What Is Farum Azula?

So I feel like I need to clarify this since everyone keeps commenting the exact same thing. I know and understand you can see Farum Azula from Malenias Divine Tower. But like I said in the video, it could be in a different state when looking from far away than when we actually go there. Just like with the Roundtable.

One theory I like is that Faram Azula is a timeless prison that people who commit cardinal sins are sent to. Hence the teleportation once you burn the Erdtree. Alexander apparently tried bathing in the giant's fire to temper his jar, thus comiting a similar sin almost by accident and winding up there as well.

Hey uh. In the isolated divine tower in leyndell, the one for rykard you can actually see farum azula in the distance.

“The one who walks alongside flame” is whatever Tarnished takes Melina to the Erdtree. She is the flame that walks along with us, the one destined to burn the thorns of the Erdtree

Dragonlord Placidusax isn't waiting on the Three Fingers. The Three Fingers' whole thing is that they want to destroy the world with the Flame of Frenzy. Dragonlord Placidusax was previously the Elden Lord in ancient times, and if he was the Lord of Frenzy, then the entire world would have been destroyed before we even got to play the game. The Three Fingers weren't imprisoned below the capital at all, either. What actually happened is the nomadic merchants were imprisoned below the capital, and then they summoned the Three Fingers and the Flame of Frenzy as some sort of desperate attempt at retaliation against the Golden Order which imprisoned them. That's why all merchants use frenzy incantations and when they die they say "Melt away with the rest of it..." Also, Farum Azula is not in a dream. Farum Azula is a physical place which is visible from certain tall landmarks/towers around the map. It does not exist outside of time either. Farum Azula is a physical place that merely has anti-gravity properties. Dragonlord Placidusax's arena is the only aspect which is outside of time itself. It is the only area which can not be viewed from the outside, either. It is the only area where time is manipulated in order to reach. Miquella's needle is used to shut out the influence of any outer god. Miquella's needle only works outside of time due to its function not being complete/perfected. Miquella's needle isn't specifically for getting rid of the Flame of Frenzy. It works on any outer god, and would work in any area as long as its outside of time. Miquella's needle can also be used to cure Millicent's scarlet rot. The fact that Miquella's needle's function only works in the Dragonlord's arena is merely a coincidence.

You can actually see Farum Azula from one of the Divine Towers. I believe it's the one where we awaken Malenias Great Rune. It's the divine tower that we can get to by using the teleport chest on the Southern Peninsula. Instead of opening the door to the tower just turn around and look East. It's actually a really cool site so I highly recommend checking it out.

My biggest issue with Farum Azula's dream or altered representation or such is the presence of tangible NPCs like Alexander, Gurranq/Maliketh, and Bernahl being there. Especially Alexander's journey there more than any other, convinces me that we're in the actual real Farum Azula because Maliketh is a divine being in a sense and Bernahl literally assists or invades you but Alexander is just straight up physically, tangibly there. Another solid point is that there is a waygate in Liurnia that goes there with an imbued swordstone key.

2:11 Enia, the lady you buy boss weapons from, tells you just before or after you burn the Erdtree that the Rune of Death goes by two names. The other being Destined Death.

Listen, if I saw a coffin at the end of a river of rot inside a temple of parasite monsters... I'd crawl inside too. Another great vid Jake, keep it up

I also disagree about the whole dream concepts, there’s other tarnished on the floating city, like that one guy you meet in volcanic manor that help you to kill godskin duo. Or just the godskins themselves who is likely also there to kill malekith to restore their black flame. The place feels very real and alive, and all these very much alive other beings somehow being in your dream just don’t really make sense

Ever wonder why Farum Azula is “doomed” or “slowly crumbling”? Well, I think this is because of the law of entropy - or in the Lands Between interpretation of it - the One Great which originally consisted of five fingers, is now broken up into 2 fingers representing Order, and 3 fingers representing Chaos. This one extra digit for Chaos, could mean it’s ever so slightly prevailing, hence the purgatory-like state of a slowly crumbling place that was originally ruled by the One Great. For all we know, Farum Azula could very well have been a temple, a place of worship, where as you can see on the wall carvings, knights are worshipping the Ancient Dragons, whose lord is Placidusax, first Elden Lord - the entire faction probably being Apostles of the One Great Outer God.

If you go to the "isolated tower" you can see farum azula way off in the distance

I think the Dragonlord's God was the One Great, or the original form of the 2 and 3 fingers. The symbolism of the beastmen having FIVE fingers seems super significant, and the "old version" of the Elden Ring you see in farum azula? The one people say looks like it has roots? I don't think those are roots. They look like flames. I think that the Greater Will is a fractured part of the One Great, which for whatever reason chose Marika (or perhaps she had a hand in dividing the outer God), as she is a Numen and likely came from Farum Azula. There was some form of coup, where the greater will rejected the chaotic half of the one great and forced it underground in order to maintain order. Also, the idea of an Outer God that is equal parts order and chaos, that exists in a city that is falling apart and crumbling, but always STAYS in that chaotic state, never really changing? Seems like a good fit to me.

I think the dragons had the five finger god, still being the Greater Wills whole hand in a sense. But at a point, the hands are split into order and chaos. As for time, light and gold have represented time in other souls games, ancient dragon smithing stones hint to the same. Also note that roundtable to seems to be a almost statis. Also note it’s via Marika statues and signs that are in the shape of her rune that allow us to be summoned and rebirth at sights of grace. And in the past souls games summons signs are literally pulling someone from a point in time.

Almost certain Melina was talking about herself when she gave her final speech. Essentially saying this was her inevitable end and bidding you farewell.

There’s a great deal of symbolism regarding the beast men that emphasizes 5 fingers; 2 fingers + 3 fingers = 5 fingers, perhaps the original one great before the greater will from the age before the red tree. Placidusax even had 5 heads originally as evidenced by his 3 severed stumps. It really does seem like Farum Azula was the Lyndell from a time before the One Great was divided, or “fled”.

Something that speaks against Melina teleporting us to Farum Azula is that we end up there, even if we burn the Erdtree ourselves using the Frenzied Flame.

Also… what if those dream states are actually like inside Godwyns mind or memory? Like when we go into “fias” dream what if she just kinda tapped into godwyn which is why we fight his dragon friend😂

Unlike Roundtable Hold, Farum Azula can be reached through a simple "magic but hole" teleporter from the Four Belfries area. And it's clearly the same Farum Azula, not a different version analogous to the "Roundtable Hold" in Leyndell. This makes me convinced that there is only one Farum Azula and that the one we see from the outside is also the same. Time is clearly distorted/frozen there in some ways, but it is not entirely outside time like the Placidusax arena is, nor outside the normal dimension of space like the Roundtable Hold.

Does anyone find it ironic that in Dark Souls 1-3 the lore clearly states that Gwyn developed Lightning Miracles, with Seath's help, to kill the Dragons, but in Elden Ring the Dragons are the ones clad in lightning and grant you lightning powers after dying?