The Adventures of Peaches, Part Ten
Jul. 28th, 2022 07:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingBy leveling up and then doing something extremely cheap and cowardly, Peaches defeated the Omenkiller, and I got the lore I wanted from the Village of the Albinaurics.
What I learned is that Albinaurics are artificial humans created by the magic school to be slaves. They were apparently bad slaves. First, because they are fully sentient people capable of talking to one another, creating their own mythology, and unionizing; and second, because they have "defective" legs and can't walk once they reach a certain age. So the magic school made new Albinaurics who can't speak and threw all the old ones away in a shitty shitty shitty village that they couldn't leave.
When the player arrives at this shitty village, it's filled with the bodies of Albinaurics hanging from trees like it's Halloween Christmas. This is the work of the Omenkiller, who is a Tarnished like the player. He was sent by another Tarnished named Gideon Ofnir, who is the player's main questgiver. The Albinaurics had something Gideon wanted, so he ordered the Omenkiller to go get it. When the Omenkiller isn't successful, Gideon orders another Tarnished to attack the player in the "safe" central hub zone. When this doesn't work, he apologizes and says it was all a misunderstanding. Cocksucker.
It's not really clear what a "Tarnished" is, but essentially they're people who are guided by the "Grace" of the "Golden Order," which has been disturbed by the shattering of something called the "Elden Ring." Tarnished are therefore people who are potentially capable of restoring the Golden Order by piecing the Elden Ring back together and thereby becoming a new "Elden Lord." I think??
In my mind, the problem with the Golden Order is that it bestows power to people who then use that power to either enslave other pre-existing people or artificially create new people to enslave. When the Elden Ring shattered, all of the slavemasters either died or fucked off somewhere, meaning that all the slaves are now free. So the player's job, as a Tarnished, is to become the new Slavemaster Lord and restore the "order" that allows people to have slaves again. To do this, you have to murder a lot of freed slaves.
Idk man, that's fucked up. I think the best ending of this game is not to finish it. Like, just leave the Elden Ring shattered and go hang out in Jarburg. I mean, I don't plan to finish the game anyway, so this is a little self-serving, but yeah. I think all the people I'm killing probably have a right not to be killed.
What I learned is that Albinaurics are artificial humans created by the magic school to be slaves. They were apparently bad slaves. First, because they are fully sentient people capable of talking to one another, creating their own mythology, and unionizing; and second, because they have "defective" legs and can't walk once they reach a certain age. So the magic school made new Albinaurics who can't speak and threw all the old ones away in a shitty shitty shitty village that they couldn't leave.
When the player arrives at this shitty village, it's filled with the bodies of Albinaurics hanging from trees like it's Halloween Christmas. This is the work of the Omenkiller, who is a Tarnished like the player. He was sent by another Tarnished named Gideon Ofnir, who is the player's main questgiver. The Albinaurics had something Gideon wanted, so he ordered the Omenkiller to go get it. When the Omenkiller isn't successful, Gideon orders another Tarnished to attack the player in the "safe" central hub zone. When this doesn't work, he apologizes and says it was all a misunderstanding. Cocksucker.
It's not really clear what a "Tarnished" is, but essentially they're people who are guided by the "Grace" of the "Golden Order," which has been disturbed by the shattering of something called the "Elden Ring." Tarnished are therefore people who are potentially capable of restoring the Golden Order by piecing the Elden Ring back together and thereby becoming a new "Elden Lord." I think??
In my mind, the problem with the Golden Order is that it bestows power to people who then use that power to either enslave other pre-existing people or artificially create new people to enslave. When the Elden Ring shattered, all of the slavemasters either died or fucked off somewhere, meaning that all the slaves are now free. So the player's job, as a Tarnished, is to become the new Slavemaster Lord and restore the "order" that allows people to have slaves again. To do this, you have to murder a lot of freed slaves.
Idk man, that's fucked up. I think the best ending of this game is not to finish it. Like, just leave the Elden Ring shattered and go hang out in Jarburg. I mean, I don't plan to finish the game anyway, so this is a little self-serving, but yeah. I think all the people I'm killing probably have a right not to be killed.
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Date: 2022-07-28 02:32 pm (UTC).....man I knew Soulsbourne-Elden was hella grimdark but this is just.
Jeez.
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Date: 2022-07-29 02:28 pm (UTC)From what I understand, the Soulsborne games generally stay away from sexuality and slavery, so suspect that these thematic elements were George RR Martin's contribution. But who knows? Like everything surrounding these games, the matter of what bits of lore came from where are highly obscure, so we may never know what Martin's involvement actually was.
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Date: 2022-08-07 04:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-08-08 12:01 pm (UTC)...also, I think I'm getting a little tired of that type of critical meta essay.
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Date: 2022-08-10 05:09 pm (UTC)