Up Reigning They Night

Nightreign sideblog where I share art and lose my mind over these fucking characters

[pita-breadd]

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Hello, this is my nightreign sideblog where I share art, shitposts and scream about the characters

Warning that there will be occasional NSFW🔞 on here, I am an adult and this is an adult space. Block the tag below if you want to avoid that stuff

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[the-wylder]

[pita-breadd]

Various nightfarer headcannons

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- The Scholar occasionally brings tea to the Recluse and Guardian during their reading sessions

- The Revenant is the one who braided the Duchess’s hair in her remembrance skin

- The Wylder is infected by the night, it festers beneath his armour in the places where his injuries would be

- The Undertaker is Wet. Shes oily and drools a lot. She’s just wet for some unexplained reason. This isn’t even a headcannon- the iron menial has dialogue about it

- There is a collective effort among the nightfarers to keep the Wylder busy so he doesn’t spiral. The iron menial gets him to help with chores, the Duchess has him make bread for her, etc.

- The Iron menial used to be cold and abrasive, only adopting kindness and empathy after meeting the Duchess

- The Duchess would be devastated and angry at the Wylder for prolonging the night to try and save her, seeing it as the ultimate betrayal. She is at peace with her fate and welcomes it openly if it means saving the lands between

- Crack hc that the Ironeye has a one sided crush on the Raider bc I think it’s funny

- The Raider likes the Revenant and respects her fighting spirit, even if he finds it hilarious coming from such a small kid. Hypes her up and treats her like an equal on the battlefield

- Despite his reputation for keen observation, the Ironeye fucking sucks at card games

- While initially a little off put by the Undertaker keeping his feathers, the Guardian is endeared to her and supports her at every opportunity, be it socially or on expeditions

[pita-breadd]

Undertaker doodles

[eldritchaphilia]

i need raider x ironeye desperation in my life...

[drag00ni]

WIP

[panachia-deactivated20260318]

You know what, I’ll dump a WIP here. Can’t let my twitter have all the fun.

[loyaltykink]

Soulstober, Day 15. Forsaken — Beloved child of the Fellowship

[ika-tko]

you are free of the fellowship, but you are now bound to wander alone for as long as you continue to live. you insist that you feel nothing. you are lying to yourself

[eldritchaphilia]

i need raider x ironeye desperation in my life...

[river-mort]

forgive him, sir. he`s an impulsive tea drinker

[river-mort]

He was not forgiven

[lunnefisk]

shoutout to the single funniest fextralife comment ive ever read. written the same day elden ring nightreign had released, on the page for a character you have to progress the game to unlock

you chose this life

wiki boy

[eveligne]

The loathsome dung eater

[magpie-come-east]

NightReign has the most on-the-nose names for its bosses I’ve ever seen. But it took me too long to realize Gnoster’s name comes from the root word ‘gnost’ referring to knowledge (ex: agnostic, gnosticism)

What I’m saying is, they named that stupid moth The Knowerrrrrrrrrr

[loversandantiheroes]

Fandom in a time of moral panic is so maddening. You don't need to claim something is bad or wrong to justify not liking it. You sure as shit don't need to prove something is good or correct to justify liking it. Stop trying to moralize your fiction, especially if you haven't even figured out how to interpret it properly.

[loversandantiheroes]

Like I cannot stress enough how much you do not need a 5k word essay to "prove" that Glup Shitto's Turbo Asshole Mass Murder route is secretly empowering and actually probably even more healing than the alternative that sends him to fantasy therapy for wayward blorbos. You can just say "bad guy power fantasy tickles my pickle" and go on with your goddamn day. That's all you need. It saves you loads of time and saves me the headache of having to think about how badly you've missed the fucking point of the goddamn narrative.

[pokemonranger-ice]

Silly goober

[weridetonight-deactivated202604]

Marika is one of the most misunderstood character I have ever come across. People either go from “she was just a traumatised woman who witnessed horrors and therefore none of it is her fault” or “she’s the satan of the lore and the mother of all evil” and there is never anything inbetween.

I feel like we all need to stress just how much her experiences must have hardened her, how she must have conflated softness and a lack of ambition to weakness (see: her telling her children to make something out of themselves or they could practically consider themselves dead to her).

I strongly doubt she was always like this, but her circumstances have evolved her. She went from a perfect candidate for the hornsent’s goddess - to betraying them and making her own domain off the backs of their’s. I believe she saw the fates of the other numen to be a consequence of their inability to “fight back” the way she did - which is why she urges her children to have their own ambitions as she did. And why she’s so unforgiving to their flaws - especially anything that could’ve reminded her of the hornsent.

But despite that, one of the most interesting parts of the final cutscene for Ranni’s ending shows her (step)daughter lifting Marika’s head up off the floor and raising it above herself - in an almost reverent and admiring way. She gives Marika dignity in her death.

Ranni sees Marika for who she was: another victim of the Greater Will who acted as its pawn and unleashed literal horrors onto the world, all in the name of revenge. And when Marika finally realises she’s been used and remembers the grief of losing her first family all over again upon Godwyn’s death - she does not hesitate to destroy the ring and has to be stopped by the literal Elden Beast itself. Ranni sees herself in Marika.

Tldr: I love Marika and Ranni. They both did great and terrible things in the name of freedom and to throw off the control of the two fingers. They are not perfect, nor are they evil incarnate.