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my take on ER lore masterpost:

short:

-jar lore is completely wrong throw it away -ROT IS A PROTECTIVE GOD -numen were the first gravekeepers -the crucible = rot kingdom -marika is rotkin -smithing and spirit tuning are the same -the erdtree is a nazi country club that must be destroyed to free us all from marika's eternal curse of artificial stagnant life in servitude

#don't ever at me #throwing myself on this sword

fell god came back wrong

again the other tarnished closest to becoming elden lord who have faltered are implied to have done so out of a desire to spare their maidens, or a lack of being prepared for the amount of sacrifice required.

vyke is implied to have turned to frenzy to spare his maiden, bernahl turned away from the golden order when his maiden threw herself into the flame.

shabriri tries to butter you up to the 3 fingers to spare melina but she's quite upset at you for this and will become the bearer of destined death to end you if you do it.

ranni betrayed blaidd and iji despite loving them, because its what was necessary to escape the fingers and they supported her knowing it would happen.

gowry begs you to betray milicent and kill her so that she can bloom as a rot goddess, but she chooses to die as she is rather than transform into something else. betrayal was essential to her transcending.

we know that when an empyrean is wounded life springs up from their blood. we know when malenia dies that she sprouts multiple off shoot clone daughters. the shaman mothers also imply that life comes from death or wounds, that their flesh or blood mixed with death causes new life. the grandmother sprouted as a tree and babies/new people come out of trees, implying the life cycle for numen/shaman/empyreans is to die, leaving behind new self/selves.

but how to do it without losing the self, retaining the self for eternity as marika desires? people are convinced she's a fertility goddess that churns out babies but we know from her being a numen that they struggle to bear children. marika has so many children though--even with only herself. how? asexual reproduction that might necessitate the life/selfhood of the parent.

the implication in marika's eternal reign is that she has successfully circumvented the loss of self and perfected rebirth and can claim children from the process of death without the loss of self. i think this is what the baby messmer statue shows more than her being a loving mommy. she was victorious over death. the braid was cut, the sacrifices were made and she comes out of it the mother.

maybe i'll luck out and alex garland is on this wavelength and was revealed the bible and will tell us the truth come movie time.

like UGH if i want people to entertain my version of the lore i have to make people know about it and i'm too weird brained and long winded to be convincing.

still disappointed the farthest most loretubers have gotten is "they fermented the shaman because fermenting things makes them more betterer" though to be fair i did skimp on honored madmans rot posting and don't know the deets of what he said, he was ahead of the curve for being pretty whatever about lore.

why am i doing this to myself

#reinstalling

stagnant water fountain with disembodied head at the halig tree

stagnant water kept in pots with small golden trees in enir ilim

#rot kingdom #halig tree #enir-ilim

U dont understand, everything is built to distance marika from rot while every thread leads back to her as a death industry worker and shadow keep an abandoned death processing castle.

According to Real Life lore, fermented rotting meat predigested by maggots is more bioaccessible and delicious to humans. Its a thing we did on purpose for thousands of years.

New research reveals Neanderthals may have eaten fermented meat and maggots, explaining their high nitrogen isotope levels and challenging p

Our research suggests that the high δ¹⁵N values observed in Late Pleistocene hominins may be inflated by year-round consumption of ¹⁵N-enriched maggots found in dried, frozen or cached animal foods.

Never forget:

Frozen maggots that somehow continue to wriggle. Material used for crafting items. Mainly found in gaols. The maggots develop in great-jar innards, and are an invaluable source of sustenance to the prisoners.

They found through the intersection of food cultivation and burial practices that jarring results in new life.

They werent simply forcing prisoners to eat maggots to be cruel, for a lot of history that was food. When the jars came to life the catacomb fermentation caves became prisons and the prisoners also became food.

Fermentation, rot, does to food what cooking does and smelting does to metal. Melts it down into usable material. The crucible is rot.

#Crucible

we know from the lore that the hornsent grew horns like any other non horned animal growing up in proximity to the crucible: a melting pot of rot which gushes life, forging new beings like giants forged souled swords.

We know that the hornsent "war" was about conquest. The horned hornsent who lived around the crucible for generations were chosen to grow horns instead of only wearing them and borrowing their power from others. Why would they forfeit their biologically confirmed nativity to foreign rule?

They likely didnt take kindly to the rule of fake horns who lived afar in royal capitals, giving them orders with unwarranted authority.

Every horned mask we have makes it clear the wearers did not themselves grow horns, but knew the material of horns was powerful and utilized them by theft or scavenging. a thing we know about real life shaman is utilizing preserved body parts for ritual practice.

And those parts are common from hunting, skinning, butchering game. All around elden ring we see body parts fashioned into weapons especially in burial places. Scavenged by gravekeepers for necromancy.

#Total hornsent loving

the frozen maggots are an important source of sustenance. the maggots eat the flesh in the jars and become food themselves.

its interesting that ants in the underground eat corpses that have washed down and produce numen runes. one can assume that they are eating numen which is a safe enough bet but the fact they are consuming people and storing their essences in their living larders suggests its the aggregation of many dead that creates a numen soul.

the putrescent knight uses a 2 handed mezzaluna made of putrescence as the binding material and assorted bones melded into the blade, much like rotten teeth in a leather whip. mezzalunas are often used in cooking for chopping herbs but are also used to chop meat.

the mezzaluna is not unlike a drawing knife which are used for woodworking and tanning. the cleaver has often reminded me of tanning tools, like a fleshing knife.

among various pictures of crafting knives, i'm reminded of the design of the butchering knife, which is in the design of "blacksmith tools" like the last picture, modelled after norse bog finds.

bonny is near the forge where misbegotten are rioting. if bonny is a village where clay jars are manufactured, they require kilns to fire them in. there's another intersection of smithing and jarring. the bonny butcher knife isn't using the term "butcher" to mean shocking and frightening violent acts but literal butchering, processing meat.

"Four-toed foot of a fowl, pickled in a golden medicinal solution. Craftable item.

Boosts the amount of runes obtained from defeating enemies for a certain duration.

Since old times, the needy would scrape the meat clean even from a fowl's claw."

butchering is not a not-scary thing, but it is a normal thing regardless. kegare trades included tanners and butchers. this is why i call jar lore vegetarian horror. the fact this butcher put on gloves and a hair net speaks to the evil he knows he must be doing that he requries ppe.

so you're butchering whatever you are butchering for food. you skin it. you have animal skins, so you tan them for the hides. why is the geq + godskins neglected in sote perception?

there is an explicit intersection of "food" and "burial" because the shaman were cannibals and remain so to this very day

#dominula #butchering knife #putrescence knight

Raw Meat Dumpling is a consumable tool in Elden Ring. Found by Killing Giant Pots. ( Just like Alexander ) Poisoning Cannot Be Avoided, You

the modern jars are filled with dead meat and teeth so whats the difference other than being free range

the difference is that the modern jars are made of dead who are already indoctrinated, so they aren't having their burial rites dishonored. which leads to rancorous spirits. that's hex arts. the shaman did hex arts. which makes sense because they're shaman and hex arts and spirit calling are shamany things.

#Youtube

why are butterflies rot magic? why are children of the tower butterflies? why are empyreans represented by butterflies? why was miquella in a cocoon? why is there a shed snake skin by the mother of bonny village? why are the grafted called chrysalids? what happens in a jar?

#Youtube

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