She believes this is why she was abandoned by the Greater Will, and ultimately replaced with the Elden Beast, a five-fingered entity. What really gets me though, is the implication that there's a Mother of Three Fingers yet to be found.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned is how the Alabaster and Onyx lord swords both describe meteors that crashed on to the lands between, and the descriptions of the meteors seem very similar to both the elden beast and the mother of fingers

I think a piece of the puzzle to consider is the three fingers and how they fit into metyr. There is also how Manus Celes relates to Manus Metyr.

Maybe the wound on Metyr is from birthing the Three Fingers.

It’s interesting that the same thing happened to Dragonlord Placidusax, “once his god fled, the lord continued to await its return.” I’m with the theory that The Greater Will is either dead or fled, and that is why the Fingers and Marika’s Golden Order are doomed from the start, and that is how all these other Outer Gods are creeping into the Lands Between and even becoming a part of Marika’s own children after she exposed herself at the Divine Gate.

I think the Greater Will is outside the Universe looking in to the Lands Between and doesn't care which of its children ( Metyr, Elden Beast/Ring/Lord, Outer Gods, ect ) as long as something is in charge to establish some kind of Order. If one of its 'children' fail to take charge and set Order it finds or sends a new Candidate to take over. Started with Metyr, she failed and so Greater Will sent Elden Star with Beast. Just my theory of how the Greater Will works.

The Elden Beast and Metyr have very many similarities looks wise as well

You mentioned a wound and it reminded me that Merika pulled golden threads from a wound. I think you may have discovered what it was in that trailer.

Her boss music fading out instead of welling towards the end of the fight is such art.

I'm not saying it's aliens. But it's aliens. -Michael Zaki

I love the Metroid Prime music, it’s so appropriate for this subject

When i read that the mother of fingers was a celestial body and child to the Greater Will. I went like "hah I knew it so those creepers are aliens!". Its bloodborne all over again and not just the fingers but the Hornsent stuffing different bodies into jars to make a sait is very much like the creation of The One Reborn in Bloodborne.

" don't bite the hand that feeds. " as a lore hunter myself, I can already tell Imo, its always a tale of control and betrayal. It happened to pour dragon lord placidisax awaiting metyrs return after a near death encounter with bayle. Happened to mesmer with marikas abandonment of the lands of shadow. Once more with ranni and miqualla's schemes of control that led to the shattering. Whoever the outer god is or was, grew bored of these conquered broken lands.

What about the tree fingers? It's stated that Metyr is the mother of two fingers and finger creepers. No mention of the three fingers. Maybe three fingers is born of a defect? Or is it some sort of mimicry?

You know, something that I have been wondering about... What if Three Fingers are also children of Metyr, but born defective and mutated because of Nox assasination attempt?

I was just in siofra and notice the braziers you light up have stone coffins depicted at the top

Some more food for thought. The tubes you mentioned in metyr arena are also present in the elden beast fight.

Zio, there are items that suggest a ritual of eating finger "things" to become a finger, or even, a finger mother. That's how Ymir starts birthing his fingers. I believe it's the Finger Mimic item description that tells this

My theory is that metyr birthed the three fingers as well, and that is why the wound is there as it is larger than the two fingers, and that is also why the greater will left metyr because the three fingers and the flame of frenzy are both not accepted

Love how ranni and the nox are smoking the Greater will pack

10:21 what if the 3 fingers bursted out? abandoned by being tainted by another force

I never thought of the ties to the Finger Slaying Blade. I think it's definitely worth going deeper into!

A fantasticly weird boss, Fromsoft is sitting on a goldmine of lore to bring out in the next game. Theorys being answered like the Gloam Eyed Queen being Melina, Godwyn and his revival, The Fingers and their orgins, Ect. You are doing God's work 🙌

What I needed to know was more about Melina and the gloam eyed queen but we didn’t get anything new about her.

My theory was as you mentioned that it was the Nox that damaged her but one piece possible evidence you didn't mention is in the description of the "Ringed Finger": Bludgeon made of an enormous finger sheathed in several heavy rings. Thought to have been cut from an ancestor of the Fingercreeper. Some life yet remains in this legacy of an ancient act of blasphemy, as evidenced by the barely perceptible warmth it still exudes. Metyr's rememberance does call her the "The mother of all Two Fingers and Fingercreepers" and on top of that it is called an ancient act of blasphemy, which would be a fitting way to call the trason of the Nox. If this is a finger cut off from Metyr then it would prove that she was actually attacked and considering as you mention that the fingerslayer blade is the only weapon able to damage her makes it all fit together. One interesting note on Metyr as well is the end of the fight. I wondered to myself how it would be possible for us to even kill her but on a 2nd playthrough I realized at the end of the fight it looks like she gets sucked up into something akin to a small black hole. So it's possible she either teleports or maybe has some safety mechanism implanted by the GW when she gets into a bad situation.

Maybe Miyazaki will anounce a next dlc where we will get to explore the greater one's lands.

Great findings/breakdown per usual, yet i think that we should be open to the option that the Greater Will was never truly in coorespondance with metyr at all, and that her "faint signals" were simply interpretations of the cosmos that she viewed. The fact that she was a daughter of the Greater Will, and sent to the lands between by it, doesn't neccesarily mean this was for an elaborate purpose. She simply could have been created by the greater will just as humans were, according to Ymir, yet she would fall upon the earth in time as a comet. One thing i was really hoping the DLC would clear up is whether or not the GW has true intentions, or is more of a neutral observer post creation, but since it didnt we really have to accept both options when considering theories/timelines. It's possible the greater will never guided metyr at all, and she was never abandoned. She was alone from the start, and there was no comfort in her creator to be found besides her delusions.

What I needed to know was more about Melina and the gloam eyed queen but we didn’t get anything new about her

Metyr was unhinged from the start, but that wound on her could really be the nox's doing. Maybe they realised the finger mother was wrong and tried to put matters on to their own hands.

Another fascinating video bro, well done 😮😊

Fun(maybe?) fact: In Greek Metyr mean μήτηρ (μητέρα) which actually means mother.

Im always super invested in cosmic horror or eldrich beings like bloodborne so to see that Elden ring is kinda similar is pretty cool

So the lands between is just the center point of the universe and everyone wants to pay a visit. The moon rocks that give you magic, the finger creatures, skeleton and bull meteors, etc.

Another thing Metyr's Staff tells us is that incantations and sorcery come from the same place: the beyond. After all, it's through Glintstone with this staff that you cast both schools of magic. Makes you wonder if the magic was split on purpose and why, if that were the case.

One of the interesting things that won't ever be answered is the unused scene at the end of the first dlc trailer where Miquella raises his hand and reveals that the veil that was cast upon Land of Shadow is gone. And the fact that during the second phase transition cutscene of the final boss, according to Miquella's skeleton, Miquella is actually holding a bow when he appears from the gate of divinity.

It’s even more creepy to me that this creature may be the mother of two fingers and finger creepers, that still leaves out the three fingers.

I gotta hand it to you, this is a great video.

I wonder if metyr was broken from the start, only arriving with some vague and incomplete knowledge imparted by the greater will that could never be updated or corrected, but due to metyr's pride, she still imparted her knowledge as the gospel of the greater will, fully knowing, it wasn't or even extrapolated the little she knew for what in elden rings world seems to be at least a thousand years. Maybe elden beast was sent down as the "new version" trying to correct the mishandling of the lands between, but because the existing two fingers were the long standing definitive deity and still under the control of metyr, the best the elden beast could do is punish marika and perhaps try to regain some foothold through radagon. Also from the state that we find marika in, which somewhat ressembles how ranni looked after destroying her emporial flesh, i wonder if the elden beast in turn did a similar thing to marikas body and severed her soul from it, with her soul now somewhat permeating the lands between and the land of shadow as the guidance of grace and as the resurrective power that brought us back to life. Speculation (maybe the instigation for the shattering of the elden ring wasn't just the death of godwyn, but in part also the arrival of the elden beast. Also maybe marikas soul stepped into our body as one we are of the tarnished that was of no renown and possibly a more suitable consort)

Man, I really hate the sidestep move when fighting Metyr edit: this is a stretch, but I think that the greater will abandoning Metyr is an allegory of how Miyazaki doesn't play his own games after it's released

please pronounce it meh-tier...

i love the prime music in the background of your videos

Off topic, but I love how much the dlc feels like bloodborne and dark souls at times

The DLC didn't really answer any questions, just created 100 new ones...

I wish the DLC wasn’t so jarring, as in it starts with you just teleporting and it ends with the final boss just repeating the same shit again and again.

Since we know the Jars can create a meshed personality of sorts, I think it is possible that "Marika" is a successful saint of the shaman jars. That is the reason she became an Empyrean and was able to rise to godhood. Radagon can be a second "personality" created by the Jars who embodies order and honour. Also there are mentions of Marika betraying the Hornsent. Maybe the Saint Marika was prayed to by the hornsent and she used her status as a saint to raise an army somehow and then turned on the Hornsent for revenge. The seduction could be the Finger Mother seducing Marika the Saint to betray the Hornsent in exchange for godhood and power. Also its pretty much confirmed that Messmer is son of Radagon and MArika due to the red hair.

I'm so happy you took into account Metyr's arena and the weird tube structures in the floating water above. Such a cool looking arena

Such a good video Zio, I really like your theory about the fingerslayer blade.. that makes a whole lot of sense. I made a video about Ymir and Metyr as well but I wished I touched on Ymir’s grief. One thing to note is that his robe says that it “conceals squirming beneath”, so I think that even before we met him he has transformed himself into a new mother of fingers, but he didn’t reveal it to us until we dispatch Metyr

That single small eye reminds me of the eyes of the warm orbs you find throughout the game.

I wonder if Metyr being cut off from the greater will has anything to do with Marika veiling the land of shadow. That this act disrupted Metyr's commuication. It could explain why Radagon was called back from Renalla to wed Marika. We know the veiling was during this time period because Rellanna is in the land of shadows in support of Marika's ideology via Mesmer. This betrayal would give the greater will a reason to want to replace Marika, and we know the offspring of one god creates Empyreans. Miquella and Malenia were both born with defects, which probably made Ranni the ideal choice for succession. Ranni then orchestrated the night of the black knives, and admist the chaos Marika shattered the Elden Ring. I'm more inclined to believe the opening cinematic, that the greater will fully left after the shattering. Maybe Metyr was dicsconnected earlier though during veiling.

Elden ring story needs a sequel, can not be the end of this amazing game and story

Also, Ymir has Jolan’s possible sister Anna invade you when you go down in the third ruins. You find her body in the Rabbath’s Rise but it’s a puppet. There’s definitely a theme of Carian’s and using puppetry throughout Elden Ring with Selivus/Pidia and now Ymir. Fingers pull the strings of all puppets. Which, I’m sure also ties into the Fingers and Carians.

Marika did seal the Mother of fingers because she didn't want to be controllode by the greater will. So when the trailer talk about a betrayal it's a double betrayal: toward the serpent god ant toward the greater will.

A bit of trivia that was recently discoverd, you can use the Alter Garments function to remove the cover of Count Ymir's robe, showing its "true form" that can be seen in the boss fight, it also has a different item description, this also gives the robe the effect to boost finger sorceries

I love how there’s so many things left open in the base game that are tackled in the DLC. We got the Lord of Frenzied Flame himself, this *thing*, Marika’s past and motivations, Miquella, etc. Just feels so satisfying to me story wise

My theory is something like this: Metyr is sent to the lands between as a vassal of the greater will. Metyr creates and resides at the Gate of Divinty. Metyr bestows the Gloam Eyed Queen as her favored empyrean and the GEQ ascends to godhood. Marika seduces Metyr and convices her to abandon the GEQ. Maliketh slays the GEQ. The nox (who are numen like Marika) assemble the fingerslayer blade from the GEQ's corpse. Marika betrays and wounds Metyr with the fingerslayer blade, cutting her open and pulling out the elden ring from Metyr's chest (as seen in the DLC story trailer). The would is still visible on Metyr's body. Marika ascends to godhood through the gate of divinty. Metyr hunts the nox for their and Marika's betrayal. Marika seals them undersground to protect the nox from Metyr's wrath. Metyr descends into madness.

Every time i hear that metroid ost, i get hype as hell 🔥

Metyr really reminds me of the Masked Beast Yo-Gi-Oh card. Dope. No wonder she sealed it away in the land of shadow. Stuff of nightmares.

I thought this one was super curious too.

In addition to your theory of a lost signal, I see other 2 possibilities as to what could have transpired that led to the Greater Will's disappearence. 1. There was an event in the depth of the cosmos that needed it's full attention. There are outter gods out there, so it is not a stretch to assume that one of them attacked the Greater Will. 2. The Greater Will left after the very first Erdtree was destroyed. The seed Marika found seems to lay dormant in the Lands Between before she came, but if Matyr has indeed been abandoned by the time of her arrival, then it means that the tree Marika planted was not the first one. Maybe, the Greater Will was defeated by the Crucible or the Frenzied Flame and fled. That matter aside, isn't it interesting that the two opposing factions, the Golden order and Carian royalty, are more closely interwined than it seemed before. I don't remember this questline very well but I believe there were hints that it were the stars that brought this dude to the Greater Will, or Matyr at least. Astrologists and Ranni aspire to walk the path of stars, but it was this path that led one of them to the mess that is the Greater Will. I feel like this is a big problem for future Ranni who unknowingly fell into the same pit Miquella has thrown himself into. Now that I think about it ... the Carian manor is filled with finger crawlers to the brim. As for the sword. I think there is some merit to your theory. The betrayal of the Numen was likely them realizing how fucked up Marika's relationship with the cosmic creep has been and stabbing its proxy with a blade. And Marika's response was banishing the former and sealing the latter. Let's be grateful she didn't just go genocide mode against them as she normally doest it seems. Aaaand, that explains why Ranni was certain that the blade we brought her would help againt the Two Fingers. The Numen made it, so it's definitely good.

Abandonment in the case of the greater will is not a choice but a consequence of the shattering. Enia makes it clear that it wants a choice

I love how count Ymir always rolls his rs

Love that metroid in the background

This was a great boss battle btw. One of my favs so far

It could’ve been damaged from bringing the 3 finges after losing contact from the greater will and being “hijacked” by the frenzied flame realizing the mistake and then becoming angry. But the fingerslayer blade makes the most sense as it would actually be backed up by rannis questline and dialogue, she knows about the nox and their fingerslayer blade, and when she refers to that “thing” she referring to meytr. Or simply both could be true.

While I unfortunately didn't learn anything new from this video, this was still a pretty good recap, useful to those who payed less attention to the dialog and item descriptions.

It’s so hard to pick my favorite but this thing is bye far one of my favorites it’s just such a cool boss