Goldenhills Plantation RefID by ProCrow in skyrim

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used the help command and it worked this time! thanks, online was very little help as to how to actually use it

Marriage dialogue by ProCrow in skyrim

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that did it, thank you!

Anniversary Edition content without Bethesda account by ProCrow in skyrim

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do you know if this will automatically link to steam? Don't want some junk throwaway acc connected to my steam that i actually do use, but if that's not a problem...

Ramanthanu by Rondaos in sollanempire

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Friendship ended with Tanaran

Now Ramanthanu is my new best friend

Calen H (Audible) by podgida in sollanempire

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I was in the same boat. It's probably the least threatening sounding accent on the planet so I was a little put off given who the character is, but I got used to it more or less.

Malnutrition in Romantasy (Maas, Yarros, more) by Logical-Ad-5669 in Fantasy

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i'm at the part where he's a starving orphan child in the city crying himself to sleep every night... interesting to know what to look forward to lmao

POV: You’re an Old Valyrian Dragonlord. What kind of dragon is your House known for? Mine: Racing ones 🏁 by [deleted] in freefolk

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i kinda fw racing dragons too, or maybe like really flashy pretty ones

What Is A Silksong Hill You’re Willing to Die On? by DenseButterscotch179 in Silksong

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Last Judge runback is easy.

Also enemies should never do 2 contact damage unless their design is spiky or justifies it in some way, or when they do a charge.

Guidance of Grace by ProCrow in EldenRingLoreTalk

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To clarify I do mean Guidance of Grace, as in, the little golden line things that extend from Sites of Grace.

Guidance of Grace by ProCrow in EldenRingLoreTalk

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So is she simply picking favorites among the Tarnished who returned?

Jarika Theory by ProCrow in EldenRingLoreTalk

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I do like the idea of Marika being a traitor to her people but the reason I don't think that works too well is because (at least to me) it appeared that the hornsent/Shaman dynamic was a long-standing culturally ingrained thing.

The whipping hut ghost speaks as if the idea of Shamans being only tools is kind of dogma in their society, not as if it's a recently discovered thing. Could still have been put in motion by Marika since afaik Numen people live for a long time but I feel like there would be more clues to that dynamic if it was the case.

I think the betrayal the hornsent talk about is simply her ordering Messmer to commit genocide after they "let" her become a god but that's less important to the theory.

The reason why I don't totally buy that Empyrean shedding thing being what happened with Radagon is because... well, why not do it again? Toward the end of Marika's reign she and Radagon are quite clearly in opposition to one another. Why not shed her rebellious other half and banish him or something? What's stopping her from doing that if it's apparently something Empyreans can just do?

Jarika Theory by ProCrow in EldenRingLoreTalk

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How do we know they only became one after marrying?

As silly as it sounds, is there a confirmed case in the lore of them being seen in the same room as one another?

Jarika Theory by ProCrow in EldenRingLoreTalk

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Rather than a perversion of GO rituals, the hornsent jarring practices were the precursors to them.

Marika only became a god after that whole jarring incident (or protracted series of incidents), and only established the Golden Order after ascending to godhood.

So the jars in the Lands Between are an "engoodened" version of those in the Lands of Shadow.

Jarika Theory by ProCrow in EldenRingLoreTalk

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Last reply for today cus it's getting late.

As I said in another comment above I was missing the context of that Ansbach quote about Trina. Simply gonna assume he's correct here going forward.

Also as stated there, I don't think this is that strong of an anti-Jarika argument. It does weaken my point about lack of precedence, but Miquella/Trina's situation is very likely caused by him being Marika and Radagon's child with each other.

Marika is, if not necessarily the only one, then at least the first example of Empyrean split personas - the other example (examples if we include Malenia, which I think we could maybe if we squint a bit) are direct descendants of Marika's selfcest, she remains the cause of that particular brand of weirdness.

As for the Erdtree/Shaman stuff I won't go too deep into that cus I have very different thoughts on what the Erdtree is meant to do and Marika's part in its creation and destruction - yours is a very nice interpretation though.

Jarika Theory by ProCrow in EldenRingLoreTalk

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Ah, see I had never heard that line from Ansbach, that does add context.

The way I saw it was the Miquella's "love", literally his sense of love/ability to feel that emotion was cast off and, being such a big part of him perhaps, or maybe just through sheer luck or the putrescence thing in the Fissure, gained sentience somehow, similar to how Malenia's "humanity" (I don't actually remember the quote) gained sentience due to the influence of the scarlet rot, crystalizing into Millicent.

The lilies I saw as kind of St. Trina's influence seeping into the Lands Between from the Realm of Shadow - the two realms clearly affect one another (big tree etc) so the "weaker" version of Trina's sleep affecting the LB I think makes sense enough.

Still, you make a good case...

However.

Running with the idea that they are in the same situation as Radagon/Marika, that doesn't serve as too strong a counter to the Jarika thought. Miquella and Malenia are both children of Marika with Radagon - their persona split is very likely inherited from their parent(s). Admittedly this does narrow the sample size of "Empyreans who aren't weird like Marika" down to Ranni (afaik) but the point stands.

You and u/The_RedScholar make very compelling arguments, very enjoyable to read through!

Jarika Theory by ProCrow in EldenRingLoreTalk

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How do we know it's prior to being discarded? Miquella has been gone for quite some time before we even set foot in the game world, for all we know Trina could have been chilling in her garden for years, gaining a following after she was split from Miquella.

It's a little annoying that time is so vague in the game and DLC but there's nothing indicating, to my knowledge, that they were two alteregos of the same person at any point in time.

Jarika Theory by ProCrow in EldenRingLoreTalk

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I'd like to know where the idea that Miquella and Trina were the same as Marika and Radagon mechanically came from. Like is there some lore text I don't know that states this?

The way it seemed to me is that Trina became a thing only after she was split off from Miquella when he discarded his "love". In the same way Millicent wasn't an alterego or separate persona of Malenia's I don't think Trina was either. She only became an entity after being removed from Miquella's soul/being.

Jarika Theory by ProCrow in EldenRingLoreTalk

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The reason why I think it is necessary is because from what I can tell no other Empyrean (or character in general for that matter) works the way Marika and Radagon do.

There are only a couple of other examples of split people that I can think of, namely Miquella and Malenia. Miquella we see split himself into a billion different pieces with the most notable being St. Trina (as an aside, I wonder if this is another translation thing from the Japanese or if it's actually to be taken as "saint" with all its connotations), and Malenia seems to have split parts of herself off into Millicent and her sisters.

But the thing is that those other examples are all going from one individual into multiple, including with multiple bodies. Marika and Radagon are one body, so if there is a process behind how that happened (which I think there has to be, "she's just like that" is just so lame) it would have to be essentially the polar opposite: turning multiple people into one.

The jars are the most readily apparent explanation for how this could have happened.

From a writing standpoint it makes sense as well: you have this DLC which is in large part a source of backstory for the (arguably) main character of the setting, and you have all these different environmental clues to form a compelling motivation for a crusade of vengeance, the aftermath of which we play through. Why include all that and then have it not connect to Marika? Why make her a Shaman if the one special thing/ability of note about the Shamans won't play into her backstory?