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Elden Ring Fans Think Marika Fed Herself To A Divine Snake

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

Published Jul 30, 2024

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Outside of the Bonny Village in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, you can find shed snake skin.
It looks strikingly like Rykard's, so it might have been part of a similar "profane ritual".
This new fan theory suggests that Marika fed herself to a divine snake in her quest for godhood, explaining why Messmer was born cursed.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree introduces a new area called the Bonny Village, a rural settlement where the Hornsent carried out their ritual of putting Shamans into Living Jars. There's a lot to unpack here about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Queen Marika's history given th🉐at she was a Shaman, but one detail that slipped by many is the shed snake ski🐟n we find nearby.

There are two important blasphemous snakes in the game to mention before we delve any deeper—Rykard fed himself to the God-Devouring Serpent and Messmer was born with the Abyssal Snake consuming him from within. We don't know why he was cursed, but the shed skin might shed some light on that mystery.

As @breebunn suggests, Rykard's shed skin would look a lot like the one outside of the Bonny Village, there are even openings for humanoid limbs. But they don't believe that the skin belongs to Rykard as we know that he fed himself to the God-Devouring Serpent at 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Volcano Manor, not the realm of shadow. Instead, they suggest that it's from someone else who took part in the "profane ritual".

This Might Explain Marika's Betrayal

In the Shadow of the Erdtree trailer, it mentions Marika's "seduction" and "betrayal". The assumption is that this refers to when she convinced the Hornsent that she could become a saint, only to claim godhood for herself. But @breebunn puts forward that Marika's seduction and betrayal was the act of feeding herself to a divine serpent. In statues depicting her likeness, her dress flows like a snake, and many have suggested that the Golden Order is an allegory for Christianity, and so Marika would be Eve in this scenario, seduced by a serpent.

Snakes are a blasphemous image in The Lands Between, even used at the Colosseum by those playing the villains. It's unclear how that stigma originated (Rykard fed himself to a snake after it was꧂ already deemed heresy), but perhaps it had something to do with the Eternal Queen.

If this theory is true, then Marika fed herself to a serpent god of some kind but emerged unscathed, not upholding her end of the deal so that she could claim divinity. But because she betrayed the snake by not committing to the ritual fully, the curse was passed down to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:her son Messmer. It's an interesting idea, one that could explain why snakes are deemed blasphemous, why Messmer is cursed, and why Rykard's ritual was particularly heretical.