Morgott - Blog Posts
Draw Mohg and Morgott in hades artstyle
Am I the only one who wants to see Morgott just have an emotional breakdown. Like he finale gets the therapy he needs and one day the therapist strikes something that sets Morgott into a meltdown of emotions. It all comes out as incoherent sobs, sadness, self hatred, hatred towards his family, fear of the shunning grounds and the PTSD that probably had on him. His love for Marika and the Golden order, rage and anger towards other people. It all comes put. I just wanna see him get his emotions out and cry god dangit. I wanna comfort him and tell him it will be okay.
Hi this is my first post so I don't know if I need to credit people but I do not own these characters. I just have obsessions with characters who have been hurt in way more ways than one. Credit to Elden Ring, Hollow Knight, and Alan Becker for creating characters that I just love and would give a hug to any time of day for any reason.
I have an obsession with these three. Would give big hugs to all of them.
Morgott the Omen King anatomy reference masterpost
The saga continues - this time with Morgott. It was requested by @eldenbiscuit to do one for the little omen peepaw, so here it is. Morgott is also one of my favourite characters.
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Each of these were done in different days, figuring out how to draw him tiny.
Also, the only 2 things that keep me from losing my mind as I wait for the DLC:
There's some delicious irony in the fact that the omen twins are probably the most accomplished and successful demigods in the family despite having all the odds stacked against them.
Morgott
is the ruling king of Leyndell
has one of the most powerful armies in the lands between, only really being beaten out by Miquella's haligtree forces and Messmer's crusade army
has successfully guarded the capital from both the redmanes and volcano manor invasions and chased Godrick and Godefroy from its walls
is a master of holy magic, being able to project himself across the lands, seal multiple pathways to dangerous artefacts (the giants forge and the 3 fingers) and cast a myriad of holy weapon spells which he all likely had to self teach.
Mohg
is the lord of a budding dynasty
had some of the most loyal followers out of all of the demigods, despite his Omen heritage, which he wore openly and proudly
had such loyal followers that even after the dynasty's collapse, a small handful were still willing to fight a god to the death to do right by him
is a master of blood magic
can also project illusions of himself
somehow learned of a way to access the sealed away land of shadow, an ability so exclusive to him that Miquella had to use him to gain access to it.
has gained the favour of a fucking outer god! a feat that no other basic demigod was capable of
all of which was also probably self taught due to growing up in isolation in the sewers.
These two absolutely amaze me. They had everything stacked against them and were still able to forge a place for themselves in the lands between.
It's not really implied very heavily in lore but I've always subscribed to the theory that the greatrunes negatively affect their demi-gods, since most greatrune holders have been trapped into never ending cycles of trying to amass power/accomplish a specific goal.
Rykard, Mohg and Godrick are all similarly running in circles trying to gain power without actually doing anything with it and Rennala is endlessly trying to birth something before we take her greatrune off of her.
The only real exceptions to this are Radahn, because he's lost his mind, Malenia, because she's only just woken up for the first time since the shattering wars and Morgott because... IDK, I've got nothing for Morgott, he's just built different I guess. (Though you could argue that him hunting tarnished and perpetuating the status quo is his endless cycle)
All active people who own a greatrune shard, demi-god or not, have fallen into some sort of self destructive, never ending cycle.
fuck, if you really wanna push this theory Maliketh is holding a greatrune in the form of the rune of death and he's litterelly been stuck in a timeless structure for the entire shattering.
I feel like this is also implied because Ranni decided to cast aside her greatrune, this being significant because she’s the only demi-god who can actually accomplish their end goal by the finale of the game and isn't just running in circles.
One thing I’ve been thinking about recently that I just cannot get out of my head is why Marika shattered the elden ring? I mean, it’s all well and good to just say “Oh it’s because she was driven mad by the death of Godwyn of course” but I just don’t think that’s quite right. Not only does it feel weird to assume the shattering was just some spur of the moment decision done in an emotional outburst when it was very clearly planned in quite a lot of detail but it also doesn’t really add up with the timeline since Godfrey was presumably sent out of the lands between long before Godwyn died and that seems to be a massive part of what Marika’s plan was.
I think I’ve come up with a semi possible alternative reason as to what could have driven Marika to destroy her own order.
Ok hear me out here.
What if she instead betrayed her order because of what happened to her omen children? I mean, think about it. They are still her children after all and she had to abandon both of them as infants to a life of hell because the greater will (or the golden order, could be both) doesn’t like Omens.
We know that the GW was a pretty controlling (and rather petty) god when it was in power so it definitely had the ability and motive to strong arm Marika into doing things she wouldn’t want to. Even if she did want to keep the twins with her, what choice would she have had with that sort of being looming over her head 24/7?
Imagine how much that would destroy your faith in a system. Her own children, subjected to a life of pain and ridicule because of the way they were born all because her god (or society) says so.
I find it hard to believe that she wouldn’t at least have some conflicted feelings over the whole ordeal.
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I think the biggest evidence I have here is the fact that the omen twins were not only gifted greatrunes upon the rings shattering (something only granted to Marika’s offspring) but Morgott was even ‘given grace’, which is something Marika has a lot of control over.
Even after being born omens and being abandoned early on in their lives Marika still considered them enough of her kin to be given a chance in the shattering race. Now you could argue that them getting their greatrunes was just a happy accident but I really don’t think the same could be said about Morgott being grace given. That seems like a very conscious decision.
We can even see that Godfrey himself had some sense of fondness (or at least respect) for Morgott from the way he holds and speaks to him in his opening boss cutscene, is it really so out of the question that Marika may have felt the same?
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TLDR
What if Marika having to abandon her Omen children because of the greater will and golden order was the catalyst that began her plot to shatter the ring and end her own order?
I refuse to make thee a casualty of thine own love. And thou hast not known a stubbornness like mine. It does not come striding tall and righteous, but crawls on bloodied knee and palm to thee, begging softly, "no more."
