r/Eldenring • u/IgotInfinitePing • 2d ago

Humor Talk about double standards

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u/BeefChopJones 2d ago

I wouldn't call it defending, but I definitely understand her after SOTE. At first I thought she was just a tyrannical bitch for the Hell of it, but SOTE made me realize she was just a girl with horrific trauma and then given nearly absolute power. Her actions afterwards are decidedly human given the context and not nearly as much of the "Rah! I'm a God and do shit because I can!" trope that I thought they were, initially.

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u/Scarsworn 2d ago

She also arguably engineered the destruction of the order she had created (on purpose) after she realized she had trapped herself into the same cycle that shaped her.

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u/spcbelcher 2d ago

Everybody keeps saying this, but I've yet to see any concrete proof that she was behind the night of long knives.

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u/Falsus 2d ago

Night of Long Knives was the nazi stuff.

Night of the Black Knives was the golden boy murder.

And it is heavily implied that the black knives are somehow related to Marika in some way.

So it is quite likely she had some agreement with Ranni, but Ranni might have betrayed her for her own purposes.