The Nox also pissed off the Two Fingers and got banished to the underground. Perhaps Marika's rebellion was on behalf of the Nox?
Considering Melina was born at the foot of the Erdtree I always assumed that she was the coalescence of what remains of the Gloam-Eyed Queen and that her being connected to Grace was Marika's way of controlling Death.
It's important to note that they fucked up the translation and what she says when you talk to mini Ranni in her tower is not what she was supposed to say. In english it makes it sound like she wants to eliminate humanity or some shit and give them over the the moon, whereas what she's supposed to say is that she wants to take her order and move it somewhere else.
I remember reading something which implicated Marika in Godwyn's assassination, having essentially planned it years before it happened. Granted I can't remember where I read this and I could be manufacturing a memory, so take that with a grain of salt.
You should only get it once you unlock the "Darkmoon" ending, as a cheeky way of implying you hooked up with her after the screen fades to black.
They should just release Elden Ring 2.
I feel like this is just one of those things that got cut in development. It doesn't make much sense for Ranni to have wanted to kill Godwyn outside of it being the impetus for starting The Shattering to begin with.
Ranni and Melina being similar in regards to the eye thing is probably a result of Marika using a similar sort of magic or rebirth on the gloam eyed queen to make Melina that Ranni used to split her soul and body.
Messmer is the only new addition that doesn't seem to tie into anything else, but there are hints towards his existence in the base game. The DLC seems very Marika and Miquella focused, with Miquella following in Marika's footsteps or finding what she hid in the Shadow Realm. Those are massive gaps the DLC is pitching as a fix.
"I can't immediately make sense of something made by a guy known to deliberately leave key information out so players can have fun speculating."->"IT MUST BE LE CUT CAHNTENT"
>Friede and Yuria
I don't. Enlighten me good sir, I could use a sensible chuckle.
It answered a few things. Namely that Gwyn fucked everything over because of his autism about the Dark, and humanity would've been just fine if he didn't try to seal away the Dark within them.
Mostly concering what the fuck Miquella was up to.
Didn't she spend 1000 years moping on her shota brother being kidnapped by the family rapist and that she was nearly killed after killing the one virtuous member of her family that said family rapist manipulated her to do?
His argument boiled down to "ree game make no sense, CUT CAHNTENT everything made sense and was more interdasting!!!", kinda like him saying Ranni/Godwyn has to be cut content and the game just makes no sense now.
DS1 showed pretty hardcore with Manus that humanity (as in dark soul fragments, of which he had a huge piece) are one autistic meltdown away from causing a world ending calamity. Dude lost his pendant, and his spergout resulted in an entire city getting destroyed, while he himself turned into a monster producing endless darkness.
Miquella is the shota brother. You're thinking Malenia.
I was under the impression that the Manus business happened after Gwyn fucked over humanity, but there's so much ambiguity in the timeline I suppose Manus could've predated Gwyn's obsessive quest to remain relevant forever.
Wasn't he in a cocoon the entire conflict?
I don't know. Again, ambiguous timelines. Apparently he's doing something in the Shadow Realm as the new DLC shows us.
Not really, but it's nice to know you still seethe about it like a year later, even though I'm still right.
his body was in the egg thing, his spirit was in the land of shadow or someshit.
A fine dark soul, to you.