What was Marika's Original Sin? | Elden Ring Lore EXPLAINED

Godhood is not all it's cracked up to be.

Marika's original sin is one of the most important events in Elden Ring. But what was it? This video will cover Marika, the Secret Rite Scroll, Miquella, the Shaman Village, the Hornsent practice of divine invocation, and the Elden Beast. To better understand Marika's original sin, I also delve into the writings of Augustine, who popularized the doctrine of original sin and was a highly influential saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

Sources
Augustine, "The City of God:" https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120...
"On Marriage and Concupiscence:" https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/150...
"On the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin:" https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/150...

For more information about original sin, I'd highly recommend "The Story of Original Sin" by John E. Toews.

Nogueira Ramos, Martin. “The Monk and the Heretics: A Reappraisal of Sessō Sōsai’s Anti-Christian Documents (Mid-Seventeenth Century).” Japan Review, no. 35 (2020): 66. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27009001.

I do want to apologize in advance for the differences in voiceover. This video went through a ton of different edits and revisions, which required multiple recording sessions that couldn't match the original.

(Are all the hungry hungry hippos in the DLC a sly reference to Augustine of HIPPO? Eh, probably not. Unless...)

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00:00 Introduction
02:13 The Secret Rite Scroll
07:20 Original Sin and Augustine
12:04 No Hope for Redemption?
16:53 Original Sin is NOT Cardinal Sin
17:30 What was "the Betrayal?"
18:57 Miquella's Great Rune?

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