Night of the Black Knives | Complete Elden Ring Lore Recap (pre Shadow of the Erdtree): Episode 7

Episode 8 is available NOW to Hawk Lord supporters of the channel! Penultimate episode! The night of black knives feels like the key event that set off the chain of events ultimately causing our own character to enter the Lands Between, but even for Fromsoft it's a pretty difficult event to parse. We hope you enjoy our interpretation, and let us know your thoughts and theories!

One thing I never even considered with the DLC is the likelihood of us finding other Great Runes and what powers they may have. We are still missing parts of the sigil.

Hawkshaw is my new favorite lore guy. His angelic voice makes everything ok again in my chaotic life, if only for 30 minutes.

Last time I was this early, Ranni was still a redhead. I appreciate how hard you guys have been pushing content lately. And not just for Elden Ring. I just finished DS3 recently, and I've been hooked ever since.

Thank you for the OG Lucas Arts music. That stuff warms my heart. They deserve more play lol

It’s been thousands of years, the information we can glean is a blessing.

Very big thanks to Hawkshaw and team for giving me the opportunity to draw this thumbnail! Big fan of the channel and can't wait to see more content from the expansion!💜💜 😎🍻😎

Something that I haven't seen anyone mention; Alecto’s name has significance, being based on Alecto the Erinyes(Furiae/Furies) from Greek myth, implying that Alecto is meant to be representative of a chthonic goddess of vengeance. This ties in with the idea that the BKA are closely tied to Marika, these ties being based upon vengeance for Marika's actions, and they are "chthonic" in the sense that the Eternal Cities are literally underground or “under earth”. The Erinyes are protectors of Oaths and punish those who make false Oaths or go against the "natural order", Marika went against “natural order” by removing Destined Death, Ranni did so by hijacking the NoBK as well as by stealing the Fingerslayer Blade. The Erinyes are also said to be descendants of Nyx, the Goddess of Night (who has also been called Nox) and they’re typically older than the Olympian deities, just like the Numen are said to be older than the Lands Between. The Two Fingers also have a long history of assassination, ala the Confessors/Roundtable Hold Assassins or Baleful Shadows, it stands to reason that they may use Black Knives when necessary. Assassin’s Reproach and Crepus’ Vial both mention how assassins were sent after Tarnished who “stray from guidance”, if Tarnished are assassinated for not listening then I'd say it's safe to say assume others who don't listen, like Marika or Ranni, would be as well.

I’ve been wondering about Ranni’s true involvement for a while now because not everything sits right. For example, Rogier’s whole questline is about him unraveling the conspiracy, and even when Ranni gives us a confession, which a lot of detectives would call a slam dunk, he claims “not all would believe such a tale” and he still tries to dig deeper and look for even more answers by finding the smoking gun(Cursemark). It’s always been weird to me that she’s hesitant about the Cursemark but not admitting to the murder? Even at the fact that Rogier doesn’t completely buy it when she offers a confession after we invaded her home when we know she could kill us in the blink of an eye.

This is my favorite lore channel. These DLC lead-up vids have been a treat. Keep doing what you do.

OMG this has to be my favorite subject in Elden Ring lore. Can't wait to dig in.

The true mysteries of the night of the black knifes remain, but at least now the surrounding circumstances clear up bit by bit. The time of this alliance between the demigods seems really interesting to me as well! And I love your take on Marika. Her story always seemed tragic to me. Thanks for hyping the whole community with this amazing content days before the dlc!

How do you make such incredibly high quality content so quickly?!?! Don’t burn yourself out my friend, but I absolutely love the content

MY GOODNESS the output recently! We be eating good over here.

Thank you for your videos. They are a very good summary and preparation! Also, I wanted to say I noticed how often you put up videos lately. Please don't overwork yourself, just because the DLC deadline is round the corner. Your vids are awesome, and we'll certainly watch them after the DLC comes out as well.

First YouTube membership, I love your stuff ❤

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How on earth are you pumping out videos like this???

Your channel is incredible! You and Tarnished Archaeologist are my favorite Souls youtubers <3

Pumping the videos out!!! Barely got to watch the last one before work.... this will have to wait until after work. 😂