The Irony of Gideon the All-Knowing | Elden Ring Lore

From the way he's hunched over that desk to read his papers, he might be short-sighted which would be a little extra nugget of irony.

"SIR GIDEON OFFNIR, THE ALL SPAMMING!"

The craziest thing to me, is that he is so sure that a man cannot kill a god, yet right under his nose is Hewg forging a weapon to kill a god. All-knowing indeed.

"Try not to make a spectacle of yourself"... ...Becomes Elden Lord

Gideon is quite possibly the single most talented human magic user in all of FromSoft's titles. Every single other one you ever meet or hear about specializes in a school or subclass of magic, and very few are considered masters of their art. Gideon is capable of fully mastering any and all magic he comes across. Such talent is certainly worthy to stand along such names as Noble Goldmask and Hoarah Loux as greatest of all tarnished. Compared to our player character, who has no choice but to accept and even thrive in repeated failure, Gideon takes great steps to avoid potential failures by having others struggle for him. Has Gideon ever truly faced hardships in his life? How can someone like that ever face the possibility that all their efforts may have been for naught?

gideon: "These namby pamby tarnished who see us as shelter from the rain." also gideon: never leaves the round table hold to stay in its safety

Ironically I think Gideon didn't KNOW that Radagon and Marika were one person. Radagon (posing as Marika) tricked him into thinking no one can kill a God, we know Radagon wants to keep the Golden Order around, so tricking Gideon into stopping people from trying to claim the throne is in his best interest (especially now that the thorns were burned allowing someone to come into the Tree)

Inescapable Frenzy is such a fun way to take out Gideon. "Here, have some Eldritch Truth! Can't really call yourself All-Knowing if you don't know what it's like to have your eyes and brain on fire."

I don't believe Nepheli's summon sign at Godfrey's boss fog indicates she was sent by Gideon as it only appears if you complete her quest line by giving her the StormHawk King's ashes (instead of Seluvis's potion like a bastard) and letting her become ruler of Limgrave through Kent Height's questline, so I think its appearance is just Nepheli making good on her promise for you to be able to call upon her. Afterall Gideon had already abandoned Nepheli at that point because he deemed her be of no more use precisely because could no longer completely manipulate her.

calls himself the all knowing and tries to sip an empty flask in the middle of a fight

24:30 Nephili is there to support your ascension to Elden Lord. Her summon only shows up if you complete her quest, which includes her having her falling out with Gidion, becoming The Storm Lord, and swearing fielty to you. She's not there to help Gidion.

Good call about the fingers being unreliable narrators. I love the theory that all the scarabs you find throughout the lands between that are marked with the eye symbol are Gideon's spies. But also terrifying 😮 Gideon's suggestion to just wipe nepheli's mind so that she can be useful to him in the future 😮 Also his complete nonchalant attitude to you setting the roundtable on fire 😮 His casual suggestion that you just finish Miquella off too once you find him.

I like the idea that Gideon is intelligent enough to use you to gather the great runes for him so he can join nepheli in the fight against Godfrey, then ultimately betray nepheli before going into the erdtree and realizing he has to fight Marika radagon

I find it interesting that you said he's wise and not intelligent with those reasons. Growing up, I always understood it differently. Intelligence is having knowledge, while wisdom is knowing what to do with said knowledge. That's part of what makes his story even better for me. He calls himself the wise and knows and can master all these high-level magic, but ultimately, he's just a pawn being led around by the Fingers. The irony of him having the knowledge and thinks he knows what he's doing with it while being completely blind just tickles my irony bone

gideon was one of the few bosses that i really felt ok beating the crap out of lol. most of the bosses in elden ring i empathized with or even felt bad having to take them down but him.... i made a day of it lol.

If we remember Gideon's second name, Ofnir, is a bastardized version of Odin name. And if we remember, not only he was known as the All-Father, which meant he knew everything, when he learn the prophecy of Ragnarok, he did everything to stop it, meaning he didn't want to things to change and end, just like Gideon with the Tarnished trying ti become Elden Lord.

9:18 Using your "fingers" to make air quotes to frame the words "guidance" when talking about "The Fingers" made my head spin for a minute

I really disliked Gideon from the start so I was thrilled when I saw him standing there. I'd have to agree that he realized what Queen Marika was planning and couldn't fathom that she intended to be killed and have the golden order replaced. Knowing what the tarnished is capable of in battle and still choosing to try to stop us and Godfrey at the end is kind of brave in his own delusional way.

He definitely did not know how to dodge my alternating DragonClaw spam from dual Dragon communion Seals

Unexpected Elden Ring lore from Miss Chalice, yay!