The Crucible Touched and their Crucibles | Elden Ring Lore

NOTES: Other possible Crucibles / Crucible tech as per your brilliant comments: - Graven Mass (Commenter: nar1768) - Castle Mourne and the Misbegotten (Commenter: faman00) PS. Fighting a losing battle with a sore throat while recording this, hence sounding like a finger crone when I was revising my mispronunciation of PLASID-YEWW-SAX (Gave up, wrote in correction lmao). I also have changed my popfilter and changed the context (Uncomfortable, but quiet[er]) and the program I use to record, but those Rainbow lorries are a joke. I hope things are audible for you all, I am less afraid of mutilating your ears with Ss Ps Ts etc, so we can be a little louder :D Let me know if you love it, or hate it, turn it up, turn it down- ETC. Thanks for watching!! Please butcher each other in the comments in a glorious Lore Frenzy <3

Man sounds like Vaati Vidya's brother or something

If a mass amount of blood needed to spilt for the portal to the dlc to work, there’s a chance it simply took two years of farming albinaurics to get the gears turning.

The idea of drakes and Bayle being ancient dragons touched by the crucible is incredibly interesting and honestly is the best answer I can think of

It really makes sense with the drakes having feathers, scales and horns, Bayle being an omen would just be further evidence i think strongly supports this

the crucible is evolution without direction. not just evolution of the body, but of the spirit as well, which takes inspiration from natural phenomena if it has no outside direction. this means that it also needs to decompose dead spirits (not only flesh) in order to evolve (directed or not) - so misporportion of dead bodies\spirits might twist it as well. the Greater Will wants to direct the crucible into something specific. The Rot wants to devolve it (so it can evolve again into something else). The Frenzied Flame wants to burn it entirely. Death Blight is allowing the spirits to evolve, but the flesh to stagnate. once a person has the potential to affect a crucible - the various outer gods try to influence that person, in order to manifest their will - as they are only capable of affecting entities with free will, which the crucible does not have. it's just evolving ooze. the crucible is a mindless force. a resource for the outer gods to fight over and shape by influencing the minds of people who can access it.

The Crucible of Goderick. When we first see Goderick, he has killed and grafted many lives onto his body already. He has a dragon next to him, which he quickly grafts onto himself when we start to overcome him. And outside the castle is Rodericka, a shaman, who is sensitive spirits including rancorous spirits, who in the best of cases would be able to bind the rancouous spirits grafted onto his body into a harmonious whole. If Goderick's crucible were successful, he would ascend to a dragon form.

The crucibles being nuclear reactors, and thus giving unnatural side effects; that is SO GOOD!! Everyone planning to make a crucible video can peace out now because this is now the standard. Going in my filing cabinet to reference from now on 💛

It's interesting to go back to the base game, and see just how many powerful boss attacks form spirals of energy, like how Malenia's phase 2 attacks can, or Morgot's blood when agitated by his sword.

I think the Hero's Rune definitely lends credence to the theory that grace was used as a means to control. "There were once heroes who walked the battlefields, abundantly blessed by the Erdtree itself, who upon earning their honor simply died." Once they were done being useful they conveniently just died.

Farum Azula and Enir-Ilim may be always in daylight because they are literally inside the boundary of the Sun Realm.

Couple thinks I think are worth noting: One, I'm fairly certain that Romina would be more considered as the result of an unintentional crucible, forged by Messmer's crusade rather than Hornsent experimentation. It's a similar story as the bloodfiends, in which their respective annihilated villages resulted in an outer god being drawn to them. Romina, a survivor of the church after its burning to the ground, bears witness to the god of rot attracted to such a sacrifice, and becomes its servant. The bloodfiends, whose villages were reduced to ash, in preparing to mourn and honor their dead, bear witness to the Formless Mother, attracted by the loss of life, and begin to worship her, descending into the bloodfiends we see now. Both were accidental, undirected crucibles brought about by the war, prompting potential grand events.

The Crucibles extend to other Fromsoft games as well. In Bloodborne, the School of Mensis uses an arcane ritual (full of sacrifiecd bodies) to beckon the Moon and pull a Great One out of a microcosm. They call it "creating a child" but it's a combination of a Great One's soul and all of the sacrifices used to beckon the astral entity near to earth that make up its body. Successful melding looks like an amygdala and failure like a The One Reborn, Goderick or even Rykard. In Bloodborne, the form of the sky is water and so its astral entities (the Great Ones/Old Ones/etc) are mostly adapted to move through liquid. It's also imaginary, meaning you can reach it in your sleep or other non-waking or elevated states of consciousness, including death...making Godwyn's half-goldfish form and echo of his half-death. The astral entities, be they stars or moons, are incredibly attracted by acts of mass death and can be pulled into our world through sacrifice to take physical form. A star can fall to earth, and some far away stars are actually moons. In Ranni's ending, the very, very close moon that she has developed an affinity with opens a portal, a microcosm, to elsewhere for Ranni's spirit to step through, to ascend. Check out Ymir's headpiece and the microcosm it contains: > The hat of Count Ymir, High Priest. The circular design at the top represents **the Greater Will and its lightless abyss**, imparting increased intelligence and arcane to the wearer. Though Count Ymir instructed Rellana in the sorcerous arts, he abandoned his allegiance to the moon. "It was merely the closest of the celestial bodies. Nothing more."

This whole crucible idea you have reminds me a lot of beserk and the behelits that are activated from mass death and sacrifice

I think Metyrs Injury comes from the Nox who created the Fingerslayer Blade from the flesh they took of her

12:37 Here you say to "minimize" the technology. Minimizing something means to limit its use. The correct terminology is 'miniaturize.' This means to make something smaller and more convenient.

21:18 You see those tubes in the mother of fingers chamber… aren’t those the bottom part of the Erdtree stems in the final boss chamber with the Elden Beast? Is that how the fingers communicate using the Erdtree somehow? What goldmask was observing?

Great theory about Placidusax and Metyr! An extra piece to this puzzle however is a theory that I’ve seen that stated that the fingerslayer blade was used by the Nox to wound Metyr, which I think makes a huge amount of sense since it’s implied the fingerslayer blade was used in a very significant event in the past

There is One Other crucible you missed; Even if that is especulation on my part, I do assume it is a crucible: Giant and Golen's Forging Is a Crucible; Due to how many "stars" fall into the Lands Between, there's a lot of "mineral Life" The Ancient Dragons and the Alabaster/Onys Lord are the Examples of this. The Giants (gods know how or why) Melt Rock to make weapons and Started seeing Souls into the Melted Iron Giving them Souls (Smithscript weapons) It's Oddly Fitting that The Flame of A Crucible can be used to properly Kill Another Crucible Giant's Flame of Ruin Kill the Erdtree Mesmer's and Melina's Flame Killing the Hornsent and The "Demigods" The Flame of Frenzy Killing Everything Ghost Flame Killing Death I have some thoughts on that, I shuold make a video e_e

Personally I also think that's it's made fairly clear that the anger that the Ancient Dragons have for their younger cousins is precisely because of Bayle's betrayal. He dared to challenge their eternal order. He reminds me a lot of Rykard, not least because of his connection to the drakes and magma wyrms, who all have quite serpentine features. I see in this conflict a repeat of "Erdtree vs Snake" more than I see "horned vs non-horned". Here's the thing; I don't think Bayle's an Omen. He has horns, yes, but so do Ancient Dragons. They have claws, horns, scales and wings. The thing that characterises Omen as different to other Crucible-touched beings is that their horns grow extremely chaotically, often leading to physical ailment, disability, and quite often, death in infancy (even if "untreated"). It is a cancerous version of the blessing of the Crucible. And most importantly; Omen are mediums for wrathful spirits. Their horns are as antennas or aerials for wraiths and angry spirits. They are tortured and cursed by those very spirits; and I think THAT IS the curse that the Hornsent (maybe just the Grandam) put on Marika and her offspring. The evil, wrathful, vengeful spirits of the Hornsent and other worshippers of the crucible, channelled into the population of the Erdtree. The Omenborn ONLY exist in the direct vicinity of Leyndell (and in that one catacomb in Liurnia which.. yeah idk what's up with that) and Stormveil Castle, which is strongly associated with Leyndell, and as such, I think that they exist as a punishment of the Erdtree society specifically. The fact that Royal-born Omen were common enough that an entire tradition around trapping them in the sewers sprung up around them is proof to me that the Omen are strictly related to Marika and her culture.