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Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree Confirms Popular Messmer Fan Theory

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:James Lucas

Published Jun 21, 2024

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Spoilers for Shadow of the Erdtree.

A popular idea going into 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Elden Ring's DLC was that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Messmer is another child of Marika, making him Miquella, Malenia, and maybe even Melina's brother, if another fan theory is true. Well, you lot were right!

After defeating Messmer, he says "Mother... Marika...", outright confirming what so many speculated. We later find out through item descriptions that she plucked out his eye and "put in its place a seal of grace" to hold the serpent within him at bay. However, fearing that this wasn't enough, she felt compelled to "secret away her child within the realm of shadow."

Messmer plucks h𒁃is eye out during the boss fight to unleash his snake form, revealing what Marika feared all along.

Messmer then led a "cleansing" crusade against its inhabitants, his men commanded by Gaius, a childhood rival of Radahn. "Fire was a symbol of the crusade, and even Messmer's rank-and-file soldiers would wield it". He was told to make himself a "symbol of fear" at the behest of his mother, and he did. His soldiers would impale the "impure", invigorated by their cries.

Messmer Gets His Own Unique Butterfly To Match Miquella And Malenia

Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree Black Pyrefly crafting material item description which mentions that it "Flies in war-torn lands that have been scoured by Messmer's flame"

Much as Malenia, Melina, and Miquella have butterfly crafting items in the base game, Messmer has a cha𝓀rcoal black pyrefly burning with viscous red flames, further hammering home their familial relation.

You can also find embers✅ of Messmer which are smoulders that continue to crawl across the ground, leaving his mark behind even after we crush him at the Shadow Keep.

Interestingly, despite fire being such an integral part of Messmer's image to the point of permanently staining his butterflies---and with his knights adorned in bright red cloth, using pyromancy to burn villages to cinder and branding heretics---he "despised" the flame and "hoped to rid himself of it". It wouldn't be until we cut him down that he finally got his wish.