A Tainted Path - Elden Ring Story
Channel: Márton Czövek
Date: 19/04/2023

NOTE: Yes, I still did not finish the game yet. I'm very slow, but I enjoy it :) Please don't spoil the ending, I don't actually know how the burning of the erdtree or the flame of ruin and whatnot will play out. All footage you see is from my blind and only playthrough. 

This is the full version of the montage. I know it's only 3:18 long, but it is super dense. I don't think it's easy to understand, but believe the story arc is better like this than with the parts separated. Tell me if you liked it :)

I released it in 3 main parts, centered around the flame of ambition, the flame of frenzy and the flame of ruin, which all are actual story elements in the game, although in different ways. The part with Ranni's monologue is a bit of a transitional part from ambition to frenzy. 

All the story and context in short: 
My character Brunhilde starts ambitious, she wants to enter the Erdtree to become Elden Lord, she trains hard to achieve it. She eventually fights King Morgott, who is protecting the entrance to the Erdtree. However, even after killing Morgott, she cannot enter the Erdtree, as it is being protected by the impenetrable Mantle of Barbs. 

She learns that the 'Two Fingers' - a religious entity guiding the world - does not approve her, so she starts opposing it. She joins Ranni the Witch in her quest to slay the Two Fingers. Spiraling out of control, she's intemperate and goes insane, looking for the Rune of Death to kill it. 
She can still hear King Morgott's curses that she will fail, which fuels her ambition and makes her all the more committed. 

After finding the dagger imbued by the power of the Rune of Death, she learns that it's possible to burn the Mantle of Barbs, if she gathers the Flame of Ruin from the mountaintop of the giants. 
She was already opposing the order of the world, so she is ready to see the world burn. However she learns that this would require kindling, a special sacrifice. Her traveling companion Melina would have to die, and that stops her progress with a burst of emotions. 

And this is where the video ends, with an open and discordant ending like that. I'm sorry.