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#eldenringlore #hornsent #loretosleepto Who was more justified in the Blood-Soaked violence between Queen Marika and the Hornsent? Somewhere far back in the ash of this world's memory, Queen Marika gave a cold, calculated order: she commanded Messmer the Impaler to purge the tower folk in a cleansing carried out in holy fire. Knowing that, I honestly don't blame the Hornsent for the bitter, burning contempt they still carry for the Erdtree, a hatred so deep that wearing their Horned Warrior helmets or Curse Blade masks literally makes them nauseous the moment they receive the Erdtree's blessing. But let me be entirely clear: the Hornsent were never saints. They were simply a prideful, arrogant species built for conquest who ended up on the losing side of a brutal war. To truly understand why Marika handed her most ruthless child the task of putting an entire civilization to the sword, you have to look at what the Hornsent built in Belurat Tower and Bonny Village. Long before the Land of Shadow was veiled, the Hornsent operated a terrifying, religious caste system centered around horns as signs of divinity. Infants born with tangled crowns of horns were hailed as divine, destined to become Sculpted Keepers and wield the Divine Beast Lion Puppets. Those who failed became the dancing, acrobatic Curse Blades. But their most horrific achievement was the creation of the living jars. The Hornsent Potentates rounded up the Shaman, who we now know are 100% the Numen people Marika grew up with, and used a Tooth Whip braided from rotting teeth to slice their flesh apart. Because Shaman flesh melds harmoniously with others, they used her people as the core "star ingredient," stuffing them into frozen jar production plants alongside filler meat to mass-produce what they called "Saints". Marika’s crusade wasn't just a random act of expansion; it was a bloody, personal act of vengeance for the annihilation of her village. She used Messmer, a son born bearing the vision of the Fell God's fire, to burn the Hornsent, sealing both her cursed child and her worst enemies in the Shadow Realm to destroy each other for all eternity. When you really look at it, the Hornsent NPC we travel alongside in the DLC isn't just a vengeful revenant, he is a direct mirror of a young Queen Marika. Both are grieving children of dying peoples staring at each other across the wreckage of the same war, each certain that history began the day their side started bleeding. That is the true, heartbreaking shape of Elden Ring's deepest lore: not a war of gods and monsters, but two funerals that never stopped echoing off the exact same tower long after everyone who remembered why had already turned to ash Some Sources I took inspiration from: https://www.youtube.com/@VaatiVidya/videos https://www.youtube.com/@SmoughTown/videos Tools and mods used to take footage for this video; First person mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/3266 Camera Tool: https://opm.fransbouma.com/Cameras/eldenring.htm Texture improvement: https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/2431?tab=files Convergence: https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/3419 https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/1ftiwlu/its_amazing_how_hateable_the_hornsent_npc_is/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/1i6z4c7/did_the_hornsent_deserve_what_they_got_for_what/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterRant/comments/1eec7hs/the_hornsent_had_it_coming_elden_ring/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/1fj40no/how_marika_was_able_to_betray_the_hornsent/ So grateful for my friend who helps me edit and put everything together, you can refer to him about everything in the video except script: https://www.instagram.com/vnixzshrestha/ PSA: Some portions of this video feature AI-generated images/visuals and character voicelines, but each was commissioned from the original artists themselves, and no existing artwork was replaced. Timeline: 00:00 Built for Conquest: Messmer's Purge and the Scorched Memory of the Tower Folk 01:12 Belurat Tower Settlement: The Crown of Horns and Living Signs of Divinity 03:39 Frozen Jar Plants: Stuffed Curse Blades and Long White Hair Mysteries 07:13 Hornsent Class Hierarchy: Spiral Casters, Revered Spirits, and Misbegotten Parallels 08:23 Decapitated Statues: Revered Spirit Ashes and the Missing Numen Heads 10:20 Keepers of the Tower: Unstaggerable Horned Warriors and Horn-Calling Arts 14:05 Rancor Projectiles: Obtaining the Hornsent Son's Spirit Incantation 17:49 Specimen Store Trophies: Giant Hornsent Titans and Torrent's Ancestral Horns 20:28 The Subjugated Tribe: Formless Mother Blessings and the Birth of the Bloodfiends 22:01 Roots of Revulsion: Why Omen Horns Were Banned While Lions Were Tolerated 25:26 Two Funerals Echoing: The Hornsent NPC as a Mirror of Young Queen Marika