Elden Ring Intro and Story Context Explained

Elden Ring intro explained in under 5 minutes. This video explains the characters and context found within Elden Ring's intro cutscene that players may be confused by at first. Spoilers are kept to a minimum, and all information about the story and lore is taken directly from the game itself to the best that I could interpret it.
Music used:
Elden Ring OST - Character Creation
Elden Ring OST - Omen Illusion
Elden Ring OST - Opening
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[@akivirus7020]

Knowing the lore lets you enjoys this game a lot more, this is video is worth watching before playing for those who pay attention to a game's writting and wanna try Elden Ring

[@hoang2312]

I think it's better to learn about the lore of each character/boss after you finished their questline/bossfight.

[@yksnimus]

I think they should make a better job at telling the story if you guys stop kissing ass for a bit you will realize how bad it is that you need a youtube vid to be able to get a clue on wtf is going on

[@ashitakasama]

@@yksnimus totally agree, I mean, the lore is so deep yet when you begin the game you feel lost (my case last week), perhaps some lord of the rings intro style would be nice here , LOL

[@brandonblackfyre5783]

*George RR Martin* helped write the story and focused heavily on the *Lore & world building* of *Elden Ring* which makes it even more amazing, especially if you are a fan of the *Game Of Thrones* TV show or the *Game Of Thrones* books called *A Song Of Ice And Fire*

[@jordancollins2553]

You should play this less like a point a to b finish and play this more like a novel if you look for the answers in the game you will learn how to find them if you pay attention

[@supernova00500]

I'm glad you explained this, because I was deeply confused by this cutscene and believed almost everyone pictured in the cutscene were main bosses, I especially was confused when I saw the dung eater for the first time appear in the roundtable hold. This game is so massive that it's easy to get lost or confused when you're out wandering...

[@lavawingsplays1627]

I've watched many Elden Ring videos trying to piece together some of this lore. I always seem to get lost in the weeds, but this summary solidified the core elements. You've got a really good way of explaining this stuff with no added fluff. Subbed for more. Thank you.

[@amasterknight1897]

Fromsoft was always bad at explaining their lore

[@skyacaniadev2229]

3:01 Radahn's sword has the earth's electromagnetic field diagram. How scientific!

[@funkdahmental]

He would’ve been a brilliant physicist if he wasn’t going crazy

[@someguy4405]

I noticed that in the first trailer, but he’s supposed to be using gravity. He’s got the wrong fundamental force!

[@jakariashafin8685]

Maybe in elden ring there the same force​@@someguy4405

[@ankit_908]

This is exactly what I needed to know, no spoilers included. Good work

[@Hesamoonheart]

03:45 The Greater Will : We Chooce Thou, cause Thou art Worthy to become the new Elden Lord The Narator : The Louthsome Dung Eater

[@nooblike7332]

Exactly my point. The story doesn't make sense

[@magneticzero9575]

Good summary! The only thing I think might be a little off is the part about Fia. I don't think she intends to "restore" Destined Death. If I remember correctly from her questline, she wants to harness it to usher a new era of death or something like that by giving birth to a new death rune.

[@EleanorDahlia]

she wants destined death to return due to the fact that she wants to make those that live beyond death not just an accident or mistake but a solidified fact of life/unlife in the lands between which destined death allows more easily as even the most powerful could finally die and then return, in her opinion, more powerful as undead. she wants to usher in more undead, including 'reviving' the prince of death as an undead king.

[@bigmacgaming5019]

You’re right

[@XRyanK]

She wants to lich king this bitch and have all live within death

[@mrrd4444]

Yep! Because restoring destined death would simply allow all dead things to pass from the world, and what she wants is more for Those Who Live In Death to... Well, live in death.

[@fvb7]

I thought Fia just wanted to have zombie babies.

[@leopoldwhylie5076]

Finally. As straight forward as it needed to be. Just information. Thank you. Have a sub.

[@lavawingsplays1627]

Exactly. I hate it when creators try to make a video longer than it needs to be and lose the point of summary.

[@tylertinkey3840]

This is THE BEST explanation I have seen of this lore. painfully under viewed. Excellent work.

[@VJ4rawr2]

I spent 180 hours and didn't understand any of the history. You've done a great job explaining it in 5 minutes.

[@mopdycke94]

leggit blew my mind with the GRRM thing. had to pause and call my friend to flip out

[@mopdycke94]

desperately need a full lore video from you. live the presentation you give

[@FozzyBearist]

This is a great video, and probably should be required watching for newbies and those who just jumped into the game and wandered around aimlessly

[@daybyday834]

Wonderful summary and overview! I learned some new lore tidbits I missed the first time.

[@radoczgyorgy3322]

2nd ng+ play begins , so much emotions intro. You fighted ebody))

[@chrisanderson4446]

Really cool and quick video, thank you !

[@fourcigs]

Thank u so much for this man definitely helps me enjoy and make good decisions in this game

[@raevynnmadd4094]

Thank you for making this make sense!

[@mistahjay5553]

This is hella under viewed wow 👏 amazing job expanding on the intro like that

[@Dbshel]

This video was very helpful 🙏

[@madmatt6343]

Thanks. Great video with solid analyze and clear explanation ..

[@Cabelius]

Really great video man

[@Gerwulf97]

Thank you, just the intro I was looking for before going into the game

[@thomasmeunier1766]

Great video thank you for this

[@usef2941]

Thank you for this

[@yamo511]

thank you forg giving a basic context of the lore with no spoilers

[@mahmoudmesleh1095]

Thanks so much for this explanation I was searching for something like thar

[@diegonantes9651]

Ty very much! I only started the game today, 6th jan 2024, and this video is already helping me a lot to understand what's going on.

[@LeTheGenD]

One of the better channels explaining the lore and story. Please continue producing quality content. You’ll get big soon.

[@dannylopez7512]

Great explanation! I was so lost seeing the intro 😅

[@TECHNOBEASTclips]

Im gonna cry this is so dam beautiful

[@michaelfleming-wiegand5250]

Yep, this is the video I was looking for.

[@hardhead6871]

Thank you for the lore, It will help me when watching lets plays of this game.

[@RedCrow.]

Great job dude.

[@Stormhawk02]

Damn. Very well presented

[@proxyshadow8429]

Criminally underrated video

[@lavalambchops]

Thank you so much!!! Dark souls intro I understood pretty much right away, this one was very cryptic tho and I have been si curious for years. Im biding my time till I can try this game out and now Im more excited than ever.

[@rougehawk]

this was perfect ty

[@Dre247365]

Holy shit! I never noticed the grace next to all of the tarnished in the intro!!! I learn something new about the story every day. 😂

[@jimmm9377]

good video dude, thanks

[@hrabia6558]

thanks a lot, this help soo much

[@tastyjaskie3004]

I wish there was a short story that came with the physical game/cd thanks for this info!

[@aldoborja4590]

Awesome video Thanks

[@danstora]

Thank you ❤

[@setharora521]

Great vid and spoiler free! Looking forward to finding the rest of thevlore in game which I'm playing on Steamdeck and it runs ridiculously well on it

[@Thearmyofsnipers]

I pretty much figured out every slide after a while except the Rykard one until I watched this video. Great call. Glad to finally know what was going on in that image

[@someguy4405]

BIG SNEK

[@richardtomco.6657]

this is a great video! Thank you so much!

[@InsertJokeHere325]

Great video it covers all the bases! Nice profile pic btw

[@Hirotoro4692]

Thank you for explaining it clearly. The other lore videos are in depth but ultimately useless because they assume you know things. You started at the beginning and went slowly

[@adamwestslappup]

I did not notice the graces with the tarnished; kinda blew my mind really

[@Truestoned0]

Great video

[@Drawnartist]

Thanks buddy very cool

[@recu1]

I almost thought you were vaati, nice vid

[@DarthAssViolater]

I think the elden ring was shattered before Ranni stole the fragment of death. I'm assuming Marika was only able to remove the rune of death by shattering the ring into its numerous shards, allowing her to gift different shards to her children as well as the rune of death to maliketh to seal away. This had to be done right before she was imprisoned as punishment for shattering the Elden Ring by the greater will. Since Marika was the vessel for the Elden Ring, the only way anyone would have been able to access her body at that point would have been to pass the impenetrable thorns of the erdtree. When we fight maliketh he says that he will not have the rune stolen from him again implying that it was him that ranni stole a fragment of the rune of death from. Who assumedly only got it from Marika only after she shattered the Elden Ring.

[@ED11169]

It doesn't seem not impossible, but order of events feels out of place if the elden ring was shattered first, since the golden order would've been established next, followed by the War with the giants, then the War with the dragonlord, the carian royals and academy forming an alliance to combat the expansion of the Golden order, Radagon falling in love with Rennala and forming a truce between their people, tarnishing of Godfrey and exile of the Tarnished, Radagon leaving behind his wife and children for Marika, the birth of the twin empireans, and the death of Godwyn all happening in that order. And after all these things, the war of the Shattering was named after an event that happened long before any of the demigods active in the war were even born?

[@yeetthemeat-yf5vp]

It is said that marika removed the rune of death upon the creation of the golden order so your saying that ever since the golden order was established the shattering war was going on which makes even less sense when you consider that the shattering broke the golden order

[@richardortiz7193]

@@yeetthemeat-yf5vp GOD DAMN!

[@atticratz6128]

Marika is said to betray Malekith (and he makes reference to being cursed), so it’s likely that she does play a part in the Night of the Black Knives, but yeet’s right that the Rune of Death is not implemented in the Elden Ring and therefore Golden Order when it’s formed by Marika.

[@elomoreloR6]

I've literally just spawned in burned down Leyndell and immediately remembered, I dont even know what this big burning tree is and what it does 😂😂 came here to quickly catch up

[@michaelsonny326]

very good

[@jesusVolcan]

Thanks man

[@lerigan]

Subbed. Subbed so hard.

[@antotriyanto9419]

thanks for the video, now i understand what that opening cinematic meaning even i have play this game for 250 hours i still dont know what those opening mean, especially when the character name similiar with each other

[@legendaryronin9593]

Well done in deed

[@Silly_Illidan]

the grrm nomenclature hits hard

[@IKuzmos]

AND SIR GIDEON OFNIR THE AAAALL KNOWING

[@MaaartyMcFly]

...oooooohkay. thanks :) still confused but it's a start Edit: referring to the story itself. Not the explanation. The explanation was simple and to the point. Thnx

[@AcCeSsDeNiEd65]

I thought the cutscene arts and prologue were too brief to understand. Glad I came here before starting the game.

[@mandala_skies]

Okay, esse foi um dos melhores resumos da história humana 🤯

[@strawhat8070]

Thank you, you truly are… ALLLL KNOWWWING!

[@allthe1]

Omg I can't believe I've missed that, the 4 gods' initials. GRRM is such a troll

[@MrSmexyPain]

I know this is old but I'm just now getting into Elden Ring. Great video! It's my first Souls game and... let's just say I'm not used to the ambiguous medieval horror -ish type of story they're creating loll. I'm sure there's a better way to describe that... gothic something, maybe. But regardless.. This helped a lot. Thanks

[@VLimit11]

I totally get that! Back when I first got into Dark Souls, I wasn't really into all of the depressing themes and obscured story, but after my first playthrough I ended up being more open to the idea. Now it's one of my favorite fantasy settings

[@juanrincon777]

Good video

[@Jojotheone1]

i thought goldfrey and hoarax loux where the same person?

[@lavawingsplays1627]

I'm lost there too

[@gozerofgozmis4181]

they are

[@RuthwikRao]

they are, he just didn't want to spoil it as this is only covering the intro cinematic. The same reason he didn't spoil that Radagon is Marika.

[@yusufensarbalc6221]

I didn't know first image was changed

[@zacharyrosenfeld1205]

So a goddess creates a powerful ring in order to create a tree that controls the laws of reality, she has a bunch of kids with the other gods that rule the realm, but then a cult messes with the ring so the goddess destroys it to prevent further harm, and you are a resurrected human trying to collect the ring fragments. Is this correct?

[@VLimit11]

Yep, I think that's a pretty good summary of the most important events

[@3bdalrhman_Elnahwy]

Great Game and great Video

[@jackeriksen6753]

So really, "The lands Between", "Tarnished". And people still think this is a "living" world. Its pretty clear that ended at the shattering.

[@MrZambrano101]

Would've been better if Starscourge Radahn was a later game boss. He was so easy for me, he was actually the first boss I took down, but the battle was legendary!

[@Aurocastro1]

Thank you for this video, but there is some thing that still bothers me. Why do every tarnished guided by grace seem to be dead in this intro? (except for Fia).

[@Aurocastro1]

Is it because they were actually dead before being chosen by grace?

[@McGoobly]

thanks, i go play game now

[@triplezeroxz5875]

I have a love hate relationship with Elden ring lore videos. While I as a player desparately want to know about this world, I feel like I'm being spoiled for basivally knowing what's going on. It feels like the game is intentioanlly ambiguous for a reason, and while it van be frustrating at the same time I don't want it to lose that magic, at least not until I've beaten the game for the first time. Either way really great video. Will come back once I've beaten Elden Ring on my first playthrough

[@IllIlllI]

Erdtree leaves are grace

[@Nebulisreconx]

Do we have any idea whom is narrating this intro? I suspect it is Radagon, while my buddy believes it is Shibriri.

[@cow_king4223]

Which one is your favourite demigod?

[@EA_Kar]

Lmao wait a second, 2:45 is that Morgot wrecking Radahn??

[@MinecraftMartin]

I don't know if I ever would have understood the story in this game without KZbin. Thats not a complaint, though. I like being able to make my own decision of how much brain power and time to devote. Woulsnt have it any other way.

[@dontstop2517]

0:32 in retrospective this was beyong right

[@oscarbarron3681]

He said 5 tarnished and then listed 6 lol

[@papafloppa]

Yes all good and all but who is the one narrating the intro just cant seem to find someone who would tell.

[@popcornfilms1]

If a 5 minute youtube video is needed simply to outline the story and lore with any coherence. This isn’t dark souls where the lore is just mumbled despair and fantasy, it has actual threads through it -- Despite all that, good work and good viewing

[@funnyguy4135]

jesus dude, what OST is this??

[@danialraziqadwa]

Is ranni also tarnished? Because she can be elden lord

[@TJtbh45]

Embarrassing how all of this somehow went over shadiversity's head.

[@lanceelopezz223]

Godwyn was *murdered

[@cr4zym3x1c4n]

100 hours in, passed malenia and I still don’t know who is who, wish I watched the lore first. I just enjoy slashing things

[@yungturkishman4211]

Aren’t Miquella and Melania true gods and not demigods because they were the children of two full gods? Radagon and Marika?

[@yeetthemeat-yf5vp]

They are empyreans. Idk what this actually means but it includes being a candidate for the next god

[@alexandersong5753]

really good summary, just i think an imporant fact you left out is that Radagon and Marika are the same person lol

[@fracche89]

Who is the one in the image with Morgott? The red-haired victim.

[@atticratz6128]

Very likely Radahn. Given he’s so much larger than Morgott when we fight either of them, I think this was before he fought Malenia when he was younger - but I’m not sure how long the Shattering has been going on.

[@fracche89]

@@atticratz6128 it made much more sense if it was Godrick but he has no redhair. Do in the swords we read morgott fought radhan?

[@ashutosh.sharma]

Vyke is not a tarnished?

[@CartinaCow]

He is, but he is before all this story, he was the last tarnished to get immensely close to becoming elden lord, but he never reached the forge after being imprisoned. Vyke is the player before the player.

[@tseridonihi3107]

I would love Portuguese subtitles

[@ColorAgent]

I'm confused. I thought Ranni pretty much says to us that she was head of the Night of the Black Knifes in game. But yr talking like it's unkown? srrrus question here.

[@VLimit11]

I released this video back when the game first came out, so I tried to minimize potential spoilers for this one

[@ColorAgent]

@@VLimit11 Oohh gotchya.

[@marcelopendragon1690]

Why is Malenia kneeling in front of Morgott at 2:41?

[@RuthwikRao]

that's actually Radahn

[@marcelopendragon1690]

@@RuthwikRao Ok

[@yeetthemeat-yf5vp]

Like the other guy said this is radahn an hes getting his ass kicked not kneeling

[@marcelopendragon1690]

@@yeetthemeat-yf5vp Thanks

[@huffjuff7824]

I quickly wanted to ask Is Godrick a demigod? Because we know he's not a child of Marika

[@VLimit11]

According to Enia: "The demigods are each and all the direct offspring of Queen Marika. Godrick the Grafted was but a distant relation... The runt of the litter, his divine blood sorely diluted." He probably comes from a line of grafting that is hinted to trace back to the lineage of Godwyn the Golden.

[@huffjuff7824]

@@VLimit11 but can we still classify him as a demigod?