SpikeLeep: Rauh went: "Hey, how unfathomably you want your old ruins? As far as it goes? Cool."

likeasonntagmorgen: Quelaag, are you rebranding as The Fair Lady now? I'll send humanity

Sir_Shmoopy: Why do Ansbach and Witch-Hunter Jerren wear metal masks with fake beards? If I had a nickel I'd have two.

sethstewart9704: I really appreciate Scum Mage Infa's idea on the Crucible. It's may not be a place, but a magical "technology". Specifically, the technique of drawing magical power from death. This would qualify the Erdtree, Scadutree, and even the jars as Crucibles. It's a very interesting idea, with a lot more facets of support than I described here.

pg3223: Re: crucible knights. The crucible energy lives within the "rauh burrow" on their chest piece.

The crucible is a really big rauh burrow

Elden_Beastie: At this point, the entire DLC keeps me up at night.

meki6891: ITS

jroden06: The new hair looks awesome!! Behold, lovely sort!

_KungFuBarbie_: The moment I saw Rauh I was like… wtf kinda game am I playing right now this is GORGEOUS. (And wtf is the lore of this place so thanks for explaining

dmarkiwsky: I don't think we'll ever get an answer on what the Crucible is, but with the heavy ties to Mesopotamia with artifacts in the game, the name "the lands between", the two rivers, etc. I can't help but think of "The Crucible" as the cradle of life. Sort of the place where life first came into being or evolved in the lands between, but maybe that process of generation never stopped there and everyone tapping into the power of the crucible is tapping into the raw materials of "life".

Especially if the spirals of the crucible weren't spiraling out from a center, but inward, combining disparate elements to create life. This would line up with the spirit calculus and circular stones, combining spirit and matter together, like the two arms of the spiral converging.

thestormwizard6447: Your hair!!

It looks cool

astrid9920: Rauh felt so weird the first time i went there and i couldnt figure out why, until i realized. Its green. Its the only place in the Lands Between with such vibrant green grass, it felt so alien.

Theres another weird connection between the Hornsent, Crucible, and Fell God. The Lamenter has the fell giant's face on its back, and theres bits of red hair between the horns. I dont know how to phrase it more elegantly, but the Lamenter like integer underflowed, it was pumped full of the fell god's influence or abyssal darkness, it wrapped back around to achieving apotheosis.

FreestateofOkondor: You say: this video is long

I say: I could have listened to you for a few more hours

alexaprokop6648: I really like the idea that the people of Rauh, the fire giants, and the astrologers were all active at the same time. Rauh is associated with green (it’s green. But also the verdigris stuff), the giants are red, and the astrologers are blue. So much of this game’s stuff is either red or blue so it’s fun to see a context where all three are represented beyond hp fp and stamina

DLowe4242: RAUH RAUH RAUH!!!

jaredflacker8107: How tf I’m supposed to pronounce “Rauh” keeps me up at night

sammyjc: In my game, i got the stone sheathed sword in the Rauh Ruins, because that's the first altar I found. After that, i found the Unte ruins, giving me the sword of light, and then the fog rift catacombs giving me the sword of darkness. I think it's dependent on which you interact with in what order. I'd also like to think that there's lore to it though, the whole "sword quest" is really strange to me.

fid9255: new quelaag video yippee :D

go-duran: My half-baked theory is that the Crucible is related to Chaos, and therefore the Three Fingers, or perhaps pre-frenzy Three Fingers. Wall of text incoming:

The Crucible is known for being a blending of all types of life, and chimeric features are revered in its worship. It is also meant to be a primordial form of life from which the Erdtree eventually took shape. Rauh shows adherence to all forms of life together, and the Hornsent take this worship to monstrous lengths by flaying and melding people within pots, thus rendering them "saintly" once they "meld harmoniously".

When Metyr fell to the world, she was broken, damaged and unhinged, and never again heard from the Greater Will, but reached out to Marika to form the Golden Order with the Erdtree as its symbol, making it so through conquest and carnage. The Golden Order is instead focused on separation and categorization, viewing aspects of the Elden ring such as Life and Death as distinct runes, thus sealing away the rune of Death, and eventually shattering the Elden Ring itself.

The Golden Order fundamentally shuns any Chimeric features, such as the Omen and Misbegotten as symbols of melding. They also cast out much of the diversity of Crucible worship, by exterminating the Hornsent, the Giants, and eventually sending the Tarnished out across the sea, along with Godfrey. Godfrey and his knights which seemed to worship or at least revere the Crucible. Eventually they would lie and say that the Erdtree, now shaped by the Golden Order, was eternal and unchanging, a lie mentioned in the Crimson Seed Talisman.

I think the Three Fingers were the Crucible itself or a manifestation of it before the Golden Order purged its followers and suppressed it, locking away the last of it underneath Leyndell. Perhaps this indignity made it transform from the Crucible to the Frenzied Flame, where it would reach out to the forsaken merchants and potential Lords such as Vyke and Midra. Shabriri takes over the bodies of the dead, blurring the line between life and death as they seek their Lord.

Chaos wants to burn and melt the entire world, returning all life, souls and difference to a single entity, incinerating all that divides and distinguishes, which could be seen as a return to the Crucible.

Perhaps Metyr is broken because she is incomplete: the Three Fingers could have been part of her that was lost or born from a part of her that was lost, and we never encounter. Perhaps the Greater Will is made of Chaos and Order, and when Metyr became broken, she was abandoned by it, since it knew this balance was forever lost.

sheabishop6200: Monday Night RAUH

Simseh729: See I saw the God of Verdigris as just an aspect of the God of Rot, given that metal rusting is a kind of decay

Aug 25 2024

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