Thread 713531085

So was she a good ruler?
Ignoring her woman moments.

>>713531085 (OP)
>woman moments
what you mean? Everything went according to her plan

>>713531316
>communist ending
cringe

reminder:
the DLC is nonsensical and conflicts with the base game
it should have been a dreamscape of death and St Tryna would be your maiden guiding you

>>713531085 (OP)
What's her tax policy?

>fags are still mad about their headcanon being wrong
LOL

>>713531831
Myazaki is wrong

>>713531790
Depends, do you have horns?

Marika was a warmonger and mass-murderer, and going by historical standards that makes her a fucking awesome ruler.

>>713531253
>>713531648
> outer god influence enhances your body like that
m-maybe alien technology isn't so bad after all...

Marika was a STRUMPET

>>713531085 (OP)
why the fuck does this look like a mouth or a roastie's vagina

>>713531790
Marika's tax policy is slay the Elden Beast, claim the throne, mend her shattered body, bless her golden womb.

>>713534045
Does that go towards public services and fixing potholes/amenities?

>>713531253
>>713531648
>>713534045
She doesn't look like that

>>713534123
the only public service you will be doing is filling Marika's holes.

>>713535191
I have the Elden Ring, she looks like I want her to.

>>713535191
wrong

The lore you get on her is a bit schizophrenic, not even including Radagon. The game says she realized something was wrong with the golden order and encouraged her followers to come up with solutions. Presumably when that failed she decided to shatter the Elden Ring. Then you get Gideon saying the lands between you see in the game is the way Marika wants it, and the memory of grace description implies that you are in a cycle of breaking the ring and reforming it, which likely would be by her design.
Pros
>Genocided hornsent
>Solved the undead conundrum
>Created humanity
>Won right to rule through battle
Cons
>Broke the elden ring without a clear gameplan
>Killed off, banished, or weakened the good elements of her own system
>Actually two people
If Queen Marika had died shortly after establishing the golden order she would be remembered as the greatest ruler of all time in the lands between, but she lived on to ruin everything she created.

vote me for elden king or whatever and I'll fuck marika

>>713532337
And she also completely flattened the nation that was unkind to her people.
She protected her own people's interests as much as possible.
I think Queen Marika was solid.

>>713537105
Marika and Radagon are 2 different people

She headed a society that was essentially lead by unguided contempt, resentment, and revenge. This plus not allowing people to die meant that time could not heal pain. She just created hell.

>>713538178
Maybe for the hornsent.
But you do see that the capital city is reasonably large, so there must have been a theoretical golden age at one point in time where shit was bitchin.

>>713538397
If I understand you, you're saying it probably was pretty good for some people at some point in the past. Weak argument. She created hell for everyone with any amount of awareness greater than a beast's.

I still don't understand what actually changed with the elden ring being shattered. I understand it as Marika, who is the embodiment of reality, trying to kill herself, taking everyone with her.

Everything Marika and her Golden Order tried to destroy came back to haunt them forever. Was it like that before the shattering?

>>713539176
The golden order (the artificial law imprinted on the elden ring not the society) is that when people 'die', since they're immortal this is when their body or mind are damaged beyond repair, such people can offer themselves to the erdtree's roots so their runes can be recycled to newly born creatures. The elden ring being shattered makes this kind of passing impossible, hence why above-ground graves throughout the map are filled with undead and corpses with runes on them.

>>713539176
Well I'll admit I'm kinda lost with you there too.
Obviously shit like the misbegotten revolt is just kicking off and it's a fucking awful time, but before the shattering there must have been a reason people chose to stay there instead of some fucking off, so it must've been prosperous under her rule.
My best guess is that the shattering fucked everything up in the most "the flow of time is convoluted" kind of way where the newly made shitfest of reality.
Considering Caelid used to be a nice place before the shattering, whatever went wrong in Marika's head was a mistake.