Looking upon that village was like looking upon the room of a deceased child that a parent keeps just as it was the day they died. Utterly frozen in time to cope with the loss.
The profound wave of melancholy that hit me as I walked through this village and realized just where it was I had wandered... Its hard to put into words, but, there really is just something about visual storytelling that FromSoft understands on an almost-primal level that I really think basically no-one else in the industry can compete with.
When I found this place and heard the music, I felt calm for the first time in my entire playthrough. I looked around a bit, and though I didn't find anything at first, I remember saying "It's nice to know that despite the vile, filthy, terrible horrors of this world, a place like this can still exist within it" And then I found the tree, found what was inside, and read its description... You wanna talk about emotion. The sheer weight of where I was hit me like a cinderblock. I remember staring at the effigy within the tree, the facsimile of Marika and asking "what happened to you?" In reference to her going from a village girl to a tyrant, Before leaving. Then I learned why the innard people of the Jars have gold hair and a mark on their head, and I just remember feeling so bad for Marika in that moment. I'm going to list the item description of the Minor Erdtree incantation here: "Secret incantation of Queen Marika. Only the kindness of gold, without order. Creates a small, illusory erdtree that continuously restores the HP of nearby allies. Marika bathed the village of her home in gold, knowing full well that there was no one to heal" Marika started life in this village, or at least her life in the lands between. She lived amongst these villagers, got to know them, they were family. And the Bonny village began to take them, butcher them, and cram them into pots in some twisted ritual of sainthood. And for a long time, she was powerless against this fact. Of course the moment she was made a god she would use that power to wage war, to destroy the fire giants, to create and cause the horrible things we see in the Lands of Shadow. Her home was taken from her. She truly is Fractured Marika. Not just in name or because of the state she's in, but because a piece of her is permanently missing, and she's left as empty and quiet as the village we find. When I went there for the second time, after beating all bosses, and seeing all lands in the land of shadow, I finally found the minor erdtree incantation. I summoned on the edge of the cliff and just sat there for a while until it faded, then sat with the effigy for a while, before leaving. Because it's all so tragic. I still think that Marika is evil, and I cant excuse what she's done, but I do feel sorry for her.
SPOILERS if you want to know about Marika’s cruel fate: . . . . We can learn a few things from piecing together the descriptions of the golden braid, minor erdtree and the spirit's dialogue in Bonny Village, namely that the shaman village was Marika's home. It was there where her people were slaughtered by the hornsent to become jar "saints" and she would begin her path of vengeance and ascent to godhood. As Leda remarks of the hornset "They were never saints. They just happened to be on the losing side of a war". After putting the hornsent to the sword with the power of the base serpent within Messmer and an army of tarnished, Marika would reach the top of Enir-llim and the gate of divinty. It was here she sought to create a perfect world where nobody would truly die again and would erase any signs of the existence of the crucible and its people who wronged her. Marika would return to her village and sprout a minor erdtree to show them just how far she had come, but nobody remained... During her reign as god and vessel of the Elden Ring, Marika would birth many demigod children, however in a cruel twist of fate, her and Godfrey would birth the omen twins. Her own flesh and blood bore the traits of the very people who committed atrocities against her family and loved ones. After everything Marika did, even after ascending to godhood she still could not deny the reality of the crucible of life and so they were exiled to the depths below the royal capital. As undeniable as the crucible of life, is the fact that it must end. Marika likely plucked the rune of death from the Elden Ring so nobody she loved may die again but tragedy would strike again for Marika. Her golden child, perfection incarnate, Godwyn would suffer the first death of a demigod and so Marika would learn she could not escape the nature of the world, not even in godhood. Perhaps this led to the shattering of the Elden Ring, an act of vengeance on false promises or perhaps she realized Metyr's fingers were in fact broken from the start, either way it adds a lot to the character of Marika and the overall story of the game.
Damn, Godwyn's death must have been very traumatising for Marika reminding her she couldn't escape death and suffering even after becoming a god. The death of Godwyn must have broken her beyond repair, the grief of a mad God.
How dare you fromsoft for not have putted a grace directly in the village 😤. Seriously this area is the embodiment of "maybe the true elden ring was friends we've made along the way" and I love it
My theory on the village is that it either got decimated by that disease turning people into flies, or the "They were never saint" Thing explained by Leda meant the hornsent might have been involved with it
@@chrisspyroman apparently, discovered it last night, the hornsent thought they were basically chosen superior people. So maybe they didn't treat others fairly
The Hornsent stuffed the Shaman into jars. They flay their skins so their flesh will easily melt together with others. So those living jar enemies are Marika's people. Marika turned into a god to get her revenge.
The hornsent believe themselves to be blessed and the chosen people which led to them eventually brutalizing Marikas village and killing her family and people and stuffing them into jars and pots to purify or punish them for being sinners and turn them into saints. Marika became a god and exacted vengeance upon the horned people and made them the lowest of the low in the new order because the horns and crucible reminded her of her village and her family that she lost.
“And one day, we’ll return together…to our home, bathed in rays of gold.”
Looking upon that village was like looking upon the room of a deceased child that a parent keeps just as it was the day they died. Utterly frozen in time to cope with the loss.
The profound wave of melancholy that hit me as I walked through this village and realized just where it was I had wandered...
Its hard to put into words, but, there really is just something about visual storytelling that FromSoft understands on an almost-primal level that I really think basically no-one else in the industry can compete with.
When I found this place and heard the music, I felt calm for the first time in my entire playthrough. I looked around a bit, and though I didn't find anything at first, I remember saying "It's nice to know that despite the vile, filthy, terrible horrors of this world, a place like this can still exist within it"
And then I found the tree, found what was inside, and read its description...
You wanna talk about emotion. The sheer weight of where I was hit me like a cinderblock.
I remember staring at the effigy within the tree, the facsimile of Marika and asking "what happened to you?" In reference to her going from a village girl to a tyrant, Before leaving.
Then I learned why the innard people of the Jars have gold hair and a mark on their head, and I just remember feeling so bad for Marika in that moment.
I'm going to list the item description of the Minor Erdtree incantation here:
"Secret incantation of Queen Marika. Only the kindness of gold, without order. Creates a small, illusory erdtree that continuously restores the HP of nearby allies.
Marika bathed the village of her home in gold, knowing full well that there was no one to heal"
Marika started life in this village, or at least her life in the lands between. She lived amongst these villagers, got to know them, they were family.
And the Bonny village began to take them, butcher them, and cram them into pots in some twisted ritual of sainthood.
And for a long time, she was powerless against this fact.
Of course the moment she was made a god she would use that power to wage war, to destroy the fire giants, to create and cause the horrible things we see in the Lands of Shadow.
Her home was taken from her. She truly is Fractured Marika. Not just in name or because of the state she's in, but because a piece of her is permanently missing, and she's left as empty and quiet as the village we find.
When I went there for the second time, after beating all bosses, and seeing all lands in the land of shadow, I finally found the minor erdtree incantation. I summoned on the edge of the cliff and just sat there for a while until it faded, then sat with the effigy for a while, before leaving.
Because it's all so tragic.
I still think that Marika is evil, and I cant excuse what she's done, but I do feel sorry for her.
The fate of the shaman's in the village is extremely grim if you know about Bonny village.....
why what is it?
@@theyeetbread7022They shove the shamans into jars. One of the ghosts says it.
@@EVC1094But why?
@@maj9260 apparently to achieve “sainthood”
SPOILERS if you want to know about Marika’s cruel fate:
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We can learn a few things from piecing together the descriptions of the golden braid, minor erdtree and the spirit's dialogue in Bonny Village, namely that the shaman village was Marika's home. It was there where her people were slaughtered by the hornsent to become jar "saints" and she would begin her path of vengeance and ascent to godhood. As Leda remarks of the hornset "They were never saints. They just happened to be on the losing side of a war".
After putting the hornsent to the sword with the power of the base serpent within Messmer and an army of tarnished, Marika would reach the top of Enir-llim and the gate of divinty. It was here she sought to create a perfect world where nobody would truly die again and would erase any signs of the existence of the crucible and its people who wronged her. Marika would return to her village and sprout a minor erdtree to show them just how far she had come, but nobody remained...
During her reign as god and vessel of the Elden Ring, Marika would birth many demigod children, however in a cruel twist of fate, her and Godfrey would birth the omen twins. Her own flesh and blood bore the traits of the very people who committed atrocities against her family and loved ones. After everything Marika did, even after ascending to godhood she still could not deny the reality of the crucible of life and so they were exiled to the depths below the royal capital.
As undeniable as the crucible of life, is the fact that it must end. Marika likely plucked the rune of death from the Elden Ring so nobody she loved may die again but tragedy would strike again for Marika. Her golden child, perfection incarnate, Godwyn would suffer the first death of a demigod and so Marika would learn she could not escape the nature of the world, not even in godhood.
Perhaps this led to the shattering of the Elden Ring, an act of vengeance on false promises or perhaps she realized Metyr's fingers were in fact broken from the start, either way it adds a lot to the character of Marika and the overall story of the game.
It truly changes everything
Damn, Godwyn's death must have been very traumatising for Marika reminding her she couldn't escape death and suffering even after becoming a god. The death of Godwyn must have broken her beyond repair, the grief of a mad God.
Is this Marika's native village theme?
Yup
How dare you fromsoft for not have putted a grace directly in the village 😤.
Seriously this area is the embodiment of "maybe the true elden ring was friends we've made along the way" and I love it
More literally, the true Elden Ring was the friends put into jars all along 😂
marika kills everyone she knows and loves to avoid being locked in a jar the game
It’s ironic at the end she sorta become a jar or container herself for the broken remain of Elden Ring
My theory on the village is that it either got decimated by that disease turning people into flies, or the "They were never saint" Thing explained by Leda meant the hornsent might have been involved with it
Damn
Would certainly explain Marika's grudge against hornsent and how she utterly decimated their civilisation
@@chrisspyroman apparently, discovered it last night, the hornsent thought they were basically chosen superior people. So maybe they didn't treat others fairly
The Hornsent stuffed the Shaman into jars. They flay their skins so their flesh will easily melt together with others. So those living jar enemies are Marika's people. Marika turned into a god to get her revenge.
The hornsent believe themselves to be blessed and the chosen people which led to them eventually brutalizing Marikas village and killing her family and people and stuffing them into jars and pots to purify or punish them for being sinners and turn them into saints. Marika became a god and exacted vengeance upon the horned people and made them the lowest of the low in the new order because the horns and crucible reminded her of her village and her family that she lost.
Shaman village: where Miyazaki the game director meets Miyazaki the anime director
Best track among the dlc
So good I turned music down to 0 and played this when defeating Radahn Consort of Miquella
This is already my favorite ambient music of the entire DLC. I don't understand why there was no grace placed there.
Omg i need this on spotify asap
Man.