killerbee1974: One science guy years ago said that the Erdtree looks more like a mushroom than a tree
fabioeliasreisritter8827: Miazaki: Ok George, what do you think the story should be lik-
R.R. Martin: Shrooms.
Miazaki: ... what? I mean the story of this new game we are collab-
R.R. Martin: Giant. Shrooms.
Miazaki: ...
R.R. Martin: And feet.
Miazaki: SAY LESS.
DreamskyDance: I remembered your mushroom theory as soon as i picked up a finger mushroom in those finger ruins... XD
Snoike: Shamans of old did use mushrooms to receive spiritual guidance from their ancestors, so Marikas people being named shamans does make sense
Juggla23: I believe this is 100% the right direction for overall theme.
n8doggy733: So if Elden Ring is about mushrooms and Elizabeth is a mushroom, does that mean that Marika IS Elizabeth!?
loblo5542: Everything was layed out from the start and yet I never thought about Erdtree's gold being like slime mold and Erdtree Seed behaving like a spore. Oh man, it makes so much sense now.
andresouzar: I listened to a guy speak for 25 minutes rambling that elden ring world lore is a mushroom....and it makes sense....man....i need mushrooms now
aranthur: I've been thinking similar things recently, after reading the epitaph at the Tower of Suppression. The Lands Between was once a place where the dead of the world were drawn, their spirits gathering together in one huge melting pot, then bursting back out in one massive current of spiritual power to give new life to the world. The true nature of the Crucible, a fountain of life from death (probably not dissimilar to the spirit springs spread throughout the lands actually)

Upon becoming a God, Marika turned the Crucible from a fountain of life to a tree of life, but it was never meant to be separated from the Scadutree, they were supposed to balance one another, and after she did that and subsequently removed the Rune of Death as well to create a world of eternal light and life, she inadvertently removed the source for the Erdtree's power and its life-giving sap dried up
Eltiburonmma: Imagine the lore is just the tarnished on shrooms and everything was just his trip
xyz_exodia: I remember one of the first Elden Ring theories I watched was about the Erdtree being a parasitic mushroom
Mia_linking: Power from death, huh?\n\nCome to think of it, every Outer God thrives off if death in one way or another, yeah? Hell, even the Frenzied Flame God can be seen as gaining power from the death of sanity or death of the mind
griegomas: Dropping your typical intro is a good change - jumping straight into the content is an improvement.
rumorcontrol7873: Idea: All the Outer Gods are actually just people contacting the Greater Will in different ways and it communicating to them how it would ask them to reform the Eldin Ring anew
nathananderson593: I'd like to note that the finger notrum gives the effect of not only Miquella's circlet but also Trina's flower that you also get after their deaths. Not sure if that affects the theory at all but it felt important.
mukelson: also fun fact: the Paleozoic Age, when lots of forms of life that we know today originated (around 400 million years ago), is divided in six fragmented periods: Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian , Carboniferus and Permian. It's curious for me to see the reference to the Crucible with the 3 main Crucible Knights shown in game having the names of these periods when life was evolving at its fullest and most of the ecosystem and life of the earth as we know was formed
rumorcontrol7873: What if Godwyn was born infected with Deathroot and his title of "The Golden" was a front to the Realm for his growing weakness? What if Godwyn was in on his own murder and sought to embrace his curse instead much as his sibling had?
mistakai4226: Congrats on being thr first lore creator to even mention the horrifying lamprey aliens in the finger ruins. Could you imagine the devastation caused by such a predator being introduced to the lands between?
greenbean4422: Botanically speaking I've seen lots of people try and identify plants from around the game

On that note, the Miranda flower always reminded me of a giant pinguicula.

Rosette shaped in appearance often with flower stalks protruding from its crown, these plants are carnivorous in nature and have often been noted to "crawl" by using its roots to anchor in a location it prefers to be
piotrgrzadziel2074: Soooo, we can also find the gigantic ants which I assume to be Fungus-growing ants. Their habits are quite similar to what the Golden Order stands upon - collecting dead material in one place in order to create food/life
samuelcoward4613: The spirit grave stones in the shadow lands behave like mushrooms too. When you see them at night surrounding a larval tear they form a fairy circle around the larval tear.
antigrav6004: It's all tied to the stoned ape theory. God/greater will = mushroom. It comes in contact with the Crucible which had been exploring several evolutionary paths and raised up humans to the point that they created Marika and radagon. The golden order is the alchemical process of turning lead to gold, which is a metaphor for the evolution the greater will is attempting.
xm4339: This makes perfect sense because this game gives me a similar high that mushrooms do
aurumarma5711: It makes sense then why Marika locking away the Death rune caused the world to stagnate. Death was a part of cycle of the world. She tried to prolong her rule, but she severed the world's connection to the Greater Will when she stopped the cycle of Death.
lashedvenom: Found your channel randomly the other day in bed and the metroid prime music threw me baaaaaaaack. The amount of dopamine that rushes through my system when this video started and the music started playing was insane.
BigBossDP: Your theory is very much on point. Life from death is the central idea of the game and the great debate of whether death should be a boundary or not is touched upon multiple times. But to relate all this to an actual real life representation like the mushrooms takes a very keen understanding. Good work.

Jul 23 2024

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