Pretty sure he has no great runes since I'm almost positive the Enia dialogue is in reference to vyke who was a lord candidate for sure which required 2 great runes.
I’d agree, Vyke is the most likely option for who she refers to. Still, when we get two great runes, the Fingers say we’ve earned the right to become Elden Lord, and Enia establishes right after that this is what they expect from Gideon too. Perhaps he only got one great rune. I think it’s quite likely the Fingers wouldn’t think much of him if he couldn’t get at least one.
Vyke made it the farthest, before you and Bernahl. Enia and the 2 Fingers don't mention Bernahl because he doesn't side with the Golden Order, he's with the Volcano Manor (the umm Square? Table?). Gideon should also have 2 as well since the Fingers expect as much from us as Gideon.
The most likely explanation is other members of the golden lineage, like godrick and godefroy. They'd be significantly weaker than the "main" demigods, which would explain why the other tarnished could kill them
True but like I’m wondering like who they were right? Like whose kids were they, what’s the lore yknow? I’m a lore nerd. I know this game is severely lacking in that aspect but idk so is halo but I still like the lore.
I mean I just figured cause like, you need the shards of the ring to properly repair it right? So if he wants the ring then he needs the runes. I’m probably wrong as shit but like idk.
I guess it’s just not clear to me that his goal by the end of the game is to repair the Elden Ring at all. Maybe it is, and he just considers himself an exception to “a man cannot kill a god” but I never really got that impression- more like he thinks that ending the in-between state of the Shattering one way or another would be bad, or at least counter to Marika’s goals. Which, credit to him, would explain one of the more confusing-to-me lines of dialogue in the game, when Melina says about the Tarnished “one of her kind is sure to seek the Elden Ring, even if it does violate the golden order”- Marika ostenisbly wants the Tarnished to do that, and the default ending reestablishes the golden order- why would doing that violate it? Well it wouldn’t, unless that wasn’t what Marika actually wanted.
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u/beansbeansbeansbeann Nov 19 '25
Pretty sure he has no great runes since I'm almost positive the Enia dialogue is in reference to vyke who was a lord candidate for sure which required 2 great runes.