#Golden Order

[swevenfox]

Another Elden 'Cat' Commission completed -

This time, we wrapped up Ranni's questline offering her the Golden Tuna and our eternal love and service. Everything for the cat mistress!

[skyburkson]

Leyndell Royal Capital Paper Miniature [Elden Ring]

made by hand primarily from paper + bits of basswood, toothpicks, clear resin, floral wire, & wool batting. set on a hardwood base

inspired by the illustrations of Luis Melo and Kevin's Computer this took on a collage style bashing of regional components to capture Leyndell in a single composition

[lulila-safu]

I made something...

[prey-tell]

I die via hammer to the head

Bonk ( this took me 3 days )

[ohara-scholar]

[noralei-shrine]

Finally, finished this first Elden ring fanart ! As always, studies blend and some fantasy then. Radagon crush :3

[defnotkanyewest]

Ranking the Golden Order by how willing I'd be to work under them pt.1

10. Miquella

I am NOT blowing myself up with holy magic for the miquellester 😭😭😭 also working side by side with a putrid tree spirit and rot kindlings cannot be good for your health

9. Godrick

Some of the strongest armour as far as foot soldiers go which puts him just barely above miquella but I'm probably getting my arms cut off and stuck to him so I'm not to keen on that also he has no aura so thats another thing

8. Rykard

Basically the same as Godrick but with the added bonus of insane drip and I'm less likely to get eaten since realistically gonna be weak ash

7/6. Morgott/Godwyn

Basically the same force but I cant really put them higher than this since idk much about Morgotts leadership or Godwyns

[artmill-danaan]

Queen Marika the Eternal

[mohgreal]

ok but what if i told you about how the greater will didn't want to exclude omens/""un"""holy creatures and that death was a important part of the golden order that was ripped away at the hands of marika and how marika ruined the perfection of her own order. what if

[eghostsofdeadchildren]

Seals:

Golden Order // Frenzied Flame

Dragon Communion // Erdtree

Requested by: @tearoficesand

[monkele-art]

Messmer The Impaler

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[bababonzer]

Yeash sore loser

Golden Order Hadiza (tarnished OC) plays a match of chess against Lord of Frenzied Flame Ukweli (tarnished OC). Ends badly. More at 3.

[skeleetrom]

Okay so hear me out...

Toxic yuri

[entermynightmare]

Estrogen could have saved her

[geminialchemist]

This is a theory I crafted up about the Golden Order, the Crucible, and the Frenzied Flame shortly after I beat the dlc the first time. I wrote it down, and forgot about it until just now, so it’ll be a little bit less well researched, seeing as it’s from waaay before the wiki had info to pull from, and so is probably shaky by our understanding of the dlc today, but I still wanted to share.

Spoilers for Shadow of the Erdtree below!

The Golden Order, the Crucible, and the Frenzied Flame are all the same thing.

So, this is one of the wilder theories, though hopefully not Pepe Silvia levels of conspiracy. If Marika can be Radagon, and if Miquella could be St. Trina, why can’t the Greater Will be the Frenzied Flame?

Throughout Elden Ring, we find out that that the Golden order assimilated a lot of things into it, even things that seem contradictory to the teachings of the Erdtree, like Carian sorcery. One of its primary teachings is that all things can be conjoined.

(Mirial dialogue upon getting a book o’ miracles)

“Oh, what have we here? Very well, let us both learn together. Heresy is not native to the world; it is but a contrivance. All things can be conjoined."

Now, this alone doesn’t mean much, the Golden Order is just branching out and adopting other cultures teachings like a lot of religions do to assimilate more followers, rather than fusing everything by melting it down with flame.

One more thing to keep in mind for later before we leave the Golden Order side of things, the DLC revealed something interesting about the Two Fingers, and the Golden Order. That even before the time Marika became a god, the Fingers had stopped receiving word from the Greater Will to guide them. The entire order is built on a lie, and no one in the Lands Between have communed with the Greater Will in a very, very long time.

Meanwhile, the DLC has the Hornsent, people who worshipped the Crucible, which came before Marika’s Golden Order. Anyone who has entered the various gaols knows the horrors they inflicted. The Hornsent believed that blending life together was a holy act, and massacred Marika’s people to put them into jars as saints, because of how easily their flesh melded with others. Now we’re getting closer to the premise of this theory. But take a look a this:

(Aspect of the Crucible: Breath description)

This is a manifestation of the Erdtree's primal vital energies - an aspect of the primordial crucible, where all life was once blended together.

The Erdtree seems to have some ties to the Crucible’s energies, which ties the two together on some level. Conjoining all things, and blending life together. And do you know what a crucible is? A crucible is a container used in smithing that you melt things in to blend them into one, heated over an open flame.

Hyetta has some interesting dialogue as well at the end of her questline:

(Hyetta dialogue)

"All that there is came from the One Great. Then came fractures, and births, and souls.

But the Greater Will made a mistake. Torment, despair, affliction... every sin, every curse. Every one, born of the mistake.

And so, what was borrowed must be returned. Melt it all away, with the yellow chaos flame. Until all is One again."

Note that she says the Greater Will made a mistake, in a way that implies that it’s something the Greater Will is fixing. It broke one into all, now it has to be made one again through the yellow chaos flames. The same Greater Will that the Two Fingers can no longer contact. Except for the Three Fingers, who seem to have found a different god to listen to. Or perhaps they found the same one, and are just doing what they were made to do, follow the Greater Will’s orders, and help burn down the world.

The Greater Will is order, and the Frenzy is Chaos, and I think they came from the same place. Two sides of the same coin, two halves of a whole being, and one of them isn’t listening or reaching out anymore. Much like Miquella stuffed St. Trina in a cave at the deepest part of the world, The Frenzied Flame has cut off the Greater Will to fix their mistake and melt it all down, back into one. It just needs a way to worm its ideology into the minds of men. Perhaps a religion is introduced that familiarized people with the concept of conjoining things, until it gets more and more extreme, and the frenzy appears, ripe in their minds. In the Shadow Lands, a place where physically conjoining flesh is the norm, the Frenzied Flame seems to have considerably more influence in comparison to the Lands Between, infecting an entire region of the map of the DLC, and even having a failed Lord of Frenzied Flame as a boss.

I swear I’m not a conspiracy nut, but if I come off as mad, well… MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD! AHAHAHAHA!

[blackblooms]

I've noticed that Elden ring may be one of the first game where i was really invested in doing a faith build. I think the main reason for that is that in most fantasy game, Fromsoft included, the clerics aesthetic and story kind of just consist on generic light themes and off-brand Christianity which isn't very compelling to me. Elden Ring through gave me a set of religions that were a lot more compelling to learn about. There is already a lot to like about the Golden Order and its heavy tree aesthetic and complex history, but we also have the flame cultist of the fell god, and if you dont mind dabbling into arcane, the blood dynasty of Mogh, the heretical recusants who rebelled against the erdtree and even the followers of the frenzied flame are all options you can take. There a flavor of faith for every kind of people. It's also notable that the DLC expanded options further by including the fire knights of Mesmers and the hornsents with their crucible-themed holy magic. The latter is particularly interesting as both the hornsent and golden order using the holy element create a peculiar connection between them. Despite being enemies, the two religions seem to be very alike and may even have been united at some point.

Those are the kind of question that got me invested into faith builds in elden ring in the first place.