#starscourge radahn

[valehour]

Do they hold the Radahn Festival regularly? d'ya wonder how many times? How many times Jerren has delivered that hype speech to a courtyard full of hopefuls, only to watch Radahn kill them all?

That's gotta be kinda fucked, right? To spend so long trying to find someone- anyone, hell, a whole army of people to put down your old friend like he's a dog, and they keep failing to do it? that even these Champions cannot fulfill his old promise. and Festival after Festival he and his knights just have to like... clear up a now pointless banquet, as the bodies of the people who were here not hours ago fester in the dunes, hoping that maybe the next one, a couple years from now as newbies make a name of themselves and thus become champions in turn, and try their hand at getting Radahn's great rune.

I suppose that's kind of the point, right? Radahn is of The Shattering War itself, a violent, annihilative monster, bigger than something has a right to be, that has grown old, mad, unthinking and stagnant- feeding on the corpses of "heroes" and "champions" who are powerful enough to believe themselves immune to death, and not nearly powerful enough to actually be so. A hopeless request, none can take the throne, a belief that has to be set into the very hearts of their respective onlookers.

Until an Elden Lord Ends them.

[arinqiart]

Live recording of Miquella yanking Radahn out of Boss heaven for the DLC Final battle

[amriagaelraincaller]

hiraeth.

[drenched-in-sunlight]

finally... i can draw more elden ring family shenanigans 🤭

[geddoart]

The mightiest demigod

Picked up Elden Ring this summer... getting my ass beat in completely new ways I couldn't even imagine a few months ago, but god is that game good

[creatureesque]

redraw of this now with messmer.... demigods in silly outfits

[ganondoodle]

(Radahn, Elden Ring)

[malignedaffairs]

On a night of wint'ry fog, the rune of Death was stolen. And the demigods began to fall, starting with Godwyn the Golden.

[chunlo]

1 week left for Shadow of the Erdtree!

[blasphemousclaw]

Children of the Erdtree and the Moon

[lulila-safu]

*sigh* now I have to tag all these people...

and I put godwyn with the radagon/ marika linage, but because I got used to draw him alongside messmer and malenia

[skrankku]

Poor guy

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

Miquella vs Ranni: Loyalty and Love

SPOILERS FOR SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE UNDER THE CUT, BUT COME FOR MY THOUGHTS!

There are so many essays I could write, comparing Ranni and Miquella, but I'm going to contain myself and focus on the most important aspect of comparisons: how they treat the concepts of love and loyalty and the people who give that to them. Especially in light of Miquella's instant kill "Heart Steal" attack.

The thing about Miquella is, even though he's kind, even though he's compassionate, he DOES NOT VALUE love and loyalty. And why should he? It's always been given freely to him. He can just force someone to love him anyway, stealing their heart. So, the people who love him are disposable, treated like pawns. Malenia? Literally left to rot in the home they built together. Mohg? Turned into a glorified guard dog. Even Radahn, turned into his perfect consort.

And Miquella probably does love them, but his perception of love is completely skewed by the nature of the fact that EVERYONE loves him. It's something he just gets. Something he uses.

Compassion and love are Miquella's weapons. They're what he uses to protect himself. It's cheap, something he can get easily.

Now, compare that to Ranni.

For Ranni, love and loyalty are dangerous. She's seen how ruinous and terrible they can be. She's seen her mother's mind wither away, a consequence of Radagon breaking her heart. She's seen Radagon break Rennala's heart for his love of the Golden Order.

The only people who loved her unconditionally are Blaidd and Iji, and even Iji's more around out of loyalty to the House of Caria than love for Ranni.

That is to say, Ranni respects and understands the power of love more than Miquella ever could.

Think of how she tells you to leave her to her lonely path. Her engagement ring, engraved with a warning to stay away, that her destiny is cold and lonely. Ranni pushes people away for their own safety, and that makes her love all the more valuable.

Love, for Ranni, is something at once dangerous and precious. The despondent way she tells you, once you've defeated the Baleful Shadow, to tell Blaidd and Iji that she loves them. Ranni knows what their love has cost them. Knows what it has bought her. She respects love and is naturally wary of it.

And that's what makes it so valuable.

Miquella doesn't appreciate love, because he's always had it.

Ranni treasures it because she's always struggled with it.

God, I love this game.

[callibrin]

He is a TRUE FAN of this guy, you know.

[drenched-in-sunlight]

My theory on why Messmer is not allowed to live in Leyndell + Malenia who keeps trying to rope her siblings into her extreme gardening habit … 🌺☠️

[sketchsmack]

Elden Ring. Ring that is Elden.

The family treeeeeeee