Understanding Queen Marika | Elden Ring Lore

Hope you all enjoyed this video! As usual your feedback in the comments is very much appreciated, so let me know what you think. Next video will explore the events surounding the destruction of the eternal cities and their ties to the numen.

Here's my final interpretation of Elden Ring's backstory: I have absolutely no idea what happened.

Holy hell. I've always been of the opinion that Marika did indeed have a hand in the Night of the Black Knives, but recontextualizing the "My Comrades" dialogue towards Radagon shook the entire foundation of why I thought so. Damn dude. Mind literally chaos blown and on fire right now. Once I thought Marika had a crisis of faith. Now I am more than willing to buy that she waged war on fate, and that she was never loyal to the Greater Will. I am so looking forward to your other videos because damn. This one...this one is going to need some time to fully sink in.

I never thought of Marika "The Eternal" as a name for a place of Origin but it's literally so simple that it becomes overlooked. Brilliant.

Damn, the connection between "Marika's unwanted children" and her involvement in the Night of Black Knives is SUCH a good point!

It's why I love the goldmask ending since it completely screws over Marika and her scheming because no matter what outcome you choose Deathroot is still going to consume the world. Even if Ranni's ending sounds nice on paper you are just basicallly leaving the world in total anarchy with Deathroot and those who live in death still haunting the world.

I’m guessing Radagon fully trusted The Greater Will, whereas Marika began to lose faith. The Greater Will combined Radagon and Marika in order for Radagon to take over her body and maintain the Elden Ring.

An example of how her plans were fated and prophesied which NO ONE has spoken about: all of the statues of Marika are in the pose she ended up in: crucified on the remains of the Elden ring. Why would they have made all the statues in this pose? Long before it happened? With no one really knowing this happened to her?

So Marika is Numen, and she might have founded the eternal cities inhabited by the Nox people, then for some reason the Greater Will sent Astel to sink all the eternal cities. The Nox wanted the Age of Stars, so the Greater Will literally took their sky away. This is extremely cruel and genocidal on the Greater Will's part. If Marika was indeed the founder, or at least an important leading member of the eternal cities, she would want revenge by any means necessary. I speculate that her sinister plan all along is to destroy everything the Greater Will hold dear to, no matter lands, order or people, in retaliation to the decimation of her own people.

All the pieces just fell into place with this vid. The history and relationship between the Numen and Golden Order, Marika's name "The Eternal!" It makes so much sense. Marika was acting as saboteur on behalf of the Numen and Eternal City!

One of the most impact full ER lore videos I've seen. It even got me to create a timeline on miro.

the only thing missing is the most important of all "why" marika having eternal as a surname, instead of a tittle, envisioning the age of the stars, and building the blocks to allow it to happens are very plausible, but lack pragmatism marika order assimilated multiple different factions into its fold; the misbigotten, the cruscible, carians, perfurmers, trolls and dragons marika expanded her society multiple times, she acted the same way the romans did the prophecy of the cardinal sin existed before the war against the fire giants, it was an attempt to prevent it from happening marika plucked destined death from the elden ring and sealed it within maliketh, creating the golden order everything she does is always towards protecting the golden order, and she was both ruthless and pragmatic about it she is also very pragmatic when sending godfrey and the tarnished away, it had to be something she planned to protect her order but shattering the ring spelled her death, she has a shard of the rune of death lodged on her body, she is falling apart, we mend the elden ring inside her corpse why? why did she sacrifice herself like that? was the aim to fight the Will? why? the will wanted to replace her with ranni, but she seems to be in league with the moon witch, and if she is colluding with the eternals of nokron, she should be able to use the blade forged to kill the fingers, she should be able to use the elden ring to fight against the greater will if that was the goal the greater will is clearly an antagonist for marika, but if she dies in the process to fight it, what was the actual goal?

I've waited for this video months bro, needless to say the long wait was well worth it; you outdid yourself with this one Love all the tie-ings you made and the simple, no bs editing and production You, Crunchyy, Last Protagonist and Honored Madman are carrying actual lore videos, keep at it man

Kosmos, this is very on-point. I agree that understanding Marika’s motives is the key to unlocking the central meaning of the game’s lore. Also, imo there’s no point in making lore videos if you aren’t gonna offer a unique perspective and you definitely do that so cheers!

Really good video, thank you! EldenTales has come out with a video that his theory is Radagon is a Champion misbegotten that was reborn essentially like a golden mimic tear using the amber egg. I’ll definitely watch rewatch your Radagon mimic video and see what differs/similarities.

I'm glad I found your channel, you deserve more recognition. Great videos!!

ya im going to wake up early for this... the elden lore is ramping back up, DLC around the corner (hopefully)...things are looking up!!

When you mentioned the part about Marika not really being too attached to her "unwanted" children, I began recalling a thought I had recently. About how the Lands Between really seems to have a massive lack of any sorts of empathy. Out of all the characters, events, names, and things in Elden Ring very few seem to really believe or practice any form of kindness. Despite whatever Marikas meddling, demigods rampaging, monsters hunting, and ring breaking did in damage, I get the impression that the Lands Between could still have avoided falling into utter silent dead decay had the remaining peoples been able to work together and talk over falling into even more factionalism and killing. In essence, by choosing poorly, they sealed the deal. Not really too surprising that the whole place fell apart and is a mere husk. Even re-assembling the Elden Ring seems kinda pointless, as it's just a continuation of the cycle of violence, with hardly anyone left to form anything new with.

U make a good point that i think pretty much everyone glosses over, sure maybe the death of Godwyn and/or kidnapping of Miquella may have changed or expedited the plan she always intended on the tarnished returning

wow, this is really compelling. Fantastic job!