Leonine Misbegotten | Boss Designs of Elden Ring #11

Gonna point out a simple fact: you find a WHIP in the hands of a dead human of the Castle. You know, the masters of the place. 😥

When Irina's father chose honor over his daughter, my very first thought was, "You're going to leave a sight-impaired woman on her own in a violent tumultuous countryside to defend a castle even you admit has no chance of holding out? What kind of logic is that?" So the fact that Irina is dead when he gets there is both tragic and a fitting conclusion to his part of the story--he chose loyalty to duty over loyalty to family, and in doing so he lost both the castle he was charged to protect and the daughter he should have defended. There's a general dismissal of other living beings in the father's dialogue--referring to the Misbegotten as "menials", abandoning his daughter for an ideal, sitting at the top of the tower while his soldiers fight a losing battle down below. And then, despite acknowledging that his daughter had a gentle soul, his response to her death is to declare genocidal intent. So even though I feel bad that a father lost his daughter, overall I think I'm on the side of the Misbegotten.

I know it's probably gonna take you YEARS to finish this series for the main game and the DLC, but goddamn it I will be here when you do😢😢😢😭😭😭

Skyen didn't had to go so hard with that line about the cicle of revenge: "A lone hero has fought for his revenge at Castle Morne, only to fall at the hands of the Elden Lord, once upon a time it was Godfrey and now is me"

I never realized the open-endedness of Castle Morne in my playthrough. I love the line, "they always gave me such good service... or so I thought." Did the masters of Castle Morne abuse their workers? Probably not directly, but it doesn't seem like they enjoyed the misbegotten's company. Assuming they were called "The Misbegotten" before The Shattering, it seems like they were slowly disrespected and transformed from a more indentured servant role to outright house slavery. It's so poetic that a furious member of the oppressed class uses the Oppressor's sacred weapon to stage an uprising. It's important to me that the Leonine Misbeggotten DOESN'T use the Sword of Morne, just holds on to it. Whether it doesn't have the insane strength required, or they find the Sword sacred in their own weird way, they don't use it to fight against you. If the masters of Castle Morne were kind and accepting, I figure Irina's father wouldn't so easily switch to "welp I guess I was wrong, all misbegotten really suck." There's very little disbelief in his voice regarding the betrayal.

TFW skyen walks by mourning misbegotten you don't remember from your playthrough... because you saw them as a threat without checking first 😢

If someone is hung, that has certain meanings. If someone has been hung, that's usually synonymous with hanged.

11:00 Leave it to Skyen to unintentionally activate a deathcam glitch.

Actually, the night's cavalry are not in random spots! Almost all of them are found near the main highways of Lands Between, including the ones you've met so far 😢

Great video as usual! One detail worth noting is that Hewg, our kindly blacksmith, is also a Misbegotten (in fact, he shares a model with the larger Misbegotten)... and, since he's chained to his anvil, clearly a slave of the Golden Order too. And yet, for all of Edgar's rantings about the foulness and inherent malice of the Misbegotten, Hewg is one of the few characters that can form a positive relationship with another during the course of the game. Elden Ring is one of those games that says a lot without actually saying it. 😢

The interpretation of the night's Cavalry is spot on! They hunt the tarnished, who are "ye dead who yet live" (notably they ignore everyone else, from merchants to enemy soldiers), meaning they're basically a form of exorcist. The horse is adorned in a mourning veil because it's meant to be attending your funeral. Also Notably, Margit warns you as he is defeated to "cower in fear of the night" which may hint that theyre related.

“Fucked up little guys with swords…” Oh, already know someone Skyen is going to love in the DLC…

Dynamic between past and future Skyen is comedy gold 😭

So the point of castle Morne is: racism/ableism are bad actually. Thank you TB Skyen for releasing another Boss Designs episode! Really made my day better! 😭

Seriously, someone at FromSoft REALLY WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU GRRM WITH THAT SWORD XD I love how ridiculous unwieldy and strange a sword made of tens of other swords stuck with superglue! Made me laugh LOUD when i saw it! Thx for the episode ! 😭😭😭

I think the "burial" of the misbegotten by (probably) the leonin was also another act of defiance, a show of freedom from the "honorable" death of being added to the or*y of corpses under the Erdtree's roots. they are saying "not even in death will we submit". 😥😥😥

The way the chimeric misbegotten and the crucible knights use similar chimeric features in combat is interesting, like the tail attack from the axe misbegotten and the tail aspect the knights use, showing they have a similar connection I didn’t get before. These misbegotten seem to be almost a primal humanity in this world, and I wonder if the misbegotten are as separated from humans as they initially seem. They are clearly intelligent and with one’s like Hewg the blacksmith, capable of great works of art even though they’re suppressed and enslaved.

I love this series and the compassionate analysis you make. The misbegotten and outcasts really are treated awfully in the golden order.😭

I had figured during my first playthrough that the Night's Cavalry were actually in service to Margitt, given his "fear the night" comment and that you only find them at night. But they just don't come up enough to really feel like he's sending them to hunt you. Also, upon my completion of that quest-line I immediately went to the internet to see if there was some way to save Irina that I just didn't know about... there wasn't. The only thing to do is to never go to Castle Morne at all. 😢

29:31 "You have bad aim!" Liked their little wings so much looks like you got a pair of your own! Not sure about the wax though...