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zoulcham · 4 months ago

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Long Ramblings about Morgott defending Leyndell against Mohg (what-if) & Radahn (canon)

Mohg could have very well killed Morgott but to me he deliberately chose not to. Hell, if his Nihil is able to take all target within the field of battle, he could have single-handedly destroyed Leyndell's army. I think he may have done so if the Veiled King was none other than his own (beloved) twin.

✧･ First of all Mohg is the *perfect* anti-Morgott gameplay-wise

He has a high Arcane, which means he has a high resistance against Morgott's holy weapons incantations

It doesn't matter that much that Morgott can perform impressive acrobatic dodges when Mohg can fly and spread bloodflames all around the field. And that's without taking into account his undogeable Nihils.

He has a huge healthpool, and can drain hps from his enemies. Compared to Morgott's glass canon tactic - fierce, fast & agile moves but a healthbar that goes down very quickly - that means he can tolerate a much longer fight. I think that Morgott's healthpool is bad compared to his general strenght/level because he's in an extremely bad shape when we see him ; both from having drained & sealed his omen blood over & over for so long, and having a harsh life in which he fought for centuries to defend the Golden Order without taking a single break.

Omens are weak to bleed, so of course the twins share that weakness. Except that for Mohg it's a strenght - his attack raises when proced with bleed (after all the Lord of blood he serves the Formless Mother, she demands wounds for her & her followers alike). Despite using Bloodflame attacks Morgott gains nothing from hemmoraging. Mohg's bloodflame attacks could bleed him to death quite easily

✧･ Second of all : Leyndell's army is in shamble compared to its former glory

Leyndell had to fend off Godefroy's attacks (this marked the first of a long series of sieges on the city). As shown in the story trailer, they had to endure the blows of trolls, catapults, and avoid being drowned under the sheer number of their opponents. Then came Radahn's army, one of the fiercest on the Lands Between. An army so strong it could only be rivaled the legendary Cleanrot knights (the Carian knights during their bygone days could have been a good contestant to that title, but by that time that order had fallen into desuetude due to their leader Rennala having lost her head)

After trying and failing its holy crusade against the heretic Volcano Manor , Leyndell's army number probably depleted quite a lot. (Who could blame them though, Abductor Virgins are an absolute nightmare that they probably weren't prepared to deal with. Not to mention that the barren lands of Mt Gelmir are the worst place to start a siege. No real source of food, a harsh environnement... No wonder the attrocities of this war turned some of those soldiers to the Frienzied Flame)

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on that note :

✧･ Morgott probably stomped (young) Radhan for the same reasons, he was the perfect opponent to counter him

I think Morgott dealing Holy (faith based) damages through his incantations is one of the reasons why Morgott could body Radahn. Radahn masters gravity magic, wich relies on his INT stat. Although an impressive feat, that means his Arcane (holy damage negation boosting stat) is probably next to 0.

Radhan probably didn't have his growth spurr + strenght boost caused by his rune yet, and didn't master gravity. He learned gravity magic to be able to ride Leonard (his horse) despite his huge body. Judging by his size on the painting, Leonard could still lift him. Let's not forget that this horse might look little due to present Radahn, but compared to us that horse is still huge, probably enough for a normal-sized demon god. This means Radahn definitely wasn't at his peak when fighting Morgott (but he was still extremely powerful)

Morgott was not only taller, but as an omen his body might naturally have more strenght & resistance. His only Omen weakness is bleed, which Radahn doesn't use.

✧･ Radahn was taken by surprise

From what he probably knew at the time, no demigods except maybe Godwyn's weakned bloodline would try to stop his siege. Cue the siege starting, Radhan starts to demolish the poor unlucky soldiers in front of him... And then comes this towering Omen that makes holy daggers rain on him & his army, and pounds him on the ground with his cane. If it was me I'd simply roll in a ball and play dead ngl (yet Radahn still fought bravely)

During his boss first intro as Margit, Morgott jumps from a high tower from which he was perched. He probably saw us arrive from afar & used the element of surprise to intimidate mentally destabilize us. It doesn't leave much time to reflect on a strategy to use against him, or to call for reinforcement. I suspect he did the same to Radahn & his army. Either that or he jumped out of the sewers like a Fnaf jumpscare.

✧･ Morgott is a tactical genius

my man litteraly has the innovatory idea to use chemical warfare to a huge scale. Giant bolts that diffused poisoned fumes were used, they can observee littering the Battlefield of the Altus plateau. I think that with him being an Omen, he probably was inspired by the way Omenkillers & Perfumers use their perfumes (the former to supress their own emotions & breath fire, the second to create potent poisons & cures). If there is anyone that would know how the arts of Perfumes can be deadly and versatile, it's the Omen King

Let me gas my Omen King a bit more : we saw him casting incantations to send his Margit clone/apparition attack us from a long distance. He probably did the same to fight Radahn's army while they were making their way to the Altus Plateau. I think his projection was way too weak to take on Radahn himself, but it was more than enough to take care of a good portion of his soldiers, little by little, gnawing at their number. Make that move for more multiple times a week, taking them by surprise and then disappearing in a golden mist when vainquished. Rince & repeat.

✧･ Leyndell is an extremely fortified town with the perfect army defense-wise , a nightmare to take in siege

Leyndell's army is most proficient in defensive tactics, and trained to fight to defend rather than attack. As their Golden Greatshield's description states : "Oval greatshield made of gold, carried by knights who protect the Royal Capital of Leyndell. Knights of Leyndell are reputed for their sturdiness, exemplified by this shield's exceptional guard capacity." If you look at how Leyndell's defense is organized, they often operate with a formation of multiple knights surrounded by soldiers, compared to the Redmane's knight that have scattered locations. I'm using the ER gameplay in Leyndell vs attacking Fort Gael & the Redmane castle. To me Leyndell is best for long drawn-out defensive battle, while the Redmanes excel at violent, direct clashes in open fields (as shown during their war with Malenia & her army) - holding such siege is the worst case scénario for them.

The city is well isolated, the entry points are heavily protected ; A Draconic Erdtree sentinel that you need to kill guards a small entry, the Lift that's only connected to the tower Tower of Return in the Weeping Peninsula via a teleportation chest passes through the Fortified Manor (its name is self-explanatory) & , the other one is a huge but sturdy iron door that is sealed & still protected. Hell, even entering Altus is a nightmare, you need the two dectus medallion half or pass through Rykard's turf - I suspect Radahn chose this option, I don't see why his own brother would be against the siege of Leyndell. Although they have a solid reputation of being fierce & ready to jump in the most violent combats for their general, taking Leyndell in a siege proved to be too difficult even for Radahn's army.

#listen I aknowledge my Morgott bias #Morgott is good in tactics when his religious zealot side doesn't make him lose his cool (like when he started his crusade on Rykard)#I did try to be objective on Radahn's part because he IS shown to be strong #just because him and his army llost doesn't mean that he's weak #headcanon talk #lore talk #elden ring #mohg #morgott #radahn #starscourge radahn

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zoulcham · 6 months ago

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ER hc: Demigods in Love

(TW its long. Long.)

If they had a big fat crush on you and fell in love with you, they wouldn't say it outright at first but there would be signs

Morgott:

He becomes more catty-chatty. He usually cloaks his feelings of extreme self loathing(leading him to believe he deserves nothing and distance himself from things that bring joy, fear of rejection etc) with a rain of sour quips and old age scoldings, a technique he would definitely utilize all the same(and fail horribly) to suppress new trifling emotions arising within him, feelings he dare not indulge in for his own sake and everyone else's.

But despite his harsh words and taunts, the fact is not missed on you, that he is there. He is there, and for all his talk of finding you so lowly, he bothers to address you and your 'meager flame'

"I see thee little tarnished," he will say "smould'ring with that wretched flame of ambition" he will repeat this often, but the emphasis on 'little' changes with time. It is those little things, those minute slip ups, that itches a part of your brain.

Malenia:

She becomes more stiff around you. She is already taciturn enough, but around you she becomes stiffer than every statue in haligtree combined. But in those rare moments when she does address you, her voice becomes more softer than usual. Sometimes you catch her head nodding towards you gently. Other times you find her standing guard outside your door, though she will refuse to admit it was nothing else but that. Keeping you safe is her love language.

She will also make sure to always have the most fresh med needles stuck in her before she ever steps foot into your vicinity. Anything to make sure you don't get even the slightest WHIFF of her rot...poor valkyrie. She really tries.

Mohg:

He becomes more...clingy. And by clingy I meant he stalks you (a mogh classic).

He isn't audaciously obvious with it, no he is never obvious with anything. But as I said, there are signs. Bushes and trees seem to rustle more than usual. Warm beverages left on your table with no owner in sight, roses blooming during the wrong seasons and WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT??? Somebody who is TOTALLY NOT MOHG just healed your student rune debts?? Ahh! Good heavens!!! Who could have done this??? Definitely not the rich demigod omen who lives 2 broken buildings away that seemingly always knows when you need a heat pad hmmmm

Despite all this though, it seems this amount of clinginess is inversely proportional to the lines of dialogue he will spare you i.e. the harder he falls for you, the more he stalks and the less he talks (tldr of another hc post, that welcome guest speech of his is totally scripted and he can’t function outside said script). His confidence leaves him when he sees someone he cannot risk losing. He also love bombs you, with all intentions meant. Anything material, you have it. Its almost like he can read your mind (he is in your bloodstream).

He functions on the mindset that nothing in this world is selfless, and that love can only be bought and not earned. He 'bought' the love of his sanguine nobles through promise of power...he straight up kidnaps his 'doctors', who now love him(they are all mad with bloodlust). The albinaurics are there (for miquella). He is truly convinced that he cannot be loved without reason, so he does all this extra crap to cook up said reasons. Local omen has yet to discover consent out of the shunning grounds. Maybe u can change him 👍or make him worse.

Godwyn:

He gives you golden privileges….Godwyn wouldn’t outright confess his love for you on first sight, but I imagine he would be the SECOND (Rykard being first) most forthright man in this sea of bashful tsundere personages. Aside from his flirtiness increasing by 10 folds, He will let you ride Fortisaxx. Must I even elaborate further? There are noble men in Leyndell who would sell their cock and balls for that opportunity, but he straight up goes “hey you wanna ride my dragon” wink. Fortisaxx is best wingman, drops hints to help his brother/friend/(lover?😏) out. Considering he has a whole lineage, and i really doubt the omen twins received any action in the lore, he is the most experienced when it comes to love, and he has learned the best way to deal with it is just be chill.

Bonus points if you catch him drunk, the comedy you would play witness to would be legendary.

Godrick:

He will let you touch him. …

Pre grafted Godrick:

would be a total tsundere straight up. He has 0 confidence in himself, and his old and wrinkly ass has only known rejection by that point to not have any qualms about confessing. Throw in an odd sense of aristocratic pride into the mix and you have got a noble who looks and acts like he is competing his way into a guillotine. He is quite rude, and if he is got a single talent up his sleeve, it is without a doubt his ability to drive anyone into a frenzy(no three fingers needed) with his snarky quips alone. He is physically not up there, but by words alone he could burn bridges (and he has). Perhaps he gets this talent from his great great great great great great great great great grand uncle who, rumors say, also rules over Leyndell! He is a small crooked paranoid little freekle frackle that clings onto what we would call Ancien régime mindset and lifestyle

Given this context, the first sign that something is awry is that he lets you be near his viscinty. He is still snarky, with all the thou-s and thee-s sprinkled in. But he lets you near him. Hmm that’s odd. You thought Ettiquette 6600038 stated no non royal was allowed to walk beside him-OH and he is staring right into your soul. Thats also weird. You thought he hated the commonfolk? Did he just hold your hand? Granted he was terrified by the lightening, but still…hm… and he just tried cooking for the first time?? Ended terribly he burnt the kitchen down. He did all that for himself he says��you hear a “yea right” from a very brave soldier of godrick, never to be seen again. He gives you a suspiciously customized hankerchief, embroidery of (insert your fav flower here) when you catch a cold. Never asks for it back.

Post grafted Godrick is mostly the same, but more crazy with a 10% increase in confidence. For one, its been 24 hours and he has yet to tear you apart from limb to limb which is something. “Unfit for grafting” he says. yea right.

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He also shows you his gore Godfrey goon shrine, your quality of life depends on the tone of your laugh. He lets you bathe him (wow you touched him…or some dude’s entire torso which he stole.) and Gostoc doesn’t fuck with you like he does with others. Good. Good. He trusts you enough to complain abt some tantalizing trespasser omen loitering infront of his castle named ‘Margit’. Which sounds awful lot like Morgott. He hasn’t clicked the dots and he most likely never will.

Radahn:

He lets you ride Leonard.

Radahn is the type of guy who is beyond friendly with anyone, so when he does something which would so obviously be labelled affectionate coming from others, it is generally dismissed as an act of friendship. He remembers your birthday and holds a surprise party which is VERY COOL, but he also hosts birthday parties for everyone else….which is also cool… He suffers through the friendzone for a while with grace.

But when he offers you a ride on his dear Leonard, that darling steed of his that he treats like his heir apparent? Yup, that very horse, is when the gears in your mind unclog. His highness Prince Leonard has always been a boundary none dare cross, but here he is granting you a safe passage to jump right through. He lifts you up with ease, and places you on the saddle. And when you smile, he smiles even wider. Signs eventually bubble up to the surface. He laughs more often around you, completely at ease. When drunk he regails you with tales of bygone heroes and his own aspirations to be one. Reply with “but you already are one” and you will catch him lag for 5 seconds.

He keeps you close by during expeditions, and even during social gatherings. He uses his gravity magic to help you/your siblings indulge in some 0 gravity fun. And during less crowded evenings, he arranges fun getaways with friends, except its just you two this time...and here on out. Oddly enough though, the closer he gets to you the more you find yourself isolated at your job etc. You start finding your posts more empty. Which is odd since you did remember there were 2 other people assigned at this pla- AND its general Radahn with 2 roasted exalted flesh in hand! Wonderful.

One can only speculate how he uses his powers as head general...

Bonus point if you like cats. He will bring his cats for a wash to your house (another excuse to see you)

Ranni:

She spills tea.

This one is easy since we have in game canon content as reference. At first she is secretive. She introduces herself as "renna", and maintains a professional distance. But as time passes and she comes to warm up to you, that distance is chipped away by her own doing. She confesses to her many well hidden secrets, dark secrets like how she played a hand in the night of black knives or her more lesser secrets like stealing her mom's books, giving young Radahn a bobcut in his sleep, mischiefs with Rykard etc. Her trust in you, that you will keep her word between you two, is the sign. Anytime the topic steers towards anything remotely romantic though, she transforms into a bashful tsundere

"Noooo don't open that box from that chamber in this location you don't want to marry me noooo" (gives you the key to that box). Also "take not the ring from this place, the solitude beyond the night is better mine alone." Is code word for "please marry me I am very lonely".

Rykard:

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Pre Snake Rykard:

He shows you his sex dungeon

Yea. The most forthright admirer award goes to! PRAETOR RYKARD! Rykard seems like the type of guy who has this very thick professional exterior, that betrays his true perverse nature. You sit down with him and think

"wow, what a well rounded individual! Yes he is rough around the edges, but he dresses nice, he speaks well, he looks lordly enough albeit dark circles, he is good with machines (he doesn’t tell you that he names them 'abductor virgins' 💀) hmm surely he isn't some perverted freak with dungeons and torture rooms in his house"

and then he offers you a tour of his house and peels off his skin like a snake fresh out of hibernation and every fibre of your being tells you to run as fast as u can. Think Tywin Lannister but it's obvious somebody's been slipping drops of mercury into his coffee. His stern facade hides a lecherous mind

It would go something like this. He is wearing his tywin lannister inspired drip, while riding his very high horse. He bothers to look down from his very high horse at which point he sees you. Double take. He approaches you with the confidence of an absolute slut, but its coated with enough regal varnish to make them barely acceptable in public. Something like "Good evening Fair lady/good sir, I see thou art unchaperoned this low in the evening. May we escort you somewhere safe?". You don't really understand what he is getting at first, until he offers to give you a tour of his beautiful rich and lavish manor. And like, he isn't lying. It's beautiful. It's rich. It's lavish. On top of a fucking volcano? It’s always the fucked up bitches with tastes like look at Mohg?! 10/10 (I had rank him second to Mohg in dripmaxxing). But the deeper you venture into his abode, the crazier the tour becomes. And then you watch this man peel his layers of civility strata by strata, with each new chamber easing him into his true self until ultimately what is left is a crazed man with a crazed look pointing at a literal dungeon with very suggestive toys. Tanith is there.

The pros though is that he is a good lover, and father. Stressing on Father, because you are gonna make him one. (Magic world if you are a male reader. Anything is possible)

Post Snake Rykard:

Ooooohhh togethhhaaaaaa we prossspeeerrr untuu eterniteeeeeeeee become fameeelee?

( he is giving you a choice which is a show of love. Choose your next words very carefully)

Godfrey:

He lets you dress his scars.

He recognizes that familiar feeling of love, and his age and experience has taught him that fighting it will be more painful, so he just lets it be instead. Despite his bloodlust and barbarism, which resurfaces here and there, he is surprisingly courteous in casual settings. Being married to a goddess you find out, is a lonely existence. Is there any love between the two? Questions that will storm your mind as you do good on the honor of dressing his wounds. You can feel the eyes of his golden beast watching over you. Such an act had intimate undertones back in his homeland. Do you understand?

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Miquella:

He doesn't 'slip' up any 'signs' no he LITERALLY stabs you with it(out of desperation), but you are still oblivious because he looks like your 8 yrs old baby cousin with a bug addiction(Those wings are real y/n)!He tries to appear his real age by snatching every opportunity provided to show the vastness of his mind and wisdom, but ends up giving young Sheldon vibes. He tells you straight to your face that he loves you like "no other", but he just gets swaddled in your lap like a baby. Not enjoying this experience.

Messmer: Don't know anything about him to write 3 paras (for obv) but the vibes he is giving right now is that he is less pookie bear than imagined, and impaling isn't just a hobby but his way of life. Going off of the trailer, I had say if he had a crush on you, he would be as straight forward as Godwyn, but with a more sinister bent. He would let you play with his snakes...maybe burn you deep to leave his mark...?

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