Bonfireside Chat 260: The Foot of the Erdtree
Added 2023-05-07 14:00:03 +0000 UTCLore bomb: The Erdtree has feet.
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Fortunately, the download has the right episode title.
Cinnamon Toast Cunt
2023-10-16 16:07:52 +0000 UTCThis episode is numbered 256. "Entering Leyndell" is episode 257.
Tom Bair
2023-09-07 09:44:05 +0000 UTCI believe this one should be BSC 260, not 256.
Adam Hošek
2023-08-19 06:23:17 +0000 UTCI think boiling down Margot’s motivation to just being a zealot is a bit of an oversimplification (not untrue, but I feel there’s some more depth to it). Because he was born an Omen, he was robbed of his rightful place amongst his non-Omen family, who got to live and and take a seat at the foot of the Erdtree, while he was cursed to live in the sewers because of a trait he didn’t choose and can’t change. I read him as a sort of Quasimodo correlate (from The Hunchback of Notre Dame), who was hidden away by a religious figure due to his deformity, but desperately wanted to live among the people of Paris as a normal citizen. Similarly, I think Morgot spent his formative years looking up longingly at the Erdtree from the sewers, wishing with all his heart that he could take his rightful place in full view of it like his more privileged brothers and sisters, and that was all he ever really wanted. Just to bask in the glow of the object of his admiration while being able live normally amongst his kin in the capital, without the shame he carried for being shunned due to his form. When he finally got the opportunity to start serving the Capital as The Fell Omen, it took him years to gain even a modicum of the respect of his pears, without really any of the benefits or the accolades that his brothers and sisters received. All he ever wished for was opportunity to live like they did, so imagine his dismay when all of them decide to betray the Golden Order at the drop of a hat the moment the Ring was shattered, and to kick off a succession war. Morgot’s dream was the status quo because from his perspective, life as an Omen in the Shunning Grounds was so awful that the romanticized version of the status quo he glimpsed from the sewers looked like a paradise to him. From his perspective, his brothers and sisters who grew up in the lap of luxury, who got to live his dream, were now throwing away the world he aspired to be a part of to pursue their own self-serving ambitions. Obviously we know that things are much more complicated than that, and that many of the the demigods had sound reasons to pursue their own goals and turn their back on the Golden Order, but you can also argue that by having the opportunity to experience the world from a seat of relative power and privilege, it gave them the opportunity to see its flaws, and come up with ways for how it might be improved. Morgot on the other never had a real chance to view the world from the same vantage point as they did. By the time he left the sewers, the world had likely already been thrown into chaos, and he never even got to experience the status quo of the Age of Plenty that he had always hoped to partake in. From his perspective, he was denied the same privileges as his siblings due to them being “pillagers emboldened by the flame of ambition.” I personally find Morgot’s perspective and desire to return the Land’s Between to the way he idealistically imagined them to be during his formative years to be a really understandable and human motivation, and contributes to why he’s one of my favorite characters in Elden Ring.
ChipHand_Z
2023-05-12 00:14:44 +0000 UTCThere is a possible real world influence for omen horns. I'm sorry if this has been mentioned somewhere else, and for the off-topic nature. [TRIGGER WARNING: BODY HORROR] I thought the omen horns are reminiscent of cutaneous horns (Don't Google this at work). Cutaneous horns are tumors that resemble animal horns that form on a person's body composed of keratin deposits. Somebody at FromSoftware probably dropped a few photos of people with cutaneous horns into the inspirational art folder and the art team ran with it. I thought that since you were discussing Morgott and his horns I'd throw in another inspirational branch the art team might have tapped. I at least wanted to write this down before you got to the sewers or Mohg. Thanks for the show and I am looking forward to more!
Doug Duggerson
2023-05-08 02:29:51 +0000 UTCBoy I got that doll with Morgo's rememberance and I regretted it the second I used it. Tried it on the hawks in Sol caslte and then it became a permanent keychain in my hammerspace bucket.
T
2023-05-07 19:09:14 +0000 UTCThis is definitely speculation and has no confirmation anywhere, but when Margit/Morgott change at the end of that battle I can see it being a metaphor that he is “ugly”. Like as an omen it gives you that excuse of being a monster to do monstrous things, but when you beat him and everything is laid bare, it’s like the Erd Tree shows you that underneath all of that he would still suck. I probably wouldn’t think it was anything without R.R. Martin’s involvement.
Josh Sanko
2023-05-07 18:16:27 +0000 UTCI thought the black knife assassin near the bedchamber implied they had killed the finger reader crones nearby, but I'm not sure to what end, other than a Ranni middle finger to the Two Fingers.
Kalem Wedemyer
2023-05-07 18:00:30 +0000 UTCMargott/Margit is voiced by Anthony Howell, who you guys probably know as the main character from Vampyr. He also voices (very well I might add) the shitty dad of two very important characters in FF14's last expansion (Endwalker).
Jonathan Scratch
2023-05-07 15:18:30 +0000 UTCThanks boys
Joe Binson
2023-05-07 14:10:09 +0000 UTC
