What ARE Crucible Knights in Elden Ring?  

We can certainly dream

Or Silluria's claw impale would be sick too

or ash of war

Definitely as an ash of War. Give the impale one as a high level incantation I think

now that i think about it, they probably wouldnt add it as an ash of war or incantation because imagine how spammable it would be, you are flying

Marikas reasons for banishing the tarnished including Godfrey and stripping them of grace is not because she had any sort of contempt towards them but because of a plan that she had come up with. Marika didnt think aspects of the crucible (horns, tails and wotnot) were a curse, but the golden order did and over time, the actual thing she began to hate was the Golden Order and this could be for multiple reasons. Some of which u mentioned. I personally think tht she did love Godfrey and their children but because the Golden despised aspects of the crucible and she was the poster girl for the Golden Order she had to listen to what it had to say. Anything else would be heresy. So she came up with a plan. She began by stripping the tarnished of their grace. Tarnished were all warriors of Godfrey and they were all very strong or very knowledgable and grace was the blessings that the Golden Order granted to its people but I also think its grace acts as a sort of surveillance as well. wen granted with the blessings of grace, u will also always be able to be influenced by the Golden Order and tracked to some degree as well (just a theory, but i do think this might be accurate because of dialogue Melina gives you). Once we have been divulged of grace and apart from the Golden Order, Marika apparently advised Godfrey and his soldiers (the tarnished) to go to foreign lands and become strong. That is dialogue straight from Melina. Then she advised that the tarnished will grow strong and die, aall the while the Golden Order has no idea and well seems to not even care about us either. So the tarnished get really strong and then Marika takes away the rune of death and the tarnished that got really strong come back to life for the sole purpose of destroying the Golden Order. The whole game is like a massive revenge story that spans thousands of years but in the end, we the Tarnished, succeed this shit is long, did not realise.

@@prxnce6588 you’re right except for the end of your comment. Removing the rune of death was not what brought the tarnished back. As Enia said, the rune of death was “plucked from the Golden Order upon its creation.” By the time we get to the lands between, the Golden Order is an ancient religious sect, so removing the rune of death could not be the catalyst for the Tarnished being revived

@@prxnce6588 and I read every sentence. That makes way more sense then my shit.

@@jackweaver1846 true, after reading your comment i had a little think. The opening cutscene advises that the tarnished were blessed once more and wen they were blessed again (which is the start of the game) they are revived from death. Before the game started, they were stripped of grace which meant that they would die and not be revived through the erdtree but then when the game starts, they were again blessed by grace which had them revived, kind of like a delayed (by presumably thousands of years) revival by grace. At least i think that makes sense.

@@prxnce6588 yup, that’s pretty much it. You can see a grace sprite next to all the tarnished in the intro and I believe grace appears next to the player character right before they wake up.

Imagines he have hundred of crucible knight

@@zerefdragneel5194an army is not hundreds we are talking 10s of thousands

@@HotMochaCakethere’s more than one historical example of a standing army being only hundreds strong

@@HotMochaCakefor most of history, no one *had* tens of thousands of lives to throw at people. Ancient populations never got that big, and medieval ones only rarely/much later

Godfrey is a gigachad fr

I think Tanith’s Knight is still alive someplace, he only invades us

@@Chemtrooper46 he invades you after you kill Tanith while she’s voring tf out of Rykards head after defeating him

​@Ophanim I'm not too sure, when you help Sellen defeat Jerren, he's an invader in that fight and he's permanently dead afterward. I think the same rule applies to Tanith's Crucible Knight.

@@Raskoras yeah but he’s Tarnished, an NPC. Rules should be different for the Knight

@@blu7384 yeah that’s…what I said

or maybe even that flying wings spell

*Rings bell* 2 jocked up gigachads show up

The claw and the wings

I hope the Great Tree is explored more.

it'd be far too good tho

Maliketh drips like Niagara Falls.

Mini big bosses

Cool in model and story but a pain when facing one!

@@ruKUSS_.117at least early on. Later they’re more manageable and fun.

I’ll never forget beating the Crucible Knight in Limgrave for the first time. That was the first boss that truly kicked my teeth in, taught me how to parry, and taught that nothing is unbeatable in this game.

I had trouble with all of them while playing Dex/Str but I also learnt how to play the game. With Sorcerer I just took cheap shots at them and the tree sentinels. ​@@frewtlewps1152

Magic goes pew pew! (From very far away). 💜🌟👑🌟💜

Check out Tarnished Archeology for actually good lore videos

Possibly. But I actually think its more likely that its the past and the Erdtree is being formed. Its a common theory that the Erdtree is a parasite and it took over another tree.

@@BasketCase-rr7tx That could be one of the many reasons why lore npcs hate the Erdtree, or the Golden Order in general. It was nothing but a parasite.

Could it be the Haligtree?

@@sheldonjplanktonnit’s probably the haligtree. As miquella wakes up maybe so will his rotting tree. Especially as malenia is dead now and can’t corrupt the haligtree any longer

Miquella: 👍

Those damn trees.

The "crucible" tree and the golden order tree are the same tree, Marika (or godfrey, don't remember)basically did a coup and became elden lord, rapprenting a new outer lord, as the new god, then began to persecute any other gods rappresentatives

​@@deadman900th there has bean no coup, the Outer Will has alwais been the god of the Lands Between since the Elden Ring came to be. Placidussax was the true first Elden Lord, before Farum Azula existed. For context: Farum Azula has been around for hundreds of thousands of years, it is basically the prehistory of the Lands Between, the only "humanoids" of the time where the Numen wich where alien to begin with and the Beastmen wich where gifted sapiance by Placidussax himself and his wife (the first vessel of the ER). After Placidussax's wife vanished, someone else we don't know became vessel of the ER (probably one of the Nox, since the blade we give Ranni is pretty much the same type of the one wielded by the Elden Beast, wich is made by a "punished vessel", we can assume that the ER belonged to the Nox at some point and they tried to do some shit wich didn't go well, after all they did "invoke the wrath of the Greater Will") only then came Marika. Also yes, the Great Tree and the Erdtree are the same thing, it is all just a misconception due to poor localization, in japanase there has never been a doubt about it. The Age of the Erdtree begun with Marika, wich imposed new rules that demonized the Crucible, but the Erdree has alwais beeing around, and alwais being the same. Marika was an hypocrit, her imperfection was the flaw of the order as stated by the Rune of Perfect Order, her ideas and belifes didn't rapressent that of the Greater Will. I mean, think about it: the Rune of Death for example was PART of the ER, Placidussax had it, the Nox had it, and then Marika decided "fuck death, I want to be immortal" and removed it. If the Greater Will didn't want Death to exist why put it on the ER in the first place?

@@AristasTheMonsterHunter extacly, couldn't esplain myself well with the coup thing since didn't really remembered how Marika and Co. Picked the elden lord thing, but that was the intention XD Sabaku follower?

I think it's more probable that it is Helphen, the great tree in the after-life that guides the dead. You can see Helphen's steeple description to understand more about it. And considering that from the image we can see a lot of tombstones and also Miquella (wich was also higly tied towards Godwyn) we could safely assume that it is gonna take place in the reign of the dead where he tries to find Godwyn or something like that

There werent two trees. The great tree is a mistranslation of the erdtree. The erdtree was destroyed at one point, becoming the crucible, which created the more bright and glowing erdtree we see now

@@kixakii436 How is he tied to Godwyn other than the fact both are Demigods and related? Never saw them being closely tied to each other.

@@prehistoriccreator9600 i can't remember the other things rn but i do know that the golden epitath sword was created by Miquella to gonor Godwyn's death

I feel like with the way DLC ends up incidentally panned around the biggest mysteries, I think we’re gonna find out just about everything that’s happened.

Press x to plant seed Wow, such riveting gameplay, I can't wait.

Then we become the boss fight

Youre gonna fight the tree and he instakill you by touching you, that would be cool.

Shadow of the Erdtree to be the latest and greatest farming simulator

I want a Crucible Axe and a Fist weapon from them with a badass moveset including the stomp

I saw somewhere that the pursuer was a fairy. One of the best designed enemies in DS2.

I would like to fight 4 crucible knights at the same time in a reduced space.

​@@guts9160Go fight Capra Demon then.

This is Fextra Vidya.

Thank you

it is so hard explain all the times the same thing

No wrong. The Kanji for "Great Tree Roots" exists in multiple places. Stop making shit up.

@@thechazz3230 still refering to erd tree

@@elia0162 Wrong and headcanon. The Great Tree Roots - 大樹根 is distinct in referring to the previous Tree to come out of The Crucible and is never used when referring to the entity The Erdtree or "Golden Tree." The Erdtree is always referred to as its own entity that came from The Crucible in the items and never The Great Tree/Great Tree Roots. I have no clue why people who saw a shitty reddit post continue to spout this fan fiction as if it's Canon.

I once double parried shit was insane fight

I'd say the hardest boss is the gargoyle in Caelid. He was more annoying than the elden beast constantly running away

@@manuelsilva3365 How about the gargoyles in Siofra Aquedec?

@@astelvan2116 they were easier to deal with. The one in Caelid has lots of health and hits like a truck

@@manuelsilva3365 He was a major pain in the ass. But I’d say Mt. Gelmir’s Fallingstar Beast is also a problem

Wings would be so badass

Do crucible knights have a slam and wraiths attack?

@@bowlocereal123 Nope. But, it seems like they should since they also have Godfrey’s earth shaking stomp. Wraiths??? I want the Crucible Knights to have all weapons and powers associated with every creature that’s been impacted by the crucible.

Slam we already have with Ordovis's sword. Wraiths we have the Barins or whatever they're called.

I need Aspect of The Crucible: near infinite poise

No, you can't, and I don't mean all 16 don't exist, I mean YOU, specifically, can't find them.

@@mr.pompodill1485 you can. Some are ghosts, but all 16 can be found scattered throughout the lamds

Dude I love fighting crucible knights it's a fun challenge

lmao

You can get them without parry as well while playing a melee focused character but they do prepare you well for what to expect from the rest of the game. I mean the first one in Limgrave evergaol.

They're both related to the Crucible, the reason why a Misbigotten and a Crucible Knight fight alongside in Radahn festival boss room before/after the festival.

@@Sir-Pleiades so they're not like directly related as in same species only share the same origin? Since both have those very specific aspect of the crucible attacks. The crucible knights being more flashy but both use that tail attack and winged charge.

Are crucibles more humanoid misbegotten in armor?

@@ant3910 that's what I was thinking since they share similar attacks, they fight together at some point.

@@IkariNoi iirc, the misbegotten are (or were) humans who had made contact with the crucible and developed mutations from it, such as their wings and other beastly aspects, which was also once seen as a divine thing until it grew to becoming blasphemous and disgraceful over time, the crucible knights don’t seem to be misbegotten at all since they don’t have the same posture or larger than normal heads that misbegotten do, but since they’re so old they could be what misbegotten had previously looked like when they were considered more divine, assuming there was any sort of visual change to them.

I even went back and played a ton of Dark souls 3. Currently stuck on the dragonslayer armor... Of course I have a lightning faith build, which he's resistant to 😅. But I'm honestly just so spoiled from elden ring that it's way more difficult lol. I'm used to summoning my ashes, I'll admit it😂