pkthunder416: "Even before it's release, Nightreign evoked an important question: WHAT!?"

haxmax5352: The notion that Nightrein is the daily ritual of the day/night cycle really evokes the feeling of old mythology. Ra rides his sun chariot across the sky everyday. Norse warriors feast every night in Valhalla. The Nightfarers defeat (the) Nightlord every night. We are playing a mythos.

Aether_Veilborne: I believe that Nightreign is actually canon to Elden Ring. However, the events loop back on themselves when the Night is defeated.

A self-closing loop.

From an outside observer, the Night, just simply didn't happen.

KenobiJonesey: This deserves wayyy more views. Your analyses are more interesting and coherent than what a lot of other loretubers are putting out currently. It’s also presented in a way thats easy to follow and pleasant to listen to. God bless

AC-hj9tv: Dayman, fighter of the Nightman?! It's all falling into place

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PlatinumAltaria: Based on the ending I feel like the explanation is simple: time is convoluted. We stopped the night before it even happened, thus none of it came to pass. Nightreign is a closed loop that exists before, during and after Elden Ring, and never really existed at all. What the nightfarers were, are, and might be are all mixed together into a timeless form; An unending Night. The tomb below the Roundtable Hold is our tomb, though we are also alive.

The Rune of Marika appears similar to a shape used in the grafting of plants IRL, which means it may relate to the Shamans.

As for the first sin, it seems clear that this was the first Burning of the Erdtree, whose burnt remains now lie in the Land of Shadow, replaced in the Lands Between with a spiritual duplicate of pure light.

iamthereddemon20: Just immediately throwing out caligo having the intense desire to experience the night herself is a pretty good fit for lust

pblivingston: I always took "Lands Between" to be a translation (or re-translation from Japanese) of "Midgard" because that's literally what it means. Tolkien's world is "Middle-earth" for this reason. It's the land of mortals amidst realms chaotic, otherworldly, eternal, godly, etc.

silverwheel3: I always love the fact that the lore in soulsborne games have so many different interpretations. Its not too definative to be sure of only one true canon and not ambiguous enough that no one knows whats real.

KadePreston-b5i: “Every day we struggle solo queuing”

TheSuperiorMonty: I don't like how a lot of the community just takes from at their word as to the canonicity of nightreign when they know full-well he's known to fuck with us

RadonX9: the crossover stuff with dark souls characters and bosses being framed as passing over from another world or universe makes a lot of sense when you consider that one of elden ring's key influences is the writings of michael moorcock, who has characters like the eternal champion, elric, and corum crossing over and showing up in each others worlds and stories all throughout his career

dgalloway107: The word canon means very little in a universe where causality itself breaks down semi-consistently.

sloppytony: Nightreign ends with sprites of light flying away and elden ring begins with one of those sprites of light entering a tarnished. Do the nightfarers possess the body of tarnished to begin the events of elden ring. Does the end of night mark the dawn of a new elden lord?

dev4159: The Night being reversed back in time and set to have never happened fits so damn well with the whole "fighting for nothing but actually something" deal in these games, as nobody other than the Nightfarer themselves will remember the horror and torture they went throught to save the world.

luckyowl6432: You have a great voice for lore videos.

If you're ever looking for content Control has good game lore I'd watch repeatedly if you put any out.

NotAFanMan88: I might have missed it, but one other thing with the cutting-gifted tribe is the rare Cord End item and where it leads you in game. Given your interpretation of events (the perpetual sacrifice to continually bring about a new day in ER), it relates to the item description of the Sacrificial Twig quite neatly.

nomas5082: It's a metaphor for a dark night of the soul. But it's on a world scale (macrocosm) as well as a personal one (microcosm).

Once they come to terms with what they are and make peace with themselves, the night ends, and the dawn breaks.

That's why, at the end, the tree titan looks at the erd tree and just walks away. They have accepted and made peace with all the wrongs they have committed and received.

It's time to head towards a new dawn, a new day, whatever it may hold.

lambda760: I think people who are in the non-canon camp rely way too much on a singular quote from one interview that's outside the game (that wasn't even originally in english btw so there may be some information lost in translation.)

If you were to play elden ring and then nightreign and see the Dawn ending you'd probably come to the assumption that it's a shared universe/multiverse in some capacity.

skidmc: Modernity too, as described in Bloodborne, was an attempt to banish death, to make the enlightenment continuous. It had the aspect of a woman's revenge. I can't help but think about these games through Guénon's lenses, and traditionalism.

PerusingPanda: You have a markedly more optomistic interpretation of these than what I do lol. I can't help but see this as Marika going "Oopsie! I messed up this world too! Can you suffer eternally for me to fix my mistake pweeeease

andersanders47: It's definitely canon, people just don't like that there will always be more questions than answers.

My proof? I look at the camera like Jim from the Office.

lostvayne4553: My head canon is that Wylder’s ending is just linking the fire, eventually he loses himself completely and becomes Heolster, who is defeated and bound again and again, a paradox of Wylder vowing to kill himself. The fact that he’s dying in the physical world could mean he’s the knight in that story who lost to the hero.

BezimiennyBot: Truly there did come a chill night that encompassed all

Jul 20 2025

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