Marika seems to take on a more messiahic character in comparison to Gwyn’s Zeus-like persona. Marika lost her entire village to the Hornsent. Her people were tortured and stuffed into jars to become saints for the Hornsent. Somewhere along the way she became a god, following the Two Fingers’ interpretation of the Greater Will. She removed every threat to the Golden Order and led her people to prosperity. She was even able to remove Death from the Lands Between.
I am not sure that was her intentions tbh, Gideon by the end of the game seems to learn the truth and what Marika intentions were for breaking the Elden Ring. That is why he says to you that the Two Fingers have lost their purpose a long long time ago, he learns that they lost contact with the Greater Will even before the rise of Marika.
You’re right! I forgot about Gideon’s words. Though I think Marika originally wanted to protect people. She had to divest herself of her humanity (hair brand, Minor Erdtree Incantation) in order to become a god. It is the Elden Lord that becomes her attachment to humanity.
I agree with you except for that, I think her act of shattering the Elden Ring was done out of spite out of a couple things: Learning the guidance of the Two Fingers were a lie, the curse affecting most of her offspring, the death of Godwyn and the failure of her new order creating a perfect world.
With around mid-20s FTH, STR builds can have access to a lot of different damage types that scale with STR through Clawmark Seal. You get lightning, holy, fire, and black flame while the dragon communion incantations give you access to rot and magic damage. Of course incantations from Clawmark Seal have a B scaling in both STR and FTH but throwing out a specific spell damage type that a boss is weak to is often worth it.
Uh, I can kill Placidusax in like four shots of ancient dragon lightning attacks on my FTH build. It's still the best way to do this.
Faith builds get Blasphemous Blade and it will hard carry you through most of the game. I don't know why people have trouble with this build, it was by far the one I had the most fun with. You also get access to shit like Scarlet Aeonia and a plethora of lightning spells, as well as godslaying black flame, if you kit yourself appropriately you're in for a versatile but still somewhat challenging experience. It's not like an INT build where you just curbatomp the whole game but still.
I agree that int builds have better damage-dealing tools than faith builds, but int gamers have no equivalent to golden vow, flame grant me strength, beastial vitality, barrier of gold, etc. Faith characters get a lot of exclusive utility and defense. That's why wizards have such a reputation for being glass cannons in Elden Ring, and it's kind of deserved.
This also blows up Bayle. Senessax was more resistant and I had to use pest threads instead, though the main annoyance was having to move the boss out of the water so that its lightning didn't cook me.
Well it was stated in base game eclipse could revive soulless demigods.
A staggering number of people get nearly everything wrong about any of these games. That's not a clear evidence of anything but there being way too many retards.
This has multiple problems:
I don't think it was ever confirmed, the description of Golden Epitah has a prayer from Miquella for Godwyn's true death, which is synonamys with returning to the Erdtree after death
It's everywhere on YouTube comments and likely Twitter as well. Who gives a fuck if Godwyn is TRULY dead? Look at how many bosses can come back to life with the power of cutscenes and how he is in a state of a cursed undeath. It really is hard to find more sincere discussions about the status of the souls series without feeling like you're walking in a minefield with autists ready to screech at you for daring to say the lore is not that deep or is flawed in execution if there even is any at all that's not "Zanzibart... forgive me." Which is literally Midra I just fought him.
