#Eternal Grace

[mariuccia]

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[eaissilyy]

A kinder mother would sure seek her sons, even if it was her who abandoned them.

(Just a Thought of Marika in ragged clothes and covered in veil, unfortunately didn’t hide her grace, descending down to the shunning ground she made to cage her rage and grief from the time long past, just to see her sons who she refused to hold and look at their births. SADLY THAT’S NOT WHAT HAPPENED AHUGHGAHHHHH)

[drenched-in-sunlight]

daily life at Leyndell ✨ giving mom flowers… busting an assassination attempt or two …

I just want to draw Messmer in casual clothes I guess… (and Godwyn probably never put on a shirt outside armor 🤔)

[nell0-0]

Just a bit more about my HC for this lil' guy

[eternal-gardens]

[philosophybits]

Monotony is the most beautiful or the most atrocious thing. The most beautiful if it is a reflection of eternity — the most atrocious if it is the sign of an unvarying perpetuity. It is time surpassed or time sterilized. The circle is the symbol of monotony which is beautiful, the swinging of a pendulum of monotony which is atrocious.

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[yashley]

[drawsmaddy]

[ID: A digital illustration of Miles Edgeworth and Phoenix Wright. Miles is wearing glasses, a white shirt, a double breasted waistcoat, and his cravat. Phoenix is wearing his grey hoodie and bright blue 'Papa' beanie. Phoenix has his eyes closed and is pulling Miles in with a hand under his chin, going to kiss him. Miles' eyes are almost shut, looking at Phoenix. The background behind them is a starry sky. End description.]

"The sight of that man still shines brilliantly in my eyes..."

[whatgoddoesntgivetoyou]

[not-with-you-but-of-you]

While all these ugly gentlemen play out their foolish games There’s a flaming red horizon that screams our names And as your fantasies are broken in two Did you really think this bloody road would pave the way for you? Oh, you better turn around and blow your kiss goodbye to life eternal

JEFF BUCKLEY Eternal Life | Live at Gleneagles (1994)

[catcas22]

Originally I think the general consensus was that Marika initially tolerated the people of the Crucible, with the omen genocide only coming after the conquest and possibly only after Godfrey's dismissal. The existence of the Crucible Knights and Godfrey's presumed affiliation with the Crucible was the most commonly cited evidence for this interpretation.

But given that vengeance against the Hornsent was foundational to all that followed, where do the Crucible Knights fit in? Is it possible that the Crucible Knights are to the Hornsent as Drake Knights are to dragons, mimicking their power without claiming kinship with them, possibly even using said power specifically to hunt them? Or are they quislings, as the trolls were to the giants?

Another interesting point -- I always assumed that Mohg and Morgott had not been discarded at birth, instead being raised as princes for a time before being banished after Marika turned on the Crucible. They don't behave like feral children, they know who they are and where they came from, Godfrey recognizes Morgott and knows his given name, etc.

But if the Hornsent genocide was already standard policy by the time they were born, we pretty much have to take the above as evidence that either Marika or Godfrey was still providing some degree of care and education during their exile, at least during their formative years. Speaking of:

Can we establish a pattern of Marika hiding away her children that she believes the world cannot accept, believing she's keeping them safe while unaware of the resentment and despair that such abandonment breeds?

[nighthaunting]

This deserves a more in-depth post but I’ve been thinking about Morgott again and just off the cuff it IS very funny in terms of symmetry that Marika imprisoned Morgott in the Shunning Grounds to the point that he was shackled to keep him there and now Morgott is doing such a good job defending the Erdtree to keep the Tarnished from burning his city down that he’s incidentally keeping Marika imprisoned in her Elden Ring Breaker’s Time Out Crucifixion Evergaol

How the turn tables type situation honestly

Morgott’s devotion to the Erdtree is continually framed as him being overly invested in the Golden Order’s dogma by fandom which is I think a misread of his situation, as I’ve said before, but Morgott’s devotion to defending the Erdtree has also kept Marika imprisoned for ???? years so he’s also honestly doing more than any other demigod to directly pay her back for his terrible childhood, and its entirely unwitting which is the funniest part

I have seen a lot of fanworks belaboring Morgott’s imagined mommy issues and religious issues but I think we need to lean in more on the fact that Morgott was also directly keeping anyone from breaking the Erdtree open like a piñata to find out what happened to Marika for the length of An Age

The Veiled Monarch running Leyndell like its the fucking Navy and whenever anyone asks him what happened to the God Queen he’s like ‘its fine don’t worry about it also under no circumstances should anyone approach the Erdtree Sanctuary no reason she just needs her privacy’

Did he occasionally hear muffled clanging coming from inside as Radagon tried to fix the Elden Ring and ignore it because it’s none of his business?

IDK I just think this is very funny Morgott successfully jailed his Godly parent for like a thousand years by accident by being extremely good at siege defense strategy and also hunting Tarnished for sport

[anniegamgee]

On Marika and Morgott (inspired by the poem BLACKSMITH by Zeena Abbas - pic of it under the cut)

[yonemurishiroku]

Suddenly aware of the fact that a child of Jupiter (Zeus) and a child of Poseidon actually join hands to save a child of Hades.

Awww and to think that their fathers would gouge each other’s eyes out——

[the-odd-laundromat]

headcanons about Elden Ring characters and Numen language

Because why not.

Marika: It's her native language, and she had to learn the Common Tongue of the Lands Between from scratch when she came there. She can still speak, read and write in it perfectly. Despite having been God-Queen for millennia, she hasn't picked up any kind of Common accent. Curses in it once in a while.

Godwyn: Marika taught him some basics when he was really little (vocab, basic alphabet, counting, etc.), but that's it. He recognizes spoken and written Numen easily, but can't understand a whole lot.

Miquella and Malenia: Miquella remembers some of what Godwyn told them about it, but other than that, neither know a lick.

Morgott and Mohg: Both picked up a bit as children, before being cast into the sewers. When alone, Morgott repeats words and phrases to himself, desperately trying to retain what little he knows. Mohg forgot pretty much everything.

Tiche and the Black Knives: Alecto made everyone speak it in the Assassins' barracks. As a result Tiche speaks it perfectly and can hold a conversation just fine. She can read a little, from reading reports between the Queen and the Assassins (written in Numen to save them the trouble of using a cypher). She learned to curse in it from the other, older Black Knives, but Greater Will help her if her mother catches her so much as using informal grammar.

Radagon: Never spoke it around other people, so as not to blow his cover. Once, Rennala caught him singing a Numen lullaby to a baby Ranni, and he had to ad-lib an explanation in a panic. She didn't totally believe him, but never questioned him further.

[eternal-gardens]