#alecto elden ring

[heraldofcrow]

Speaking of Marika and Alecto (and the headcanon that they were sisters), I would love to draw a scene someday where Marika wakes up to discover Godwyn’s death, and she has this horrible moment of realization that Alecto did it.

Then she orders the Knives to be hunted down and killed, but specifically Tiche, Alecto’s dearest daughter. All for vengeance.

TRAGIC SIBLINGS MOMENT.

#i gotta get…actually good at drawing scenes first though #but i wanna depict the horror in Marika’s eyes yk #“like oh shit my own sister just betrayed me and killed my son” #and then Alecto’s horrible regret when Tiche is killed #SHIT #IT HURTS #alecto elden ring #black knife ringleader alecto #queen marika #elden ring #CrowNotes

[khadgarbignaturals]

say what you will abt elden ring but this is peak female character design

#i love you black knife assassins #i love you alecto #i love you tiche #elden ring

[halveablock]

She was the daughter of the Black Knife Ringleader, Alecto, and was killed protecting her mother during their flight from the royal capital.

spirit ash tiche.

i loved the lore of the black knife assassins. would get tenderly invis-grabbed and stabbed again, 10/10

done for @landszine

#elden ring #black knife tiche #alecto #ringleader alecto #black knife assassin

[katanadragonking]

#memes #funny #meme #game #games #elden ring #ranni the witch #war counselor iji #blaidd the half wolf #alecto black knife ringleader #black knife ringleader #black knife assassin #rykard #rya the scout #rennala queen of the full moon

[catcas22]

Possible Breakthrough?

I was talking ER lore with @thatboreddrake, and he pointed something out to me. The game's opening narration is as follows:

The fallen leaves tell a story. The great Elden Ring was shattered. In our home, across the fog, the Lands Between. Now, Queen Marika the Eternal is nowhere to be found, and in the Night of the Black Knives, Godwyn the Golden was the first to perish.

Soon, Marika's offspring, demigods all, claimed the shards of the Elden Ring. The mad taint of their newfound strength triggered the Shattering. A war from which no lord arose.

Which gives us this sequence of events: The Elden Ring is shattered, Marika disappears (imprisoned within the Erdtree), the Night of the Black Knives (in which Godwyn is the first among many to die), the looting of the Great Runes, and finally the wars of the Shattering.

Did you catch that?

Marika shattered the Elden Ring and was imprisoned in the Erdtree (along with Radagon) before the Night of the Black Knives.

Most interpretations I've seen, mine included, assumed that Marika shattered the Ring in a moment of nihilistic grief following the death of her favorite son, Godwyn. But the sequence of events here seems to rule that out.

At first I thought that this revelation completely shattered (heh) my current understanding of the lore. But it would actually answer two questions that I've been stuck on for awhile.

At the end of her reign, was Marika genuinely remorseful for her past tyranny and trying to atone? Or was she trying to get out of paying the piper, leaving her children to deal with the consequences of her actions?

If Ranni needed to kill a god/demigod in order to be free of her fate, why choose Godwyn? Why not Marika, the tyrant who broke up her parents? Why not any of the unnamed demigods killed in NBK? Why not Godrick or Godefroy?

From the Black Knife Set:

The assassins that carried out the deeds of the Night of the Black Knives were all women, and rumored to be Numen who had close ties with Marika herself.

I'll probably do another post outline the potential Marika/Eternal Cities connection. But briefly, she has close ties with the Black Knife Assassins, the bloated ants feasting on the corpses deep underground in the vicinity of the Eternal Cities drop Numen Runes, and Marika's Scarseal is found in the Worshipper's Woods, downstream from Nokron.

It also appears evident that while they worked with her in the past, the Black Knife Assassins are not loyal to Ranni. Their leader, Alecto, is locked up on Ranni's land, and the BKAs kill Iji and try to kill Blaidd near the end of her questline.

So here's my proposal:

Marika is plotting to rebel against the Greater Will. She brings Ranni into her confidence, both because she believes that their goals align and because she needs a mage of Ranni's caliber to enchant the assassins' knives. But at this point, killing Godwyn is only a contingency plan. All things being equal, Marika would rather not kill her son.

Marika's Plan A is to face the Elden Beast herself. There are a couple different ways this could have played out. Maybe she planned to kill Radagon and use the Sacred Relic sword to kill the beast, but he fought back and shattering the Ring was the best she could manage. Maybe she planned to shatter it all along, hoping that it would sever the Greater Will's connection to her, or to the Lands in general.

Regardless, the plan goes sideways, and ends with a partially shattered ring and Marika fused to Radagon and crucified within the Erdtree.

So now Marika needs to get out of that body, ASAP. She needs to slay her Empyrean flesh. The contingency plan kicks in. Ranni is meant to enchant the knives, and Alecto (who works for Marika) is meant to kill Godwyn and Marika, thus freeing her from the control of the Greater Will.

But Marika fundamentally did not understand Ranni. She thought that Ranni would gladly be the god of the new age while Marika walked away scot-free, because that's what a younger Marika would have done. She could not grasp the fact that Ranni hated the thought of godhood and saw the position as a curse, not a blessing.

Ranni had been planning all along to steal a Black Knife for herself and steal the half of the Cursemark meant for Marika. Marika saw Ranni as a protege who wouldn't be able to see past the promise of power (despite how badly godhood worked out for Marika herself). But to Ranni, this was a golden opportunity to both escape her fate and to screw over the people who hurt her mother.

By the time Alecto discovers the ruse, Ranni has already completed the ritual. The other BKAs scatter throughout the Lands, possibly also killing Ranni's half-sisters/cousins/aunts in retaliation (thanks @katyahina!). Alecto, furious at the betrayal and maddened by grief at the death of Tiche, attempt to go after Ranni herself. After a closely matched and surely impressive duel with Blaidd, she ends up defeated and locked in an evergaol.

I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts. The exact sequence of events of NBK and the Shattering never quite felt right to me, and this seems to fit the pieces together a bit more smoothly.

#elden ring #lore theory #marika the eternal #lunar princess ranni #ringleader alecto #godwyn the golden

[ezrapastell]

The Night of the Black Knives

#elden ring #elden ring art #elden ring spoilers #elden #ring #black knife #black knife assassin #black knife tiche #alecto #elden ring black knife #elden ring black knives #elden ring assassins #godwyn #elden ring godwyn #godwyn the golden #golden order #elden ring golden #elden ring gold #elden ring golden order #elden ring murder #elden ring story #elden ring artwork #elden ring anniversary #fromsoft #fromsoft games #fromsoftware #art #art style #artwork #art tag

[bobbyzombiegg]

I fucking hate black knife alecto and I hate how I beat her even more. It took like 5 minutes to even get her down to half health. I went from using the starting uchigatana, to rivers of blood, to elenora's poleblade and rivers of blood, to just elonora's poleblade and I could never beat her. She could kill me in two hits, while I had 68 vigor. But. But when I fucking walk forward and spam r1 I win first try. What the fuck. I was stuck for months. and. And the solution is fucking walking forward and pressing r1. What the fuck

#elden ring #soulsborne #black knife assasssin #black knife ring leader alecto

[arx-aru]

it's not that i don't enjoy being stabbed by tall milfs but

u don't have to be such a bitch about it.... i just wanted to introduce ur dead daughter to her (many)lesbian roommates in my pocket ): cant have shit in liurnia ...

#she lived #regretfully however i am quite shrimply the dead #alecto black knife ringleader #elden ring #miyazaki please teach ur ai to teabag #would improve the female bosses immensely #just saying

[heraldofcrow]

I notice you have a theme for liking stabby people

Ciaran in DS1

The Crow and Eileen in Bloodborne

So who's your Elden Ring stabby blorbo?

(I leave shiny pebbles as a symbol of goodwill between the squid people and the crows)

BIM WE OF THE CROWS ACCEPT THIS GRACIOUS OFFERING OF SHINIES FROM THE BENEVOLENT SQUIDLINGS!

Also, HMMM SO YOU NOTICED! Yess, I do adore my stabby blorbos (Eileen, Ciaran, and Crow could stab me and I’d thank them tbh).

For Elden Ring, it probably will come as no surprise that, besides the beloved sword-birds, my favorite stabbers are the Black Knives. I love this Nazgul girl gang so much lol.

Especially Alecto!

(Ok, that’s not a picture of Alecto but anyway 💀)

My favorite headcanon is that Alecto was Marika’s elder sister, and they were both Numen royalty long before the Greater Will chose Marika as queen of the Lands Between. The other Black Knives were Alecto’s daughters and cousins. Thus also related to Marika.

Something went wrong, they fought, became enemies, etc.. can you tell I like a side of tragic siblings with my stabbers yet? 🤣

I may be projecting a little bit of Ciaran onto Alecto, but I just like the conflicted, morally-grey assassin archetype so much. Also Alecto’s fight is beautiful idk.

CHEERS M8!!

#STAB #tiche is my fav summon like everyone else sndbssj #she’s so cool #but i was drawn more towards alecto as a character for some reason #i think she was a tired goth mom that wanted to bring marika down #out of both mercy and anger somehow #like she saw marika’s darker side and knew it had to be suppressed #but she also knew marika needed to be set free from her puppet master #so Godwyn was a necessary sacrifice #i think ranni only meant to free herself but alecto took things into her own hands at some point #and everything went to hell #idk i have all these ideas on it #but most of all STAB #HAHAHAA #alecto elden ring #black knife ringleader alecto #elden ring #asks #mutuals

[bri-the-nautilus]

Gay Souls OOC vol. II

#discord screenshot #discord ooc #discord out of context #elden ring #black knife assassin #alecto black knife ringleader #alecto

[sunlight-maggot]

Based Antifa Super Soldiers

#elden ring #soulsborne #black knife assassin #black knife tiche #black knife alecto #night of the black knives #godwyn the golden #Antifa #dark souls #bloodborne #demons souls #vileblood #sunlight maggot #vile sunshine

[headcanontheshitoutofsoulsborne]

Black Knife Tiche channeled a lot of frustration with her mother Alecto into her work… only realizing what she had pushed away as she died protecting her mother when the plot was betrayed and the Black Knives were chased from Leyndell.

Alecto was then imprisoned in the Ringleader’s Evergaol by Ranni when she confronted her in a rage about her daughter’s death.

#elden ring #black knife tiche #alecto black knife ring leader #headcanon #the submitter tagged this as #suffering #tragedy

[catcas22]

Alecto, Tiche, and Tisiphone.

This whole family gives “Came out here to attack people and honestly I’m having so much fun right now” energy.

#elden ring #fanart #prince of death fic #ringleader alecto #black knife tiche #oc

[gojuo]

Who are your favorite bosses in elden ring?

MALENIA BLADE OF MIQUELLA MY NUMBER ONE GIRL MY ANGEL 😭🫶🩷 FREE MY DAUGHTER FROM THE MASS HATERS SHE DID NOTHING WRONG!!!!!!! "It's an unfair fight, life steal is too op, waterfowl is broken, hyper armor, blah blah blah" dawg literally just git gud lmfao 😂 I love her fight so much, I mean it's an endgame area optional boss fight, of course you're gonna have a hard fucking time. That don't mean that I repudiate the valid criticism of her gimmicks, it just means that idgaf and that her boss fight gave me joy like no other lmao. Above all, I love the feeling of a perfectly executed dodge or parry, and that's what Malenia's boss battle is aaaaall about! Also I'm a dex gworl so dex gworls unite <3 !! I'm always rocking her full outfit + double Hand of Malenia's + a little bit of Faith to use the buff incantations bc I luvvv my girl she's the best out there fr

Second fav fight is the Godfrey WWE takedown. Like my gaawddd is that fight so good... The absolute panic you felt when he turned into Hoarah Loux for the first time and came at you full force with his bare hands still drenched in Serosh' blood... The double face slam... The comedic timing of it all.... "I've given thee courtesy enough." .... GOOSEBUMPS !!!!! GOOOOOOOSE .. BUMPS ... !!!!

Third fav gotta be Maliketh. Like I said about Malenia, it's the perfect dodge gimmick that you gotta master that I love so much in this fight. His transformation from Gurranq to The Black Blade was fuckin badass and Maliketh's character design is out of this fucking world too, like it's so fucking cool. I also really love the Destined Death skill and how beautiful it is plus his fast moveset keeps me on my toes the entire time and never bores me. I really love how he never stands still and how quick you gotta be to land an attack or dodge his ones. Makes me sad how his health pool is so little I think it needs to be bumped up tbh :(

Man I wish ER had a boss rush mode cuz I love those late game boss fights so much 🥲

#thanks for asking it was very fun to think about my fav fights in this game (malenia was a no brainer btw) #elden ring #4th one would be radagon same reason for the dodging parrying but his moveset gets kinda stale after a while cuz he keeps doing the same #stuff. 5th one would be alecto if you count that one as a boss fight. or else it's godskin duo #anonymous #answered