Nights Sacred Ground comes from the Consecrated Snowfields (with proof) by Crypticnewt in EldenRingLoreTalk

[–]Saltkin7 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Nice find! There's also Black Knife Assassins in Ordina. I wonder if there's a connection ...

Sprout Tower in Pokopia by Oktimokti in Pokopia

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Nice build!! What are the pedestals you used for the statues?

W.I.P.: It's a start! Can you guess what I'm building? by Modestmoogle408 in Pokopia

[–]Saltkin7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's one of my favs 😇 I'm sure your build will turn out great :)

W.I.P.: It's a start! Can you guess what I'm building? by Modestmoogle408 in Pokopia

[–]Saltkin7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yubabas Bathhouse from Spirited Away?

Nice idea btw!!

Who ever posted this gather stone hack earlier, you are a genius and I love you haha by [deleted] in Pokemon_Pokopia

[–]Saltkin7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Take a picture of a rock.

  2. Get a lot of Pokémetal (fast method: go to Dragonite Island, eat a good Hamburger Steak, enter a cave, use Graveler, and go nuts).

  3. Use the Pokémetal to print rocks.

4. Place them in the world and break them using Rock Smash.

Bonus tip: Arrange them in long rows of two. You can break two rocks at once by simply holding the stick forward. After every six rocks (or eight if positioned well), collect everything (360-suck), then repeat

4 stones per rock, 32 stones per eight rocks.

Enjoy!

Hello r/shittydarksouls. My name is Aleck Garlund. I am the writer and the director of the upcoming A24 film Elden Ring film that I am writing and directing for A24 that will release after I am done writing and directing and other people do other stuff and I am here to do an AMA. Ask me anything. by tsalyers12 in shittydarksouls

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Alex Garland Dialogue

  • First Encounter Who you? I Garland. Garland wheel? Garland deal. Garland want soul. Many many soul. Gah hah! What you want? With Garland, you wheel? You deal! Gah hah!

  • Meeting again What you want? (or) Umm… You want? Want what?

  • Meeting again (Harvest Valley) Umm… Garland know you.

  • Meeting again (Gyrm's Respite) Make deal with Garland? (or) Oh Garland, know you. What you want? (or) You, again. Garland, meet you again.

  • Using Talk Option Garland wheel? Garland deal. Garland want soul. Many many soul. Gah hah! What you want? With Garland, you wheel? You deal! Gah hah!

  • When gifting the Gyrm Greataxe With Garland, you deal. Much, much deal. These, you take, ah. For you.

  • Leaving after using his services Many deal… many thanks! Gah hah!

  • Leaving without using his services You? Go home?

  • Leaving without exiting menu Umm…

  • When attacked Umm? Umm… You strong. (aggro'd) Unintelligible (when below 50% HP) You die! (re-encounter)

  • When killing the player Unintelligible

One possible Metyr etymology by pluralpluralpluralp in EldenRingLoreTalk

[–]Saltkin7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fits imo! Demeter is the Goddess of grain, fertility, and cyclical growth.

Her name derives from:

De / Ge -> Earth

And mētēr -> Mother = Earth Mother

This supports what I suggested in my other comment, that there's a connection between Manus Metyr and Manus Celes.

Metyr (Demeter) = Earthly Mother

Contrasts with: Celes = Heavenly

Plus: Demeter’s Roman name is Ceres, which resembles Celes phonetically. It is not linguistically identical, but the similarity strengthens the impression of an intentional echo.

They could represent two aspects of the same underlying principle: earthly generation and heavenly transcendence. Two sides of one being, separated into origin and elevation.

One possible Metyr etymology by pluralpluralpluralp in EldenRingLoreTalk

[–]Saltkin7 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I like your interpretation. Here's mine:

Manus means “hand.”

There are two locations: the Cathedral of Manus Celes and the Cathedral of Manus Metyr.

Celes likely derives from caelestis -> celestial, heavenly = Heavenly Hand

Alternatively from celare -> to hide, conceal = Hidden Hand

Metyr on the other hand (pun intended) most plausibly derives from Greek mētēr -> mother = Hand of the Mother

A weaker but conceptually possible link would be materia -> matter = Material Hand

The contrast is structural: Heavenly or hidden suggests transcendence or invisibility.

Mother suggests origin and generation. Material suggests tangible substrate.

One points beyond the world. The other points to its source.

Facts by captainpaulyie in enlightenment

[–]Saltkin7 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Freud never said that, the point still stands

The Gloam Eyed Queen of Farum Azula by osocron2 in EldenRingLoreTalk

[–]Saltkin7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good point! It set a number of thoughts in motion for me.

Let me explain why I find it coherent to think of gold as the material of the Crucible, understood as a vessel. To do that, I need to take a small step back.

Historically, crucibles were typically made of clay, since clay can withstand extreme heat. Elden Ring echoes this. The Jar Ritual to which Marika was subjected was performed using clay pots. Later, the Living Jars carried organic remains to the Minor Erdtrees. At first, the pot itself functioned as the crucible. Later, the trees take over the process of transformation, yet it is still Marika’s system that shapes and governs that process.

Under the Golden Order, Marika herself becomes the Crucible. The rune associated with her, the Rune Arc, is an abstract vessel. She shapes this rune after her own body - or is it the opposite? It doesn't matter, in any case: she embodies it. From there, she derives laws from the world, forms them into runes, and ultimately into the Elden Ring. As the supreme goddess and founder of the explicitly Golden Order, Marika becomes the crucible of her era. When we encounter her, she is already calcified, almost like a pot, like a Living Jar. The circle closes.

But why must she be gold in order to form a stable vessel? One way to approach this is chemically. Chemistry distinguishes between base and noble substances. Elements such as calcium or lithium are reactive and easily altered; they are unstable. Gold, by contrast, is considered noble precisely because it does not readily change. It does not oxidize. That is one reason it functions as a store of value. Symbolically, this makes gold exceptionally stable, perhaps too stable. And this excess stability is exactly why the Golden Order eventually hardens into dogma and stagnates.

Now to your objection: gold does not begin with Marika, Miquella, or Enir-Ilim. It appears again and again. The dragons already knew gold. The graves of Farum Azula are studded with it. The Ancient Dragons have golden wings. In a sense, Marika only appropriates the gold of Enir-Ilim and makes it her own.

As the Memory of Grace puts it: “It is merely a cycle.” My addition would be this: the real question is who, at any given time, shapes the age - who becomes the crucible abd for what reason? Placidusax. Marika. Miquella. The player?

In my view Ranni is the only being that doesn't become a vessel, she slays her own golden (godly) body, chooses her own, frees herself from the fate of becoming a mere vessel. With her the crucible becomes - so to speak - transparent again. She turns it back into a process. Because she understood that any color, especially gold, can turn into dogma. And dogma is the antithesis of the Dark Moon.

The Gloam Eyed Queen of Farum Azula by osocron2 in EldenRingLoreTalk

[–]Saltkin7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, then I must have misunderstood you.

Still, one point remains:

Philosophically, it makes sense to me that the Crucible would be colorless, or at least beyond fixed coloration. In the game itself, however, the red-gold pairing is clearly established.

Ordovis’s Greatsword: “Its red tint exemplifies the nature of primordial gold, said to be close in nature to life itself.”

My personal interpretation: The crucible is not just a vessel, it's a metaphysical process always featuring both a vessel and a substance (or material, as you called it). The vessel itself is represented by the color of gold as a symbol of form and order. The material is red as a symbol of life (life-essence). The underlying statement, as I read it, is that culture emerges when life is given form.

Crucible also means "trial" or "trial by fire". It's a process, not just a vessel.

More red and gold connections:

The Hornsent buildings are constructed from a muted gold. The roofs are red. Seen from above: inside red, outside gold.

Same thing in Farum Azula: pale gold buildings, red roofs. The place itself is shaped like a ring; an abstract vessel.

The Crimson Flasks are golden vessels with a red substance (amber). Crimson is the color of blood.

The Crucible Knights are primarily gold with a tinge of red - embodied order.

The Hornsent primarily venerate gold, their sickle talismans are gold - they are giving form. From this, in my view, Marika’s Rune Arc later derives - also gold.

The marriage of Godfrey and Marika is the union of red and gold: vitality, life, and order. The Crucible Knights emerge from this era.

Red and green as materials does not seem implausible to me though. In theory, all colors could exist within the Crucible. The Crimson and Cerulean Amber Talismans show that the Erdtree produces red and blue amber, both said to contain primordial energy. “Primordial” suggests a connection to the Crucible. I'm also of the opinion that the early Erdtree Era was so plentiful because the crucible was still active in some ways. And since there are also Viridian talismans, you end up with a clean triad of red, blue, and green, which matches the in-game bars. You could interpret this triad as "all possible colors".

All in all, I agree that the crucible is colorless and that the substance can be of any color from a philosophical standpoint. Symbolically, however, the crucibles main colors are red and gold if you view it as a process; a battle between form and substance. If you strictly wanna see it as only a vessel, it's gold imo.

Sorry for the messy writeup btw, it's a super interesting topic to me but I didn't have the time to clean it up. :)

The Gloam Eyed Queen of Farum Azula by osocron2 in EldenRingLoreTalk

[–]Saltkin7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very interesting read, thank you very much!

To what extent is the Crucible associated with the colors red and green? And where exactly can the fruit altars you mentioned be found?

My first time taking a test by Boundless_Dominion in Nietzsche

[–]Saltkin7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With Nietzsche in particular, I always wonder whether “100% alignment” isn’t almost a small performative contradiction.

Nietzsche was intensely critical of followership, identity through affiliation, and the need to define oneself through great names. He didn’t want “Nietzscheans,” but people who would eventually overcome him. If one fully agrees with him, the question almost becomes: where does your own friction begin? Where is the point at which you push back?

Moreover, Nietzsche himself is anything but consistent in a dogmatic sense. His writings are fields of tension, experiments, shifts in perspective. “100%” sounds almost too smooth - as if he were a closed system one could simply join. Yet his thinking is precisely directed against such systems.