The Serpent and The Erdtree
7,615Elden Ring lore revealing the hidden story behind the Serpent God and the conspiracy to destroy the Erdtree.
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Additional Music:
Nikos Skalkottas - Epirotikos
Song of Lament Cover: Anna Ellsworth
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Photo Attributions:
- Execution of Mansur Al-Hallaj: Photo: Brooklyn Museum
- The Council of Nicaea: Jjensen
- Muenster: Warwick House: The illustrated history of the world, for the English people, Volume 2
- Georg Berger - Federzeichnung aus Georg Berger, Contrafactur der Osnabrücker Bischöfe. Scan aus Abbildung in "Westfälische Kunststätten: Rathaus und Friedenssaal zu Münster", Seite 28
- Muenster Cages: Rüdiger Wölk, Münster
- Glycon statue: Ángel M. Felicísimo
- Glycon coins: Otto Nickl
- Asclepius: original file by Michael F. Mehnert
- Christianity map: Geuiwogbil (Wikipedia)
- Egle statue: Huw; Uploaded by Parkes
- Egle and the serpent: GraceKelly
- Council of Clermont: Livre des Passages d'Outre-mer, of c 1474 (Bibliothèque nationale)
- People’s crusade: Sébastien Mamerot's Livre des Passages d'Outre-mer (Jean Colombe, c. 1472–75, BNF Fr. 5594)
- Crusader state maps: MapMaster (Wikipedia)
- Crusader state maps (2) Amitchell125 (Wikipedia)
- Richard the Lionheart on the way to Jerusalem: James William Glass (1850)
- Siege of Constantinople: Palma Le Jeune (1544–1620) - Lebédel, Claude (2006)
- Conquest of the Orthodox City of Constantinople: David Aubert (1449-79) - 15th century miniature
- 2nd Arab siege of Constantinople: Original: Constantine Manasses derivative work: Stegop
- Baltic tribes map: Mapmaster
- Siege of Acre: Matthieu de Clermont défend Ptolémaïs en 1291, by Dominique Papety
- Lithuanian pagan map: Lithuania in the Mappa mundi of Pietro Vesconte, 1321.
- Battle of Hattin - Jean Colombe - From a copy of the Passages d’outremer, c. 1490
- Seal of the Templars: Thomas Andrew Archer, Charles Lethbridge Kingsford
- Livonia Brothers seal: Termer - Own work using: History of Estonia, 2007, ISBN: 9789985209303
- Teutonic order state map: S. Bollmann - Dieter Zimmerling: Der Deutsche Ritterorden. 2. Auflage 1991. Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf, Wien, New York 1989,
- Templars burnt at the stake: Anonymous - Bibliothèque Municipale, Besançon, France. Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY.
- Order of the Dragon: Reconstruction of the order patch (I) based on existing Austrian museum artifacts. NoPunIn10Did
- Ceremonial sword of the Order, c. 1433, displayed at the Neue Burg, Vienna. Unknown, North Italy, c. 1433. - Photograph by Sandstein
- Schwerin castle 1900: Unknown author - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division Hohenzollern Castle: A.Savin -
- Schwerin Chapel: Ralf Roletschek
- Conwy castle: Albertran
- Lithuanians worshipping a grass snake, oak and holy fire. From Olaus Magnus' Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus (History of the Northern People), book 3, 1555.
- Algirdas (left) on the Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod. Дар Ветер
- Medieval illustration of Eve and the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Folio from the Biblia pauperum, 14th–15th century.
Video credit:
- Vikings (Michael Hirst, History Channel)
- Crusader map: Daniel Sleeth, @sleeth
- Lithuania’s Happy Paganism: Survive the Jive, @ Survivethejive
- Lithuanian solstice festival: TrueLithuania, @TrueLithuania
- Black flame burning Erdtree cutscene: V-limit
Contents of the Video
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0:00 Intro
0:37 Colosseum Mystery
3:16 Chapter 1: The Manor
10:07 Chapter 2: Gelmir's Pagan Past
14:38 Chapter 3: The Northern Crusades
25:01 Chapter 4: Enter Rykard
28:36 Chapter 5: An Ancient Treachery
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