Maliketh, the Black Blade Lore & Story Explained - Elden Ring
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- Maliketh, The Black Blade is a Boss in Elden Ring. Maliketh was a shadowbound beast given to his Empyrean. Marika's soul need of her shadow was a vessel to lock away Destined Death. Even then, she betrayed him.
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#EldenRing - Hry
I hated this boss fight not because of its difficulty, but because I did feed him the 9 death root and grew to like him. I was really sad realizing I had to kill my friend.
I beat him in 3 tries using an OP build. Kind it wish I didn't. I fight him in coop now
He still lives in the bestial sanctum if you don't give him all the deathroot. Makes the fight not seem so sad, but also feels like a major oversight.
@@techsupport1294 wait holdup in my playthrough though once I beat him he wasn't there in the sanctum anymore still the gargoyle is standing outside.
@@happyroguue9358 I wonder if it was patched. Guess I'll have to try another ng to find out.
@Tech Support I’ve heard that he is still alive because crumbling farum azula exist outside the concept of time
The way my heart just broke when he recognized the player… THE HURT IN HIS VOICE
"Tarnished...? Why... Why wouldst thou..."
@@TheStraightestWhitest Tis no matter... I hereby vow- that Destined Death shall not be stollen again.
Lmao
Then your heart will probably shatter when you see the additional cutscene of sif recognizing the player in ds1
IM SORRY OK!? ITS MANDATORY! ILL BRING YOU BACK TO LIFE SOON!
So far, Maliketh is having no problem at all protecting the rune from me
How about now? Any updates?
@@laufeyisgood I beat him after about 80 thousand tries. Given enough time, monkeys can also replicate the works of Shakespeare, though.
I defeated him yesterday after months! You can do it!
@@dvaccaro96I never touched a souls game in my life, played elden ring and I'm on ng+3 with a total of 60 hours on the game, I think I need help😭
I kept at it for 7 hours and wasn’t even upset I was dying so much sometimes I’d do pretty good then just get fucked and sometimes I wouldn’t get a single hit on phase 2😂 then suddenly I was imbued with the power of god himself and got a perfect flow state run and I’ve never felt so good in my entire life
"This boss doesn't seem so bad. He takes a lot of damage and doesn't do that much."
30 seconds later
"I regret ever speaking"
He takes care of that don’t worry
Malekith killed me three times even before i hit him lol he's so fast...He's also the only boss to kill my level 10 mimic...I killed him on my fourth try used comet azur fives times on his ass that did it lol 😂
@@The_Dead_Zone I did it with rotten breath and run away. Honor died with Radahn, and I have not such thing :D
@@TheAndertejker truly maidenless behavior.
Yeah
His transition cutscene to the second phase is breathtaking. How he sheds his gurranq facade and becomes Maliketh with that roar and the fighting stance he displays. Good shit
S tier level of hype
@@carlos.cr.7139 he deserved two full phases not just one
Yup that cutscene showed exactly why all the demigods were scared of him who the hells gonna try to kill Marika after seeing that?
Ikr I really wished he had more of a impact on the story
6:30 First playthrough I found all the deathroot and when I walked through to this bossroom I genuinely wanted to cry cause he was the only quest I did
Same. I felt saddened I had to put him down… but it had to be done.
O'death become my blade once more
I find it funny how Gurranq doesn’t disappear from the Bestial Sanctum even after killing Maliketh. Guy must want the death root BAD
@@chicken29843 tbh the game is just weird with things like that, another example is mohg, the omen still being alive after you kill mohg, lord of blood and vice versa
@@dereklol8310 I believe the Omens are after-images and can exist somewhat independently of the original
@@dereklol8310 they are twins.
He goes to the crumbling azula after you give him all the roots. The azula exist outside of time I think
@@BoTheJo my first and second playthrough convinced me they're not the same character.
During my first playthrough I didn't feed Gurranq all 9 deathroots and after I killed Maliketh when I teleported to Gurranq he immediately started attacking me. When I got him to half health he begged me to stop then began asking for deathroot again.
My second playthrough proved to me Farum Azula exists during the events of the game. Its not a past or future stage because you can access it early at the 4 belfries long before fighting Maliketh. The time dilation only applies to fighting to Placidusaxx because he's in the past
1:00 I'm sorry but that's a whole bakery
fr
Ranni always trusted Blaidd and kept him close, and loved him til the very end, and she *can* get what she wanted. Marika abandoned Maliketh and lost everything. Moral of the story: treat the good boys right
Wow clearly you know nothing of the lore, imagine thinking Ranni is the good guy in the story😂 ps she cares so less she ask you to kill nlaiid because he's no use anymore
He didn’t say she was the good guy, only she got what she wanted…
@@throwawaw5129 I can see you can not read between the lines how disappointing
@@miissfits498 i don’t know lore but i’ve no idea how you got the idea of them saying ranni was the good guy.. soo the other person actually has a point
@@ydiom He said Ranni kept Blais close and loved him and compared her to Marika in a negative manner read between the lines instead of acting DUMD.
If guts were ever to fully embrace the beserker armor I imagine it would be close to this.
Close to what
@@adrian9420 mutha f*cking epic savagery and carnage to rip out Zodds furry ball sacks and feed it down his throat. That’s what hahaha
@@adrian9420 to Maliketh
Meh guts is badass but he's no god of death xd
@@intelsucks7365 Maliketh is the keeper of destined death, not the god of death.
I wish they would've given his 2nd phase a full health bar, he was just way too easy when you consider the fact that he's one of the strongest characters in the lore. I get why they didn't make a mandatory boss that difficult though.
This mofo whooped my ass for 4 days straight
Theres a glitch where he spawns in hid 2nd phase with a full health bar...trust me you dont want it
@@norotokugawa9462 I know I don't....but it'll hurt so good
fr, lore wise maliketh would far outclass all the demigods with malenia included. man was an absolute beast
@@leonardomontealegre3284 literately
Ah so he's the equivalent to Marika as Bliev to Ranni. That's cool
It’s blaidd, which is Welsh for “wolf”. It is however pronounced like “blai-vth”
@@teeboh99 Oh I didnt know the meaning.
Thats awesome.
yep
except he was strong enough to singlehandedly beat the gloam eyed queen and her army
without the black blade
im not even sure why he didn't become the elden lord himself and just kill all Demi gods and gods
@@lordkira9791 because he's not only Marika's shadow but her half brother and physically incapable of betraying her unless she went against the greater will.
@@lordkira9791because even with all that power the Two fingers still control his free will.
Maliketh: *is tasked to kill someone*
The person being hunted by Maliketh: *hears an ominous whistle in the distance*
"I'm death, straight up"
Malekith and his sword remind me of Guts when he’s possessed in the Berserker Armor and using the dragon slayer sword
@@chicken29843 Lmao! His hitboxes are way better and he shits all over Artorias. Artorias was a top 3 favourite boss of mine until Elden Ring came out. Maliketh is better in every single way. Lore, story, presentation, voice, music, graphics (duh), effects, moveset, hitboxes, versatility, everything.
@@chicken29843 peaked in ds1?? tf is this fool talking about
No
💀💀💀
0:58 idk what’s thiccer, this lore or marikas cake
Those are some birthing hips
*proceeds to have hair change to red and grow a dick*
Radagon: Wassup baby
😂
lmfaoooooo had to pause there and then and come see if anyone else mentioned about this as well 😭😭
@@RuthwikRao Same here💀💀
@@RuthwikRao same I’m like WTF why she so caked
I really thought that Maliketh and Gurranq were separate entities but seeing how they have dialogue linked to the Deathroots makes me question it completely.
theres so much more linking them aswell:
-if you look at gurranq’s arm, he has maliketh’s death rune crystal thing
-there is a black blade kindred outside of gurranq’s bestial sanctum. the black blades, who themselves have attacks that have a destined-death like damage over time effect, are said to serve maliketh in the item descriptions for their weapons
-besides the black blade kindred, the small doll enemies outside of the bestial sanctum also have the black and red destined death-like effect on their weapons
-the bridge outside of the bestial sanctum is called the farum greatbridge. this is an obvious reference to the bridge in farum azula that leads to maliketh
-gurranq’s name means “death of the demigods”, which makes sense since all the demigods fear maliketh and his destined death was used by the black knives to kill a demigod (godwyn)
there are other connections between gurranq and maliketh but it’s pretty much confirmed they’re the same person
@@dereklol8310 yes but its still surprising considering that you kill Maliketh yet Gurranq is still alive, which I assume is a statement that Farum Azula is in a some sort of different timeline or something.
@@lionheart4424 i can see that being a reason but i just find it weird because the same thing happens with mohg. killing mohg, the omen in subterranean shunning grounds doesn’t affect mohg, lord of blood in the mohgwyn dynasty, and vice versa. if i had to justify both cases, i would just say that gurranq and mohg the omen are just clones that maliketh and mohg, lord of blood respectively use for some reason, like how morgott made clones of himself (margit and the other margit we find right outside of leyndell’s main wall)
@@dereklol8310 that's a good point, shadow clone jutsu is a thing in that world since even Godfrey had one in Leyndell.
Its his character story line, if you didn't complete the beastman quest then he'll still be there after maliketh. The goal was to complete his questline before you fight him. On the final deathroot, he will be outside the sanctum on the left, staring up at farrum azula. Once you give him the deathroot he disappears on that spot.
Love maliketh after learning of him, I was giving him death root one at a time and before he goes Agro for a bit he was standing on the cliff side roaring into the sea. I knew right away this was a very afflicted character and honestly it did not disappoint when I saw it’s conclusion
Out of all the characters Maliketh was my favorite and why I didnt regret going with the prophet build
Honestly he's quickly becoming my favourite designed character
this video is criminally underrated, thank you so much for this. your delivery is so perfect and amazing, please continue making this top tier content!!
Wasn’t it Rannie and Rykard that teamed up to kill Godwyn? I think Marika shattered the elden ring in anger/sadness.
That's what they want you to think
There is a theory that Marika figured out the Greater Will's idea to dominate the Lands Between. So she cast away Godfrey and the Tarnished to survive in the harsh lands without gods and become strong. Tasked the Black Knifes to help Ranni. Broke the Elden Ring. And entrusted Melina to burn the Erdtree, then the Tarnished eventually return to try and fix the Elden Ring and enter a conflict with the Greater Will. Most of this is sourced by speaking to Melina at different Churches.
It is also a completely dumb idea, as Ranni is the character that conjures the big plan to remake the world order. Having another character with the same plan, but even more overkill is stupid. Also sacrificing Godwyn, her firstborn, so Ranni's can kill herself and do her Age of Stars plan? There is a level of foresight Marika can have, before the story falls into complete idiocy.
It makes way more sense for Marika to be a benevolent ruler, that removed the Rune of Death, so none of her subjects would die (opposed to doing it only to benifit the gods). And when a mysterious subject kills her firstborn son, shatter the Elden Ring in rage/grief to punish her subjects, who seem to reject her benevolent rule. This fits with Roderika's final words, and the truth that Gideon saw.
It also makes the Greater Will a better villain, since he can outmanuever Marika's rage, by having Radagon constantly repair the Elden Ring. And gives a reasonable explanation to why he would fuse them together at start. Essentually rulling the Lands Between via the constant stalemate, instead of Marika's original perfect world (very much similar to the different versions of the Matrix). While in the 2000 iq Marika theory, Greater Will is just an arrogant mong who stands there and waits for her plan to succeed, which it does.
This is probably left intentionally for personal interpretation, but until we learn all there is to know about Melina/Gloom-Eye Queen, we can't say for sure what is the true scenario. The war with the Gloom-Eyed Queen will reveal what was Marika's real opinion on death and why Melina is tasked with burning the Erdtree...
... Not like if Marika wants to break the Ring to fuck over the world, she wouldn't send her daughter to kill the parasite tree.
Ranni killed godwyn but she had blessed rykards sword so he could take care of shit if she failed, but she didn't. Rykard kinda did nothing tbh
I think Marika wanted to defy the greater will, and when that happens the greater will makes their shadow go beserk and kill them (the same reason Iji sealed Blaidd away)
marika shattered the ring in defiance from the greater will. Though she was sad as fuck that godwyn died. And yeah it was ranni and her motley anime protaganist crew that killed godwyn. Guts, a random titan and everyones waifu in witch cosplay killed some golden boy.
0:58 no wonder why Radagon left Renala for Marika
"White girls got better cake than Asians. Worth it even if selfcest." - Radagon, probably
Love it 😍, the first few minutes are allready great. thanks for sharing
I'm convinced Marika set him up...she knew when she planned to step out of line against the greater will, it would beckon maliketh as her shadow to put her down and he would've done it effortlessly as the "demi god slayer" or whatever. I'm not opposed to the theory she guilted him into engraving the rune of death into himself. As the vessel of the elden ring, she knew that would cripple him into his need for death root. But meh, speculation
Fr bro even after he fought hard to protect the rune of death for her she betrayed him
Marika seems to be a bitch in general as far as we can tell. She only serves herself
Actually, that's not how she betrayed him. Maliketh is not bound by the Greater Will. That's a common misconception. He's not like Baleful Shadows. He likely inspired them. He himself precedes the Golden Order. He wasn't made by the Greater Will. How do we know that? His spell descriptions mention that the first ever use of incantations were the use of rocks, something he's the origin of as he has the only rock based spells.
So he's not bound to Marika by anything other than willing oath, and he's not bound to the Greater Will. Marika betrayed the Greater Will, yet Maliketh did not go mad and put her down.
So it's actually more tragic than you thought. Marika did betray him, but she betrayed him by abusing his undying loyalty. She had him guard the Rune of Death, and he swore he would. Then she turned on the Greater Will, and she knew Maliketh would not harm her because of his oath and because she's his half sister
She basically betrayed everything he stood for and relied on him being too pure to retaliate over it directly, which he was.
@@TheStraightestWhitest well the rememberance of the black blade states that he was a shadow bound beast given to Marika as she was an empyrean. Idk who else would give a beast like that, and the use of the term shadowbound sounds s lot like the same type of relationship Blaidd has with Ranni. You're right about stones being the weapons of beasts who had gained intelligence as the description of the bestial sling clearly states so, so Maliketh does possibly predate the erdtree, and the bestial constitution states how beasts must have felt their wildness slip away as civilization took hold.
So this all probably means that Maliketh is OLD and I mean REALLY FUCKING OLD to predate the erdtree and probably be among the first beasts to gain intelligence, so unless maliketh just uses ancient incantations of beasts, you're probably right actually. He probably entered the greater wills service by the time he was fully grown and was then gifted to Marika
Maliketh would eat Malenia and Radahn for breakfast.
He wins but I could see Radahn giving him a tough go. Malenia only becomes a problem is she uses the weird outer Rot god ability again.
I beat Maliketh my first try solo, Radahn took me about 20 tries and I needed like 6 summons there with me but that was also before they nerfed him.
@@djames6043 yeah but you were on another lvl with this two,and that dépends on your build too Guy
Theres à lot of vidéo of bosses 1v1
Maliketh solo all bosses,elden beast too
@@Livan-yuruikami I guess that's a fair point, I'm not saying Maliketh is easy by any means I just had a tougher time with Radahn, I do love both bosses though everything from the design to the lore so if Maliketh is #1 and Radahn is #2 for best bosses then I can live with that
@@djames6043 i think you'r right cause I will fight maliketh soon but radahn was an horror
Love it - thank you for this. I had quite difficulty following all the stories as a new player. This was exceptionally done.
I love these videos!!! Keep em coming man! Would be cool if you did other lore videos!!!
I 💚 those videos, keep them coming man.👏👏👏
Nice job Dan, I like how you are improving these videos 👍
One part that interested me is if you kill the beastman clergyman as he dies he cries out to Merica asking why she shattered the ring.
So i guess lorewise, Maliketh is the strongest being in the game. He could kill literally anybody, including the Elden Beast if he wanted. Only reason why he doesn't is because he's a good boy to Marika.
This man's voice is by far the most chilling and intimidating voice I've heard in any FromSoft game. Fuck he's scary, I don't say that about many bosses.
And the more impressive thing is that isn't in any means modulated, the actor did that by himself.
These are phenomenal, sir. Thank you!
Malekith was such a bad ass. Love Malekith's Black Blade! Used it in my 2nd Journey for stabbing shenanigans.
Also nice Ronin set. I'm rocking it with the Okina mask.
literally same
Try it with the hooded banishes knight helm
So does every emperean have a shadow? Radagons is his red wolf, Rannis is Blaidd and Marikas is Maliketh. So what about Malenia and Miquella?
Technically they could be each other, like Malenia is Miquella's shadow
@@oliver1834 good point
@@oliver1834 “blade of miquella”
@@oliver1834 Makes sense.
"I am Melenia, *BLADE OF MIQUELLA* " this should tell who it is
Love your voice man. It’s perfect for this theme of storytelling.
I think the black knife assassins were numens who were jealous of marika and when ranni gave them the means to hurt her they took it. considering ranni pretty much tells you her side of the story she never mentions godwyn so I'm unconvinced she had a hand in his death other than giving the means to the black knifes.
Ah finaly a plausible argument. I always disliked Ranni despite all the enthousiasm around her character because i thought she decided to kill Godwyn but you've helped me make out the rest of the story. I know the black knife assassins had a falling out with Ranni so maybe that was it
@@Morbak546 the ringleader of the black knives is imprisoned in a evergoal that is located in the area that is accessible at the end of her questline. I say her area because adula the dragon that she befriended guards the area. Why would she imprison her if she was involved with her?
@@Wolf-bz6kq where is it said that ranni befriended adula? Didn't read that yet.
Also i don't pay too much attention to evergaols in general like why is there an ancient hero of Zamor in the weeping peninsula?
At any rate, it's never stated anywhere that Ranni took revenge on the black knives, just that they had a falling out so I wouldn't know why she would imprison Alecto there, nor if it was even Ranni that actualy did it.
@@Morbak546 when u kill adula then go to dragon shrine to get "adula's breath" and read its description. After u kill astel the area beyond has a temple guarded by adula (optional kill) the whole hilltop is all ranni if u study the area. The gaol is on the northwestern edge
Ranni is a manipulative selfish spiteful and she is the reason why everything went to shit.
Easily my favorite elden ring boss amazing lore, sound track, and character design 10/10 imo
beautiful video
Awesome 👍👀🔥🔥🔥💯
10:26 GOOD GRIEF HE'S NAKED!
Maliketh and his draconic tree sentinel buddy did a good job of keeping me from the rune of death
It's sad that we have to kill all these lords who are just following orders or being loyal to the cause they believe in. I gave him all the death root so I didn't know he had other words if you didn't complete his questline. He was a epic fight and visually awesome
awesome Dan! Hope to see a Malenia and Miquella video 😁
I think the splitting of the five fingers into two and three might’ve been representative or consequence of removing the rune of death from the elden ring
May I know the name of the song you used at the very end of your video ? :D
1:00 marika making me fold 💀💀
Bosses I never even wanted to kill and wish I could save: Radahn, Maliketh/Garrunq, Morgot, and Godfrey (lmk who I missed)
I don't understand why Godfrey didn't team up with you considering he was essentially the king of the tarnished
Fyi, they didn't die permanently tho, they became a rememberance and their spirit is in erdtree
Gideon massacred a village of Albinaurics
@@SwanTeeth yeah I redacted my statement
@@mikerzisu9508 you killed his son and the grace of gold was driving him to kill you in the cutscene before you fight him
The coolest boss and perhaps the most challenging. I think he's definitely the boss that you have to have the most talent on the sticks in order to beat. He's ferocious, attacks constantly, and his move sets are insane.
now I want a maliketh fight with full HP.
His armor looks more like the berserker armor than blaidds
Maliketh is so badass looking. Such an epic boss fight
9:40 gives me chills
Elden Ring is my first Souls game and honestly it's breathtaking/fun and I am now a Souls games fan forever BUT Screw this boss lmao it took me forever to kill him and I died from endless BS in the process and it almost broke me as a human being. I love his character design and lore though, anyone who is stuck on him try using Bloody Helice +10 and Mimic Tear while arcane is around 50, this will cause massive bleed effects and its how I beat him. Hope this helped!
That guy in the church was malekith?? Yeah this is game of the year
I don’t think it’s so much that Marika betrayed The Greater Will knowingly, or at least only did so in desperation… I feel like everything lends credence to Marika removing destined death in an attempt to stop Ranni’s plan to bring forth a new age - Remember, Ranni didn’t steal the entire rune of death, only a piece.. after this happened Markika removed the rune completely, unknowingly breaking a cosmic cycle - all in an attempt to save her child. So, in doing this, she betrayed her God and at the same time failed in saving her son - Godywn still dies in soul and becomes the Prince of Death. Her story is one of tragedy.
On a side note, what is this cursed image?
10:27
So far Malekith has been my favorite boss
If you look at the rune that was stollen, youll see it came out of a body. He lost a piece by defeating the gloem eyed queen, and whats left of her has been following you around the whole game. Miquilla and melanias sister, melina
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Marika cheeked up
Godrick- the weakest dogs bark the loudest.
Ranni- you don’t have to continue the toxic cycle. Break the chain, and forge your own path.
Rennala- sadness is remembering the strength you once had, and how those you love the most have taken it away.
Morgott- your value does not decrease, because those around you can’t see your worth.
Mohg- to catch a predator.
Starscourge Radahn- that which doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger.
Malenia- fight for the one who matters most.
Miquella- Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Malekith- failure shouldn’t define you, but it can shape you.
Rykard: TOGETHAAAA
Godfrey- A crown is warranted with strength.
Radagon: Me, Myself, and I against the world.
Was that a joke or is marika actually that thicc😭
Bro to be honest I couldn't pay any more attention to the rest of the video after that scene.....
@@J.R.Swish1 same😭
@@J.R.Swish1 and it makes it worst that it was at the beginning of the video😂
Where
Where does it show her being “thicc”…cuz I def don’t see it
Daily reminder that every Demigod, and I mean EVERY Demigod, was pissed scared of Maliketh!
See now this is one of the many reasons why maliketh is my favorite boss, (its also a pretty big reason) he’s soooooooooo damn powerful, imagine how ridiculously, insanely strong a character in elden ring would have to be in order to defeat an entire race of beings who hunt gods, then beat their queen who was strong enough to create the godskins, and do it all before you get your best weapon aka the death blade (and yk he’s built different because the effects he makes when he dies are different from any other creature in the lands between)
what a badass character
Edit: also side note, *every demigod feared him*
I swear he’s like an ancient Egyptian god card.
didn’t know Marika was thick like that
Before playing any major bosses in this game, just hearing the name "Maliketh" uttered by an NPC, the F'ing name itself commands respect. His name says "Go F#ck yourself" without actually saying GFY.
Maliketh is now my favorite character and boss…
A sad bit to this is that if it's true that Marika shattered the Elden Ring herself and had all of this done to rebel against the golden order, she either had no actual control over Maliketh or just left him out of the loop for no reason :(
she had to, because he'd be forced to try and kill her like Blaidd with Ranni
@@thunderlifestudios So she left her most loyal, stalwart companion in utter dark to the point he literally infuses death itself into his body to make up for a failure she planned, because she didn't want to live with the guilt of having killed someone loyal to her? What kind of 4-d chess fuckery is that?
@@thunderlifestudios Nope. Maliketh wasn't made by the Greater Will, his spells make it very clear that he precedes its influence on the Lands Between. It has no control over him. He serves willingly, hence why he did not turn on Marika when she shattered the Elden Ring.
Radagon cheeked up ong
0:58 GYAD DAYUM! I'm pretty sure there's normally a dress there...
In a way he is this world's Grim Reaper.
No one is talking about how Gurranq straight up attacks you if you kill Maliketh before feeding him all 9 deathroot
This is the reason I'd say they aren't the same creature but were definitely working in tandem. I got the impression Beast Clergymen are a divine archetype of creature that was appointed to consume traces of death in the lands between and Maliketh would be the definitive guard of Destined Death itself.
Another reason I'd say they're not the same creature is because it's implied that after the night of the Black Knives Maliketh hid the rune of death inside himself then isolated himself so it could never be stolen again. He's in farum azula until you find him
But you can look into the gurranq character model and he is literally wearing malikeths amour.
Bruh malekith hid as a beast clergyman in caelid. He needed the deathroot to try get the power of the deathrune back
He's my favorite Boss just before Radahn
Sorry I thought there was some direct connection/explanation, regarding maliketh and the assassins. Is there not, are the black weapons mere coincidence? Or did i miss the explanation?
Man I wish they added a galary or something for us to check all the cool weapons, armor, enemies and bosses in detail
A bestiary but they call it the beastiary and it’s in the sanctum? Would go hard
Maliketh is my favorite boss in the game to fight. He is incredibly strong but when the dopamine hit from overcoming him is such a rush. He has a great story and if you choose to aid Ranni you really feel as though you are taking over for him as a protector of a goddess albeit as consort and protector of Ranni rather than Marika. If you side with Fia he becomes an obstacle that you must overcome to usher in the era of the Duskborn.
He’s the most awesome looking boss in the game
Cool cool....always liked malekith
R.I.P loyal wolf😖
1.00 Are those marika's or radagon's cheeks
HOLYYY
Marika 😉
Marika
OHhhHH mY GAWD
Technically both.
But yellow hair = Marika, and I would like to believe that. 😂
It's there a description of the golden order's idea of death that contrasts to destined death? Like 'pure death' or something in one of those golden incantations?
Isn't
Destined Death only became known as that after Marika took it away from the Elden Ring, I think. Presumably because she wanted to be the one in charge of who death reaches. She wanted a monopoly on death, pretty much. Therefore, only she can deliver true Death in Elden Ring. I think when the Rune of Death (Destined death) was taken away, the concept of Death itself left the Lands Between. From that point on, all life and death was bound to the Erdtree. That's why when you kill bosses you get remembrances. It's almost as if they are not really dead, but their power and life force sealed away, or in other words, returned to the Erdtree.
@@J.R.Swish1 but with the Erd Tree burning where do their souls go when they die?
@@FlowingEdge- well then it would become like our world, even though that is just my guess. Supposedly, the Lands Between existed for a long time before the Erdtree ever got there. If it would become like our normal world, then it would become a question of where do living being's souls go when we die and that my friend, is too complicated for me to give you a competent explanation
The main thing I have learned in reading through folks lore explaination is that no one has a solid grasp and most clearly did not pay attention during the parts of school concerning literature, narrative, & close reading. Le sigh, I'ma have to do this myself huh :(
Witless tarnished... Why covet Destined Death?
To kill what?
hollup the queen kinda packin back there👀👀
I enjoy His and Blaidd's story.....both very sad
i love this boss fight but i also hate how he messed up the camera
As i knew, gurranq still exist after beating marikesu so i assume that gurranq isnt marikesu. However, i browsed everywhere all said that gurranq is marikesu?
And i hate it so much when marikesu drops destined death, tarnished didnt take it right away and let it explode. When we wakes up, melina took it and would kill us with it if we became lord of chaos
Cool game lore! 😎
The truly honourable warrior, huh.
Ooooh imagine blaidd becomes like this
If you know...
0:59 dayummm
Damn I ain’t know Marika was caked up like that
Nobody is paying attention to the fact Maliketh is Marika's brother one month ahead of shadow of the erdtree.
ahh he’s so epic
The confusion and betrayal in his voice when he recognizes you in the sanctum hits hard, even on my current NG+7 run 😔 From Software has to stop giving all their wolf/dog related characters such tragic stories ☹️
So yeah I'm hearing conflicting things for godwyns assassination. Legit don't get it, what use would merika have to kill godwyn and why would she do that with ranni
Marika had nothing to do with killing Godwyn. Godwyn was her son. Ranni 100% orchestrated the kill on Godwyn by stealing the rune of death from Maliketh.
Ngl 6:35 hit me hard when he said why
My idea is that serosh is maliketh.
Marika was the gloam eyed queen when she was younger. The Godkiller sword says that Maliketh defeated the GEQ.
My guess is that marika once as the GEQ had children that did not match her expectations, and so she got them killed by the Godskinapostels.
Maybee the bodys in the mausoleums? Maybee the GEQ was long bevore them.
So i think that it could be possible that marika back then as the gloam eyed queen, or shortly after she was the GEQ, connected with hora loux, mainly in order to get serosh defeted, wich she could not have done her self.
so i guess that maliketh became marikas shadow when the G-guy got send back to where he came from. To team up with maliketh in order to eleminate death out of the equation of her own existenz, could be the only reason the G-guy was banished in the first place.
Serosh could have been allready only a shadow of his undefeted self when he became marikas shadow.
Also he may have forced the GEQ into marriage after defeating her...
But i also asking my self if the rune of death has been taken out of the equation to make the people need a diffrent way of passing away.
In a RL-Theory i figured that it would become very old very fast to live longer, not to speak forever. Even if you could travel to other stars, or galaxies, how long would id thake bevore discovering something realy extraordinary, or even spectacular, would become boring af?
So at some point everybody realy wants do not go on with living, i strongly suspect.
It could be that she was immortal anyway allready and as a numen very long living so or so iirc.
So the emelination of death could be done only to afflict others in some way.
Also the lands where the G-guy (hora loux) comes from seem to be under the same rules as the land between, or the konzept of death does seemingly not existed there. Time could also work diffrent there.
However serosh could have became maliketh when he took up the rune of death.
That the emperians have shadows in the first place could result in serosh becomming the shadow of marika.
So the shadows would be the offspring of serosh/maliketh, that is added to the offspring of marika.
But there could be another instance there, maybe a father of marika, whom ("who"? i guess that it´s obvious that english is not my native, sry) may have adopted serosh, what would make him related to marika.
I know nothing about the DLC so far, but i would not be suprised if a parent of marika would be a part of it´s story... or hints in this direction at least.
I also think that Marika and serosh/maliketh had children together. The guys running arround in farum azula.
I suspect marika to have had offspring with a lot of... a lot. The Lands between may have been mostly empty of humanlike life when marika has arrived.
But this is very speculative and idk if it matches to anything else revealed so far.
What confuses me the most is that marika at some point seems to have taken testosterone and other hormones, most likely in order to get some sort of muscle-milf, and developed a penis, or something like that, idk...
This woman was not doing well at any time if you ask me.
So Ranni stole a piece of the rune of death? Because he still has it in his hand, is that just part of it?