It's Marikas mother.

Can I just say how much I appreciate fromsoft for putting out a gameplay trailer before a cg for dlc.

please do a video with the emerald gecko

Damn, Moxy, putting out this video in record time after the trailer dropped. I liked that you included a lot of relevant insight from other creators - That's what we need right now, a collective loretuber consciousness, an Elden hivemind, if you will. I am personally still unable to function after the intro scene with the mountain of bodies holyyyyyyyyy hell.

28:40 Marika came to be against the actions of the Golden Order fundamentalists, but she's not against the Golden Order per se. She created the Golden Order herself, she created the fundamentals and the Erdtree, and it was her source of power. She came to disagree with the actions of her fundamentalist followers, who began to systematically hunt down Those Who Live In Death. She realized that she had made a mistake after she saw the consequences of her actions. Or at least that's a common theory. When did she realize this mistake? Certainly not during her campaign that led to the purge. That was during a time when she was fully determined to become a god at any cost.

13:56 I have to disagree, this is not Marika getting crucified. The images we see in the DLC story trailer show Marika creating the Erdtree, as the narrator says that both Gold and Shadow are being created. Gold refers to Marika's Golden Order and her Erdtree, while Shadow refers to the Shadow of Marika's Erdtree (as the title of the DLC says). Order of events: - Marika removes Destined Death from the Elden Ring and creates the Erdtree and the Golden Order. This comes with her ascension to godhood. - At some point later Marika shatters the Elden Ring and consequently gets imprisoned in the Erdtree (presumably by the Elden Beast or the Greater Will, but this is not entirely certain). So after Marika establishes the Golden Order, she's not getting imprisoned for it. Her imprisonment happens after the Shattering. This means that manipulation of the Elden Ring did not result in imprisonment, but destruction did. Marika's crucification is a consequence of the Shattering.

The tree that stole the sun

Moxie I love you cuz but you make my brain hurt. Like a lot. I do love the Michael Myers stabbing license. That was clutch.

I don't think this "youtube tutorial" like music works here. Otherwise, nice video and editing.

Could Ranni's discarded GR be guarded by Carians in the LoS? WE ARE SO BACK!

Lady in the portrait is the gloam eyed queen and is married to dude in the same portrait. Gloam eyed queen was also Marika. Pregnant Gloam eyed queen Marika give birth to Messmer hence his mother message from the first trailer. Gloam eyed queen/Marika were done with old dude so she started the godskins to murder old dude. They hatch the plan for old dude and take his out. From the later part of trailer 1 with old dude you see him pulling his head off with this internal metal looking, skeleton, sword, structure thing. This was the work of the Gloam eyed queen/Marika when she takes the elden ring from the clothing as that looks pretty close to the clothing old dude wheres in the portrait and I think you can make out a hand or something else just inside when she takes it. All the bodies and blood shown in the story trailer are the old dudes 'gods' or protectors or something and where the godskins got their clothes from hence all the faces in them. When she does this she drop the gloam eyed queen and takes on radagon personality as it looks like this happens when the elden ring is held up bc the it's a manly looking figure holding it up. Now Marika/Radagon leave it all behind birthing the erd tree era. As we see she leaves messier so he's hot and says you oh you don't like the crucible/omens/horns/wild ish, then I'll burn it all down so you'll come back to me mommy. She clearly does not so he's got major mommy issues now. Miquella is also st Trina and I think he was to be the next in line for the thrown. Night of the black knives occurs and Miquella loses his older bro godwin who has been a hero to him his whole life. Marika is upset bc the golden order has shown to be weak so she says nobody is getting my precious the elden ring and pow breaks that b up. With everything that's happened miquella learns more about the past and the land of shadow and begins a scheme to get there. Think maybe that has to do with his halig tree hence why all the beasties and weird things like it around there cuz they are waitingto get back to old times. Mohg f's it all up so it didn't completely work so now we have to go grab his hand to go to the shadow land and fix what mohg messed up. Just some random thoughts cobbled together for what it's worth.

Moxie editing and voicing goes so fkn hard 🔥

So aside from my dragon God theory, my other crazy theory is that Radagon existed BEFORE Marika, and Marika was literally born from the gold... Marika might be the "shadow". 🤔

I don't understand Shiz. I just like the lore talk

33:27 I think the Bandai Namco DLC website gives more insight into why Miquella is guiding Tarnished into the Land of Shadow. "And now Miquella awaits the return of his promised Lord." I think Miquella wants a lord/consort to ascend to godhood. Maybe an empyrean getting a lord is a step to them becoming a god. Mohg wanted to ascend Miquella to godhood and to become his consort, and the player can become Ranni's lord/consort. I think his goal is to ascend to godhood to heal his sister. To keep his "promise" mentioned in the description of Malenia's armor set.

Lady Butterfly vibes

21:49 Perhaps these are burnt/dead versions of those grandad two-finger trees (I just made that up) we see in the gameplay trailer. One behind the navy hood gurl doing the sailor moon butterfly spin (here in the vid at 7:18), and several by the trench-coat lion dudes arena. Also, there's a shot where the riding tarnished halts suddenly at a cliff's edge and the camera raises towards the Shadow Tree. In the field ahead we see these gnarly look-alikes that might be the same thing. Maybe Messmer's flame does a bit more extra work to them than just burning. Mhm.

I love how character based this expansion is. Just that intro alone of Marika was sick af.

Has anyone talked about how old man Jenkins in the painting in the gameplay trailer is also the same old man near the end of the gameplay trailer that’s impaled with all those orange spikes?

I think Miquella's seven followers are the seven soulless demigods from the seven wandering mausoleums. I think their souls weren't destroyed, but sent to the Land of Shadow and were convinced by Miquella to help him in exchanged for salvation/revenge/whatever. The newest image looks far too related to Miquella and Marika to be coincidence, in my opinion. I also think we'll probably fight them or help them depending on whether we join Miquella. Messmer may be A big bad, but probably not THE big bad. 😎🍻😎

The Burning of the City is 1:1 the Burning of Harrenhal. Messmer here is a reference to Balerion, who is a reference to Ancalagon the Black However, the First Dragon of LotR was Glaurung, the Flightless. While he was Gold, I imagine Black is a common colour when dragging oneself across the earth. WHAT ARE GIANT FLIGHTLESS DRAGONS? Magma Wyrms. Messmer is the First Dragon Communion Partaker, CONFIRMED.

What if Melina is connected to the sun. Since we can’t call her to any sites of grace inside caves?

you're the best moxie

There is picture of godfrey impaled in this base game. Could this be Messmer doing? Also I am sure the person at the beginning was Marika. The stairs look identical to the one leading to the final boss in the base game and the bodies around is what became the erdtree or rather feeding the erdtree. We can get this from the catacombs with bodies at the erdtree roots which is claimed to be erdtree burial. Another thing. I think Miquella must have compelled Hewg and not Marika . So when his duty was fulfilled, he forgot everything

Another top tier video made my Moxi. Its always a delight to watch them.

The "serpentine" flying thingies in Mesmer's shot look a suspiciously too close to the spear impaling Marika in the erdtree...

I got a license to search for answers about the needle in the dlc

Love your video style, a little bit of everything and of course the love for elden ring can be seen everywhere

Miquela is everyone is the best explanation we have right now. Elden Ring is like the Gary Vault from Fallout 3

I'm almost positive that's Radagon at the beginning of the trailer. He had golden hair before being cursed by the giants, would make sense for that scene. Idk how to make it fit with Marika and her betrayal but that's definitely a male figure holding the Strands in the air.

That background dubstep song is completely stupid and made me leave your video in 3 minutes.

Wow that was an awesome video ! I really enjoyed the collab with the other creators, and the quality of your content is really impressive ! Please keep up you great work

I've heard alot of people think that the shadow tree is sapping the gold from the light tree, but what if it's the other way around? Like these shadows rising up in the shadow world are maybe because the light is being drained from them by the tree? I have no evidence, just a thought.

Who is more people marika or miquella?

Btw I could be wrong but I haven't heard anyone say this - the gameplay trailer where we see Miquella all glowey at the end - the initial shot of that you can see the ground below him and it looks (to me anyway) alot like the corpse floor that marika walks over in this trailer, so that could literally be where the dlc ends