Alright guys here are my crackpot DLC story predictions:
-The Outer Gods are actually more akin to demons. To be chosen as a vessel for an Outer God (Marika, Mohg, Malenia, etc.) is actually more akin to Demonic Possession than it is to be chosen as a God’s vessel. The “Outer Gods” are not all-powerful and require living vessels in the world to spread their rule. This is why Miquella wants a world free of the Outer Gods, because in actuality these beings are parasitic and apathetic to the wellbeing of the peoples of the Lands Between.
-The Greater Will and all Outer Gods did not arrive in the Lands Between by coincidence, chance, or accident,
they were summoned. The Divine Towers form a perfect circle around the Lands Between because they were designed to Summon Outer Gods and attach them to a vessel (an Emperean) who could channel their other worldly power. This is the Central reason why Marika hid the Shadow Realm, because there is something at the center of the Shadow Realm that allows the Divine Towers to be activated and summon extra dimensional demons and bind them to a host. The Greater Will doesn’t want any other Outer Gods in the Lands Between as competition, and so therefore it commanded Marika to conceal the land that bore the “catalyst” for the Divine Towers. It is this “catalyst” that Miquella is looking for, because he believes that this may be the key to truly expunging the Outer Gods from the world.
-Marika is not evil, she is actually a tragic figure. The old man we see in the DLC is her father, and it was he who was the mastermind behind using his own daughter as a vessel for an Outer God, which would later give rise to the Golden Order as we know it. Every perceived evil action of Marika’s was not hers, but were actions she was forced to undertake by her “Demon”, the Greater Will. This old man is essentially the Allfather Lloyd of Elden Ring, the quiet mastermind who is probably ultimately responsible for the rise of the Golden Order into the ruling power in the Lands Between.
-Marika rejecting Messmer to succeed her/become the new Elden Lord or whatever was not an act of spite or disapproval, but of love. Marika does not want any of her children to succeed her, not because she was jealously guarding her power, but because she doesn’t want her children to suffer the same terrible fate as she, IE essentially being the slave of an all-powerful extra dimensional demonic being. Messmer (and the rest of her children) of course misinterpret this as Marika guarding her own rule but in reality she always wanted to protect them from living the life she lives. Marika loves her children, bet.
What do you guys think?
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