#mad tongue alberich

[tarnussy]

silly hat enjoyers

[israaverse]

My ideas for Mad Tongue Alberich

I found a few model reveals, one of which shows him with pale skin, silver hair, and pale pink eyes. I headcannon him with albinism because of this, and because he wears a blindfold when he invades the Roundtable, I also imagine his eyesight is somewhat poor as a result. I drew him with varying stages of blood glintstone protrusions, as when he fights the Tarnished in the Roundtable the entire top of his head is covered in it, so the bust on the right would be briefly before that and the one at the bottom to be some time ago.

Screenshots below are sourced from this Reddit post (which itself is sourced from an unknown video) and Zullie the Witch on YouTube respectively.

[blasphemousclaw]

Was that you who liked Alberich at some point btw? o: I swear I didn't hallucinate you drawing fanart of him! Love the obscure lore of Ensha not talking because Alberich cut off his tongue (Taunter's Tongue is literally golden, same as Ensha's bones). We'd deal with our haters the same way if we weren't stupid 😔

yesss I haven’t really made much content or lore theories about him but I HAVE drawn him!

(shhh I know his head is actually encrusted in red glintstone I just wanted to draw his beautiful face)

how could I resist a heretical wizard who does both blood magic and frost magic? side note, I wonder how he knows frost magic, since it isn’t very common! I believe it’s only him, the Zamor, and Ranni, who learned from the Snow Witch, who specifically cast cold sorceries? so how did Alberich get his hands on those spells?

anyway also obsessed with Alberich having cut out Ensha’s tongue! also like, the item is called the Taunter’s Tongue, and Alberich was driven mad by “jeering tongues,” it’s a literal taunting tongue he cut out from the mouth of one of the Roundtable Hold’s shameless bullies who tormented him and drove him mad! suddenly I feel better about being forced to kill Ensha 😂

[azrioael]

A guide to the sorcerers of the Roundtable Hold

[catcas22]

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The sibling bonding arc that I need.

[lockawayknight]

biggest project i have ever done... is FINISHED!! hey all, ✨i wrote an elden ring fan musical!!✨

follows an au me and my buddy shen have where alberich follows the path to lordship, and shows a simple version of the events that led to him making that choice. it's mostly a love story x]

features alberich, godwyn, mohg, gideon, rogier, ranni... and a few other cameos~

all art, music, vocals, & etc were done by me. godwyn's dialogue was written by my buddy shen, and is taken from some of our rps :]

this project took a lot out of me, but i hope you enjoy!! ty friends!!

[pillowenvelopchair]

Hi everyone!! I did an art trade with @lockawayknight for their Rogier amigurumi!! I was asked by them to draw out some Alberich and Rogier interactions so here it is! Go and check out their own works too :0)

[katyspersonal]

This poll is a two-parter, the poll for characters still in there / met in there directly / more relevant to it is here ( x )

I decided to still round up the results not excluding obscure characters and it is exactly 12 variants now, though I am fully aware at least 3 of these don't offer anything to work with.. though if you do have cool headcanons on super obscure ones of this list feel free to bonk me on the head with a rolled newspaper XD

[wraith-caller]

Ringtober Day 1: Alberich x Witch

After "The Witch" by Albrecht Dürer

[val-of-the-north]

Ok I'm seeing some Dung Eater discussion on the TL and it made me realize something kind of funny about him.

He absolutely could murder you the entire time he is there. He even says so himself. Yet he does not, because he doesn't wish to disturb the serenity of the Roundtable Hold. He is respectable enough to not kill and defile every single person in the hold despite being more than capable of doing so. And no, he is not just doing so because he literally can't...

We know this because another madman residing in the Roundtable can and WILL kill you despite being in its walls. Alberich has absolutely zero qualms with breaking the hold's rules, and it's very funny considering he is polite enough to do a reverential bow every time you come down where he dwells.

Dung Eater might be absolutely deranged but you can't say he doesn't have proper etiquette lmao.

[tarnishedinquirer]

Roundtable Entry Hall

I had one thing to do here. I'd been thinking about it for a while, but now was as good a time as any.

I'd wondered about this lower level for a while. I'd become familiar enough with the mechanics of these phantom bloodstains by now to know that the bloodstains don't appear where you died, not exactly. They appear where you were moments before your death, so your red phantom can reenact your demise. Now, Tarnished leave runes in all sorts of seemingly impossible places, so the presence of rune messages did not necessarily mean that I could get there. But an abundance of bloodstains meant that numerous Tarnished in other worlds had died in that entrance hall. But the doors were mere facsimiles with no moving parts. How is one to get down there?

Well... despite the abundance of bloodstains down there, there were none up on this balcony. It was reasonable to assume, then, that the fall was entirely survivable, even if some unseen danger lurked below.

Rogier asked me what I was doing.

"Testing a theory," I said, as I mounted the banister.

I had already jumped by the time he said, "For gods' sake, use a rainbow stone first!" Which was actually a good idea. I probably should have done that.

Fortunately, I landed without issue. Some trick of perspective had made the fall seem much further than it was. I immediately felt the pacifism enchantment lift. For some reason, this area was not warded. Someone had made sure of that, and it didn't take me long to figure out who.

I was invaded by a dark spirit named Mad Tongue Alberich. Unlike most, he gave me a reverential bow, which I politely returned. So this was a duel, then, one I had inadvertently consented to by coming down here. I wish he had given me the chance to observe the fate of other Tarnished before attacking, but a bow was all I got.

He launched massive shards of glintstone at me, much bigger and more powerful than my little pebbles. Worse, they carried the power of frost with them. The chill sapped the strength from my limbs and slowed my movement, then he moved in with his scythe to slice me to ribbons. Each blow left bleeding wounds. So his strategy was to wear me down, then.

Going on the defensive would just play into his hands. He didn't need to get in solid hits to kill me. So I went on the offense. He outclassed me in magic, that much was clear, so no more spells. Instead, I lunged in with my sword and struck him faster than he could recover from. He used some sorcery that summoned bloody briars, but I dodged out of the way, and moved right back in.

His blade and magic were both powerful, but he was wearing lighter armor than me and using a much slower weapon. I could take the occasional hit to keep him off-balance with flurry of thrusts. He danced back to drink a flask of crimson tears, and I used an impaling thrust to lunge at him from halfway across the floor. I wish I could've seen his face as he faded from view.

I turned and waved back at Rogier, who had scooted his chair up to the edge to watch. He clapped and I'm glad I could at least give him some entertainment.

He left behind a Taunter's tongue, which the voice informed me could be used to beckon invaders to my world. I had absolutely no plans of using that, but the fact he had a mummified golden tongue for that power was... disturbing.

The doors were no more real, so I went into the one open side chamber. There were iron balls here... did the lands between have powder? Unlikely... I know they had it in the Land of Reeds, but it was a pretty recent invention. Maybe they'd simply lost the ability to produce it at scale? Or perhaps these were just the shot for trebuchet.

Past the little armory was a small guard room, followed by a barracks. On one of the beds, a charred corpse clutched at something unusual. It was a weapon... I think? It seemed to attach to the wrist, but it was just words hanging in the air. There was no substance to it. I had trouble even holding onto it. A lack of faith, it seems.

Cipher Pata One of the weapons originating from the Two Fingers. A formless sequence of ciphers comprise its blade, and as such no shield can repel it. Deals holy damage. The furtive inscription appears to hang in the air; the language of light spoken by the Two Fingers.

Language of light? So far I'd just seen them wiggle, and barely at that.

There was nothing else down here, and no other way to get back up, so I teleported back to the table.

Who is Mad Tongue Alberich?

How did he disable the pacifism ward?

Did the Lands Between have powder in an earlier age?

Whose tongue is this?

Did the Two Fingers once speak in more than wiggles? Are they even still speaking, or just twitching?

[blasphemousclaw]

gets invested in npcs with zero lines of dialogue

[alberichfanpage]

i would like to ask about alberich for the character game~

(sorry for not saying there was no ask box, i thought maybe with sideblogs you had to go ask the main person or sth haha)

Thank you for the ask, I love your posts! (No problem, I should have checked before I posted it)

Before I start, I have a confession. Guys, I like Alberich a very normal amount; I just picked this blog name on a whim when I wanted to make a sideblog...

Favorite thing about them: Considering there is so little content on him in the game, it is pretty hard to pick between his little bow gesture, his spooky outfit and his immaculate vibe. My favorite thing is probably how he combines two of the most overpowered status effects into one build.

I ended up incorporating aspects of it in my Int/Fai playthrough but I am really considering doing a dedicated Alberich cosplay run just because it is that fun to use.

Least favorite thing about them: My least favorite thing is the same as my favorite. His build is great but awful when it is used against me...

Also, he has a big chunk of glintstone on his headpiece if you remove the hat but it doesn't glow with the erudition emote!

Favorite line: Invaded by Mad Tongue Alberich! <- scariest popup to see in a supposed safe place

brOTP: Gideon for sure comes to mind. There is this fan theory that Alberich is Gideon's son, biological (same hair color) or adopted (like Ensha and Nepheli). Alberich probably enjoyed performing the grim tasks of the All-Hearing Brute with less stoicism than Ensha. Very much a one-sided evil henchmen kind of relationship. That was most likely his undoing, too.

OTP: This one is so hard because I could see so many toxic pairings. I think him and Ensha pair nicely as the only two people you can fight within the hold. They also share the fact they are in service to the Hold.

Rogier could be really interesting as the ultimate big hat power couple. But specifically, those hats are a sign of heresy and they are in very close proximity within the Hold. Then again, Rogier has quite a bit of romance going on already and I think the poor guy needs some rest.

Speaking of pointy hats, since Alberich knows cold sorceries, it may be possible he had something going on with the Snowy Crone that Ranni based her current appearance off of.

Regardless, I believe there is not a world in which Alberich would be in a healthy relationship (post mad tongue title) so therefore all pairings would be very unhealthy lol

nOTP: Sellen could be interesting but I think he might be a little too heretical for her liking. She might be a little interested in what's going on with his red glintstones from a purely academic standpoint, though.

Random headcanon: Literally the only information we have on Alberich is his clothing description, anything outside of that is headcanon:

Alberich was an aloof yet disturbed heretical sorcerer said to have been driven mad by jeering tongues during his service to the Roundtable Hold long ago

I don't really buy it, but I really wanted there to be some connection between the Blood Star and the Formless Mother just to tie in connection because the faith blood sorceries and the blood incantations. I thought it would help to roundout the world building and show how thin the line truly is between sorceries and incantations. Alas, these things remain very separate.

However, we did get two new sorceries in the dlc that are boosted by Alberich's set/staff but are related to the Scadutree. While the Thorn Witches themselves are related to the Fell God. Honestly, the worldbuilding around these things are really weird. My only other headcanon is that Gideon tasked Alberich into exploring experimental magic for him.

Unpopular opinion: Alberich drops the Taunter's Tongue item and a lot people treat this as his tongue, but I like the theory that this is actually Ensha's tongue and that is why Ensha does not speak would really make the OTP toxic if true. Considering I see a lot of fanart with him with a gold tongue, I consider this to be unpopular.

Song I associate with them: He seems like he would like Christian Death, the song Figurative Theatre comes to mind because of this line:

Their razor-sharp tongues invite to relax as they slip the skin of your eyelids back

Favorite picture of them:

Very biased but this picture I took while cosplaying him is so good, I am not sure I could replicate this again if I tried.

Thank you again for the ask!

[catcas22]

Prince of Death Context-Free Spoilers

(Raya Lucaria edition)

[velvet-apricots]

You ever think about how the only way to sleep in a bed in Roundtable Hold is to throw yourself off a balcony and fight Alberich?

[evillittlebug]

got my ass kicked in roundtable hold