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Makes a whole lot of sense! I never considered that the scarlet rot might be a modified version of the previous, simpler rot.

We have Miquella, reborn as a god of the same Light worshipped by the Hornsent, and Malenia who, as this video posits, is part of, or related to, a consequence of the cruelties inflicted upon the Hornsent, both being children of the unified Marika and Radagon, the union of whom has been theorized to be the product of the Hornsent’s jar-creation-experiments… Perhaps it truly is all connected. Perhaps the curse mentioned by the Grandam runs even deeper than we suspected, beyond the appearance of Omen. …this was a wonderful video. Honestly one of the best of its kind; succinct AND convincing. You had me hooked with the visual parallel of Malenia’s impaling grab attack and Romina’s stinger grab attack, which I had never considered before. The only logistical issue I can see is the idea that Malenia’s curse, which she was born with, is related to Romina’s act of weaving the rot during/after the Crusade. It implies the Empyrean twins’ births would have been after the Crusade, which I don’t think many people would feel right in believing, even if there’s no real evidence pointing either way. …that said, I personally wouldn’t let it matter much, because these kinds of things are imagination/vibes-based. If it’s cool to think about, it should be thought about. Connecting the two major instances of Scarlet Rot through the buds and through the rivers is a wonderful thing to ponder. Keep up the great work!

Excellent video!!

i love this vid

wow this was a great vid. worth a sub from me

Your theory...... 10/10. Good job!

My personal pet theory is that the blind swordsman is just a personification of flowing water, as in, you use flowing water to clean yourself and to wash away the rot, some cultures might have deified and personified it as a grate protector from rot

Great video… you will see me next time 🤘

Maybe the Nox were connected to the giant stone coffins. Maybe the Nox knew the giants of caelid and the mountain. They do show up next to water when Malenia bombed Radahn

This is a great way to look at and make sense of the lore. Everyone is trying to direct the flow of souls to their desired destination. It's a battle for souls. A spiritual war. We see it today and it's always been the case. Those fighting to shape your opinions and your reality and your belief system to fit their agenda are basically redirecting your soul to their own path.

1:05 first time i fought her i was so desperate, second time i was more chill, and i just noticed that not only that whole area feels like a Shadow Of The Colossus area, Romina battle music is also really reminiscing the SOTC songs

I like how the dlc explains how Marika got cursed to have cursed children

First question response: ...I mean, I used a horse ox thing to do 99% of my traversal.

In the scorched ruins of the gravesite plain, you can find a spirit of a hornsent weaving a curse on Marika's lineage. he says he will forge it from the raw resentment of his slain kin. Could this be why the Omen of the Lands between are haunted by bitter spirits? with their horns being a sign of spiritual potency, manifestations of the spirits of dead Hornsent haunting them would cause their horns to run even more wild than the Hornsent, because the Hornsent have horns as a controlled result of their spiritual practices, whereas the Omen have horns unwillingly as a result of their blood ties to Queen Marika tying them in to the curse wrought on her. Maybe these would have merely been people with a couple horns here and there, were it not for the spirits of the race Marika slaughtered clinging to them bitterly. All of these spirits were Crucible-touched. Makes sense that Omen horns grow beyond all reason. And if spirits travel through the water, then they aren't limited in their travel to and from the Realm of Shadow, as a massive bay-lake-thing is all that remains linking the land of shadow and the lands between physically. Side note, in the Elder Scrolls series, water doesn't necessarily contain spirits themselves, but memory. Memory which is reabsorbed by all and accumulates in potency as experience passes. Interesting how both of these ideas contain the idea that water contains something of the dead that continues to shape the living ad infinitum.

So wait, does that mean that from other cultures' perspective, my baptism was me getting pushed and pulled to and from the Underworld?

Bro, use a crossfade

A very interesting look at the rivers and rot. Thanks for all the hard work in putting this video together. While I haven't put to much thought or investigation in this area myself, so much to look at in this world, I did have one small unimportant thing to share. The coffins, the text that makes them fly is Smithscript. Smithscript is formally introduced in the DLC with a series of weapons that can be thrown but will return to the wielder. These weapons have those symbols on them but for the best view the Smithscript shield icon is what you wanna look at. Unfortunately, this is one of those revelations that doesn't really offer much but scraps of certainty are very rare in Fromsoft Lore so anything you can take for 100% fact we gotta be thankful for lol.

I would love to see more discussing the death legacy of the palace ruins and if they connect to the Nox, as well as the Nox’s own connections with death. I was disappointed there wasn’t more revealed about them in the DLC.

Sleep, too, is a form of stagnation. Hence why St Trina is a flower and why we find her being protected by the Putrescent Knight. Putrescence is Rot, and flowers grow from old graveyards due to the nutrients of decomposing bodies (coffin ships). Moreover, poisons are derived from flowers (Miranda flowers) and distilled by Perfumers. This also explains the connection between Thiollier, the Perfumers, House Marais (their masks and poison/rot affinities), and his desire for eternal slumber. It seems that the Twins, Miquella and Malenia, both suffer from Stagnation.

Excellent video. Immediately subbed

13:06 what if… ALL of Marika’s children‘s afflictions come from hornsent curses. The omen curse is the most obvious one, but what if miquella’s eternal nascence and whatever took over godwyns corpse also comes from the hornsent

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Awesome video!

Thank you for a good watch. Is the runes on the stone coffins alike those on the weapons from Eochaid?

Just found your channel and so glad! Great work!

The production quality here is really high, Kudos. 1080p would have been nice though, it shows when you're watching on >1080p resolutions.

thank god a lore channel that not AI

This video is making me think that the nature of the flame of frenzy to be able to melt both spiritual energy and physical matter could have made it a tool to be used, not just in the creation of a lord of frenzied flame, and not just to end the world. If one were to use it carefully enough, could its use potentially create crucibles of life?

great video! I’m definitely writing some stuff down as I was just looking for more information about golems myself lol 🫶 thank you for pointing out the crystal darts ~

Hey its parallwl lmao I personally think it would be a mischaracterization to say romina realized she could achieve divinity through the rot Instead i think this is more akin to the bloodfiends, who in their grief, beheld their fallen ancestor, and in doing so beheld the formless mother In other words, her grief revealed to her a divinity she was foreign to, and her grief imprinted on the rot in a way

Comment for the comment gods. Hope to see more!

Great video! This topic is sorely under covered, as is the engineering of the waters and lands themselves. I have a question for you as I have been pondering the lake of rot for some time. Why do you think it was made in the first place? Were the Nox attempting to amass spiritual energy with their damn? Why on earth is the other far side associated with Elden John and a more ritualistic ancient dynasty? Was this area meant as a repository for rot or is that a happy accident? And how on earth does the glintstone cluster /mushroom shelving at the center all play into this? The story of this region defies me still.

Thanks being able to help me clarify connect the dots better on my thoughts on the Flower aspect of the Crucible

Finally, someone's giving this topic more attention.

Now we just need an explanation of the jellyfish…

I love this content keep it up 🗣🗣🗣🔥

Rather than "spiritual energy", could the crucible be the intangible wind which blows spirit ashes away? More evidence for an intangible wind is the fact that the Spira incantation results in a "normalised" crucible current. If "normalised" means to make something more normal, mundane or physical, this means that crucible currents which are NOT normalised are intangible and only affect spirits and spirit ash.

YES more Fromsoft lore youtubers love to see it🎉👍

the crucible is a time, not a place

Nice video, thanks for sharing your work. Keep going!

Merika made the burning of bodies obsolete.

Once a year new loretubers show up. I love to see the new views on the details of Elden ring! This is my second sub this week to tubers with less than 50 subscribers.

I never connected the ancestors spells were similiar to the desthbirds but now it seems so obvious. Great video!

thanks

a wonderful well structured video that helped me sort out my own thoughts. I hope to see more of your content in the future!

Good quality good audio good content in par with the top elden ring theory channels. Wish you a better future

It’s refreshing to see new channels give new life to Elden Ring lore. Great video.

Glad that I stumbled upon this in my feed, this is a really good and clarifying video!