Starscourge Radahn Is Elden Ring's Most Misunderstood Hero (Theory)

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Indeed, Ranni shares a lot with the Nox people. The Nox strangely have a great admiration for the stars despite living deep beneath the ground. However, this affinity makes sense when visiting either Nokron of Nokstella, as their false skies glitter with stars. Even the large, scorpion-skeleton hybrid creatures who use Gravity Sorceries in these locations are called “Malformed Stars.” This calls to Ranni’s goal in creating an Age of Stars in which the Greater Will is replaced with the Dark Moon and the Outer Gods are kept away from the Lands Between. Thus, stars play an important role in both Ranni’s and Nox’s mission, which are already similar in their
Starscourge Radahn may have lost his mind by the time of **Elden Ring ** , but that does not mean he’s not a hero of the Lands Between. The demigod son of Rennala and Radagon, Radahn was once hailed as one of the most feared warriors in the world before going down the dark path of madness that would eventually claim him. However, certain items, characters, and locations in the game suggest that he retains an even more impressive potential title through it all: He is one of the most feared warriors in the entire unive
After a few hours in Elden Ring , it will become clear that many things are not quite as they seem; there are invisible paths and platforms hiding past cliffsides, and a great number of the game’s walls are mere illusions, crumbling after a single hit or roll. One of these hidden walls was infamous for taking 50 hits to break, though an Elden Ring update patched out this controversial inclus
Like in other previous FromSoftware RPGs, it’s not quite clear which factions in Elden Ring ** ** are “good” or “evil”; the Golden Order may have been a beacon of civilization destroyed by treachery or a conquering imperial power, while the grim assassins of the Volcano Manor faction might be blasphemous killers or heroic rebels against the Erdtree’s tyranny. The Volcano Manor area of Elden Ring, noble intention of its inhabitants aside, is certainly a sinister-looking place, surrounded by lava and infested with serpentine creatures. The more players investigate the secret passageways and twisted quest-lines of the Volcano Manor, the more dark secrets they learn regarding the blasphemy of Lord Rykard and his long-term pl
The Tarnished also accidentally enables D’s twin brother to kill Fia. The player does this by delivering D’s twin the Twinned Armor, leading him to kill Fia in revenge after her questline is completed. By simply delivering the broken knife to D, the Tarnished kicks off a chain of dominos that ends with the fall of Fia, Rogier, and D in Elden Ri
The story of Radahn’s scourging of the stars seems to have been washed out by the timeline of Elden Ring at release , however. Radahn was infected with the Scarlet Rot by Malenia in their battle, which has since driven him to insanity. Now the once great battler of the stars and his long, complex history have been reduced to nothing, as Radahn only worries about where his next meal will come from and which Tarnished will challenge him next. However, the meteor that crashes into Limgrave after his defeat by the Tarnished shows that beneath Radahn’s animalistic exterior exists a fierce defender of the Lands Between from extraterrestrial bei
Many players will be recruited into Elden Ring ‘s Volcano Manor society after encountering Rya, a hunched over, suspicious-looking woman who will teleport players directly to the red-lit halls of the Volcano Manor estate itself. After two completed assassination quests, Rya strangely becomes a lot more friendly and trustworthy after revealing her true form and identity – a humanoid shawl-wearing serpent named Zorayas. Zorayas proudly expresses the belief that she’s the daughter of Tanith, the leader of Volcano Manor, “born by the grace of a glorious king.” If the player talks to the gold-masked Tanith, however, the Volcano Manor’s head will refer to herself as Zorayas’ “adoptive mother” and laments how she “hardly deserves the sweet child.” Later on in Zorayas or Rya’s complete questline, she tells the player about a strange sight she saw – a slithering serpent figure just like her who wandered into a side room and never came
This idea is indicated by his moniker, “Starscourge.” Though a member of the Carian Household, Radahn chose not to study the stars themselves but instead focused on an entirely different school: Gravity Sorcery. Gravity-based sorceries originate from Alabaster and Onyx Lords, whose weapon descriptions confirm that they are elf-like creatures who crashed down into Elden Ring Nightreign Fulghor Ring ‘s Lands Between from space, and Radahn used the magic of these celestial beings to cease the movement of the stars. In turn, the power of the different schools of Sorcery were affected due their affiliation with the stars. The Carian and moon-related sorceries that Rennala and Ranni use were especially influenced by this. This makes Radahn’s intentions covertly political. He weakened the Carian House, was a big fan of Godfrey of the Golden Order, and would later try to claim the Royal Capital after the Shattering. Thus, it seems as if Radahn wished to weaken those around him to claim the Elden R