Video Game, Anime, & Music Video Spirituality/Religion

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I will provide here a collection of materials and clues regarding religion or a pathway made of various things to pursue the study of religion as existing in and hidden in video games, anime and cartoons, and music videos and songs, as well as art and other forms of media with a particular focus on the sorts of things people may take for granted or not look at very closely or examine with care, otherwise taking the overt stories rather than the hidden messages, even those hidden without the deliberate knowledge or acknowledgment of the authors.

These things are often scoffed at as fantasy and distraction while they contain tremendous amounts of material which can be understood in profound and inspiring ways and refer to the truth or indicate it through what they say or imply.
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These are just some notes to myself because I don't know the names of all the authors or directors:

Shin Megami Tensei with special focus on Spirits.

Final Fantasy with special focus on Summons.

Tekken the Anime, HALO Anime

Magi with special focus on djinn

Shazzan

Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Silent Hill

Metal Gear Solid

Warhammer focus on Chaos and Tzeentch in particular, Dungeons and Dragons focus on Planes and Infernal and Diabolic, Tolkien focus on Melkor and Sauron, Star Wars focus on Dark Side, Pathfinder focus on Diabolic and Asuras, White Wolf World of Darkness

Alien, Prometheus focus on monsters and original drive, Blade Runner focus on Replicants

Magic the Gathering focus on Phyrexians and Yawgmoth as well as other aspects and the Diabolical

Naruto focus on Orochimaru and Paths of Pain as well as villains and Illusion Eye, Bleach focus on Hell, Yu-Yu Hakusho focus on villains

Asura's Wrath

Ghost in the Shell

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

Elder Scrolls focus on Daedra, Two Worlds

The Kree from Marvel Comics

Marquis De Sade

Ragnarok Online or the other one I forget the name of, one of them has good religious content

Japenese artist who makes sadistic pornographic fantasy art

Jade Empire focus on Closed Fist

[kFoyauextlH]

I've never played these dorts of games, nor fo I expect to really, but I utilize information from things related to such things, inclufing video games that I'm unlikrly to ever play, very frequently and with a good degree of seriousness as non-fictional in many ways.

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dorts!

Spoilers for Wednesday:



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I didn't expect a Medusa thing to be coming up along with the character being named Ajax, and seemingly multiple other things that have been coming up all being jammed together in that clip.

[kFoyauextlH]

Regarding video game media, I am studying the Anglo-Saxonism in FromSoftware games and designs, as well as anywhere else I can see a Medievalism that tries to stay close to the uncanny or oddly proportioned elements in art from that period, as well as other themes present in the literature and chronicles from those times, as opposed to anyauthentic re onstruction attempts or realism.

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Since the first leaks we’ve known that Elden Ring had big inspirations from Norse and Celtic myth and art, and there’s a lot of very very interesting connections there, but something I noticed since the gameplay trailers was the potential influence of the Anglo-Saxon culture and this only widened with the final game, and I think I genuinely have a lot of useful stuff to say about Elden Ring lore and the Anglo-Saxons.

For a brief history lesson, the Anglo-Saxons were the earliest English people, the Germanic peoples (closely related to the Scandinavians) that migrated to Britain after the Roman Empire fell until the Norman Conquest (roughly 415 to 1066). The language they spoke was Old English (not thee and thou, that’s early modern English- Old English is almost a completely different language).

George R R Martin has been inspired by Anglo-Saxon history and myth/literature in the past. The name of the Seven Kingdoms in ASOIAF comes from the term “heptarchy” which is used to describe the political situation of seven kingdoms in the middle Anglo-Saxon period, and many names and concepts particularly in the North and relating to the Old Gods in ASOIAF are drawn from Anglo-Saxon inspiration and sources.

A lot of the names in Elden Ring are Old English/Anglo-Saxon names, particularly names connected to the Golden Lineage and the old Altus barbarians that the house of the Erdtree originated from; Godwyn meaning God-friend or Godrick (Godric) meaning God-ruler, etc. Rings are also incredibly important in Anglo-Saxon culture, representing loyalty and social order- loyal men would be given rings by their lords which they would wear to show their loyalty, and so in Old English poetry rings become symbolic of order and the rules that bind society.

The real connection, however, is far deeper- I believe that the whole conceit of the tarnished, and the entire nature of their relationship to grace and struggle, is based on two of the most famous Anglo-Saxon poetry. To start, I think everyone thought from the first concrete things we heard about the game that everything about the “Greater Will” and its “grace” sounded a lot like Christian language.

The two Old English poems “The Wanderer” and “The Seafarer” exiles or people cast out from society (“So I …. Bereft of my homeland”) and their relationship with God. A lot of the language is incredibly similar to the language used for the struggle of the Tarnished in Elden Ring. The first line of The Wanderer is “Often the lonely one finds the grace of God”, and the poems (which generally come as a pair) are all about how only those who have lost everything, who have been exiled from society, can truly understand God and grace. Imagery of gold is also usually used to describe the comfortable society they have been cast out of- “The path of exile holds the wanderer, without gold”. This parallels the Tarnished, who have been forced to tread the paths of exile away from the Grace of gold, and who are the only humans in Elden Ring can see the rays of Grace, as non-Tarnished like the Merchants mention how they cannot see it.

Marika also seems to understand this- when she casts out the Tarnished, she does it because she wants them to understand Grace better through struggle:

“My Lord, and thy warriors. I divest each of thee of thy grace. With thine eyes dimmed, ye will be driven from the Lands Between. Ye will wage war in a land afar, where ye will live, and die.” (Melina speaking Marika’s words at the Third Church of Marika)

“Then, after thy death, I will give back what I once claimed. Return to the Lands Between, wage war, and brandish the Elden Ring. Grow strong in the face of death. Warriors of my lord. Lord Godfrey.” (Melina speaking Marika’s words at the Church of Pilgrimage)

This makes it pretty clear, I think, that Marika has cast out the Tarnished to be exiles so that they might struggle and then come back, with more clarity to the Grace of the Greater Will, so that they might improve the Golden Order and brandish the Elden Ring. Whatever Gideon Ofnir glimpsed of the Golden Order and the will of Marika (whether he is correct or not) he clearly expresses a similar purpose to the Tarnished:

“Queen Marika has high hopes for us. That we continue to struggle. Unto eternity.” (Gideon Ofnir at his boss fight)

There may also be item descriptions that help solidify this link, but that being said there actually aren’t many items relating to the Tarnished themselves, so I’m not sure you’d get too much out of it. One of the Tarnished origins (character presets) is called the Seafarer, which is a rare word (I think you’re more likely to use something like “Sailor”) and in my opinion this is a reference to this pair of poems that clearly inspired the ethos of what the Tarnished are and how they have to wander and suffer and fight in exile in long pursuit of finding grace and the homeland that they have been cast out of.

Thank you if you read this! I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m an Early Medieval scholar (mostly focusing on the Germanic peoples), so I’ve loved seeing what people had to say about Norse literature and Elden Ring, and I think I may have a few things to say of my own. I’m also very interested in the history of Christian thought, and these two poems are two of the most important to me and the most iconic in all of Anglo-Saxon poetry, so I really think it’s likely that GRRM or Fromsoft were drawing from these to write the Tarnished.
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Copy pasting that was as hard as the games are supposed to be. It kept making the highlighting go away if it passed the last word.

https://medium.com/@dmepikh/elden-ring- ... 5a0bc2026f

https://screenrant.com/elden-ring-chara ... -symbolic/





Ugh, these voices and ways of speaking.





























Some guy made this unofficially:





The body horror stuff isn't really interesting or fascinating to me but it can give clues as to certain cultural things from the designers and what they believe may be disturbing and entertaining for people.

Much more interesting to me is what they draw from historically and how it also differs from attempts by other people from different places in the world.





https://eldenring.fandom.com/wiki/Characters

https://eldenring.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Characters

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Melina, Ranni, Irina, Hyetta, Sorceress Sellen, Roderika, Enia, Fia, Nepheli Loux, Rennala, Finger Reader Crone x 8, Tanith, Rya, Millicent, Mary, Maureen, Amy, Polyanna, Malenia, Queen Marika the Eternal, Gloam Eyed Queen, Latenna, Therolina, and Phillia for base game.

For the DLC, Leda, Freyja, St. Trina, Hornsent Grandam, Jolan, and Rellana.

There are also the female invaders, like Tarnished Eater Anastasia or Bloody Finger Eleonora and female bosses like the Demihuman Queen x8, Metyr, Mother of Fingers, Rakshasa, and Dancer of Ranah.

And I think that is all?
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Demi human queen Maggie
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She is bundled with the other Demihuman Queens. I think there are four named and four unnamed, and I just lumped them all together as they are all similar.
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Ythio
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Didn't even see there were here. Maggie still the best.
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Ythio
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Demi human queen Maggie
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HungrPhoenix
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She is bundled with the other Demihuman Queens. I think there are four named and four unnamed, and I just lumped them all together as they are all similar.
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Ythio
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Didn't even see there were here. Maggie still the best.
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Ythio
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Demi human queen Maggie
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HungrPhoenix
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She is bundled with the other Demihuman Queens. I think there are four named and four unnamed, and I just lumped them all together as they are all similar.
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Ythio
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Didn't even see there were here. Maggie still the best.
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https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/NPCs









I pretty much dislike so much about the game and designs but have invested so much into studying it and buying materials for that because of the little hints of interest which I find inspiring.

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This is about "viral marketing" using internet cultural things: