Thread by @AvdullahYousef

🧵THREAD: Another Elden Ring thread, this time about Radagon of the Golden Order. A man that represents the greatest burden placed on the modern man today:

Many of you enjoyed my thread about the LOATHSOME DUNG EATER, who represented to me the spiritual heirs of John Wayne Gacy and their inner drivers in today's world. This time I want to go over the final boss of the game, whose represents another tragedy,

https://twitter.com/AvdullahYousef/status/1524122473943506948?s=20&t=Rg9fLnubO_VyGrZb4Ca4jg

In the world of Elden Ring, the world you spawn in, The Lands Between, is ruled by Queen Marika. She's this goddess-like figure, who ascends to rule by the assistance of the 'Greater Will'.

This is the diety that created the titular Elden Ring, the Golden Order, & the Erdtree

Queen Marika ruled for many eons, with total control to choose a consort for herself and bear children. Her first choice was Godfrey, a warrior of great power who lead her armies to conquer nearby lands.

Together they had three children: Godwyn, Morgott, and Mohg.

Radagon's origins are unknown. He's a popular warrior with fiery red hair who leads the armies of the Land's Between's capital, who waged war against a magicians academy. They come to a stalemate, and agrees in the truce to marry the crazy queen of the academy, Rennala

They have three children, the important one here being Ranni. Ranni is born as an Empyrean like Queen Marika, but she hates it and doesn't want to be the Greater Will's puppet.

Remember Godfrey? Well after his conquests were over, the "glow" in his eyes vanished, meaning his purpose was now completed. In classic Queen fashion, Marika banishes him to a distant land.

So who will her replacement be? Radagon of course. He breaks off his marriage with Rennala to become the consort of Marika, in exchange for this trouble all three of their children become raised to demi-god status.

Including Ranni, who already hates her diety status.

Ranni wants to 'break free' like any rebel girl wants to, so what does she do? She kills her step-brother Godwyn with the help of assassins, who use a rune of death that permanently destroy his soul.

This drives Queen Marika insane. So, naturally, her immediate reaction is to destroy the Elden Ring. She thinks doing this will break the rules of life and death so she can resurrect her son.

What is the Elden Ring? Well, the one fucking thing holding their world together

War breaks out between all the royal children. Chaos envelops a shattered land. And the punishment Marika receives from the Greater Will, is that her and her consort are trapped in a single form in the Erdtree.

Radagon then becomes cursed to be the one to try and repair the ring

Marika is bound to the Elden Ring, Radagon is left to repair it, bearing the brunt of the labor as his "other half" is bound to the ring itself, making him suffer.

When you encounter him in-game, this is the position you find him in. Still trying to fix that stupid ring.

That's the main story. So what does this mean?

To me, it's pretty clear. It represents the burden of man in this life to constantly be repairing the devastating fault that is feminine neuroticism

This actually parallels the biblical story of Adam and Eve. Eve eats from the forbidden fruit, and man is held equally responsible due to his complicity in the sin

But more so than that, it represents modern man's grief and despair. When you encounter Radagon, he isn't even a full person anymore. His body is half broken like shattered clay.

He fights hard because he wants you to kill him, to end his misery already

Remember, Marika is BOUND to the ring, so another way of looking at it is it parallels the modern man who tries his hardest to fix the woman, never truly succeeding despite trying for centuries.

This is all my take on it.

I think its also funny that George R.R. Martin was involved in this game, whose most famous story is full of the same dynamic. Heroic, honorable men constantly fixing the mistakes of their neurotic and insane women

[END]