The Complete History of Elden Ring, Part 2: The Crucible, the Stars, and Life in the Lands Between

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Welcome to the second video in our series covering all of Elden Ring's lore and history! With this series, I aim to explore every nook and cranny of the Lands Between, giving thought to factual information and (carefully-separated) theories alike to help you better understand FromSoftware's latest massive world.
In this video, we explore the many functions and laws of life in Elden Ring's world, including ordinary life, cosmic life, and artificial life. While we're still in a somewhat conceptual phase of our series, this video discusses our first actual pinpoint in Elden Ring's timeline: the Crucible and origins of all life.
Thank you so much for watching!
CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
0:24 The Crucible
5:27 Life in the Stars
8:53 Artificial Life
SPECIAL THANKS
@NebuloreYT and @The_Red_Scholar for their consistent help and valued analysis, plus everyone else in Lucaria and the Ward. Special shoutout to Byron for his unusual but extremely well-researched theory on the Crucible, linked below.
Byron's paper on the Elden Beast and the Crucible: drive.google.com/file/d/1DSGf...
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@one-eyed-dragon 2 ай бұрын

Never let this man cook again. Your heat too strong, your quality too good. They'll kill you.

@karlbharnarl 2 ай бұрын

4:45 it would only disprove it if you believe the Greater Will to be an Outer God and that the One Great is the Crucible itself (which kind of doesn't make sense considering that, as the Erdtree, the Crucible is directly linked derived from the Elden Ring, whilst the One Great is broken apart by the Golden Star presumably). I think that whether the Greater Will sprung from the One Great or that it came from somewhere else matters little, what matters is that it is due to its vision that the One Great shatters, and from it Order springs into being... The Crucible that is, chaotic it may be, yet Order it is

@ATC43 Ай бұрын

Great post here. I think alot fail to realize that the Crucible is a form of order in itself. Life is quite literally "Ordering" itself during that chaotic age of lifeforms bearing wings, horns, tails and knots. After some time on life form takes it upon themselves to control that chaos by declaring that they have found the "Golden Order" for life and subsequently ends the chaos of the Crucible age leaving the The Lands Between in a stasis.

@leadfaun 2 ай бұрын

It was all the greatrtree…

@northy1233 2 ай бұрын

Good shit, keep it up ❤️

@dani.phantm 2 ай бұрын

great vid, new sub.

@davisiotta489 2 ай бұрын

One note, the shape of the crucible may already be represented within the game through a statue representing a man atop a rampant growth of trees on the road to Lyendell, considering what you said about the Crucible Knight's weapon representing the shape of the crucible, this would make a lot of sense as they both represent several trunks growing from the same point, the statue appears to represent the old man holding one of the branches and that branch appears to grow longer and in a more orderly fashion, this is probably implying that this branch is the erdthree growing from the crucible, the other smaller trees we see below the capital are probably the other branches of the crucible that failed to grow into a full erdthree, this feels cohesive as things related to the crucible have the theme of competition quite present

@davisiotta489 Ай бұрын

Now that I'm revisiting that comment, could this old man be the same one we see in the DLC trailer? if he has a direct influence on the crucible's transformation into the erdthree I kind of find the speculation that he could be Marika's father somewhat likely I can't wait for the DLC... I NEED ANSWERS!!!

@CrunchyVideos 2 ай бұрын

Great video. I wonder if the Greater Will is really as pro-order as most people seem to think; if the crucible is something chaotic, then it seems like it sent avatars of both chaos and order into TLB. I’d also be curious what you think of the sun in ER.

@davisiotta489 2 ай бұрын

I think so, the greater will is totally in favor of order, the crucible is just a part of the process of the greater will to achieve order over living beings, the greater will understands that life must go through times of difficulty in the cycle of births and deaths so she needs empyreans, the existence of someone who can take the place of her current vassal is simply problematic because these candidates for godhood will almost certainly be the reason why her god will need to be replaced in the first place , but the greater will simply does not care because the interest of the greater will is the constant evolution of life through the process of changing the gods and the functionality of the world, it just wants the natural order of things to follow its path, even the " eternal age" by Marika is just another phase that living beings will go through, evolution is neither bad nor good, it is not the search for the strongest, most intelligent or even the fittest, it is simply the process of changing life through of the next generation, the next set, the next order

@alyseleem2692 2 ай бұрын

It's much simpler than that. Are you familiar with the concept of a demiurge? As in, the original Greek thought experiment? In it, a demiurge is a deity of perfect " Good" that wishes to impose order and perfection upon primordial Chaos. There's just one problem: It's chaos. This theorem posits that the imperfections of existence are inherent to it simply because if the world's " substance"; no matter how hard the demiurge tries, it will always fail to create a perfect world in the image of the one it originated from. It simply does not have the means.

@Evan-oz1dq 2 ай бұрын

good video

@SenSad 2 ай бұрын

A direct improvement and a chill listen, great job again ❤

@padraig4659 Ай бұрын

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@tr_avy 2 ай бұрын

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@RunkleDunk 2 ай бұрын

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@padraig4659 Ай бұрын

oh also, i think in Maliketh's arena there is what is likely a depiction of the crucible. It intially appears to be the Elden Ring, however it has many more great runes compared to the one we see in the game's logo, and there are sprawling roots below it similar to the Erdtree I could be wrong tho, i only think it's the crucible bc of Farum Azula's cyclical time stuff and its proximity to Placidusax. It could simply be a more primitive pre-shattering version of the elden ring with all of its great runes still intact

@JarrettSales Ай бұрын

My thoughts are somewhat in line with this; I believe this is what the Elden ring looked like in its earliest form, before Marika (and perhaps others) altered it to align with her ideology. This is probably the earliest depiction of the ring, and how it looked when it first landed in the lands between

@davisiotta489 Ай бұрын

I think maybe the extra runes maybe not exactly great runes, if you look closely at these "runes" they don't complete a circle contrary to what seems to be the rule for all great runes, I believe they might just be an extension From the "root rune" you can even see two of the runes going down their lines and becoming roots The real runes are probably Just the four in The center

@slimecrust 2 ай бұрын

now this is very epic

@alyseleem2692 2 ай бұрын

I find there is little to dismiss in the Frenzied Flame's version of events. It has every reason to discredit and disempower it's opponent. Instead, it tells you things as they are, and describes it's belief that life, or rather life as we know it, is a mistake. It is possible it is simply talking about the Crucible when referring to the One Great... If you believe the Frenzied Flame does not count the stars as " living". Again, the Frenzied Flame is against ALL life. All divisions. All existence. Every attempt at independent existence is considered a selfish quest for suffering. The connection between the stars and those who live in this world further denotes the fact that, like us, the stars resulted from the One Great; otherwise, why would they guide our fates? What other connection do we have to these alien beings, if not that we all share a common source? Take a look at the Elden Beast's arena, and what do you see? Thousands upon thousands of golden trees. Each was once a golden star, bearing another beast to another land, ready to become another Elden Ring. Each and every one is but a small plant in the Will's garden. It is no surprise, then, that it abandoned us. No sense in investing time and effort in dead crops when other, living and healthy ones require your time and attention.

@davisiotta489 Ай бұрын

Maybe what caused the crucible was a star falling into the world? like the elden beast came to the world, could the crucible have come the same way? Maybe it's all the same thing and the crucible arrived in the lands between along with the elden beast in the golden star? Maybe the crucible was the golden star in which the elden beast arrived in the lands between?

@alyseleem2692 Ай бұрын

@@davisiotta489 Last option, or both in and the creation of the wider universe. In short, the Crucible and the lifeforms that composed it couldn't have existed before the fracturing of the One Great. Even they display various forms of separate and independent existence. As such, they too are the Greater Will's creations. It's the simplest and most obvious conclusion. All life is defined by runes; the Elden Ring is a set of Runes which defines the world and all life together with a set of laws. It has existed since the Order Of The Ancient Dragons, and likely long before that; it can be found in Maliketh's arena in an older form, and Placidusax himself was Elden Lord. " ' Tis merely a cycle. Stand before the Elden Ring. Become the Elden Lord." This cycle doesn't mean our journey itself is canonically repeating; it means that this same story has happened over a dozen times across dozens of ages to dozens of people. Before us, it was Godfrey. Before Godfrey, it was Placidusax. Who knows who was before Placidusax? Well, only him, probably. If there was ever a specific action that denotes the Frenzied Flame's accusation of the Greater Will, it is this one. The Frenzied Flame accuses the Greater Will through the Three Fingers of creating " fractures, births and souls"; of creating life itself. It claims that, through this, the Greater Will has caused suffering as a consequence of each being's independent and limited existence, as opposed to the unity of primordial chaos. This is clearer in the Japanese dual, where it denotes this act as THE mistake it is describing, as opposed to simply saying " but the Greater Will made a mistake." Life IS the mistake. Existence IS the mistake. Everyone who truly follows Frenzy is joined by one wish; that they were never born in the first place. The Elden Beast is the primary culprit; in it, you see the template of several forms of life. The hands of a man. More wings than a dragon, and the firebreathing to match. The natural talent in both swimming and flight. It is, to us, the ultimate lifeform; the beginning and culmination of all life as we know it. And it is not special. In the distance, you see dozens of trees. Dozens of places you never visited. Dozens of worlds. It's never clearly stated how exactly the Greater Will " abandoned" the Lands Between, but this gives you the clear enough picture. This is the Greater Will's garden, and you are standing in a dead plant, about to be pruned to leave space for new life. The Elden Beast is or was carried by a golden star; it and beings like Astel are the same kind of being, only, it is higher. "If the stars command our fates, then amber-hued stars must command the fates of the gods." "This sword is imbued with an ancient holy essence. Its red tint exemplifies the nature of primordial gold, said to be close in nature to life itself." The Elden Beast is one; just one. One amber colored star. One star that defined absolutely everything we know. How small is it, compared to the one to sent it? How many others were sent? Where are they? How alike are they? Do you understand the scale of this? The proportions? No wonder, then, when one is claimed by Frenzy.