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  • čas přidán 24. 04. 2024
  • Melina continues to be one of the greatest mysteries in Elden Ring...hopefully Shadow of the Erdtree will reveal some answers. Probably not...but one can hope!
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Komentáře • 207

  • @ducktes
    @ducktes Před 2 měsíci +27

    Discord gang! Love your way of telling and pacing.

  • @dariondukes8752
    @dariondukes8752 Před 2 měsíci +46

    9:04 "Share them with me, your thoughts" asking that of a derp faced albernauric clad in gold makes me giggle 😂

  • @absenz
    @absenz Před 2 měsíci +88

    When we talk Melina: There is a Video from a few hours ago Named "Miquella is Melina" by a Guy named Timdiggity. Really guys watch this. You read the title and think fuck no but it makes so much sense its scary!

  • @benwiseman3051
    @benwiseman3051 Před 2 měsíci +12

    More than 1000 hours in this game I had no idea you could summon melina. 😂

  • @darkbornelines4587
    @darkbornelines4587 Před 2 měsíci +13

    Dude just how many "biggest" mysteries does this damn game have

    • @CallMeConCon
      @CallMeConCon Před měsícem

      Its a big game, im still making my character

  • @erin1569
    @erin1569 Před 2 měsíci +139

    I'll still stay strong on my hypothesis that Melina is Messmyr's female counterpart like Miquella/st. Trina and Marika/Radagon. They even have the same eye closed.

    • @pedromaciel2751
      @pedromaciel2751 Před 2 měsíci +12

      And the two got burned

    • @Fiveward
      @Fiveward Před 2 měsíci +14

      It's crazy how few people are saying this. I had that hypothesis immediately upon seeing messmers eye

    • @tajdaffa1526
      @tajdaffa1526 Před 2 měsíci +23

      I believe Melina is another Marika's child, but the way she born is the same just like Milicent was born, and Melina born right when the elden ring were shattered, before Radagon tried to repair it

    • @Fiveward
      @Fiveward Před 2 měsíci +3

      I thought it was confirmed Melina is a direct descendant of Marika

    • @seanoconnor5473
      @seanoconnor5473 Před 2 měsíci +16

      Same here. I’m riding with this theory and her being the Gloam Eyed Queen until we’re proven wrong. Hopefully, there’s a big connection with Melina, Messmer, and Farum Azula. There has to be a reason that you get spirited there after she burns herself and the Erdtree.

  • @BrassPetals3Voices
    @BrassPetals3Voices Před 2 měsíci +7

    One thing that occurred to me is that Melina *is* the flame of ambition, and it is her that Morgott is referring to as needing to be extinguished for emboldening us to take her path. He no doubt knew about her being with us having recognized the signs just as Renna did. She showed her ambition to us clearly in her determination to burn the tree (even going so far in a personal theory to kill other finger maidens to make sure that happened), and referred to herself as the flame we walk alongside. Ultimately it’s why she is the one to help us fight Morgott I think. He was probably expecting it, as was she.

  • @danben6956
    @danben6956 Před 2 měsíci +10

    11:43 RANNI, It was Ranni
    She stole the fragments of the rune of death and that explains the similarities between both of them Melina and Ranni

  • @yunkinto
    @yunkinto Před 2 měsíci +16

    I never realized melinas facetat was so detailed, it looks like a dragon leg/arm with armor on it or also similar to serosh‘s claws

  • @321LANParty
    @321LANParty Před 2 měsíci +9

    Maybe the Gloam Eyed Queen’s original ambition was to burn the Erdtree (the original sin) or maybe protect the Crucible Tree. Through whatever means a Tree was burned and the current Erdtree stands. Perhaps a self sacrifice of her flesh or as a punishment to be burned with her own flame, the Gloam Eyed Queen is left without body. Marika kept her spirit for her own machinations, summoning Melina at the foot of the Erdtree and wiping her memories as you said. We’ve seen before how Marika will take an enemy and repurpose them (the Fire Giant, trolls, and the Golden Order’s philosophy on heresy). Perhaps the Shadow Tree is that which Melina was truly ambitious towards (either as a protector or enemy)

    • @dylans8793
      @dylans8793 Před 15 dny

      Maybe the gloam eyed queen is melinas mother?

  • @thaiexodus2916
    @thaiexodus2916 Před 2 měsíci +21

    One thing that needs to be mentioned. The Lands Between. JRR Tolkien borrowed the same theme, Middle Earth, from the Eldar Edda. Reference: Midgard, the 'abode' of the human race. The Lands Between Thurse and Alfheim. Uninspired or unawakened matter and Alf - Spirit Home respectively.

    • @NetoJ0N
      @NetoJ0N Před měsícem +1

      He is tolkien fanboy, I love it 😂❤ there is no better inspiration. And he manages to never copy anything, but also make it familiar to tolkien

    • @thaiexodus2916
      @thaiexodus2916 Před měsícem

      @@NetoJ0NInteresting parallel there. JRR was theoretically an Elder Edda scholar. He gave the other scholars fits with all the uses and reference to the Edda in his writings. But, like you said, never copied, just borrowed terms, words and general concepts.

  • @doughstroyergaming
    @doughstroyergaming Před 2 měsíci +13

    Ya know i always suspected she had something to with the black knives with that movement but never dived deeper into her story 😅

    • @exquisitedoomlapointe185
      @exquisitedoomlapointe185 Před 2 měsíci

      Perhaps it comes from before the black knives "guild" per se was created. Like she could date as far back as before the numen became Nox.

  • @exquisitedoomlapointe185
    @exquisitedoomlapointe185 Před 2 měsíci +2

    I never considered that the ash in leyndell could be from the shadow tree. That rearranges so many events. Interesting stuff.

  • @jremigio24
    @jremigio24 Před 2 měsíci

    This was an epic video ! Loved every second. The lore of this game is so epic.

  • @CrimsonRayne
    @CrimsonRayne Před měsícem +3

    Theres another theory that melina is the female counterpart of miqueila. Forgot who made it but it also made sense. Edit: Timdiggy made a video. 4 days ago about it. I believe it holds weight too. Dlc fire dude is the burning butterfly and melina/miqueilla is the nacesnt butterfly
    2nd edit: the st.trinas torched zoomed it has almost the same face structure and almost the same scar thing on her eye like melinas. Its worth a watch

  • @dbfzato-1327
    @dbfzato-1327 Před 2 měsíci +3

    the albernuric head really undermines the weight of the cut scenes i love it lol
    9:44 i think she is eluding to the fact she gonna kill you if you get the freinzed flame ending, its about that point you can get it and she warns you as your about to take on the flame she will hunt you down, even with the eye shut i think by that point she knows who she is fully, she seems faster in the way she talks more confident
    one thing i don't understand is how she survives and plans to hunt us down, tbh i thought we died as well burned it all down, my head was fire lol was the first ending i got lol melina dint warn me as she left n i dint fight morgott yet lmao

  • @yungmeanmug
    @yungmeanmug Před 2 měsíci +1

    AgtJake looking mighty scrumptious in this video

  • @W2823
    @W2823 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Goated vid as always

  • @i-am-warden7575
    @i-am-warden7575 Před měsícem +1

    I really wish we could see her again she really was the one that helped us most asking merely nothing in return also her compassion for boc really shows us how sweet she really is if this theory is true then she might be the one to guide us once again to maybe save the great tree or something i would love nothing more than to go on another journey with my beloved maiden ❤

  • @captainlovebug
    @captainlovebug Před 2 měsíci

    Hell yeah! New video 🎉

  • @stan_lightning
    @stan_lightning Před 2 měsíci +5

    You have a great way of story telling especially with all the little details that just come together quite perfectly as well! great video again Jake! 🫶🏻

    • @agtjake
      @agtjake  Před 2 měsíci +2

      Thanks man 🤝

  • @d7oomv486
    @d7oomv486 Před měsícem

    to much love for your content thank you

  • @luchesisuzana7643
    @luchesisuzana7643 Před měsícem +1

    Actually... imo the story of the DLC is that Mesmer is the guy who trapped Marika inside the Erdtree after she shattered the Elden Ring (and I think he did it on Radagon's orders, btw). And Miquella's whole cocooning was him trying to find a way into Mesmer's realm so he could get rid of Mesmer and thus allow the Tarnished a way inside the Erdtree, to finally kill the Elden Beast and usher the Age of Stars, where the Golden Order and its Outer God - the Elden Beast - don't exist anymore. In that sense, yes, Melina can be a projection of Miquella in the Lands Between.

  • @kalehstwin
    @kalehstwin Před 2 měsíci

    Definitely agree. I often think about how Melina procured Torrent... in the one cinematic shot of torrent, it's likely Miquella riding him in the Land of Shadows. Could it be that the Gloam Eyed Queen convened with St. Trina (Miquella) after dying to Maliketh, possibly sending her bereft soul to the Land of Shadows, and they somehow brought her back as Melina to guide us finally defeating the Elden Beast to restore the Rune? This would make sense as to why Melina had the Calling Bell.

  • @brandonjensen9603
    @brandonjensen9603 Před 2 měsíci +16

    Her eye tattoo looks like the shadow of the erdtree, just sideways

  • @Fiveward
    @Fiveward Před 2 měsíci +2

    Incredibly compelling theory. Jake has convinced me of something again lol

  • @tacnogion
    @tacnogion Před 2 měsíci

    Love it. Amazing lore

  • @aresrivera9744
    @aresrivera9744 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I don’t know why, but when I saw some now I just thought of Caillou saying “ that’s me” lol 😂

  • @headecas
    @headecas Před 2 měsíci +1

    Now that is the kind of title i like

  • @MrNicktown
    @MrNicktown Před 2 měsíci

    Did the livestreams move somewhere else or stop altogether? Havent seen any in the last week or so.

  • @davidtippy7976
    @davidtippy7976 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I'm still wondering what that second trunk curling around the Erdtree is; It could be Godwyn's deathroot, but I also think that it could be an aspect of the crucible, an omen horn growing out of the roots of the Erdtree itself.

  • @cosmiccat4706
    @cosmiccat4706 Před měsícem

    I actually really like your theory regarding Melina, and I think the proof is very compelling as well. It paints a narrative that I didn't see too well, and may mean we won't learn more about her in the DLC if it's true. Though I still really hope we get more Melina lore in the DLC one way or another. Plus I still subscribe to the theory that she and Mesmer are the same person. Or at minimal have a strong connection to one another that we just don't know about yet.

  • @paralam2175
    @paralam2175 Před 2 měsíci +2

    I still don't know if I'm tripping of the eye Gurranq gives you also has clawmarks carved into it. Or it's just a coincidence.
    Also, I bet we will learn more about the Wormfaces, bc they're related to Deathroot of course, but also they are the only enemy in the game that drop Sacrificial Twigs, that have the same kind of sap flowing down its trunk like the tree in the shadow realm, and its description says it's "Believed to be a twig pruned from the Erdtree long, long ago", emphasizing it's a very distant past.

  • @Arieal.
    @Arieal. Před 20 dny +1

    Melina is also helping you kill Marika’s offspring (the greater will?)

  • @XNaturalPhenomenonX
    @XNaturalPhenomenonX Před měsícem

    I LITERALLY CANNOT WAIT ANY LONGER FOR THE DLC. These mysteries are killing me. I want answers!!

  • @Buhito99
    @Buhito99 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Melina is miquella, torrent former master (rides torrent the same way). Also his scar its the same as the icon of st trina

  • @zenny_ox
    @zenny_ox Před 2 měsíci +2

    i love this! i love this so much! 🥹

  • @jamesshaver2376
    @jamesshaver2376 Před měsícem

    She says I won’t allow anyone to speak ill of that immediately after you talk to Shabriri about sacrificing her

  • @FaeQueenCory
    @FaeQueenCory Před 2 měsíci +1

    I want so much for Melina to just be Miquella.
    If only for the meltdown such a revelation would cause.

  • @mrxxsesshomaruxx9642
    @mrxxsesshomaruxx9642 Před 2 měsíci

    Love this game, can’t get enough if it, can’t wait for the DLC but man does the lack of explanations on characters drives me nuts sometimes, especially on Melina, not getting my hopes up but hopefully we get more of her story in the DLC.

  • @MrGittarguy
    @MrGittarguy Před měsícem

    I wonder if Melina is Messmer’s mother,? He says “mother, would you truly lordship one so bereft of light” and she has been the one pushing us to become Elden Lord the whole game, and gives us new life at the very beginning. Maybe Melina / Miquella are like Rada/Marika? And Messmer is the child of them? If Melina is the gloam eyed queen it makes sense he would have blood flame too.

  • @dylans8793
    @dylans8793 Před 15 dny

    Frenzied flame, and age of stars endings is about getting away from controlled destiny. Both get rid of immortality, and control. When you get to the mountain tops of the giants the three finger tells you to spare that poor girl from burning by burning for her. Chaos is anarchy, but isnt evil.

  • @intalek305
    @intalek305 Před měsícem

    Random speculations here I would appreciate people poking lots of holes in:
    1. I think Marika is the true GEQ.
    2. I think she was formerly the queen of the Nox, who became the GEQ.
    3. I think Marika was defeated and not killed by Gurranq and he is confused why she forced him to turn on her, even though she always meant to betray him.
    4. I think Marika chose to create the Golden Order in the Crucible era to fool the Erdtree into giving her the ability to destroy it, and it was after Gurranq "defeated" her and the Godskins.
    5. I think the reason Melina has the Gloam Eye later is because this was the purpose she was given in the Erdtree by Marika, and she became the new GEQ once death was restored.
    6. I think Godwin was sacrificed first because he was the most loyal Empyrean to the Golden Order and could not be swayed from it.
    7. I think Melina's purpose in Marika's big plot was to restore Destined Death to the world, and Ranni's was to remove the influence of the Outer Gods from the Lands Between.
    Please confirm/poke holes in all this as much as possible. I thank you all in advance for your contributions to my mental stability.

  • @vilek_7235
    @vilek_7235 Před měsícem

    I dont how relevant this is to the theory, but Godwyn's character seem heavily inspired by Baldur, a god in norse mythology who, just like Godwyn, is the first god to die, leading to the events of Ragnarok, just like how Godwyn's death lead to the shattering
    Baldur is said to be the most loved of all gods, with his beauty said to outshine the sun itself

  • @themasquerader101
    @themasquerader101 Před měsícem

    I feel like she is tethered to the spectral steed whistle on some way. That could be how she sees everything we do. Just a thought

  • @Colamannen95
    @Colamannen95 Před 2 měsíci

    This video made me rethink everything with Melina. If anything, because of how similar they are, she is more like Millicent.
    Since they both lost memory after their birth, they were both born from a god (if it's true) and both are searching for a purpose that were lost through their memory.
    And btw, the "won’t allow anyone to speak ill of that" was probably refering to Shabriri, after he try to convince you to "spare the girl"

  • @ETERNALXGAMEPLAY
    @ETERNALXGAMEPLAY Před 2 měsíci

    I believe you’re 100 percent correct

  • @nicholasloduca6668
    @nicholasloduca6668 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I started a new playthrough just to enter the DLC with Melina alive to see if there is anything different. June 21st can't come quick enough

    • @eddyh5
      @eddyh5 Před 2 měsíci

      If you spare Melina by burning yourself instead and then stick yourself with the needle, is there anything different that happens since she lives?

    • @nicholasloduca6668
      @nicholasloduca6668 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@eddyh5 To my knowledge, there is nothing special that happens. Missed opportunity

    • @eddyh5
      @eddyh5 Před 2 měsíci

      @@nicholasloduca6668 Missed opportunity forsure. Same with the Millicent quest ending. I keep hoping they will adjust things with the dlc...

  • @NordicVigilante
    @NordicVigilante Před 2 měsíci

    I was thinking more that Melina is Marika to The impalers Radagon since i saw the trailer, it makes sense to me honestly.shes confused because the link is severed for some reason perhaps

  • @WilliamWallace-ts6qh
    @WilliamWallace-ts6qh Před 2 měsíci

    All of this can be true, and she can be the Gloam Eyed Queen (or rather a vessel for her), especially if you consider the Great Tree the godly manifestation/representation of the Gloam Eyed Queen, in the same way you'd consider the Erd Tree to be the same of Marika. There is so much evidence that Melina is a spiritual vessel for the GEQ that's starting to get overwhelming. That said, there's always a wrench. Also, on a side note, D is a mimic of Darian (which is why a silver version is popping out of the golden armor in the Twin Set, and why D is found in Nokron, where all teh silver tears are), and Radagon is a mimic of Marika (but he had to be disguised in order for Marika to escape the same fate of the Nox, who tried to create their own Elden Lord and were punished).

  • @AokiKatsumata
    @AokiKatsumata Před 2 měsíci

    Cool theory, and very nicely articulated.
    I believe that Melina is actually Messmer for many of the same reasons that you mentioned. I think she may be to Messmer what Marika is to Radagon, except that they became separate entities, perhaps due to being burnt by the Destined Death flames of Maliketh (if she is also the GEQ). Or perhaps because she is the one who once burned the Erdtree, and that would make sense of why Messmer represents the epitome of blasphemy! The reason why she has forgotten all this is still a mystery though. Maybe her memories and motives somehow stayed with Messmer, her body, while the rest of her conscience went to TLB.
    Anyway, their faces and mouth shapes look very similar, and they have the same closed eye; Melina also wishes for "death indiscriminate", which much looks like the role of Messmer in TLoS. The way she kindles a ring of flame in her left hand during the FF ending also reminds me of the way Messmer summons his flame in his right hand.
    Great observation about the Crucible sigil, given that she was born at the foot of the Erdtree! If one of Messmer's roles is that of overseeing the black tree/Crucible, then it makes full sense.
    Just maybe one correction: the sap that drips from the tree is definitely intended, not caused by a disaster, as shown by the fact that there's a huge building dedicated to collecting it (and in the shape of a Rune Arc, no less!). It probably never stopped dripping since the Age of Plenty, but it came to a swift end in TLB likely because it's during that time that Marika concealed the real tree under a veil, and replaced it with an "object of faith" (Blessed Dew Talisman). We also know that "when the Age of the Erdtree began, such blessings were personally bestowed upon their recipients by Queen Marika herself" (Erdtree's Favor). And what better place to bestow these blessings than the foot of the true Erdtree, in the land where she became a god, in other words, her true headquarters? As much as I'd love more Godwyn lore in the DLC, the color of the tree and its dripping sap are in all likeliness not his doing. I do agree that this tree was once burned though, the in-game imagery in Leydell makes that much obvious enough.
    Great content and a lot of food for thought, thanks!

  • @Mike-xp8zc
    @Mike-xp8zc Před měsícem

    Idk if its been brought up before but I noticed St Trinas Lilly isn't corrupted like that the erd tree flowers in calied

  • @warpstorm1988
    @warpstorm1988 Před měsícem

    My theory is that Melina is Marika’s “reincarnated” spirit as an attempt to avoid punishment/escape the Erdtree and “birthing” herself is why she’s got a shard of destined death through her womb.

  • @the1384
    @the1384 Před 2 měsíci

    Nice Vid
    Let me tell you something I noticed
    Radagon came from the Crucible and he is Marikas Real Shadow.
    Marikas sole need of her Shadow was to seal away Destined Death.
    By shattering the Elden Ring and Radagons attempt to Ursurp Marika, the Fabric of Time was also damaged as well. But only mixed then to be replaced. For example Marika hid the Shadow Lands to hide her origins. Now apply it to Radagon who is also Marika.
    Not Marika sealed Destined Death it was Radagon and he is the one who shatterd the Elden Ring. Try to change there roles presented to us in game.
    When we read or hear about Marika we have to think about Radagon and the other way around.

  • @canigetauhhhhhhhhhhh5170
    @canigetauhhhhhhhhhhh5170 Před 2 měsíci

    Could be wrong but the line “I won’t let anyone speak ill of that, not even you” is supposed to happen after talking to Shabriri. The way I see it is she’s telling you not to get in the way of her goals even if it means you can save her life.

  • @looots1320
    @looots1320 Před 2 měsíci +1

    One person made Miquella is Melina now everyone doing it wtf

  • @lordpaps2270
    @lordpaps2270 Před měsícem

    A Melina boss fight would be baller

  • @moose8762
    @moose8762 Před 2 měsíci

    I am curious what role Melina will play in the DLC, since she is usually our exposition in the base game. Will she be replaced by Miquella? They don’t currently plan on making any more DLCs nor a sequel, so I would hope quite a bit of the lore is clarified in it

  • @Hiddenhand1
    @Hiddenhand1 Před měsícem

    Damn ,its been so long ago since i played , Elden Ring

  • @dbfzato-1327
    @dbfzato-1327 Před 2 měsíci

    i like the theory but i think the great tree is a conifer, i think its in the deep root depths, (we know the greater will seems to like burying things of the past) is a lot of different looking tree stumps and vines and even roots down there, seems the trees had there own cruisible, we know the flowers did from the miranda flower, another thing i recently seen was a lot of the trees down there are in pairs, like twins, same with the big trees up north, also the trees in the forbidden land are weird all seem to be converging, lots of trees growing into one mass, much like the crucible statues!
    on the erdtree is self on the wooden bit seems to be a pic of a tree on top of the erdtree, more spiky, i think is a layer situation like bloodborne, i'm thinking the land of light above, the land of shadow below
    2 more things, the erdtree covers the forbidden lands and the omen twins tower with a weird shadow like mist as well, seems sus
    i always assumed the erd tree was the sun in elden ring, but on mt gelmir you can see it due north hidden behind thick clouds, another thing i find SUPER SUS is the word sun not in the vocabulary of our message system, i dont think thats a oversight

  • @saibudaraju2103
    @saibudaraju2103 Před 2 měsíci

    If there's any stellar blade lore will you do lore videos on that game? I know other game videos didn't do too well but I wonder if you try lore videos with similar thumbnails and titles it might get picked up well by the algorithm?

    • @agtjake
      @agtjake  Před 2 měsíci +1

      I'll give it a try! Can't hurt

  • @TheRealJohnux
    @TheRealJohnux Před měsícem

    Well... she can be a part Miquella, she could be an aspect of the gloam eyed queen, we don't have conclusive evidence to proof or deny either, because Melina herself has no mention by name in lore, be it Item describtions, area storytelling or characters. Not a single person ever during the runtime of Elden Ring mentions Melina by name, not Even Ranni who is speculated to have a Spiritual connection to Melina via the Ritual that involved the rune of death.
    You know what, if she is a part of Miquella of some sort he was thinking about an alias and thought about Malenia and then he just went "you are now Ma- me lina, you are Melina"

  • @Kat2KsRetroRecordings
    @Kat2KsRetroRecordings Před 2 měsíci

    And I am the Lord of Frenzied Flame....that should be interesting. >

  • @tylerwastripped1590
    @tylerwastripped1590 Před 2 měsíci +1

    You might be on to it

  • @stormquist9405
    @stormquist9405 Před měsícem +2

    Melinda IS Miquella

  • @sliamenoob
    @sliamenoob Před měsícem

    okay so she used to live in the erdtree and she had a mother and lived with her this is just a wild guess but could she be related to queen marika, and then there is something else she can hear echos of queen marika that we cannot hear, i think she is related to marika but not radagon which would explain why she can hear the echos of long lost lore or facts about queen marika, or it could be that she has a bond/relation with the erdtree because in the journey she wants to go to the center of the erdtree, it could also be that miquella has spoken with melina which would explain why she didnt find someone worthy of traveling with her in the first place or in other words she did find other worthy tarnished that didnt have a maiden but was simply waiting for the right time or the right tarnished. This is just a guess.

  • @seiz209
    @seiz209 Před 2 měsíci +12

    “I won’t allow anyone to speak ill of that, not even you” that made me turn to frenzy haha

    • @sweetscience8038
      @sweetscience8038 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Why? Because you don't like free will?

    • @seiz209
      @seiz209 Před 2 měsíci

      @@sweetscience8038 cause I’m doing all her bidding and randomly she’s like “im just sayin, I got goals and not even you can stop me” like damn I wasn’t gonna but now I feel like it haha

    • @llab3903
      @llab3903 Před měsícem

      @@sweetscience8038because the attitude is uncalled for and spiking it in her face teaches her that lesson

  • @Inflatedchair
    @Inflatedchair Před 2 měsíci

    will we get a new ending with her since we get the dlc before she is burned?

  • @paul_solis
    @paul_solis Před měsícem

    Is the strangler tree death blight though? It lacks some significant visual elements like the thorns. I've long thought it's a parasite from the stars, hence the massive crater in the middle of the lands between, but has since been covered up and hidden in the land of shadow.

    • @paul_solis
      @paul_solis Před měsícem

      Also, both the "Great Tree" and the strangler tree are burned. Did Messmer burn them both on Marika's orders? Baaahhh

  • @henriqueacabral
    @henriqueacabral Před 21 hodinou

    Cute guy. Kinda sad that theory of miquella being melina turned out to not be true. But yours seems more plausible. Good work dude

  • @frankiefromky
    @frankiefromky Před měsícem

    Yo, I believe Melina as the Gloam-Eyed Queen is the only one who can allow Godwin to have true death and be at rest. This is why Miquella went to the Shadow Realm, in search of the Gloam-Eyed Queen so she can deliver true death and allow Godwin to finally rest... or maybe it could be to restore Godwins soul? idk... but I can't wait to see what Shadow of the Erdtree has in store for us!!

  • @CrimsonRayne
    @CrimsonRayne Před měsícem

    I believe melina is acting and working for the greater good, she knows golden rule is flawed but not irredeemable. She hates frenzied but cant stop us because we are real and she isnt if we went frenzied route. I believe she is good. Marika wanted to overthrough the golden rule so that would be marikas purpose too?

  • @bryanwhitney6199
    @bryanwhitney6199 Před měsícem

    Just an idea. Maybe we’re thinking of the “Shadow” of the Erdtree in the wrong way. The only other shadows mention in the game are Maliketh and Blaidd. Maybe this tree is similar to that kind of shadow.

  • @dylans8793
    @dylans8793 Před 15 dny

    Maybe her mom was that golem eye queen

  • @FartsHaveATaste
    @FartsHaveATaste Před měsícem

    So Marika wanted to become a God. She had the Great Tree destroyed, she had Melina bestowed with the embodiment of destined death, a God slayer. She set all of this in motion herself and tried to bury it and pin it on others. (Or perhaps she fought with her other half, Radagon on these things). With her burying everything that occurred in that period, sealed Melina's power and memory of being the Gloam Eyed Queen. Perhaps the battle that took place in The Shadow of the Erd Tree, (which is unsung now as mentioned in the trailer, thanks to her burying and outlawing it all) was a battle between Marika and Godwyn to claim God hood. Or Godwyn trying to relinquish it being a good guy... maybe even attempting to stop the burning of the great tree. HMmMmMmmmm... I love fromsoft lore 😂

  • @Galamoth06
    @Galamoth06 Před 2 měsíci

    There are an awful lot of big assumptions in this theory. That Melina is the GEQ, that the Greattree is an actual thing, that the Erdtree was never actually real, that the tree in the DLC is the Greattree even though we know it doesn't take place in the past, that it's "clearly" being choked by Godwyn's Deathroot...

    • @AokiKatsumata
      @AokiKatsumata Před 2 měsíci

      At this point the "Greattree" is just another synonym of the Crucible in people's minds, so it's probably fine to use them interchangeably. The tree in TLoS is really most likely the Crucible though, as it's dripping sap the same way it did in the Age of Plenty, and the trailer is FULL of Crucible imagery (worship of beasts, horns, grafting, Crucible AoW...). While you're right it doesn't take place in the past, these things have continued to exist under Marika's veil this whole time, so "Crucible" and "present time" aren't mutually exclusive.

  • @tarasouthwell6132
    @tarasouthwell6132 Před 2 měsíci

    Gurranq and maliketh are clearly the same person. If you do the entirety of his quest line and give him all the death root, he seems confused and betrayed when you show up to kill him in Farum azula.
    I still think Melina is marika's daughter, and sibling to miquella and malenia. There's a statue of miquella in the haligtree where he's playing with 3 wolves (shadows), implying a third sibling. Her name fits the naming convention, and miquella and malenia have butterflies (nascent and aeonian) but the smoldering butterflies aren't claimed by anyone, but Melina is scarred from fire and can channel the giant's flame.
    I think that like most of her siblings, she rebelled against the golden order, and Allied herself with the God skins. She attempted a coup and died in the process.

  • @heptagramm
    @heptagramm Před 2 měsíci +3

    Ahhh so good to see you're back to theories.

  • @nathanb5579
    @nathanb5579 Před 21 dnem

    Godwyn is going to be in shadow of the erdtree

  • @KevD720
    @KevD720 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Melina is Miquella

  • @Elder_Wyvern
    @Elder_Wyvern Před 2 měsíci

    Melina will be the final boss of the DLC and all of us are going to get our jaws dropped.

  • @Lul_Nug
    @Lul_Nug Před 2 měsíci

    i watch all your videos on melina and idk why but i am constantly coming to the conclusion that she is a daughter of radagon and marika and was born or created when they were made into 1

  • @tomisinolapo2317
    @tomisinolapo2317 Před 2 měsíci

    Did any one notice that Maliketh sword is broken at the handle? It is not a complete arc

  • @fastenough3287
    @fastenough3287 Před 2 měsíci

    how many answers vs new questions do you think we'll be getting from the DLC? lol

  • @Practicallypreposterous
    @Practicallypreposterous Před 2 měsíci

    Melina is Messmer's kindling maiden as well I bet

    • @tristanward9937
      @tristanward9937 Před měsícem

      I think she is him. Similar to st Trina and radagon.

  • @matlegend165
    @matlegend165 Před 8 dny

    What if her comment the circumstances of her birth is to say that she wasnt raised by her mother likely marika and donsnt know a proper relationship with one or even the feeling of a mothers love due to how marika is

  • @chandlerkeck6361
    @chandlerkeck6361 Před 2 měsíci

    If Melina is bodiless how was she able to be used as kindling?

  • @bloodandbonezzz
    @bloodandbonezzz Před 2 měsíci +1

    Melina is Marika

  • @jollyranchercommander1092
    @jollyranchercommander1092 Před 2 měsíci +1

    i think melina is miquella/trina

  • @xflip94
    @xflip94 Před 2 měsíci

    Miquella is burnt and bodyless is he not? His body looks pretty burned to me. And when Melinas wearing a hood she looks like trina

  • @abstractnonsense3253
    @abstractnonsense3253 Před měsícem

    I' though the mark on her eye was representative of the three fingers.

  • @5XOCYD
    @5XOCYD Před 2 měsíci +1

    So we go inside Melina for the dlc?

  • @strengthsleuth
    @strengthsleuth Před 2 měsíci

    Melina’s “birth” at the foot of the Erdtree does not necessarily imply birth in the physical sense! It could imply the “birth” of her purpose or this persona as we know it given to her by Marika! Memory is fickle in Elden ring and if Melina is Numen by race and physically born in the realm of shadow my theory is that the gloam eyed queen (Melina) may have been the lord in the previous age who had her memory wiped and purpose twisted by Marika.

  • @RandomGuySky7537
    @RandomGuySky7537 Před 2 měsíci

    You could take this a step further and say that Melina is the Halig tree. Miquella could have created Melina to burn herself and spread her ashes around the Erd tree in order to grow around it and strangle it

  • @CheezburgerSub
    @CheezburgerSub Před měsícem

    I still think shes ranni. Between the eyes, the silhouette, 4 arms, ranni also has red hair and looks like is wearing that same clothes...
    Also "foot of the erdtree" could radagon and rennala create a dual being using the erdtree? Or sonething of that nature?

  • @free2disagree800
    @free2disagree800 Před měsícem

    I took this pic behind the beast sanctuary. Does it look like another tree? Or what? Ok it won't let me put the picture up. Behind beast sanctuary is what appears to be another tree. What you think???

  • @tharris3600
    @tharris3600 Před 2 měsíci +2

    This is probably the first theory of yours that Ive really really liked.
    This may be slightly cope, considering that a Melina boss fight/explanation is what I want the most.

    • @Scadu_Orhyn
      @Scadu_Orhyn Před 2 měsíci

      That would be difficult to explain. If anyone could find a narrative loophole to figure it out, it’s Miyazaki.
      I think maybe fighting the flesh of Melina would make sense? Idk I’m just guessing how a melina fight would make sense lol

  • @protestantanon2534
    @protestantanon2534 Před 2 měsíci

    Final boss has to be Melina, she wants to put an end to it all so she trains us up to be the strongest warrior ever, only because she knows that is the only one so we can have a chance at killing her. A snake eating its tail ending to the story.

    • @agtjake
      @agtjake  Před 2 měsíci +1

      Epic.

    • @fernandopagninschmid4934
      @fernandopagninschmid4934 Před měsícem

      ​@@agtjake hi, do you think is better tô go in dlc with melina alive, tô see her describe the shadow real, but I have tô star a newgameplus or, go without her in shadow realm

  • @WingsofLightandDark
    @WingsofLightandDark Před 2 měsíci

    You know...I once read a theory about Melina actually being Godwyn. Or, at least, a fragment of Godwyn saved by Queen Marika.

    • @ShadeStormXD
      @ShadeStormXD Před 2 měsíci

      sounds whack

    • @WingsofLightandDark
      @WingsofLightandDark Před 2 měsíci

      @@ShadeStormXD to be fair, a lot of Elden Ring theories sound whack. Even so, many of them still hold some merit.

  • @fleetstreet11
    @fleetstreet11 Před 2 měsíci

    Meli-Meli deserved better