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Adebisi said:

Casting and writing? All dog shit if your director can't pull it together. Good director can get Oscar level performances out of your worst actors.

I place casting on par with who's gonna cater the lunches on set.

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In the Lands Between ruled by Queen Marika the Eternal, the Elden Ring, the source of the Erdtree, has been shattered. Marika's offspring, demigods all, claimed the shards of the Elden Ring known as the Great Runes, and the mad taint of their newfound strength triggered a war: The Shattering. A war that meant abandonment by the Greater Will. Marika's decision to shatter the Elden Ring was premeditated, as the spoken echo at the Outer Wall Battlefield site of grace reveals she had a plan for her offspring; "hear me, Demigods. My children beloved. Make of thyselves that which ye desire. Be it a Lord. Be it a God. But should ye fail to become aught at all, ye will be forsaken. Amounting only to sacrifices". Finger Reader Enia recounts Marika's fate after she shattered the Ring; Queen Marika is the vessel of the Elden Ring, carrier of its vision. A god, in truth. But after the Elden Ring's shattering, she was imprisoned in the Erdtree. A grim punishment for shattering the Order, despite her godhood". Enia further describes the Shattering as "the tragic corruption of the Order has taken its toll. Across the realm, life lies in ruin. Fallen to pieces. Foul curses and misery spread, unabating". Those that held onto Great Runes became known as the shardbearers, and include Godrick the Grafted, Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon, Starsourge Radahn, Morgott, the Veiled Monarch, Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy, Mohg Lord of Blood, Miquella the Unalloyed, and Malenia, Blade of Miquella. Lunar Princess Ranni also obtained a Great Rune, but discarded it according to Gideon Ofnir. According to Enia, "her children warred, but none could become Elden Lord", and so grace was extended to the Tarnished so that they may be guided to the Elden Ring. Noble aristocrats of the capital abandoned their birthplace after the Shattering, these undead wanderers are the pitiful product of unending life.

Numerous conflicts took place during the Shattering that forever impacted the land. One of which was the First Defense of Leyndell, in which a Sword Monument tells of a sovereign alliance rots from within, traces yet remain of bloody conspiracy. An honorable knight of Leyndell Kristoff earned the hero's honor of Erdtree Burial for the feat of capturing Godefroy the Grafted. The capital employed the perfumers, and in time past, the role of perfumer was much respected; a blessed apothecary in the eyes of the many. But after entering the battlefields of the Shattering they performed no such role, trading their aromatics for poisons and explosives. It is likely in this same skirmish that Godrick and his men fled from the city and took refuge in Stormveil Castle. After falling from grace, the dregs of the golden lineage sought power and purpose in the past. Less is known about the Second Defense of Leyndell, other than that Morgott, after he and his brother Mohg had been freed, defended Leyndell from Radahn in the opening cinematic. Under the name of Margit the Fell Omen, Morgott slaughtered countless champions during the Shattering. According to Thops who couldn't gain entry into Raya Lucaria; "after they declared they wouldn't interfere with the Shattering, the academy cast repelling seals on the east gate leading to the Capital and the south gate leading here". The academy had then given free rein to the Cuckoos to wage war as they pleased, and they were infamous for their rapacious ways. The Assault on Volcano Manor was home to the squalid, the sick, the blasphemous; a wretched, unending war with no glory. According to Gideon Ofnir; "It was the stage of the most appalling battle in the entirety of the Shattering. Rykard has commited the grave sin of blasphemy. Marking himself as an enemy, never to be forgiven". One spirit recounts that "Lord Rykard... If this putrid field of death is what your blasphemy would bring, then I can no longer abide. No one can".

More Sword Monuments tell of how Malenia and her cleanrot knights marched south, defeated Godrick, and made their way to Caelid. Malenia's war prosthesis symbolized her victories. Some claim to have seen wings when the weapon was raised aloft; wings of fierce determination that have never known defeat. In the final conflict of the Shattering, Malenia and Starscourge Radahn locked in a stalemate, then Malenia bloomed into a Scarlet Aeonia that devastated the battlefield. Her cleanrot knights, celebrated for their undefeated campaign in the Shattering, vowed to fight alongside Malenia, despite the inevitable, if gradual, putrefaction of their flesh. Their acceptance of their fate made these battles fiercest of all. When they were driven to defeat by Malenia's scarlet rot, the Redmane Knights burned the crest on the left breast of their armor to indicate their resolve. "Alas, dear home, I shan't see you again! For our duty is to remain here, a bulwark against the blight". Even today, the survivors of Radahn's battalion employ fire to stave off the scarlet rot. Redmane Freyja, member of General Radahn's most distinguished knights, was stricken with a hideous scarlet wound was once hewn into the center of her face. Later, Miquella gently put his lips to it and the unfading scar became the compass that Freyja would thereafter follow. Cleanrot Knight Finlay was one of the few survivors of the Battle of Aeonia, who in an unimaginable act of heroism carried the slumbering demigod Malenia all the way back to the Haligtree. She managed the feat alone, fending off all manner of foes along the way. But when Malenia, Blade of Miquella, first let the rotflower blossom in Aeonia, Radahn heard a murmur in his ear— "Miquella awaits thee, O promised consort".

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jayrebb said:

Also no screen presence in a drama with any gravitas. I put her one notch above Megan Fox on the seriousness scale, and that ain't much.

Off to a campy and cheap start.

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TJT said:

She only needs one line and them titties can carry the rest of the performance. Approved.

I would absolutely love a campy 1980s Conan type movie.

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