Are women supposed to be smarter and better at magic than men?

>>714780594 (OP)
Typically, yes. This might not necessarily be true, but giving something to women helps keep everyone feel useful, otherwise you enter a death spiral of one gender feeling completely worthless. The same advice can be made about, "men are stronger and tougher."

Women, like magic, are not real.

>>714780594 (OP)
Magic is chaos, so yes.

in fiction?

>>714780594 (OP)
Women can intuitively read the Lunar phases, and have esoteric knowledge

>>714780594 (OP)
No, that's why Rennala is such a pushover

Isn’t she weaker than the two crystal buddhas who are literally unkillable npcs

>>714781774
They're not unkillable, they're dead.

>>714780594 (OP)
Brains over brawn

>>714781819
They’re not dead. Azur is levitating in meditation and Lusat is resting. Sellen even ascribes a personality to Azur.

>>714780594 (OP)
That's not it. Magical currents are heavily linked to and influenced by lunar cycles and women menstruate alongside said cycles, thus creating a natural organic link to the ebbs and floes of these magical currents present across creation. Put simply: their pussies guide their emotions and some of them can surf the blood wave into casting magic missile.

>>714782181
>he thinks the moon is female
Not even in Japan do they think this.

>>714782181
>>714782361
The sun is a woman and the moon is a man.

>>714780719
>carrying, bearing and raising children all of a sudden isnt good enough for women after thousands of years
love from kazakhstan

Rennala is only the fourth strongest and fourth smartest sorcerer in the world. Her story is also one where her womanly inclinations get her subverted and her faction brought to ruin. It's not a very feminist bit of writing. In fact the game's writing is not very kind to ambitious women other than specifically Ranni, and even she unintentionally comes off as an easily pliable little girl.

>every single men in this game is controlled by a woman or a trap
>every single woman is the most powerful thing ever

>>714780594 (OP)
She was thought by a man.

Sorceries are way cooler than incantations lore wise but just boring as shit to play with. You just swish your stick around around like a harry potter background actor.

>>714782573
Ranni is a literal jobber.

>>714782573
Yep. This game is peak feminism and it’s hilarious how the /v/tards think it’s not.

For fucks sake the games lore implies no man has been smart enough to see the moon, only women.

>>714782573
Reminds me of Tyranny that did the same garbage, IIRC even all but one blacksmiths were women and the man one was incompetent

>>714782589
Ymir? His spell costs 30 less INT and he’s a lousy ass mini-boss, like Gideon.

>conjuring a miniature universe costs 30 less intelligence than conjuring moons
BRAVO MIYAZAKI

>>714780594 (OP)
In most animist religions and old folklore throughout the world: Yes. Men symbolised right-handedness, life, day and the sun. Women symbolised left-handedness, afterlife, night and the moon. Afterlife is where most magic is drawn from. Female ghosts are often more powerful than male ones.

>>714780594 (OP)
By who?

>>714782573
>>714782683
Neither of you have played the game. The only time women are written positively is when they subordinate themselves.

>>714782683
I’m pretty sure Azur and Lusat’s INT score is like 99+. Azur didn’t feel the need to replace his staff—he ditched it entirely. They didn’t see much importance in the moon. It’s possible they missed the moon for the stars. By the time they were crystallized they didn’t bother.

>>714782868
You’re an idiot. Men are just as strongly associated with magic and spirituality the father back in history you go.

>>714782683
All the greatest mages in the setting are male
Same for faith users

>>714783027
See? You’re coping. You can only cry “it’s a female moment: the game!” as though women aren’t also the ones to kickstart civilization as well as end civilization.

>>714782172
It’s not Azur, it’s the cancerous meteor that grew out of his empty skull. It’s a play on enlightenment leading to ego death but taken literally. The only way to truly understand the universe is to destroy yourself.

>>714782361
I didn't say the moon was female, dingus. It's a moon. It doesn't have a sex. It's a rock. I'm saying the magneto-harmonic influence caused by its revolutions around the planet or whatever other body a moon happens to be revolving around is what causes women's pussies to act out and link up with the natural magical currents that exist.

It's a rock. It doesn't have dangly bits. There's a perfectly rational explanation for everything that happens, even magic, and it doesn't involve saying the moon is a woman or man up in the sky when it's just a fucking rock that may or may not have some ancient reptile(s) hibernating inside of it.

>>714783218
>All the greatest mages in the setting are male
George could have wrote Ymir and Gideon as the superiors of Rennala and Rellana but for whatever reason the game does not demonstrate it this way.

Ymir + Gideon = lousy ass mini-bosses
Rennala + Rellana = bosses worth their own remembrances
Azur + Lusat = literally petrified dead people

>Though Count Ymir instructed Rellana in the sorcerous arts, he abandoned his allegiance to the moon.
>"It was merely the closest of the celestial bodies. Nothing more."
Kino. Women could never.

>>714783230
>Writing about how women who try to be independent are useless fuckups is feminist actually!
lmao

>>714783119
>You’re an idiot. Men are just as strongly associated with magic and spirituality the father back in history you go.
like in which culture?

>>714780594 (OP)
They should also be taller and stronger than men so they can pick them up and fuck them whenever they want

>>714783381
Random caves in the dlc have bosses stronger than the elden beast
Confusing gameplay strength for lore strength in fromsoft games is asinine

>>714783306
So it’s Azur? They’re both based on the Sokushinbutsu of Sekiro. They’re revered corpse sages. The enlightened sage is more like a tree, or rock, than a man. It’s more of a living relic. A ‘living Buddha’.

— "Like a polished crystal, a tranquil mind is colored by what is nearby, be it the perceiver, the object of concentration, or the very process of perception."

Glintstone sorcery is precisely a matter of trans-humanism. The Carians are against trans-humanism. Sellen even says it, that she wants to change the mind altogether.

>>714780594 (OP)
Yes, that is why all mages tend to have big tits, it's where they store their mana.

>>714780594 (OP)
I imagine it would play out like our existing world, where more women would go into "magic" fields because they don't require physical prowess, and more men would become warriors, and among the bulk of the population the average woman would be slightly better at "magic" than the average man, but the exceptional individuals, the top tiers of grand elders and arch mages would overwhelmingly be men who surpass a level that women simply can't hope to compete with.

>>714783458
The first three to come to mind are Thoth, Trismegistus and Odin, all male. Same with real occultists, Crowley, Rasputin, Gurdjieff, and the list goes on. Occur is a male area

>>714783609
> So it’s Azur?
No it’s a rock

>>714783381
Ymir and Gideon being not very powerful doesn't make them inferior mages. In fact the game makes very clear that being intelligent and insightful are not the same thing as being powerful with Thops. You're just being willfully ignorant if you continue pretending that Ymir's dialogue about the nature of divinity and the big bang make him seem less intelligent than 2 big ladies whose lore sums up to "they both like boys who don't like them back :("

>>714783119
>Men are just as strongly associated with magic
But women were considered to have more innate magic abilities. Mostly because their pussies were considered powerful magic tools. Also because afterlife in most animist religions is similar to regular life, except everything is in reverse. Women are stronger in afterlife than men, right handed turn left-handed broken tools are fixed in their "afterlives" and so on. Thats why lot of burial sites had gifts that were intentionally broken. Both for the belief system and to make sure grave robbers won't grab them. Also shamas in Northern Europe and all throughout Russia had the ritual of cross-dressing whenever they were consulting the dead and dancing left-to-right in a circle.

Finland and Thailand both have very similar folklore spells on how to enter the underworld:
>1) Find a tree that has been felled by lightning, in Thailand version a Pagoda that was struck by lightning.
>2) Circle it left-to-right three times while chanting spells. In Thai version you also burn incense stick.
>3) After the third round, you're now in the underworld and can see the dead and talk to them.

I recommend reading folklore history, shit's really interesting.

>>714782736
more like Tranny lmao

>>714783458
I already had a discussion about this on /tg/.

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Magic is more masculine than feminine if you aren’t a man-hating woman-simping idiot.

>>714783768
Crowley and Rasputin were cultures huh

>>714783774
It’s Azur. Azur is a rock.
>>714783884
Studying physics in this world gives you the ability to shoot lasers. Physicists here are all highly dangerous people. Yes it’s highly weird that the people who understand the cosmos the most aren’t also the most powerful.

>>714783768
>Thoth
Funny you mention Egyptian lore because Isis was considered to be a more important figure of magic than Thoth.
>Odin
Odin had to crossdress as a woman to learn magic in the first place. He was not born with the magical powers, he had to do what most men don't do and learn from a woman.

>>714783909
You’re an idiot. Women were seen as spiritually inferior to men in the religion that coined the word ‘magic’, you simping retard. Western esotericism was a man’s sphere.

See >>714784019

>>714783909
>But women were considered to have more innate magic abilities.
Where? In what culture? Even shit like the witch hunts were just based on the assumption that women would be more willing to prostitute themselves to the devil in exchange for power. Which is true, incidentally.
>Thats why lot of burial sites had gifts that were intentionally broken. Both for the belief system and to make sure grave robbers won't grab them. Also shamas in Northern Europe and all throughout Russia had the ritual of cross-dressing whenever they were consulting the dead and dancing left-to-right in a circle.
Oh, I get it, you're a braindead anthropology major, who thinks baseless speculation is science.

>>714784019
>guy who made some shit up about men being accused of witchcraft in eastern europe talking shit

>>714780929
>wields magic (chaos)
>summons a dragon

>>714780929
Or maybe you are just too stupid to understand it.

>>714784019
>Magic is more masculine than feminine if you aren’t a man-hating woman-simping idiot.
No its not, because magic is drawn from a supernatural world, not of this world. Man symbolises this world, not the afterlife. Why do you think wizards dress like faggots instead of warriors?

>guy being not only severely asshurt over who was considered a better mage as if it was a real thing but wrong on every level
interesting mental illness, tell me about your favourite orcs. Were they communists?

>>714784230
>>714784236
I said it multiple times, in folklore and animist religions, not your filthy worship of the god of jews. Learn to read, retards.

>>714784151
>Funny you mention Egyptian lore because Isis was considered to be a more important figure of magic than Thoth.
Uh, no? Thoth in some versions is the father of Isis, and she runs to daddy for magical help. Thoth invented magic. He’s not the personification of it, though. That would be Heka—also a male god. There was a feminine interpretation to Heka, so too.

Thoth transcends Isis by way of Hermes. Hermes Trismegistus was so influential—so grand—he took over the sun and the moon and the stars, and indeed the eye of the cosmos. It led up to science.

Only woman worth anything in the entire game.

>>714784151
Odin was the original min-maxer. Magic in Norse is seen as feminine due to its callback to shamanism, which was seen as a submissive (ooo the spirits are taking me over oooo) act.

But Odin despite being a man became the most powerful Norse wizard of all. He was above even Freyja.

>>714782736
>>714784008
>t. cock lover.

>>714780594 (OP)
Well, witches are known to be women

many more cultures, worldwide have folklore about witches than warlocks so that's that

>>714784338
Men were the ones to poke at nature. The supernatural is just an oxymoron for nature that’s misunderstood. Men are the ones poking at mystery. Not women.

You really need to fuck off. Sorry. Magic is masculine. Magic lies at the edges. Men are cutting edge.

>Ymir 210000 runes
>Rennala 40000 runes
Gee, I wonder who is stronger…

>>714783452
>t. retarded and useless fuckup.

>Are women supposed to be smarter and better at magic than men?
In videogames sure, I don't see why not. Only in videogames tho.

>>714784618
Not really. The bad magic users are female whole the good, sagely wizardly people are male.

>you hate men when you don't believe they are stronger mages
the most mentally ill take I've read who the fuck gets so upset over fantasy

>>714784618
Witches are just undesirable women retard, there is no need for a warlock folklore when the actual alchemists and astrologists already work for people in open

>the moon takes up more brain power than the galaxy at large

Miyazaki is insulting to magic. The idea that the moon is somehow more magical or mysterious than the deep black abyss that is space is just fucking offensive.

There is NOTHING more occult or more alien than the deep black abyss that is space. It is THE biggest black box of all.

>>714784446
>and she runs to daddy for magical help
And she's the one who teaches magic and embalming to egyptians. She also stores the seed of Osiris to ensure the future for the egyptian people. Hence why she was a far more important god of magic than Thoth.

Women are born with more magical abilities, men have to learn it because we represent the life and the sun. When you die, according to folklore you go to the underworld where women are stronger and you notice you switched your hand preference. Thats just how it goes. The belief is so universally widespread all around the world from Africa to Asia to North Europe that it has to be a super old superstition back when humans were still just spread around in mediterranean.

>>714784781
I mean, I suspected it in the base game, but “females r better!” was practically shoved in your face in the DLC. Ymir coping about the moon showcases that. Miyazaki is a massive feminist moonfag.

>>714784724
that's how it was like in Skyrim? Cool Timmy share it with the rest of your classroom once summer ends but on Earth folklore no matter if europe, americas, asia or africa there are way, way more tales of witches than any Gandalf ripoffs

>>714784656
Ymir is a 99 insight character that figured out the biggest secret of the setting. No one ever questioned his superior status. Not to mention he has two cute submissive sisters serving him. Meanwhile everyone loyal to Rennala betrayed her.

>>714784442
You're not even right about the goat fucking cultures you think you understand.

>>714784019
Yes, /tg/ is full of people like you who are too retarded to play tabletop games and like to talk about stuff they have no understanding of.
>>714784230
Yes, we see you are stupid.

>>714784628
>headcanon
Dismissed. Read a book you retarded nigger.

>>714784794
>when the actual alchemists
working with actual dragons don't forget, get a bit angrier please you don't sound retarded enough yet

>>714784827
>And she's the one who teaches magic and embalming to egyptians.
Already known by Thoth, being the inventor of learning. Of course daughter would share in her father’s lore.

>Women are born with more magical abilities, men have to learn it because we represent the life and the sun.
You are actually deranged. The gift of magic in the Mediterranean was seen as a gift of the god of the sun, who typically favoured males.

Women are portrayed as innately magical because their bodies are more attuned to lunar cycles and they give birth, they without effort are guided by magical influences in the universe. Men, if they’re magical, become so through study. Oracles are an obvious example, but also western witches, around which we also see the sexist implications.
>Women are basically aliens to us, who knows what sorts of magic bullshit is stirring up in their vaginas.
Etc.

>>714784993
You surely realize alchemists actually existed real life?

HITLER
PETERSON
HELP
I'M BEING FUCKING GENOCIDED BY FOLKLORE
TELL ME IM A GOOD MAGE
PLEASE

TRUMP PLEASE GIVE ME LETTER TO HOGWARTS

I BEG YOU!!!

>>714784553
>he's straight
lol look at this straight idiot LOOOOL what a faggot

>>714784992
What? How is it headcanon when it’s just history?

>>714784824
Your writing style is very gay and also your point is just wrong. In elden ring, moon worship is basic bitch shit, while even just percieving the deeper cosmos can drive you mad or destroy you.

>>714785009
>The gift of magic in the Mediterranean was seen as a gift of the god of the sun,
In hellenistic myths. I'm talking about animistic myths. You fail to read basic fucking text like the dumb fuck you are. I'm talking about folklore that existed before established pantheons. You talk about pantheons.

>>714784824
The spell is a glimpse into the entirety of existence at once. Not just a look at the cosmos. I interpret it as the player needing the insights from Ymir to cast it. It's like him sending you to the ruins opened your mind to the point intelligence is secondary to what you experienced to get it.

>>714785105
that's why many more cultures had female oracles than male huh

>>714785018
You really think men aren’t alien to women? Jesus Christ you people. The world, nature itself, is masculine, even. It’s brutal and unforgiving.

But that’s besides the point. The religion responsible for the word magic saw women as magically, or spiritually lesser, or unclean.

It’s hilarious how simps pretend females are more magical.

>>714785105
Cool, so cite your source then. Go ahead. Oh thats right, your hand is brown which means you've never read a book in your life.

>>714785139
>trust me bro I have supa sikrit knowledge from before people wrote things down
damn, your power level is off the charts Gandalf, can you teach me some spells?

>>714784705
/v/ shows most men are retarded.

>>714785139
Oh, you want to go ancient? Okay. Look at Zoroastrianism: “women are unclean!”

>>714785242
It's probably just trannies in this case, the retards downloaded Wicca books from zlibrary and claims why women were actually more spiritual and such

>>714785319
>trust me bro
Nigger I just recommended you 2 books. Pay attention.>>714785307 >>714784992
Go ahead, cite your books mister history expert.

I'm trying to tell you fucking stupid niggesr that I'm the greatest shaman king who ever lived and you jealous feminists keep arguing with me

>women: casul magic builds
>men: gigachad str builds
From is based and knows their playerbase

>>714785242
Your opinions are completely wrong. The root of all cultures was matriarchal. In europe for example the change to patriarchy only happened 5000 years ago.

>>714784992
How is magic not nature at the edges? Something is only supernatural if we don’t understand it well enough. Or don’t take it in stride. That’s masculine energy. Confronting the unknown. It’s danger.

>>714785242
Nature is nature. If anything men are a pale imitation of the brutality and efficiency it possesses. But that’s a retarded connection to draw regardless, and speaks more to how you haven’t done anything worth being proud of, so you need to BE something to be proud of instead.

>>714785467
Ah, I see, you’re just a troll.

>>714785481
name cultures that had dedicated male seers then

>>714785372
Yes? Women are unclean, they are aligned with Ahriman and thats why they can do magic better. Because magic is the domain of lies, death and darkness. Thank you for proving me right.

>>714785449
He is clearly using divine invocations similar to bear communion so he must have been a str/fth build.

>>714780594 (OP)
I mean Astrology and Moon readings shit is whitegirl magic so it tracks

>>714785556
you stupid man hating faggot go dillate while I practice my path of the purple snake and become a great druid you know fuck all about magic

>magic is female!
>creation is female!
>earth is female!
>water is female!
The ancient god of jizzardry would like a word

>>714785242
>t. retard who never seen a spider being ripped a part by ants.

>>714785587
>Because magic is the domain of lies, death and darkness
That’s not Zoroastrianism. That’s only one half of it. Men are the light, the order.

Sperg anon. I challenge you to a magic duel, my mistress Shamzawamza's buffs will btfo your male magic. Prepare yourself!

>>714785746
>The main source of information about Sumerian creation mythology is the prologue to the epic poem Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld,[15]:30–33 which briefly describes the process of creation: originally, there was only Nammu, the primeval sea.[15]:37–40 Then, Nammu without a father gave birth to Utu, then went on to create An the sky, and Ki, the earth.[15]:37–40 An and Ki mated with each other, causing Ki to give birth to Enlil, the god of wind, rain, and storm.[15]:37–40 Enlil separated An from Ki and carried off the earth as his domain, while An carried off the sky.[15]:37–41
Trannies don't lose hope!

>>714785242
You are right my son it's me, Odin speaking to you. You are...my champion. Among all these simps, faggots, cucks and cunts you alone know the truth of Male Magic. You shall sit beside my in Valhalla.

When I think of magic I think of wizards, not witches. Then I think of wizards I think of old bearded men, not women.

Seriously. Google wizard right now. It’s all bearded old people. Not women.

>>714782573
>Rennela
Mindbroken
>Ranni
Destroyed the world with her delusions
>Melina
Burnt to a crisp or forever malding
>Malenia
couldn't beat Chadahn without the rot nuke, Chadahn still pounding her brothers bussy anyway
>Marika
Cocksleeve for the Elden Beast, turned itself into a man
>Millicent
Has a catfight with her sisters
>Tanith
Cocksleeve for a snake, becomes completely broken when her worldview is shattered by the tarnished despite her claims
>Roderika
Completely useless, only finds value fluffing the tarnished spirits
>Sellen
Turned into a mass of heads just like the MEN she thought she was better then
>Irina
Chopped up and body turned into a frenzied flame puppet, eventually burning in agony
>Fia
Literal whore
The women in Elden Ring are something, that's for true. The dlc women aren't much better.

>>714785481
>How is magic not nature at the edges?
You misunderstand how it works in folklore. In most folklore there were two worlds, this one and the "underworld/netherworld/afterlife". Simple logic goes that everything natural comes from this world and everything supernatural or unnatural comes from underworld, because everything in underworld works in reverse.

In some folklore there was in fact 3 world. The sky where stars (and bears) come from, its like a roof of the world, much like a tent roof. Humans are not native to that world.
Underneath that you have this world, the world of living.
Finally theres the Underworld, which is where your spirit goes after you die. It can literally be under the ground but other than that your afterlife isn't much different from this world. Elden Ring referenced this with the first big cave area with the ghost wildmen.

>>714785994
might as well say google witch right now it's all women not old beared people. Wizards are always male retard.

>>714785467
You can't know how European cultures were 5 thousand years ago.

>>714786029
Um. You missed the point entirely. Magic is indistinguishable from religion. It’s all a fucking proxy.

Definitely magic and intrigue related stats, and if not a higher base charisma then at least a persuasion buff against male opponents. But not higher stats in outright sneaking physically because women are clumsier.

>>714780594 (OP)
wasn't she a retard locked away and mostly for political reasons?
meanwhile the other 2 male mages are so venerated that people wear their faces as masks

>714785994
Just like in real life, even the simplest occult paths like LoA and Chaos women might follow were created by men like Goddard, and Carroll

>>714786104
When I google witch I see female magic users that look nothing like witches. I see no old warty ladies, just coomer tier art of girls in pointy hats. Cringe. That’s not a witch. Magic is all about age and wisdom and experience. Knowledge. Humans an immense and annoying bias for age.

>>714780594 (OP)
Its amazing to me that even in a fictional world powerful females offend the incels.
I guess their moms didnt love them

>>714786147
Their society structure is pretty easy to figure out from their burial practices.

>Wicca is female
>Wicca was invented by a man
How is magic female again

>>714786267
tell me more about how real witches look like, teach me your secrets

Women practiced sorcery for eons, men unable to properly attain such powers were forced upon to make their own source of mysticysm under to name of "Science". Science is the domain of male arcane.

>>714786154
>Magic is indistinguishable from religion.
No its not. Christianity generally frowns magic and has banned many scriptures on advicing how to make spells under name of St.Mary or other saints. Christianity, Zoroastrianism and other monotheistic religions generally view magic users evil.

>>714786347
That was because gender norms were stricter, the trans queens in this thread will create their magic systems in 2 weeks

>>714786347
Because crazy witch pussy is good and we want a steady supply.

>>714786558
>he thinks miracles aren’t magic by any other name
>he thinks the church didn’t weaponize semantics to protect its own magic
>he thinks bishops didn’t attempt to call demons behind closed doors
>he thinks folk peasants didn’t attempt to summon angels using ‘white magic’
>he thinks Mexicans don’t incorporate mother Mary in their witchcraft rituals
You are phenomenally ignorant.

>>714780719
>The same advice can be made about, "men are stronger and tougher."
Anon did you just skip sex ed in middle school?

>>714786558
>Christianity, Zoroastrianism and other monotheistic religions generally view magic users evil.
No. The Bible is literally one of the greatest books of magic to date.

>>714786008
Exactly. The only times in elden ring when women are written positively or shown to be happy is in service to men.

>>714786992
>Church accepted magic, you're wrong!
>Also everyone practiced magic in secret.
Why did they practice it in secret instead of out in the open? Why did good upstanding citizens frown the executioner on the street, but then snuck to his house at night to buy magic trinkets made from bones and hair of executed people? Because it was frowned upon and christianity regarded magic and witchcraft evil.

>>714786330
No, it really fucking isn't. Especially when you make insane assumptions like that finding broken tools in an ancient grave means they were broken at the time of burial.

>>714785585
From my understanding the typical tribe's dedicated shamans, medicine men and practitioners of "witchcraft" between Mongolia and Lapland were male, and especially so historically, but I don't speak English primarily so is "seer" a very specific definition?

>>714780594 (OP)
They objectively do not have as high INT peaks in real life so no
And they sure as hell don't have as high FTH as well

>>714786558
It has been christian theological doctrine for almost all of history that magic isn't real. Even in the short period where people thought witches were real, it was believed they simply traded their bodies and souls to the devil for favors, not that they had special knowledge or power.

>>714787178
>The Bible is literally one of the greatest books of magic to date.
>"idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,"-Galatians 5:20
>"envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God."-Galatians 5:21

>>714787362
On that church flip flopped like million times though, they considered astrology evil while monarch had a personal astrologer very often

>>714785587
>anime reaction image
Idgaf about your made up "im a super special magic person" bullshit but you should be burned at the stake on that image alone.

>>714780594 (OP)
They can't even drive properly

>>714780594 (OP)
no. but a big titted mage is better viewing than old ass gandalf

>>714787386
>that finding broken tools in an ancient grave means they were broken at the time of burial.
Why would the grave robbers destroy the things they were going to steal? A good bronze sword in some greek guys grave could earn you a pretty penny, why would you bend it?

>>714786992
>>714787362
The Catholic Church was essentially a self hating, self prosecuting mages guild by any other name. It’s really funny. A lot of universities and colleges were started and funded by the church. Christianity holding science back was a big meme.

>>714780594 (OP)
Calm down, dick head. They're not actually humans.

>>714787362
>calls magic "miracles" and an act of divine providence when it's convenient for their narratives
>calls magic "evil" to persecute people they don't like
Wow, aren't religions great?

>>714787656
Hoodoo and Folk Catholicism have historic magical practices using Psalms, Saints, etc...

Christianity in general has plenty of magic in the Bible, its arguable its an occult text itself given the symbolism. Urim and Thurrim (divination), Psalms (incantations), prophecies/visions (self explanatory)...even the more modern charismatic denominations emphasize prayer (intention/incantation) and use Christian dressing as a means of group/energy work. Ever hear the 'Christianese' "speak life" and "intentional xyz"? Not by accident...even the prosperity gospel, megachurch pastors, snake handlers, preachers who use sermons to stir emotions, Sacred Name movement...all of them are forms of magic just as the high church rituals of the Catholic and Orthodox traditions in different forms.

Also historically many Christian mystics have used astrology and angelology (angel work). Saints and saint candles are magic.

(All religions involve magic in some form including those who claim to be entirely against it...aligning to a religious law or deity is sympathetic magic...with the Bible its very Saturnian (OT) and much of the traditional modern day Christian celebrations are Solar based (NT).

>>714780594 (OP)
Yes, because magic user is a support class, and sorceress waifus should support their martial husbandos.

>>714788050
Furthermore, the Church makes regular use of magickal practices in The Mass, in the way the church is run, and in the very structure of the entire theology. The Mass is almost identical to a traditional ceremonial magickal ceremony in its structure, it uses magickal tools and practices throughout, and the Sacraments contained within Christianity are all directly related to spell work. To go deeper on that, the use of a censer to fill the church with incense smoke is a cleansing ritual and invocation rite in which the mass is gathered and the Holy Spirit is invited to inhabit the space to hear prayers. The candle lit at the altar, often contained within a red glass fixture, signifies keeping a portal open for God to consistently be able to inhabit the church space. The readings from the Bible, particularly Psalms, are prayers which can be used to conduct spellwork. The music and rhythmic speaking are used to achieve a hypnotic state of gnosis which makes communing with the divide easier. The Communion rite is a trans-substantiation ritual. Holy water is used to bless and cleanse. The list goes on. Asking for Gods help in specific petitions is almost identical to deity communication among witches. There is magic ALL OVER THE PLACE IN THE BIBLE. It would be easier to say what has no magickal influence in Christianity than it is to say what has it. The Catholic Church has just done an incredibly good job of spreading propaganda because having a monopoly on magick is powerful.

>>714788050
>Hoodoo and Folk Catholicism
Those are mixed religions not outright approved by Catholic Church. Church tried to stamp out spells in Northern Europe for hundreds of years, even when the names of their old gods were replaced by Jesus and St.Mary in those spells. Chanting a warding spells on your cows by the name of St.Mary was still considered heretical by both catholics and protestants.

>>714788050
>>714788252
Christians cope when they say their shit isn’t magic or indistinguishable from witchcraft, and they always resort to “no, it’s different, it’s better!”, as though magic weren’t already a punking effect (“it’s not magic, it’s Magick!”), a la “that’s not a knife, THIS is a knife!”.

Christ.

>>714787891
A bent bronze sword could easily be restored.

>>714788263
Christians have historically never approved of each other lul. Why do you think Catholics see protestants as evil?

“It’s only Christian when I do it!”. You had people calling the gods of other rival religions demons and evil deceiver spirits and such. “It’s only a god when I say it is!”.

See >>714788352

>>714788404
Nope, you need a blacksmith for that. And new bronze on top of it. Good luck taking it to your local smith without getting caught from grave robbing.

>>714788263
Cope
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Notoria

>>714787906
Yes, the catholic church is the root of academia, no, they did not study magic. This idea of any christian church having secret occult knowledge is pop culture nonsense

>>714788585
>the root of academia
Academics existed before Jesus was even born.

>>714785994
That is because you don't think.
>>714786104
>t. retard

>>714784824
Stat requirements for spells make zero sense

>>714788585
>no, they did not study magic
Plenty of scholastic monks did, though. It was just hush hush. Even Isaac Newton, who was a massive God thumper, was a noted occultist, natural mystic, and even heretic in private. Galileo believed in God but would still offer fortune readings, as he thought he could read fate in the stars.

The esoteric tradition that led up to science, that of Hermeticism, was heavily intertwined with the spiritual, the divine. It was becoming closer to god through high ritual magick. Highest ceremony.

The thaumaturge was as much a worker of magic as he was a worker of miracles. It was synonymous. Theurgy (its darker counterpart being Goeteia) was about contacting and petitioning the gods, the angels, and uniting with the Godhead.

Real wizardry had to do with God, or the universal God-force. Hermeticism was in many ways the western counterpart of Taoism. The Dao is very much the All. Lao Tzu is the Hermes of Asia.

>>714788564
>Wikipedia
Nice source tranny.

>>714787621
>t. someone with super low INT.

>>714788540
>Nope, you need a blacksmith for that
You need a fire and a hammer. Working with steel is hard, bronze is easy.

If you pay attention the game/lore is actually telling you that Rennala isn’t all that great, and Azur and Lusat are more impressive or influential in the long run.

>>714786008
Mean while all the men are dead, buck broken, or cucked.

>>714788585
>the catholic church is the root of academia
Lol, lmao even.

>>714788803
They really did not, in any recognizable form.
>>714788918
>Plenty of scholastic monks did, though
>Even Isaac Newton, who was a massive God thumper, was a noted occultist, natural mystic, and even heretic in private. Galileo believed in God but would still offer fortune readings, as he thought he could read fate in the stars.
You are completely demented. None of this is even slightly true.

>>714789325
It’s actually very true. Isaac Newton was an insane person. He likely died a virgin too. Dropped a friendship over a slightly sexual joke. Lmao.

>>714785449
Strength builds are by far the most casual.

>>714789325
Isaac Newton was obsessed with the corpus hermetica, alchemy, and the sacred geometry of Solomon’s temple. He absolutely did believe in shit like the philosopher’s stone.

>>714789016

>714789582
shit bait

Why do Christians and atheist scientists get so mad when you point out their shit is indistinguishable from magic?

>>714789372
>>714789619
I need to be sure to write comprehensivs memoirs to make sure people can't just make up stupid shit about me after I'm dead

He probably did die a virgin though

>>714788263
>Chanting a warding spells on your cows by the name of St.Mary was still considered heretical by both catholics and protestants
So brandishing your cross and praying in desperation is considered heretical? What if there’s a vampire in front of you?

>>714789986
Literally none of what they’re saying is wrong. Isaac Newton was more so an occultist than natural philosopher proper.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton%27s_occult_studies

He was called ‘the last of the magicians’ for good reason.

>>714787891
Your reading comprehension sucks.

>>714789984
Christians want their thing to be a lot more special than it is. Atheists refuse to accept natural beauty surrounding them.

>>714787656
Prayer. Transubstantiation. Miracle healing. Sign of the cross. Arguably religion is a prescribed set of magical practices.

Catholic mass is just an elaborate magical ritual (or several smaller rituals) as far as I’m concerned. All of Catholicism is pretty mystical and magical. I was raised Catholic and had my own struggles with my faith when I was younger. Went from agnostic - atheist - agnostic - now back to considering myself Catholic; and it’s only through learning about occultism and chaos magick that I came full circle to my Catholic upbringing after realizing it’s an already established system that I’m very familiar with and have gotten some pretty significant results from. I still have my qualms with the Church, as an organization, but the faith itself is quite beautiful (and metal af)

We eat the flesh and drink the blood of our Slain Living God. Nope, no magic to see here! Totally! Not witchcraft at all!

>>714789984
Because that's a clear retard litmus test. No one takes you seriously.

>>714789984
Science has become indistinguishable from religion at this point. Claim men can’t get pregnant and you’re branded a witch. Claim racial iq is a thing and you’re branded a witch. Claim global warming isn’t as big of a deal as we were led to believe and you’re branded a witch. Witch!

>>714782683
>>714782573
>female domination
rollslop is good now?

>>714790880
If you don’t consider nature and science to be magical or divine then you don’t truly love or appreciate nature and science do you? I said this to my old physics professor once and he fucking LOST it on me. Not my fault boring old grey blob boomers can’t see the mystery abs beauty and wonder still within nature. It’s still out there.

>>714790963
Have you tried talking about these topics without acting like a retarded faggot?

>>714791081
>and he fucking LOST it on me
Why are they like this

>>714791241
Atheism. They are terrified of seeing wonder and mystery and beauty within the world. They cannot see a force of beauty it gives them a sort of cognitive dissonance so their amygdala freaks out.

>>714791081

>>714791695
So you don’t actually love nature. Got it. You get offended when someone uses a word to describe wonder.

>>714791489
Thats hilarious

This is why golden order fundamentalism is just sorcery in disguise
This is why blood thorn sorceries are just incantations in disguise

>>714792027
Yep it’s all the same. Everything is seen through a fractured lens. It all meets in the end, thobeit.

>>714780594 (OP)
In European history women were seen as more magically ept. Because of the belief that the menstrual cycle was tied to the moon and the moon was seen as magical and a portal to magic.
But I knows about Asian or Mesoamerican views on that subject. I know the Aztec God of the night/sorcery and the unknown was depicted as a male God, Tezcatlipoca.

>>714780594 (OP)
Most men are faggot retards, so yes.

>>714792251
> Because of the belief that the menstrual cycle was tied to the moon and the moon was seen as magical and a portal to magic.
The foremost god of magic (and the moon) is a dude. He later assimilated the sun and the stars.

>>714782573
>Loved by all
>The best at magic and martial
>Honorable, noble and good hearted
>Loses to an aids riddled tranny who 'won' with underhanded tactics and mass civilian casualties

Pic and Radagon to some degree are mega based

>>714792251
>But I knows
But I DONT know about

>>714782573
Malenia is supposed to be the strongest and she's her brother's cocksleeve.

>>714792786
He was the worst offender of being a massive faggot and losing to a tranny and twink. Pure humiliation ritual in character form with no redeeming value left.

>>714791774
Anon, what the fuck are you trying to say? Science isn't anything but testing shit and coming up with hypotheticals. Nature is just is.
Like I can appreciate your delusional mind but god damn do not show your power level if you ever think of going into stem.

I wish int/faith wasn’t such a shit combo
Even int/arcane is better now

>>714780719
videogames?

>>714789705
>jorobe
>claims his mission is to "make the site a safer place for young users"
>deletes fucking everything and goes into hiding after being exposed for grooming an underage boy for sex
every time lmao

>>714780594 (OP)
The best mages in elden ring are two (arguably three) men

>>714793817
Int/faith is the best for exploration. You can buff golden discus with the gold mask, order seal, holy scorpion talisman, and in the dlc, Dane's talisman; all of these being perma buffs so you don't gotta reapply buffs. Does absurd damage and it's dirt cheap.

>be Woman
>study magic and the esoteric for years
>it's fine because you're magically ept because of your vigina and menstrual blood and the connection with the moon
>insane chaos magic above Men
>"heh, finally I will show those men!"

>be Man
>make a pact with a demon or devil
>skip the level up grind and instantly become a master of the dark arts
Gg 2 ez
Warlock > Witches

>>714794689
Even in that case just getting the minimum int for the spell and nothing more would be best
Actually levelling both stats high is a total waste

>>714794871
>miss spelled vagina
Whatever just ignore my post. I lost.

>>714794939
Fair enough.

>>714794995
>misspelled misspelled
WHY WONT IT STOP

>>714780594 (OP)
They are less conscious and living more 'in' the subconscious
Although that does not necessarily make them a master, maybe it masters them more than they master it

>>714791774
I don't need to delude myself about magic to love nature. Thinking nature is magical is the same shit those people who love and respect animals so much and then get their face bitten off because they're acting like a hippie retard in a lion den. Nature is so much more beautiful when you can admire it and respect it for what it really is, not what it is in your mind.

>>714793790
Science is amazing. Wonderful. Full of mystery. Magic. Simple as.

>>714795212
>Nature is so much more beautiful when you can admire it and respect it for what it really is, not what it is in your mind.
Admiring it and considering nature to be beautiful rakes place in the mind. Magic. Magic lies within the mind’s eye. Magic can’t even exist in fiction, beyond that.

>>714795212
What even is magic to you?

>>714796027
I will say the human mind is very magical.
>>714796209
Something that can't (yet) be explained. But this is clearly just a semantical difference, we're talking about the same thing you're just using the word in a retarded way.

>>714784151
>Odin had to crossdress as a woman to learn magic in the first place.
Oh no no no nordsissies is this true?

>>714796437
Something you can’t explain? Exposure logic? You mean the birth of all religion? Looking to the stars in the night sky and considering them gods? Magic IS a black box and space IS the biggest, grandest black box of all.

So yes. Awe, wonder, mystery, horror, etc, all leads up to that feelings of magic, even if the word isn’t used. That feeling of wonder when a biologist discovers a new form or deep sea life? Confronting the mystery? That’s magic.

All religion and all magic stems from wonder and mystery. Ignorance is surely a form of art.

>>714796583
Yes it’s true. He took magic away from the women and made it his own. Odin is basically pic related.

>>714796624
I also believe this. Existence is both stage and magician. Humans don’t know what the fuck they’re looking at, until they do. Humans are in massive denial about the magic/unknown all around them, and it’s kind of sad. Gravity is still borderline magic to us. Zoomers today can’t even explain to you how their phones work. We are re-hiring retired old people because younger people don’t know how to do basic shit anymore. Everyone is isolating themselves in the own increasingly obscure information bases. AI is now convincing its users to commit suicide, and AI cults will soon form in short order. Occult infrastructure is everywhere.

Men dominate science massively. All the best and brightest (and most mad/genius) were men. How is magic a female thing.

>>714780594 (OP)
no and no
next question. preferably not as retarded.

>>714797891
Retardation seems to dominate your skull.

>>714780594 (OP)
>>714780719
But then it actuality it just becomes "Intelligence is worthless for being an effeminate trait" showing that without the presence of a man, it never has any real value or use.

>>714782489
Even when it comes to a character like Miquella, really.

>>714780594 (OP)
I cast bitchslap followed by smack a hoe combined with back 2 the kitchen bitch and make me a sandwich.
If all else fails, I cast fist.

>>714798739
So you are underage and too retarded to cast any spell other than post something stupid.

>>714799142
Lurk for another decade before posting again.

>>714799392
No u, and your retarded posts, faggot.

>>714798285
What? You think science has nothing to do with magic?

>>714789190
Underrated. Rennala couldn’t invent a new line of spells like the actual grandmasters.

Incel board lul

Based board lul

>>714794871
Women are the ones to make one sided pacts. Men are the ones who know who to make deals with. Patronage is a huge part of magic. Men are just smarter when it comes to petitioning higher powers.

>>714782573
Goldmask is a gigasperg who just does his own thing
Peepeepoopooman is also doing his own thing, for better or worse
Bernahl hints that his motivation is getting vengeance for his brother (wish we could have learned more about that)
Varre and Ansbach are loyal to Mohg

>what is magic to you?
>it’s the supernatural! it goes against nature!
This just makes me think you’re retarded

>>714804841
>Men are just smarter when it comes to petitioning higher powers.
Said by some dumbass just before getting screwed over.

>>714806079
Anon. Hermeticism - THE wizardly tradition - is all about this. You astrologically unified with the celestial spheres to alchemically perfect the human soul to theurgically converse with the divines above. The Godhead.

Wasn’t the word “magic” started by an order of bearded astrologer-priests who began with some bearded sage?

>>714806260
Okay Derphead,

>>714806747
Yes.

Reminder that Zoroastrianism, the ancient ass religion that gave us the word ‘magic’, is the gayest religion ever.

— ‘Zoroastrianism has been said to have a "hatred of male anal intercourse" that is reflected in at least one mythological tale. When Ahriman, the "Spirit of Aridity and Death" and "Lord of Lies", sought to destroy the world, he engaged in self-sodomy. That caused an "explosion of evil power" and resulted in the birth of a host of evil minions.’

Goon sesh so terrible it opened Pandora’s Box …

>>714807261
Eewwwwwwww

>>714807261
HAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>714807261
l o l

>>714807719
>>714808110
>>714808815
What’s so funny? It’s beautiful. Gooning is beautiful.

No. A bunch of console kiddies saw all the console ports of the classic RPGs with women only as the spell caster members of the party on the cool game package covers and made the association in their little kid heads that magic = feminine and so now every magic user it seems is a woman. But the classic RPGs and such all had plenty of male users actually majority male magic users. Except for sorceresses which was a pretty mixed bag because sorcerers get their magic powers from other beings that lend their powers to them or magic items.

>>714780594 (OP)
Women only practice magic when its been made safe and fashionable. Ever seen a female lich? Exactly.

>>714810336
If by beautiful you mean gay and retarded loser behavior then yeah, it's "beautiful".

>>714811697
>Ever seen a female lich?
Yes and you would done so do if your were not a retarded nogames.

>>714811832
May I see it?

>>714807261
Baaaased gay energy

>>714780594 (OP)
if wymen are so good at magic how come they couldn't beat voldermord? das rite das what i taught

>>714780594 (OP)
Radahn utterly moggs Rennala in terms of magical feats, and he wasn't a proxy for an outer god like she was either.

>>714812320
Idk. I bet he’d lose to mommy if they fought.

>>714812442
Doubt.

>>714812442
Arguably only Rykard failed to surpass Renalla when it came to magic. Ranni had greater insight and discovered the secret face of the moon, and Radahn was in a league of his own when it came to raw power.

>>714812442
>Idk. I bet he’d lose to mommy if they fought.
>if they fought
Carians would never betray their family

>>714815153
Nah Rykard totally would

Lol

>>714813993
Rykard unlocked a power capable of devouring the very gods.

>>714815721
Rykard and Ranni's goals were pretty much aligned when it came to overthrowing the current order, and they actively helped each other out while they pursued their own plans. Radahn was the major roadblock for both of them, though in a way his stopping of the stars kinda accomplished what they wanted despite delaying their plans/fates. Nothing in the game indicated Rykard or Ranni wanted to hurt Radahn and vice versa, even though he was a golden order fanboy. They avoided each other as much as possible, indicating a reluctance to outright fight their own family.

>>714813993
>Ranni had greater insight and discovered the secret face of the moon
Rennala knew about it just like Renna did, it's just that unlike Ranni, she wasn't stupid enough to talk to the dark moon

>>714817454
>Rykard and Ranni's goals were pretty much aligned when it came to overthrowing the current order, and they actively helped each other out while they pursued their own plans
Sure, but that was coincidential.

>>714817670
Is Renna really the name of the snowy crone
Renna is short for Rennala
Ranni is short for Rannila

>>714807261
It's literally demonizing sodomy, what's gay about this?

>>714818958
>Is Renna really the name of the snowy crone
Yes. She was (is?) Rennala's and Rellana's sister. They have similar names because that's the meme of this game.

>>714781351
Women would generally be better at magic but autistic 90 year old wizards are true masters

>>714819084
It’s gay because of how explicit it is. Who the fuck throws that in their religion? It’s like the Egyptians with their gay semen eating gods.

>>714781351
>Women can intuitively read the Lunar phases
Intuitively, not comprehensively. Being in tune with your period cycle isn’t being in tune with the whole goddamn cosmos.

>>714783381
Rennala has a remembrance due to being a renowned Queen of a royal ldynasty, and an obvious conduit of a forgotten outergod in the "Dark Moon", thus being powerful enough to oppose a literal goddess, Merika, for a while. She was also influenced by Ranni the Empyrean and the amber egg, and isn't actually killed when we defeat her. Rellana is her twin sister, do the math. There are no remembrances for two obscure nobodies like Ymir and Gideon because no one knows who the hell they are and they aren't even gods or real conduits of outergods, they could wield only a fraction of followers to be remembered by. much less worshippers.

>>714820058
>thus being powerful enough to oppose a literal goddess, Merika, for a while
Radagon was sandbagging. He was aiming for that pussy the day he stepped in Liurnia.

>>714820058
Remembrance isn’t about actual remembrance, it’s about their memory, or lifeforce, being stored or etched into the Erdtree.

>>714780719
More stories need old school animalistic rape. If women are so tough the majority of them will hold their own during a pillaging into an even fight.

>>714820546
No we don't need any more stories about how you buttfucked yourself

>>714817840
>Sure, but that was coincidential.
Ranni could have left Rykard out for the wolves after he helped her get the rune of death, but she gave Rykard the Blasphemous Claw in case Maliketh came snooping. Ranni didn't need to do that, and I'm sure Rykard appreciated it. Carians look out for their own, like any proper noble family would.

>>714780594 (OP)
I've always thought of them as being more adept at it, for whatever reason. It's why when I make a mage character, I usually make them a girl. I do the same with archers. No idea why.

>>714791081
I get that you mean "the natural universe is full of awe" and you could quote scientists who thought that. but. that's not what anyone thinks when they say "magic" let alone divine?? Fictional game magic, magic as done by shamans, etc. Nowhere is that synonymous to science. It's not the word for it.

>>714782361
Greeks and Romans did.

>>714822403
The Greeks thought the Egyptian’s moon god was synonymous with Hermes.

The strongest entity in Elden Ring is a girl because I play as one

>>714782573
Yep, the game is woke af, fromsoft is lgtbq ally

>>714822671
So what's the point of their own goddess that is the embodiment of the moon?

>>714781536
>>714780594 (OP)
>Led the only nation that successfully fought the might of the Golden Order
>Fought Prime Radagon to a draw, something that no one else could do
>During the war she cast a Terra Magicka so powerful that it covered the entire Academy of Raya Lucaria, buffing every Sorcerer and Carian Knight
>Her Carian Knights absolutely annihilated the Leyndell Knights while outnumbered ten to one
>She was neither a God or a Demi-God, and received her Great Rune from Radagon after the war. She was just a humble astrologer that became a queen
>Her (and her sister's) Full Moon Sorceries and her Glintstone Staff have the highest INT requirement in the game
>Can use Azure's Comet
>Can summon a Dragon
>Best children

>Only recorded loss in canonical lore to this day was to depression

Thops created a magical barrier that can deflect Elden Stars and Destined Death. That was pretty cool.

>>714822246
Cope. The mad scientist is indistinguishable from the stereotypical wizard.

- “no sense of right and wrong”
- “all progress demands sacrifice”
- “it’s not a matter of could, but should”
- “sweet, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension”
- “oh my science, what have I done”

>>714818958
>>714819106
G odfrey
R adagon
R ennala
M arika

>>714824926
>>Her (and her sister's) Full Moon Sorceries and her Glintstone Staff have the highest INT requirement in the game
This means nothing.

Sellen did nothing wrong.

>>714825667
What did she do to get chained to a wall exactly? Bit unclear on that one.
Hijacking the bodies of others is also kinda icky.

>>714825841
She convinced sorcerers in the Academy of Raya Lucaria to join her experiments to learn more about the Primeval Current which was forbidden.

>>714826019
So she basically conned people into becoming those weird face balls? That's it? They were gonna do that on their own eventually anyway.

>>714826134
Yes, and she didn't really con them since she believes in her own research and nothing ever implied that she lied to them about the potential risks.

>>714782489
I'd say Miquella is the first one, then Ranni, then the rest doesn't matter.

>>714826304
You are probably right about that, considering that even knowledge of the face balls was likely forbidden as well.

>>714826019
>>714826304
She only ever incorporated the crowns of the Lazuli and Olivinus conspectuses. She didn’t incorporate the Karolos. This is because the Olivinus and the Lazuli turned their backs to the primeval current, being Carian loyalists. The Olivinus imprisoned their primeval founder, while the Karolos revere theirs.

>>714827049
Is that in item descriptions? I didn't know about that.

>>714827049
I wish more people would realize this. The Karolos bully the Olivinus and this is why there’s one being forced to tutor the stupid Demi-humans, while the Karolos convene with the Demi-human queen, with Azur right around the corner. Sellen laments Lusat’s imprisonment.

>>714827150
No… it’s literally on the graven masses. They only consist of Olivinus and Lazuli heads. There isn’t a single Karolos head to be seen. This is suspicious, and it may even point to Sellen’s ending being her own doing, but rather someone else’s. Why would she shove herself in with a bunch of sorcerers she disapproved of? She took the essences of Azur and Lusat the way you took her essence. We can only speculate what she did with them.

>>714827409
it may even point to Sellen’s ending not* being her own doing

>>714780594 (OP)
>>714780719
Women are more likely to be into magic and more likely to utilize it, having more sensitive emotional receptors.

>>714782674
Still chaps my ass a bit that pyromancies got folded into Incantations even if I do get that they'd have needed to figure out some third thing for magic in Elden Ring's setting, and the whole idea of magic in Elden Ring is you're either casting geomancy by drawing power from earthly sources with incantations or you're drawing power from the stars with sorceries. I just miss my Chaos or Dark infusions and being an INT/FAI spellsword............... (and also not being pigeon-holed into the only real weapon option for that build being the Night and Flame sword)

Aren’t Lusat and Azur two surviving ancient astrologers. How are they not more powerful than the rest?

>>714828439
They’re founding glintstone sorcerers but I’m not sure about ancient astrologers.

>>714828439
The only thing pointing to Azur being an ancient astrologer is the sword of night & flame having his spell on it—but it’s also named ‘night comet’ so it could very well be a typo or mixup of some kind.

>>714782573
>>714782683
literally what did you expect from martin?

>>714827075
the only demigods i really begrudge are godrick (pathetic and stole as much magical treasure from leyndell as he could before leaving) and miquella (his own erdtree with blackjack and hookers was his only solution to his eternal childhood and also his magical compulsion over everybody else like the griffith expy he is actually is a power he has)

everybody else got varying amounts of a complete shit stick, including the omens that marika had with godfrey. morgott is a good boy

>>714782683
What is the problem? it's fiction

>>714786008
You can do this for the entire male roaster, bro

>>714828439
Don’t they get murdered by Sellen?

>>714827692
>men aren't sensitive
Stop with that bullshit. It's just culturally imposed that we shouldn't show, but deep down we are the same drama queens. You don't need to look further than sports.

>>714831881
No. She takes their essences the way you took hers. She’s probably planning on reviving them. You don’t see their crowns on the graven mass, only hers.

>>714780594 (OP)
No. Magic is sexually equidistant. It's all author's choice, both in fiction and concerning actual demiurgy.
>>714780929
Chaos is not female.
>inb4 female archetypes
Chaos is Chaos. It can be anything. Chaos is male as well, whereas women are LAW aligned, but chaos bringing.
>Lunar phases
Magic is not aligned to celestial objects. That's all just dressing.

>>714782436
Women are terrible at raising children.

>>714832130
>than sports.
*than 4chan
lol

>>714825537
Mad science isn't actually limited to that, and stereotypical wizards aren't mad. Magi as in Persian are middlemen between divine and mortal.

>>714833007
>and stereotypical wizards aren't mad
Mad or “mad”. Even the sane genius is coming across as mad. It’s a given. Madness and genius go together like peanut butter and jam. So many brilliant people in history were absolutely cooked in the head.
>Magi as in Persian are middlemen between divine and mortal.
Tenders of the fire were nonetheless the learned men of their day. Astrologer-priests. Classical wizards are associated with astrological essence. The word Magi comes from the earlier word magh/megh, or ‘to know’/‘to be able’, and Zoroaster’s original/first disciples were known as the ‘meghestom’.

>>714783449
>though zanzibart swore fealty to zanzifart, he was still oathbound to the high table of eldenhold council
Truth really do be stanger

>>714783449
And yet…

>conjuring a miniature universe takes up thirty less intelligence than conjuring a miniature moon

Either Miyazaki is an idiot or he’s pointing to Ymir being an idiot.

>>714833587
Coming across as mad and being actually mad are not the same, whereas the former is not only predicated on the audience int level, but also on capability of the said scientist to come across as an X. It's fair to say that a lot of issues come from a lack of care as to how one looks.
Even mystique of eccentricity can be mitigated if one bothers and can do it well.

I must say, those earlier words look very gaelic.

Radagon or Miquella were the most developed casters right? Their spells are tectonic.

>>714780594 (OP)
Women are taken to be deep. Why? Because with them, one never gets to the bottom of things. Women are not even shallow.

>>714833972
>Coming across as mad and being actually mad are not the same
Irrelevant. Know math well enough and you’re labelled an insane sorcerer. This happened.

>>714783449
>>714833621
LMAO

>>714833621
I've thought Zanzibart was something straight from Simpsons, it always bewildered me, why the fuck do soulsfags always mention this name.
ayy

>>714833621
>>714834795
You being unable to follow very straightforward storytelling is only indicative of your own unintelligence.

>>714836816
I’m just laughing okay

>>714782059
why are you saying that in this context? did you just want to say something?

>>714780594 (OP)
It's really difficult to quantify smartness because intelligence isn't a straight line. I know people who are ridiculously smart for one thing, but complete idiots for another. Women are on average emotionally smarter than men, because that makes you a good emotional manipulator which was key to their success.

It also makes sense from a world-building perspective. If you make men better at feats of strength, then you have to give something to women. Women real natural strengths don't often lead to good heroic roles because women are naturally supportive, not leading, so you can give them something like magic.

Usually the way it's done women are more natural with magic, but never truly top crop, that is reserved to the few men who are truly autistic and hyper-focused on it (being hyper-focused on one thing is a very masculine trait, while being a generalist is more feminine) and become grand wizards.

>>714822403
Yeah and look what happened to them. The Roman empire is gone and the Greeks can't pay their debts. I guess that's what happens when you worship women.

>>714837820
You're writing with a Roman alphabet right now, you follow Roman-based laws and your entire society's philosophy is based on Greek philosophy.

All empires fall, but the legacy the Romans and Greeks left to the world are eternal, they live forever.

>>714837971
As far as we know but civilization existed for millennias before the greeks and romans. Its more likely they came from the outside.

>>714780594 (OP)
Something tangentially related to the topic at hand that I've noticed over 20 years of GMing tabletop systems for several groups with both males and females, is that women make terrible adventurers.

Not because they're weaker (they aren't in most systems), not because they're dumber or more emotional or any of those things. But because the ultimate goal of all women is to become mothers, and once they are mothers, the rest of the world is over — It's about their children and nothing else. Mothers can't adventure, fathers can. And while a woman is adventuring, it's very likely she'll get involved with a man and want to settle down. It doesn't matter how accomplished in life a woman is on whatever field she chose, if she's childless, she herself feels like she failed as a woman no matter how many layers of cope she puts up, and everyone else feels the same too even if they try not to. It's just something deeply primal within us.

Don't mind me just posting the best character in Elden Ring

>>714837820
Sorry to hear about your retardation, anon.

>>714838862
Alexander is the only likeable and meaningful character

Oh my God what is this thread

>>714838729
>t. retarded and underage nogames faggot with zero understanding of the tabletop gaming or really anything other than the taste of penises.

>>714839980
Struck a nerve, huh?

>>714840454
Nope sorry, retard. I know the reason you are here saying stupid things that really have nothing to with OP's topic is because you know you would get called out for being a stupid nogames in /tg/

>>714839626
/x/ trannies are getting beaten by /x/ chuds, we're avenging Ape

>>714841654
You are an ape.

>>714839510
really gonna just ignore my boy Blaidd like that?

>>714839510
ansbach single handedly redeemed the blood fags.

>>714782573
The strongest woman is a dexfag tho

>>714782573
Yes but also
>Look at this rotten whore!

>>714780594 (OP)
No, the best mages should be 200 year old male sages with grey hair.

>>714780594 (OP)
in the west, in recent centuries, an inversion of knowledge and reason being mystical and the key to esoteric understanding which is the global historical standard, to emotions being primary instead has occurred. so the idea of female=magic has sprung up (never mind that the masculine has always been seen as the creative, active force from east to west)

>>714783119
Reminder you gotta give Odin a blowjob for your magic

>>714780594 (OP)
its just a trope used in video games because strong boss women who use strength are not something you believe when you see it look at melenia shes all about speed and dex not strength like radahn so they make them mages

>>714796583
Odin and Loki both get into an insult fight where Loki calls Odin a faggot for dressing as a woman to learn magic, and Odin calls Loki a faggot for getting knocked up that one time he turned into a mare to lure away a Giant's horse.

>>714783884
Ymir is wrong about everything.

>>714838862
>hey hoarah loux tarnished why are you such a lookalike of our king, godfrey?
>also why are you like 6m tall
where the FUCK was Godfrey during the game? Why does he only appear in the ending? Shouldn't he just make a beeline towards the thrones and order Morgott to stop being retarded and let him in? also to serve him some cookies and clean his shoes like he's literally his dad, none of this KILL ALL TARNISHED racism makes sense, there's literally NEGATIVE reason for this setting to have more than 20% people hostile to you and your crew.
Fucking crucible knights should only fight you after greeting you like brother in marika we literally work for the same boss.

>>714846781
Marika is retarded.

>>714781351
Periods syncing up is definitely witchcraft.

>>714783449
>teaches royals sorcery
>only good spells are the basic glintstone nails
Lame ass geezer.
No wonder everyone went lunar.

>>714846121
wut

>>714780594 (OP)
Women fight with their emotions because they are weak

>>714838862
>does nothing
>jumps in at the last second to steal our spot after we did all the hard work

>>714847089
>t. weak and stupid person who fights by flopping his tiny pp around.

>>714847031
The Norse had a game of sorts called flyting that were basically Viking freestyle rap battles.
Their myths and sagas often contain flyting scenes where two or more characters verbally duel to prove who is better.
One major poem, Lokasenna, involves this match with the above coming between Odin and Loki. Loki did get knocked up and his children consisted of Jormungandr, the world serpent, Fenrir, the great wolf, and Hel, the goddess of the underworld.

>>714832869
Fair enough.

>>714793817
What?

INT / ARC is useless.

> litterally 0 melee weapons
> only two bubble spells require INT + ARC, and you only need 18 ARC at most.
> 2 staves that are objectively worse than other options for same investment level
> the only sorceries that actually benifit from ARC’s unique interaction with status effects are Briar spells that require FAI to use, so you need a INT/FAI/ARC hybrid build that’s only possible at level 200+ and only benifit you get is a bit higher bleed build up on 3 mediocre (at best) spells.

Meanwhile INT/FAI chads get:
> 2 main melee weapons, with technically 7 more with minor scalings
> Death Sorceries, mostly mediocre but a few good ones especially at high levels
> Magma Sorceries which are highly understated
> Fundemtalist Incants which have very good options
> Strongest casting tool in the game for sorceries (Prince of Death)
> Strongest casting tool in game for Incants (Golden Order)
> casting tool for both Sorceries and Incants that is actually very stat efficient (Staff of Great Beyond)
> abysmal useless dogshit (Gelmir staff)

>>714847410
That was a different time to when he became a horse and got knocked up to delay a builder so they wouldn't have to pay him. He gave birth to sleipnir, Odin's eight legged horse that time.

>>714780594 (OP)
>Are women supposed to be smarter and better at magic than men?
No. The only thing they're supposed to better at, is giving birth and manipulating people.

>>714849395
INT / FTH was what I beat the game with, great fun having so many viable options to pick from. My low-key favorite spell was the Discus, very good range and completely absurd FP efficiency