- 19,803
- 16,216
What this thread is not covering:
To summarize the major arguments used in another thread
From me
While other user comments are strictly prohibited, any derailing comment or off topic discussion will be removed.
- Radahn's star feat: Its already agreed on being used as a possibly rating
- Ranni/Rennela's starry field: Agreed on it just being an illusion with no real evidence that the location took place in any real space
To summarize the major arguments used in another thread
From me
From @DarkGrath
- The tier would come from the Elden Beast when it distorts the area of the Erdtree and you go to a dimension with nebula and hundreds of stars in the background. The dimension also vanishes upon the defeat of the Elden Beast. As such, it would scale to the generic Starry Dimension calc.
- It should be noted that Ranni's ending also features a similar aspect with her creating a moon with stars within it as she separates the Earth from the influence of Outer Gods. and her dialogue in the Japanese version explicitly mentions shoving the stars away from the Earth so they could no longer influence the people there.
- The trailers for the game, which are seemingly still canon, mention the Elden Ring controlling the stars
From @Mr._BambuHere's my take on this stuff.
The Elden Beat 4-A feat is not definitive, and not something I'd give a full tier on based on so little context, but I could at least defend giving it a "possibly 4-A" rating. I think I've heard this feat brought up before, and one of the criticisms of it was that it's possible the Greater Will made the dimension directly, with the Elden Beast being less powerful than the Greater Will due to only being a vassal, suggesting nobody but the Greater Will would scale. This is technically plausible, but I'd consider it rather unlikely; it's made clear in the story that the Greater Will is almost completely detached from any personal involvement in the Lands Between, with it even being stated that a figure as important as the Two Fingers in the Roundtable Hold might take as much as centuries just to find them and get in contact. It seems unreasonable to suggest that the Greater Will was directly responsible for creating this realm when it otherwise has shown itself not to care at all about anything that's going on in the Lands Between. Again, it's not impossible, but it's much more plausible that the Elden Beast would have created this dimension as the Greater Will's vassal. I think "possibly 4-A" would be fine for this.
Undecided on the Ranni thing. I haven't heard anyone mention this feat before, but it seems like it probably supports tier 4 of some kind. I'll look more into it.
I disagree with the "Elden Ring commands the stars" statement. I've heard someone criticise it before by saying that this comes from an old trailer when the game was still in early development and therefore shouldn't be assumed to still be relevant, but I also disagree with this criticism. The statement also appears in one of the Elden Ring artbooks produced by FromSoftware and sold with certain physical copies of the game, so it's not an outdated statement (I don't have a picture of this right on hand, but I recall LobosJr showed off the artbook as well as the quote in one of his Elden Ring videos, so I could find it if need be). My issue with this statement, however, is the fact that it is too vague to give a tiering to, and there are perfectly reasonable explanations for it that wouldn't suggest anything we don't already know. For example, since the Elden Ring defines many of the core tenets of the universe through its runes (from the idea that life and death are separate, to the laws of causality and regression), it's entirely possible that the Elden Ring "commands the stars" in the sense that "even the stars bend to its rules". Before even considering giving this tier 4, I'd like to see an exact interpretation of this quote that supports it being an indicator of tier 4, as well as reasons to believe that interpretation is true.
I am severely opposed to 4-A for the Elden Beast. I'm okay with flat High 4-C given the "govern the stars" line. 4-A shit isn't supported at all in game and has contradictory evidence. With Astel at least y'all had lore to theorize with, this is literally just seeing lights in the sky. Hard pass.
Yes, yes, I've heard the extremely creative interpretation we've concocted here. And yes, I'm aware we will again treat it as gospel. Her ending shows nothing of the sort, though. It does show her moon coming into view (be it figuratively or not), it does show what are probably stars. But there's a couple things that are being ignored, or at least not considered.I'm good with 4-A since it is like, the whole point of Ranni's plan. I don't know what kind of metaphor you can spin when her ending explicitly shows nebulae converging with her Moon and outright statements from her stating how she will take the sky with her away from Earth so fate won't govern them.
The Age of Stars is Ranni superseding the Greater Will. The Moon is not a normal old Moon and we're being hamfisted by ignoring that. It seems most likely that the Moon is an Outer God- after all, the rest of the cosmos are alive, it seems, given the Fallingstars. Not only do we not understand what Ranni is doing, we don't even understand if she's responsible for half the things she's working for, or if it is the actions of this Outer God- given the game's portrayal of the Greater Will, I'd bet the latter.
I want more to work with than vague statements, man. That's all I ever get with these verses nowadays. We used to be better.
So the proposals are as follows:My High 4-C suggestion was resultant from individual stars, actually. We don't know the specifics of how it governs 'em, if it does every single one all at once, etc. It ought to be High 4-C. The Elden Beast's dimension is too vague, Ranni's moon has too much context that I find makes it lacking.
My vote is for flat out "High 4-C" or "Likely High 4-C". I don't even think they need to upscale from Radahn, personally.
- "At least 7-A (Upscaling from Radahn), possibly 4-A (Elden Beast dimension feat)
- " (Likely) High 4-C (Embodies the Elden Ring which can control and govern the stars)"
While other user comments are strictly prohibited, any derailing comment or off topic discussion will be removed.