You would steal the last drop of warmth from his empty frame?Īfter all you’ve taken, you still want more?Ī gift of abundance, my last drop of dew. The above speech was, presumably, the reward for doing something in-game that resulted in Queen Marika acknowledging your existence and not, well, sitting there as a broken stone statue like in the other variations of the standard Elden Lord ending.Ī wrench was thrown in the works when matching dialogue was found to be cut from the Malenia, Blade of Miquella boss fight:

This theory might seem sound when looking at the above speech, especially considering what else was known about the Age of Absolute ending: it was, presumably, another variation on the Elden Lord endings, where the tarnished player character becomes Lord Consort to Queen Marika, marrying her and thus becoming Elden Lord.

This is for thee.īeget Order most elegant, from my tender reverie. This speech was theorized to be spoken by none other than the game’s central figure, the mysterious Eternal Queen Marika:

A significant amount of attention in the community was focused on looking for the ‘seventh ending’, the so-called Age of Absolute–an ending that, it was believed, was to contain an unused speech that was found mixed in with the text for the rest of the game’s endings. And while I too wish that there were fewer gendered insults flying around about characters like Malenia, in this particular instance I don’t feel that there need to be fingers pointed at anyone other than the gaming community themselves.Įlden Ring has already been out for five weeks now (how time flies!), but when it was first released, enterprising dataminers spent their time combing through the game’s files, searching for cut and hidden content. For the record, I strongly disagree with the points that the author of that piece presents, and ask that anyone who clicks through from that article to at least think about the goal that Fromsoft is attempting to achieve with their settings, storytelling, and world building. Edit 10/4/22: It would appear that a link to this post has been included in an article about both Malenia’s story and Fromsoft’s treatment of women characters that is currently making the rounds.

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