elizabethmartyn3115: great video as always, Charred Thermos

inkscript483: Varré: "Unfortunately for you, however, you are m—"

SilentE: !SUDDENLY AURA! "No, I have a Maiden. You FAILED." !PHONK MUSIC!

TheCharredThermos: Funny enough, I put on a SilentEllipsis video while my wife was asleep. When she woke up, she said, "Who are you and what are you doing in my house? I'm calling the cops." She's hilarious.

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clame3065: Love this update series to the Grand Unified Theory, I've been fiending for new Elden Ring content and you do it just so fucking well. So excited for more new stuff

Catdramaticstatic: another thing about older siblings in the context of twins - japanese grammar has younger siblings address their older siblings by title (onee/onii) so in the case of twins you kinda Have to keep track of who the older sibling was grammaticaly speaking. malenia, for example, addresses miquella as onii, so we know for a fact that miiquella is the older sibling of the two despite them being twins. same could easily be true with rennala and rellana

enochgraham4957: Legendary refresh pull

Magiya93: My issue with framing Rellana as a sort of overlooked sibling is that Rennala accomplished everything she did on her own merit. She didn’t inherit the monarchy, she established it.

akaErma: The detail of the overlapping moons is pretty convincing, especially given how ubiquitous twins already are in the narrative.

Originally I was convinced Radagon's red hair was the result of Marika using the bodies of slain giants to manifest Radagon externally, so they could be in two places at once. However, we see at the end that they are a singular corpus so it doesn't quite track that he was the result of a split, but rather they've always coexisted. But then, we see in the end after Radagon is defeated that Marika's body persists, so she was in some way always the origin point for him, regardless of how he was begat. Now I find it more persuasive that Radagon's red hair could be a product of the Crucible, since we see Leonine Misbegotten with red hair as well as giants, and one is in fact the bearer of the Golden Order Greatsword. Maybe Marika used the giants and the Crucible to manifest Radagon within herself given her status as a Shaman. Radagon is such an enigma, I have been perplexed by his existence since the beginning of the game. As far back as the story trailer I was confused about where "the blonde one" ended and "the redhead" began. Even now I keep going back and forth on what I think his deal is lol.

juliadavis8463: As a triplet, we've always had our birth order in our heads. I am the middle triplet, and since it was a C-section, it was only seconds between my older and younger sibling. We still very much follow the oldest, middle, and youngest stereotypes so I just love the Rennala/Rellana twin theory.

alecktidwell3479: Omg Yesssssssa! Santa was listening! And funny enough, charred thermos is my favorite bloodbourne lore theorist lmao how does one join the discord?

TextToSpeechYoda: Loving these videos. One thing about Radagon I haven't seen mentioned much is that now that we know Empyreans can physically separate from their other halves, this pretty cleanly explains how he could be doing so many things "away" from Marika, she may have divested herself of him some time ago and only reconnected after Godfrey was exiled. In the Radagon boss fight, I'm not sure if this was a later patch or not, but you can find footage and screenshots where Marika's body is actually present in the arena even if you are fighting Radagon. I think this also explains why Liurnia was a stalemate and why Marika considered Radagon "not yet a god". The Radagon we fight has the Elden Ring inside of him, he has essentially divested himself of Marika this time, but he wouldn't have had the Elden Ring or its immense power when he fought the Liurnian wars divested from Marika, he would have simply been a powerful champion.

diptube6563: Astel has Pincers that could be mistaken for horns

Stormking66324: "There is definitely a lot of room for nuanced interpretations of this pillar" sums up the Elden Ring lore community pretty well.

Great video as always!

jackalkhan5676: I dated a younger twin once, and although they never did make a big deal out of the difference in the age. It was an important distinction for them because when they were younger they looked much more similar than when they did when they were older.

danielsatter1805: Charred Thermos is my hero. After listening to you for a little bit, if charred thermos is my Batman, you're Robin but cooler. More like Nightwing, yeah

saiuan4562: Regarding the horndecked beast question. I find your answer acceptable, yet i choose to believe that the hornsent might have been calling down "lesser" gods, one of which were a horndecked lion. That is just my interpretation.

Thanks for addressing the question. It shows you actually care.

antobatta1551: I came to a slightly different conclusion

Marika created the Elden Ring (which existed conceptually, as Order of the world) into a physical version using the gold obtained by sacrificing her fellow Shamans. The Rune could be shaped by Marika through her skills of Shaman, from threads of golden spirits to the shape of the ER, using the Gate. Miquella is doing the exact opposite, leaving that gold behind across the Realm of Shadow. By divesting himself of that corrupted Gold he can become a creature of Light, which was the actual color of Amber. Miquella's crosses are runes that condense into golden amber and he is is not connected to the Elden Ring or his great Rune anymore. He wields the circlet, a singular Ring of pure Light representing his incantation, created by him through the knowledge of Fundamentalism, the communion of the power obtained with the Scarlet Aeonia and the Gate of Divinity. But Miquella ascends by communing with a Lord, which is also what Marika does at the end of the game, so I don't think the rooes of Lord and God can ever be the same. Marika's ascension was incomplete and born of deceit and betrayal. Miquella and Radahn ascend through proper ordeal, death and rebirth, as foretold by the Helphen Steeple and the funerary statues of Enir-Ilim. Basically, Marika is both Lord and God because she sideskipped the actual process, but the creation of Radagon and their plan and study of Fundamentalism is in itself aimed at a proper ascension.

falgalhutkinsmarzcal3962: There are too many English puns in the themes and the lore of the game for it not to have been established by GRRM. Personally, I think the puns outright prefer English as the most accurate language for understanding ER. The most obvious pun is the Greater Will (Wheel) which references the day/night cycle as we see it in the bottom corner of the screen. ASOIF and its lore can also serve as a template for understanding ER. Erdtrees are Weirwood trees and horns are used to channel spirits forcibly into beings in both mythologies. Bayle the Dread is Balerion the Black Dread, only without being black. Petyr and Metyr. The Shaman grow into trees just like Greenseers. The Jojen paste theory is similar to how Jar Saints are made (by smashing Greenseer flesh into a paste). Warging into wolves. Hybrids run amok. Red hair and its link to fire. The interference of magic in the natural cycles (seasons in ASOIF and day/night cycles in ER). Etc.

abydosianchulac2: You mean ER tells the story of humanity (and others) trying to understand the divine and shaping their cultures and worldviews around how they interpret the small glimpses they get of the unfathomable? How unrealistic!

FunTimesAllNight: 100% on the translation aspect. I see people getting hung up on how the English translators have messed stuff up, not realizing it's an intentional part of the process and I'm sure overseen and reviewed by the main Japanese creative team making sure nothing crucial to what they want players to understand is getting lost.

noamias4897: I’m so happy that I’m not the only person to make the connection with Charred Thermos

deathzamboni3992: The Rellana twin thing could have easily been something that GRRM wrote in his document but was maybe made less prominent or obvious when the game was made,it is very much in line with the themes and ideas he explores in his own works.

actingchica: Yaaaassss more GUT Check! This is some engaging content as always Silent!

kreadapelu8813: This is not to discount the idea of Renalla and Rellana being twins. Renalla is the first Queen of Caria, she was the person who declared her family as royalty. Before Renalla wandered into Liurnia and single-handedly charmed (enchanted similar to what Miquella does) the entire academy with her lunar magic, the carian family were just astrologers.

Dec 13 2025

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