The Paradox of Godrick the Grafted: Elden Ring Lore

In-lore obviously Godrick used the mimic veil to appear as a woman and flee. But in the gameplay it turns you into an object, so it's funny to imagine all the women and children fleeing and there's like a candelabra just walking behind them.

I'm pretty sure Godrick had that particular great rune because it should have been inherited by Godwyn the Ganked, and Godrick was the closest thing to an heir after the Black Knives purged the other Golden Lineage demigods.

Honestly, sometimes Godrick strikes me as a bit of an unsung genius He was weak but he managed to survive in this very hostile environment surrounded by individuals who were all much stronger then him especially with how he fled the capital, I mean he was succesfull in escaping and building his base at Stormveil, wasn´t he? If you know that a severely powerful foe waits outside the walls it strikes me to be smarter to flee then to seek direct conflict only this initial genius then eroded with time, probably due to everyone looking down on him and eventually gave way to his madness

I just realized most of the troll driven carts if not all of them are heading to Stormveil, suggesting that Godrick is still stealing artifacts from everyone else's kingdom.

I feel for Godrick. He suffered so much from feeling of inadequacy, from manufactured expectations of his lineage. His mind must have been beyound tortured. Sovmuch so he decided to mutilate others and them himself to satisfy something, that could never be satisfied. He is definetly a villian, but his origin is one of the more tracig.

had he known about Runebears or Giant Shrimp... the grafting could have actually made him powerful. BEAR witness could have been much, much more. So could have been a Grafted Shrimp, instead of a dragon head

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"Mighty dragon, Though art a trueborn heir..." It's ironic that he's venerating the devolved offspring of what was once the pinnacle of nature. And thus makes himself look even smaller. More pitiable. The main motif being the accretion of the spurned, the denegrated, into a slightly stronger whole, that despite it's power barely holds up to the inherent strength of individual powers in the Lands Between.

I like to think that the legacy of the art of grafting was inspired by Godfrey himself. After all, he did merge with Serosh- the difference being that that merging seem a higher sort of magic than the grotesque grafting his descendants developed; but the principle is the same: to physically attach another being in order to earn some trait from them.

Godrick kindof reminds me of Melchia from The Legacy Of Kain: Soul Reaver game, both were made last and recieved the poorest portion of power granted to them, both would graft body parts to their own bodies to make them stronger, and both were considered weak by their peers, the only difference is that one is a vampire and the other is a demigod and while one is delusional about himself the other is aware of his own weaknesses.

I did a Golden Lineage playthrough and it made the confrontation with Godrick so much more personal. Two meagre, unimportant men fighting over the scraps of ancient glory. In the end though, Godel the Gilded was able to accomplish what his cousin could only dream of.

No matter how crazy Godrick may seem, he is the least insane out of most of the other bosses in the game, and his servants seem to have some semblance of order and capacity for thinking compared to all the other armies.

I feel kinda sad for Godrick, he is a runt of the litter and he tried his best to break this mold, unfortunately he and his rune exist only to bind others to itself.

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Hey man, really nice video! You may have already fixed it in your newer uploads, but would you mind bumping up your voice audio a bit more? Because it has so much bass, it makes it harder to focus on compared to the treble in your bgm. As for Godfrey, I also think it might be relevant to his characterization that Marika told all the demigods to pretty much war or die, and that may have spurned him on to action, evil deeds be damned.

Hot take: Godrick is my favorite demigod fight. He is the most horrific of them all, and has the best music in the game besides the theme, the intro music, and maybe the Lichdragon Fortissax battlesong.

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I beat godrick yesterday. Throughout the fight I just saw another boss to get through but when he finally fell I did begin to pity him. A boastful ego to cover up inadequacies and deep insecurities about oneself? In this he is perhaps the most humane of bosses

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Godrick obviously really was a lord. He bore the Great Rune as proof of this. And it strikes me if two members of a family knew the secrets to grafting that it must be a family art. And why it is seen poorly is because the members who used it most prominantly did so not with reverence but selfish ambition in mind. So my take is it isn't that Godrick was a failure because he was unworthy of the power granted but because he was such a fool and coward he couldn't make the most of it.